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Posted August 29, 2013 00:36 · last edited August 29, 2013 00:38

Smithy wrote:

I think I gave my view on that in my last post. We should be able to afford that $50k without asking players for it.


We should, but can we?

The history here is that prior to 2006 Australia won just about every one of these Oceania qualifying tournaments.

Then in 2006 they joined Asia and we started winning them.

Within 2 years NZF was basically broke and in 2008 we needed SPARC and Kiwibank to bail us out to the tune of nearly $2m.

In 2010 we qualified for the WC and the winnings plus some related sponsorship papered over the cracks and have got us to the point we are now.

However, I really get the impression that we have kind of just staggered along since 2006 with only the 2010 WC winnings postponing the slow realisation that we can't actually afford everything we now expect NZF to do in the context of being the biggest fish in Oceania (and it's a point worth making that prior to 2006 a New Zealand U17 or U20 rep would almost never expect to go to a WC, so who should paid for it was a non-issue).

I really wish NZF would provide some more info/explanation though, because this really does need an informed debate so that the various stakeholders can make some choices about priorities and trade-offs.


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terminator_x edited August 29, 2013 00:38
Smithy wrote:

I think I gave my view on that in my last post. We should be able to afford that $50k without asking players for it.


We should, but can we?

The history here is that prior to 2006 Australia won just about every one of these Oceania qualifying tournaments.

Then in 2006 they joined Asia and we started winning them.

Within 2 years NZF was basically broke and in 2008 we needed SPARC and Kiwibank to bail us out to the tune of nearly $2m.

In 2010 we qualified for the WC and the winnings plus some related sponsorship papered over the cracks and have got us to the point we are now.

However, I really get the impression that we have kind of just staggered along since 2006 with only the 2010 WC winnings postponing the slow realisation that we can't actually afford everything we now expect NZF to do in the context of being the biggest fish in Oceania (and it's a point worth making that prior to 2006 a New Zealand U17 or U20 rep would almost never expect to go to a WC, so who paid for it was a non-issue).

I really wish NZF would provide some more info/explanation though, because this really does need an informed debate so that the various stakeholders can make some choices about priorities and trade-offs.