Wellington Phoenix Men

Black out the Heart

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about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
The only ones banging on about this still are the Phoenix cheer leading squad, who would stick a red thorny rose up their #rses if the club told them that it was for charridy and would help get casual punters through the gate.

"Phoenix till they lose"

Posting 97% bollox, 8% lies and 3.658% genuine opinion. 

Genuine opinion: FTFFA

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about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
bwtcf wrote:
Who cares if the theme was smear baked beans on your hair!?

Please identify your sauce for this rumour.

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about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Just bought 8 tickets for people who I've convinced to come with me. PAX 9508-9515 !
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about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Revel wrote:
Just bought 8 tickets for people who I've convinced to come with me. PAX 9508-9515 !

Champion!!!

Why did PAX disappear from the thread title?

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about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
I'm very nervous about this game.  Please please please win.  We'll have a good crowd and don't want a perth repeat.


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about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Oceanic6 wrote:
I'm very nervous about this game.� Please please please win.� We'll have a good crowd and don't want a perth repeat.

Seems Perth was a wakeup call. The players are very very aware about the shocker that was Perth. Those 3 points may well end up being a "loss leader".

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about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Should be pushing 13,000+ at this rate.
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about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Therk wrote:
Should be pushing 13,000+ at this rate.

You going?

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about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Remind me to pack the smaller cat to swing tomorrow.

"Phoenix till they lose"

Posting 97% bollox, 8% lies and 3.658% genuine opinion. 

Genuine opinion: FTFFA

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about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Junior82 wrote:
Remind me to pack the smaller cat to swing tomorrow.

Make sure it's a black one too.

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about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
ahmad wrote:
Junior82 wrote:
Remind me to pack the smaller cat to swing tomorrow.

Make sure it's a black one too.


Sure thing - except the only black ones I can find are all plastic.

"Phoenix till they lose"

Posting 97% bollox, 8% lies and 3.658% genuine opinion. 

Genuine opinion: FTFFA

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about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
oh no, you'll upset the Black Marketeers
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about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Junior82 wrote:
ahmad wrote:
Junior82 wrote:
Remind me to pack the smaller cat to swing tomorrow.

Make sure it's a black one too.


Sure thing - except the only black ones I can find are all plastic.



First it was puppies, now it's cats, I can see the SPCA in attendance at the RoF tomorrow..you're giving YF a bad rep

97% ^

  Improving,,on the up, a work in progress from Italiano and the Nix. Bring on the bathroom bling in '24! COYN!

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about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Yeh, sorry. I'm a YF Ultra, pwopa nawty innit?

"Phoenix till they lose"

Posting 97% bollox, 8% lies and 3.658% genuine opinion. 

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about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
ahmad wrote:
Therk wrote:
Should be pushing 13,000+ at this rate.

You going?


Unfortunately I can't make a trip from Auckland for a season game, finals however...
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about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Therk wrote:

ahmad wrote:
Therk wrote:
Should be pushing 13,000+ at this rate.

You going?
Unfortunately I can't make a trip from Auckland for a season game, finals however...

Yeah I heard Eden Park's in the running for the Grand Final

Edit - you should get down for a season game. It's fun.ahmad2012-01-29 00:41:54

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about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
This Black Out thing seems to be a real success.

Just saw a guy walk past as far South as DUNEDIN wearing an All Blacks jersey!

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about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
ahmad wrote:
This Black Out thing seems to be a real success.

Just saw a guy walk past as far South as DUNEDIN wearing an All Blacks jersey!


great to hear the whole country is getting behind the Nix

Yellow Fever - Misery loves company

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about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Game day pax 10126
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about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
tonyg wrote:
But why black? Just asking.
Because "yellow out the heart" sounds pretty f'n stupid.
Fruglo on 15.01.2013 wrote:

Fuck this stupid game

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about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
zinidane wrote:
Dunno my self!!!
�But apparently these days nobody will go to anything unless it has a theme. So the theme this week is Black Heart......and it seems to be working�because we have�our biggest presales this season.
�As to why black?....well thats a secret which will be revealed on match day(hence the suspense, hence the big crowd) The rumour is that the team will be kitted out in black!!!!....but it could be anything.
�This stuff is designed to attract the casual sports fan....so if it works OK then great. Kudos to the club for taking the initiative. For us humble fans who go along just to watch football and don't quite get this stuff, its no big deal either. Big crowds=more money=happy owners=viable club!
�Should be a great atmosphere......Go the Nix!
[/QUOTE] This.

[QUOTE=bwtcf]Who cares why?Seriously!?We've got more than 10,000 tickets presold. That's a record for the club for a regular season game. Who cares if the theme was smear baked beans on your hair!? FFS, get over it, get in behind it, and be frekin' estatic that the public at large have embraced this game and are coming along en masse to see and cheer for our team.

And this.

Like I said earlier, too many precious cry babies. Just get amongst it.
Fruglo on 15.01.2013 wrote:

Fuck this stupid game

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about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Get amongst it you black bastards  !!!

(and that is not racial, you know what I mean)


hepatitis2012-01-29 11:21:59
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about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Pax as at 17:27 yesterday: 9,538

COYN!
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about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
hepatitis wrote:

Get amongst it you black bastards� !!!(and that is not racial, you know what I mean)




Uncle Sepp says we can just shake hands later, and it'll all be ok.

Yellow Whever Whanganui

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about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
goldienz wrote:
hepatitis wrote:

Get amongst it you black bastards� !!!(and that is not racial, you know what I mean)
Uncle Sepp says we can just shake hands later, and it'll all be ok.

You also need to post a photo of yourself with a black man and a yellow man.

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about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Black Heart Rum is pretty crap.

But if it gets the punters in - we'll have a happy Gaz
E + R + O

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about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
I'm still going in my stripey. Not that I have anything against the Black out the Heart thing, just that I don't have Phoenix black stuff (apart for a YF bucket hat & 75% of a tracksuit).

I'm supportive, honest.

I know, I know, its serious!

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about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Picking out our wardrobe just now. Kids know about the black out. I said they could wear whatever they liked (wardrobe choices: black supporters polo, season 1/2 shirt, season 3/4 stripey, various yf ts) .

Jnrette: Wind, Rain & Nix
Jnr Jnr: Wgtn Till I Die

(Me - usual stripey with eychart underneath).

Blackout get f*cked!


(Although they will no doubt be wearing their Nix tracksuit tops which are mostly black)

"Phoenix till they lose"

Posting 97% bollox, 8% lies and 3.658% genuine opinion. 

Genuine opinion: FTFFA

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about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
I even saw an HQ Holden go past with 6 guys in it all wearing black t shirts!
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about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
I thought Destiny church would have more modern cars.

"Phoenix till they lose"

Posting 97% bollox, 8% lies and 3.658% genuine opinion. 

Genuine opinion: FTFFA

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about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Haha Dewhurt just called us the "high-flying Phoenix"

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about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Black strips! Well done to all those that called it.

To be auctioned off for chariddy on Gareth's son's website Trademe. Well formerly his.

For Cure Kids. Go Cure Kids!ahmad2012-01-29 17:53:27

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about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Thoughts on the shirts?

Ok for me but why weren't the adidas stripes in the same yellow as the adidas logo? Would have looked so much better IMO.

How much will the shirts go for? Ifill's already up to $500 lol

If you want a cheap one Pav and other non-playing squad players have shirts too (probably had to do them weeks out not knowing who was actually going to play.

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about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
wolfman wrote:
Quick question - why the one-off black shirt/Black Out campaign?

Yes, I know it was for charity/kids, but why today? And I kind of get the weak 'Black Heart' punnery.

Was it because the last couple of Januarys we had games moved because of ACDC & Bon Jovi? Was it case of tapping into�an�"annual bogan night at the Stadium each January" kind of thing?

If we build it, the bogans will come? (all 13000 of them)

Whatever it was, it seemed to work, even without YF consultation.
Well done WP marketing.

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about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
We�re also planning a unique, once-only-ever event at the game. If you are a hard core fan, or just want to be there for something that will never happen again, then you will want to be a part of this. Exactly what �it� is remains a secret and will only be revealed on game day so you will not want to miss this one

So what was this? I'm pretty sure I've seen a team play in an alternative strip before,and it will happen again,so it can't have been that.

Allegedly

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about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Tegal wrote:
We�re also planning a unique, once-only-ever event at the game. If you are a hard core fan, or just want to be there for something that will never happen again, then you will want to be a part of this. Exactly what �it� is remains a secret and will only be revealed on game day so you will not want to miss this one

So what was this? I'm pretty sure I've seen a team play in an alternative strip before,and it will happen again,so it can't have been that.

Is this what happens on Yellow Fever when we are winning? Can't find players and tactics to whinge about so we have to turn to whatever we can find?

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about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Genuinely curious if there was something I missed

Allegedly

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about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Tegal wrote:
Genuinely curious if there was something I missed

Perhaps the fact that the players designed the shirts is the point of difference

End of an era.  Vinnie - It's over.

If anyone cares for my inane babbling follow @iluvnix17 on the Twitter.

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about 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
ahmad wrote:
Thoughts on the shirts?

Ok for me but why weren't the adidas stripes in the same yellow as the adidas logo? Would have looked so much better IMO.

How much will the shirts go for? Ifill's already up to $500 lol

If you want a cheap one Pav and other non-playing squad players have shirts too (probably had to do them weeks out not knowing who was actually going to play.
 
Personally I hated the shirts. We play in yellow and black stripeys, and if we really wanted to have a charity special, then a subtle alteration to the normal strip would surely have sufficed.
 
Anyway, its too good a day to worry about that, what a bloody result, what great goals.
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