IF the Phoenix took a game away....

Napier seems to small to me. Auckland fans don't turn up so either Waikato or Christchurch seem good to me.

Christchurch is best.
They had 6000 to a game last year.

Easy to fly to from Wellington - cheap flights w/Pacific Blue, Qantas and Air NZ.

Napier and Palmerston North don't have proper airports.

No, but they have perfectly good bus stops... and supplying those for large numbers is much more financially viable than flights.

The poll seems to suggest that Phoenix would play a HOME match AWAY from home. If the stadium was closed, say after a major seismic event/nuclear holocaust, it might be possible to countenance such thing...

Failing that...I can see no grounds for such an idea. I think this is pretty much in the BLASPHEMY category.  The poster of such an idea should be immediately wh<..............>

It's just a bit of harmless speculation.

HARMLESS???  You call that HARMLESS!! That's an attack on a way of life. a culture... it gets us on the slippery slope to ruin... you mark my words. Some things once started simply don't stop....

Like News said, just imagine that for whatever reason, we can't play one of our games at the RoF - where would we want that game played then?

Ummm....   <breathe breathe>    ...I am thinking....

this is hard... I can imagine a lot of things but a Phoenix home match on foreign soil... alright....

.... if Stop Out weren't playing I'd be happy(ish) with the Hutt Park.

for ONE match ONLY!

Seating for 12,000 and lights may both be a challenge.

You started this thread. You knew it would lead down this path didn't you?

Maybe Memorial then ?  Close to Ava train station.

Karori park ftw.

As someone close to our hearts once said: "We have a great clubrooms."

The Waterslide Karori Herons.

mmm yep. The public transport connections are a little better.


If. IF,  we did play there would our season tickets still be valid?

If it's good enough for Bevan it's good enough for me. It's long time since I went overseas for a match.

Hard to put an answer on a conjecture based point but I imagine a draw would be out before we got membership stuff anyway so we'd know either way and it would be either included in ticket cost or the ticket cost reduced if it wasn't.

I've put the question to five friends who are not members of the site. (WHY?)
Anyway, four said Christchurch. Mostly because they support Phoenix well in friendlies.

One said "Napier cos it's easier to get to.."

But that's only because they've had the opportunity to support the Nix in a friendly...

ummm   yes.   

Basin Reserve wld do it for me

Keep it in Wgtn but make sure there's a return flight that night.  The bit that's really annoying is having to waste a night in a hotel just because the air links out of Wellington seem to finish before the end of the match.  Wake up Air New Zealand there's another market you are sitting on while you sleep.   But obviously as a one-eyed Aucklander I'd like it played in Auckland.

Er, to clarify that last comment, I haven't flown on Air NZ since they served semi defrosted pannis on the way back from Rarotonga.

To alleviate your confusion DF - saying Chch had 6,000 for a pre-season friendly so let's go there is a stupid argument, since neither Hamilton nor Auckland, or even Napier, have hosted Phoenix pre-season friendlies. If they had, who's to say they wouldn't have had just as good, if not better, crowds?

There would have to be more thinking in making such a decision than that.

When the phoenix were going to come and play HB united the place was going to be full at park island and the stands at Mclean park are moving along fast. It is a good venue. Close to welly, palmy, taupo, rotorua,tauranga 3-4hrs drive it is almost central or clost enough except for auckland.

Napier. Close too Palmy and Wellington.

Three more (non members of the site) and all season ticket holders.

Two said they'd give CHCH a whirl.
One said she'd give Napier a vote.

el grapadura wrote:

To alleviate your confusion DF - saying Chch had 6,000 for a pre-season friendly so let's go there is a stupid argument,.[/QUOTE]

err didn't you write [quote]Christchurch - have given decent support for the Nix in pre-season matches played there in the past, and perhaps deserve a regular season game for that previous support.

which is what the people I was quoting had said....

now I am really

p.s. Don't shoot the messenger. 


dairyflat2009-03-05 22:01:38

FMG Stadium Palmy North and then all you Wellingtonian swould   know what I had to do every week

Steady! We're here for you. 

I actually made an argument for Hamilton - and then simply listed potential reasons why other places should/should not get the game.

Using solely pre-season attendances in previous games in Christchurch to mount an argument as to where such a game could be played seems silly when other cnetres haven't had the same opportunity. Just pointing out that more thinking needs to go into it than just saying '6,000 turned up for a pre-season game last year'.

Yes, its like us saying at the start of the season gone..
"We had an average of 11,000 last season"

Wouldn't be allowed mate. AMI Stadium loks sweet but have to consider QE2 is well.

Palmy.

Palmerston North is the complete opposite of Wellington.

Though maybe not as much as Hamilton.

wonder if Palmy would be up to A-League standards, can't say I know.

Middle of summer the stadium is pretty much all geared up for Speedway.

Well Palmy is a good waste of Farming Land!