I bow to the greater wisdom of the forum. Let’s play the player not the issue, Midfielder is a whatever.
Conspiracy theories abound, and tis all hands to the pump, all shoulders to the wheel, to defend and explain.
If I can summarise the reply’s, why should and Auckland paper, we have one team Australia has 9, we only have one paper and so it goes.
As I said I bow to this great wisdom and thank you all for the knowledge.
However if I may as a parting suggestion ask you to consider, as Jerzy has pointed out there is almost nothing being reported and from responses to date it would appear unless it has something directly to do with the Nix [and then maybe not] it’s not reported. Just maybe that’s the issue rather than jump in with elbows and knees, assume it’s a conspiracy, or trying to stir. Just maybe NZ Football is not performing as well as it should. But then again it’s probably FFA, or the Australian media or Midfielder being a stirrer.
There is according to a client of mine who is a senior manager in company who invest in sport and he says there is a co-relationship between, media coverage, crowds & TV rating, it’s a chicken an egg does the media coverage follow or lead.
The debate is about media coverage, and A-league coverage and if I compare NZ coverage & Australia coverage hhhmmmmmmm and as some have posted we only have one team so what do you expect … I am not sure what I expect, but what I am sure of is, pages of media, hours on radio and TV do affect crowds & TV Ratings and that does affect the Nix’s…
There is definitely poor football reporting in NZ.
The major TV networks have Phoenix content at least every few days at the moment - which considering its the off season isn't bad, the printed media covers the NZ domestic competitions to a fairly respectable degree. The nix are on the major radio networks.
The main issue is that unless its nix related or Premier League related there is limited press. Even where Kiwi's are doing well for instance Ryan Thomas gets bugger all.
It's reasonable to slag off NZ media for the lack of coverage of the top tier competitions in the world, and also the lack of coverage of NZ players overseas, it's not reasonable to slag it off for the lack of coverage of the FFA cup which has nothing to do with us now that the nix are out of it. If they covered every competition in the world then the news hour would take all day.
As has been asked, does the Australian Media cover the Chatham cup? Or the Ranfurly Shield which is a cross division prize in the NZ domestic rugby competition?