All this talk about Westpac Stadium being too expensive for the Nix is nonsense and Gareth & Co know it.
The fact is that the Nix have the best venue deal in the A League.
They pay a very small fixed hire fee plus event costs which amounts to less than $30k per home match.
They have also pocketed "marketing grants" of over $1m in cash from the WCC and the Stadium Trust since Wellnix took over the A league license.
You may well ask were this money has gone because it is clear that it has not been spent on marketing.
So effectively Wellington City via the WCC Event fund and the Stadium Trust has provided the Wellnix with a FREE stadiu
You would expect the Phoenix to have close to the cheapest stadium deal. Probably you'd think Central Coast would have it better. The Phoenix are in the smallest metropolitan market in the A League.
My understanding of those "marketing grants" is that they are a payment made by the Stadium when it makes money but the hirer loses money. Basically a re-allocation of the revenues. Pretty reasonable.
What you haven't addressed is Gareth's underlying point, which is that every time the Phoenix play at the (your) Stadium they lose money. The Stadium certainly isn't losing money, in fact it's raking it in. So there is clearly an issue there.