 You really needed a victory there to keep your season alive and the players delivered just that. How happy are you with that performance and the result? Yeah, the performance I thought was excellent, especially first half. I thought we were exceptional in every aspect of the game. People break down or dissect the game when you have the ball and done with the ball and we do that and I thought we come out on top in every aspect of it. Obviously we were only one goal ahead at half-time, which was probably the disappointing thing of a very polished first half. Second half is never the same in football, unfortunately, as much as you want it to be. But then we showed the other side of what we were able to do at times by defending, putting our bodies on the line. Defending set plays very, very well. Last-itch tackles and blocks and obviously then got the goal at the end of the second half as well. What's the thinking of having Keanu back us in that more advanced role when there are international experience 10s on the bench, like Terese and Nicolai Moore as well? Well, the one with Jimmy Troisi was just Jimmy's played 20-plus games. It was just giving him a rest from last game. That's why he didn't start and Keanu started. I think Keanu had two or three games on the bench and looked ready to play. When you're with him in training, you get a feel of when they're ready to play. You have to let him lose sometimes. He scored last week. Keanu, I thought he was very good and I thought we could cause him problems, which we did in the first half by keeping that shape. Keanu's got legs. He's obviously got different qualities to other players like Nicolai and like Jimmy, but that was the only reason today. Do you say that role was something he can step into or was that more of a situation for him? Well, if he performs like he has done in the last two games, then for sure he can play any more advanced role. When I come here six months ago, he tells me he's a holding midfield player. He likes to break up play, but he's got more to his game than that. He really has and it depends what you want and how you're going to build your team. I'm going to build my team a certain way and I want certain profiles of players in certain positions and whether that's a connector keeping the ball or whether that's someone who's got legs who can get up and down. Keanu's got legs. So I think if you play him in that sixth role, then sometimes you take away one of his strengths, key strengths, which is his legs. Bernier Bernier, fantastic goal tonight. It was really industrious. How important was it for him to sort of get the goal for you guys? Yeah, please for Bernier. I thought he was very, very strong. I think he probably should have two chances earlier when he got the defender pinned in the box. He's got to use what his strength is and twist and turn. He does it in training as a nine-with-a-back-to-goal player and he scores near enough every time. And then the one-half chance he has, obviously turns and shoots and it gets us in front in the first half. But now Bernier's very good. Obviously we're touching the surface with Bernier as well. Bernier's a confidence player, like all players. It's important the manager and the coaches get behind him, which we will because you see what he can do when he's a confident player. At the end of the field, Daniel Margoosh, stick saves. Two of them early. Yeah, very pleased. He's a young keeper who's experienced in his first season this year as a regular and, you know, it's not an excuse. It's a fact where we're at and what I want to try and do at this football club. And, you know, you use margs. It's his first season in professional football, really, as a regular. It's the same with Thomas Aquilina, same as Martin. Take your wrestlers playing more games. Keanu's the only one who's probably played more regularly out of the young boys than the rest of them. And with that, you have hiccups. They make mistakes. It's normal, human nature is to make mistakes. But when people jump on them and want to criticise them when they make mistakes, they lose confidence. When they lose confidence, you think it's the wrong player and that asks us coaches and me as a manager, my job is to support them. Not just the on-the-field stuff, but off-the-field stuff as well because the welfare of the players to tap into their minds is crucial for coaching. Thursday night play out late away, and you'll know by then if you've still got a chance at the finals, how do you approach the week? Like we did this week, you know, we can't control anything else outside of what we do. What we can do is put on a performance and if the results happen to fall our way, great. If they don't, you know, we won't be letting up. We're going there to try and put on another performance like we did today because, you know, the thing for us this year has been our consistency. I know people don't like using that word, but in fact, when we're on our day, we're very, very good and we can compete with anyone. We've not probably been on our day enough times, which is probably why we are where we are. We have to accept that, analyse that, and the hardest thing sometimes is looking in the mirror and admit where you got it wrong and what you did wrong and then make decisions, but, you know, I don't mind looking in the mirror, so it's okay. What things do you think you've done wrong and what do you think is undermined that consistency? Well, again, you can look at it in a number of ways. You know, at the start of the year, I think we weren't scoring enough goals and I said to the group, you know, we're creating chances, but we're not scoring enough goals and I think we're second or third top goal scorers now. You know, it's 12 or 13 games later. You know, we were very, very good in our defensive structure and in our defensive play at the start of the year and we've considered five goals in two games. You know, Melbourne victory away and Perth away, which sometimes over and large is the goal difference. Open play goals, we're very good. Set pieces have caused us a massive problem this year and, you know, only nine off corners or eight off corners. You know, we're one ahead of two or three other teams and we've got a couple of penalties, tubious penalties which I've spoke about. You know, sometimes they go away, sometimes they don't and we've had some deflected free kicks. So we need to address that and that might be, you know, people talk about zonal marking and man-to-man marking and a little bit of mix of both and things like that. You know, you've got to be real as well. You know, it might be personnel and you've got to find the right people that want to go and head the ball and are willing to go and head the ball in a zonal area or man-to-man marking and, you know, that's what I've got to do. I've got to analyse that. I've got to reflect on that and see if I've got the right pieces here and the ones I have will move forward in the one we haven't. Then we won't. We'll make changes because our aim is to build the club to where we want to get it, where it has been a few years ago. You know, we want to try and get back to that, but that doesn't happen overnight. You know, we're not naive enough to think it does. Sometimes you can get paper over things. You know, I want paper over things. I'll tell you as it is, but it's a work in progress. You just mentioned the right people. I thought Stevie Garkovich will brilliant tonight. Do you think he's going to be one of the keys to having a more consistent wanderers for the rest of this season and next season? Without a doubt, you know, I've been fortunate enough to work with Stevie twice now here in Australia and said to you the qualities and the traits he has in that midfielder role, you know, I wouldn't swap him for anyone else. You know, there's some really good midfield players in this league. There really is. But he's got everything and you don't realise how good he is until you work with him, and when you do, then you find out how good he is. You know, my job is to help him grow on the field, to challenge him, to test him because, as you said, with the Oly Roo's now, with the soccer Roo's and, you know, the Oly Roo's, like they say, I want to try and get him into the national team because I think he should play with that talent and his confidence, again, his confidence, has he been at his level this year? I'm not sure, but I know what he can do and when he performs like that, it wasn't just him today, it was every single player. We mentioned Miles, we mentioned Bernie, Graham, Tasputin and Dillon was excellent as well. They were all excellent, but you just got a feeling you've got to have cool players that are at the forefront of your team because the bigger teams, the most successful teams in this league and people will talk about Melbourne and Sydney and rightly so because they've been at the top for the last two years. Have a cool group of players and they stick together. How I don't know, but, you know, I'll leave that for you. And then just out to Ed on the Zoom, Ed, if you have anything. Ed. Yeah, Carl, congratulations. Oh, yes. You mentioned pregame on Fox about almost a lack of leadership in the dressing room. Are you happy with, you know, the appointment of Wednesday? Particularly in that first half, how the boys responded out there? Yeah, let me explain when I say a lack of leadership. I mean, a lack of vocal leadership. We've got leaders in that locker room that lead. You know, you don't have to be a shout or a rah-rah person. You know, unfortunately when you're playing Europe and you're part of a European team you do because you get swallowed up. So I've learned that trait pretty quickly and so has Kenny. You know, maybe that's not the nature here, but the successful teams have got them. They have got leaders that actually make each other accountable, which you need to do, but we've got quiet leaders. And when you're a quiet leader, then obviously you're not a vocal leader and if you've got to tell your teammate something that's not correct or drag him into a position that he needs to be to make sure that we don't concede off a corner, then that takes a different type of leadership. So that's what I meant with regards to vocal leadership. I wish I could do it for him. I wish I could be behind him and kick every ball for him. I am trying to on the sidelines so that might be a more vocal leader that we need. But the way they responded, yeah, it's great. You know, it's credit to them today, you know, because from the first moment, and it's not easy, because you can feel sorry for yourself and you know, then don't get the result that you want, or you can actually just roll your sleeves up and enjoy and love what you get paid to do. I said that, you know, you don't really realise how lucky and fortunate you are as a player until you're not in the game or when you retire as a player and when you retire as a player, you think oh, it's great, I don't have to do a pre-season or I don't have to run, but three months later you're bored when you're sitting at home and you're arguing with your wife. That's the reality of where you're at. So I say to them, don't underestimate the daily grind of it. It's such a wonderful thing to be a football player and it will be taken away without a doubt and as quick as it comes we're going to have a new citizenship paper, which means there's more news and no one wants to talk about you. I guess just finally from me, we saw Tass towards the end there go over on his ankle, he had sorry played out the game, but I'm assuming he's okay. I think so, yeah, I thought Tass was very good. I thought we had a problem in the first half in relation to that inside channel there, right sided player Denzaki was causing us one or two problems in between because he's not been in for the last three or four weeks because young Matt has played was exceptional. As a young player, it's easy to come off if you get hurt or easy to give in, but he didn't. He showed good character today to Tass because he wanted to carry on the game because he was playing very, very well. So I think he's okay.