http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/football/7073955/All-Whites-Oceania-horror-fault-of-officials
While this article does not bring anything new to the table, it does leave McKavanagh with a little egg on his face.
When you consider the $500k cost that was stated to host the OFC Nationas in NZ and the reason why it did not bid plus the $616k operating loss (disguised as a $200k profit) from last year, we would be $200k better off with the cash from Brazil. We would have also acquired 3 international games we would not have had to pay for (and now have to seek replacement football at our cost in the lead up for Brazil if we qualify) and the cost of sending our team to Honiara vs possible contra deals staying here. From a financial point of view, it really is a no brainer which ever way you slice it.
I think we are asking for the wrong head and should be pointing it at McKavanagh and not Herbert. I can live with 1 poor result in 8 years because it does happen to any team. To make such a rookie mistake in your first year though...
I'm not sure about your analysis there Jeff because I think the $1.3m for the Confeds Cup would have had to pay for the entire cost of our participation there, including the need to jack up a couple of friendlies in preparation.
Yes, we lose $1.3m in revenue from not competing in the Confeds Cup but we probably also avoid many hundreds of thousands of dollars of costs also (might be wrong on this, happy to be corrected).
Not that I think that's a good thing. Just saying that I think the financial impact on NZF is not as serious as "we lost $1.3m".
I didn't look at it as revenue because as NZF said, they don't bank on it but again they are at a deficit based on no cash coming in and now no free games and if we want them, we have to pay to have them or play away vs hosting (at a cost of $500k) some free games and $800k over and above that once you get a payout from Brazil.