Dealing with how to get payment options inside St Mirren's SMISA Stadium is just as far away from the aggressive style of play Keith Lasley implemented as a player.
If there's one thing the task of finance and battering into a midfield opponent have in common though, it's a sense of hard work ethic and earning your opportunities. And that is exactly what the Paisley chief operating officer has managed to do right through his career
He is speaking to Record Sport on the eighth anniversary of his former side Motherwell beat Rangers in the Premiership play-offs to secure safety. Life now has him dealing with distant cousins of the dinosaurs as he reflects on his first season after taking over his current job from club icon Tony Fitzpatrick. Stephen Robinson guided the club to a historic first top six spot in 38 years on the park, and his former assistant manager is looking to make them a force off it, with home crowds overall in Paisley around 25% up as the community buys into the Buddies project.
"From singing Twist and Shout in front of the Well Bois," he laughed. "How did we end up in this seat? Long journey, I have a few different priorities and responsibilities now.
"I think in this role you are responsible for pretty much everything. All the football things you would think I would be up to but you are in charge of things like payment options for season tickets, kit launches, stuff to do with the stadium.
"Birds nests, that's one thing I didn't think I'd need to look at! That's an issue we had to deal with, a bird nesting inside the stadium. It's a very big one, I think it might have been a pterodactyl given the size.
"It's interesting and every day is different. That's a good part of it and keeps you on your toes. So going from signing a player to getting a nest removed from one of your stands - and everything in between - is how I would describe the job."
If being a leader at a top six Premiership club isn't stressful enough, Lasley adds a Masters of Sports Directorship to his workload, a course in which he is coming to the final stages of.
There's little room for learning on how to catch birds of prey, but it does have a healthy classroom and real life balance. It perhaps should have come attached with parental advisory stickers on top of his St Mirren duties, but mixing it with business bigwigs provides him perspective on the openings available to players now in an ever-changing world.
"They don't have a bird's nest module or if they did I missed it!," he joked. "That's the thing about academia, a lot of the time it is a perfect case scenario and best practice. That is great and it has given me a lot of learning, the Uni course is one of the reasons I am sitting in this chair.
"I have learned a lot. I have a deadline for my last assignment which has added a few grey hairs, but it's been a great learning experience. There's an element of finance and business in a wider sense which is great for me. On my current course, you have chief exec's, sporting directors, people like that coming in but you also have heads of hedge funds, big business and one of the last lectures we had was on the fan-led review and the independent regulator down south.
