Most of all, Musialik will act as a mentor, especially for young players around their mental health.

Musialik is part of a new coaching structure at Rosebud for next season.

Technical director Chris Dale is the newly created director of football performance. Rosewarne has an expanded role as senior head coach. Reserve grade coach Chris Moylan will be the first grade coach, working under Rosewarne.

"In terms of my role and Chris Dale's role, it doesn't change too much," Rosewarne said. "I will still be in charge of first grade but will be off the tools a bit more in terms of running sessions 100 per cent. I'll be setting programs to get more synergy between the grades."

Musialik, an Adamstown junior who won A-League titles with the Jets and Sydney and represented Australia at the Beijing Olympics, has an astute football brain.

He has also had issues with mental health and will be a key figure in Adamstown's partnership with Headspace Australia.

"Stuey's role will be what he wants it to be," Rosewarne said. "He will bounce a few things off the coaching staff and will also be a mentor for our players. We have somebody who has been there and is quite prepared to talk to guys. We don't want our partnership with headspace to be tokenism. We have a duty of care to be more than just concerned about how good a footballer a kid is."

"So many things happen to kids in their life while they are with us. You see kids change. Most of the time it is for the better.

"In a footballer you want good tactical understanding, good technical ability, physically capable and mentally capable. If one of those is not there, they can struggle.

"We are hoping to have mental wellness as part of our training cycle."

On the pitch, Musialik will have input at training and help with skills development and styles of play.

"The way he played was complex but simple," Rosewarne said. "He sees it and gets it, and can make it seem simple. We can over-complicate the game too much.

"He will be a bit of a sounding board. He can come in for training sessions, observe ... it is a role for him to create and hopefully it will evolve over the next couple of years.

"I think it is exciting for the club.

"The aim is to get us to be competitive week-in, week-out. We want to be a club that players want to come to and stay."