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 stadium.
This is disingenuous at best and deliberately misleading at worst. If the only cost involved with putting on an event at the stadium was $30k the stadium would be bankrupt. If you want this debate to be had out in the open then come back with real figures. You are essentially accusing the Phoenix CEO of lying as he's been on the record time and time again that playing at home loses money with crowds below 9ish - thousand
I was thinking about this also. If the maximum lost revenue to the stadium of losing the Nix was $30k x 10 games per season then that's only $300k which I would respectfully suggest that no-one would really give a fuck about. So chur to you linesman for pointing this out!
Of course, as JD says, it seems highly unlikely that's actually the full picture.