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!
3. Brisbane Lions / John Northey
Northey traversed the merger, as the Brisbane Bears' final coach, and the Brisbane Lions' first.
The Bears' final season as an entity of its own culminated in a preliminary final loss to eventual premiers the North Melbourne Kangaroos, but Northey went just 12-1-20 in his 33 matches in charge of the joint venture.
A string of injuries, including a broken leg to legend-in-waiting Michael Voss, as well as internal friction, saw the club languishing on the bottom of the ladder at 1998's midway point. Northey was handed his marching orders.
His former skipper Roger Merrett saw out the rest of the 1998 season, before Leigh Matthews came aboard, and the rest, as they say, is history. The bones of the game's greatest ever side were in place, and "Lethal" turned them into the well-drilled machine that's remembered and revered so fondly.
