Team Wellington... no longer an association with Ole. Chur

This thread brings the lolz.

I'll recap for everyone:

I look forward to next week's episode of this classic soap!

15k whats? People watching the TV coverage? Because that's grossly inaccurate.

15k was quoted by Mike Cockerill in recent SMH article.

Is that not correct? 

You would assume he would have accurate figures no?

Unless he was refering to figures for Phoenix home games broadcast in Aussie? 

Needs more Unicorns ....

So wait, let me get this right...

It's my fault that, because I am Australian and crowd numbers of sporting events in New Zealand have been on the decline, Mike Cockerill has now decided to make it worse by saying that only 15000 unicorns watch the A-League, and that other guy smells and David Mitchell finds this extremely hilarious?

I'm gonna go to TW tomorrow dressed as a unicorn. Sounds like fun.

Bricktop

in answer to your signature

A righteous infliction of retribution manifested by an appropriate agent, personified in this case by a 'orrible cod, me. you.

Actually , just like Unicorns ....

You went , but didnt watch ....?

http://i.stuff.co.nz/sport/football/10609761/Phoen...

Here's the article Patrick

Careful of that knee though.....

Can a unicorn have black and yellow zebra stripes?

Uni Popcorn

Same old ACFC, always bleating.

12 pubs.  Watching is a relative term on that day.

I get that local club support for Team Wellington has fallen off now that Miramar has largely taken over the ASBP franchise and that Dave Farrington Park may be hard to get to but is that the main reason turn out to watch TW has fallen so dramatically? From an average of about 1200 a game eight years ago to under 200 now. That's a mighty drop in interest, yet the current TW side is probably the best they've fielded.

I know attendances at ASBP games across the board have declined, but nothing like TW's plummet. If Canterbury or Hawkes Bay had the current TW team and were in the O League I'm sure they'd be seeing decent crowds at home games.

As an aside how much truth is there that the Phoenix will be playing three or even four games in Auckland next season because Wellington Phoenix crowds are still below break even? I've heard there is serious talk of this behind closed doors at Welnix. That could be enough of a local live fix to deter some current Auckland football fans from going to Kiwitea Street.

Perhaps a name change , ...to the Welland Pnix ...!

Or the Auckington Unicorns !

Just dont upset Tracey !

Hello.

It was helpful to see the graph of TW attendance figures. I don't know enough about all the subjective factors in Wellington to suggest any sort of cause and effect relationship around the trend. 

But by way of historic comparison, below is a summary of attendance figures from the 1977 national league season, which some of you may be interested in. Wellington represented by Stop Out (runners-up) and Wellington Diamond United that year.

In its home programme against Trans Tours United (Christchurch) on August 6, 1978, Hamiltion AFC took the rare step of publicising the official attendance figures for all national league for the 1977 season. 

Hamilton's season aggregate attendance of 8170 was the third highest in the league and it reported the single highest match attendance for all clubs, of 1455 versus Mt Wellington.

Source: This attendance summary appears on the "1970s" page at www.muirpark.weebly.com

Novelty is the selling factor ...as soon as its ...oh,only twice a year , then three then ...hello knights...

What has this got to do with TW?

It shows revisionist history. Crowds are not too dissimilar from 35 years ago

Game Day at David Farrington Park  Team Wellington v Southern United 3 pm kick off. See you all there

I love the Jafas talking about crowds in Wellington.
Of the games I've been too at Kiwitea St. It's never been full, even for so called Super city derby.

Hi Yellowsite

Sorry, I should probably have referenced the post a bit more specifically for the benefit of those who hadn't digested all the tangents of this thread.

It shows there were the seeds of similar issues with match attendance in Wellington over 35 years ago.

In an era of not so many competing attractions, look at some of those Stop Out figures (from a well-performing club at the time).

Hope this helps.

Well hmmm... tempting to ask how many games and when ..., but  dont worry , Ive saved you a seat next to Delorass in the " Super HUGE Fan Section "

Youll never be crowded...

Curse you Bruce ..., bringing " facts " to our bun fight ...

Awful day in Welly for this game. Ruined a streak of good football weather. Ah well, COME ON YOU TEE DUBS

Come on now, we are arguing about crowd numbers and how bad the Phoenix are for Football in NZ. Don't try and steer this conversation back to being about TW

2-0 after a half hour. Corrales straight red for retaliation.

Half time at Davey F. Tee Dubs lead 2-0.
Crowd at 150. Unconfirmed reports the Phoenix have killed 100 odd fans since last week.

Full time. 10 man Tee Dubs finish 2-0 over Southern

Southern were pretty poor. Barely tested TW despite having a man advantage for 60 minutes after Corralas brain explosion. 

They did run a lot.

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A little flat, we rarely showed signs of worry.

Teams need supporters.

Looking back through the ACFC highlights, and I don't want to get beaten up,but it does rather look like TW should have had their keeper sent off when they were just 2-0 up...

Player was offside.