Oct 12, 2026 · 55 min · 11 segments
Football Fever is back ahead of the new A-League season! Can Auckland FC back up their championship season, having lost several key players and their entire coaching staff? Under new head coach…
Jason PineHost
Michael BurgessHost
They dropped out of the top two right at the end, but then went through the final series and beat Sydney FC 1-nil in the grand final to famously become A-League champions in just their second season.
I'm thinking, you know, Bruce Springsteen, Queen, Elton John all had good third albums.
Um, but no, uh, like I've, I've sort of been oscillating on this one because if you look at, look at the players that are gone, Piney, if you made a list of the top six most important players from last season, you'd say four of them, uh, are ones that aren't there anymore, are Dan Hall, Verstraete, um, Jesse Randall, and Guillermo Mai.
But as I've thought about it more, there's another side of it that, um, this is kind of the challenge the club and the team needs because if, if they were just trying to back up last season with the same set of players, the same coach, it would actually be very difficult.
But given there's so much change, um, there is act- there's actually an upside, I think, to all this change.
It's so different because, well, as you say, you mentioned some of the players who are going.
They dropped out of the top two right at the end, but then went through the final series and beat Sydney FC 1-nil in the grand final to famously become A-League champions in just their second season.
I'm thinking, you know, Bruce Springsteen, Queen, Elton John all had good third albums.
Um, but no, uh, like I've, I've sort of been oscillating on this one because if you look at, look at the players that are gone, Piney, if you made a list of the top six most important players from last season, you'd say four of them, uh, are ones that aren't there anymore, are Dan Hall, Verstraete, um, Jesse Randall, and Guillermo Mai.
But as I've thought about it more, there's another side of it that, um, this is kind of the challenge the club and the team needs because if, if they were just trying to back up last season with the same set of players, the same coach, it would actually be very difficult.
But given there's so much change, um, there is act- there's actually an upside, I think, to all this change.
It's so different because, well, as you say, you mentioned some of the players who are going.
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