Nick Becker

I'm pretty good to be honest.

I'd like to say that I was very well behaved.

I can't say that of some of the team though.

There was a fantastic bus parade on Sunday and I was a little bit concerned that some of the players were going to topple over the top of the bus.

Very unlikely to be honest.

But what an incredible evening for Auckland, really.

It was such an amazing atmosphere in the stadium.

And to go and win a championship in our second season, it was incredibly special.

Yeah, no, can't argue with it.

Well, so they're adjusting.

I mean, I think we spoke about it recently, but the cost of labour is always going to be a massive problem for sports companies in general, but especially football, because we're part of a global market.

um so the league is trying to adjust things to make sure that clubs can be more sustainable um and and that would remember that you've got to you've got to get everyone um all lined up and then we get the players union we've got to get the cba which is a collective bargaining agreement with the players sorted so there's a lot of work going on on that i don't think it's going to have a huge impact overall um but they are we are waiting for the uh the final detail on that well because what have you got have you got have you got a team of champions or a champion team

Yeah, no, exactly.

It's more the latter.

And you looked at the... I think the resilience and the character that those boys have shown in Season 2.

I think Season 1 was so... We were so disappointed not to get into the Grand Final.

We thought we should have been there.

But they took a lot out of that and took it into Season 2.

And I think at the moments when they needed to step up, they've done it this season.

So does the team of champions.