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Posted July 02, 2020 07:24 · last edited July 02, 2020 07:25

coochiee wrote:

andrewvoerman wrote:

coochiee wrote:

Nelfoos wrote:

Feverish wrote:

Ranix wrote:

coochiee wrote:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/121956499/wellington-teen-rivals-hope-to-face-off-at-2023-world-cup-in-new-zealand

Two good candidates for the Phoenix W league team if it gets off the ground.

well no, as it would be NZF driven in prep for 2023 WC - so they would be NZ eligible players

You think NZF would force the Nix to sign 100% NZ players? Seems a little far fetched, the Nix would have to exist as their own women's team beyond 2023.

That's right. Unless NZF agrees to bankroll the considerable cost of an W League side, no way Nix should feel compelled to make it 100% Kiwis.

If anything it sounds until recently (in Andy Martin's reign) NZF were more of an obstacle getting a W League team up and going.

Side will mostly be based in Australia, and I think Dome/Morrison have said it will contain some Aussies for sure (probably with W League experience). Also they have talked about including some players from the Islands as well.

NZF have been fully behind a W-League side as long as one's ever been talked about.

David Dome was on the pod a few months back, and unless I seriously misheard him, he said no NZF had not until more recent times, been that helpful with getting a W League team up and running.

Perhaps related more so to Nix initially aiming to have a women's team in the NWL, as a first step.

Some of NZF's issues sounded like it was around perceived possible undermining of the FFDP, plus various regional federations/existing NWL teams worried that a Nix NWL team would just lead to an exodus of all their best talent to Wellington.

Anyway he did say progress was now being made, to solve these obstacles.

I repeat: NZF have been fully behind a W-League side as long as one's ever been talked about.

Since FFDP was set up post-Rio it's always been hoped a W-League team would come into the frame to cover the other half of the year (the first half being the NZ winter).

Hare-brained ideas about first putting a Nix team in the NWL (Why? Where would the players come from?) are a different matter. That NZF and the federations had no interest in that happening is completely understandable. But this has no relation to a Phoenix W-League side, other than it involves the Phoenix and women's football, and no relation to NZF's support of it.

Anyway, I get the sense a lot of change is coming in the FFDP/NWL space in the near future.

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coochiee wrote:
andrewvoerman wrote:
coochiee wrote:
Nelfoos wrote:
Feverish wrote:
Ranix wrote:
coochiee wrote:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/121956499/wellington-teen-rivals-hope-to-face-off-at-2023-world-cup-in-new-zealand

Two good candidates for the Phoenix W league team if it gets off the ground.

well no, as it would be NZF driven in prep for 2023 WC - so they would be NZ eligible players

You think NZF would force the Nix to sign 100% NZ players? Seems a little far fetched, the Nix would have to exist as their own women's team beyond 2023.

That's right. Unless NZF agrees to bankroll the considerable cost of an W League side, no way Nix should feel compelled to make it 100% Kiwis.

If anything it sounds until recently (in Andy Martin's reign) NZF were more of an obstacle getting a W League team up and going.

Side will mostly be based in Australia, and I think Dome/Morrison have said it will contain some Aussies for sure (probably with W League experience). Also they have talked about including some players from the Islands as well.

NZF have been fully behind a W-League side as long as one's ever been talked about.

David Dome was on the pod a few months back, and unless I seriously misheard him, he said no NZF had not until more recent times, been that helpful with getting a W League team up and running.

Perhaps related more so to Nix initially aiming to have a women's team in the NWL, as a first step.

Some of NZF's issues sounded like it was around perceived possible undermining of the FFDP, plus various regional federations/existing NWL teams worried that a Nix NWL team would just lead to an exodus of all their best talent to Wellington.

Anyway he did say progress was now being made, to solve these obstacles.

I repeat: NZF have been fully behind a W-League side as long as one's ever been talked about.

Since FFDP was set up post-Rio it's always been hoped a W-League team would come into the frame to cover the other half of the year (the first half being the NZ winter).

Hare-brained ideas about first putting a Nix team in the NWL (Why? Where would the players come from?) are a different matter. That NZF and the federations had no interest in that happening is completely understandable. But this has no relation to a Phoenix W-League side, other than it involves the Phoenix and women's football.