“If you look at a team, it's probably Arsene Wenger [who's inspired me]. You look at him and think, well, he's pretty close to being the bees knees in terms of what he's done for Arsenal,” Van Egmond tells FourFourTwo Australia magazine April 2008 issue.

“And the style of play he likes to employ. He's probably done one of the best jobs you've ever seen. The amount of players who've gone there and developed technically, I think he's done a tremendous job.”

Meantime, Van Egmond has the tricky job of corralling a Jets squad disrupted by Socceroo call ups for Sunday's crunch second leg major semi final against local rival Central Coast.

And the Jets boss is taking nothing for granted. “Look the preparation has been disjointed by the fact that we've had eight players with the national team. That poses a few problems in terms of keeping the players together.”

In terms of what he'll do in the lead up, the Jets supremo explained that “we'll step up training in the lead up to the game to ensure no complacency creeps in.”

The Jets go into the major semi-final second leg 2-0 up. And Van Egmond is not falling for the idea that the tie is in the bag.

“We have to ensure that we don't just feel that that we turn up at Bluetongue and just get the result. It's important that we go down there with the right mindset and approach the game in such a manner that we know it's going to be a difficult game.

“They'll come out all guns blazing. We don't want to just sit back - we have to show that our work ethic and intensity right from the whistle is spot on.”

And Van Egmond has hinted there could some “surprise” selections if the players don't approach their training with “the right mentality”.

Gun striker Joel Griffiths has the right mentality but a slight groin injury picked up on Socceroo duty could see him benched or even left out completely.

New South Korean signing Song Jin-hyung however may be given some game time.