Waitakere’s catch-22: why losing might be better

 

http://www.theroar.com.au/2008/12/03/waitakeres-catch-22/#comment-94743

 

My knowledgeable SBS colleague, Phillip Micallef, put up an interesting story on the World Game website on Tuesday headed �Kiwis make Hay while the suns shines�, ostensibly an interview with Waitakere United captain Danny Hay ahead of the club�s Club World Cup playoff against Adelaide United in Tokyo next week.

Micallef writes that Waitakere will be �fighting for Oceania�s existence� in the match and that a positive result for the New Zealanders will be �Oceania�s chance of making the most of its rare place in the sun�.

Perhaps. But I would have thought the Kiwis are in something of a catch-22.

A good result against Adelaide will have the obvious benefits of getting the side through to the CWC and collecting some serious money ­ï¿½ a massive fillip to a semi-amateur side.

But a win over the Asian Champions League runners-up will also reaffirm the status of Oceania as a confederation at a time when many bods in Kiwi football are assiduously trying to extricate themselves from the OFC�s clutches and join Asia.

 

 

 

Im ok with that...

 

  Yeah, but we're supposed to be thinking about the bigger picture here. Not just the joy you'll feel when Ytak get thumped.

 

You could say that since a waitak win would give respect to NZ and oceania...itd give AFC an easier time in accepting oceania into the asian federation because they would respect us as being able to give them some quality,instead of just brining them down,which is what would be viewed as we lost.

 

Like i said,just because you;re throwing round hypotheticals,thought id throw in the flipside to it.

 

Is all pretty sily to say really...ideally we'd want them to win and get the cash,and keep oceanias place for more cash to be won next season..Else the NZFC is screwed financially