 Hello and welcome to the latest edition on Bay 46. Today here I have with me is special guest Shannon Cole. We had a good talk about the heavy schedule and the wonders, can you give us more about that? Yeah, it's been obviously a very busy period, strange season for us because we went from extremely busy at the start, trying to fit a pre-season around a Champions League campaign, then straight into a busy A-League schedule, then a complete rest and no games for a while, then now into an even busier schedule. So, a strange season in terms of scheduling for us. A difficult season, but yeah, a lot of learning experiences along the way. On Wednesday night we played Melbourne City and for us it was a good victory, second victory of the season. And thank you for all the Watterer fans that came out that night as well. It was a good game, good game for us obviously. The pre-game where there was something else, darkest cloud I've ever seen in my life and the rain was obviously torrential, so the game is delayed now, which can always be a challenge as a player because you have your rituals before the game as an individual and as a group, so for both teams I had to mix it up. But you already mentioned the crowd, they were fantastic. I mean, for the game, to come from behind twice and to come away with three points, fantastic performance and great result for the boys. A lot of positives. Again, we already spoke about boys missing and a lot of injuries, so there were guys that were thrown in to be given some time, some minutes. They were business in goals, his first home game. He was outstanding and after the game I spoke to him and he said, ah man, there's always things you can do better and he's trying to be all high and mighty I think. So I just gave him a pat on the back, said I mean. There's always gonna be things you can do better but there's a lot of things to do really well, so. You know, he's got some kick on him as well, so he did really well. We had Jonathan Asbro at the back, which doesn't matter how tough you act, you're always gonna be nervous, making a debut and being so young and the coaching staff commended him for such a good performance in a team that has been struggling to get results. That's never easy to just step in and help turn things around. So he did really well and I'm sure he's gonna build on that and grow in confidence. So now we've played Melbourne Victory and it looks like our baby wonders will be taking the field. I think this is a good thing for the club. We'll be resting some of our older players, our veterans. How do you see them matching up against pretty much near the top of the league boys, Melbourne Victory? Yeah, they're a good side, Melbourne. And like we already spoke about this busy schedule, it's gonna give a chance for the young boys to come through and tonight we've got, you know, Daniel Alessi, Fofana, Cousy and Yuli. You know, it's young boys that a lot of fans wouldn't be familiar with, but they've been with us the whole season waiting for opportunities to show what they've got on the big stage and they definitely have the goods to contribute to this team, to, you know, to find their own feet in this league. So it's a great opportunity for them. And coming up against, you know, a team with a lot of experience from what I understand across the Barbarousas may not be playing tonight. So it's a bit of a bonus for us. It is, you know, I mean, you never want opponents to be struggling with injury or anything like that. There's a lot of respect amongst players in the league that you'd always much prefer to have everyone fit and the better team wins on the night. So, but not having him there definitely takes a huge threat out of Victory's attack. But as well as him obviously, Borussia is the name that gets brought up a lot with him. He's a kind of player. It doesn't matter if he's, whether he's playing well or if he's struggling, his confidence is the same. It's always up there. He has a lot of self-belief and he could turn, you know, 15 balls over and then score three goals and that's a good striker. It's a lot of confidence. Obviously, Milsi, he's, you know, he's what makes him tick. He's a great player as a reason that he starts for the national team. He's a very good player. He's a very good organiser and a lot of their play goes through him. Thank you, Shannon Cole, for coming in today. It was lovely having your time and especially speaking to us all onto our fans. And that finishes the latest edition of Bay 46. I'll hopefully see you guys tonight at the Victory game and hail hell.