Must say I'm a bit disappointed that we don't seem interested in Francis de Vries. Yeah we have Sutton & promoted LKH at LB but his set pieces alone are worth looking at. We are going to end up with Payne hitting the first man at corners all season & not providing Zawada anything to get on the end of.
I did enjoy listening to Domey on the pod, but it came across that the Nix really ain't interested in older NZ players like de Vries.
It's all about the Academy kids and getting as big as possible transfer fee/solidarity payment when some of youngsters are sold to a European club one day. Only potential non Academy signing he mentioned was some anonoymous kid currently in a NZ age group team, where the parents want him to be a bit older before moving to Welly.
So yes as someone else wrote an Auckland ALM team will hopefully provide NZ domestic players a new pathway.