There hasn't just been a changing of the guard at Geelong, there has been a revolution, with reports on Sunday night suggesting that Chris Scott has come from the clouds to win a three-year contract to replace Mark Thompson as coach of the Cats.

To get the job, the former Brisbane champ, more recently an assistant to Mark Harvey at Fremantle, beat out two favourite sons of the club, whose respective DNA is all over the group that dominated the competition for the best part of four years and in that time won two flags.

The first was Ken Hinkley, Thompson's longtime assistant until the end of 2009, when he headed up to serve in a similar capacity to Guy McKenna with the Gold Coast Suns. The other was Brenton Sanderson, who Thompson publicly annointed as his likely successor in an interview on SEN earlier this year.

Scott's appointment is fascinating on so many fronts and a brave call by the Cats, who could have easily gone down the path of choosing Hinkley or Sanderson and enjoyed the smoothest of transitions.

Scott was a much more difficult selection for Geelong to make and we suggest will be a harder sell. The reasons why the Cats plumped for Scott will become apparent when he fronts the media on Monday, but we wonder whether he told the Cats what they wanted to hear, or whether his hardness and honesty, traits that marked his playing career at the Gabba, came to the fore and he delivered a brutal assessment of where the Cats are at.

We suspect it was the latter, which makes us wonder whether the decisions to offer Darren Milburn and David Wojcinski new contracts, made by Thompson before he finished and which were rubber-stamped by the board after he left, might yet be rescinded.

They struck as puzzling moves for a club that needs to start regenerating, particularly Milburn who is pushing 34. It led to emerging defender Jeremy Laidler asking for and getting a trade to Carlton last week.

In the wake of the preliminary final thrashing from Collingwood, Thompson lamented that his senior players had been unable, and perhaps unwilling, to embrace a different gameplan, one that was more suited to beating sides like Collingwood and St Kilda which of late, were starting to have their way with the Cats.

It smacked of a culture at the Cats which was weighted too heavily in favour of the players and perhaps CEO Brian Cook, football manager Neil Balme and incoming president Colin Carter - as canny as any management group in footy - recognised this and wanted to restore some sort of balance at the Cattery, hence the appointment of an outsider, and a hard-nosed one at that. You have to love a guy who used to skip the grand final parade in order to play golf, because 18 holes the day before was part of his pre-match routine and he wasn't about to change that for anyone.

You'd have to think that Scott will have the Cats kicking a bit longer and not mucking around with the ball, which is what got them caught out against Collingwood and St Kilda in the second half of 2010.

Sanderson will be shattered and surely won't hang around. His best mate is Nathan Buckley and you would expect the Pies to come calling, if not now, then in 12 months when Buckley replaces Mick Malthouse as coach.

The best thing Scott might have had going for him is the success of his twin brother Brad in his first season at North Melbourne. The Kangaroos didn't make the finals but the improvement was obvious and his straight-talking approach has won him a heap of fans.

The Scott boys are a fabulous story, two of five kids raised by their mother Lynne on her own after their father Colin, died of an asthmatic condition he contracted while serving the nation with distinction as a fighter pilot during the Vietnam War.

They'll be the first brothers to coach against each other in the VFL/AFL since Norm Smith at Melbourne and Len Smith at Fitzroy and later Richmond.

They're the first twin brothers that we know of in any major sport in the world to coach against each other. If you know of any, let us know at BackPageLead.