Myer Bevan: Auckland City FC player ahead of their Championship match against the Napier City Rovers

The winners of the men’s and women’s National League Championship 2024 will be crowned on Sunday December 1st, with both Grand Finals confirmed to take place at North Harbour Stadium in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. 

D'Arcy catches up with Myer Bevan out of the Auckland City FC camp, ahead of their match against Napier City Rovers.  

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Speaker 1 (00:06):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
Twenty sixth last eight Football's National Premiership is up and running.
Auckland City are playing at Napier City Rovers out for
a pretty awful last couple of weeks Auckland City and
we're joined by the striker man up front, Mya Bevin Mayer.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
Welcome to the show.

Speaker 4 (00:28):
Yeah, no, thank you for having me.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Huge game tomorrow, it means so much. It's quite a
jam at the top of the table. You're taking on
Napier City Rovers. You beat them and what happens You
got a chance with one round to go to propel
yourself onto the top two.

Speaker 4 (00:44):
Yes, yes, no, we put ours up in a good position.
You know, top two make the final in this league.
So when on Saturday is all we can get really
and then we were sitting here in the final as
it would.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
Stand right, So nothing can change if you get that
win or can there still be some skull vaggery going
on in the last round.

Speaker 4 (01:02):
Of course a lot and change in the last round.
But game by game, hopefully we want to we take
every game by as it comes, and you know we
went on Saturday. We put ourselves into the final as
it stands with one game to go.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
Now, your form's been pretty well.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
You're upright, you're striking and you've managed to knit quite
a few in the last handful of games, haven't you.

Speaker 4 (01:19):
Oh yeah, it's been good. You know, I've enjoyed being
back with the boys, and you know, I've been lucky
that the balls been dropping a few times.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
Don't say lucky. You've been provided and you've been doing
your job.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
That's what strikers do.

Speaker 4 (01:32):
Right Yeah, no, yeah, what we get we pride ourselves on.
So I mean, I'm happy to be scoring right now
and hopefully can continue in the next couple of games.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
You're away, How does that work for the side? Do
Auckland City travel Well?

Speaker 4 (01:48):
Yeah, no, we'll fly down in the morning on Sunday
and then yeah, prepare for the game. Is the one
o'clock kakoff, so we'll be leaving pretty early. But no, we'
we have traveled pretty well this season, so hopefully we
can keep up our way form.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
It's a super tight league, isn't it. When you look
at the nature of the points, It's not exactly a log,
but it's close like Napion fourteen, Burkenhead fourteen, You on thirty,
in Western Springs on twelve, Wellington Olympic and Coastal Spirit
on eleven points. This is tight stuff, which I'm presuming
is good for the league.

Speaker 4 (02:19):
Yet No, yeah, for sure. Obviously only being a ten
team league, I think it makes every game very important.
You know, there's any you play everyone once, so every
game is almost the final. So like you can see now,
all the results have kind of gone everyone's way so far,
which means only one or two points, isn't it going
into the last two rounds?

Speaker 3 (02:38):
As how has your form been, not you but the
team over the last three or four rounds and you're
a good place. You're building, you know, we're building.

Speaker 4 (02:44):
We've we lost, We've come off two defeats in our
last two games, so we were sitting pretty before that.
But look, no, we're just looking forward.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
Now.

Speaker 4 (02:52):
We're got two games left. We need two wins and
then we'll be in the final.

Speaker 3 (02:57):
What happened two on the trot? That must be gutting.
That's a kick in the guts, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (03:02):
No, of course, of course, you know we're all consider
you know, we don't we don't lose many, so to
lose to on the trot is a bit unfamiliar. But
I think it's come at the right time. To be honest,
I think has given you run a wake up call
and now we're just we're firing, and we've had a
good week at training and we're ready to go this weekend.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
Well, so go back though, what happened? What went wrong playing?
He didn't score enough goals?

Speaker 3 (03:22):
We got that?

Speaker 2 (03:23):
Was it anything about the actual fixtures itself? We can
pinpoint and go don't do that again.

Speaker 4 (03:28):
Oh and it's just late goals, to be honest, late
goals have sunk us. So just been focused right to
the ninetieth minute or ninety fifth minutes on Sunday and
in the following weekend because we can't be giving up
late goals. But if we if we dullify that and
take that out look, I think we'll be in a
very good position to be in the final come last
game the season.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
What's coach we've been saying, obviously would have been having
a crack, but what's he been pushing through this week,
specifically in the build up to this very important fixedure.

Speaker 4 (03:57):
Maya no, yes, no, it's just putting everything behind us.
You know, he's been good. He's been working hard with
us all week in training and it's just focused, like
I said before, focusing game by game. Now we're in
the position we're in and we can't talk about what's happened,
or we can't think about what's happened. We can't only
think about what's in front of us. So just to
go out there on set Sunday and get the job done.

Speaker 3 (04:17):
Score goals.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
Good on your mid Bevin, thanks very much for your time.
You need to get dal Bierriera on again.

Speaker 3 (04:23):
The coach. He's such a good roast, Albert Rieira, if
you do it that way.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
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