Simon Hill

Yeah, look, it's all sorts.

I mean, all age groups, old and young.

There are fathers with sons, fathers with daughters, mothers with daughters.

There are mates here on lads trips.

There are people who perhaps don't watch football on a regular basis, but they're here because

It's a big event.

And that's great.

You know, it's wonderful to see 10,000 Socceroos supporters in a foreign land cheering on the national team.

Obviously, the trick for us as a game, and sorry to get all serious, but is we need to translate that into support week in, week out for the domestic game, which is the league that produces the Néstor, Jürgen Kunders and the Conor Metcalfes.

And the A-League can be very proud that, you know, that they've come through that particular system.

So,

These moments, you know, they come around once every four years.

There's a little bit of a hype as well around the Asian Cup in between.

But we need to translate that into something more solid on a week by week basis.

And, you know, hopefully get a little bit more money from the government as well to help us out and to produce that next generation of players.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

No, it's been fine.

You know, we did the march through the streets of Vancouver to the stadium a couple of days ago.

It was fantastic.

Thousands of Australian fans, all the locals, you know, super friendly.