 I'm pleased for the boys, we put a lot of work in last week and we lost to a deflected goal. I don't think we deserved to win last week but I don't think we deserved to lose to get points on the board. It early is important for confidence but I thought we played very well. So yeah, please for them. This question is not so much about the game but obviously you've been at Newcastle and you've obviously heard the clubs being taken over by new owners. Even though you're a wanderer, I assume you'd like to see the Jets do well and hopefully this helps them. I would without a doubt. I was at the Newcastle for 11 games. I come in when things weren't working out too well for them but I knew the situation when I made the move with my family and I moved again and that's why I'm here today but I want them to do well. You know there's good people in there, there's good players in there, we know that but you know I think for Australian football in general you don't you know we're trying to build a league you know that's all I've heard since I've come and it's important that we do that and give more young players opportunities so we can't have clubs going under you know we want to add clubs rather than let clubs go under so I think it's an important move obviously people have backed it and so yeah I do want them to do well. Mr. Gary, next question? That was the local hospitality for you for the sidelines. Interesting, there were a few explicit words said and I was like oh okay just be kind listen I can't help that I can't control that it was a bit of fun it's brought emotion in the game I think the game was a very good game of football it's part and parcel of sport you want rivalries you want emotions and you want storylines and I think we got that in one today. What pleased you the most out of your team performance was it the way you moved a born attack or the kind of very stout defensive stuff at the end that enabled you to hold on? I think it's a bit of both Vince I think I think the way we played it was a hard week this week because I'm trying to think what how to break down a team that I built all right because I didn't know what they were going to do whether they're going to do the same or not they got the same players who were playing with confidence because that team when I come to Newcastle I always bought my other table and they managed to get momentum and form and they'll go into this year with momentum and form as well right in high because of the results last year even though it's a new season so I was trying to think what problems we had and teams caused me and try and implement that in my new team which I did I created an overloaded midfield I tried to do that so we can take control of the game but when we did that we worked on opportunities and areas where we can go quickly and transition quickly and I think you know we did that as well a couple of goals called out offside we had numerous chances as well on the attacking side but on the defending side as well sometimes it's just brutally honest hard work roll your sleeves up put your body on the line put your you know body in front of a shot and defend and that's what my players did which is pleasing as well next question you must be pleased with as you said how how well the players put put their bodies on the line are you starting to see a little bit more of the type of football that you're trying to bring to the place I am yes I'm seeing it in training you know we're relevant to the results and managers will get caught up in results sometimes and you know they need a win and you want to win and things like that I focus on breaking that down and how they're performing every day because if you focus on performance results eventually end up coming there was a lot of good stuff in the first game we built on it this week and we played slightly different but they're growing together they've only been together for two weeks through two and a half weeks the majority of the squad because I bought four late additions in so they're getting used to playing together you know we've we've got teams in this league that are very settled as we know and that play naturally you know we're not playing naturally at the moment because we've just never played together but that's the reason why you train and we put on these little phases in training and drills is to get them used to playing together but the way they moved the ball today was pleasing but it's only a start it's three points and we move on for next week's game. Any more questions Pam? Good you can go Daniel if you'd like. Hey Carl, our grads on the win. How important is that win mentally for the players because you lose the opening game there's a lot of talk around all the off-field stuff going into this one obviously there's been a lot of hype around the team because of all the off-season recruits just mentally to stabilise everything everything at the club how important are those three points? I think it's important for players confidence to win a game of football at any level I think you know I focus on performance I focus on what focus on what I can control. It's a lovely saying of controller controllables I can't control the outside influences the outside opinions and views I can control what we do inside and they put a lot of work in over the ten weeks I've been here you know the last three weeks we've ramped it up and and if you look at that and then the result last week it was disappointing we never liked losing a game of football but there were lots of positives but you don't hear a manager say there was positives when they lose a game you have to accept it and you move on but you learn from it and so pleasing for them for their confidence but they played well individually whenever you play a game of football eight nine players need to play at their levels and if they play at their levels you've got a very good chance of winning the game I think last week was five or six for each team and then it was you know a deflected goal today I think a number of players played at their high level performances and that's a minimum requirement I want and I'm trying to build a squad and what's the situation with with Simon Cox reports today he might have to go back to to to the UK due to the birth of his child what's the situation with him and what might that mean for your squad as the season goes on to be fair I don't know the ins and outs of it other than his his partner is in the UK and she's heavily pregnant and we he's here with us and he played tonight and played very well so other than that I don't know obviously he speaks to my bosses in relation to that because it's his first child and it's a very important moment for the family but we also know the current climate with the COVID and restrictions and the UK is getting worse and worse at the moment unfortunately you know it's not as simple as jumping on a plane and going back and then hopping on a plane coming back so there's a number of factors go into that so I don't really know is the answer other than you know and I won't direct him either way because I'm a very family orientated person my family the most important thing in my life he's starting a family and I'm sure he wants to be there for the birth of his child but if he makes a decision not to I fully respect that as well because you know he's paid to play professional football it's just the situation we live in at the moment but as soon as it as soon as I know and get directional that you know as well well I know she's due to give birth well I don't know I've been told around the 12th 13th of February but it's just the first and usually in your first it gets delayed a week or two doesn't it so because there's no apparent c-section I don't think so I don't know and it's not for my business to talk about it so I don't know other than it I think it's due on the middle of February players that kind of stood out to you tonight from Jets from Newcastle yeah I thought listen I thought Newcastle as a whole played very well and they've got obviously got a number of players that it brought in late younger players as well I thought made an impact when they come on and and the usual crew that I worked with of Topper and Roy and Bogues and Stevie and Angus played very well so was I surprised by their performance no they were a very good team they were great to work with when I was here and but I'm working with a new team now he's shown a determination in training and when I got there he was trying to fight to be a scholarship player he hadn't got a contract and I said it's a clean slate whenever a manager goes into a football club and everyone's on the same page and he's continued to work hard from day one he's earned his deal and I just saw the profile in that player suits the way I want to play if we're gonna play back three which we will a number of times this year I need energy and legs in that position and and George you played well last week you played very very well and it was nothing to do with his performance it was just a tactical decision based upon playing against a team that I actually managed for 10 games so I just thought we'd get more joy that way and he proved me right I thought he was exceptional as was Tate