I am with Nixieboys222 on this. Even if the schedule was arranged like this for AFC to play quite a few home games first, it would be churlish to say that it gave the club a winning legup on the field.
It is a sensible commercial strategy to build a long-term public support in the notoriously fickle and easily bored Auckland public landscape. The league is selling a consumer product. Who needs another failure in the league?
Auckland won quite a few games now and look good while doing so - a very familiar Graeme Arnold / Steve Corica playing style that proved so successful for so many years for Sydney FC. If we cannot beat them on the park (so far) then we should not complain about their playing schedule.
It is a sensible commercial strategy to build a long-term public support in the notoriously fickle and easily bored Auckland public landscape. The league is selling a consumer product. Who needs another failure in the league?
Auckland won quite a few games now and look good while doing so - a very familiar Graeme Arnold / Steve Corica playing style that proved so successful for so many years for Sydney FC. If we cannot beat them on the park (so far) then we should not complain about their playing schedule.