Welcome to All Hands Update, I'm Petty Officer Ian Cotter. These are your headlines from around the fleet. SecNav visited sailors, marines and civilians at Camp Lemonnier Djibouti as part of a visit to the U.S. Pacific and Africa Command areas of responsibility July 31. During an All Hands call, Mabe has praised the sailors and marines for their role in enhancing the U.S.'s relationship with Djibouti and improving security in the Horn of Africa and around the world. The Navy is teaming up with NASA to conduct training on recovering their newest manned spacecraft Orion off the coast of San Diego. Sailors aboard USS Anchorage, Navy divers assigned to explosive ordnance disposal Mobile Unit 11 and Mobile Diving and Salvation Company 11-7 participated in the recovery test. Orion is designed to carry astronauts to places not yet explored by humans, including asteroids and Mars.


Marco, your side took the lead early, it's got a really nice goal, but in the end, you managed to hang on. What are your thoughts on the performance as a whole from your side tonight? I just agree with the hanging on comment. We didn't hang on. We were easily the better side out of the two. We certainly dropped two points tonight. It's for sure, we were fantastic in the first half. They had one shot on target, great strike. Our keeper should have done better, but like I said, we had the best of, better of the opportunities by far. Oli Bozzanis had to wait a while for his opportunity to play last week and again tonight. It's got a really nice goal.  Yeah, of course, it's always nice. You know, we threw him higher than normal, so that was the only real tactical change from last week. Oli's very good in attacking 30, he's got a good nose for goal. He understands his movements and, you know, and he got rewarded with the goal. And there's a great player by us. And Oli's missed a lot of football, so he needs to keep working, but they're a really important match minutes for Oli. You had a couple of turns to make it too early. I think if you had have got that second goal, you would run and go away with this game quite a bit. Yeah, I think so. I mean, both teams this year haven't really set the world a light in terms of goal scoring, but both teams are also very strong defensively. So it was one of those where I thought whoever got the first goal, that's why it was important for us to start well. You know, I thought we would have certainly had the advantage and, you know, knowing my team, we were very disappointed and they were extremely disappointed in the dressing room for giving away two points tonight. Just finally for me, I'm Millos and Cassini. Are they close to playing this week and are you guys playing next week? Yeah, very close, but again, I didn't want to take any risks. There's a lot of football to be played, a lot of games to be played, and they'll certainly be ready for next week, that's for sure. Really? Yeah.  I thought the whole team, considering what I saw last week, which I wasn't happy about, was a huge shift in mentality and attitude, and that's what pleased me most. And players like Brandon, you know, moments, they've got to, you know, create those moments to get the rest of the boys going, but they're all good tonight, particularly that first half, like I said, we were very good. Away from them, a real good performance away from home. We took it to the opposition and probably and should have had another one, you know, a set piece as well that gets cleared off the line. So, you know, Brandon was good, but they were all very good.  But like I said, it certainly feels like we dropped two points because I thought, well, easily the better side tonight. Yeah, that's all it is. You know, that's all it is. You know, we haven't got points. We didn't really deserve too much last week. I didn't think the opposition was better than us. I didn't think we deserved to lose that game last week, considering the two big chances we had. But you've got to convert those into goals, which then convert into points, and you've got to put, you know, pressure on the rest of the table by getting points because it's awfully tight, as we know. So, it's an okay start. That's all it is. You know, we've worked extremely hard and we want to do really well this year, but it's, you know, everybody says the same thing. So, and in this competition, the small details make a difference because it's so tight. And that's those little moments where we need to be better, you know, both with the ball and without the ball. But it's okay. It's an okay start and there's a lot of football to be played and, you know, we're looking forward and we're looking to bring a new player in when the window opens, that's for sure. You know, I want to bring in a new player in the attacking third. You know, for me, I want to put pressure on those guys. You saw the young kids come on.  You know, they understand their roles and responsibilities. You know, they got some speed about them as well. I didn't look at a place at all. And for me, it's purely about performance, irrespective of age. At 1-1, I could have easily continued to play the same players. They're more experienced ones, but for me, the young ones deserve an opportunity and you've got to earn your right in this club as well to get match minutes, and they certainly did that and they keep putting their hand up and that's all I can ask for. Yeah, yeah, I'm pretty proactive. You know, kind of as soon as Milosh got his citizenship, you know, which if it happened this season, if it didn't, it didn't, it would have been full, but because it happened, it was great and that process has started. So, I've been talking to a fair few players for a couple of months now. So, it never stops. It never stops. That's football, you know. You just got to move on and keep moving on. You got no time to think, no time to waste and you've just got to keep moving on and being proactive in every department when it comes to football. Marco, at 2.9 since the World Cup break, is it more unlucky or has it sort of been a hard game that goes up to get the wins after the break? Yeah, no, I wouldn't say it's unlucky. I think it's just one of those games. We knew we were going to have three away games after the break and we knew that that was going to be something that we had to really dig deep in and knowing that we were in Sydney for a number of weeks and that is opening six rounds, except for the Melbourne victory game away. Yeah, the Wellington game was an interesting one. I thought we could have got the winner in the end. You know, we really put a lot of pressure on in the last 25 minutes or so when we scored the equaliser. Last week, like I said, anything we deserved to lose, but we didn't deserve to win. And it's tough playing at 3 o'clock when there's no atmosphere against a club like that. And, you know, we're used to playing at the Sydney Derby against Melbourne victory and these boys, everyone, all the players enjoy an atmosphere. And today was a great atmosphere, I thought.  Maybe the lights can improve because I struggle to see it the best of times, but I think it's great for Brisbane. You know, they've always had really good support and they make noise and things like that. So, yeah, it's, yeah, two out of nine points is not what our standards are, I'll be honest with you. But it's a long season and when I see performances like tonight, where I believe we should have won, I'm sure it's going to turn around and that we get tighter games, we will win. And we maybe didn't deserve to, but we keep putting on those kind of performances, that mentality, that attitude and that quality. I've got no problems that we'll start to turn those one-pointers into three-pointers. And finally, for me, MacArthur next week at home. You went with the same squad as you did against Western United. Is there going to be possible changes, obviously, Cassini, Yangi and Milstinkovic back? Is that certainly going to be changes ahead of that? That's a diving game? Yeah, whether we make changes or not, we'll see how the week pans out. We've got time now to recover, we've got a bit of a break between this game and the next game and we've got to assess a lot of things, particularly how the players pulled up from tonight and then have a look at how those guys can come back in, but they'll certainly be in the mix, that's for sure, two players that have helped us get to, you know, kind of where we're at right now and they'll continue to help us.


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