Wellington rugby running scared?

Wellington rugby running scared?

Noticed an advert in the Dom that Wellington Rugby are offering 2 for 1 tickets for the game this weekend (certain section of the ground)

Mustn't want to be shown up by the football crowd on Sunday again.

snorefest

...or why did the Lions forward pack turn up to train on Waitangi Park the other week next to the Fever vs Tards game ?  Not a publically announced appearance, for only about 15 minutes, 3 hours before a match...

Fantastic.  Didn't read the the ad myself.  I guess you will always have your hard rugby fans that will go to game.  Maybe the fence-sitters who just go to sporting events for entertainment and shifting to football matches.  Yeah!!!

Not many people [yet]  know that to re-educate this mighty sporting nation, a watershed is occurring in the Capital. Wellington is now adding this new, but well loved GLOBAL game of football to its portfolio of well attended patrons. The quieter that this revolution gets underway, the better. For too long, the sporting public [particularly in Wellington] have been deprived of a REAL code, which could explain why the NZRFU [contemptuously!] set up its operational HQ [albeit at a very cheap rental!!] right next door to the finest stadium in the country. It is now incumbent upon us to seize this brilliant opportunity, particualrly whilst the cat is away [on yet another boring world cup duty], and bury any more myths about this beautiful game of FOOTBALL.

Let me tell you this, my dad Greg Peters is CEO of Wellington Rugby, and he is not worried about the Phoenix at all and thinks its all good competition.

Shame did u enjoy accounting test harry?

No, lol straight failed.

haha guttard 4 u then u should have copied stew

Hi Harry,

What? I'm not Wellington supporter, but I do like rugby. Wellington play sh*t rugby and thats why the atmosphere is sh*t at their games, I support Waikato and they have great atmosphere at their games, with the cow bells and everything.

Wellington Phoenix > Wellington Lions anyday.

The anti rugby sentiment is rather sad, i'm a season ticket holder to both the lions and the nix and enjoy both, rugby is the number one game in this country, the sooner followers of league, football and othe sports accept that and get over it the better, support your game by all means, it doesn't mean you sl*g off rival codes. can't we all just get along?...ha ha ha...

Thank you, rugby supporters dont bitch and moan about football all the time, so why should you guys keep making pointless threads saying that Wellington Rugby "is running scared", when in all honesty they are the more sucsessfull of the two, simply because they have been around longer. The Phoenix can't go saying they are better than the lions after one home game.

The ugby-driven media sure as hell have digs at soccer though...

They've spent an awful lot of money to get the rights.  It's hardly surprising they hype it like that though is it ?

The French locals spin as well...

I 'm a Phoenix supporter currently in France(not for the rugby) Don't believe that crap about the French switching support from football to rugby. They have done a number of street polls in the national papers here and the majority of respondents either don't know or care about the rugby world cup. There is almost no world cup buzz here.

If they're making the offer through Ticketek then they'll be lucky to get them.

i think this may be due to the sell out at the league and not because the phoenix had 15k last home game, maybe when the nix get 22-25 k they will worry

Lucky for them I think I saw Ticketmaster. Last week they gave free tickets to College rugby players so they are really trying to get bigger crowds.

Yeah apparently theyve been giving out tickets to all the junior players, and no one has wanted them

their low crowds will be due to no all blacks playing, also the game has become ridiculously "soft" and too many whistles. trust me when we loose to south africa in the rugWC rugby will die here, slowly but surly

If we win, the country will go rugby mad though.

need some more food poisoning......I'M KIDDING



Cosimo2007-09-05 22:05:02

guys you talk crap sometimes...

is it come with football ? (nah that's fishing  )

aye?

dying all blacks etc....

dying all blacks?

just summarized ( prior),
also  Phoenix rising...

I'll start watching when the real games start in a month. 

several of them have already stated in the media they'll be asking for autographs etc...poor ol Zidane will be thinking "Why do my sponsors have me meet these randoms from a little island?...ahwell, i get paid..."

if i ever meet zidane i will get a photo of him headbuting me, he'll probably do it out of anger.

I wasn't rugby bashing, I just found it strange that in a rugby obsessed town they felt the need to offer 2-4-1 tickets for a game, and thought there might be a coincidence that the last weekend the Lions and Phoenix were at home, Phoenix had twice the crowd Lions had.
To tell the truth I think the biggest obstacle to getting people through the gates for rugby in the next month is certainly not the Phoenix, but the RWC. It'll be hard to motivate yourself to go and watch a Wellington game when there's a AB's game on the telly that night.
I've played rugby in my time, and I'm a half arsed rugby fan (although I've really been all rugby'd out since the Lions tour), so I certainly have time for both codes.

with the media angle about a new game in town, bigger crowd than npc, i think it is a response to the football more than the league,

You have to understand New Zealand is a rugby nation, you cant just think after two Phoenix games that the whole nation is going to be football crazy, since the Phoenix is based in Wellington not NZ wide.

I agree with Tegal, if the All Blacks lose rugby will die! (crack out in an evil laugh)

Seeing that Helen Clark had to tell the country not to go in to recession after the last world cup shows that it takes rugby faaaaar to seriously. Other footy loving countries, such as Italy, Spain, England etc, all get upset at being knocked out but NOT TO THAT EXTENT!

I hope the All Blacks lose so I don't have to have rugby players lauding it over me and that rugby can finally die in this country....well, for a while at least.

Rugby will NEVER die in NZ. 100 years of history is impossible to ignore. Football for all its current resurgence has a well ingrained stigma (re: pooftah comments et al) attached. 1982 was a peek in popularity nationally and then a steady decline. The opportunity is for the Phoenix and its supporters to take the current peak and maintain it. A solid fan base is easier to build on, than a brief moment in the spotlight.

Though even Fabian Barthez wanted to be a rugby player* (maybe not but his father played test ). I like French football highlights. However if 98 had been a Rugby Cup the football should never take off in France. Even the final was viewed by spectators Not Supporters !  than came the hype...

 I am afraid Frogs will win this Cup too, on our expense, given only SA needs to be beaten at semi...somehow just all fits (first ever nz-fra final here) as the form does not matter in finals imo.

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zole2007-09-06 10:13:00