 My name's Cush LaRue, I play for Western Sydney Wanderers and I play wingback. I'm from Bathurst and I played football there when I was younger. I've played since I was six years old, my brother played so I just followed in his footsteps and I started playing in Sydney when I was 15 and since then I just love the game, like the people I meet through it and I just enjoy it a lot and the opportunities it brings. Yeah, I've been playing in Sydney since I was 15 and I joined the A-League three years ago. This is my third year and I'm pretty excited because I have a Bathurst game coming up and it'll be the first time I've played there for a long time so I'm really excited. Yeah, family for me is massive, especially like living away from home now like I've realised how much I do miss my family. I am a bit of a homebody so yeah, I miss them a lot but I do get to see them like mum and dad will make the effort to come to all my games and my gran and my pop and my honey and everything like that, they're all really supportive and I guess every time I step out on that pitch I want to do them proud like I know growing up, like playing in Sydney I still lived in Bathurst so there was a lot of commuting and driving and I wouldn't have been able to do that without my parents and my family so I'm very grateful. Coming into this season I really just wanted to, I wanted to get more game time like I think that's every player's goal is to be on the field and be able to compete every week so I'm grateful to be getting the game time and I just knew that if I got the opportunity I wanted to take it and make sure that I did myself proud and yeah so I'm grateful to be playing so that was probably the biggest thing for me was to get minutes and now probably just to grow each game and to improve and to be one of the hardest working players on the pitch and yeah I just think by the end of the season I just hope I'm a better footballer on and off the field be a sponge taking as much information as I can every session, every game learn off the plays around me and off Robbie I think this year because we did know each other for the whole season last year I got to know each other a bit more this season like we came in like we knew each other's faces, we're already friends I think and like we had some newcomers so we're welcoming to them and they're really gelting into the team as well and I think it was a bit easier like we knew how each other played come into pre-season so I think that was a bit more of a smoother start for us it wasn't so much of a clean slate but I'm really enjoying it like the morale's been awesome like especially since we've been performing, getting good results and things like that but no it's really good fun on and off the pitch of the girls I think coming into this season for me was a lot smoother I'd already been at the club for a season so I knew what to expect and things like that and I think the expectations of myself rose from last season and yeah I just tried to come in with as much confidence as possible in each game and each training session for like my heart on that pitch and to just train as hard as I can for the team, for the club, for myself and I think day by day I've just improved especially under Robbie like I think we've all, he's got the best out of us and we've all improved and yeah I think getting game time has also helped like my confidence has grown and I'm really enjoying my time out in the field