Injury, work, and media commitments haven't helped Burns to put in the required hours to help Berwick become a successful side in the competition.

I have no doubt that he will be disappointed with the way things have turned out, but to his credit, making this decision could be the best thing that has happened to the Berwick Football Club. The Wickers now need to select the right person for the position who can take them forward.

The club is also paying the price for not recruiting locally.

Situated in one of Australia's fastest growing corridors, Berwick has a huge population to recruit from and should be right up there with the like of Narre Warren.

Berwick's recruiting of indigenous players was a good initiative to improve its playing list, but it hasn't had the success the club had hoped for.

With these players not being available for all 16 games, and not being able to train with the local group, it was always going to be difficult for this experiment to work.

Surely, relying on the local talent would be a better alternative than having to fly in recruits in from the NT, and it would have definitely been cheaper.

Potential coaches should be jumping out of their skins to get the gig at Berwick because of its first class football facilities and social club, and all the local talent.

The competition needs the Berwick Football Club to be competitive and successful.

We don't need the surrounding clubs scooping up all the young talent and being unbeatable for the next 20 years.