DUAL North Melbourne premiership player David King says the AFL coaches who haven’t made finals should vote on the Norm Smith Medal winner.

Currently, the winner is voted on by a panel of former players, journalists and media personalities.

King said coaches would have the best view of which players had genuinely had the best view of who had the biggest impact on the day.

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“I wonder whether we need to have a look at this now and who’s actually voting on the Norm Smith,” King said on Fox Footy’s AFL 360.

“We argue about the Brownlow every year with the umpires doing it.

“Why don’t we just give it to the coaches who haven’t made finals? Get them to chair the voting.

“They know what the game looks like, they know that ‘this bloke’s playing to a structure and he’s not a high-possession player but he could be just as important as the next guy getting 35 (possessions) that aren’t as effective as others.”

“They know exactly what’s happening by just looking at the game.”

Jason Johannisen won the Norm Smith Medal. (Photo by Darrian Traynor/AFL Media/Getty Images) Source: Getty Images

King said while he didn’t doubt the knowledge of prior judges, he felt that coaches would provide a different insight and input with their voting.

“What would happen this year if you had Alastair Clarkson as chairman, Ross Lyon, Luke Beveridge and Chris Fagan as the three voting,” he said.

“Not that they’ve got it wrong, not that it is wrong, but give the coaches more input into the game.

“We want to hear from the people inside the game — the media don’t know really what’s going on with the finite parts of the game.

Carlton great Mark Maclure said members of the media could get caught up in statistics.

“A lot of them actually look at the stats,” Maclure said

“And that doesn’t work.”

King said he believed both the media and the football public would respect the call of the coaches.

“We’re mature enough now that if Ross Lyon tells me ‘Nick Dal Santo was best on ground, have a look at why’, I’m all ears. All ears,” King said.

“Guys that do it in the media that don’t watch all the vision and don’t have a great handle on the game, we can’t be as dedicated and as accurate as that.”

Last year, Brisbane great Michael Voss (SEN Radio) was the chairman of the panel, with Wayne Carey (Channel 7), Jay Clark (Herald Sun), Brad Johnson (Fox Footy) and Emma Quayle (The Age) were judges.