CIRCUS PAXIMUS!

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

ashby wrote:

Pretty much zero promotion has been a bit of a worry.

Have you looked at a paper this week at all, listen to the radio at all, the list goes on!!!!!

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

The paper?

Do they still print papers? (serious question).

I don't play casette tapes any more... why would I look at a paper?

Incredible stamina. No shame. Yellow Fever.

Phoenix fans. We have to win them over one fan at a time.

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

bwtcf wrote:

The paper?

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Do they still print papers? (serious question).

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I don't play casette tapes any more... why would I look at a paper?

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/football/6663412/Phoenix-bank-on-passion-and-emotion-in-playoff Electronic version of the article, in this same Dom post is also ads for sad game. But may not have been a picture as no body reads these days.Blew.22012-03-30 15:13:14

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

That's not the paper, it's a website.

Incredible stamina. No shame. Yellow Fever.

Phoenix fans. We have to win them over one fan at a time.

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

bwtcf wrote:

That's not the paper, it's a website.

yes so it is not a promotion for the game either but if eyes work it mentioned the game same article as Dom Post. Same article that is reproduced here. Which according to some is zero promotion.

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Hahaha true, I don't get the paper or listen to the radio much, so maybe I missed all that. I was meaning more marketing promotions and the like (black out the heart, kids day kinda things), but yeah...someone a work just said that NewstalkZB are saying 20k tickets have been sold....ummm really? Maybe the PAX are really borked this time around ashby2012-03-30 15:23:58

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

ashby wrote:

Image if they promoted the game or where to buy tickets!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

ZB have been saying a Crowd of over 20k is expected. BIG Difference

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

The Dominion Post continues to be the best media option in the Wellington Region. Reaching nearly half of all Wellingtonians aged 15+ on any average day, boasting 232,000 average daily readers. The Dominion Post has a highly efficient reach, and is a cost effective tool.

(At least 20% of these people would have seen the promotion of the game and where to buy tickets)LOL

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

ashby wrote:

Is it because it is an FFA game, not a Nix game?

Although didn't the FFA come out after last season's finals and say that this season the clubs would share the gates for the finals?

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Blew.2 wrote:

Pax = number. Go back to crowds

I'm going back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Blew.2 wrote:

That staggers me. I am amazed people still watch the news on TV at 6pm, but I know people who do. I just don't getr why... around half the news in the paper and on TV is almost always 24 hours old, or more.

I just get frustrated watching the evening news on TV or reading the paper. Often they are reporting things I read about or saw online THREE days earlier. They are just completely irrelevant to me.

Furthermore, when I do flick through a copy of the news paper the most frustrating thing is that it's hard to find the articles in amongst all the adverts. I just skip them, all of them, even when I notice a Phoenix one I ignore it. Adverts in the paper offend me. They really annoy me. It's so symbolic of the old, push/broadcast model of communications and so completely contrary to how the world today works - the pull, user scheduled world.

It's an antique... a quirky window on how things worked in the olden days.

We still have FAX MACHINES at work FFS... my goodness.

Incredible stamina. No shame. Yellow Fever.

Phoenix fans. We have to win them over one fan at a time.

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

bwtcf wrote:

Blew.2 wrote:

I just get frustrated watching the evening news on TV or reading the paper. Often they are reporting things I read about or saw online THREE days earlier. They are just completely irrelevant to me.

It's an antique... a quirky window on how things worked in the olden days.

We still have FAX MACHINES at work FFS... my goodness.

Businesses I visit from time to time still use Carbon Paper instead of a Photocopier!!!

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Anyone got a game day PAX?

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

7842 was the last I saw...

Incredible stamina. No shame. Yellow Fever.

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

I have 7400 from this morning.Surely there must be more pax even my sister is going with her friends and she doesn't even know what football is.

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

12ubb3rduck3y wrote:

I have 7400 from this morning.Surely there must be more pax even my sister is going with her friends and she doesn't even know what football is.

Just checked my cancelled ticket purchased monday

PAX 156

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

I purchased tix at midday, 7634.

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Fresh pax - 9226

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Oh yeah!!!

COYN

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

15K plus tonight perhaps?

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

25k

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

On the news around 12.30 they mentioned there had been more tickets sold than the season to date biggest crowd at the RoF i.e. more than 13.5k

If that's correct I'm picking 20k+

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Crowds looks 15k at maximum to me. Not that I'm great at predicting these things.

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

10k poor form

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

sh*thouse.

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Disgusted.
poor form

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

I think 'more tickets sold' nonsense must be down to the fact that season ticket holders had to buy tickets for this game.

Very poor turnout though, where were even the extra 5k that turned up for the Heart game?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe_B5CzbTJo - Caceres winning penalty v Perth - footage from the Fever Zone

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

A lot of corporate boxes were open last night.

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

I met a mate during the day yday that was keen to go to the game with me on the weekend. I was like "bro, it's tonight". Him "Oh well, TV it is then". He's a footballer and has genuine interested in EPL/A-league but had no idea the game was on.

@chemikills

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

It has had very poor advertising compared to our previous games.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe_B5CzbTJo - Caceres winning penalty v Perth - footage from the Fever Zone

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

No TAB and no novelty dress up theme for starters.

Don't even get me started on the lack of bouncy castles.

"Phoenix till they lose"

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

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

If we can get 10k consistently, that would do me.

FFA should move the season back to where it was IMO.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe_B5CzbTJo - Caceres winning penalty v Perth - footage from the Fever Zone

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

chemi wrote:

If he is an A/League fan why did he not take the time to look or sign up for Nix email newsletter. He has only himself to blame.

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Steve-O wrote:

If we can get 10k consistently, that would do me.

FFA should move the season back to where it was IMO.

Was talking about this last night, and surely now it would be impossibly hard to move the season back? That would leave a very small window between the finals finishing and the beginning of preseason. IIRC preseason games used to start in about June, with preseason training presumably starting well before then.

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Just saw that the Hurricanes with $19 tickets only got 11.7k to their game tonight.

Maybe Wgtn is really being hit hard by the economic downturn and we are generally pretty tight-fisted.

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

^ This

Also, how many on those 11K would have been at the Nix game if the Canes weren't playing today. Maybe 3-4K....

If I were not a Nix season ticket holder (say a Welly sports fan) this weekend I'd have to decide which game to go to/ take the family to. Either the rugby or the football, because I could not afford both...Most casual fans are still going to pick rugby over football.

Masters Grade aint no run in the park on a Saturday...

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

All this discussion belongs in the Crowds thread, not the PAX thread.

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Just Nix wrote:

^ This Also, how many on those 11K would have been at the Nix game if the Canes weren't playing today. Maybe 3-4K....If I were not a Nix season ticket holder (say a Welly sports fan) this weekend I'd have to decide which game to go to/ take the family to. Either the rugby or the football, because I could not afford both...Most casual fans are still going to pick rugby over football.

I understand what you are saying, but for me as a football supporter I would not go to the rugby if it was free.

If you are old and wise you were probably young and stupid

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

What has that got to do with being a football supporter?

Surely it has to do with whether you like Rugby or not?

People give rugby fans sh*t for blindly hating football, but comments like that are exactly as bad.

Allegedly

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