Dan Norman

you'll be honest you're not going to be around the bus you louis strata's dan hall jesse randles but one thing that gives me a hell of a lot of encouragement is we've kept leaders and we've kept winners within the side and we've also added to that with like the likes of lockheed bayliss who won the premieres last year with with jets aaron calver who's been around football for god knows how long ozzy football played in Asia, won the league before.

And then lads that we've promoted from the OFC side, like Ronan Wynne, Dan Norman, who granted the Pro League isn't the A-League, but there's still that winning mentality in there.

Luke Cassidy is part of the coaching staff now as well.

So they're boys that have been there and they've won games on a consistent basis.

But I think one of the interesting things for me, and being really passionate about the space as a Kiwi, and always looking at the next generation to come through, because we don't have the depth, are those youngsters.

And it feels like, with the appointment of Pedro, that there is now perhaps more of a balanced view around win now and develop.

And we're seeing Luka Vasilic, Van Fitzharris, Dan Norman even coming up from the OFC team.

Sean Cartwright has been brought across from the Melbourne City system into Auckland, and he's a young Kiwi as well.