fair point but when they came back I don't think either were on the all whites radar. What would have been the harm to have a look to see if they were in fact better then the Rufers and Ridenton's or Ausi cast offs?
If they flew at the Nix, were selected then you sort that issue out then - it's actually a good problem to have
I hope whatever happens with the windows that we reverse the policy that has been in place, it's the only competitive advantage we have over the Ausis and we need to use it.
Why don’t the Nix and NZF have a chat. Nix agree to try sign more Kiwis (ideally from Handy Prem) - which is only good news for NZ football.
In return for the next 2 years, Schmid agrees to pick only say a max 3 Nix players for the AWs if said AWs game(s) is during the A League season.
Any AWs game in the next 2 years pre 2020 OFC Nations Cup is just a friendly, and so like today doesn’t have to be a full strength team. A time to experiment.
Of course this may require NZF and the Nix to behave as adults, and put any petty differences aside for betterment of NZ football - so probably too much to ask.