Your shouts are decent Bumblebee, no real issues with anything you said.
Tech's best 8 or 9 players are very good footballers - Knighty, Tom Schwarz, Ogilvie, Clapham, and Whitey especially are definitely starters for Dragons - and I'd include the remaining few in the squad or even starts such as Boys, Terris, and Dan Schwarz. That Halligan in CM is horrible, no question, wins occasion ball but hard to watch in possession, nowhere near the level required even arguably for MPL - better team mates carry him for Tech.
Coastal's Matt C could make a huge claim for a starting place in contetion with Terris and D. Schwarz at CB as he offers best distribution in the league at CB. Sean Liddicoat would be a serious steal from Hawkes Bay. Only seen him once but I think you're missing a trick with the Brazilian Evandro, quality on the ball to get away from opposition and subsequent passing ability is very high - miles ahead of Andreas Wilson in the defensive midfield role. Tristan does well in the air and can play the ball short but not enough talent or panache, Dragons bench if anything. Meysum and Jackson not seen much of but both decent, not quite there yet, but potentially in the future. O'Brien has quality, moans a bit but to be fair works very hard defensively, especially when we played them. Stanley needs a full season as number 9 and show consistent scoring ability, he's doing it now by the looks/sounds of things.
In all honesty there's a lack of quality apart from Cash Tech and Coastal so most of/if not all will and should come from there. And then there's obviously elsewhere who will bring more quality.