Tasmania Devils coaching candidate Nathan Buckley has shut down insight into his meeting with the selection panel, remaining coy on what transpired.
Buckley has long been linked with the title of the Devils' inaugural coach, but recent reports have former AFL coaches Ken Hinkley and John Longmire leading the charge.
The Collingwood great is an assistant coach under Chris Scott at Geelong, and was quizzed before the club's clash against Brisbane at GMHBA Stadium.
"I had a chat with them the last couple of weeks," Buckley said on Fox Footy's coverage.
"Not really going to add much more to that. If you really want to know a little bit more about the process, speak to them. But I have been really forward with my ambitions there and whatever information needs to be transferred, I'm up for that.
"But loving my time here (in Geelong) in the meantime and is where all my focus is."
Buckley, who was included in the Melbourne process at the end of last year before they landed on first-timer Steven King, offered how organisations go about the process of selecting new coaches.
The 2003 Brownlow Medallist was Collingwood coach from 2012 to 2021, and denied the Demons' advances in a bid to remain a live option for the Devils.
"It can be whatever the organisation wants it to be," Buckley explained.
"The idea of a thorough process, whatever a thorough process is, going for three laps in the tan, it could be go and have a hit of gold, it could be sitting in front of a powerpoint presentation and going through 50 slides, the ins and outs of what might take place.
"But I think fundamentally it's about the personality traits and the characteristics about the ability to do the job, and that is what clubs are trying to discover through whatever the process is. But when you mention process, from outside, apparently there's only one way to do it, but I reckon there'd be 20 different ways to find the right candidate."
The Devils announced their coaching selection panel last month, which consists of chief executive Brendon Gale, president Grant O'Brien, football director Alastair Lynch and Lauren Jauncey, the club's general manager of people and culture.
They are up against Carlton and Essendon, who, after Michael Voss and Brad Scott departed, are on the hunt for new coaches.
Hinkley has had vague conversations with Gale about what he could potentially add to the Devils, while Longmire has been linked to the Bombers and Blues top jobs.
