Caversham wants to win the Chatham Cup.
The Dunedin club has been a southern powerhouse for a long time but has never been able to get its hands on New Zealand football's most coveted prize, or even reach the final.
For Overton and his team-mates, there is plenty of motivation to beat Napier City Rovers tomorrow and then repeat that result in the final.
"The Chatham Cup is obviously the pinnacle of winter football and we'll be doing all we can to make the final," Overton said.
"The club has invested a lot in us and we'd like to give something back.
"We've won league titles and South Island championships. I guess the next step is the Chatham Cup.
"I've been at the club four years and you can see the passion everyone at Caversham has. Everyone really wants to win a Chatham Cup."
Like most of the squad, Overton (21) has his share of hard-luck cup stories to tell.
In his first year in the squad, Caversham was knocked out at the quarterfinal stage with an extra-time loss to Three Kings.
Then it was a painful exit at an earlier stage at the hands of local rival Dunedin Technical, before last year's semifinal loss to Bay Olympic on penalties.
This year, Caversham has had to swallow a bitter pill in the league, with Technical celebrating its first title in 12 years.
But its cup dreams remain intact, and Caversham has blazed a path to the semifinal, scoring 21 goals in just four games.
"It's been strange that all our cup games have been high-scoring," Overton said.
"Hopefully, that can continue. But we'd take a 1-0 win any day over a 6-4 loss or something like that. You've just got to get the result."
Overton, a central midfielder by trade who has played striker and right back this season, knows a little bit about Napier City, having played alongside defender Bill Robertson at Canterbury United.
"They're just a really solid team throughout the park."
Overton grew up in Christchurch and has played for Canterbury the past few summers.
He is in his last year of studying finance and economics at the University of Otago.
Caversham is missing two of its biggest guns for the semifinal, with Patrick Fleming and Tom Jackson having gone overseas.
But with free-roaming outfielders like Seamus Ryder, Hamish Chang, Ant Hancock and Harley Rodeka, and a defence led by Tim Horner and Tom Schwarz, the Dunedin club is still strong across the park.
Napier City, a four-time winner of the Chatham Cup (1985, 1993, 2000, 2002), is missing injured midfielder Joe Simpkins and New Zealand under-20 striker Andy Bevin.
Robertson and captain Regan Cameron are part of a staunch defensive line, Matt Hastings and Hamish Price work hard in the midfield, and an impact man off the bench is former Roslyn-Wakari forward Andy Pickering.
Manager Malcolm Wilson, co-coach of the Rovers side that won the cup in 1985, said the home side was not too concerned with in-depth scouting of its Dunedin opposition.
"We're more worried about ourselves rather than what the opposition will do. We're looking at the way we should play, so why fear or bother about others?"
Compared with Caversham's high-tempo style, Napier City is more of an uncompromising, defensively-minded side, a fact Wilson acknowledged.
"It's the only way we know and it's paid off all season for us and done us good. We're not the most fantastic side but we have a sense of togetherness and we have some good players."
