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Speaker 1: Let's say hi to our next guest.

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Speaker 2: Our next guest is the fresh hot new coach of

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Speaker 2: the Melbourne Football Club. Steven has got enormous amount experience,

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Speaker 2: a deep understanding of the game and in neck coaching philosophy.

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Speaker 3: They will drive our football program forward. Please welcome to

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Speaker 3: the show, Steven King.

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Speaker 1: Here to take it to the promised Land. Good morning, good.

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Speaker 3: Morning, what new coach? As that sounds.

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Speaker 2: Must have a temperature. I haven't lost the game yet, Clint,

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Speaker 2: So yeah.

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Speaker 1: Record at the moment. Is this the first official radio interview?

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Speaker 1: It is, Big Chair.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it is in studio.

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Speaker 1: So Grady, you pick such a news based.

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Speaker 4: Show to Steve's sporting show.

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Speaker 2: It would have been nice had three of you in person,

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Speaker 2: But that's okay.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, well you know what, King, we can't we

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Speaker 4: Actually we are in California, Clinton Night, Jasons at home,

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Speaker 4: but we were over here. Actually we went to the

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Speaker 4: Super Bowl and it was pretty amazing seeing an Aussie

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Speaker 4: punter in the Michael Dixon. Michael Dixon in the winning team.

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Speaker 4: I mean, there's plenty of football players there, any Melbourne

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Speaker 4: players that could one day be punters. Do you think

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Speaker 4: in the NFL.

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Speaker 2: We've got a couple of guys that can roost the

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Speaker 2: big ball. Jed Adams young defender who he can kick

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Speaker 2: at seventy off one step, so he'd certainly be one

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Speaker 2: guys that got fluid kick like Bailey Fridge is a

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Speaker 2: fluid you know. He just does it effortlessly and great

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Speaker 2: control of the ball. So yeah, I think there's certainly motivation.

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Speaker 2: We see a lot of ouzsies now hitting college or

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Speaker 2: going over the States now.

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Speaker 3: Taking congratulations welcome to the Demon family. As a Melbourne

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Speaker 3: person myself Melbourne, what does it feel like taking the

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Speaker 3: reins as senior coach of a club? Is it you know,

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Speaker 3: do you feel pressured? Do you feel is it an

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Speaker 3: emotional time? Obviously it's a big moment for your family

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Speaker 3: as well. What's the overriding emotion?

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Speaker 2: It's one of excitement and pride certainly, But then I

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Speaker 2: mean there's different pieces to it. Clint, you sort of

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Speaker 2: put a bit of prep in the win the job,

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Speaker 2: and I mean first you've got to believe that you

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Speaker 2: can and you're ready, and that probably took me a

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Speaker 2: little bit longer than some others, but certainly you help

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Speaker 2: build experience along the journey. And then yeah, I think

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Speaker 2: you win the job and you're like, Okay, now this

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Speaker 2: is real. Then that little bit of self doubt imposter syndrome,

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Speaker 2: like now how am I going to start all this

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Speaker 2: and get it done? And luckily enough, I've got a

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Speaker 2: terrific bunch of staff and players and coaches especially that

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Speaker 2: have sort of helped, I guess, remove some of the

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Speaker 2: things that I wanted to remove. But yeah, I've just

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Speaker 2: a high level of trust and autonomy amongst our players

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Speaker 2: and coaches and just sort of watching it come to

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Speaker 2: life the last four months has been really exciting.

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Speaker 5: What about nerves on the first day, Like, because you're

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Speaker 5: a former player, you can't go in there being one

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Speaker 5: of the boys.

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Speaker 2: You're boss now, absolutely, Yeah, it's funny. We had a

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Speaker 2: bit of a stag at young Boys back first, then

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Speaker 2: that we had a camp in Bright which was my

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Speaker 2: first official day with all the older five plus years back.

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Speaker 1: And can't get on it when you're the coach, No,

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Speaker 1: you certainly can't.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: The first one was probably me.

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Speaker 2: I wanted to present what I presented to the panel

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Speaker 2: to win the job to our players and staff, just

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Speaker 2: to make sure that they knew what I was trying

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Speaker 2: to be, not trying to be someone else. I've won

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Speaker 2: the job, and now I'm going to act a different way.

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Speaker 2: I wanted to remain authentic and true to what I

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Speaker 2: said I was going to be and do and be

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Speaker 2: held to account with that. So yeah, once you're back

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Speaker 2: in it, now it's just like another footy club and

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Speaker 2: all systems go.

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Speaker 4: Can you I remember you from being the captain of

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Speaker 4: the Cats down in the Geelong days and you're an

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Speaker 4: amazing captain down there. But do you think having that

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Speaker 4: experience as a captain and a leader of a footy

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Speaker 4: team as a player has set you up for being

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Speaker 4: a better coach?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, certainly was.

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Speaker 2: I think all your experiences as a player, being captain,

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Speaker 2: being injured, being traded, ups and downs, winning a premiership,

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Speaker 2: losing one, all those little pieces of experience that you've

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Speaker 2: lived certainly helped shape you to you know, to help

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Speaker 2: guide and manage and understand the journeys your players and

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Speaker 2: other people are going through.

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Speaker 1: At footy clubs.

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Speaker 3: Because Lauren, you were the first lady of Geelong.

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Speaker 1: She was the first lady. Yeah too, on that statue.

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Speaker 4: Down in that beautiful light. Damie was the first lady

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Speaker 4: because he was the.

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Speaker 5: Captain Okay, I was trying to followed her around because

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Speaker 5: there's there's something I do want to bring up. I

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Speaker 5: don't know if you're starting the year off the right

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Speaker 5: way for the club, but I have seen a video

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Speaker 5: released and if you want to join the Melbourne Football

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Speaker 5: Club Melbourne FC dot com dot are you to.

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Speaker 1: Be a member?

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Speaker 5: But you have released a video and you've called on

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Speaker 5: some of your members like ever around. Clint stand Away.

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Speaker 3: Can't get that image of Nasia off my mind. You

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Speaker 3: know what, I can't believe I'm about to watch two

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Speaker 3: of my old favorites player for the Suns and Giants

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Speaker 3: in the Expansion Cup. It's going to hit as hard

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Speaker 3: as barn.

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Speaker 1: Picket as a LOGI.

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Speaker 3: Lauren Lauren said off here that it was phenomenal acting.

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Speaker 4: No, I didn't. I said it was better than I expected.

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Speaker 3: Different, inspiring. I loved it.

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Speaker 2: I think it was a bit of fun and yeah,

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Speaker 2: I think certainly as a football club we're trying to

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Speaker 2: do things a little bit differently, being our supporters and

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Speaker 2: public along for the journey, and I think we're going

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Speaker 2: to have a bit of fun this year and we're

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Speaker 2: going to do things differently.

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Speaker 3: We're going to look different. We're going to be fresh

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Speaker 3: and entertaining. So I love that.

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Speaker 5: Speaking of different, I was just going to say when

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Speaker 5: we're at the super Bowl, like all three of us

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Speaker 5: were sitting there going there's some things the AFL could

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Speaker 5: learn from this, like the tailgate parties and the imagine

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Speaker 5: all the range rovers of the Melbourne Football Club members

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Speaker 5: lined up exactly.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: No, we can definitely learn a lot from that as

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Speaker 2: an entertaining industry, that's for sure.

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Speaker 3: Well, just very quick quickly, King, A lot of people

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Speaker 3: have questioned the culture of the Melbourne Footy Club. I mean,

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Speaker 3: how things going and how have you tried to repair

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Speaker 3: that in the off season.

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Speaker 1: Look for me, it's a clean.

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Speaker 2: Slate when a new coach comes in and there's obviously

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Speaker 2: been some high profile players that have left out our building,

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Speaker 2: and we've brought in some high character, great, great players

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Speaker 2: and people are going to add to our program. But

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Speaker 2: I think people underestimate the quality of people that are

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Speaker 2: already at the Melbourn Football Club. So I'd lean on

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Speaker 2: a lot of experience. We've got ten or eleven Premiership players.

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Speaker 2: We've got so a young, young, hungry group that I

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Speaker 2: just can't wait to get going.

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Speaker 1: And own it.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, I've had no issues.

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Speaker 1: At all so far.

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Speaker 4: You're a great bloke. I think the D's are in very,

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Speaker 4: very safe hands with you.

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Speaker 3: Stephen King, John stand Away at the Helm, what a

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Speaker 3: combo Riders Rain.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I've got a few things to shake, but.

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Speaker 4: All the best. Honestly, I do think the ds are

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Speaker 4: in very safe hands. I've had a front row seat

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Speaker 4: to watching you captain a team and I have no

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Speaker 4: doubt you'll be equally as successful as the coach of

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Speaker 4: the D's.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, guys, appreciate it.

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Speaker 4: Good on you, mate, Lauren Lauren wake up feeling good

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Speaker 4: following them on the socials