Ifill, who played a starring role in his team's 6-0 demolition of Gold Coast United at the weekend, is loving life in the A-League and readily admits it has rejuvenated him.

The striker, who was pointed in the direction of the A-League by his former Crystal Palace teammate Nicky Carle, has no regrets about swapping the sometimes direct style of the Championship for a new challenge with Phoenix.

"I was finding it quite boring in England. At Palace we were an OK side but if I had stayed there for another season it would have been another season of mid-table obscurity," he told AAP.

"I wasn't going to get the chance to play in the Premiership again and I just wanted to try something different."

He added: "It helps that there is not promotion or relegation here, in England it is so results-orientated that teams will just and kick-and-rush to get into the Premiership.

"We try and play the right style of football and sometimes it doesn't always work, but I would rather than just lumping it up front."