Steven King

The days you get just to speak about strategy and footy just by itself, they're ones you really cherish because there's so much more that goes to strategically management, dealing with everything that comes across your desk, whereas as an assistant, you pretty much just lock into the game, your area, your group of players.

So yeah, the corporate realities of dealing with corporates and speaking to

sponsor engagements, your schedule gets filled up pretty quickly, but I understand the importance of the role I've got to be the face of the club and help sell the message of what we want to do inside the footy club and get our members and sponsors and supporters on board.

So, yeah, but I must admit, when I first got the job, I think going for the job is one thing, and then you sit in the seat and you're like, okay, what's... I feel a bit like George Costanza on my first day, sitting there going, okay, I've got this office now, how do I get this ball rolling?

So...

then the reality hits and you think, okay, how do I actually bring this to life?

But luckily enough, mate, as I said before, I've got Troy Chaplin and Nathan Jones and Jared Rivers there.

I've got a good coaching group that, you know, it's helped sort of bring this to life.

So it's certainly not just one person myself.

It's a whole team of people.

Well, firstly, Max Heath was knocking the door down at VFL level.

So there's an integrity piece where you want to try and reward consistent performances.

So he was dominant at VFL level.

And then I just think we had Brisbane into a five-day break.

We had a couple of breaks where it was like, okay, we've mapped out there's a Richmond game of five days.

Then we go up to Sydney.

And so it's almost, do we just rock from the bench and just to relieve Max a bit, have that threat there?

And just the way it's sort of gone a little bit and evolved, Gourney's been able to spend a bit of time forward.

And with the Majercek injury last week, that was one we had to spend more time forward.

Gourney did.