Whereas, what are the problems with Eden Park? Probably only the cost, and having to elbow cricket and rugby out of the way (just little things than that). It's far bigger than we need, but close off the upper tiers and you'll have a lovely atmosphere.
Umm it's oval, which is how this whole thing started. I was initially against a smaller stadium in Petone/Newtown due to travel time but if it'll shut you aucklanders up with all these mind numbingly retarded suggests to promote and move to Auckland, I'm all for it.
I'm sick to my dick with Aucklanders at the mo. The amount of dorks all of a sudden posting on this forum sums up Auckland perfectly. You only sing when you're winning, where were you before Saturday?!?! (not necessarily you Doloras, you're pretty much OG :)
I actually agree with you. The Phoenix are a Wellington team and should stay that way. People forgot we had 2 teams and the instant they shit out, they get 1.3k to games. The Phoenix, at their lowest, have never had that much drop off. Yeah we had a crowd of 18k. How many came up from Wellington? Lets say 4k. How many came from outside Auckland (Waikato/Northland) Lets say 1k. 13k in a population of 1.4m is nothing to start getting hard over. In fact, its quite embarrassing.
An HAL side here wont work. Its been done already. Why go back to the well once again to find what had been proven by fact.
I believe that it will one day work. Whether that's today or not I'm not sure. BUT it should not come at the expense of another city and it's people, some of who invest the better part of each day supporting our club, not just the YF who are mostly known for their 90min display every couple of weeks yet work tirelessly behind the scenes, but all the everyday people too. There are much more than 7k of us trust me.
I'd even go so far as saying you would actually need the Nix for an Auckland side to survive. We finally have a template which works, and the 2-3 meetings between the two sides every season (depending on the size of the league at the time) would mark the biggest dates on the NZ Football calendar. It would be something that football has never seen in this country, and would engage more people than anything before it. The competitiveness would go a long way, you would have the clubs and fans constantly trying to one-up each other, it could be what finally gets the game off the ground.