 Hi everybody, Jeff Hemmelt from SFM Sports.net here with head coach Graham Miller after a tough 6-1 defeat for the Mustangs to Johns Hopkins. Graham, it was always gonna be tough. Lifetime series Hopkins led 10 games to nothing. You knew it was gonna be hard going in. 3-0 lead at the break. I know I heard you on the sidelines say a bit that you your team kind of gave them a little too much respect in that first half. Can you expand upon that a little bit? What did you mean and what was that sense of talk going into the half? I think it was yeah, it was a combination of nervousness. It was a combination of you know too much respect and when you sit back against a team like that they're just gonna keep coming in waves and they're good enough that they will finish their chances if you give them that many chances. So you know we talked about that half-time. It's like we just can't give them that much respect. We can't sit back and sit back and sit back and expect to you know, you know take wave after wave. But the goals you know all three goals we gave up are really soft. You know the defending 1v1s were just was just awful. So that's something we need to work on because we're gonna come up against teams like Hopkins Arcadia and Messiah both nationally ranked in our conference. So you know now that we're in conference play coming up you know those are two teams that are gonna run at us as well and we need to be prepared to to defend better in 1v1 situations. Before we get to the conference schedule of coming, Kellan Whitman did get the consolation goal for you guys at middle of that second half. Kellan has two goals on the air so far. Going into the conference play is she gonna be one of your linchpins going forward here? Yeah, and you know the goal came from one of our long throw-ins as well. So you know we've talked a lot about that that we're gonna have to use these set pieces and you know get chances from them. So you know we'll take away from you know the game that we did score off a set piece and off the long throw and you know that's something we have been working on in practice. So you know Kellan was just you know she just was in the right right place at the right time and really aggressive and went one of the goal. So really happy for Kellan and we're hoping for more during conference play. Now we'll get to this conference play now your 3-4-1 overall the non-conference schedule by the wayside. You start up on October 1st against Weidner and then you come back home for a conference game against Hood. So what's the game plan going forward as you start your conference schedule? Yeah, well you know like I said in the the coaches corner on Monday I said you know we broke the week into two you know Hopkins was the last non-conference game. You know 3-4-1 with the schedule we had is not bad. Obviously we'd like it to be better But it's not not as bad as what we have been in September. So I will take that and we'll work on some of the things that we need to work on and you know Hopkins showed that tonight. So we've got we've got this the second part of the week now So it's not a fresh start. So we'll go into you know Thursday's practice You know fresh ready to go shake off this forget about it learn from our mistakes and get ready for Weidner And obviously we get to back-to-back conference games You know and Weidner is going to be a tough start away from home So we got to be ready and I think the girls will be ready where you know We're not going to give up we're not going to quit and we're going to fight for that next game And just finally Graham on a personal note I'm wrapping up my broadcast career here with Stevenson a great fight. Yeah great great five years with you guys Just want to appreciate I give you appreciation for all the Coaches talks we've had post game and again great memories that conference championship a couple years ago was the best game I've ever called so again. Thanks for all the time and I appreciate everything you've done I was thinking the same thing. So you know because I know you're a big soccer junkie, you know I collect these programs you can see here. So this is actually Wales versus Scotland nice from 1970 So it's a collector's one because of you know what you've given our program over the last five years And like you said being at the Mac championship, you know, you've called You know, you're one of the best play-by-play persons of you know, listen to I love listening to it We're gonna miss that so I wanted to give you a gift from myself and from the team And it has a crystal palace player in it as well that played for Wales I know you're a big crystal palace fan So I just wanted to give you this gift is something to remember as by as well. Thank you so much Graham I appreciate it So a great great hanging with you have through these years at the hockey games as well too We've met up there Again appreciate everything. I don't think I'm gonna become a Rangers fan, but you know, you know, I'll still follow him from time to time So, okay, you know Thanks, Graham appreciate it buddy. That's the man Graham Miller joining me after a tough loss here to Hopkins at Mustang Stadium