The answer that TB will give you will come back to one simple single word. Money
The fact is, this year, NZF have slashed their budgets in most cases by up to 33%. Why? No Confederations Cup money. They came out and said they never budgeted for that money, but now that the money is not there, they have slashed the budgets. I've had that confirmed by a couple of well connected people.
The magic solution is money but there is no money tree so as much as we whine and bitch and want TV time and all this other stuff that should be prioritised, this is the reality of football in NZ. No one is asking for it to be accepted or not try to change it but the reality it this IS the way it is.