Lawrie McKinna
Lawrie McKinna
Lawrie McKinnais a Scottish-Australian former footballplayer, coach, and former Mayor of Gosford City Council...
culture fit good players values
We handpicked the players to fit the culture and values we wanted. I wanted not just good players, but good people.
gives losing nick opportunity players squad
Losing Nick is a big blow, but it gives other players in the squad an opportunity to show us what they can do.
player star
For me, he was the stand-out player of the game, no doubt. He is a star of the future.
bit game half knows player quality second start
Tommy knows he was down a bit in the first half but he is a quality player and showed what he is made of in the second half. I think you'll find he'll be right on his game from the start tomorrow.
against capable confident grinding result
We don't want to let them down and I'm confident we're more than capable of grinding out a result against Adelaide, even if it isn't very pretty.
chances coast create finish finishing five game hungry obviously plugging points though weeks
We didn't even look as though we were that hungry to finish them. You can't create that many chances in a game and not score. We have done well to create chances but the finishing was shocking. That's two weeks in a row, it's coast us five points in two games. Obviously we just have to keep plugging away.
club easy struggling
It wasn't an easy start. To be honest, I was struggling financially as the club got off the ground.
conditions deserved game hard tough win worked
What a game and what a win. We worked hard in tough conditions and deserved our win I thought.
account determined few football good harder result start time travel trips
When you take in to account travel time and time difference, there's few harder away trips in world football. We're determined to get a result though, because we know how important it is to get off to a good start in this league.
bigger next
We'll be back better and bigger next season.
few final football great hopefully next opened pass touch week
We had some great one touch football and we opened them up a few times and just that final pass let us down. Hopefully next week some of those stick.
chances decided feeling fine recovery rest tight train yesterday
Tommy was feeling a little tight yesterday at our recovery session, so we decided not to take any chances with him today. He'll be fine to train for the rest of the week.
came enjoying football half last struggling today week
When he came in he hadn't done anything for two and half months, so for the first week he was with us he was struggling a wee bit, but the last week, and today especially, he was flying... and he's back enjoying his football again.
goal match produce shown sudden wins
Ante has always shown that he is a big-game player. He can go through a match doing nothing and all of a sudden produce a world-class goal that wins the game.