Cheers Marto. But I'll make just one final point re Auckland "fair-weather" fans. If for the sake of argument the Nix's first two of seasons had given the Wellington public these results -
(Knights 2005/6) P W D L F A Pts
21 1 3 17 15 47 6
and the following year, up until round 17 -
2006/7 17 2 3 12 7 38 9
by which time the club were a disgrace/laughing stock and the FFA had decided to pull the plug, just how many "foul-weather" Welly fans would still have been around going along to the ROF to cheer on new white knight Ricki in the club's final 4 games? Bugger all I'd say.
Jerzy and if I may add hoping not to insult the old Knights ... is that a feeling whether true or not was the team were not giving it their all .. essentially the team was waiting for the axe, the coach had lost the shed, owners fed up, players just going tho the motions... then along came Ricki and Terry S ...
As an aside I read a revised definition of Gallop's fish where the fish are and we are going to population centres with millions not hundreds of thousands... is add go to where Fox / Sky has the most number of subscribers ...