Lawrie McKinna Quotations

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.

What a game and what a win. We worked hard in tough conditions and deserved our win I thought.

We'll be back better and bigger next season.

Losing Nick is a big blow, but it gives other players in the squad an opportunity to show us what they can do.

He has been in great form all season and is one of our key players.

He just said how proud he was of the club and how far we've come from a humble start.

I think these people are appreciating that we are playing good football.

Jamie's been trialing with us for a little while now and he's looking sharper each time he takes to the training pitch.

Overall I am just happy to get the win. Now we are looking forward to next week going to Perth.

Matthew has the potential to be a match winner and that's why were giving him every chance to play.

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.

We handpicked the players to fit the culture and values we wanted. I wanted not just good players, but good people.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

For me, he was the stand-out player of the game, no doubt. He is a star of the future.

It wasn't an easy start. To be honest, I was struggling financially as the club got off the ground.

He's sent me texts before games wishing us all the best and I've done the same thing. He sent me a wee text after we drew with Sydney to give Adelaide the premiership and we appreciated that.

I do believe we are good enough to cope with him.