It’s hard to read this moment.
It feels like it could be a pincer movement that cripples the Nix shutting them out of a potential CWC money and we get Auckland free to rewrite football history.
Or it could be a competition that falls over or is in another shape or is included under Australian and Asian remit and none of these local machinations are important in a few years.
Certainly being seen as attacking Christchurch football isn’t going to help any pivot southwards for taking games away.
It feels though like some petty thing in the OFC or NZ game where someone has a personal thing against the Nix, because their kid or nephew got released from the academy or something.
But yeh nobody looking good here. AFC the only lot not really bothered. They’ve got Auckland, crown jewel for sponsors and the like, and they’ve got good backing anyway. And a trophy.
Certainly the comms about various things and the changing stories don’t make you feel confident it’s an open and shut case.
It feels like it could be a pincer movement that cripples the Nix shutting them out of a potential CWC money and we get Auckland free to rewrite football history.
Or it could be a competition that falls over or is in another shape or is included under Australian and Asian remit and none of these local machinations are important in a few years.
Certainly being seen as attacking Christchurch football isn’t going to help any pivot southwards for taking games away.
It feels though like some petty thing in the OFC or NZ game where someone has a personal thing against the Nix, because their kid or nephew got released from the academy or something.
But yeh nobody looking good here. AFC the only lot not really bothered. They’ve got Auckland, crown jewel for sponsors and the like, and they’ve got good backing anyway. And a trophy.
Certainly the comms about various things and the changing stories don’t make you feel confident it’s an open and shut case.