 I played AFL as a young kid down there as well and obviously football from under sevens and it wasn't really until I moved to Queensland at about 10 years of age that I really started to focus on my football and became a goalkeeper and started training hard at that and I just love the sport, I just have a real passion for it and I'm not sure what it is or the specifics of it that really attract me to the game but what I get up in the morning is that I can become a better goalkeeper. I was at Gold Coast United which was obviously the club that collapsed to pay the way for the Wanderers to be created so obviously having to go through all the things that come with losing your job and being out of football was a long process from the time that we knew Gold Coast was finishing up to signing here at the Wanderers but obviously being able to compare the two now I think the CFFA made a fantastic decision and obviously the people of Western Sydney will certainly agree with that and certainly all followers of the AL League will probably agree with that as well and I'm very happy to be here. It was just a special year, I've been fortunate enough to talk to a lot of the people that came and supported us last year and jumped on board with the club and it's not just a football club and I think that was the real success last year is we didn't just build a team that played on weekends, we created something that everyone felt a part of and the clubs changed a lot of lives and so I really enjoy talking with the people of the community, I really enjoy being around them and I know when I was young I had idols of my own and it was always met the world to me to be able to go and meet one of them or to spend some time or to talk to them and I always said that if I ever got into the position where I am now where I'm living my dream and doing something that's important to my life that I wouldn't be like that and I'd be someone that was always open and available to the people that looked up to the position that I'm in. I've only been here for about 12 or 13 months but Western Sydney definitely feels like home now and it's somewhere that I certainly hope to be for a few more years to come. I developed a stress fracture in one of my lower vertebras and unfortunately it became quite painful and walking was an issue, sleeping was an issue, I couldn't bend down to pick up a ball and it just got to a point where I wasn't able to help the team and we had to make the decision just to sit out for a few months. I won't lie and say that it was easy, it was a very difficult time and it was probably one of the most difficult times that I've had in football. Something that's great about this club is that we're varied together as a team and the boys never allowed me to feel left out and it's been tough but five or six months later and I'm feeling good again and looking forward to another massive season, fitter and stronger than I've ever been. I learnt a lot last year being able to sit back and watch and see how he, Arnte plays the game and obviously working with Ron Corrie and the thing that I really love about him is that he's always pushing for perfection and Ron's really good with us with that. Obviously he's got an enormous wealth of experience and knowledge on the game that he likes to pass on to both of us and I've certainly benefited from working with him over the last year or so. Certainly in the short term my focus and my concentration and all of my energy is going to be going towards the Wanderers and I'm sure that if we keep improving as we did last year that we'll continue to taste success and we have very ambitious players at this club and we're a club that wants success, we want a lot of success and we have the opportunity to win a lot of silverware this year and we certainly will be doing our best to do that. The positive thing is that it's all in our hands. If we want it then we have the opportunity to go and do it but right now it's going to take a lot of hard work, a lot of sacrifice and we're going to have to prove once again that we deserve the right to be in those competitions. We were great last year but this is a whole new season, all the other teams are strengthening and improving and we have to do the same or we're going to fall behind.