Yeah, and from the perspective of the Islands, NZ is the big team, the regional powerhouse. Of course they'd be pissed that even with all the advantages we already have we still felt the need to field an ineligible player against them.
Exactly. And when you add NZF's holier than thou remarks re crap conditions in PNG for qualifying, plus having other ineligible squad members in Burfoot (& Adams? & Roux? & Prelevic?), we've been made to look like incompetent, sore-losing tossers.