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Others, like PSF4, also commented on financials, but also outlined areas that they
would possible share with the NSO:
[Who] would think that anytime a company, a private organisation talks about their
facts, or about their figures, about their financial figures, I would think that would
be one thing that of course any company would guard, and not want to share readily.
But, with any other facts and figures for instance, TV numbers or the quantity of
materials that we’re putting into New Zealand, anything like that, I think that
anything that’s not financial , that’s personal to an organisation and to any company
really, I think that would be the only thing that we would kind of, maybe not guard.
(personal communication, April 24, 2008)
Apart from financials, PSF2 seemed determined to protect their main human
resource - their players:
I think there is some keeping things close, although we want [the NSO] to prosper,
there’s still the professional side of things where you’ve got players, they come and
go a lot more than what you’d have in a not so professional area. So we might have
New Zealanders that come and say the [national team players] that don’t play in the
[PSF], they play for [an Australian team], where you’ve got [national team players],
and I guess we wouldn’t go out of our way to open up everything when it’s put
into….when those guys are involved or somehow , so we do have to keep
something up our sleeve...but at the end of the day too, we do have to win games,
and we have a professional outfit, it’s sometimes just business....just a far as maybe
your plays that we have, I mean, we wouldn’t go out and share those with
everybody. (personal communication, April 14, 2008).
Apart from wanting to protect certain aspects of their business, there was a
willingness to share. PSF1 was quite positive about sharing:
players:
Absolutely, yes, yes. And with regard to sharing knowledge, you know [PSF2] got
involved recently in their clinic situation... he was a guest lecturer at their major
event for the year with regards to coaching development... [PSF3] spoke at a few
things on behalf of [the NSO], so certainly we want to share what we know....I did a
clinic on Saturday for all the coaches here and that was part of [the NSO] as well, so
yes, we’re more than happy to share. (personal communication, April 14, 2008)
PSF2 also supported those comments, specifically related to coaching of junior
Yes, definitely. I think on the junior level again, like we’re taking these junior
[national team players] in and exposing our environment, our values, because we’re
sharing them with junior [national team], because we see that as being
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