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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Scottishbhoy wrote:
10127 i think
 
Ye they said it
 
 
10129 - as we didn't get there till half time (flying back from Auckland) and our passes weren't scanned cause they'd closed all the turnstiles!  Bloody amazing atmosphere in the Fever Zone - just wish we'd been there for the whole game
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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
how good was the 'who are ya' chant to the guy walking to the changing room after being sent off.  He had a smile a mile wide too.
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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
I am still naked

Founder

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
avid wrote:
I'm one of the 'prawn sandwich' brigade with a seat on the centre line but I have to say that the 'shirts-off' routine was the best thing the 'zone' have done so far.
 
It was pretty hardcore.......


Thought the ref was trying to kill us all with three extra minutes... particularly those with large surface areas.

How's my driving? - Whine here

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Oh no....you didn't..please tell me you didn't HN.

Three for me, and two for them.

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
i was suprised we got 0ver 10thou in the end it dident look to large to me the corwd, but well done to all of us that came in not caring about weather predictions. ended up a nice night with the sun comming out anyway.
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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Hard News wrote:
Buffon II wrote:
Oh no....you didn't..please tell me you didn't HN.


I can not tell a lie...
 
The shirts yes!,  pretty cool, but please not the rest , tell me it never happened?
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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
crowd size - probably looked smaller 'cos a lot of people headed up the back of the stands out of the rain.

weirdest moment - chanting at the rest of the crowd to stand up....... and they did

best chant - 'we're here to watch the football' when the seated spectators tried to start a Mexican Wave
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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
phoenix rising wrote:
crowd size - probably looked smaller 'cos a lot of people headed up the back of the stands out of the rain.

weirdest moment - chanting at the rest of the crowd to stand up....... and they did

best chant - 'we're here to watch the football' when the seated spectators tried to start a Mexican Wave




(thanks to James Dean on picking it up quickly and backing me up)
ginger_eejit2007-09-30 22:45:05

When Hibs, went up, to win the Scottish Cup - I wisnae there - furfuxake!

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
phoenix rising wrote:

weirdest moment - chanting at the rest of the crowd to stand up....... and they did
That is until the same aisle stopped it dead, not once but bloody twice.Not sure what aisle it was but they need to wake up.

GET YOUR SHIRTS OFF FOR THE BOYS

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
I was very tempted to start a countdown at 79 mins 50 secs to herald in the sea of nakedness (but on the other hand I don't want to encourage it )

a bit of cellphone video here towards the end of the game (including the inside of my jacket pocket)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3LRPfuonpo
phoenix rising2007-09-30 23:37:46
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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
 I had no problem taking my shirt off - standing next to  a semi naked Hard News and Cnut even made it quite flattering 
 
 Phoenix 'til I die!!!!
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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
My favourite chant, which I never thought could have worked, was "you're so sh*t it's unbelievable", on at least a few occasions.  The shirtlessness was a tremendous effort especially as we in the prawn sandwich zone were entering hypothermic crisis.  Can we play the Glory every week?
Selhurst Park, 25 January 1995
What else could he have done?
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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Cantona forever wrote:
My favourite chant, which I never thought could have worked, was "you're so sh*t it's unbelievable", on at least a few occasions.  The shirtlessness was a tremendous effort especially as we in the prawn sandwich zone were entering hypothermic crisis.  Can we play the Glory every week?

Bit strange that "can we play you every week" wasn't  heard or maybe im just deaf and missed it!

And was it "your so shirtless its unbelievable?"
Kiwi Jambo2007-10-01 11:08:42

The answer to life's problems are rarely found at the bottom of a beer glass - but it's always worth a look.

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Do they have the rule like in the EPL where if u score and celebrate and take ure shirt off u get booked?
 
If not, then how funny wood it be to see the players getting on the act.

ive got a song that wont take long, Adelaide are rubbish.. the second verse is same as the first.. ADELAIDE ARE RUBBISH

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Scottishbhoy wrote:
Do they have the rule like in the EPL where if u score and celebrate and take ure shirt off u get booked?
 
If not, then how funny wood it be to see the players getting on the act.


ScottishBhoy - that's not just in the EPL - it's in the FIFA Laws of the game - as a cautionable offence

When Hibs, went up, to win the Scottish Cup - I wisnae there - furfuxake!

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Kiwi Jambo wrote:
Cantona forever wrote:
My favourite chant, which I never thought could have worked, was "you're so sh*t it's unbelievable", on at least a few occasions.  The shirtlessness was a tremendous effort especially as we in the prawn sandwich zone were entering hypothermic crisis.  Can we play the Glory every week?

Bit strange that "can we play you every week" wasn't  heard or maybe im just deaf and missed it!
Think it might be the 2nd option as it was sung.

GET YOUR SHIRTS OFF FOR THE BOYS

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
ballane wrote:
Kiwi Jambo wrote:
Cantona forever wrote:
My favourite chant, which I never thought could have worked, was "you're so sh*t it's unbelievable", on at least a few occasions.  The shirtlessness was a tremendous effort especially as we in the prawn sandwich zone were entering hypothermic crisis.  Can we play the Glory every week?

Bit strange that "can we play you every week" wasn't  heard or maybe im just deaf and missed it!
Think it might be the 2nd option as it was sung.

Must get a new ear horn!!
so it wasn't" your so shirtless its unbelievable then" either?
 Kiwi Jambo2007-10-01 11:12:35

The answer to life's problems are rarely found at the bottom of a beer glass - but it's always worth a look.

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
ginger_eejit wrote:
Scottishbhoy wrote:
Do they have the rule like in the EPL where if u score and celebrate and take ure shirt off u get booked?
 
If not, then how funny wood it be to see the players getting on the act.


ScottishBhoy - that's not just in the EPL - it's in the FIFA Laws of the game - as a cautionable offence
 
buggeeeeeer

ive got a song that wont take long, Adelaide are rubbish.. the second verse is same as the first.. ADELAIDE ARE RUBBISH

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
rtard wrote:
 I had no problem taking my shirt off - standing next to  a semi naked Hard News and Cnut even made it quite flattering 
 
 Phoenix 'til I die!!!!
 
Says it all really...
 
Mind you if you are doing it to make other people feel better about themselves then i can understand perfectly.

Three for me, and two for them.

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Kiwi Jambo wrote:
Bit strange that "can we play you every week" wasn't� heard or maybe im just deaf and missed it!


Save that one for Bling...
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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Mind you there was more than a few who took their shirts off before 80 minutes (keen buggers).
All you could see when you looked over to the Fever zone was a line of white (not sure pasty and anemic counts as a colour) all the way to the back of the stand, it was magic.
 
Must have been cold though judging by the amount of coats people hung off Frankie Macs nipples.
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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Ricki Herbert's topless army .....
 
 
The was a call of "Can we play your every week" as we exited Aisle 22 just after the optimistic "We're gonna win the league".
 
More great chat about the Phoenix today at work - one woman whose husband took the kids said they were raving about when they got home and he's never going to go to another rugby match and she's keen to ctach the action as well.
 
Another bloke desperate to catch the next home match after the photo on the front of the Dom
 
All good....
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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
ginger_eejit wrote:
Scottishbhoy wrote:
Do they have the rule like in the EPL where if u score and celebrate and take ure shirt off u get booked?
 
If not, then how funny wood it be to see the players getting on the act.


ScottishBhoy - that's not just in the EPL - it's in the FIFA Laws of the game - as a cautionable offence


Does that include women's football?

/I kid, I kid!
//WE CAME TO WATCH THE FOOTBALL!
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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Darn FIFA ruining all the fun, why would they make footballers taking their shirts off cautionable, it'd be bloody brilliant. I'll just have to wait for next years jockey adverts, no more all blacks just phoenix players
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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Probably because of all the players who were revealing T-shirts adorned with political messages. I guess they could have just banned them, but it was easier just to tell everyone to keep their tops on.
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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
I cracked up when I saw the Dom Post on Monday - looked like the extras cast from schindler's list waving yellow  However if you were there you would have noted a view moby dicks prime for harpooning.
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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Occupational hazard from "shirts off for the 'nix" = the horrible cold I've developed.  Let's hope we start winning on some fine days!!

Normo's coming home

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Sunday was absolutely brillant!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My son and I sit in aisle 24 and the YF is a show on its own. I do have a request for YF, would please be possible to get the songs and chants either printed or put on the website. The best chant of the day was: you're so sh*t it's unbelieveable. The crowds have been amazing, so much for auckland. GO THE NIX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! After this win, more to come!!!!!!!!
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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
markho wrote:
Sunday was absolutely brillant!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My son and I sit in aisle 24 and the YF is a show on its own. I do have a request for YF, would please be possible to get the songs and chants either printed or put on the website. The best chant of the day was: you're so sh*t it's unbelieveable. The crowds have been amazing, so much for auckland. GO THE NIX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! After this win, more to come!!!!!!!!
 
you need to check out the chants forum
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about 9 years ago

So interesting article by Liam here saying that the Nix are counting higher crowds than what Westpac does

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/football/a-league/882...

"The gap between the home attendances reported by the Wellington Phoenix and Westpac Stadium is widening, although the football club says the explanation is simple.

Across four seasons from 2011 to 2015, the Phoenix's reported average home attendances for each season at the Cake Tin were between 2.2 and 4.5 per cent higher than what the stadium reported.

But last season the gap was 13.8 per cent, with the Phoenix reporting an average Westpac Stadium attendance of 7748 and the stadium saying it was 6807. This season the gap was 7.2 per cent in the first three games, excluding the New Year's Day match against Adelaide United."

I'm an optimistic pessimist. 
I'm positive things will go wrong.
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about 9 years ago

geez.  I hope our numbers aren't inflated as that's just depressing.

They saying that some of the difference is people getting in via manually when the scanners fail, but how the hell do they count those numbers?

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about 9 years ago

It has been pointed out a number of times in match day threads that the crowd didn't look as big as the number announced at the game, appears it is true depending on who is counting.

Reading at the bottom of the article it isn't just the Nix and mentions that it is big in Australia too for their A-League teams. Helps with Metrics, like all the stupid memberships you can get (Some AFL teams allow pet memberships and count that towards their total members)

I'm an optimistic pessimist. 
I'm positive things will go wrong.
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about 9 years ago

The lions regularyly say they have a few thousand at the game when it appears there are more like a few hundred.

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