The Albert Hotel publican sponsored the Warriors in 2017 and his role within the club quickly grew.

Weir helped out at training and on game day during the season and has now taken on the treasurer role as well as the first grade coaching job.

“I met a few of the blokes involved and they’re all good lads. Especially people like Julie and Ray Woods, they’re lovely,” Weir said.

“I understand what they're trying to create – a culture at the club.

“It’s new and I see that as a challenge and I’m happy to get involved and help create that culture.

“What we’re trying to create will hold the club together and sustain it for many years.”

The culture Weir wants at the club revolves around looking out for one another, both on and off the field.

Weir said the will was there and echoed Collegian president Mick Schmiedel’s comments that the players need to stick together.

“There’s a lot of young fellas around [at the club] that want to play football,” Weir said.

“They’re not playing to be stars, not playing to make money, they’re here because they love to play football.

“They obviously have an inherent will to win and they [wins] will come, we’re just building towards it.

“They’re not quite there yet but they will be. They just need to play for each other for a bit longer, stick together and grow into the future.”

While Weir wouldn’t say no to new players coming to the club, he believed the core group of 2017 had the talent to succeed.

“There’s not a lot of things that our halves can’t do in terms of skill and talent,” Weir said.

“They can do anything asked of them.

“Scott Berry and Riley Taylor did a good job this year along with guys like Alastair Wall, Brendon Head and Henry Slater.

“Fraser Evans is going to trial with the under 20s Knights so I’m not sure if we’ll have him or not.

“We had Jesse Taylor, only a young bloke, who stepped up and played front row. The energy provided by him was impressive.”

Weir said there’s still plenty of work to be done with the first grade outfit, though.

The Warriors leaked 858 points during the 2017 regular season and Weir said that simply had to stop.

“The thing we need to make sure we don’t forget about is a bit of discipline and a bit of defence,” Weir said.

“We copped a few shellackings this year.

“Letting points in has nothing to do with offence, we can score 50 points a game and still lose.

“We need to knuckle down on defence, and get that very tight, and be more disciplined on turnovers.”

Weir said pre-season was a fair way off for the club.

He was aiming to hit the ground running in mid to late January.

Before that, he plans to get the players and club members a couple times before Christmas.