about learning it at the elite level. As that six weeks wore on at the "C" licence, I spoke more and more with Largie and by the end of it there was no question that that's what I wanted to do and it's worked out really well. BSW: At one stage early in the pre-season you remarked that you thought that the squad the Strikers have this year is as good as, if not better than, the 2009 squad. Do you still hold by that opinion? JC: For the people that knew both squads it's a pretty big claim, you know, or for the people that were around in 2009 that haven't seen us play, even. It's a pretty big claim to make, even to cast my mind back, but I've watched videos too, to nut this out, because it was a great year for us. The football that we've played this year, I think, is better. The system of play that we've learnt is fantastic as a player to be involved in and there's a lot less frustration in the style of football that we're playing now to what we dealt with back then. The playing staff we had back then was very special and I'm not sure if individually we're at the same level as the individuals back then. If you think back to some of the players we had on the park then there were some unbelievable boys kicking around, whereas now I think as a unit