22 Quotes by Lawrie McKinna

Matthew has the potential to be a match winner and that's why were giving him every chance to play.

We don't want to let them down and I'm confident we're more than capable of grinding out a result against Adelaide, even if it isn't very pretty.

We handpicked the players to fit the culture and values we wanted. I wanted not just good players, but good people.

We didn't even look as though we were that hungry to finish them. You can't create that many chances in a game and not score. We have done well to create chances but the finishing was shocking. That's two weeks in a row, it's coast us five points in two games. Obviously we just have to keep plugging away.

When he came in he hadn't done anything for two and half months, so for the first week he was with us he was struggling a wee bit, but the last week, and today especially, he was flying... and he's back enjoying his football again.

We had some great one touch football and we opened them up a few times and just that final pass let us down. Hopefully next week some of those stick.

Tommy was feeling a little tight yesterday at our recovery session, so we decided not to take any chances with him today. He'll be fine to train for the rest of the week.

Tommy knows he was down a bit in the first half but he is a quality player and showed what he is made of in the second half. I think you'll find he'll be right on his game from the start tomorrow.

Ante has always shown that he is a big-game player. He can go through a match doing nothing and all of a sudden produce a world-class goal that wins the game.