Melbourne coach Steven King insists the shock sacking of club chief executive Paul Guerra has not distracted his players.<\/p>\n
Guerra was axed last week after just seven months in the role and is understood to be exploring his legal options.<\/p>\n
The club replaced Guerra swiftly, appointing former Stan chief executive Dan Taylor.<\/p>\n
Melbourne suffered a brave loss to Sydney just days later, souring its run of four wins from five matches. <\/p>\n
King says football operations act separately from administration, leaving no room for disruption.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot really, no, to be honest, obviously there is noise around it,\u201d King said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut 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\u2019t really take too much focus (off) what we\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n
\u201cExternally there probably is but not for us day to day and week to week for us to win games of footy.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur job doesn\u2019t really change, it\u2019s trying to provide an environment for our players to get better every day and to hopefully feel confident enough to win games of footy.<\/p>\n
\u201cI guess the beauty of the game and challenge every week is that you just take care of one and move onto the next.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Demons are rejuvenated under King in his first year, going within three goals of the highly fancied Swans at the SCG.<\/p>\n
Steven King isn\u2019t satisfied with gritty defeats, saying any loss is a bad one.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a bad loss because we lost. We went up there to win so it was disappointing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs I mentioned after the game, I was really proud of the boys the way they fought it out, but you don\u2019t get any bonus points for fighting games out \u2013 you get nothing.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn 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.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s credit to Sydney as well, they\u2019re a great team \u2026 it was a good opportunity yesterday to reflect on that second quarter to show some obvious areas to get better.\u201c<\/p>\n