It's easy to smash the hell out of NZF but I really don't see with all of this. Abbey wants something that is completely unrealistic and I believe she has some facts wrong along the way.
She says NZF have had a surplus the last 8 years - no that's creative accounting and that's been addressed many time on here before she has. They run a loss pretty much every year. That is a fact and NZF admit they are at the mercy of 4 year funding cycles tied to WC qualification.
They get the same as AWs per diem - ok that's fair and rightfully so
FFs get HPS funding, AWs don't - not an NZF issue and probably not central to the argument but a contributing agent
AWs play stuff all games and those they do are away because of costs. FFs play a truckload and most of them are away too but I'll profess to being unsure of that mix. They can choose to play less if they want to lessen the burden...
There is an international teams fund which is used for international teams (and showing a profit on the bottom line) so there is no way to tell what the funding mix is between AWs and FFs - NZF could make that clearer.
Why is it NZFs fault that football on a global scale has more interest in men's football than women's? That's a societal issue but if she has an issue with the lack of money in the women's game, again, that's not NZFs fault. In relation to that, because Winston, Kosta and co all make a wedge is not NZFs fault. The reason she and her cohorts are professional is because of the shop window the FFs put them squarely in front of.
Many a budding sports person has had to do it tough. If you want to play for your country in a sport that's not cricket or rugby, guess what, you are going to have to decide if a career being a lawyer is more important or playing for your country. Years ago before professionalism came about, people had to find jobs that worked in around their sport. The shot put guy Tom Walsh is a builder and works his ass off so he can get time to train and go to events but he admits to sacrifices. If these girls (and I will assume the age is young) are not interested in menial jobs that are not glamorous and require them to get off their snapfaceinstatwit to actually work at hours that don't fit in with their mates and work around their trainings because they CHOOSE the FFs as their current life priority then the issue is not with NZF, it's with entitlement and that's all I read in this. Entitlement and the word I find using a lot these days, millennials. The women's basketball program is a mess because there is zero cash and they have to mostly pay their own way. These ladies should be careful what they whinge about when they sign that pro contract that the FFs helped them get.
Again I go back to the one fundament issue here that is the massive elephant in the room. NZF have no money and already run at a loss. You cannot make it appear out of thin air. To get a bigger slice of zero = zero and there is even less folk lining up to throw money at women's football. I also wonder if Abbey and her cohorts are prepared to go to these other departments/programs run by NZF that could get their cash taken away from them to justify why their program should suffer just so they don't have to go out and find a job. Bet they don't.
I wonder what these teams will cry when the budget comes out in 2018 and there is even less cause we are not going to Russia and this 4 year cycle was 'saved' by Mexican media money.