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Posted June 18, 2019 11:15 · last edited June 18, 2019 11:16

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For sure it's great having all our age group (and FFs) teams qualify direct for World Cups through the weak OFC path.

But just bear in mind, many of that talented U20 squad will now barely set foot in NZ, to play again. That's if we stay in the OFC. 

Will most likely get worse post 2022 (at least we still have a high stakes inter continental home playoff game in March 2022), with OFC having automatic WC qualification (1.5 spots) for USA 2026 & beyond.

Just 4-6 low quality home games against the OFC minnows in the last 1-2 years of a World Cup cycle. European players deciding to skip games, because well an A League/domestic based AWs should still win the home OFC qualifiers - some of which may early on in the qualification phase become dull dead rubbers. Probably hardly a game through 2023-2024 (much less any games at home).

You'll just be watching all that playing talent, on your TV or computer screen. That's the future reality.

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I seriously doubt that we would be able to afford all the qualification competitions for all the age group teams for both sexes in Asia. Australia already struggles with this.

Australians barely see their National team, they only see them for the WC qualifiers which is a 1 in 4 year cycle and the rest of the time its tv or computer. Same as us. Its a function of our geographical isolation and small population not being able to produce a fully pro domestic league. Our best players now all head overseas, the Aussies had to get used to this 20 years ago. The current lack of games for the AW's isnt a function of being in Oceania but the result of a very messy period of NZF senior team administration. How many games did Hudson get to have the team player in what sort of time period? Being in Asia would mean once every 4 games we would see some more serious qualifying competition, thats all. It wont result in more home games during the other 3 years, it wont result in more overseas games. Also the death of the Confeds cup and the failure to qualify for one of those saw a serious drop in opportunities for games, being in Asia wont fix that.

The most important thing to having a decent AW team is having the best players we can produce. Nothing else matters except for player quality. The majority of the producing of better quality players happens  between the ages of 5 and 17. Sadly the focus ends up on the Asia/Oceania issue and moves away from the absolute key issue of how to produce the best players possible. I wish we saw as much interest in the best possible junior and youth coaching systems as we do in the side issue of Asia/Oceania. 

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For sure it's great having all our age group (and FFs) teams qualify direct for World Cups through the weak OFC path.

But just bear in mind, many of that talented U20 squad will now barely set foot in NZ, to play again. That's if we stay in the OFC. 

Will most likely get worse post 2022 (at least we still have a high stakes inter continental home playoff game in March 2022), with OFC having automatic WC qualification (1.5 spots) for USA 2026 & beyond.

Just 4-6 low quality home games against the OFC minnows in the last 1-2 years of a World Cup cycle. European players deciding to skip games, because well an A League/domestic based AWs should still win the home OFC qualifiers - some of which may early on in the qualification phase become dull dead rubbers. Probably hardly a game through 2023-2024 (much less any games at home).

You'll just be watching all that playing talent, on your TV or computer screen. That's the future reality.

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I seriously doubt that we would be able to afford all the qualification competitions for all the age group teams for both sexes. Australia already struggles with this.

Australians barely see their National team, the only see them for the WC qualifiers which is a 1 in 4 year cycle and the rest of the time its tv or computer. Same as us. Its a function of our geographical isolation and small population not being able to produce a fully pro domestic league. Our best players now all head overseas, the Aussies had to get used to this 20 years ago. The current lack of games for the AW's isnt a function of being in Oceania but the result of a very messy period of NZF senior team administration. How many games did Hudson get to have the team player in what sort of time period? Being in Asia would mean once every 4 games we would see some more serious qualifying competition, thats all. It wont result in more home games during the other 3 years, it wont result in more overseas games. Also the death of the Confeds cup and the failure to qualify for one of those saw a serious drop in opportunities for games, being in Asia wont fix that.

The most important thing to having a decent AW team is having the best players we can produce. Nothing else matters except for player quality. The majority of the producing of better quality players happens  between the ages of 5 and 17. Sadly the focus ends up on the Asia/Oceania issue and moves away from the absolute key issue of how to produce the best players possible. I wish we saw as much interest in the best possible junior and youth coaching systems as we do in the side issue of Asia/Oceania.