Congratulations

Phoenix, we love you.  

Well done Phoenix. Everyone wrote you off at the start of the season but you have given NZ football some credibility after the disaster of the Knights. Football is now fashionable again thanks to you. Who would have thought that a football team would be lead story on both major TV channels sports news and also numerous appearances on Close Up and Campbell Live.

Thank you NIX for how you played this year and how you inspired us to be the leagues best spectators. You have done us proud and hope you feel likewise and together next season we'll worry the aussies even more. Congrats

Very, very proud of the Nix this season. I'll be back next season, where we will beat Sydney 3 times.

Gratz boys. Great season, great fun being part of it.

Thanks boys. The trips down from Palmy have been 100% worth it. See you next season.

Congratulations Nix, while my anger knows no bounds right now I am incredibly proud of what our club has achieved! We will be back, bigger and better, primed to go 90 minutes further next season!
PHOENIX TILL I DIE!

Yep, agreed.

Just to add, I think Ricki Herbert said it perfectly last night.  Last week we got 32 odd thou at Wellington.  Sydney... Sydney could only get what 13,000 for a qualifying final?  We got like 90,000 over our last 4 home games, how many other NZ franchises can do that, frankly, aside from the Brisbane Broncos how many Australian professional sporting franchises can achieve that?

Remember, four-five years ago the New Zealand Knights IMO were basically destroying NZ soccer.  We kept playing poor imports, coupled with very average Australians and some Kiwi pensioners, and Auckland... a city of over a million was getting like 1-2,000 per game.  Then Ricki comes in, and the Knights win a few.

We now are in the World Cup, we've gone to our first finals series, and we have put football on the map in NZ.  If anyone here said to you in your last four games you'd get 90 thousand people, if anyone here said to you you'd go to the major qualifying final and one of the reasons you'd lose would be a hand of God incident, how many of you would put your hand out, shake it and think you'd won the lottery?  The odds of what's happened in NZ Football happening the way it did is absolutely outrageous.

Viva la Nix, thanks to the ROF and all the supporters, and lets hope we get that license and sanity prevails.

Echoeing pretty much everything said by everyone on here. So proud of our team on and off the field.

Thanks to YF, I've made some new friends and kept up to date with the goings on. Cause if I wasn't on this site, I wouldn't have a clue.

I've even had a few friends who have said let me know when you get your season tickets renewed cause we are seriously thinking of joining you. I have a feeling we'll have more new season ticket holders in 2010/2011 and hopefully a reserve team in the NZFC.

Take a bow and oh Phoenix we love you.

Exactly. Heroes. Fighters. All season. Most people wrote us off, but that was a truly wonderful season. Makes me extremely proud to have watched you every week. Hold your heads up high. Pride. Fearless.

Congratulations Phoenix on doing so well this season. Thankfully hav ethe World Cup this year to fill the gap before next season starts.

I've been there on a crap night when just over 4k made it, I've been there when crowd attendance figures were smashed to pieces. I've been to practices and all along I have seen this team grow and mature over the last three seasons. A tweak here,a tweak there, players moving in and players moving on. It's been good to see this club improving season by season, game by game. The attitude of the team/squad towards the fans has been awesome, genuine and warmly received.

Well said mate.  I'd add Tony Pignata to that, too.  I knew Terry Serepisos and Ross Aloisi at the start were fair dinkum, but then you come into this forum and the club's CEO is integrating with the fans and discussing the important situations, skull duggery rumours or plain fact, and you realise these guys care about integrating the sporting team with the supporters, and it was then that I realised New Zealand Football, courtesy of Ricki's efforts, were going to explode.  I've been a Warriors supporter for a long long time and I can't imagine anyone of any official capacity at the Warriors club getting involved like that with the web supporters.  That to me is special, and it struck me then that this is a community, from top to bottom, we all wear our hearts on the sleeve.

Amen to the first post and this thread.  A really fantastic season and good on you the players, Ricki + coaches, Sir Terry + management and the great fans this club has.  You have all done yourselves proud!!!

So glad to have made it down for the Jets game, a great sporting occasion that will stick in my fond memories for sometime.

Can't wait for the Phoenix to take flight again next season!  Oh Wellington is wonderful.

We'll deal with P*yne when he visits the RoF next season :@.

Yep cheers to all the players, the managment and to all the other supporters - you've made this a memorable season for all the right reasons.

4th season - yet another hand of God destroys the Nix in the Grand Final. Same old Aussies, always......

4th season.. would be nice to take out the minor premiership. But I'd be happy if we gave Bling a right spanking GCU-style.

Preseason there was a YF opinion poll and people were asked what they wanted out of the season.....Most of us were modest, saying things like; hope we make the playoffs(6th) hope we play more attractive football, hope we get a few more along to the games.

Well done lads, a season to be proud of. Looking forward to 10/11 already!

Has been a great season for football in New Zealand. But conversely an extremely poor one for my team in the Premier League. Anyway, great stuff this season boys. More of the same next year.

Can someone make sure Tony, Ricki, Terry and the players receive this thread?

Thanks to all of them, it has been an excellent ride this season. It is so fantastic to see the growth in the game in Wellington and NZ this year, and two very important points have been made:

1. The Nix magnificent contributor to the A-League (well said by Andy Harper during the game last night by the way - thanks Harps ), and are beneficial to both Australian and New Zealand football. An excellent win-win situation.

2. Wellington fully deserves to have the Nix permanently. Wellington fans are awesome.

Amazing season, I honestly never thought i'd see a team based in NZ do this well, generate so much interest and leave such a positive mark on sport in this country.

The nix are by far the highlight of my sporting week and having the YF and these forums has been awesome.

Cheers to Terry, Tony P, Ricki, Durante and all the boys for a brilliant ride, can't wait for next season!

^^^This please.

This has been the most amazing season.  It has been so much fun and it all comes down to the quality of the football and the passion of the players, management and the fans! 
Can't wait for next season, we will be back and bringing lots of new fans with us!

Thanks Nix!!

Thank you Phoenix for a fantastic season, you have been great to watch and have done some inspirational things.

Can't wait for next season

It's fantastic we got this far and lets not forget we made history.
go the nix, love you so much.

First post since the game...

I've stopped sulking now.

Thanks most certainly due the Wellington Phoenix, players and management.Legends.
A great season that has excited and entertained and gone beyond expectations.

Roll on next season.Plenty more to play for.

Great season!

Sang Phoenix till I die after every penalty possibly pissing off all the other punters in barfifa against Perth and saw Terry in Fox's  (he left at halftime!) when we lost to Perth away. Fortunately he didn't see that penalty! We were always going to beat the Jets at home, no doubts.

Next season it would be great to see a Phoenix youth team in the NZFC mix and some New Zealand players really put their hands up for a place in the 'Nix.  It's a pity to lose a favourite like Costa who started to show what he could do in combination with Ifill.

Oh yeah and smash the Sydney hoodoo and keep Gold Coast as our bunnies.

Great year from Captain, Coach,  CEO and the Boss. Thanks heaps. Everyone was on top of their game.

So long until the pre-season!

We love you Phoenix we do!

Well done.

Great to see a Kiwi club playing some great football and beating some aussie teams in there own league. Bring on next year with some suprises of signings and pushing one step further to the big one!!

I think that the Nix have had a great season. Well done.

Thank you lads for giving Wellington and New Zealand football fans something to be proud of.

I have been to two other away games over the past years and although the result was not in our favor. This was the best
one yet. The extra nix fans, the atmosphere at the pub before hand and the good nature of the SFC fans who joined in the fun at the Pub. And the openness of the team on the way home, all made the $$ cost seem cheap.    

I can only endorse 100% what has been said previously on this thread. Thank you to Terry S Tony P and everybody involved in the Phoenix organisation. You are a credit to everyone I'm sure that there are other team managements that are in awe of your management skills.

Thankyou to Ricki and the players your pride, dedication, skills and enthusiasum are a credit to you all.

Thank all for a wonderfull year, so looking foward to the new season, things can only get better.

Thank you again enjoy a well earned break, I'm sure that 10 year license is just round the corner.

Thank you again for a wonderfull season.