SO JUST how did Dean Terlich feel when new coach Paul Roos was named coach?

Although anyone with an ounce of red and blue running through their veins was just about doing back flips with excitement, Terlich could’ve been excused for wondering just what it meant for him, given he had just one season with the Swans in 2008, under Roos.

But as the first year Demon, who finished third in the club’s best and fairest, said, he was delighted with the appointment, and eager to show he had changed, both as a player and as a person.

“I know he’ll do a great job and he’s a great coach, so I’m sure the club will be better for it,” Terlich told melbournefc.com.au.

“For me personally, it’ll be good in a way. I’ve changed a lot, as a bloke and as a footballer, since I was at Sydney with him.

“He’ll be good for the club.”

Although Roos was Terlich’s coach at the Swans, the New South Welshman, who was recruited to Melbourne after playing in Norwood’s SANFL premiership last year, said it would be a vastly different experience this time around.

“Under Roosy, I played week in week out in the reserves, and I didn’t play the whole season because of injury as well,” the rebounding defender said.

“I had bits and pieces to do with him, but he wasn’t my direct coach on the weekends.

“I know how good he was and how organised he was during the week - and how much of an intelligent footy brain he has. He’ll be definitely good for the club, because we’ve still got heaps to learn, and I’m sure he’ll be helpful in that regard.”