Christchurch will have shiny new roofed stadium from early 2026, it will be the blinding obvious choice as a future location for Nix to take 1-2 'home' games per season. If the stadium is completed in summer before the rugby season starts, the first ever event at the new edifice could be a Nix game. Expect close to a full house (26,000 permanent seats) if so.
Taking 2 games to ChCh each season could be a chance to explore any commercial opportunities down there. Is there a chance to work in with Slava Meyn, Christchurch United and their academy. From memory they had 3-4 players in the NZ U16 boys wider squad named recently, so their academy starting to produce some talent. Paul Ifill is ex Nix after all, and is a host of Cantabs in the Nix ALW side.
But yes for sure will be a few negatives for the Nix, when a new Auckland team enters. And yipe the biggest one will be the likely loss of sponsor dollars, as some current Auckland based football sponsors look to move their valuable commercial dollars to an 09 team.
But not sure an Auckland team will lead to much in the way of increased wage demands for NZ players. The decreased revenue for the A League as whole the last few years, will dampen any serious threat of that.
Does the current Weenix Academy have a cap on it's current annual intake? Or do they just take anyone?
For sure many kids in the upper North Island will now look to an Auckland team as their pathway. But if Weenix have been operating with a cap on numbers, they could now just lower the standard to get in, so still keeping numbers the same. I imagine the female side of the Academy is also expanding as parents increasingly see football as a potential profession for Jane as much as Jack.
Like the end to any monopoly the Nix will have to review everything from top to bottom, strive to do better and possibly have to cut back further on some expenses.
Taking 2 games to ChCh each season could be a chance to explore any commercial opportunities down there. Is there a chance to work in with Slava Meyn, Christchurch United and their academy. From memory they had 3-4 players in the NZ U16 boys wider squad named recently, so their academy starting to produce some talent. Paul Ifill is ex Nix after all, and is a host of Cantabs in the Nix ALW side.
But yes for sure will be a few negatives for the Nix, when a new Auckland team enters. And yipe the biggest one will be the likely loss of sponsor dollars, as some current Auckland based football sponsors look to move their valuable commercial dollars to an 09 team.
But not sure an Auckland team will lead to much in the way of increased wage demands for NZ players. The decreased revenue for the A League as whole the last few years, will dampen any serious threat of that.
Does the current Weenix Academy have a cap on it's current annual intake? Or do they just take anyone?
For sure many kids in the upper North Island will now look to an Auckland team as their pathway. But if Weenix have been operating with a cap on numbers, they could now just lower the standard to get in, so still keeping numbers the same. I imagine the female side of the Academy is also expanding as parents increasingly see football as a potential profession for Jane as much as Jack.
Like the end to any monopoly the Nix will have to review everything from top to bottom, strive to do better and possibly have to cut back further on some expenses.