Sure. Principally the lack of communication. They had our email addresses since forever, and almost every important evolution in the Club has been via forum insiders or articles in the press. Coupled with the disregard of the fan base (Save the Nix campaign as example, which was essentially a red herring that many people put a great deal of effort/money into supporting) and the decision to continuously and stubbornly take games out of Wellington......I could probably go on, but frankly can't really be assed. Rather like Welnix being straightforward with the Nix fans....
I don't want to dismiss your annoyances, but I'll give you my take on things. Overall I think Phoenix could be better on communication. Hopefully the reshaping of job in the office and the new they get in improves things.
I assume the first point about important evolution were around the licence stuff? If so, you have two parties locked in negotiations. I can't think of any situation where a business says anything more than 'we are in negotiations" I've been in union contract negotiations and we couldn't say anything to our members until everything was signed. Mainly this was because while certain aspects might have been 'agreed' they could change in the future if there was some kind of trade off. All of the major events during the negotiations came via Dom Bossi of the Sydney Morning Herald. I'm sure it's not coincidence a that FFA head offices are also in Sydney. I'm pretty confident that Head of Corporate Affairs and Communications, Kyle Patterson, was the one feeding the SMH lines to destabilise the Phoenix and the negotiations. I can't really blame the Phoenix for the FFA being cods. The fact the club had no warning that the "we aren't giving you ten years" news was coming show how cody the FFA can be.
The away home games has been done to death in other threads. But it's clear that the Phoenix want to have a national brand. As does their main sponsor who is giving them a tonne of money to help them keep afloat. Don't get me wring, I'd love all 14 games to be in Wellington, but if that is the price we have to pay for being a guest in the A-league, then I'm happy to pay it. I read some where that the Stadium is only available for 15 weeks while the season is on, so even if the club wanted to have all games at home, it's probably not possible. If only we have Petone Wreck.
I'm not sure what you mean by 'disregard for the fan base'.
As a general comment, and not directed at you Grandadi at all, at some point, football fans need to lift their game if they want the sport to grow. It's my view that a club in the HAL is a massive part of improving the quality of football, especially given the Phoenix have their academy structures in place now. We are unlikely in the near future to produce players of sufficient quality to play at the best leagues in Europe, so ensuring there is a viable pathway to professional football close to home is imperative. An All White team of 4/5 European players and 10 ASBP players is not going to go far. But that pathway still remains unstable. The tangible way that I can help improve the odds that it will be a viable pathway in the future is improving the metrics by getting a season pass. $165 for 10 games and a stake at growing the sports seems like a bargain for me. I just wished others thought so too.
I have a major fudgeing problem with this post and that is that I agree with all of it.
This cannot continue.
As a side note someone above said that they felt like the club took season ticket holders for granted. That's definitely not the case. Over the years I have had a lot of things to say about the club and what they should do, but one thing I can tell you for sure is that under the WelNix the importance of season pass holding fans has never been of any doubt. If anything the Terry regime took season pass holders more for granted...they were a player-driven management. This management team is relentlessly focused on crowds and they really do give a shark about people who buy season tickets.
It really isn't their fault about Ticketek, who are totally shark but who the Phoenix must use at the Stadium.
Incredible stamina. No shame. Yellow Fever.
