Melbourne coach Steven King insists the shock sacking of club chief executive Paul Guerra has not distracted his players.
Guerra was axed last week after just seven months in the role and is understood to be exploring his legal options.
The club replaced Guerra swiftly, appointing former Stan chief executive Dan Taylor.
Melbourne suffered a brave loss to Sydney just days later, souring its run of four wins from five matches.
King says football operations act separately from administration, leaving no room for disruption.
“Not really, no, to be honest, obviously there is noise around it,” King said.
“But us as a footy department, what we do inside here from a coaching point of view and for the players to play, I think it doesn’t really take too much focus (off) what we’re doing.
“Externally there probably is but not for us day to day and week to week for us to win games of footy.
“Our job doesn’t really change, it’s trying to provide an environment for our players to get better every day and to hopefully feel confident enough to win games of footy.
“I guess the beauty of the game and challenge every week is that you just take care of one and move onto the next.”
The Demons are rejuvenated under King in his first year, going within three goals of the highly fancied Swans at the SCG.
Steven King isn’t satisfied with gritty defeats, saying any loss is a bad one.
“It was a bad loss because we lost. We went up there to win so it was disappointing,” he said.
“As I mentioned after the game, I was really proud of the boys the way they fought it out, but you don’t get any bonus points for fighting games out – you get nothing.
“In reflection, I think we played three quarters of footy where we were courageous enough to play our way and the second quarter we went away from us.
“That’s credit to Sydney as well, they’re a great team … it was a good opportunity yesterday to reflect on that second quarter to show some obvious areas to get better.“
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