Alex Gaetani said he wants to see Riverside Olympic's statewide experiment to its conclusion.
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The head coach has been in charge for every match since the Windsor Park club stepped up to the NPL Tasmania last season.
Those 37 league matches have yielded just six wins and four draws with the Roos likely to finish second bottom for the second year.
But, despite a swathe of injuries to senior players, a squad full of teenagers has shown much cause for optimism, frequently pushing the top sides while limiting the team's goal difference to just -15 from nine defeats.
All of which is a far cry from the club's debut season in the top flight when it finished with a -46 goal difference and, between rounds six and nine lost by an aggregate of 21-0 to eventual top four Devonport (0-2), Olympia (0-5), Hobart Zebras (0-9) and South Hobart (0-5).
Asked if he would be coaching the side next season, Gaetani said: "If they still want me, I'm planning to, especially after the success we've had this year."
Saturday's 3-0 defeat of Kingborough was the first time this season that either Launceston side has won a league match other than against each other - a dismal stat which has left the Northern neighbours propping up the ladder.
Gaetani said the result was reward for his young battlers who have stepped up following demoralising injuries to experienced defenders Jon O'Neill, Ethan Olner, Luca Vigilante, Taylor Neilson and Tom Prince.
"I thought they were all excellent - Max (Reissig), Fletcher (Fulton), Nil (Sanz) and Aaron Kidmas were great.
"But I'm really pleased for people like (goalkeeper) Jarrod (Hill), who has been super for two years and not had a lot of success, so really deserves that.
"It's been a strange year with coronavirus but also with the injuries we've had. We've never really had our most experienced team out there.
"I don't like seeing the two Launnie sides on the bottom because it suggests it's not going well but it actually is from where we sit in terms of our circumstances and the age of the group."
Among the conversations awaiting Gaetani in the off-season will be whether he is saying gracias and adios to the team's trio of well-travelled Spanish-speaking imports.
The Catalan flair of Sanz has provided nearly a third of Olympic's league goals, Vigilante was a dead ringer for Argentine compatriot Javier Mascherano until breaking a bone against Launceston City while Mexican Jhostan Padron's 10 appearances have been almost entirely off the bench.
"Luca is probably the most comfortable to stay but we do want to strengthen as well," Gaetani said.
"We want to have an extra player with spark up front to complement the local squad. We want to bring in a No.9."
Popular Englishman Chris Wademan remains an option if he could be persuaded back after two previously prolific spells with the club.