Valentine captain Harry Lane on the NPL men’s season.
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00:00 So I'm here with Valentine skipper Harry Lane back again as skipper.
00:03 Mate, what's been some sort of goals discussed for the team this year through preseason?
00:09 What's your main sort of focus?
00:11 Our focus for this season is mainly the finals.
00:14 We want to be around that top five position.
00:16 I think with the squad we've got, we've brought in Calburn again and I think he's a great addition to the squad.
00:21 We've brought in a Maitland player Tyrell Paulson.
00:24 He'll be a great new addition to the squad and the best thing he's done is he's built our youth up
00:29 and we've got a lot of good young boys coming through.
00:32 So definitely with the squad depth we've got this year, I think it's definitely a top five as you have goals.
00:36 I was talking to Hugh's the other day, so you've got a few in, a few out,
00:43 obviously some big ins with Calby, a couple of international type players as well.
00:49 Are they going to be the big changes for you this year, Calby and the international guys?
00:53 Yeah, I think so. I think definitely Calby's going to make it a massive addition.
00:56 Two years ago when he was with us he was great and I guess you could see last year he sort of fell off a bit when we lost him.
01:02 But yeah, we've got this new international boy as well, Hoss.
01:05 We haven't been able to see him, he's been injured in pre-season,
01:08 so hopefully in the next few weeks we'll be able to start seeing what he's like.
01:11 But I think another big addition is the young boys.
01:14 We've got two really good young boys from the Jets and I think they'll be a big addition.
01:18 Excellent. And who are they mate? Which ones are those?
01:20 We've got Isaac Preston-Poole and Jordan Gould.
01:23 And yeah, I think Isaac is 16 and he's definitely built.
01:26 He's 20/21 though, he's nice, big and strong.
01:29 He's got one to watch.
01:30 He's definitely one to watch.
01:31 Righto. And so you've still got a core of the group from last year,
01:35 so any of those come up as the most annoying team-mate or one of the new blokes taken over?
01:40 I reckon definitely one of the older boys.
01:42 I reckon Cooper Stegen, he joined us last year.
01:45 I think he's a bit of a pest around training and likes to jeer everyone up.
01:49 But I definitely think even Nick Harmon, on the assistant coach now,
01:53 he was a player last year and he's moved into the assistant coach role and he's definitely a pest.
01:58 Definitely a pest.
01:59 Alright, thanks for that mate. All the best for the season. Cheers.