Nick Becker

But to have two teams now, you know, look at what Wellington achieved in the women's game.

And now we've got two teams in the men's side fighting hard and representing New Zealand and putting New Zealand football on the map.

I think it's a big occasion for Auckland.

It's sort of Auckland deserved a professional football club and it had been 17 years since they had one and then we came along and we feel like we've worked hard to make the city of Auckland proud of us and we really want to go out and represent them.

And then you think about the kind of people who travel over from Australia, there might be, I'm guessing here, but say a thousand odd and

And they stay in our hotels and they spend money in our bars and our restaurants.

And it lifts the city.

And I think it's a fantastic achievement for the boys to do that and get us there.

And it's a wonderful thing for the city.

Yeah, no, we've had a couple of injuries leading into this.

who played on Friday night and now later are absolutely fine and completely pumped and ready for this coming Saturday.

And we've hopefully got a couple of the other boys who have been sort of on the sidelines for a couple of weeks.

They just want to get back in the team.

They want to be back in and part of the final.

So they'll be doing everything they can to be considered by Steve to be in the matchday squad.

Steve, you know, he's a born winner.

He's won trophies all throughout his career.

In A-League terms, he was at Sydney as a player, as an assistant coach and as a coach and won premierships and championships throughout that whole time that it was there.

As a person, he's obviously, you know, he's clearly a player.

a very experienced coach.