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By the way, a few interesting tidbits on Bernie Ibini's and Awer Mabil's efforts to become eligible for Australia in Mark Reason's article:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/opinion/70344035/mark...
Quite a Reason-able artice considering this guy normally writes a load of bollocks. He could have added why did NZF ask for dispensation for Durante and not feel that it was necessary for Wynn or any of the other foreign born players.
This has been a time bomb at NZF just waiting to explode. It was lucky that Vanuatu picked up on it.....imagine if it had happened at the full Olympic games and the NZ football team had been expelled. Now that would have been a global scandal.
Whatever the out come with their appeal NZF need to get their house in order....which they appear to have started to do with the recent emails to players. This needs to go right down to ASB level.
In the coming months we are probably going to see lots of players "outed". It might well change the makeup of the AW's...if Roux and wynn can't play then Hudson is going to have a problems in wide defense.
I don't agree that Hudson was to blame...he could enquire about a player....its up to the admin/managers at NZF to do the paperwork
I thought Durante's dispensation was because Durante had actually been in a soceroos squad but never made if off the bench?
Edit: Conan Troutman bet me to it.