Under-pressure Melbourne coach Mark Neeld is confident he retains the support of the AFL club’s board.

There has been speculation the Melbourne directors could move on Neeld as soon as Monday’s board meeting, if the Demons suffer yet another heavy defeat against Hawthorn on Sunday.

That match is followed by another difficult encounter against Collingwood before the mid-season bye.

Neeld is less than halfway through a three-year contract, but insists he is not being distracted by calls for his removal from those with no formal connection to the club.

“The external pressure or external noise, that only impacts on your day-to-day job if you let it,” Neeld said on Thursday.

“And I’m not letting it.

“I’m pretty clear on what my job is, which is to coach the Melbourne footy club and that’s what I’m doing.”

Neeld said he would make a half-hour presentation to the board on Monday, just as he did every month.

“It’s just a regular monthly board meeting where there’s robust discussion about a whole lot of issues and progress and all that sort of stuff and I presume it will be the same,” he said.

“I talk to board members on a regular basis.

“I chatted to (president Don McLardy) this morning, it was just a normal conversation with him .. about some ideas about who’s in line for selection and who’s not.

“Just an everyday president and coach conversation.”

If the Melbourne board were to dump Neeld midway through the season, they would likely replace him on an interim basis with another member of the coaching staff such as Todd Viney, Neil Craig or Jade Rawlings.