Fan support - what the hell was all that

Fan support - what the hell was all that

First things first. Greta game tonight. Bloody awesome - thoroughly enjoyed it. Phoenix were brilliant. C'mon the Nix!!

However, couple of things.

1. I was in Aisle 23 (next to the Fever where i like to be). Right up the back behind us was another group. In the 2nd half someone in the Fever started the chant 'get your shirts on'. This started them off on 'f**k the Yellow Fever'. C'mon - what the hell is all that about. We are ALL Phoenix fans - we don;t want to be like some of those English fans who fight amongst themselves! That's not on. It pissed me off - i had my 9 year old there and his friend - and for a minute the atmosphere turned nasty. Luckily (!!!!) there was the disallowed goal which diffused the whole thing.

For christs sakes guys - it's our FIRST YEAR - let's not get divisive already!Sort your sh*t out..

2. Who the hell do Red Badge thing they are. They evicted the Liverpool wearing shirt guy from the zone in the second half. What for?? We were just getting into it. He was a bloody laugh and the chants he started were awesome. I've written a complaint to both Red Badge AND Westpac Stadium (see e-mail below). I URGE you to do the same. Copy and paste if you like - let's let these t**sers know that football is about singing an having a good time - and Red Badge should not be able to ruin it for us.

http://www.redbadge.co.nz/Contact+Us.html
http://www.westpactruststadium.co.nz/information/feedback.cfm

"I attended the Wellington Phoenix - Perth Glory game tonight. The game was fantastic as was the crowd support. What really DISAPPOINTED me was the behaviour of one or two security guards. Myself and two kids (my son aged 9, and his friend, aged 9) and another firend and his two kids were all sitting in Aisle 23 having a great time. However, in the second half, over zealous security guards just were being totally unrealistic in their 'policing' of the crowd.

 1. At one stage they evicted a man in a red Liverpool shirt from the Yellow Fever for starting chants! We were all having a laugh at what he was chanting and thoroughly enjoying it. But no - obviously we were having TOO much fun and this had to be stopped at all costs! This guy was NOT drunk, NOT harming anyone, BUT was entertaining us all , and he was evicted.

 2. Towards the end of the game, three boys - probably around 9 or 10 - were standing up and singing with the rest of us. For no reason, a security guard came along and told them to sit down!! What for? They were perfectly safe, and were just enjoying themselves. What a crock!

 I think that Red Badge staff do not understand a football crowd. They are use to rugby crowds - boozy, boring crowds who know nothing about having a good time - safely. Football crowds stand up, they sing, and they enjoy themselves.

 Get your stuff sorted. Don't let a few ignorant, over zealous security  - maybe with misguided direction - ruin the atmosphere for the crowd. We love the Phoenix and the way they are supported. The sooner security staff accept this the better.

 Hopefully this will get through and your staff will get the message that our support is safe and it's not like a rugby crowd. The sooner Red Badge realise that the better.

I think all Liverpool fans should be kicked out!

grr and all this came about because of that one bottle-throwing guy right??

heh i suspected someone would say something about Liverpool fans  .. maybe he was thrown out because he was wearing the Liverpool shirt, if so then thats a red card for Red Badge for just that !! LOL

Hey i'm no Pool supporter - but he was getting the crowd right into it - 'Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, w*nk, w*nk, w*nk' - and they threw him out!! Get a f**ing life t**sers! And telling kids to sit down - have they not heard 'Stand up for the Phoenix!'

Ignorant bloody w**kers!

And what was all that goading of the guys up the back.

Any Yellow Fever members care to comment???

I was having a good time chanting and singing, and standing in the Zone last week at the Beckham game and I was told to sit down because some people two rows behind couldn't see (because I was tall maybe?) ... I firstly refused as I said it was my right to stand in a obviously standing zone, and the people behind me weren't the original seat holders as the original holders went somewhere els� about half hour earlier ... the steward came back about half hour later and told me to sit down or else he would throw me out  ...  so I sat down cos I'm a nice person (lol) but yea, t**ser

I wondered who had started that Aussie Aussie one. As for bottle throwing see my own post.

I think they threw him cos after his chanting he skulled the remainder of his beer then lobbed his empty into the air and it landed about three rows away.

Pretty poor effort on security's behalf, but got the feeling they didn't like the attention he was generating and  when they saw his bottle leave his hand they moved in.

 

Sorry coxey this is where i have to disagree with you if he tossed a bottle then the only outcome is outa here.This must be removed from the zone if they want to throw bottles buggar off elsewhere and do it.

I agree with you its not nice

I hope you get a reply

I have watched the stewards in the last few games they have no idea whats going on and how to deal with things
I saw a bottle flying and they just stood there and looked I didnt see where it came from but they do nothing yet they ask people to sit down and then escort someone out of the area for doing nothing but standing and singing

Goading ?

There was a few minutes chant light heartedly pointing out that we get shirts of at 80, and earlier is thought to be unlucky.  "Get your shirts on" is hardly goading and a fraction of what some individuals in that group have aimed the other way.

Red Badge are a laughing stock. They've done nothing but try to make life difficult for us. People like Lonegunmen have done FAR more than they ever have in providing a safe environment for us to have reasonable fun in. They're competing with Ticketek for "Worst Player of the Season" award.

In reply to your 1st question The Domestar the reason the chant was started in the zone to put your shirts on,was that the whole shirts off thing started in sydney where those who travelled thought it a good idea to take your shirts of at the 80th minute mark if the phoenix were leading.This has since then become a standard thing.I helped start it as given some of the things that have happened in some of our games recently i didnt want to tempt fate by the shirts being off to early.Maybe some of them could let us know why they fell the need to rubbish the zone. ballane2007-12-07 23:40:19

All those guys at the back of aisle 23 chant are mcevdy chants and stand up for the phoenix every 5 mins. Stupid really

Hey guys this has been done to death.  The lads up the back of the other block are a group of supporters, just like the Fever.  We chuck some sh*t back and forth.  I hope they don't mean it seriously cos i don't think any of us do. 

The more the merrier I say.

As for Red Badge, I am self-imposing banstick in regards to commenting on Security tonight.  Maybe tomorrow...

Sorry to digress but anyone else see the group of fans by the big screen with their shirts off? Top marks for you fans way over that end!

nights, tigers and a few others made a half time pilgrimage down there.  Can't have been pretty.

those guys normally stand behind us
at half time they said we are off to the other end

Did they go looking for a female streaker? Imagine what Red Star would do if at half time the YFZ up sticks and move to the other end of the stadia? hehehe To watch any Nix goals being scored at that end.

[QUOTE=Lonegunmen]Did they go looking for a female streaker?/QUOTE]

on the night I thought the streaker was a guy they put up a hell of a fight


and I said to my boys that the fever zone was heading that way at half time they were keen

maybe we should of gone

Dear god...why are there so many people whining............

Was an awesome game, atmosphere was great, possibly one of our best games since there wasnt many silent periods and we actually pulled out a wide variety of chants, there are always going to be idiots, tell a steward so they can deal with them, there is no rivalry between fans.

If ive missed any other whiney complaint, its wrong, do something about it, or get over it.

ARGH!

Seconded.  Tegal you're a champion.

White Noise moved. It took the stewards awhile to realised what had happened, but they all moved. Eventually.

The guy that got kicked out, if you are talking about who i think you are he through a bottle of bear down. Thats why he was evicted.

Some guy was going to streak, he was a row down from me. He didnt make it on to the field cause the game ended, but after the match on the concourse I saw him standing there naked.

Harry, I saw him outside he was in his Y fronts till some other fan (Not me) snuck up and down trowled him! PMSL as the security guard didn't know what to do.

Poor guy.

Speaking of fan support, Egan you have balls! Coming in to the BackBencher before and, even more ballsy, after the game. And also coming in to the Fever Zone to watch the match.

Great stuff.

i think you need to put the whole thing into context, he wasn't throwing at anyone with intent he  non chalantly threw the bottle in the air after being egged on to skull back his beer bit stink
really   as for the dude in l.g's photo thats the sort of crap we don't need !

correct giddyup. as someone who was sober and watched the whole liverpool guy episode unfold I can confirm that he skulled his beer, and lobbed the empty back to the guys in front of him. It wasn't a throw, it wasn't malicious and it certainly wasn't like other people who try and throw their bottles 50 feet in the air.

Red badge security started lining this guy up as soon as he started  leading chants, and you could see they were waiting for an excuse.

The proof is in the fact that a respectable group of 4 (2 sets of husband and wife) joined in the 'f**k off steward' chants.

As for the guys up the back of Aisle 23, I say great work. They sang songs and lead chants all night. Yellow fever started with 'put your shirts on', the lads up the back replied with who are ya, and then yellow fever started singing 'One yellow fever'. I can understand why the boys up the back told you where to go. We are ALL yellow fever, and yet the message you are singing at games is that we must follow a set of rules as to what we can do.

Somehow, I don't think so.

and big ups to the Perth Glory fan. Next year he should get some beers shouted 

Damn straight! It was the best effort yet by YF - "We're not bottom anymore!" - class! Many varied chants that followed the action on the field - player chants - it all came out.

I was next to the 'pool bloke - he didn't "throw" the bottle - just tossed it up - so Red Badge did over-react a bit - but take that as a warning to keep yer bottles out of the air! Saw him afterward and he didn't seem too fussed about it - took it on the chin.

Loved the "We want our scouser back!" and "We've got the best scousers in the world" chants after he got kicked out.

The banter between fans is just that - banter. I thought it was largely good humoured.

So to the 10000 odd that didn't turn up - you missed a great game - and next weeks chant will be

Where were you?
Where were you?
Where were you laaaast week?

It was my mate's hairdresser LOL.

In defense for the scouse lad who was thrown out by the Red Badge.

Nice response for the media lol.

Hopefully he's back next week.
Arsenal2007-12-08 10:33:45

hammer4ever2007-12-08 10:37:42

The wannabee streaker was behind me & said he would streak across the pitch if I gave him my yellow fever top - AS IF.  Anyway don't streakers normally strip nearer to the pitch rather than half way up and hope security doesn't notice their white y-fronts as they tiptoe past!!!!!

Perhaps because of the higer percentage of intoxicated young persons who really have no skills in the art of drinking. Power drinking is not cool. Before, during or after a game. You don't have to get pissed to enjoy the fever zone.