Jets striker on winning major awards and future
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00:00 What's the next step then? How do you become a team that's consistently not just competing against these guys but beating them?
00:06 Well, I think you know for us it was we have a very young squad and a lot of that came down to
00:13 managing the game and experience and now that a lot of the boys have got that under their belt and you saw it
00:20 you can come towards the back end of the season which was great but
00:24 hopefully they can bring that experience into next season and we can win from the start.
00:29 You've scored 17 goals in the season, a record, I mean there's going to be interest from overseas.
00:34 Do you just wait until that comes? I know you have an ambition to go overseas again but do you think you need another year in the A-League?
00:41 Or is it a case of seeing what happens in the next month? Where's your thought process on that?
00:45 Well at the moment I'm contracted here so for me I just take it as that and if something comes up that
00:52 you know the club are happy with, I'm happy with, we'll see.
00:56 But at the moment I'm contracted here and that's where my head's at.
01:00 The next two months is about making a nursery mate or is it about having a rest?
01:04 What's the next month look like for you?
01:08 Well we've already started on the nursery, ticked a couple boxes on that but
01:12 next two months go home, see family, we haven't been able to do a lot of that this season so
01:17 just get back to Adelaide, see grandparents, parents, cousins, everyone and reconnect there.
01:23 In terms of football here, I know you always said if I'm playing consistently I knew I could do this.
01:29 Was there a point in the season where you went, wow I've scored six goals in eight games or
01:34 I need to do more of this? What was the turning point for you?
01:38 The Strikers, they live on confidence. Once you score four or five you think you're going to score 20. Was that the case?
01:44 I mean yeah I had a little patch there towards the end of the season where I went four games without scoring and I mean
01:51 it's going to happen and yeah confidence is a major part of it but like you said I mean I've always
01:58 known that I could do it and if I can play consistently, if I can stay injury free I back myself again to do it next season.
02:05 With the AFC stuff, when do you think that will come to a crunch period?
02:08 Do you think you'll know what you're going to do by the time your baby's born or do you think?
02:12 To be honest I'm not sure, 100% I have no clue so just keeping my mind on this off-season,
02:21 taking a break from football for a little bit and just seeing my family.
02:25 But obviously if you're here you've got confidence this game can potentially win a championship
02:29 whether it's next year or the year after. Sorry what was that?
02:33 If you're all being well and you are here, from what you've seen this year the sprouts are there that you can win a
02:38 championship whether it's next year or the year after. It's not like you want to be lured to a big club.
02:43 No, no I've said before in the media I'm staying here, I'm not going to any other ALE club.
02:49 Me and my wife, we're settled here, we like it here, we like the coaching staff, we like all the players.
02:54 We're very happy so definitely I think this back-ended season has proven to us that we can do it
03:01 and if we take that same momentum into next season for sure we can do it.