Nick Becker: Auckland FC CEO on winning the Premier's plate in a debut season

Auckland FC went into yesterday's game against Perth Glory knowing they had won the Premier's plate. 

The win comes for finishing top of the round. 

The team went on to beat Perth Glory 1-0. 

Auckland FC CEO Nick Becker talks to Mike Hosking about the achievement. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Great scenes yesterday. If you're watching, Go Media Stadium. Auckland
FC ran onto the field knowing they'd already won the
Premier's Plate in the debut season. The players for finishing
top of the round robin. The playoffs are still to come.
The Auckland f C CEO as Nick Beckery's back. Well,
this Nick, very good morning to.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
You morning Mike. Are you doing very well?

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Indeed, do you celebrate yesterday? I mean it was a
bit of a party or is this just part of
the overall equation?

Speaker 2 (00:21):
No, I certainly did it. I'm fairly bit dusty this morning,
to be honest.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
Good on you how dust effects pretty dusty?

Speaker 2 (00:30):
On a one to ten dusty, I'd taking about an eight.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
Although jeez, well, thank you for turning up at this
particular time on the program live and you've got to
won Miller as well. So what happens next in terms
of will the season be a disappointment if you win
this but don't win overall or not?

Speaker 3 (00:45):
Well, it feels like we're one done, one to go, right,
So we go into the finals, We're gonna we're going
to buy We play away in Melbourne next week and
then we have a bye week in the finals. Our
first city final will be away on the seventeenth of
May somewhere in Australia, either have Melbourne or Sydney I suspect,
and then we have a home semi final the twenty fourth,

(01:06):
and if we make it through the big Dance, it'll
be at go Media Under following Saturday.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
I was going to say, is that the prize for
winning the plate so far because you're away For a
person who's done well, you should be at home every week,
shouldn't you.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
Exactly?

Speaker 3 (01:19):
Yeah, I mean the home and away semi final is
quite It is a very football thing, so you just
have to accept it. The big benefit is if you
win the semi final, you've got you've got the home
grand final, which.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
Is that's a massive opportunity.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
It's a massive thing from you said on football, it'll
be a massive thing for Auckland SC fans as well.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
So I had a good look at the game yesterday
and I know I've been critical about all the draws
and football and stuff, but I looked at that game yesterday.
You were peppering the goal. You were clearly a vast
and superior side to Perth, and yet to look at
the score at one nil, you would have gone, oh,
that was a bit closer than I thought. And it
really wasn't, was it.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
It was? It was very squeaky one time, To be honest,
I wanted to be about ten nil. It should have
been at least four or five nil. But dominate and
the boys, you know, they ran out there as premiers
and you sort of you know, they kind of had
that lifted off their shoulders, so then they didn't have
to worry about the I think today or not. They
played really well. It was just one of those days,

(02:14):
you know, a wet day in go media and they
should have scored through for more.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
But the one they will do.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
Yeah, you take it, good one, well done, Nick, appreciate
it very much. We'll let him go get some oxygen
before he kills Ibry. Sounds like, hmm, it's a little
bit of the got a bit of the asthma, hasn't he?
Nick Becker, who is the Auckland FC CEO, and having
watched the game, the ground held up beautifully. For more
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(02:41):
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