Was expecting it to come through at 4.59pm today. NZF close at 5pm for the weekend and don't have to deal with the unhappy side of the decision for at least a couple of days. Happens in most other national organisations.
On another note, with FC looking like relegation from MPL, and PDL mirroring MPL at this stage, this may have large ramifications for the club as to where their teams go. At the moment, they have teams in MPL, PDL, Div1-5. So if MPL (and by logic) PDL teams drop out, and Mainland want to keep the Div1 with singular teams from each club, where do they go? 2 in Div 2 like a few years ago. Not a great situation to be in.
My solution, maybe look at 11-12 teams MPL and 11-12 teams in Div1. Look at those good enough to go up from Div1 to MPL (Uni, Chch Utd, Waimak, Nelson based team?) and change it to a home/away league. Also extend Div1 out the same way (bring in Halswell, Western, Parklands, another Uni/FC team?)
Have promotion relegation as per usual and with the longer season it will definitely bring the cream to the top.