 It's the third season the club hasn't reached the finals, which is not really, well it's certainly below half a club of this stature. What do you think needs to change for the club to get back to where it needs to be? For us it's all about resetting now and once we know the landscape of the league, it's about signing players that are currently with a club and also recruiting the right players to to represent us. So that's the first thing in our mind. The players probably aren't quite, the squad is quite up to scratch, so what needs to be a title-challenging side? No, not at all. You know our job is to retain as many players as possible and supplement it with recruitment outside the group. Once we know a little bit more the landscape and what we're dealing with then we'll be working towards that. Can you consider that in your game against Wellington that Kwame Abel came on as very early substitutes? You effectively kept the same 11 players and your starting team for three games in a row in seven days. Why did you choose not to rotate the squad with such a heavily congested schedule? Well before, because we felt that the players were the right players to get the best outcome as possible. So which we started at the first 11 and then we managed the game with the subs as we did. Concerns of fatigue during this heavy schedule? And do you think that was a factor in some of those defensive mistakes and maybe the defensive discipline tonight? No, not really. It's a mindset that we worked on from day one and it's all about preparation before the game. If your mindset is right then you can challenge yourself in terms of physically to deal with it. We started poorly today. The last 15 minutes of the half was excellent. It was the way that we wanted to play and we were braver and we found the right solutions and from there the game took its toll. What did you think? You mentioned that really good intensity before half-time. Was it the changes that you think helped inspire that fight back? Bruce Kamau is quite influential in particular. Yeah look, this week I felt that the subs actually affected the game in a positive way. But we discussed it at half-time, a couple of areas that we needed to be better at with a ball and an area where we could actually hurt them and the ball was responding accordingly. I mean there's a lot of players there that got a lot of pride in their brand name and they reacted accordingly and it did extremely well and I was very proud of them. Obviously the team that had a tough set, how do you look at using your score? Do you try and rotate some different names in? People give a certain name to chance. How do you look at that game now? We'll look at how players have recovered. We've got a little bit longer for the next game so it's all about now seeing how they recover and who's available and what we feel will be the best team to get the right outcome more after which is three points and we'll continue to do that and yeah we'll see who's available. Mitch Duke, two goals tonight and seeing him on the Fox interviews before obviously his future is very much up in the air in terms of whether he'll be at the club next season. I guess where do you see that situation at? Yeah well Mitch Duke is a player that we want to retain. I mean that's very clear in our mind and whatever happens with Mitch Duke in the next two or three weeks we'll know a little bit more about it but he's only one of many that we want to retain and Mitch is our captain and his work ethic on the park is excellent, he's very dangerous in the box and you know he's a big part of our plans and you know he represents us really well you know he's a perfect fit for us and the football club and we'll do our best to keep him here. Is that just a matter of you really? I suppose there's nice uncertainty not just Mitch but players in general some certainty of where things are going to sit in terms of things like salary cap and other factors as well with the league. Yeah I think there's another 11 teams like us you know there's uncertainty everywhere and until we know what we're dealing with you know it makes it a little bit difficult so until we know exactly what the landscape and the decision makers decide what the league's going to look like you know we're shooting in the dark at the at the moment and we're not the lone range of air there's another 11 teams that way I'd say MacArthur's probably got you know the advantage in terms of you know they've got a clean slate to recruit players at this stage but apart from that you know 11 players 11 teams are in the same boat. Hi Marco. Just on Bruce, Adam mentioned Bruce came out years ago he won that grand final with Adelaide he was on fire but how do you get him to reproduce that form on a regular basis like next season if he's at your club which I guess he is? Yeah well he was on fire prior to the pandemic you know that's Bruce he's he's got that in him you know so he needs to stay on the park you know he needs to be available to us yeah so Bruce at the moment you know he'll play two or three games and then then he gets injured so it's just getting him to to be more consistent and more consistent to be available to us on a weekly basis and if Bruce can do that then he'll have a very good career. Bruce he's his contract ends at the end of the year so there's a few players like that and so he'll be someone that you know will be discussing his future with us. It's always difficult for a new boss that comes in mid-season to really put in place reforms and put their stamp on things are you now does the process for you now really turn to looking looking forward and figuring out okay with an offseason coming up here's what I really want to do here's what I really want to change and can you maybe give us an insight into some of what some of those things might be just from a technical strategic point of view. Yeah we'll come down to you know who's available to us and and how how the recruitment goes but I do have a picture in my mind you know there's a possibility that we might change the system which means that you know our recruitment might be a little bit different in terms of the characteristics of the players so that's a possibility again you know when when the picture becomes a little bit clearer then we can unfold the plan. Just because of the nature of COVID you're going to have to lean heavily on that domestic market and daily transfers and MPL talent and young talent coming through. Yeah that's a possibility I mean I've already marked four young players that come from the under 20s so that there will be one side of it and then the other side of it again you know it's very hard to give you an answer it's not that I don't want to answer it it's just that you know the landscape is not available to us so you know it makes it very very difficult but what I'm saying to you is that you know it might be a different type of system that we play which then you know changes the recruitment in terms of the characteristic of the players and where we can get them you know we need to do some smart football business it's not us in this situation only it's worldwide and you know it'll be an opportunity for us to look at all different type of players from different areas obviously domestically is a big one and and obviously overseas will be the one supplementing the holes that we we want to fill