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Fever and crowd behaviour at sellout

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about 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
ahmad wrote:


- One guy tried to stand up in Aisle 24 and got kicked out.
Fair enough but seemed to have a lot of golf clappers in A24. I carried chants as best I could and am proud of my newbie group of attendees that got right into it (and took their shirts off too

 
Beware criticising Aisle 24. My friends and I are there every match (and sometimes the day before the match**. As, Brian, the stadium guy said to us on Friday "Aisle 24? That's the fever zone for old men..."    CHEEK!! 
 
** see YouTube clip in other forum link...somewhere...
Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe. 
20/5/20

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I was in Aisle 24 people were standing up, we were people didn't care. Though 90% of people wouldn't question me.
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dairyflat wrote:
ahmad wrote:


- One guy tried to stand up in Aisle 24 and got kicked out.
Fair enough but seemed to have a lot of golf clappers in A24. I carried chants as best I could and am proud of my newbie group of attendees that got right into it (and took their shirts off too

 
Beware criticising Aisle 24. My friends and I are there every match (and sometimes the day before the match**. As, Brian, the stadium guy said to us on Friday "Aisle 24? That's the fever zone for old men..."    CHEEK!! 
 
** see YouTube clip in other forum link...somewhere...
 
Ailse 24 are pussies!  Aisle 23 FTW
 
I found Aisle 24  (this match) and 25 (Perth match) not too bad for vocal projections.  I do think that over the season 23 is a good balance between getting the buzz from FZ and being able to sit (mostly) with the kids.  (language is generally pretty civil).
 
(that said I might see about shifting over to Aisle 24 next season)
 

"Phoenix till they lose"

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

Genuine opinion: FTFFA

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stealthkiwi wrote:


I'm a very proud Wellingtonian and also exceedingly social. In the past month I've been to Arts Fest stuff, Fringe Fest stuff, 2x footy games, 3x raves, & a cpl of band gigs and are about to head of to a circus fest ecent. Wgtn is the uber city of things to do and there are many like me who started out supporting the Nix simply because we like to sample what Wgtn has to offer and support all kinds of things simply so they stay on offer
 
You're on to it with those comments. There's a helluva lot to do in Wellington.
Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe. 
20/5/20

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Feverish wrote:
ForteanTimes wrote:
ahmad wrote:
Re: Stand up
- I was very surprised that the newbie crowd (myself included) knew to all stand up and the ground was on their feet within a matter of seconds!! Good stuff!! (I wasn't even aware it was a chant/instruction but just followed like a sheep).

Re: Who are ya?
- Can someone explain what the background to this is (is there even is one?)

And I explained the "We're here to watch the football" to my group (it was one of the more muted chants - as was "where were you when we were sh*t)




It's a british chant from what I know. It's always been around for us, I remember an early post I made about shouting "who are ya?" to my cat.

Season 1 I recall us doing a "who are ya" to an opposition player being sent off, it went on for ages as he had to walk from the other side of the pitch to the tunnel and we kept it up the whole length of his journey. He looked destroyed. It was one of those moments that showed the YF as being something else. Can't remember the match or the player though.
 
Jets
Topor-Stanley or Griffiths or both


Grittiths. Was my first regular season phoenix game. He hacked at Dodd.
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Mr_Incredible wrote:

Feverish wrote:
ForteanTimes wrote:
ahmad wrote:
Re: Stand up- I was very surprised that the newbie crowd (myself included) knew to all stand up and the ground was on their feet within a matter of seconds!! Good stuff!! (I wasn't even aware it was a chant/instruction but just followed like a sheep).Re: Who are ya?- Can someone explain what the background to this is (is there even is one?)And I explained the "We're here to watch the football" to my group (it was one of the more muted chants - as was "where were you when we were sh*t)
It's a british chant from what I know. It's always been around for us, I remember an early post I made about shouting "who are ya?" to my cat.Season 1 I recall us doing a "who are ya" to an opposition player being sent off, it went on for ages as he had to walk from the other side of the pitch to the tunnel and we kept it up the whole length of his journey. He looked destroyed. It was one of those moments that showed the YF as being something else. Can't remember the match or the player though.

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Jets

Topor-Stanley or Griffiths or both
Grittiths. Was my first regular season phoenix game. He hacked at Dodd.


i think griffiths did his hack down our end so it can't have been him that walked the length into a storm of who are yas?

sydney's Popovic getting a red was memorable - but i can't remember why apart from hating sydney (it might have been the first oppo red at the Ring ??)
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Few Points

1. Great Game & atmosphere..Ifill is king.
2. Boy it was HOT!
3. No way was there any need for a Mexican Wave
4. "where were you when we were sh*t" ooohhh trying to be a touch cool.
5. Big Props to Tony P & John McKain who when my mate lent through their little private viewing box happily returned his high fives!
6. No water? Thats woeful & dangerous.
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the taps had water

so only dangerous if the heat had already prevented any problem-solving thinking
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about 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
zonknz wrote:
I must have admit to have been very annoyed by a load of people standing 2-3 deep in the Yellow Fever zone (in a single aisle). It really was ridiculous.

If you're here and reading- you're a shower of selfish self-absorbed c**ts. Next time, buy your tickets early. Don't see why the two girls to your left should have been squished down to one seat's space, and you did make made it pretty hard for the people behind you to see and/or hear anything.



I can't remember a match when that hasn't been the way. If people are in your seats you're more than welcome to ask them to leave, but in pretty much every game I've been to there has been a person infront and behind me. Creates a better atmosphere.
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about 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
You are guilty of this from the Perth game Dan..
Thats why I moved up a row. That and because you fell on me when you celebrated a goal by standing on the seats.

Where was your ticket for yesterday? Stefan2010-03-08 20:40:47
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Stefan wrote:

That and because you fell on me when you celebrated a goal by standing on the seats.


Why is it, that no matter what, I somehow manage to hurt someone and/or myself in goal celebrations? I've fallen on you, accidentally grabbed James' tits and fallen thru a seat in celebration.

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what say the tap water had been tainted with cryptospridium (sp?)..OTT i know but water is important to humans
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Mr_Incredible wrote:

Stefan wrote:
That and because you fell on me when you celebrated a goal by standing on the seats.
Why is it, that no matter what, I somehow manage to hurt someone and/or myself in goal celebrations? I've fallen on you, accidentally grabbed James' tits and fallen thru a seat in celebration.


Because you drink.
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about 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Junior82 wrote:
Smithy wrote:
Zone tonight was chock full of newbies there for the first time.
 
How many of them were singing "Where were you when we were sh!t?"
 
There were 3-4 of them a couple of rows behind us in aisle 22!
 
Don't get me wrong I welcome newbies and thought it was great to see so many people there but found it a wee bit hypocritical that they then started up the "where were you when we were sh*t?" chant....mmmm, and where were YOU eh lads?
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Mr_Incredible wrote:
Feverish wrote:
ForteanTimes wrote:
ahmad wrote:
Re: Stand up
- I was very surprised that the newbie crowd (myself included) knew to all stand up and the ground was on their feet within a matter of seconds!! Good stuff!! (I wasn't even aware it was a chant/instruction but just followed like a sheep).

Re: Who are ya?
- Can someone explain what the background to this is (is there even is one?)

And I explained the "We're here to watch the football" to my group (it was one of the more muted chants - as was "where were you when we were sh*t)




It's a british chant from what I know. It's always been around for us, I remember an early post I made about shouting "who are ya?" to my cat.

Season 1 I recall us doing a "who are ya" to an opposition player being sent off, it went on for ages as he had to walk from the other side of the pitch to the tunnel and we kept it up the whole length of his journey. He looked destroyed. It was one of those moments that showed the YF as being something else. Can't remember the match or the player though.
 
Jets
Topor-Stanley or Griffiths or both


Grittiths. Was my first regular season phoenix game. He hacked at Dodd.


The major one was at Topor-Stanley.  Griffiths got it too, but his red-card was from right in front of the zone, Topor-Stanley had to walk for ages and it kept getting louder and louder.  It was amazing.

Stand up for the Phoenix (the first one) was great, it got louder than I've ever heard it get in the ROF.  And what's this about that chant having a tune?  I've never been aware of one from all my games in Wellington, though I guess that reflects on you lot
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Egan wrote:
Hard News wrote:
kgreenhough wrote:
Like another post, I felt the chants were a bit muted, but how proud were we to see the opposite aisles giving the Jest 'who are ya?' on their corners.. perhaps the rest of ROF was just louder this weekend - obviously never happened before..


Yeah.  It's a lot harder when the stadium, and in particularly the zone is packed.  We ended up with the normal core well spread out and a lot of people in the zone who don't know the words and some who weren't all that keen on getting involved.

It's the price you pay for fame.  Needs an elite fighting force in Sydney next week.

There is much angst about the same thing in Sydney last night as well.  We're a bit more 'meh' about it.
 
Happened during the final a few weeks before that as well. Atmosphere and chants were starting from other directions, not just the Yellow Fever Zone...
 
Good indication of a thriving football scene developing in Wellington.
I'd like to claim those 'Who are ya' chants, in the shade in aisle 5.
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I'm a bit late but re: my comments on a vocal minority in Aisle 1/36 - I see someone hinted earlier that there was a group(s) in Aisle 1 encouraged to "who are ya?".

Was this correct? What is the story behind it? Was it a group of YF or a group of newbs?

If YF was behind this then it was bloody inspired because it was freaky (and awesome) every time something started from that end. I even turned to my friend (2nd time attender, 1st game Bahrain) and marvelled at how/who had orchestrated the group down the other end.

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2 minutes in and I'm getting nothing to do with the chant.  All there is is a guy who looks like an utter c**t dressed in blue and wearing an upturned cereal bowl on his head. loyalgunner2010-03-08 22:41:33
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about 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
(Go West) Life is peaceful there
(Go West) In the open air
(Go West) Where the skies are blue
(Go West) This is what we're gonna do

(Stand Up) For the Phoenix
(Stand Up) For the Phoenix
(Stand Up) For the Phoenix
(Stand Up) For the Phoenix

Always extending the 'Phoen' to cover the missing syllables.  If my machine had sound I'd find a video of fans doing it somewhere, but it doesn't so look yourself.

How's my driving? - Whine here

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Hard News wrote:
(Go West) Life is peaceful there
(Go West) In the open air
(Go West) Where the skies are blue
(Go West) This is what we're gonna do

(Stand Up) For the Phoenix
(Stand Up) For the Phoenix
(Stand Up) For the Phoenix
(Stand Up) For the Phoenix

Always extending the 'Phoen' to cover the missing syllables.  If my machine had sound I'd find a video of fans doing it somewhere, but it doesn't so look yourself.


Wow. I would never ever have guessed that.
I kind of just thought it was a tuneless mash of a chant.
Funny as.
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about 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
HN: putting the Village People back on the terraces!
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Yeah, that's why I gave it the Pet Shop Boys version.

AC Milan use YMCA for a quality bit of Terrace Kulcha.  Used to have an audio but don't know where it is.

How's my driving? - Whine here

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Hard News wrote:
(Go West) Life is peaceful there
(Go West) In the open air
(Go West) Where the skies are blue
(Go West) This is what we're gonna do

(Stand Up) For the Phoenix
(Stand Up) For the Phoenix
(Stand Up) For the Phoenix
(Stand Up) For the Phoenix

Always extending the 'Phoen' to cover the missing syllables.  If my machine had sound I'd find a video of fans doing it somewhere, but it doesn't so look yourself.
 
 
The inability to sing this thing properly is a constant source of irritation to me. I mean, it's hardly opera is it?

Apparently I'm apathetic, but I couldn't care less.

"Being a Partick Thistle fan sets you apart. It means youre a free thinker. It also means your team has no money." Tim Luckhurst, The Independent, 4th December 2003

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about 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
I'm sensing a revolution in the making....how much practice time before the next home game? And is it long enough?
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about 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Easy solution!

Get the PA to play "Go West" pre match or at HT, and when's it's playing  - start a "Stand up" in the YF zone

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

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about 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
The biggest problem with this is that the chant starts the wrong way around - For the Phoenix, stand up. It's impossible to carry the Go West tune with that word configuration, ther's just too many syllables in the first line.
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el grapadura wrote:
The biggest problem with this is that the chant starts the wrong way around - For the Phoenix, stand up. It's impossible to carry the Go West tune with that word configuration, ther's just too many syllables in the first line.
 
Eh?
 
Stand up, for the Phoenix
Stand up, for the Phoenix
Stand up, for the Phoenix
Stand up, for the Phoenix
 
Works beautifully. Just ask my collegues, who I've just treated to a rendition.

Apparently I'm apathetic, but I couldn't care less.

"Being a Partick Thistle fan sets you apart. It means youre a free thinker. It also means your team has no money." Tim Luckhurst, The Independent, 4th December 2003

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I know Jag, but Thommo, who has been starting it usually, goes the other way - For the Phoenix, Stand up, and it doesn't work because you can't cary the Go West tune that way.

In one of the earlier games Wilso and I started it the right way around and it was one of the few times it actually worked properly.
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el grapadura wrote:
I know Jag, but Thommo, who has been starting it usually, goes the other way - For the Phoenix, Stand up, and it doesn't work because you can't cary the Go West tune that way.

In one of the earlier games Wilso and I started it the right way around and it was one of the few times it actually worked properly.
 
Ah, got ya.
 
Sorry, EG, I forgot about the Thommo factor. Just have to make sure to drown him out by singing it properly....
 
Or beat the correct version into him

Apparently I'm apathetic, but I couldn't care less.

"Being a Partick Thistle fan sets you apart. It means youre a free thinker. It also means your team has no money." Tim Luckhurst, The Independent, 4th December 2003

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about 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
should be in the chants thread - but the other one is "We're gonna win the League". I'm a "and now you better believe us" person, but others sing "I know you don't believe us"..

Founder

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Context is important....several rounds away from the cup final/league it is the latter, but now we are so close the formerHarryHotspur2010-03-09 11:24:40
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Who were the boys flying their scarves on the last leg back into Auckland that passed us in the Jag-Wagon yesterday? Certainly made my day after a long 8 hour slog back up the country!
 
And that fella who held the sign looking for the one who sold him dud tickets, he wasn't a happy chap and fair enough too.
 
Big ups to Jag for driving three strangers down on Sun and back on Mon! Epic effort mate
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Junior82 wrote:
dairyflat wrote:
ahmad wrote:


- One guy tried to stand up in Aisle 24 and got kicked out.
Fair enough but seemed to have a lot of golf clappers in A24. I carried chants as best I could and am proud of my newbie group of attendees that got right into it (and took their shirts off too

 
Beware criticising Aisle 24. My friends and I are there every match (and sometimes the day before the match**. As, Brian, the stadium guy said to us on Friday "Aisle 24? That's the fever zone for old men..."    CHEEK!! 
 
** see YouTube clip in other forum link...somewhere...
 
Ailse 24 are pussies!  Aisle 23 FTW
 
I found Aisle 24  (this match) and 25 (Perth match) not too bad for vocal projections.  I do think that over the season 23 is a good balance between getting the buzz from FZ and being able to sit (mostly) with the kids.  (language is generally pretty civil).
 
(that said I might see about shifting over to Aisle 24 next season)
 


haven't heard civil language in 23 in 3 seasons though this is because i sit next to my sister (she scares people lol)
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cainv wrote:
Who were the boys flying their scarves on the last leg back into Auckland that passed us in the Jag-Wagon yesterday? Certainly made my day after a long 8 hour slog back up the country!
 
And that fella who held the sign looking for the one who sold him dud tickets, he wasn't a happy chap and fair enough too.
 
Big ups to Jag for driving three strangers down on Sun and back on Mon! Epic effort mate
 
My pleasure, Sir. Looking forward to Karla's first post with baited breath!
 
Especially for you (Road trip in-joke):
 

Apparently I'm apathetic, but I couldn't care less.

"Being a Partick Thistle fan sets you apart. It means youre a free thinker. It also means your team has no money." Tim Luckhurst, The Independent, 4th December 2003

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tigers wrote:
the taps had water

so only dangerous if the heat had already prevented any problem-solving thinking
We got two bottles of cold water from the kiosk @ aisle 22 just after half time they had heaps too (maybe they'd just restocked)
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about 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
It didn't take long for the chants from the Fever Zone to be out of sync with the other end. I was in aisle five and chants sounded like those round things you sing in primary.
Re. Stand up. I'm something of a noob (two games) so I had no idea what the exact words were, but I was on my feet, clapping and yelling something.
We had some really good who are yas down our end, despite most people not getting up and pointing!
I think now that most people have lost their RoF virginity, we'll see heaps more at the games next year. I don't think I can keep driving down from Thames, but I plan to move to Wellington. What a wonderful city!

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about 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Well David that is is not a game easily forgotten brrrrrrrrrr, didn't we sign that youngster who ripped us apart?
We ara peeple!!!
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