I guess, how does that dynamic work when you come into the club for Sydney FC, pre-season starting? Is it just sort of you're working for the same team, the same goal now? What does that feel like for you?

Yeah, well, Sarah and I, she's one of the teammates I'm close with at Sydney FC.

So I think, you know, we just, it's a bit of banter.

Obviously she scored an amazing goal and like we had a great game and I think we can put that aside now and we just work together and we just use that.

We have that shared experience and now we can just use that to propel us forward into the season and hopefully keep the amazing momentum we had in NPL going into this eight league season.

You would have come through as the train or play with Ante as a coach obviously got James who took over midway through last season what have you found have been the differences between the two so far?

I think Ante, he's had a lot of experience with the girls and obviously he's done amazing things at this club to help them win premierships, championships, so I think You know, he was really good and served the club really well at the time.

But I think it just came to a period where maybe a new coach was needed, like just a fresh start even.

What was it like coming through the junior grades out in Bathurst?

Well, like Lexi, obviously, it was quite similar.

There wasn't a lot of girls playing, so I was with the boys.

Being a country girl definitely makes you very rough and tumble, so I'd like to thank Bathurst for that, developing my physical side.

Obviously when we were younger, I played a lot of like, I guess, I don't know, park football, like club football.

So I wasn't really in grading or like any proper academy until I was like 13.

So I used to play out with the boys.

What's that been like and how have you been able to draw off the girls? Have they drawn off you in your coaching role? How has that been a developing situation this year for you?