I respect people who know more about football than me (most people) who say that a team in the W-League is not what NZ women's football needs right now. But I don't respect financial arguments, and I don't accept that failure to provide one here invalidates any other arguments made. I know even less about accountancy than I do about football, and I don't see why I or anyone else should be required to present anyone here with a business case in order to be taken seriously.
So far, all the people I've seen who are opposed to this are men who know best. That's fine and dandy but ask any female player who is plying her trade for nothing in the ASB Women's League or the NRFL (while men in the NRFL and the ASB Premiership get some sort of payment at many if not most clubs) and I don't think you'd find too many who wouldn't want exactly the same opportunities as men to play the game in New Zealand at the highest possible level - and why shouldn't they?
Call me an idealist, and I am, but in my perfect world it would be compulsory for all A-League clubs to put a team in the W-League as well. It should be part of the cost of doing business. That's called equality. Instead of asking women to justify to us men why they should have what we already enjoy, we should all be expecting it as a matter of course.