I'd much rather see 8-12 top quality AFC games (WC & Asian Cup qualifiers) played in NZ over a 4 year cycle (with most of the overseas stars coming back to play in NZ). A couple of those games are bound to have some knife edge tense drama, as AWs seek qualification. That's what the sport needs in NZ. The big overseas stars up close a few times per year, and big games in our time zone. Even if the AWs fail to qualify for World Cups.
Much better prospect, than 4-6 low quality home games against OFC minnows, over the same 4 years, supplanted by 2 almost guaranteed pool games at a World Cup played at 4am NZ time. Pools being reduced to 3 teams in a 48 team WC.
To me the biggest waste is having a striker in the world's most high profile league, who has scored over 20 goals in the last 2 EPL seasons and yet in that time he's played 20 mins on NZ soil. It's nuts really. A marketing disaster. He's probably unlikely to play in NZ, until mid-late 2020 at the earliest. Roughly 3 years after Peru November 2017!
100%
We could instead have a slap-a-NZFootball-official booth for $99 a pop during the FIFA windows to try and fundraise for a game? (Apologies to those doing sterling work)