This is quickly starting to look like the America's Cup not the Nike Cup!
You've got to hope the muck raking stops now and the focus shifts to youth playing football on the park over the next 2 days at Bruce Pullman Park. At the end of the day these kids must be a sample of the cream of this age group talent, with some no doubt in line to go on and feature in our future NZ age group teams (2000 born and younger = 2017 / U17's) and (2000's & 99's = 2019 / U20's)
Hopefully in time some transparency to the apparent back flip on this matter will be issued by NZF. For those of us watching from a far the MUPC rules seem pretty clear cut.
This give's all power for the competition / tournament to NZF and in respect of player eligibility (clause 4) there is no reference to appeals or other NZF regulations, which have been mentioned earlier in this thread as being exercised? One can only hope that if there are any other instances of players being permitted because of application of the discretion provisions NZF have got it right.