Crowd Size?

Away result important but I think the people who are going to come have already made up their mind and barring a thumping the #s should stack up.
Even if we are a goal or two down, we will be forced to have a go and with Smeltz, Killen, Fallon we will see attacking football.
Referee? Wont be from Asia or Oceania, possibly European which should help us.
Ticket Price set so that the stadium will be filled with football people rather than the prawn sandwich brigade that normally turn up to these one off events.

you'd think the Bahrain community around NZ would come. That's like another 5

My brother is telling me not to stress out about buying tickets for the game (he knows because according to him he goes to all the Phoenix games and the stadium is always empty so you can sit wherever the hell you want).

Your brother's an idiot

Addicks2009-09-13 22:35:57

That is a good point, I highly doubt competing for a place in the World Cup will add many bums on seats.

Hopefully we can put up a good performance on Oct 10 in Bahrain. A draw or a win will help get people in for the game in november.
Although Ive already got my tickets!!!!! Looking forward to it!

to be honest i'm flying up from chch, i'd still go if we lost 10-0 in bahrain

IM bringng a block of 30 and we are going large getting vocal and supporting the boys regardless.

hellobeaver what was the charge for a booking of 30 and which section were you placed in? I can't seem to get seats at halfway on the website?

Should be a single charge for that one booking I'd have imagined. ahmad - it is my understanding that all large blocks of covered seats on halfway facing the cameras (the harbour side) have all been sold, no idea about uncovered, but suspect those have gone as well. I had difficulties trying to get near halfway with just six people, on the day they went on general sale.

What is the highest ever crowd to an All Whites game? Does anyone know?

100,000 in Singapore vs China, 1981.

Do you know for a home game?

Think they got around 30,000 for any number of WC Qualifying matches held at Mt Smart in 1981. Not sure which single game had the most.

31,000 - NZ v. Kuwait @ Mount Smart, 1981

Will be rather sad if we don't beat that.

Then again, i no everyone hates the All Blacks at the moment, but not quite Springbok tour kinda hate.

Still early days but does anyone know how ticket sales are going (6k over a week ago)?

HN said unofficially 9K, hopefully 10 by the end of the week.  

10k is pretty decent for now. There will be a lot more hype if we do well in the first leg and in the time to the lead up of the game.

That's good - a full stadium, an AW win and into the WC, lots of (white) noise. Footy-tastic and hopefully will draw more to the remaining Nix games.

Kuwait felt like the biggest, then the 1-0 against China.
I reckon the Phoenix should do a piggyback deal with the AWs night, so the 30,000 All Whites fans come to the next Phoenix game.

That is a good idea. It worked quite well when the Galaxy came and about 18,000 or so showed up to watch the Adelaide match. The only thing is the Phoenix game is not until the next week so out of town visitors would not be able to stay around.

Its also too late as the AW tix have already gone on sale.

Got myself ten tickets the other day. So stoked to have convinced so many family members to come. Guy said heaps of tickets had gone. Can't wait

I just tried the ticketek site to see how many tickets I could get in a row in the Whilte Noise zone. 

Give them a call Mr. Jolly.  They have the next aisle over to expand the zone into so call them and they might be able to sort it for you.

Mr Jolly2009-09-29 21:13:14

Hopefully they will expand it, word is the 'White Noise' has been quite full for some time. In fact, here's my mates exact words from an email sent on Sep the 2nd:
"by the time I went into Ticketek today, aisle 21 was basically sold out. In fact, I think I got the last tickets in the aisle that were more than just a single seat. I need to be more organised in teh future."

I'm sorted for the zone myself but the more the merrier. Hopefully they haven't filled the neighboring Aisles with people who want to watch the zone. No offense if you are one of those people and reading this but I'm obviously more interested in people who want to join it.joachim2009-09-29 19:17:02

does anyone one hav any idea how many tickets have been sold?

Assuming that is accurate, just over 12,000.

Any hard news on whether there is buses combo action for the Wgton match beforehand?  And other fun stuff in Wgton over the wknd?  A month to go and trying to sort out a plan of sight seeing/things to do while in the city.

Buzzcocks on Friday night.
Team Wellington on Saturday afternoon.
All Whites on Saturday night.
What else could you possibly need to know?

Never mind the Buzzcocks, is there buses from game to game on the Satdy? Are there like places to be like in the city centre (thinking along the lines of World Cup street events) pre and post match.  Just thinking ahead that's all.  Limited time in the city inall.

At this stage from somettime AM (don't have the schedule with me) there is Aotearoa Street Football and NZ Freestyle Football (featuring reigning Fever and now Australian champion Graeson Cooper) in the central city.

If our plans come together there will be buses from there to Newtown to catch Yellow Fever TeeDubs in action and buses back to the Backbencher.

Festival of Football at Queens  Wharf at midday.

That's what I'm talking 'bout.  Did noone get my 'never mind the buzzcocks'?   Some of my best work.

 

Jamie Scott (Comms person for NZF I think) just said on the radio that 14,000 have been sold.