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Moved comments here from Qatar 2022 thread.

Australia host first South Korea (Brisbane) and then Lebanon (Sydney) in the Nov window. From Oz, South Korea head off to Ubekistan - but Lebanon only have the Socceroos game. 

So obvious idea would be to play Lebanon in a small Western Sydney ground like Campbeltown or Penrith (Australia's Maltildas play there later this month) that has hopefully cheap ground hire costs etc. As before Sydney has a very large Lebanese popn, so why not play them there prior to them playing Socceroos.

Basically seems NZF have taken a big financial hit (employee payouts, lawyers etc) this year. Plus compared to the huge 2013 Mexican TV money,  the 2017 Peru playoffs wouldn't have brought in the same TV dollars. So wouldn't be surprised if it's back to smelly oily rag days, plus are there any staff left now at NZF to organise AWs games. Think ex AWs manager Rob Pitstock had a FIFA match agent licence (required to organise matches between teams of different confederations). Could be yet another problem, if no one at NZF has one of those.

Be interesting to know what coach Schmid is doing/thinking.

Moved comments here from Qatar 2022 thread.

Australia host first South Korea (Brisbane) and then Lebanon (Sydney) in the Nov window. From Oz, South Korea head off to Ubekistan - but Lebanon only have the Socceroos game. 

So obvious idea would be to play Lebanon in a small Western Sydney ground like Campbeltown or Penrith (Australia's Maltildas play there later this month) that has hopefully cheap ground hire etc. As before Sydney has a very large Lebanese popn, so why not play them there prior to them playing Socceroos.

Basically seems NZF have taken a big financial hit (employee payouts, lawyers etc) this year. Plus compared to the huge 2013 Mexican TV money,  the 2017 Peru playoffs wouldn't have brought in the same TV dollars. So wouldn't be surprised if it's back to smelly oily rag days, plus are there any staff left now at NZF to organise AWs games. Think ex AWs manager Rob Pitstock had a FIFA match agent licence (required to organise matches between teams of different confederations). Could be yet another problem, if no one at NZF has one of those.

Be interesting to know what coach Schmid is doing/thinking.

Moved comments here from Qatar 2022 thread.

Australia host both South Korea (Brisbane) and Lebanon (Sydney) in the Nov window. From Oz, South Korea head off to Ubekistan - but Lebanon only have the Socceroos game. 

So obvious idea would be to play Lebanon in a small Western Sydney ground like Campbeltown or Penrith (Australia's Maltildas play there later this month) that has hopefully cheap ground hire etc. As before Sydney has a very large Lebanese popn, so why not play them there prior to them playing Socceroos.

Basically seems NZF have taken a big financial hit (employee payouts, lawyers etc) this year. Plus compared to the huge 2013 Mexican TV money,  the 2017 Peru playoffs wouldn't have brought in the same TV dollars. So wouldn't be surprised if it's back to smelly oily rag days, plus are there any staff left now at NZF to organise AWs games. Think ex AWs manager Rob Pitstock had a FIFA match agent licence (required to organise matches between teams of different confederations). Could be yet another problem, if no one at NZF has one of those.

Be interesting to know what coach Schmid is doing/thinking.

Moved comments from Qatar 2022.

Australia host both South Korea (Brisbane) and Lebanon (Sydney) in the Nov window. From Oz, South Korea head off to Ubekistan - but Lebanon only have the Socceroos game. 

So obvious idea would be to play them in a small Western Sydney ground like Campbeltown or Penrith (Australia's Maltildas play there later this month) that has hopefully cheap ground hire etc. As before Sydney has a very large Lebanese popn, so why not play them there prior to them playing Socceroos.

Basically seems NZF have taken a big financial hit (employee payouts, lawyers etc) this year. Plus compared to huge 2013 Mexican TV money,  2017 Peru playoffs wouldn't have brought have in same TV dollars. So wouldn't be surprised if it's back to smelly oily rag days, plus are there any staff left now at NZF to organise AWs games. Think ex AWs manager Rob Pitstock had a FIFA match agent licence (required to organise matches between teams of different confederations). Could be yet another problem, if no one at NZF has one of those.

Be interesting to know what coach Schmid is doing/thinking.