Bio: Pagan coached North Melbourne's under 19's to five premierships and Essendon to a reserves flag before being appointed the Kangaroos' senior coach in 1993.

He had an immediate impact and amazingly took the side to eight consecutive finals appearances.

The longest serving coach in North Melbourne's history with 240 games, he also has an enviable a record boasting a winning percentage above 60% in nine seasons.

Pagan was a true player’s coach and a fine communicator who taught players to believe in themselves.

His greatest achievement of all was securing North’s third and fourth premierships in 1996 and 1999 respectively.

Bio: After much success at Carlton, Ron Barassi took on the head coaching job at North Melbourne in 1973.

Having claimed the wooden spoon the previous year, Barassi had a big job on his hands to turn things around. A grueling training regime and uncompromising approach as well as the recruiting of some big names helped the Kangaroos into a Grand Final in 1974 and in 1975 Barassi and North Melbourne experienced premiership success for the first time.

Two years later, some inspired positional changes brought the Kangaroos back from the brink of defeat to draw against Collingwood in the 1977 Grand Final. A week later there was another memorable triumph for Barassi and his great team.

Upon leaving the club in 1980, he would be remembered as one of the most respected coaches in league history.