SS Prem 2016/17 TV Games: CU v TW | Sun 19th Mar | 4.30pm | SS3

That's what it's been at City for the last few years. Same season ticket price as well.

Interesting they're charging for kids though - U15's have been free at Kiwitea until now.

This bit is smart...

NOTE: Free entry for children (under 16) wearing a Suburbs shirt and those children wearing the shirt of our partner clubs and pathway schools who’s under 19 players are eligible to play for our NYL team, specifically: i. Partner clubs: Ellerslie, Fencibles and Uni-Mt Wellington ii. Pathway schools – including all schools in the Eastern suburbs area, plus St. Kents, Auckland Grammar and Kings College (due to the number of players from our area attending those schools.

I got in to TW games for a fiver last year as a student. I think adults were $10. Can't remember if kids were free or $5 too

TW was $10 for adults. Pretty sure kids were free, not sure the age limit it went up to though.

In reference to your point about East Auckland I'm sure if this was still a franchise only league they may have done that, but why not leverage their name and history as a strong club? 

As an Ellerslie member I am happy to be involved with Suburbs under that name so really the change to east Auckland would deliver no real benefit.

You Everton? Or the other lot?

I've had a proper upbringing in the game, Jerzy.


LFC every second of every minute of every hour of every day of every month of every year of every decade of every century.

:-)

Oh, so when Liverpool fans say 'its our year' they mean '...to be Liverpool supporters'.

Right.

Ever hear the one about the piece of sharke that got stuck on the bottom of a giant's boot?  Even if we never won anything again it would surpass all of your Pompey sharke.

Ooh, touchy.

If NZ Football and Sky sports can support, promote and create as much excitement as they did for the Chatham Cup, I feel like the SS Premiership is in for a great season. The important difference will be how each region gets behind and supports their team!

Whilst NZ Football and Sky supported the Chatham Cup they did very little to promote it and certainly had nothing to do with the excitement.

Speaking from a Birkenhead prospective we promoted the event massively in the area and at the club. the committee worked tirelessly coming up with ideas to increase crowd numbers (Im sure Waitak did the same) - laying on buses, early event bbq etc etc

The excitement aspect was purely down to the teams but was helped by the massive crowd.  

As usual NZ Football will do little to promote the SS premiership with very little or no advertising and leave it up to the individual franchises

I've recently discovered The Alternative Commentary Collective on iHeartRadio for All Blacks games, hilarious, makes watching the game so much better.

Could something like this work for ASB Prem/A-League matches?

First problem - I'm not overly funny. Second problem - those ones work best when you overlay their commentary over the TV feed. No TV coverage on Welly games makes it harder.

yeah it's quite easy with cricket, there are set people on strike, action is easy to describe. Radio commentary for football is probably quite hard, and would either get bogged down in detail, or be Patrick telling lame jokes while the listener has no idea what is going on. 

Easier to do it with TV games (which is an option). 

Good radio commentators are hard to find. SBS did a good call of the A League playoffs and final this year on stream.

GGW and Piney could call a game, Harry Ngata and Dewy could too. Different skill set, and it needs two to get it right.

Yeah so don't hassle Jeremy just because he shows some passion for his team.

Fudgeing hell you sound like a fun person. 

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Check out current and ex-players delight at this news on their facebook.

Heh.

I know people from other clubs in the Waikato that wouldn't cross the street to watch Wanderers as well Jeremy. I think you know what club I could be talking about lol.

The topic is about someone gobbing off at someone else just because they nail their colours to the mast. You've jumped to the defence of Birko so many times it beggars belief.  And good on you for sticking up for your lot.  So, yeah, I'm a fun person just like you - with the exception that I'm not given to memory lapses.

I did ask Jeremy if he minded what I'd written, via Twitter.

He said he hadn't seen it, but wasn't bothered.

Then we talked about the two cup finals on Sunday.

But you carry on.

So you say. Jeremy is a gent.  You aren't. And you carry on being that way.  Look anyone that disses someone for their support of a team is a dick.  Fess up, say sorry, and don't do it again.

Oh no, this is far too absorbing. 

This is getting silly.

im trying to work out if I should apologise to Jeremy, who's said he doesn't care, or Voice, who I wasn't talking to.

Of course you don't need to apologise to Jeremy!  He's too good for that.  Here it is again - don't put people down for who they support! Got that yet?

Fair enough.

So, you'll apologise for what you said about Portsmouth earlier?

Yes of course 100%.  I'm glad you remembered finally. It was a reaction to your BS but that's no excuse.  The Pompey are an OK side with a decent history...just not as good as...

Your opinion! ?

Ha..well OK you win then since opinion > facts.

That's what makes the game great!

It doesn't matter IF someone was offside, to one set of supporters it was NEVER offside and to the other they were MILES offside.

Finally you are speaking sense.

Back on topic please

My brain hurts

We are done.  And it's not my fault your brain hurts.  More ethanol, less methanol FTW.

The ACC guys would pretty readily admit, if you ask them, that the format doesn't transfer that well to rugby for exactly the reasons you've outlined above. 

Cricket has so much downtime for banter.

Team Wellington had their first training session this week - Stu Widdowson mentioned it on Twitter.

You have obviously never listened to radio commentary in the UK! Football is on most nights on the radio and the commentators do a great job. To be honest they make the game sound a lot more exciting than it usually is! But please, please, please never allow Andrew Dewhurst to commentate on football ever again let alone on radio. All he ever does is have a chat in the background while the game is going on...

I think the point Smithy is making is that the ACC's style - which is 95% humour & 5% commentary - works perfectly with cricket but doesn't translate as well to a more "flowing" sport like football or rugby.