2017/18 Phoenix Fixtures

I might try to get down to a game this season.

#commitment

What???? no away games to Japan??? cant believe this   this club has no idea what the fans really want.

to be more honest i bet a lot of people are really happy about this draw. No Excuses next season

Only match in Adelaide being 30th of March. I will be happy to sacrifice our extra away match in Adelaide for a result here.

With many games going to be free to air in Australia, how does this affect our viewership here? Do we get games on Prime for example? Being a sky channel but without the need to have Sky Sports?

Are there more free to air games this year than normal?

Happy with the draw, definitely gonna be coming down for some games hoping for around half a dozen maybe more

Just don't go booking flights yet.

Looks like I might miss my first game at the stadium. V8s look like they might win out against a game vs CCM. Just can't get motivated like I used to.

Mate,hang in there.This is finally our season.COYN

 You don't *like* Alice Cooper, Nape. That, that, that's like a Muslim saying that he *likes* Muhammad. You *accept* Alice Cooper.

We probably won't find out whether sky even have the rights until 3 days out if last year is anything to go by.

100 days till a player leaves? ;-)

Till we get a new coach?

ICYMI | Good chat with GM David Dome on @radiosportnz about the 2017/18 @ALeague season draw #COYN https://t.co/ezLbnydDhE pic.twitter.com/kbNmeIE5tj

— Wellington Phoenix (@WgtnPhoenixFC) July 2, 2017

So no Home & Away game in Christchurch this year, nor Eden Park.

Wasn't there a rumour last season that we had a two year deal to take games to New Plymouth?

FFA is also apparently not very keen on taking the games to regional centres.

So is it just the one game away from Westpac?

potentially another 1 or 2 away from Westpac, according to nix email. 

Will any City or Stadium take them, on the Terms Nix want ie (Underwrite all costs)?

One AFL team played in Shanghai this season. On the other hand, a Nix game in Fiji would do good business...

Guess its to much to ask them to keep them at home and try building a winning team first them think about turning them into a circus. Buggar it lets keep them away for weeks then bitch and moan about crowds.

Interestingly Ernie was on the daily football show the other day and gave the traveling circus as one of the reasons why he left the Pheonix (the other two was the international breaks and the fact that they don't stack a few Australian games at a time to get them out of the way).

That's odd, I thought the reasons he left were running out of ideas and feeling he couldn't get the team out of the slump they were in. Has Ernie been taking interview lessons from Hudson?

The other odd thing is that under Ricky the team would stay in Australia for back to back games but under Ernie they would fly over as close to the game as possible and I always heard that was Ernies idea so it's odd that he's complaining about it.

From Memory under Ernie they did stay in Aus when they had back to back games, ie Games on A Sunday then a game on a Friday. It just did not seem to happen very often which is probably what he is lamenting. But yes in General under Ernie they flew over the day before the game.

Which are the rounds that will/may be affected by the international window/s?

For the November play-off (assuming we make it), Rounds 6, 7, and 8.

Start and finish at Westpac. Let's just hope we really finish at Westpac, with a grand final
A bit optimistic but still

I believe in miracles....