Current version

Posted June 02, 2016 01:45 · last edited June 02, 2016 01:46

chopah wrote:

I know having an opinion as a Jaffa right now is a little dangerous - and I know this is mostly venting but for me the issues are:

1) a regular home/away season - not Home Home Away Away Away Home - which if you read the article says the Nix have asked FFA to fix this.

2) the timing of the out of Wellington Home games - silly to do them in a situation that leaves fans in Wellington a month between games - do the nix have enough control to be able to achieve this?

Obviously as someone based in Auckland I can see the advantage of taking games to the biggest city but of course that's frustrating for the Wellington based fans - but surely this is better than no team at all? 

I think two in Auckland can work. Each stadium is basically a different catchment area, so have them in different stadiums, with a long enough time passed between games. Also one needs to be near the end of the season to cash in on any potential bandwagon situation. 

It's the other two games I don't like. Maybe have one, and rotate it between centres every year to keep the novelty value up. But 4 games is too many. You WILL end up with large gaps between Wellington games in that case - no matter what the FFA manage to do. 

Previous versions

1 version
Tegal edited June 02, 2016 01:46
chopah wrote:

I know having an opinion as a Jaffa right now is a little dangerous - and I know this is mostly venting but for me the issues are:

1) a regular home/away season - not Home Home Away Away Away Home - which if you read the article says the Nix have asked FFA to fix this.

2) the timing of the out of Wellington Home games - silly to do them in a situation that leaves fans in Wellington a month between games - do the nix have enough control to be able to achieve this?

Obviously as someone based in Auckland I can see the advantage of taking games to the biggest city but of course that's frustrating for the Wellington based fans - but surely this is better than no team at all? 

I think two in Auckland can work. Each stadium is basically a different catchment area, so have them in different stadiums, with a long enough time passed between games. Also one needs to be near the end of the season to cash in on any potential bandwagon situation. 

It's the other two games I don't like. Maybe have one, and rotate it between centres every year to keep the novelty value up.