West Coach premiership coach Adam Simpson has refused to give any oxygen to the suggestion that Fremantle, who are reeling after their catastrophic AFL loss to St Kilda last Friday, should or even could court him to take over.

The Dockers were widely slammed for arguably the worst performance of the year from a team which many expected to be challenging for a premiership in coach Justin Longmuir’s sixth season at the helm.

Having won four of their previous five games before last Friday’s disaster against the Saints, Longmuir had recovered from a slow start to have his side on the cusp of the top eight.

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But the 44-year-old has been plunged back into the depths of the league’s most intense pressure, with his position as coach facing serious scrutiny from the outside.

Despite Dockers CEO Simon Garlick throwing his full support behind Longmuir before the St Kilda game on Friday night, Simpson was thrown up as a possible name for Fremantle to chase, should things go further south from here.

“Adam Simpson’s fascinating; he was the coach at West Coast. Can Fremantle take a coach from West Coast?” Jay Clark told Fox Sports on Sunday.

“And do you think this football club is going to stand up to some of these expectations that have been set?”

Asked about the commentary the next morning on SEN, Simpson completely shut it down.

“It’s not about me. They’re (commentators) going to throw out (the possibility of) every coach at some stage,” he said.

“Obviously there are some (former) senior coaches that are out of work at the moment, but I’m really enjoying what I’m doing; it’s new an exciting, and the stress is so much less.

“I think we should talk about Fremantle and expectations and what they’ve sort of twisted themselves into at the moment, that’s a good discussion.”

Simpson’s co-host Tim Gossage continued to press for more answers, making for a slightly frosty exchange on-air.

Gossage: “I’ll do that for you later...”

Simpson: “Well, nah, let’s just move on. I’m not interested. I’m not interested.”

Gossage: “Can I ask you one more question?”

Simpson: “Nup, you can’t. It’s just irrelevant. I’m not interested.”

Gossage: “Have you woken up in the last two months and thought, ‘Hmm, coaching feels for me...’

Simpson: “Goss, I don’t want to talk about it. It’s just not about me and I’ve told you that before.”

Simpson was however happy to talk about Garlick’s defence of Longmuir. Speaking from experience, he said the coach-CEO relationship is significant at AFL clubs.

“That’s interesting, when the CEO does that,” Simpson said.

“I didn’t probably realise until very late (in my tenure at West Coast), that the CEO and the senior coach are very connected.

“‘Nis’ (former Eagles CEO, Trevor Nisbet) and I were very tight, and when ‘Pykey’ came in (current CEO, Don Pyke), it sort of felt like, OK, who’s he going to hitch his wagon to? And it wasn’t me.

“It’s very important that the CEO backs you in, and when you get put in those situations and asked those questions, I think you’ve got to be pretty stoic, otherwise they’ll pick you apart, so I’m not surprised Simon said that.”

Dockers assistant coach Jade Rawlings later appeared on Simpson and Gossage’s show, saying Longmuir had his full support.

“There are a lot of people who always want to go after the coach when you see performances (like last Friday’s), and I get the period of time the club’s been waiting to be good and the period of time maybe Justin’s been at the club,” Rawlings said.

“But if I can just be a little bit personal, I came to Western Australia to work under him. I rate him highly, and I think he’s a good human, and he believes in his club and his players, and he stands up in the face of adversity.

“Ideally, that’s what I want in a coach. And I know that won’t appease everyone, but he’s got a great consistency, he’s calm — it doesn’t mean to say he’s not frustrated or agitated.

“He coaches the group and he asks a lot of them. Now, when that doesn’t come out on field and on screen, I can understand people’s agitation and frustration, because we feel it as well.

“But if I’m a Freo supporter, I think I can rightfully expect more and consistent competing from our group, and that’s on all of us, not just a JL thing, it’s on all of us as a club.”