Smithy,
You mentioned in a previous post that
"2. I'd like to see a government-sponsored independent look at the governance and management of the game in New Zealand."
Wasn't that held a few years ago and called the Ineson Report? Wasn't the result of that independent investigation the formation of the 7 Federations and the resulting governance and management model that we have now?
That report was published around 2003 (I think) and 10 years is a long time. I also can't remember if the scope of that review was just the structure of NZF.
The footballing landscape has changed significantly since then anyway:
- Federation model established and bedded in
- Establishment of NZFC franchise model
- Aussie leaving Oceania in 2006
- Frank van Hattum becomes Chairman in 2008
- World Cup qualification in 2010
- Failed WC qualification in 2013
- increased reliance on declining pokie funding
- Whole of Football plan implemented
etc etc
High time for another, broader, review IMO.