Be Kind to Me

Be Kind to Me

Let me introduce myself I am a Central Coast Mariner Supporter.  However I lived in Whangerie (hope I spelt that right) for almost five years so have a soft spot if that is possible for you Kiwis.

I am a sad football tragic who has supported a New Zealand Team from day one I guess from my days in the winter less north (bull s**t it rained every day).

I even correspond regularly with Michael Brown  NZ Herald on football on a fairly regular basic.

Must congratulate whoever put this site together its WBP (worlds best practice) and the support you Wellies guys are giving I take my hats off to you.

Now all the kiss arse has been done its time for you guys to admit your mistake or at least provide a please explain.

We ARE THE YELLOW FOOTBALL TEAM not a Johnny comes lately Phoenix. So why when your colours are black mainly do you copy our name, shame on you. However typical of Kiwis pinching a good Aussie idea and claiming for their own.

For the record our team song from day one is

In our hearts, and on our chest
We always wear, the famous crest
And Lawrie's men, they make us proud
And that is why, WE SING IT LOUD
WE ALL FOLLOW A YELLOW FOOTBALL TEAM!

 

 

In our hearts, and on our chest
We always wear, the famous crest
And Ricki's men, they make us proud
And that is why, WE SING IT LOUD
WE ALL FOLLOW A YELLOW FOOTBALL TEAM!

Hey that's really good, we should borrow that haha!
Ronaldoknow2007-09-19 23:03:13

Whangarei.

I think the expectation was that because Wellingtons basic colour is yellow that the Phoenix would follow this. No offence intended.

11 every 2nd Saturday afternoon lol.

Next time you post don't shout

Soory about the shouting Feverish but you kinda get stuck on your colours but as Ronaldoknow informed me Wellingtons colour is yellow so I guess we wiil have to share it. But may I also invite you to join the true yellow of the CCM's.

King Douglas2007-09-19 23:22:32

Is he no good we have exchanged I guess about thirty emails

I think we were going to get a yellow strip ( there was a lot of call for yellow/black stripes ) but I think that would have been too close to your colours.  Sure we have away kits and all that but with only 8 teams its quite strange two of them going yellow.

The Herald don't exactly make football their top priority... it's not even on their top 10 list.

Brilliant...Someone else from Whangarei on here!! And we have Jeremy Christie on the field. A bit of a Northland touch!! Mate it is the winterless North, you only have to live in other parts of the country i.e. Hamilton to realise how great Whangarei/Northland's weather is!!

good question.  my answers:

- yellow is our 'defining' colour - black and white are barely colours and yellow sets wellington aside from the rest of the country

- there is a strong groundswell of opinion that yellow should feature predominantly on the kit - watch for a big push from the YF boys at the end of the season

I lived in Komo (sorry about the spelling) I was F***ing amazed when I when there 1984 to 1989 25, 000 people and it had about seven I think suburbia�s,  Morning Side, Komo, Regent, Tiki Punga (hopeless spelt) the place out near the airport, sorry forgot the rest, blame the booze. However great town loved the Harbour and the town centre and the beautiful park next to the car park in the town centre it had a clock in it. Is the park still there and the clock. Coming from Sydney 4.5 million people to a place like Whangarei it was amazing and I enjoyed myself no end. We plan to go back one day and spend some time there. But still seven suburbia�s in a small town blow me away.

 

PS Jeremy Christie needs a medal coming from Northland and playing football took some guts. When I was there it was Sheilas Wogs and poofters who played soccer real men played rugby.

Down Woy Woy way if you pinch our song its in the drink (ocean filled full of sharks) for you. 

Soory mate I support the true and pure yellow team

Why yellow??

How can you live somewhere for five years and not know how to spell it?

took me 2 years to be able to spell Wellingdong

Black and yellow have been Wellington's sporting colours for some time and are used by many of its teams. For starters, you'll see it in the Wellington Football Club, Wellington Hurricanes (Super 14 rugby) and Wellington Lions (NPC rugby), and Wellington Firebirds (cricket) teams' strips. Some of these clubs have been using black and yellow for over a hundred years.

Don't know if there's a historian out there who knows more but I'm pretty sure black and yellow were our old provincial colours and remained in cultural and sporting use after the abolition of provincial government in 1876.

Not that it's a contest, but I think we might have been using black and yellow first...

Midfielder: do you know more about the origin of yellow in the CCM strip?

Oh, and just in case you want to nick our sporting monikers too: we hereby bags rights to Lions, Phoenixes, and Firebirds. You're welcome to call yourselves Marinaters and I don't think there's much chance of anyone else copying that... :-)

To be honest the CCM 'yellow' is hardly yellow.  More of a baby poo mustardy gold type colour (yes that's the technical term).

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However typical of Kiwis pinching a good Aussie idea and claiming for their own.

 

 peolple in glass houses mate   let's not forget  Phar lap,the pavalova ,russel crowe not wait you can have him  neil finn  umm  shihad , dragon  oh yeah archie thompson should i carry on ??

Midfielder the park in the middle of town is still their...you are right Whangarei is awesome. energy24.7 what club did you play for?? Jeremy and his brother Nathan were always the standouts for me up North. Their is no depth to football in Northland which as Midfielder points out makes Jeremy's achievement of making it as a pro footballer that much better, however it is getting alot better up there. I'm not really interested in that Bollocks club colours argument...the colour of the strip shouldn't have any bearing on your football, it's just to distinguish between the two teams on the field at the end of the day.