Wellington's A-League future remained in the balance after talks with Football Federation Australia (FFA) powerbrokers last night applied further pressure on New Zealand Football to come to the table.
Phoenix chairman Rob Morrison met outgoing FFA chairman Frank Lowy and chief executive David Gallop in Sydney to discuss the club's future, which was thrown into uncertainty last month when their application for a 10-year licence extension was denied.
Breaking his silence on the matter a day earlier, Morrison had publicly called for tangible support from New Zealand Football (NZF), amid a somewhat strained relationship with the Phoenix, to keep the club alive.
Morrison said the penny had not dropped at NZF as to how important the Phoenix, Oceania's only professional club, is to the sport and to the city of Wellington.
It appears that relationship was one of the hot topics on Monday, after Gallop highlighted a "lack of support" from other New Zealand stakeholders.