 Kyle, how exciting is it to have a new athlete say something like that? Yeah, very excited. It seems a little bit too long that we've had to wait, but obviously it's very important that everyone would say health and safety was the most important thing. But it's only three days, obviously the season starts with other teams now, but we're fully focused on our first game and one exciting game it is for us. Yeah, it's been really interesting. Obviously, when you step into a new football club, it's like being on your first day in school. You don't know what to expect, you've heard a lot of things. What I've been vitally impressed with is the infrastructure of the football club. It's huge, the facilities are amazing. Really important that you have good people as well and there's a good nucleus of people here as well. And I've got a team of players that want to work and want to learn, so it's a good starting point for me. It's nowhere near where I want it to be at the moment and I probably won't be for a few months. I know that, I understand that, but it takes time to build things. Well, it makes me laugh, it's one of the most, rather than the game we're talking about. People ask me this question most that they have done. I've ended up saying no interviews because they ask the same thing. And what I'll say is, you know, we've lost our number one goalkeeper. Our number one goalkeeper has gone back home because he did not want to be at the football club. I could say now that I wanted Daniel to be at the football club and make Daniel look the bad guy and I'm not going to do that because Daniel had had an agreement with the football club, his family were over there and we accepted that and he's moved on. James in Adelaide, I've got James, he's a good person, he's a good player. He had a contract there. If they wanted to keep him there, I'm sure he'd still be there. So it's not always what it says on the outside. James is now our player, we're delighted to have him on board. It's the same situation with Bernie, you know, people say they've got contracts but there's always a reason why a player leaves. As I said with my number one goalkeeper, whether it's family issues, whether it's the coach, the coach might be the problem, whether it's a salary reduction, we're trying to save on that, whether it's a personal salary reduction that they're talking about. There's a number of reasons but it's not just as simple as are. James Truisi signed for Robbo because Robbo was tracking him in 2015. There's a reason behind it and once you get the reason behind it and you understand why, you'll realise that it was the right move for James and it was the right move for Adelaide as well after the event. It was easier. Hurt me? Didn't hurt me one bit because it's nothing to do with me. Obviously there's a circumstance, I think since the comments that were made I think since he's retracted them publicly. So as you said, what Laurie says and does is none of my business. Obviously it's Bernie's business but I think since the initial statement I think he's retracted them so that might tell you something as well. Great, brilliant. I love Bernie to bits, I've said that as a player, he's followed me three times. I've got rid of him as well when I was in Vancouver. I let him go because he wanted to go and play football and I'm a big advocate of if a player is not happy then they should go and play football and then we get into the other argument and agreement and I disagree with Gav sometimes about contracts and things like that. As a manager of a football team, when a player is not happy and doesn't want to be at your football club, it's very hard as a coach. You know, we're all young coaches aspiring to be the best. We're all trying to get better, trying to create cultures and environments, create the right mentality and these words get thrown around as slow guns and words but they're very important so if you've got in any workplace 20 players that are really happy and two that are unhappy is that going to be a positive workplace to work in? No, it's not. So my remit and it was in Vancouver, it was in Newcastle and that's why players left the club while I was there and they've left the club here is because I don't want to force people to be here when they're not happy but that's just me. What's this thing here? Get that thing. I don't know, it's a lizard. Sorry. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I don't want to force people to be here because I try and create an environment and culture where it's a privilege to play football, it's a privilege to be out on the training field because millions and millions of kids, boys and girls, want to play this game so I don't want to force someone to not be here. No, that scared me, whatever that was. And there's been a black snake look around here as well sometimes that we haven't caught. So yeah, scared coming from Wales. He's a terrific player. I know that, I think people who followed him in the Premier League and mostly probably Scottish international games know he's a fantastic passer of the ball. He's a good professional. You're only as good as your senior players in your team and that's why I've brought in good veteran senior players, James Troisi, Ziggy Gordon, Graham Dorans, Bernie Fitz into that category as well because they are you, they set your tone as a team and as a manager and they're all very good professionals, they're good trainers they set the right examples and they want to help the young players. We've got some fantastic young players at this football club and we've got to try and create pathways for them but we've also got to be successful in the short term as well or be super competitive in the short term and we will be, you know, whether that will be enough time will tell over the course of the season but if you're going to try and beat us you're going to have to earn the right to play you're going to have to perform at your levels because I'll make sure that my team is fully committed and proud to wear this jersey. Yeah, it is. Listen, we've lost some senior players I've mentioned there, Daniel Lopar, the number one goalie I've met Matt Yearman's left, Mitchell Duke's left Shregler's left, four key players that's why it was important I brought in some senior players you've got experience as well as my other players that I'm trying to bring in as well because we've still got room, we've still got plenty of cap space we've still got a visa spot available whether we decide to use that now or, you know, midway through the season we'll just dictate as it goes I'm in no rush to bring in players I don't want to do it for the short term I'm thinking about longer term goals which is important but I'm also thinking about the young players at the club as well that can get the opportunity to play How flexible do you guys have to be this season against the uncertainty of the draw and everything that could happen? Yeah, I think every team has to be if you're trying to predict who's going to do well in this league it's very hard with the uncertainty surrounding Covid and obviously with a little cluster that popped up the other day that has put a little it's hit us a little bit but, as you said, that still might happen but, as I said, I'll revert back to values and values are what's important is people's health and safety football becomes a secondary thing but that doesn't take away from I want to win games of football, I want to train properly I want to be a winner and reach our goals here in the A-League but people's health and safety is the most important thing Brilliant, brilliant I've been aware of it in Major League Soccer when I joined ten years ago 16, 17 teams, it's now 26 teams you know, MacArthur coming in is great for Australian football, great for them obviously they've got a good coach, good group of players and it's great for the A-League, we want more of that you know, there's one or two clubs that are obviously at the moment looking at potential new owners and things like that we want more clubs and more teams that you have available, the more competition the more rivalries, the more opportunities to play, the more teams that come in the more opportunities to play for young kids because I keep hearing the narrative of young players and there's not enough games to play and hopefully with the more teams that come in that will help with the alignment of the MPL with the youth league being on the same page as well, I think that's very important because we need to increase the number of games for those young Australian players as well because if everyone's on the same page and we get more games for the young kids and we get more teams and we get more players that are Australian that are playing at a high level that potentially before they go to Europe it helps the national team and it helps the national team then qualify for Olympics and be successful in World Cups and Olympics I think it does you're talking to a Welsh person who's got a small country that has now reached the second Euros in four years so you can do it, what you need is a plan and a structure and building blocks in place and all being aligned and on the same page so without a doubt you can do it it's just obviously the people that have the powers to be who make the big decisions and get paid the big money they get to do it and that's the fun part and they will do it correctly but sometimes people want to run before they can walk and you don't go to base three, base four before you put the infrastructure in in place first, base one and two but I've got my jobs hard enough as it is here to talk about that All good guys? All right good, thanks guys, enjoy