Unless a Premier League billionaire decides we're a better option than Auckland. we're not going to be able to challenge for the title every year. It's just the sad reality of being a mid to lower budget team.
What we can do though is work towards a title challenge every few years. Try and peak the mixture of academy youngsters and imports at the same time. If we blood youngsters this year, give Chief a year to build, and then target quality imports next year then I'm relatively comfortable with that. I know the team has talked about building towards campaigns before, unfortunately this should have been the year to peak with the consistency of the squad but changing coach might have reset that.
What we can do though is work towards a title challenge every few years. Try and peak the mixture of academy youngsters and imports at the same time. If we blood youngsters this year, give Chief a year to build, and then target quality imports next year then I'm relatively comfortable with that. I know the team has talked about building towards campaigns before, unfortunately this should have been the year to peak with the consistency of the squad but changing coach might have reset that.