Post World Cup Friendies Angst

Now you're getting cryptic

Are you Jim Kayes?
Are you Jim Kayes?
Are you Jim Kayes in disguise?
Are you Jim Kayes in disguise?

Having the NZF based in Dorkland, Does that make more people turn up to an AW match?

Who gives a fk where NZF is based.
Having the NZRFU based in Wellington doesn't make them have rugby tests here.

But Wellington usually get a rugby test every year. What a retarded statement.

And so does Auckland and Christchurch? The three main centers get a rugby test every year. It's because of the amount of games the All Blacks actually play in New Zealand is significantly higher than that of the All Whites.

Read his post.

As soon as they announce it the arguing will stop. And the angst will begin.


I think CHCH deserve it more, purely based on how many more chances Aucks have had to prove themselves. I'd rather go to Hamilton or Auckland though.

Dorkland? You want to call us Jaffa's yet?

Better than Smellington or Christdouche (Yeah, that's the best I could come up with).

I prefer Village of the Damned.

Crimechurch is still the best

this thread is the equivalent of a family going on a holiday to disneyland, and then the kids fighting over who gets top bunk in the hotel.

Hey, at least we have experience of holding All White friendlies in Invercargill.

Fark Palmy, even if we did win.

Just a question:

The 9000 that turned up to the Tron for the pre-season game recently. Was that beyond expectations?

Hamilton is 1 hour from Auckland right? Did many Aucklanders go to this game?

I know that if the 'Nix were playing 1 hour drive away from Dunedin, even pre-season, even against the Oamaru Old Boys XI, I'd go but hey that's just me. So just wondering if the Tron game drew Aucklanders on the back of the World Cup hype and result?

You'd want to allow two hours, it's 130 k on busy roads.

I'm not the best person to ask. I drove from Thames to Auckland to pick up my brother, only to find he had gone out with his girlfriend. So I talked my dad into joining me (not a hard sell) and we headed down to Hamilton. So I drove for more than 3 hours for the game.

I'm not too sure how many Aucklanders made the trip down, but I'd be surprised if the entire 10,000-odd crowd was from Hamilton. The game was hardly advertised outside of Hamilton though, so probably only staunch fans made the trip.

I didn't go. I had my own football. So did many others.

I have decided to allocate the AW's Honduras game to......

Buff makes a good point, but it is in Hamiltons favour aswell, 10,000 showed on a saturday at 2.00pm in football season. I know a number of teams whose opposition refused to postpone so couldn't go, and thats definitely the target market.

Prob should have been Auckland and ChCh to be absolutely fair...nothing against Welly but you guys did get the Bahrain game and also have the Phoenix...hard to argue that you haven't earned to right to host the Paraguay game though based on your support for football...

343 - you do realise that $15 has the same value in Auckland compared to the rest of the country.  It's the clubs in Auckland that are taking the piss by charging a large fee for juniors.

ThreeFourThree2010-08-13 10:19:11

Still waiting Steve Kilgalon's article investigating why juniors of a North Shore club pay $100-$120 more than juniors in Wellington.  What a ridiculous article that was.

I think you'll find the comparison was made to Rugby League fees in Auckland , not the cost of playing football for Juniors in Wellington...

Agree with both of you - sorry if original post was a bit vague.  ThreeFourThree2010-08-13 10:57:08

Just give it to Auckland to shut them up. Then their footballing destiny is in their own court... if they dont show its their own fault.

Part of me is with you there.

Part of me is too, however I'd like to see both games and if one is in Auckland I'll only be able to make the Wellington one. 

What is the "contractual obligation" NZF have to North Harbour? Sorry but I still don't think I've heard a clear answer here. Does it mean that they have to play Honduras at North Harbour? Why didn't they play Paraguay there when it was initially mooted that a single game would be played?

Is this just some kind of gentleman's agreement because that doesn't = contractual obligation.

I think it is just for Auckland games.

Really? Because if that is so then that's completely a red herring in this discussion??

I'm not saying that if this is the "contractual obligation" that it means the game should be in Christchurch - I'm just saying that if this is all the "obligation" is then it should not enter the equation in terms of where to hold it (except in terms of how many seats the stadium at NH would hold).

NZF have booked rooms at a large Christchurch hotel around the time of the Honduras game..

Can you confirm this?

Great news for chch fans if true...

Sauce?

Doesn't necessarily mean anything.

Maybe they have also made reservations in Auckland just so they aren't caught out after they make a decision?

I would like to see Moss start in atleast one of the games.