 F fact that I'm really excited to be around here, I've been looking to get back involved in the game, a this is a great opportunity to try and build up women's session or contribute visitors to building up the women's element of the club. lóg Dim flaim is a hotbed of football both in the men's and the women's space. And hopefully we can really build a strong women's base here. Yn y clob yw'r gwybod yn fawr, ac mae'n fawr o'n bwysig yn bwysig. Mae'n fawr o'r gwybod yn bwysig yn bwysig yn ei fawr o'r ysgolwyr ar gyfer y gweithgwyr lwyr yn fawr. Yn gweithio'r gwybod yn fawr, mae'n fawr o'r gwybod yn fawr o'r gwybod yn fawr o'r gwybod. Ac mae'n gwneud yn ei fawr o'r projiex, oherwydd mae'n gweithio i ddod i gyd yn bwysig yn bwysig. is something that I enjoy doing and the club is very ambitious in that space and hopefully I can help contribute to that. I mean it's one of them where you put a list together and then you know I'm very much a hands-on person, I'm very much a practical person, I'm not beginning to sort of lighten lots of things down but I want to get in there and get things done and that's a variety of things so it goes all the way from you know helping to strengthen and develop our A-league women's team to actually looking at the future of the club and hopefully get a club set up with the women's space the same as a men's space whether it's an academy and there's a pathway for young girls in West Sydney to come all the way through from a young age to actually then play in the A-league women's team and then hopefully to go on and play for the Matilda's and then perhaps a professional careers in other parts of the world. There's different things in different players you know there's not just one characteristic that you look for so it's things you know it's often a hard thing to actually explain specifically but things catch your eyes at times so it might be you see a midfield player who you think she's actually seen the picture or it's got vision to play it might be a centre half you see who's dominant is a great organiser is a really out and out defender it might be somebody that's got pace it might be somebody that you see that's got real just raw talent so there's different things that that you look for I mean ultimately and quite simplistically there are three elements that end up making a good player one is the good physical qualities two is good technical qualities and three is you know a game awareness the ability to actually take those technical and physical skills and make them effective on the field so generally that's kind of the things that you're looking for well less and people keep throwing this cliched word and it is a bit of a process you know you need to sort of build a foundation and you need to look at ways to improve so that you know some of the ways immediate to improve is to look at recruitment and to try and get a team that's strong enough to be competitive but the same time you want to be competitive in the short term and continue to build for the future so that you're building not just you're not sort of just suddenly going out and throwing a lot of money at a team to be a one-season wonder what we want to do is we want to build a team and we want to build a club we want to build a group of players that want to be here for the longer term so it's a whole it's a combination of all of those things so you know we want to get success this season but the same time we also want to build for the future so it's not just one season but it's going to be continuous you know and that's a longer but that's a longer term project so you know the first thing that is to say when you look at what are the priorities the first priority is to to look at our a league women's team and to get a player signed up to get the recruitment done well and to make sure that we're ready and prepared from a player perspective from a staff perspective and for a club perspective going into this next season the the second thing that needs to happen around the club is we want to build for the future and that's a constant growing of the a league women's team but it's also the development underneath that I think it's hard to compare different countries if you take the US for example the US have more female players probably playing in California than most of the world put together so they've got a huge playing base and a very different culture and environment coming through the systems you know somewhere like Canada is is kind of similar to Australia you know they've got similar numbers of players playing so they've they've got similarities in a way and it's a you know you've got different things so you've got club development and then you've got your your national development as well where you're trying to develop teams for your national your actual national teams and in some ways we are we are similar we get similar cultures to Canada and New Zealand but we've also got our own unique cultures that we need to do things that work effectively here so that there are different there are different aspects to why clubs or organizations run programs you know sometimes our development elite development programs that are going to they say the Matilda's level or to the a league women's level or there are community programs where it's to give opportunities for girls to play and be part of a club so you know within the club itself you know you're potentially looking at at different streams like there are in the game so you know ultimately at West Sydney Wanderers what we would want is an elite women's team and then an elite program underneath that and amongst that you know that doesn't stop the club being involved in community programs as well because that is very important to to building up the support within the club and to have the connection with the community that we live in from where I said obviously that's so so you know what I would like to see is that you know eventually there's a you know a women's program from the SAP girls all the way through to under 18s that then feed into the elite women's program that perhaps feed into an NPL team and so you have that pathway all the way through and within that pathway you you start to develop elite players and and that that would be the key thing that you mean that's your ideal project and that happens at professional clubs throughout the world and what you ideally want to do is do that as well as possible so that you start developing talent and local talent that goes through and plays at the highest level but as I say within that you've also got you know there's only a small percentage that are going to go all the way so within that what you want to do is create an environment where girls really want to be part of the team part of the club and part of the culture you know you want players ultimately want to play somewhere where they feel that they belong and you know a culture of a club you know it's all about the people in the club you know you can have seen um I've seen meetings where you know small forests have been cut down and people put things in butcher's paper and it really doesn't mean anything the culture is about the people that work within the club and what your expectations are of the people that run the club and then fill to that down to what the expectations are of the players that are coming through that club but I think that everybody that we create an environment that players want to be here I think that's it that's ultimately you want to create an environment where players want to be here and staff want to be here and and if you create that environment then that you start to build on that and that that's really critical it's interesting you kind of look at there's a couple of things you look at and and those that tend to be the experiences and things that you think you've perhaps contributed or helped along the way you know like people talk about you know that you won that and you won this and and that that's okay at times but it's kind of ultimately it's more about the people and the experiences that you've had with them and the teams and I think you know for me we've there's been a couple of critical moments in the Matilda's programme that stick out to me probably more than anything and they would be probably the two things that stick out most is when we went to the World Cup in 2007 and that was the first time the team won a game at the World Cup and the reason that sticks out that becomes significant because that that's the kind of thing that really sets the platform for the programme going forward because all of a sudden the players suddenly say well we've arrived we belong we can go out and play anybody and beat them and the same thing when we won the Asian Cup in 2010 that gave the team and the players and the programme a belief in the players coming in a belief of what you can you can achieve so those are probably the things that that kind of stick out to me is being important parts of things that have been very fortunate to be involved in I'm just delighted to be here I'm delighted to get you know I've had several months where I've been doing just bits and pieces and which I've quite enjoyed to be honest but I'm really delighted to be back in in football and in a job that I'm really looking forward to doing.