Pearl Slattery

And I firmly believe we have a great chance every year.

The girls' staff dedicate and will give everything.

And yeah, please, God, we can get a bit of silverware.

I mean, I don't want to give too much away.

Have you watched your retreat last year?

No, we just, you know, there's a lot of demand and, you know, a lot of demands from your players, what he wants from you on the ball, off the ball.

His formation and stuff will change.

You know, when you have transitions and stuff and what he just wants from you as individuals, units and as a team, it's been very exciting.

As I said, I've been around the game a long time and I've learned a good bit all from the last few weeks.

So it's been great, but I won't give too much away.

I'll have to wait until the President's Cup.

Yeah, I think, look, as a group that were there last year, you're hurt, don't you, when you have a season like that?

We started the season with a brilliant squad, expectations that we could challenge for everything.

I think it'd be very easy for us to make excuses for injuries we had.

But if you look back just in some of the big key games, we probably just weren't good enough or didn't score when we needed to or didn't keep a clean sheet or fine margins really the league is.

You know, we played each other twice.

Now a lot happens in the season.

I've said that in a few of the interviews now.

We were two girls with...

suffered the ultimate loss you can have in life and losing a parent and losing parents so suddenly and I don't think when you're outside the environment people don't really understand that and look I know we didn't win at it last year but to see the two girls go through that you know really affected the group and we weren't feeling what they were feeling and looked like that when