[1] Noble was recruited to the Australian Football League by Fitzroy in the 1989 draft with the 111th pick.
[1] In 2003, Noble moved to South Australia, and served as senior coach at Glenelg in the SANFL in 2003 and 2004, but did not take the club to finals.
He then joined the AFL's Adelaide Crows and spent more than a decade at the club, serving as assistant coach (2005-10), list manager (2011-13) and head of football (2014-16).
He was an integral part of the club’s eight finals campaigns over that ten year period.
[6] Noble was sacked as senior coach of North Melbourne with six weeks remaining in the 2022 season, after a disastrous 1–15 start to what was eventually a second consecutive wooden spoon; after the club's internal review had concluded it would dismiss Noble as a result of his poor win-loss and negative feedback towards his coaching style from staff and players, he and the club agreed to part ways immediately.