Wait, I’m sorry Coochie (and those absolute Phoenix fans 20Legend and AucklandPhoenix), but the call about the OFC seems bollocks.
The Phoenix should have done more to help the OFC you’re saying.
Week after week we’re getting hammered for not being a cut throat business like Auckland and now instead we should have been a charity for the OFC? That doesn’t seem right at all. Which is it?
We certainly helped Roy Krishna get professional football when he took a long time to adapt, after having proved himself at the highest level in Oceania which was the NZFC. No other players did that.
As for the garbage about Auckland’s crowds, that are apparently now a metric. The , the Nix used to take two games a year to Auckland with crowds consistently 10k to 25k plus. No mention of that. Secondly, it’s one season of successful football with a strong new club in a weakened league. Not Muscat, Thompson, Travis Dodd, Ono, Timmy Cahill or whoever.
The mess around comms and the changing stories does seem to indicate some behind the scenes carry on.
I want there to be a South Island team as much as the anyone on here.
I’m just getting sick of AFC thinking they invented pro football in NZ and that they owe nothing to the Nix. We’ve flown the flag through more than tough times.
That said forcing our way in by judicial review would be a bad look, but to actively exclude your long time only professional club shows a certain perversity…
The Phoenix should have done more to help the OFC you’re saying.
Week after week we’re getting hammered for not being a cut throat business like Auckland and now instead we should have been a charity for the OFC? That doesn’t seem right at all. Which is it?
We certainly helped Roy Krishna get professional football when he took a long time to adapt, after having proved himself at the highest level in Oceania which was the NZFC. No other players did that.
As for the garbage about Auckland’s crowds, that are apparently now a metric. The , the Nix used to take two games a year to Auckland with crowds consistently 10k to 25k plus. No mention of that. Secondly, it’s one season of successful football with a strong new club in a weakened league. Not Muscat, Thompson, Travis Dodd, Ono, Timmy Cahill or whoever.
The mess around comms and the changing stories does seem to indicate some behind the scenes carry on.
I want there to be a South Island team as much as the anyone on here.
I’m just getting sick of AFC thinking they invented pro football in NZ and that they owe nothing to the Nix. We’ve flown the flag through more than tough times.
That said forcing our way in by judicial review would be a bad look, but to actively exclude your long time only professional club shows a certain perversity…