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he coach Sean nah head of the courage home match up against Seattle this week headed back home after long road trip out La your initials on yeah it's always um an opposition that poses a lot of challenges and well organized you know a lot of veterans but you know I think we again I don't I just worry about us and what we have to do but yeah we're expecting a group that's going to come in with uh a good mentality to you know come in get three points and I think that's the way it is every weekend so I can say the same thing every week uh so I just want to focus about us five weeks into the season as you do focus on you what have been some of the biggest moments You' seen for your team what are some the things um I think just playing on the front foot a little bit more maybe than last year I think um you know the ability we still have a really good ability to build we have a good ability to obviously possess but last year I felt like we were doing it for the sake of doing it at times which is part of the game too um regardless of what all those wonderful pundit think um but I think this year we're just playing a little bit more on the front foot we're a little bit more attack minding in the final third where we're a little bit more flexible in the spaces we want to find and and rotate into and giving the players the trust and confidence to do that but I don't think we've hit our stride yet I think we've been we could be better to put it that way and in terms of a consistency standpoint uh and the positioning and the way we want to play and the impact that if players do it right then good if one player doesn't do it right the bad but that that's the part of the journey we're only five games in so I'm not really worried I think we're ahead of schedule and then just specifically about your Midfield you brought in a couple of new pie obviously R here but now gets to play as you look at what that Midfield has done in the first part of the Season had a really good game on Sunday Midfield and kind of what they've done I mean the way we want to play the the Midfield is is the brains and you know you also need players that can find them like KK Malia Ryan FY you know and you still need players up top that can be rewarded off of them so it's not just the Midfield it's a group thing and you need goalkeepers like Casey who you know we have complete confidence in and doing what her job is and so but yeah I think the Midfield is always going to be an important piece of what we do but teams try and negate it we know the people to step up and do their job so um yeah I think it's they've been good um but I challenge them every single day to be better thank you um I wanted to ask about Hopkins seems like she's really coming into her own and her her theme seems to have grown quite a bit so far this season but want to get your thoughts on her progress and what she's fitting in this season yeah she's definitely more comfortable um you know I would like and she knows I just being a little bit more consistent and trusting herself a little bit more um you know we have complete trust and confidence in her it's just sometimes that's the hardest thing for players to you know they feel like I'm not saying this is how she feels but she cares so much that when take team and I think Haley's done a really good job of stepping in as a young player and having an impact she's great in the locker room um she's coachable but you know at this stage you have to figure out your weaknesses and how do you improve on I think a lot of it is just going to come from in between the ears in terms of trusting herself and believing herself but yeah she's been she's been great and she's a completely different player than she was when she walked in these doors last year uh it sounds like there's gonna be a good crowd on Saturday you issued a call to the community to come out to games uh first week of the season um how much does it help to have pack stands here at w Med um pushing your yeah I think it's the most important I'm tired of going to other clubs and having sold out crowds that's my personal opinion um because I see how much it lifts up Angel City benefited from having 22,000 people sorry but I haven't said it just one week I'm gonna say it every week that's my true feeling I have a passion for the club I have a passion for the game and I want to grow it I want to change it I'm not I'll never I'll never never never settle um I'm the the same way with myself I'm the same way with the players I'll be the same way the fans are the most important pieces why we play you know and and we play for them but in order to do that when you're home and before we go on a big road trip to me it's important that this place is packed because this place with 10,000 people in it is no different than another place with 22,000 people in it it's an unbelievable atmosphere and uh I know we're all trying but uh I'm gonna continue to push because I that's what the players and we all know that um for whatever reason it's not happening consistently that's I don't know that that I don't know but I'm sure as heck not gonna I'll always fight for these players and I'll always make sure that you know I do it in a way that is still professional um but I'll never be satisfied you can always be better last one from me uh K announced the the teams that are going to be going their uh Champions Cup for women uh theage were not included in the lineup though you guys want kind of Trophy last year are you disappointed that you're not in are you happy because it's not more fixtures what what are your thoughts about have to ask the league I I don't know why we're not in we're back-to-back challenge Cup champions we weren't even in the challenge Cup this year so yeah you have to ask the league I'm disappointed for the players they think they deserve it my personal opinion you diminish the value of a trophy no other league in the world does that or just make it simple the top three teams regardless of trophies but don't make it up as we go um but I get it I just feel bad for my players I know you mentioned Crow bill you all have at home right now along those lines last do you see that stretch and um I don't fantasized about it because I've seen it um we saw it last year against San Diego um saw it the year before uh don't think we saw it in the playoff for some odd reason but um look I know it's a college town I know it's Kane's hockey but there's a lot of young female footballers in this area there's a lot of college players in this area um I just I just know the benefits of it you know like we struggle on the road for a reason we've always struggled on the road this club um but it is I mean think I use Angel our most most recent game we had the complete run of play their home crowd willed them and they did well don't get me wrong I thought Becky did a good job with him and I thought Sarah Gordon was unbelievable but when you're playing in front of 22 screaming fans that are lifting you up you are never tired and teams don't enjoy coming here and playing and that's in front of 5,000 people can you imagine what it's going to be like if it's 108 you know like anything but I just it just makes it more exciting for the players because we're coming off a stretch where you know we traveled across the country so we need that extra little bit you extra little energy and where do you get that from you get that from your fans you know because they love playing in front of them and um you know we just want to represent them in the right way and hopefully we can get into a consistent habit of that I don't know what why it doesn't happen but um I'll do anything I can to help make it happen and if that means I have to be vocal about it I'm not uh I'm not knocking anybody it's no one's fault it's just how do we get these fans to uh even when we were winning every trophy in the league we didn't sell this place out you know so it's something um but I don't think we're far off either I don't I just think we have to push and sacrifice a little bit because once you get them from what I've heard people want to come back you know so I know picked up first yeah it it's I think it was good for her uh I know was off a set piece but it was a good delivery I think the thing for for Fel or F is is look she's coming in New Country new league she's a true Pro um she's played at the highest level World Cup champions league she brings a wealth of experience to us she cares so much she's playing with a smile on her face we're asking her to do something different than what she maybe is normal so that's a little bit uneasy for her um but it's only going to help her develop but yeah I think uh what she's what she's done has been tremendous and you know we haven't been able to get her AR rest yet you know with Sid being out that hasn't helped so we're just trying to manage it a little bit this next week is going to be really interesting in that regard but um yeah she's been great she's been an absolute joy to coach and um yeah I think she's adjusted quite well aw than