imanixsupporter wrote: martinb wrote: 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.
"It’s normal in a salary capped league for there to be oscillating runs if success."
Exactly. It is normal for every team to have their moments of success in a salary-capped league, as indeed every single team has had. Except for us. There are no possible excuses, we are losers.
Hard to imagine Greenacre will be the man to change this when he is a club man through-and-through and has been forged in this environment of utter mediocrity. He will probably go into the season aiming for 6th as his biggest KPI and finish 7th and everyone at the Nix HQ will pat themselves on the back for giving it a damn good try.
For mine we came within moments of the title in this era. And we went to extra time chasing a grand final. 9 consecutive weeks at number one.
That’s a period of success and having a successful team. And sure it’s not a title, it’s sure af not mediocrity.
I think we can go again and go a step further. We had our best ever season two seasons ago and we just have to go the same way and further. After all Greenie had all those players: Alex, Rufer, Surman, Old, Hughes and others who were the core of that team.
I don’t think anyone thinks the way you’re making it in the last paragraph .
This Auckland team are a great team. One of the greatest A league teams of all time, especially if they maintain their success and standards.
We’re not currently as big a club as them.
And someone talked about how successful Adelaide were. One title once ten years ago. A great team and a great football stadium, but we’ve been much better than them in recent years. So not losers, because of one title? So we shouldn’t compare ourselves to them or to CC? The Jets had won nothing in 20 years before this season and scarcely threatened and you sure af weren’t predicting a Milligan revolution. A title is a hard earned slog for most and especially us. This is an abnormal Auckland team.
This constant wail is not one of Nix fandom imo. Despair is a sin. And constantly attacking your club and team is despair.
No thinks or talks like your last paragraph. But plenty of players threw in the towel or lost faith in the manager. The Chief years have been grim times, but cliche it up, we go again and look to a new era and a new team culture.
It feels to me like we’re on an upswing. This is Auckland’s day. It’s deserved. This is not about the Nix, except as one of a number of targets for a new team to aim for. We can enjoy it, feel neutral or resent it. But no albino priest assassins please. Or rugby munters, who can only frame one success by talking down on something else, reincarnated as Nix bashers.