Absolutely no way NZF should be putting money into a privately owned team.
It is money from social and junior players and it should not be used to support a professional team.
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Agreed. The player registrations are held in Australia so why would NZF pay them? Sure there is the emotive issue of what they bring to NZ and Football but from a business perspective, they can't play in our leagues without a transfer to give players game time so why would we pay for them.
[QUOTE=Junior82]There you go Worthington - you can actually write a balanced, unemotive article (I note yesterday's tw*t job was taken off the net in the evening).
So now that I can be bothered to look at the actual substance of the article I question why NZF has had only 'cursory' discussions when the deadline is seemingly Monday. One would assume that if a back-up consortium was in the wings there would be quite a bit of discussion and detail surely (although I accept that nothing would be 'pen to paper' at this stage)?
So now that I can be bothered to look at the actual substance of the article I question why NZF has had only 'cursory' discussions when the deadline is seemingly Monday. One would assume that if a back-up consortium was in the wings there would be quite a bit of discussion and detail surely (although I accept that nothing would be 'pen to paper' at this stage)?
NZF are hardly going to say 'Oh yeah we have been plotting behind Terry's back for a replacement for ages'. All it takes (unlikely) is a white knight to appear for Terry and his problems to be solved and you have a relationship between Terry and NZF based on mistrust.
NZF have played this perfectly. Happy to support, not paying and kept a background overview on whats going on. The financial position of our code is being managed well by the national body for once (speculation) and I am happy with the position they have taken.
Jeff Vader2011-09-15 10:15:28