IF the Phoenix took a game away....

Newtown or Porirua Park.

Jade would be best or maybe Napier.

Neither large enough, no lights at Newtown and the lights at Porirua are not good enough for TV.

Either way if the stadium burnt down the game would be rescheduled for a later date like when that game was flooded out over in Aus.

Napier then, easier to Travel to or Palmy, we under estimate the numbers that would travel up there to follow the lads. So long as our season passes were still allowed to gain entry.

Exactly the reason why Terry needs to build us a purpose built 25K All Seater Stadium as well as building Apartment blocks on the same site. The sale of said apartments will raise the capital to fund the World Class Football facility that will house our Wellington Phoenix FC!

With a retractible roof.

It would need to be Fire Proof too then there's little chance of having to watch a home match outside Wellington!!!
C-Diddy2009-02-20 22:11:06

Meh.  No Wind, No Rain, No Love.

OK No roof.

Concept a good one though! Are you reading Terry?

Imagine the noise from the crowd with a roof, not the radio music though. They should ban that,

Waikato always get a good turnout for the warriors in pre-season plus it's probably the best football specific ground in the country.  Get's my vote.

I wouldnt mind Auckland.
If we travel up we can teach them how its done. I would expect the same crowd numbers as the stadium though.

Good luck with that.

I'd travel anywhere within the same country as myself. NZ wise, my vote would go to Christchurch, they've certainly earned the right. Waikato Stadium would be my next bet.

Why not take Smeltzy and his mates down to Invergiggle at the start of the season? Or if not, Robbie 'White Line' Fowler?

We're not here to make friends, and it'd be a legendary road (and air/water) trip

MT Smart for me, brings back fond memories. Are our old seats in front of the corporate boxes still their or did they go with the revamp?

Being selfish.... Waikato

Have it in christchurch but not at AMI. The atmosphere would be meh bc the stadium is a mess really..

Not adequate lighting.

Great call LG - we can drive our cars onto the rail wagons to park and save gas too - Goodbye Pork Pie style

For you young uns who have no idea what I'm on about... check this.

If the stadium burnt down... hire some flood lights that are suitable for television and do it at the Basin.



Else do it in Christchurch, they'd deserve it.Michael2009-02-21 12:18:16

CHCH for sure!
Heaps of nix fans down here

Massive coach trip to Napier.  Gives us plenty of opportunity to perfect our chants

It's not like it's completely outside of the realms of possibility to hire some powerful lights like they did for the U-17 womens world cup.
loyalgunner2009-02-21 20:33:42

take it to lil england, auckland had there chance at a soccer team and f**ked it. 

Whangarei in the North Land the winterless north. 

ITM Stadium capacity 25, 000 http://www.worldstadiums.com/oceania/countries/new_zealand.shtml

Information about Whangarei http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whangarei

Carisbrook while we've still got it

Growers Stadium, Pukekohe  FTW

Bump.

Surprising how little interest there is in Auckland.

OK, I'll take this seriously this time around.

Think Hamilton would be a very good option. The city has been very proactive in getting top-class sports events, and I'm sure they'd do a very good job of promotion and marketing for the game. Hamilton itself is a decent sized city (for NZ, that is) and has Auckland in the near vicinity, as well as BoP, so with good marketing the crowd could be a very good one.

The other options, in order of preference:

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. Dunedin isn't that far away, so perhaps supporters from there could also end up boosting the numbers. The potential downside is the proverbial parochialism of the Cantabs - from memory, the Warriors didn't get flash crowds when playing in Chch (perhaps something to do with the weather, think it was pretty bad every time the Warriors played there), but maybe has something to do with Cantabs (gross generalisation here!) not all that fussed with supporting teams that have a clear regional identity from other parts of New Zealand. Potentially risky IMO (i.e. the crowd could end up being 4-5,000, hardly worth taking the game away from Wellington for that).

Napier - clear upside is that there's a lot of Nix fans over there, and not too far for Wellingtonians to get there. The stadium is currently having work done for RWC 2011, so don't know what the capacity is right now. The place itself is not that big, so an aggresive marketing campaign would need to be launched in accross the wider region (Hawke's Bay, Manawatu, Wairarapa) to get a good crowd. Could be too much trouble for it's worth.

Auckland - shouldn't get it purely based on a matter of principle. Failing twice with a professional football team is a blight on a city that likes to portray itself as the place to be in NZ. But still has a very large population, and some very good football people there. But getting to Hamilton isn't really that much more trouble for Aucklanders than getting to NHS or Mt Smart, so I think a sizeable chunk of football supporters would head down to the Tron for a Nix game.el grapadura2009-03-02 12:03:13

Sick of being laughed at tbf.

Palmy and Napier for ease of Wgtonians getting there please