New Zealand Soccer chairman John Morris sees tomorrow's meeting in Melbourne with Football Federation Association bosses as much more than just friendly chat.
"As I see it, it is very much a working meeting aimed at finding a way to ensuring there is a New Zealand team innext season's A-League," said Morris, who will be joined at the pre-grand final meeting by NZS chief executive Graham Seatter and board member Phil Johnson.
"We need to get things moving. We are already behind the eight-ball. We would love to come away from that meeting in a position [to] ... prepare for the new season. There is obviously a high degree of support from across the Tasman for us.
"I am still convinced our chances of making it work are better than 50-50 and that we can get it across the line.
"We are determined to do everything we can. Even in the darkest days of the Football Kingz and New Zealand Knights, we at New Zealand Soccer were determined to do everything we could to ensure a New Zealand team played at this level.
"Having a team in the Hyundai A-League ties in very closely with our strategic plan."
Seatter will be looking for answers when he sits around the table with FFA chief executive Ben Buckley and operations manager Matt Carroll.
"We need to leave there knowing exactly what holding a licence or sub-letting a licence means," said Seatter. "We are not prepared to risk one dollar of New Zealand Soccer money so we have to know what is needed."
