Ken Hinkley reads as an inspired choice to helm the Tasmania Devils as they venture into the AFL landscape.
A renowned motivator, and a lauded connector of men, Hinkley boasts the grit to do the dirty work and the polish to present to stakeholders.
However, if he's to maximise the club's considerable draft and list concessions, and ultimately bring the cup to the Apple Isle, he'll be doing something that he never achieved in more than a decade with the Power, and something the inaugural coach of an AFL team has never, ever done.
Not every inaugural coach struggled - some almost broke even by the conclusion of their tenure.
Take a trip down memory lane, as we rank the inaugural coaches of AFL teams!
7. Brisbane Bears / Peter Knights
Peter Knights was an untried coach, backed by only his own self-belief and an exemplary playing stint at the Hawthorn Hawks, when he undertook the job of helming the first club in the AFL's northern frontier. The Bears joined the then-VFL in the 1987 season.
Minimal draft concessions, victims of a nomination process their fellow clubs took the mickey out of, and off-Broadway in the sleepy, backwater town of Carrara - the glitter-less underarm of the Glitter Strip, the Bears - and Knights - struggled in their first few years.
Knights would win 16 of his 59 games in charge of the Bears, and was dismissed by actor-turned-president Paul Cronin 15 games into his third season in charge. Team psychologist Paul Feltham was the interim coach for the rest of that 1989 season.
Despite the unceremonious exit for one of footy's nice guys, Knights and his ragtag team of misfits will live long in the memory for shocking North Melbourne in their first-ever game. Players and coaches clutched printouts of the lyrics to the team song, in scenes that earmarked the beginning of a new era for the national competition, and the arrival of the nation's greatest code, in its greatest state.
