00:01Hi Michael, obviously there will be tough tests to come, but as a start, the competition
00:06barriers and everything, was that the perfect night?
00:08Yeah, I think so. Kind of what we set out to achieve really, I think it was a good performance
00:16individually, collectively, pretty much all the way through the game, from start to finish,
00:21boys that started, boys that came on the pitch and clean sheet and some goals and some good
00:25exciting football, it was a good night all around, yeah.
00:30Michael, congratulations, you've got a lot of top class forwards, could you just tell us
00:35what Benjamin Sesko in particular brings to your team, because he seems to offer a different
00:41kind of threat and obviously score the last two games.
00:44Yeah, definitely offers a different kind of threat, I think that's kind of the beauty
00:51of it really, that we know what Ben gives us and there's not many around that kind of
00:55give you what Ben does in terms of his physicality, playing on the last line, his speed to running
01:02behind, you know, he's a real threat. It's great to have him back at kind of this level
01:08after him working to get back fitness, you know, so a couple of goals and good performances,
01:15good minutes in him, so we're really pleased with the way he's gone.
01:18Hi Michael, just wanted to touch on the left-backs who played tonight and Patrick Dorka and Harry
01:23Anderson came on as well, how important was it for Harry to have that opportunity and what did
01:27you make for Patrick's performance back in that role as well?
01:30Yeah, I was delighted with being able to get Harry on the pitch and Shea, I think it's important,
01:35it's something that we were really kind of focused on as the game developed really was
01:42trying to get the younger boys on the pitch, because I think it's important for this football
01:45club to do that, pleased with both of them. And yeah, I thought Pat played ever so well,
01:52he was a big threat on that side of the pitch for us tonight, the way we played and creating
01:57the first goal and being really dangerous, so yeah, I was really pleased with Pat as well.
02:02Hi Michael, Sam's just said there that it's obviously 2-2 now for Ben, but the players
02:06are the goals tonight, Brian on Sunday, Marcus obviously has been starting quite well,
02:09are they quite a difficult decision for you at the moment?
02:14It's not easy, it's not an easy decision of course, it's not, but it's definitely one I'd
02:18prefer to have goals in the team and for the boys to be playing well, and I think the
02:25understanding that they all have, sometimes it's going to be a start, sometimes it's
02:28going to be finishing the game, and we need that within the group from game to game over
02:33the season, I've said it enough times really, I'll probably repeat myself, but to be able
02:38to call upon slightly different kind of things at different times, so it's fantastic that
02:43they're all in good form and starting so well.
02:46Michael, Ethan, can I just ask you how you kind of analyse and reflect on Al Cogdy and
02:51New Zealand's a kind of striking partnership, where do you see the economic side and the
02:55way you'd like to see an improvement going forward as well?
02:58Yeah, I think all four midfielders tonight to be honest, I think carried on the same
03:04way, obviously Mason coming on at half time and Andre, it was great to get Mason back on
03:10the pitch, you know, after missing a short period of time and Andre settled in fantastically
03:14well, and yeah, Cogdy and Uri have played more minutes and you can see the understanding,
03:20I think Uri settled in and thought he was really good tonight again, and Cogdy's just
03:26been really consistent all the way through, so we've got really good options in there and
03:31it's good to see the understanding between all of them that we can call upon when we need
03:38Hi Michael, obviously this is the first game in the Champions League, just the fourth game
03:43of the season, are you happy with the level your team is right now, or what do you think
03:47you need to improve?
03:51Yeah, we're always pushing for more, you know, results-wise it hasn't been the start we wanted,
03:57you know, we wanted to have more points in the league, but performance-wise, there's a
04:03lot of things in there that we were looking for and we've been pleased with, and there's
04:08certainly things to improve, you know, I think clean sheet tonight was important for us, we've
04:14conceded goals in different ways, and one goes in the top corner and sometimes you can do
04:19things about it, sometimes you can't to a point, but I think collectively as a team
04:24we've done a lot of good things and that's why we're kind of excited about what the season
04:28brings and not game to game so much of getting too carried away, you know, we want to keep
04:34progressing through the season, we want to keep pushing, we're playing, there's slightly
04:38different things happening in the team now that we probably didn't have last season in a good
04:43way that we're trying to get out of the players and they're showing that in a good way, so
04:47it's really encouraging for me. Any more for tonight? Okay, we're going to the Creed City
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