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Posted August 09, 2021 06:14 · last edited August 09, 2021 06:16

coochiee
Link below to Michael Burgess chatting to  D'Arcy Waldegrave, about a month ago.

Interesting that if OFC can't make dates or venues work for the planned Jan 2022 qualifying tourney, All Whites will likely just go straight through to June 2022 interconinental playoffs as OFC's representative. Purely by virtue of being the top ranked team in OFC.

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/65467510/episode/84478602/?keyid%5B0%5D=Sportstalk%20with%20D%27Arcy%20Waldegrave&keyid%5B1%5D=Michael%20Burgess%3A%20All%20Whites%20to%20face%20World%20Cup%20qualifying%20tournament%20in%20Middle%20East&sc=podcast_widget

https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/sportstalk/audio/michael-burgess-all-whites-to-face-world-cup-qualifying-tournament-in-middle-east/

That would be classic for the one team more than ever NZF want to play OFC teams, we can’t get any. Getting a bye into an intercontinental playoff (still yet to be drawn) would be far from ideal, given whoever the opposition is would have come off potentially 18 competitive games for COMNEBOL, 20 for AFC, or 12 for CONCACAF, whereas we would be lucky to have one or two friendlies. 

You’d have to think Danny Hay will want to stay on regardless of what happens, given he’ll have an argument of having been set up to fail with the lack of games, but if he doesn’t he could genuinely have been coach for only 5 AWs games. Even old mate Fritz Schmidt got 4 games as coach, and he was only in charge for the first year of a WC cycle, typically the deadest year for fixtures.

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coochiee
Link below to Michael Burgess chatting to  D'Arcy Waldegrave, about a month ago.

Interesting that if OFC can't make dates or venues work for the planned Jan 2022 qualifying tourney, All Whites will likely just go straight through to June 2022 interconinental playoffs as OFC's representative. Purely by virtue of being the top ranked team in OFC.

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/65467510/episode/84478602/?keyid%5B0%5D=Sportstalk%20with%20D%27Arcy%20Waldegrave&keyid%5B1%5D=Michael%20Burgess%3A%20All%20Whites%20to%20face%20World%20Cup%20qualifying%20tournament%20in%20Middle%20East&sc=podcast_widget

https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/sportstalk/audio/michael-burgess-all-whites-to-face-world-cup-qualifying-tournament-in-middle-east/

That would be classic for the one team more than ever NZF want to play OFC teams, we can’t get any. Getting a bye into an intercontinental playoff (still yet to be drawn) would be far from ideal, given whoever the opposition is would have come off potentially 18 competitive games for COMNEBOL, 20 for AFC, or 12 for CONCACAF, whereas we would be lucky to have one or two friendlies. You’d have to think Danny Hay will want to stay on regardless of what happens, but if he doesn’t he could genuinely have been coach for only 5 AWs games. Even old mate Fritz Schmidt got 4 games as coach, and he was only in charge for the first year of a WC cycle, typically the deadest year for fixtures.