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http://www.footballaustralia.com.au/news-display/all-coming-together-in-new-zealand/54128

Dome.

"We'd rather just go with the current squad we've got. The Brisbane Roars, Central Coast Mariners have dominated the league in the last couple of years and they have both done it without huge marquee signings and have done it on the basis of a pretty sound football approach

"You can't go from having an average crowd of eight-to-nine thousand, which is what we've had over the last couple of years, to 12, 13, 14, 15 thousand, which is where we want to get to overnight. It doesn't happen like that.

"You just have to keep working away. That's what the Nixie programme is all about. It's about building that bedrock of support in the community so people have a real affiliation for the club as being part of their community

OK mate.

I completely agree with everything he said in that article, which makes me even more confused about what he said the other week about taking more Nix games around the country.

I think marquees are a red herring for us, the type of players we need are A-League stars.  Ifill, Broich, Van Dijk.  But one of these years they've got to show the ambition necessary to put a team on the park capable of winning the thing