I know what you're getting at nommag but this won't sell out first week. I still think the marketing campaign is gonna have to be epic for a sell out before the away leg. That would've been the case in Aucks or Wellys. Everyone remembers how amazing it was 14/11/09 but sales were below 10000 before the first leg from memory.
I bought my ticket so early it still said NZ vs Bahrain/Saudi arabia on it. It's just the principle of the thing, I like the phoenix as much as the next person and am disappointed I can't attend their games each week, I just think everyone should be on even footing when it comes to the all whites world cup play off game.
I thought the point of the nix pre-sale was to get a Bay full of Yellow Fever/White Noise supporters, you know..so there can actually be a decent home end support...like last time.
Rather than have those of us that will make some noise spread out & diluted (like the socceroos matches have been)
It worked brilliantly last time why the feck would you fuck with it?
This. Best to get the Phoenix hardcore into Aisle 21/22 and further round towards halfway, rather than having this area filled up with people who have never been to the Phoenix, but wanted to go in the White Noise zone because it sounded 'cool' last time.
But all of this aside, the Phoenix have negotiated a deal with NZF to give Nix members priority access. It's not like NZF have just turned around and said "Right then, lets make sure all the Phoenix members are able to attend, they are better than everyone else", which is the impression I got as to what you thought has happened Nommag from reading your posts here.
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