Pearl Slattery

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

Have you watched Treaty last year?

No, he's just, you know, he's a lot of demand and, you know, a lot of demands from his 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 off him 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 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 it 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 look like that when

funeral and stuff happens, everyone else's life goes on but the girls are still grieving and I think people can forget that but for me we didn't win anything but as captain probably the proudest I've ever been to see girls continue when you go through something like that to want to try and days later to want to play every week for the jersey and the crest and give everything

look that's all we did as a group last year you gave everything and personally you know you nearly want just to win more then because of that win something we felt like we deserved it but look football's ruthless at times you don't sometimes get what you deserve and credit that alone in the bigger games and they were just better than deserve champions and has to light a fire in the belly has to motivate you and we have a great group of people in the dressing room great players who will have learned from last year but also now it's a new campaign new opportunities and