For the Wiltshire-born, who turns 49 on August 20 and wears his heart on his sleeves, it's been more of a case of perestroika (restructuring) if not glasnost (openness).
"It's sort of a revamping group through wearing the same colours but a slightly smaller group year on year."
Angell is resigned to accepting the game here is "very transitional".
Under the Central Football umbrella, the sprawling catchment area makes it tricky to retain a nucleus of players.
It becomes increasingly difficult to spurn the advances of other franchises after recruiting talent and exposing them on the premiership platform each summer.
The disparities, including fiscal ones, are no different to the anthem Conroy Removals Napier City Rovers counterpart Bill Robertson sings during the Lotto Central League winter campaign.
Angell is indebted to the franchise board for its support as it's become progressively harder each year to maintain that status quo.
"In an ideal world it would have been great if they [players] were contracted throughout the year ... but I suppose the difficulty becomes how many gaps you need to fill to get yourself back up to a capacity squad to compete in areas we have been able to in previous seasons."
Therein lies, he believes, the beauty or lottery nature of what may unfold in the next few weeks during the recruitment process.
"I've had that every single season and we've managed to overcome it so I see no reason why whatever we put out I believe we'll compete to see where we get to."
The public has been raising the bar on expectations after Bay United have been making the playoffs for the past few seasons, including a final and a second highest standing on the table under Angell, but the incumbent feels the culture of treating anything as a given isn't healthy.
"I've always wanted to win the league. That's been my intention from day one with whatever group I've been with and I've tried to transfer that to my group.
"I've never taken it for granted that getting into the playoffs is simple just because we've done it previously."
Making it a norm is the agenda but the rite of passage is something players have to earn.
"We are one of the top three teams in the game in the last five years all because we managed to find a way as a club to find top-four positions consistently.
"It doesn't give you the right to be there but, I know, everyone else wants to be there but not able to get there so that's why I never take anything for granted."
Missing out on the Oceania Federation Confederation (OFC) to Team Wellington in 2015-16 wasn't ideal but that focus remains.
Three teams - Auckland City FC, Team Wellington and Bay United - he believes have shown that level of consistency.
"We've never been quite considered to be in but screw that."
Waitakere United and Canterbury United have "dipped in and out".
It's going to happen, he declares of a historic OFC campaign here.
He reminds players they have the goods to be in the playoffs even though the OFC has proven to be elusive.
"The only way we can do that this season is through our performance.
"We can't change what we haven't had but what we can do is sort of say that anyone who comes here does so to further himself as well as the club."
Angell appreciates there is a double-edged sword feel about his proposition where providing a platform for success only breeds success and players grow wings.
"It's very much like we are where we are. Where we really want to move to and how much further movement we can make, who knows."
That is tantamount to the support they receive from the region and its sponsors.
He feels the on-field success perhaps hasn't filtered through enough to make franchise general manager Shane McKenzie's job any easier in securing sponsorship.
"I do feel, in certain instances, they could have supported as better as a franchise and may potentially change our recognition as a sport and franchise.
"There were things happening at the franchise that was allowing us to be very competitive at the highest level of the sport so if the region gets behind us there's no reason why we can't talk about potentially bridging that next gap."
Angell doesn't mince words when reflecting on the support they have received as a team off the pitch.
"As a franchise we're a second-tier sport and we understand some of that. We're not the No 1 sport in the region or the No 1 in the country."
However, he suspects Bay United are making inroads in establishing success that may appeal to businesses although the level of awareness of their accomplishments may not be matching that.
"Get behind us and the concept and who knows where we can go. You know, we're not a million miles away even where we sit now.
"So it's about building those relationships and, for the good of the region, exposing it to the nation to say wouldn't you want to be a part of that."
Auckland and Wellington are cities and Bay United only a region which can rally behind the franchise to give them the top-three recognition they deserve in the premiership.
"Last year was the lowest that I've finished and yet the closest that I've finished to the leaders," says Angell of Bay United who qualified fourth, four points adrift of minor premiers Auckland City, before losing 1-0 to them in the semifinal in March although the Bay beat Auckland 2-1 in pool play in February.
He champions an open-door policy rather than placing demands on a sense of loyalty from players who have used the Bay United platform to launch their careers. As far as he's concerned everyone's circumstances change.
"I close no doors but work with whoever wants to be there. First and foremost they have to want to be there."
Angell highlights overseas imports often take a leap of faith and something as basic as on-field, off-field challenges can throw them off their stride.
He also finds uniformity in the franchise's dedication to remain faithful to the ritual of churning out young talent despite his frustration of losing them, such as midfielder Ross Willox to the American tertiary system.
"It's a challenge and it frustrates me because I would love a sort of player who says I can deal with the base that I've got but the reality is such at the moment that it can never be a certainty."
Essentially Angell sees his role as someone who offers players an opportunity to improve and if he helps them to build on that quality regardless of where they end up plying their trade.
"It takes me a while to work each of them out and it takes them a little while to work me out and how I want things done but, eventually, we find a way of helping."
Therein lies his mantra that team values prevail regardless of the personnel.
"I have to accept that there has to be certain limitations to exactly what I want to do with this group or any group.
"I can't go throwing toys out of the pram. This is what we've got - yes. It's not ideal - yes."
For the former English Premier League footballer all that adds to the enjoyment and frustration factors in his portfolio.
He emphasises retaining a certain number of players from a previous summer doesn't necessarily mean they will remain effective.
He doesn't anticipate more than nine members of the 2016-17 squad returning.
On the flip side, Angell feels he hasn't had the choice to move to any other club, anywhere else in the world to find that consistency in players.
"I'd love to put this organisation at the top of the pile but, at the moment, I'm still fighting to do that and it won't blunt my ambitions.
"Whether it makes it easier with other so-called entities who may or may not have an interest, I don't know, because it's a not a decision I've had to make in my time here.
"That's not to say I'm not ambitious in building my reputation to push further forward to be recognised for this region or further then this country."
Do Bay United have the resources to foot it at OFC, akin to Auckland and Wellington, if they make the cut to create history and put the region on the map?
"That's the dream. It's never going to be easy and we're not a million miles away from that dream."
Whether the club is ready, he feels, is relative to the team's ability to perform.
"It can only happen in 2019 or 2020 ... but who's to say where Auckland are going we can't go - world club championship, Real Madrid - all of that isn't an impossibility."
