One man's shit is another man's gold.
As a region with a long history of gold mining that's what you need to do, onwards and upwards. The return to an 8 team league next year should surely help as it tends to concentrate the players in fewer clubs playing higher quality games although this could take a while. That could also ease the introduction of a SI league for the top 4 sides (plus 4 from Mainland PL) at the end of a 2 round SPL? Remaining 4 teams then go into a promotion/relegation battle with other clubs to sort teams for the following seasons SPL? Surely that is something you guys would support as a mechanism for improving your good young local lads over the tribal head banging that goes on year on year? Not sure if you've noticed but it has been a while since Otago teams and Otago Utd in particular could enter any competition with expectations of success, and that is not good for football overall.