I think I agree JD, but I also think it might be just the four of us on the pod and you that actually cares much. I'm interested to find out if there is a wider constituency that actually gives a f...
I do!
And I note that basically nobody posted in the Effecting Change at NZF for months, despite the fact that right now is the key period in time to be lining up potential candidates for the NZF Board and trying to influence their selection via Federations.
But yeah, actually nobody gives a fuck (or more correctly nobody gives a enough of a fuck to go through all that process in order to engineer a better outcome).
And also, I don't agree that the Federations don't represent Joe Average. OK, maybe they don't in practice, but they damn well should.
It's meant to be a democracy - players vote reps onto club boards - clubs vote reps onto Federation Boards - Federations vote reps onto the NZF Board.
They problem is that it's all a rather slow and laborious process to effect change right at the top and that wears people out and they end up not giving a fuck or not believing it possible.
But ultimately, if the players and other stakeholders give up on their democratic right to effect change then there won't be any change.
So yes, I think all stakeholders should feel free to speak out - individually or collectively - and NZ Football should listen because otherwise (although it may take a while) we are going to get rid of you.