MARK Thompson has left the door ajar for a return to coaching at Adelaide.

Thompson said today he hadn’t been contacted by the Crows about their coaching vacancy but if they made the call he would be happy to talk.

“I’ll have a talk to anyone, I don’t mind talking,” he said on 3AW.

“Would I talk to them? I didn’t really expect it and I thought it probably wouldn’t have happened but I would have to have a think about it. That’s interesting.”

Coaching legend Leigh Matthews encouraged clubs looking for a coach to make the call to Thompson and John Worsfold, dismissing concerns about their passion for the job.

“John Worsfold is not necessarily going to say, ‘Yes, I want to coach again’. Some club is going to have to convince him to coach them,” Matthews said.

“Don’t worry about his passion, once you decide to do it, you’re in — and that would go for you Bomber and John Worsfold.

“He’s primed to coach again but someone has to convince him to come to their club.”

Thompson said he wouldn’t put his hand up to coach Essendon but the Bombers needed an experienced coach.

“It’s a big club, big expectations and they sort of seem to do things their own way and they’d gobble someone up, and I think they gobbled Matthew Knights up,” he said.

“I said to Matthew when I walked into Essendon that I felt sorry for him because he had no hope, the poor bugger.”

Earlier, Hawthorn football manager Chris Fagan said talk he had been sounded out for the Crows job was news to him.

“I can honestly say they haven’t approached me and I would have thought they are very unlikely to.”