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over 11 years ago

paulm wrote:

AJ13 wrote:

paulm wrote:

themanfromUncle wrote:

I think an annual Wellington Phoenix versus Auckland City could be quite a crowd puller. Has this ever been discussed before ?

We should be looking to push an annual pre-season game against TW over that in my opinion

Or play a different franchise or two each year, take the show around. Why does it need to be Auckland City every year? Waitakere are as good. A game in Chch would be cool, or at the Bluewater... etc

Perhaps one against our local side, TW, and one against the reigning ASB prem champion, could be good.

I reckon just alternate every year, especially when places like Chch miss out on regular season games

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over 11 years ago

I would quite like to see some sort of NZ mini-tournament involving Phoenix and say the top 2-3 from ASB prem?

An annual challenge cup or something?

It would, IMO, be better than playing Upper Hutt FC in Petone on a chilly Tuesday night.

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

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over 11 years ago

Steve-O wrote:

I would quite like to see some sort of NZ mini-tournament involving Phoenix and say the top 2-3 from ASB prem?

An annual challenge cup or something?

It would, IMO, be better than playing Upper Hutt FC in Petone on a chilly Tuesday night.

The ASB Premiership starts after the A-League, so that wouldn't work. Best you could do is play the likes of Miramar Rangers & Central United.
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over 11 years ago

bwtcf wrote:

We used to sing Twist and Shout regularly in Bloc 5 at Kingz games. 

Ric Le Roc would lead off with a long drawn out "Weeeeelllllllllllllll SHAKE IT UP BABY!!!" and the Bloc woudl reply en masse with "Twist and Shout"... he'd lead with each alternate line and we'd reply with the following line.

Good times. It always generated a very postive party atmosphere.

All 3 of you?

"Ive just re-visited this and once again realised that C-Diddy is a genius - a drunk, Newcastle bred disgrace - but a genius." - Hard News, 11:39am 4th June 2009

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over 11 years ago

Lonegunmen wrote:

At the game on Saturday they playec the tune to match of the day I believe? Perhaps we should adopt it as our tune in and out of the game. Could be a bit of fun for everyone. I mean the words are simple enough. Da da da dada da da dar, dad dadad da da dar. Or along those lines.

That would be the theme to "The Big Match" or for those watching in London "The London Match".

btw - time to hand back Ravel......he wants to come home!

Introducing Mr.Stevens

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over 11 years ago

C-Diddy wrote:

bwtcf wrote:

We used to sing Twist and Shout regularly in Bloc 5 at Kingz games. 

Ric Le Roc would lead off with a long drawn out "Weeeeelllllllllllllll SHAKE IT UP BABY!!!" and the Bloc woudl reply en masse with "Twist and Shout"... he'd lead with each alternate line and we'd reply with the following line.

Good times. It always generated a very postive party atmosphere.

All 3 of you?

Harsh. There was at least 4 (me and HN)

Three for me, and two for them.

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over 11 years ago

paulm wrote:

AJ13 wrote:

paulm wrote:

themanfromUncle wrote:

I think an annual Wellington Phoenix versus Auckland City could be quite a crowd puller. Has this ever been discussed before ?

We should be looking to push an annual pre-season game against TW over that in my opinion

Or play a different franchise or two each year, take the show around. Why does it need to be Auckland City every year? Waitakere are as good. A game in Chch would be cool, or at the Bluewater... etc

Perhaps one against our local side, TW, and one against the reigning ASB prem champion, could be good.

So TW and ACFC then?

Three for me, and two for them.

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over 11 years ago

I am looking forward to a good twist and shout session. Because it makes no sense.

Pathetic. Not apathetic.

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over 11 years ago

C-Diddy wrote:

bwtcf wrote:

We used to sing Twist and Shout regularly in Bloc 5 at Kingz games. 

Ric Le Roc would lead off with a long drawn out "Weeeeelllllllllllllll SHAKE IT UP BABY!!!" and the Bloc woudl reply en masse with "Twist and Shout"... he'd lead with each alternate line and we'd reply with the following line.

Good times. It always generated a very postive party atmosphere.

All 3 of you?

At its height in the first few seasons of the Kingz the Bloc 5 mob were about 500+ strong and very noisy. Go look on the old clips. They were damned impressive.

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over 11 years ago · edited over 11 years ago · History

Hard News wrote:

We never had 500 'active'. 

Like the Fever Zone alot of people were 'adjacent' rather than 'active'.

There was however a time at the end of the Rufer season at Ericsson stadium where you had to get to the ground 45 - 30 minutes before kick off in order to get a place in the back 10 rows of the Bloc. But yeah, 20 - 30 actives (at best), and several hundred adjacents ... but the actives need adjacents...

...500 odd singing and jumping up and down and generally going mental is still 500 or so, and the collective buzz is strong.

It does need coordinators, ring leaders, caporegimes etc though to focus the will of the masses.


Incredible stamina. No shame. Yellow Fever.


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

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over 11 years ago

Buffon II wrote:

paulm wrote:

AJ13 wrote:

paulm wrote:

themanfromUncle wrote:

I think an annual Wellington Phoenix versus Auckland City could be quite a crowd puller. Has this ever been discussed before ?

We should be looking to push an annual pre-season game against TW over that in my opinion

Or play a different franchise or two each year, take the show around. Why does it need to be Auckland City every year? Waitakere are as good. A game in Chch would be cool, or at the Bluewater... etc

Perhaps one against our local side, TW, and one against the reigning ASB prem champion, could be good.

So TW and ACFC then?

Correct.

Well done ;)

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over 11 years ago

bwtcf wrote:

Hard News wrote:

We never had 500 'active'. 

Like the Fever Zone alot of people were 'adjacent' rather than 'active'.

There was however a time at the end of the Rufer season at Ericsson stadium where you had to get to the ground 45 - 30 minutes before kick off in order to get a place in the back 10 rows of the Bloc. But yeah, 20 - 30 actives (at best), and several hundred adjacents ... but the actives need adjacents...

...500 odd singing and jumping up and down and generally going mental is still 500 or so, and the collective buzz is strong.

It does need coordinators, ring leaders, caporegimes etc though to focus the will of the masses.

I was an "adjacent" in those days, but soon couldn't resist. Lots of funs doing T & S. See 31 January in our Kingz page for 2004

http://plainsrangers.com/kingz2004.html

Oi Oi Edgecumbe... lets have a clean sheet

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over 11 years ago

Feverish wrote:

plans are underway for a Biggest Fan comp. It will find the geezer who is a bigger fan of his team than anyone else. It won't involve you taking a selfie holding a club flag etc..

so what happened with this?

All I do is make the stuff I would've liked
Reference things I wanna watch, reference girls I wanna bite
Now I'm firefly like a burning kite
And yousa fake fuck like a fleshlight

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over 11 years ago

They couldn't fit him in. Tada Boosh!

Proud to have attended the first 175 Consecutive "Home" Wellington Phoenix "A League" Games !!

The Ruf, The Ruf, The Ruf is on Fire!!

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over 11 years ago

How many on here travelled to another region to see a FootBall United game. And what region to what game.   

Just personal Interest.  No prizes 

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over 11 years ago

As far as I'm aware not related to a Barry. But did know one in Porirua some 40+ years ago but played rugby. 

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over 11 years ago

Blew.2 wrote:

How many on here travelled to another region to see a FootBall United game. And what region to what game.   

Just personal Interest.  No prizes 

To Wellington from Napier

"Ive just re-visited this and once again realised that C-Diddy is a genius - a drunk, Newcastle bred disgrace - but a genius." - Hard News, 11:39am 4th June 2009

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over 11 years ago

Came up to Wellington from Dunedin, but not solely for the games.

You know we belong together...

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over 11 years ago

nufc_nz wrote:

Big Pete 65 wrote:

FULL NIX vs.WEST HAM MATCH ON YOU TUBE - EPL OFFICIAL CHANNEL

Full match here on You Tube - it's on the official Premier League channel !!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6UeEpXG_A0

Good publicity for the Nix and A-League. Good they've made the full match available to all on You Tube. There are several other uploads of it too.

That is not the official channel. What he is doing is illegal. But who fuckin cares C'MON NIX !!!!

Had me fooled!!! Looked so authentic. Poor guy has had his You Tube account deleted now.

Can't find the Nix v Hammers full game at all now - all videos have been removed from You Tube.

However, Nix v Newcastle is still there in full: good to see they got our local commentary with Paul Ifill in the UK:

Also, Sydney v West Ham in full:

and Newcastle v Sydney in full:

Big Pete 65, Christchurch

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over 11 years ago · edited over 11 years ago · History

Newcastle, West Ham, Schalke, Malaga in Weekend Tournament on Sommet Sport:

Schalke Pre-Season Football Cup on Sommet this weekend and next week:

 Great stuff!!!

Just saw it up on the Freeview Program guide.

Will be interesting to compare how the Hammers and Newcastle do in this tournament compared to in NZ last week.

Schedule: Sunday 1 am : Newcastle Utd v Malaga (rpt 4 pm)

                  Sunday 9.30 pm Hammers v Schalke (delayed)
                 

                  Monday 1 am Hammers v Malaga live (rpt 6.30 pm Tues.)

                                4 pm Newcastle v Schalke (delayed)

Sommet Sport schedule:

http://www.freeviewnz.tv/tv-guide.aspx

About the tournament:

http://www.whufc.com/articles/20140411/west-ham-he...

http://www.whufc.com/articles/20140801/schalke-04-...

Big Pete 65, Christchurch

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over 11 years ago

C-Diddy wrote:

Blew.2 wrote:

How many on here travelled to another region to see a FootBall United game. And what region to what game.   

Just personal Interest.  No prizes 

To Wellington from Napier

Snap

Salmon swim upstream

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over 11 years ago

Salmon07 wrote:

C-Diddy wrote:

Blew.2 wrote:

How many on here travelled to another region to see a FootBall United game. And what region to what game.   

Just personal Interest.  No prizes 

To Wellington from Napier

Snap


To Welly from EBOP

Oi Oi Edgecumbe... lets have a clean sheet

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over 11 years ago

I can confirm Oioi was in attendance. ;)

Proud to have attended the first 175 Consecutive "Home" Wellington Phoenix "A League" Games !!

The Ruf, The Ruf, The Ruf is on Fire!!

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over 11 years ago

So Sky have billed me $40 for the football tour, plus $25 for each game... did they do this for anyone else?

Guess I'll be on the phone to them later

Shambles

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over 11 years ago

Hi Paul - was just about to post the exact same thing, thought "WTF" when I seen the amount of my bill!

$140 for 4 friendlies! Now I think we can all agree THAT is too much :-)

Ridiculous stuff from Sky.

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

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over 11 years ago

Shit they'd better not have.... I spent a fortune on the FU tour, tickets to Auckland and Wellington and the Sky deals as well....

Oi Oi Edgecumbe... lets have a clean sheet

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over 11 years ago

I have Sky through Vodafone but I doubt that makes any difference.

I get the feeling it was recording the games that made the system screw up because when I pressed record it said 'checking purchase information' rather than just recording instantly.

So if you recorded the games, you might have the same issue!

I tweeted Vodafone and they seem to be looking into it.

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

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over 11 years ago · edited over 11 years ago · History

Westham bet bundesliga team Schalke on penalties, Newcastle lost to La Liga team Malaga in a similar tournament in Germany today.

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over 11 years ago · edited over 11 years ago · History

Newcastle to commemorate John Alder and Liam Sweeney at first game of season and beyond with The Alder Sweeney Memorial Garden 

(info from nufc.com)

Full statement : http://www.nufc.com/2014-15html/2014-08-07nufc-mh1...


Plus further proof, if required, of the wider football family offering support across club rivalry.
A tribute banner commissioned and paid for by Manchester City fans ahead of the opening game of the season.

Tickets? Tickets? We talkin’ about tickets?

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over 11 years ago · edited over 11 years ago · History

Blew.2 wrote:

How many on here travelled to another region to see a FootBall United game. And what region to what game.   

Just personal Interest.  No prizes 

From Auckland to Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Melbourne (Kingz)

From Auckland to Hamilton and Wellington (Kingz)

From Wellington to Auckland, Napier and Dunedin (Nix)

From Wellington to Melbourne and Sydney (Nix)


Incredible stamina. No shame. Yellow Fever.


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

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over 11 years ago

Update from nufc.com:                           


Liam Sweeney

The Sweeney family confirm that they have now returned from Amsterdam with Liam and his funeral is set to be staged in Newcastle on Thursday August 21st.

Confirmed arrangements and timings are awaited, but a service at Saint Mary's Cathedral on Clayton Street West in the city centre is planned.

News of fellow supporter John Alder is still awaited, with Dutch-led forensic teams continuing work to identify remains of MH17 disaster victims shipped to Holland. Sunday's season-opener against Manchester City will see both team captains join with representatives from John and Liam's families to lay wreathes in the centre circle.

Former player Jimmy Montgomery will also join them to represent SAFC and their supporters and a minutes silence be observed following the arrival of the teams.

The club have announced that they will create The Alder Sweeney Memorial Garden outside the main entrance to the Milburn Stand as a lasting memorial to both men.

Tickets? Tickets? We talkin’ about tickets?

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over 11 years ago

Well well, who would have thought from watching them in NZ that the Hammers would be in the top half of the EPL and Newcastle at the bottom! This places the Phoenix comparatively either 7th in the EPL or relegated! 

Oi Oi Edgecumbe... lets have a clean sheet

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over 11 years ago

Update from nufc.com 

Tickets? Tickets? We talkin’ about tickets?

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over 11 years ago

Newcastle United 4 Sydney FC 0

Wellington Phoenix 2 West Ham 1

West Ham 1 Sydney FC 3

Wellington Phoenix 0 Newcastle United 1

West Ham 1 Newcastle United 0

Sydney FC vs Wellington Phoenix to be played December 21.


P W D L GD Pts
Newcastle United 3 2 0 1 4 6
Wellington Phoenix 2 1 0 1 0 3
Sydney FC 2 1 0 1 -2 3
West Ham 3 1 0 2 -2 3

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over 11 years ago

According to FeverBot, a 5-0 win over Sydney FC would give us the Inaugural Football United trophy, when using the first two league games between the sides that didn't play each other in to complete the tournament.


Yellow Fever - Misery loves company

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