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obviously doing it. So on that level anyway there’s an agreement there. (PSF2,
personal communication, April 14, 2008)
To confirm the joint (junior development) programme document had been signed,
while the partnerships document was in it draft stage. PSF3 confirms that “the agreement
for the [junior development programme] is specifically related to that programme, but the
partnership document will be all encompassing for all of the sort of services and things that
are exchanged, and how that works” (personal communication, April 16, 2008).
Another point of collaboration contact involved a current employee who had a dual
role with both the PSF and NSO. PSF1 mentioned that the “link will be greater now”
between the two organisations (personal communication, April 14, 2008). PSF1 further
elaborated on its significance “we (the PSF) haven’t had a [employee] from the (PSF) being
with the staff of the [national team]” (personal communication, April 14, 2008). PSF5 also
commented on this appointment, “my [fellow colleague] is an assistant [role] to the
[national team] programme, so we’re starting to get that cross-pollination, which is good”
(PSF5, April 24, 2008). PSF also confirmed this dual role “So, currently [PSF1], is the
[national team] assistant [position]” (PSF3, April 16, 2008).
Another area of collaboration involved players who were both involved in the
national men’s team and the PSF team, as PSF1 explains:
But we certainly, in our recruiting, in our scouting, we certainly look for the best
players possible – Australian, New Zealander or whatever, but we prefer to have
New Zealand based players playing in the [PSF] as we know, you know, it, helps
[the sport] here and it helps the [national team] if we have these guys playing here
as well. It’s never going to be a situation where all the [national team] are playing,
you know, for the [PSF]… we’ve certainly got, you know, the most amount of [new
Zealanders] that we’ve ever had in this group. (personal communication, April 18,
2008)
Members of the PSF saw the relationship they had with the NSO as a working
relationship, and the up and coming signing of the document as a formal partnership. PSF4
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