Nick Becker

It was pretty bad.

Yeah, should we check back in?

Hopefully things go the right way and we can... No, I did probably get a bit excited in the first year.

I've definitely grown up and matured a bit, Mike, so I'll be trying to control myself.

We actually have a second grand final this weekend with the OFC team, which is a lesser-known competition, but that's on the Sunday as well, so we've got a double grand final.

At the moment, we're just on cloud nine and looking forward to a fantastic sold out grand final this Saturday night.

I am up here in Sydney for the Dolan Awards.

What, like, what was it, Middlesbrough?

No, no chance.

Sydney are obviously, they've been around finals for a long time.

So we've got a big game for us coming up, but I wouldn't do anything underhand like that.

Oh, don't do this to me.

I'm obviously going to say that we're going to win and it's going to be a grand final.

It's going to be tight.

There'll be a lot of nervousness in the air and hopefully we can get on the score sheet early and kind of calm things down.

But I'm saying Auckland FC 3-1.

Oh, it's going to be awesome.

It's going to be such a special occasion and to kind of be able to make a grand final but also host it for the first time in your own backyard is an incredible piece.

I'm so proud of the boys and their effort from the weekend and we can't wait for the weekend to roll on and to get out there in front of a full house.

In Adelaide, it was really special because I got to actually go down and see some of the fans who had come all the way over to the game.