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about 12 hours ago

ballane wrote:
coochiee wrote:
hepatitis wrote:
Meh. (Imanix) You don’t define fandom for me.
I don’t mind Corica, he’s a winner and I hope he/AFC win tonight.
I don't like Corica but I hope AFC win.
I've lived in Welly, but am not from the capital. I've lived in many different places around Aotearoa.

I supported the Nix as they were the only NZ team in the ALM. That would be the same for thousands of other Nix fans, including many from Auckland.

So for sure you can be a Nix fan, and still wish AFC well against Australian clubs, especially Sydney.

If you are yes a born & bred Wellingtonian, who has never lived anywhere else in NZ you will likely feel different. And that's fine. It's just an innate feeling you have one way or the other, that no one but you can decide upon.

NZ ain't the UK (or most football mad countries) where club rivalries go back often 100+ years. Comparisons to how a Liverpool fan would never support Everton etc are pointless.
Agree this isnt the UK, im a 70 year old who was brought up in Wellington and lived in Auckland for 7 years. Growing up there was a very strong provincal rivalry which at times had much passion. Maybe not as strong as some of the club rivalry in the UK but just dont get why some say it isnt here in NZ.
Its for that reason i wont cheer Auckland on to win anything tiddlywinks football or what ever. Makes laugh when i hear people say if your a Nix fan tou should be support AFC when we arnt playing them. To me thats akin to telling a Liverpool supporter to support United when they get back to Europe.
There most definatly are rivalrys in NZ its just many of them are based on provincal or school fixtures but they are there and yes some of them do go back more than 100 years.

People have to also see the bigger picture, if AFC win tonight its better for NZ Football than a loss.

We were not in the finals series at all, so in a way we can't really be too gutted as we weren't competing with AFc.

A lot of the hate is also due to the salary cap exemption, which comes with any new team. If Canberra get's a mens team next season and have the same assistance with the cap, I guarantee A-League fans will not cry as much.

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about 12 hours ago

If you’re a Nix supporter and are wanting an Auckland win tonight, you are an absolute disgrace. I hope they get fu(ken spanked and embarrassed.

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Slightly detached from the broader point but I don't like this idea that because our rivalry isn't old it doesn't mean as much as stupid.

I understand this forum has a bit of an older demographic (no offence) but many younger nix fans dislike Auckland as much as any rivalry you'll seee in England. Frankly I think it's pretty insulting to act like this rivalry doesn't mean much just because it's young.

Feel how you want about Auckland winning the GF, that's up to each person and their own point of view, but nix fans are allowed to be feel upset about a rival club winning something they haven't and showing them up regardless of how good it is for the country.

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nufc_nz wrote:
If you’re a Nix supporter and are wanting an Auckland win tonight, you are an absolute disgrace. I hope they get fu(ken spanked and embarrassed.

Say if AFC lose tonight and it's 2031 and no NZ team has won silverware and they decide to kick out a NZ team. It's not going to be Auckland that's for sure.

Our fans really need to get off their high horse and stop pretending that the Nix are something of note. 19 years and haven't won anything and fans accept this with Domey being great because the Wahinix had one good season.

Nix fans better pray that Bev (only at the nix to redeem her career) is here next season, if not our mens and women team will both struggle.

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I mean I get why folks would never support AFC. It’s an innate thing different to each individual. No right or wrong.

Ballance has lived 63 of his 70 years in Welly, he’s a passionate Wellingtonian. Fair play

But again a big number of Nix fans ain’t from the 04. It’s just that for 17 years the Phoenix were the only horse in Aotearoa to get in behind. Meanwhile you have 90 odd EFL clubs to choose from, and have since your arrival into this world

Personally I hate almost all comparisons to UK football and how we should mimic everything that happens up north. From 'proper leagues' don't have finals football, 'proper leagues' need pro/rel, to this issue of some fans having their 2nd team as the derby rival. For example a finals series, is part of our culture across all pro sports.
NZ and Australia ain’t England, and thank fuck for that.

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With all due respect to my fellow Nix followers - sorry but nobody is going to define for me what a Nix fan should or should not be saying doing or supporting, on a day when Nix is not playing.
If you think for a moment that the Nix-hate we experienced from the Australian supporters (and pundits) over the years has anything to do with Wellington, you are misguided. Their scorn and disdain was based on national identities. It has always been Kiwi-bashing. It is still is, except they've learned to respect at least one team from New Zealand, albeit grudgingly. I look forward to the same respect being gained by the Nix which I have supported over many years and continue to do so.
I have never lived in Auckland, but I lived in Sydney well over a decade, all my twenties and early thirties. But I would prefer Auckland to win tonight, because after 34 years in Christchurch I am an adoptive New Zealander first, and Auckland winning would be good for New Zealand football.
If you do not believe me, check out today's Stuff article and read the comments underneath. A bloke was seriously saying that if Auckland wins it will make "soccer" even more popular, and what will happen to rugby then since we do not have enough good sportspeople for both codes.
Seriously.

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Mainland FC wrote:
With all due respect to my fellow Nix followers - sorry but nobody is going to define for me what a Nix fan should or should not be saying doing or supporting, on a day when Nix is not playing.
If you think for a moment that the Nix-hate we experienced from the Australian supporters (and pundits) over the years has anything to do with Wellington, you are misguided. Their scorn and disdain was based on national identities. It has always been Kiwi-bashing. It is still is, except they've learned to respect at least one team from New Zealand, albeit grudgingly. I look forward to the same respect being gained by the Nix which I have supported over many years and continue to do so.
I have never lived in Auckland, but I lived in Sydney well over a decade, all my twenties and early thirties. But I would prefer Auckland to win tonight, because after 34 years in Christchurch I am an adoptive New Zealander first, and Auckland winning would be good for New Zealand football.
If you do not believe me, check out today's Stuff article and read the comments underneath. A bloke was seriously saying that if Auckland wins it will make "soccer" even more popular, and what will happen to rugby then since we do not have enough good sportspeople for both codes.
Seriously.

Agree with this.

If you really don't want AFC to win tonight, don't support NZ at the WC too (as you don't want what is best for NZ Football).

A win for AFC is bigger than any rivalry we have with them, because I guarantee if it was us vs Sydney, we'd have more support from the AFC fan base.

Us fans really need to be worried about the future of useless David Dome (who the mens aren't winning instead of the result of the GF we aren't part of).

I say this because ever since AFC have entered the comp, we have been second best with poor decision after decision and I want us to win games and silverware.

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about 10 hours ago

Whatever happens tonight i hope its a clean win. I hate it when Var or the ref make a contentious decision which changes a match and then everyone bleats about it for weeks
A win for AFC will be huge for NZ footy

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about 10 hours ago

Well the comments in here show why the nix have never won anything let alone made a grand final coming up 20 years now. Pathetic.

Cmon Sydney!!

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Apparently sports team rivalries are a UK thing now, and if we despise our rivals we are trying to copy the English? Fudge off

Edit: the auto-censoring isn't working anymore. Guess I'll have to manually do hyperlinks to left shark now too

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imanixsupporter wrote:
Apparently sports team rivalries are a UK thing now, and if we despise our rivals we are trying to copy the English? Fudge off

Edit: the auto-censoring isn't working anymore. Guess I'll have to manually do hyperlinks to left shark now too

No but it's a nonsense to stay all Nix fans should hate AFC, because no rightful Man U fan would ever ever support Liverpool. Like we all have to behave like that because well that's what they do up there. And have done for 100 years. Fudge off to that.

It's a pointless comparison given the very very different histories, of pro football in the two small English speaking Island nations.

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about 9 hours ago

Kiwi first, Nix second. Dont care what they do in England.
Typical final football. It will take just one special moment to decide this. AFC slighty better

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about 9 hours ago

Schadenfreude over rivalry failures is not just an English thing. It is universal.
I'm in the hope Auckland F-up group (although from an NZ Football perspective, having them there and thereabouts is not to be sneezed at). It's also that they are just so unlikeable - their football is ruthless, bordering on dirty (top of the foul league last year, only 3rd this year). They are well-funded by a billionaire (with exemptions). They know how to take the A-League refereeing to the limit. Corica is not the most likeable fellow. BUT, they do play some good stuff and are very efficient in turning over and creating and taking chances. Ruthlessly efficient. Very (dirty) Leeds of the 60s. Can be admired and disliked at the same time ... and they are our rivals.
It's easy to see it either way.

I know, I know, its serious!

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about 8 hours ago

Nix 0 Auckland 2. That's all that matters. Nix are a loser club.

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about 8 hours ago

Embarrassing for the nix really.

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about 8 hours ago

Bloody great result for Auckland and NZ football

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ElFU

about 8 hours ago

I support both really. So I can’t lose, tbh

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about 8 hours ago

This results makes Auckland untouchable and is so damaging for the nix.

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about 8 hours ago

We sure are losers. Always have been, AFC have just put it in stark relief, and it is hard to ever see it changing. But I won't ever stop hoping it does, they are my team and I couldn't change it even if I wanted to

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about 8 hours ago

Terrible game but great result for NZ football. If the hype gets the next generation of Cacace and Stamenic’s to play then great. Also good timing ahead of a World Cup. Overall this is a positive even for the Nix fans I reckon.

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about 8 hours ago

Ill endorse it but people need to realise it.

Auckland winning is such a good thing for NZ football regardless.

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ElFU

about 8 hours ago

Well this fucking sucks

Annual finals disappointment enthusiast.

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No+1

about 8 hours ago

Jazzy Jeff wrote:
Well this fucking sucks

I'm getting zero joy out of a 'NZ' win here.

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brco

about 7 hours ago · edited about 7 hours ago · History

Can I ask why so many people hate Auckland FC?

Seems like if Bill Foley was a left wing loser it would be all good.

No wonder the nix is a bunch of losers.

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observerfromuh wrote:
Can I ask why so many people hate Auckland FC?

Seems like if Bill Foley was a left wing loser it would be all good.

No wonder the nix is a bunch of losers.

Have you seen what site you're on?

That's your one and only hint right there. Use it wisely...

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Everybody talking about the Nix here reminds me of the All Black fans who had to say that soccer was crap after winning a World Cup.

AFC are a very very well resourced, very well connected club to a big catchment area with lots of footy history where the average house price is 1.2 mill. It’s like Sydney. It’s just a little easier to get players there- Howieson and Vicelich I. for example. Payney too, to start with.

It could be they’ll stay like fellow prime city clubs in City, Victory and Sydney and be constant contenders. Or they might be like WSW and fall away if people get cocky.

I’m not embarrassed to be a Nix fan and I’m not embarrassed by the club. Chief had an unfortunate couple of years. But his first year. F- me. Doka. Oof. Just like Chief and the club was too focused on the derby, now some fans are too focused on the Nix when it’s AFC v Sydney.

Are we calling the CCM losers? Anyway old chat, done to death. If this Jets team gets picked over and they drop to the bottom half next year or the year after are we calling them losers?

AFC’s game and thread.

We just need to get in on Brighton analytics or some such like Hearts did!

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about 7 hours ago

Well congrats AFC. Delivered a GF in NZ and won it which is great for football in NZ and the Nix benefit from that too.

Everyone will be keen to see if AFC can maintain their form and if we can bounce back.

But yea, winning the comp has gotten even harder now there's another big club in the mix. City, Vic, SFC and AFC are all well financed and can win big games. Newcastle found out the hard way...

Anyway, looking forward to next season.

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about 7 hours ago

I dont buy this AFC BS that Auckland win because they are backed by billionaire Foley. The Mariners won two grand finals and they are small low budget club.
Its all about having the right people and also about the right culture. AFC had a winners mentality right from day one.
The Nix have a losers mentality and until its fixed we will never win anything.
Dome and Gill...bless them, are honest hard working managers who mean well but they just dont have the ability to create a dynamic winning mens team.
AFC have raised the bar. We have to do better. Doing the same thing we have been doing for the last 10 years with the same people just wont work.

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observerfromuh wrote:
Can I ask why so many people hate Auckland FC?

Seems like if Bill Foley was a left wing loser it would be all good.

No wonder the nix is a bunch of losers.

In the context of a right wing government that has rained down job cuts on Wellington and is promising more, that is a particularly tone deaf comment.

Edit: also are we calling Rob Morrison and WelNix left wing losers too? Because they’re the owners. They’ve appointed Domey, the football committee and everyone. If you’re going to just call David Dome a loser, be brave and equivalent and say that about Rob.

In terms of football we could start with appointing McFlynn and Corica, two guys we disliked. Then the pitch invasion in an AFC top. This season the bizarre VAR display with Cosgrove and the subsequent ‘normal football contact’ against us 3 times.

Pijnaker scored a handball goal and then got me agreeing with an Aussie commentary team when he got carte blanche to scrag the opposition without a card. They top the foul chart and they dive and moan.

I do enjoy aspects of their play and have a grudging respect even for the ones I like least. Rogerson holding the ball up in the corner and then winning a throw at 88 minutes. Great NZ pro. Sakai. Randall. Verstraete is just an ever ready bunny.

But if the Nix are such losers, hanging out here perpetually saying so makes you the fly on the proverbial warthog’s backside, if you don’t mind me saying. You can be a winner with AFC Facebook right now.

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austin111 wrote:
I dont buy this AFC BS that Auckland win because they are backed by billionaire Foley. The Mariners won two grand finals and they are small low budget club.
Its all about having the right people and also about the right culture. AFC had a winners mentality right from day one.
The Nix have a losers mentality and until its fixed we will never win anything.
Dome and Gill...bless them, are honest hard working managers who mean well but they just dont have the ability to create a dynamic winning mens team.
AFC have raised the bar. We have to do better. Doing the same thing we have been doing for the last 10 years with the same people just wont work.

Money don’t buy happiness, it only lets you rent it for a while…be honest: the cash doesn’t hurt. And the location is a bigger more internationally connected city, which helps.

The Mariners as ann exemplar endured seasons on the foot of the table. 3 seasons dead last. Then they had an owner come in who spent more money than they had to get them competitive. Now that ownership is gone and they’re floundering again. The last two seasons that we’ve said were our worst had CC just below and just above us.

Not sure what an international consortium might be but Wellington is lucky not to have had the international ownership experience Brisbane has had.

https://www.centralcoastsun.au/featured/item/2538-new-owner-for-mariners

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about 6 hours ago

Ignoring the obvious examples of success from this year in Adelaide and the Jets, neither of whom are big spenders. Using the Mariners as a distraction doesnt make us any less pathetic.

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about 6 hours ago

Well. I never thought I'd be at an A-League grand final. I never thought it would be in New Zealand. And I never thought we'd be on the winning team.

Never ask me for the Lotto numbers, because literally seconds before the Howieson goal I was turning to the T-AFC crew and saying that I was pretty sure Sydney were going to get the first goal. Because - like all the other finals teams - they'd worked out that Auckland are vulnerable to the long ball, and I just thought it was inevitable that eventually Dan Hall or Pijnaker would be beaten to it.

And after the goal, SFC just gave up, it looked like. Their fans chucked a megaboss number of flares on the field at full time. I didn't see who chucked the one after the goal, but I didn't see anyone getting dragged out of The Port either.

It was nice to send Jesse Randall off, but he had a shit game, he literally fell over taking a corner. The ref was inconsistent but he was wrong in both directions about equally. I honestly thought Cosgrove deserved the penno, never mind.

Prediction: the new Derby, the Nix will win.

Ramming liberal dribble down your throat since 2009
This forum needs less angst and more Kate Bush threads

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about 6 hours ago

imanixsupporter wrote:
Ignoring the obvious examples of success from this year in Adelaide and the Jets, neither of whom are big spenders. Using the Mariners as a distraction doesnt make us any less pathetic.

Were the other clubs pathetic before? The Jets were pathetic losers before this season? Adelaide before?

We were the good news story, ) the Hearts story, sadly, ) before that.

It’s normal in a salary capped league for there to be oscillating runs if success. It’s also normal for the bigger cities to have better supported, more successful teams.

Are Leceister, with a PL title and an FA cup, losers compared to Arsenal or City? Extreme examples in a non-salary capped league, but no, they were overachievers. The little club with the small billionaire that could, even though they’ve plummeted.

I do think analytics could help us identify players and our conditioning.

But also who’s to say Greenie won’t be the next Mark Milligan, break out coaching star? A lot of NZ football folk and Dura and Mossy loved that winner Rudan. He was a false dawn.

I just don’t think this is about the Nix.

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observerfromuh wrote:
Can I ask why so many people hate Auckland FC?

Seems like if Bill Foley was a left wing loser it would be all good.

No wonder the nix is a bunch of losers.

I think for a lot of people, Bill Foley and the other owners' politics don't even factor into their dislike of the club. I think it's more the arrogance of many involved with the club - the Mowbrays, Becker, Corica and some of the players - and the club's culture at large.

For me it started when when they did that pitch invader stunt at the nix game in Auckland in 2024. This was from before they sold their kits so it would have had to have been someone involved with / being paid by the club. There were plenty of other publicity stunts that they could have done that didn't involve disrupting a game and breaking the rules. It rubbed me the wrong way, especially with how the league seemed to be fine with it.

In one of last season's derbies in Auckland some of the fans blocked the Wellington team bus which just doesn't seem that funny to me. The club didn't seem to really care about that.

They also preempted the change in the league rules that allowed them to loan Paulsen. I honestly have no problems with them using a rule that most a-league clubs voted for, but they could have waited until after the league had announced the changes which would have made them look less like they don't care about the league's rules.

The nickname of Black Knights rubs me the wrong way and if I was an aucklander I'd feel pretty annoyed that my club's nickname has nothing to do with my city or club, and is just based off the Military Academy the owner went to.

Also this season at their awards night they awarded the two players who got red cards in the first derby an award for moment of the season - their team holding on to the result with 9 players. Surely players shouldn't be rewarded for getting sent off (regardless of how unjust the club feels the decisions were). By all means pick that as moment of the season but give it to the players in the team that actually held on with 9.

If creating a club culture that's filled with unpleasant people is the only way to win anything I would honestly rather we didn't win anything.
I firmly believe that clubs can and do win things without having to be annoying and arrogant, like newcastle jets men this season and ccm men in 23-24.
I think the nix have definitely had their share of issues (the club should have just not said anything on the chelsea women's game and the ofc pro league team decisions) but it seems to be less ingrained in the club culture.

Basically if Auckland had likeable people involved and wasn't constantly making decisions that made them look bad, I would probably like them more.

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I will take this moment to gloat a little:

1. Louis Verstraete is the best player in the league. He does so much unnoticed stuff that means he never really gets the accolades, but he's so important to this team. An absolute baller.
2. So happy for Howieson. I've played against him years ago. Him and I had a good ol' chat during the game. He left me for dead. Top lad.
3. Woud was absolutely slandered here because he was prone to a mistake. While true, he's proven he's a very good a-league keeper. His absence coincided with Auckland's dip in form, and so did conceding multiple softish goals
4. That was 1000% a penalty on Cosgrove. Grant clearly kicks his legs.

What an excellent evening for football in New Zealand. Now we just need the Nix to pull their head in.

Thank you all and good night.

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20 Legend wrote:
I will take this moment to gloat a little:

1. Louis Verstraete is the best player in the league. He does so much unnoticed stuff that means he never really gets the accolades, but he's so important to this team. An absolute baller.
2. So happy for Howieson
3. Woud was absolutely slandered here because he was prone to a mistake. While true, he's proven he's a very good a-league keeper. His absence coincided with Auckland's dip in form, and so did conceding multiple softish goals
4. That was 1000% a penalty on Cosgrove. Grant clearly kicks his legs.

What an excellent evening for football in New Zealand. Now we just need the Nix to pull their head in.

Thank you all and good night.

When’s the gloating and trolling starting? You used to much better at it. These are just straight up indisputable facts. (Slipping past that Nix sentence…)

The way AFC looked after Woud is 100% a lesson for the Nix: look after your own, don’t join a pile on on your player who’s doing it tough…

Edit: And also look after your teammates on the park. After the pen shout was turned down 3-4 Auckland players got yellows from turning up the physicality on Sydney and letting them know they weren’t getting away with it even if the ref missed it.

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about 5 hours ago

When President Kennedy was assassinated, Jackie's famous pink dress, the Chanel dress, was covered in blood, and she refused to take it off that day, because she wanted America to see what they had done to her husband in Dallas.

Now when Auckland won that game, I vomited all over myself and I didnt take it off, and I have been walking around the Courtney Place with vomit on me, because I want everyone to see what Auckland has done to me!

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