Maybe we need to stop looking wistfully at AFC and just accept we aren't leaving OFC any time soon. Instead we should try to push to reform OFC, get some consistency in tournament staging and support football development in the Islands as much as possible - maybe arrange tours for youth teams and so on. It's better that OFC is as competent and competitive as it can be if most of our games are going to be against its members. Sure, that's not ideal but the current situation is worse - a professionally run OFC and greater football development in the likes of Fiji, PNG, and Tahiti is probably the best we can hope for in the foreseeable future.Given the current FIFA corruption crisis we probably won't get a better chance to clean up OFC than this either
Maybe we need to stop looking wistfully at AFC and just accept we aren't leaving OFC any time soon. Instead we should try to push to reform OFC, get some consistency in tournament staging and support football development in the Islands as much as possible - maybe arrange tours for youth teams and so on. It's better that OFC is as competent and competitive as it can be if most of our games are going to be against its members. Sure, that's not ideal but the current situation is worse - a professionally run OFC and greater football development in the likes of Fiji, PNG, and Tahiti is probably the best we can hope for in the foreseeable future.