Sorry, in response to feverish...
well look at the number of parents paying for their girls to attend FTC and NTC camps... We know they are getting more and more expensive, diluted in terms of talent (ftcs split regionally now), harder to stay in and the coaches are usually not announced until the squads are. So players (parents) really are buying somewhat blindly into the dream of helping their daughter to become a football fern when the chances are pretty slim as we all know...
So if an opportunity came up to be part of a girls phoenix academy, with known coaches, and an obvious pathway towards something bigger I think it would be hugely successful. And like with the boys academy it would also attract international interest from parents (more $).
On an aside Sport NZ have two big reasons to invest in women's football.
It is a growth sport, with one of the highest participation rates within NZ.
It is an Olympic Sport, with the women's team slowly but surely becoming a contender on the world stage.