"I'd heard that a few of the board members had already thought that [Cresswell] was going to be our next coach and he'd already been chosen," Scarlett said.
"I think I'm a pretty good judge of character and I was just hoping that that wasn't the case and I was going in to bat for Bomber.
"I said that if Bomber had left I would have left and I'm sure there would have been a lot of other players who would have left as well."
Scarlett also admits that he and Steve Johnson did not have the best of relationships earlier in their careers.
"I thought sometimes Stevie would be playing for himself and Stevie was annoyed with me with some of the things I was doing as well. We didn't have a lot of respect for each other," Scarlett said.
"I probably didn't understand Stevie and he didn't understand me, but once we built that relationship now we're really good."