Clubs to merge? What about Chch Utd. An MPL side, a PDL team thanks to Danny Hay's team needing a vehicle to stay together, a masters team or two and a barely there juniors. What constitutes a viable club?
Mainland applying the pressure to Nomads and Western to get on with a merger highlights their lack of leadership when a "club" like United is left alone. As for Danny Halligan's reserve team playing there, they offered themselves to a few other club's before settling on United. That outcome demonstrates the sham that is the Canterbury School of Football which was established by Mainland with the support of certain clubs to partly prevent just such an outcome. They got what they deserved.