In The Zone - The End

Mention of either performing now or top 10 club / historic club

So thinking

Villa

Everton

Newcastle 

I just listened and I must say we sound outstanding. I even lol'd at our jokes occasionally.

Oh wow. New low

Great effort guys... keep it up!

Cracker of a podcast guys. The shambles is what makes it so great!

Now this is a big IF... but if the commentary idea thing works out. What about voicing over live away games at a pub( eg. 4kings)?
I remember the ARC(alternative rugby commentary) doing an all blacks tour a few years back and it was miles better that the sky bollocks.

‪#‎InTheZone‬ 101 is out at www.yellowfever.co.nz/podcast

The pod return from their back slapping recording last week to look back at the hammering by Melbourne Heart and chat to Gareth Morgan on the proposed Petone Arena. In New Zealand football news, there are new clubs for three Kiwis overseas, and Team Wellington secure their place in the ASBP playoffs

Interesting comments from Gaz... more so about the licence extension than Petonix.

Petonix = Hutt Throb.

eish, with nothing about the new stadium confirmed yet, Gaz saying that there is no way we can stay at westpac is a ballsy thing to say...or just plain silly.  

Dowloaded and will listen tonight (after a sesh on Rome: Total War).

But that is extrapolating into the future with out taking into account any possible changes in revenue or reduction in costs.

If we were to get a 20 yr licence like the other clubs we could possibly negotiate better terms at the stadium if we guarantee x amount of games plus any potential finals for 20 years. At the same time each new TV deal and future sponsorship you would hope increases greater than costs.

@ant yea welnix won't keep pouring money in to a bottomless pit. But if you are getting 8000 to a 12000 seat stadium you would be closer to break even than 8000 in a 35000 seat stadium... I can see your point but if we get a 20 year licence they would be more confident in paying the money to make football in nz last. Bring the fans in closer to field, you make the whole atmosphere better and yellow fever louder

There seems to be an odd sense of attachment to Westpac.  When it's full, it's a great stadium.  When it's not, it's not a great place to watch football codes really.  Think about having a proper home end behind one of the goals and seeing goals go in right in front of you.  Think about regular full houses.  Think about having a stadium designed for our team with input from our fans and owned partially by our owners.  This seems to me to be an absolute no brainer really...

DomPost have put the boot firmly into this today. They are so blatantly anti-Phoenix it is a joke.

Just in the paper or online?  Thought Harmon's comments were a bit silly - let's retro fit retractable seats but got no idea how much it would cost

Ok just read editorial online.  Strange stance - what other public sports ground has been paid for by the owners of the teams?  No-one asked the rugby union to pay for Westpac did they?  Welnix guys do need to pitch this as a multi-sport community asset though to avoid charge they're benefitting from a council hand-out.

They might actually explode if Petone Rugby came out very publically embracing it.

Hopefully someone is lobbying them to say how much they will love playing there and how the rest of the rec will be perfect for the rest of Rugby in the region.

Is this it?

http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/comment/9740980/Editorial-Petone-stadium-needs-some-thought

I think this is the crux of the matter - and if the Board won't/can't change from that position then an alternative will happen (either in Petone or Eden Park).

Pity the DP never really touched on why Welnix are costing up an alternative.

I didn't really take away a sentiment of putting the boot in when I read it. I think the points posed are quite valid. The answers need to be able to justify those.

I can tell you if we could go back to 2007 or whenever it was we were debating what to do with Eden Park or the waterfront stadium, we got a whole bunch of nimbys that got stuck into it against the waterfront idea but there was never any real questions/answers of why it was a shit idea. Knowing what we know now, every person against it would have said 'bulldoze that and Mt Smart, sell the land off and stick in on the waterfront' Would have paid for itself and been a much better idea.

We got that so horribly wrong its not funny.

Yeah from the link posted above I thought it was reasonably balanced.

It's a classic editorial in some sense - trying to show points and cons, trying not to be overly controversial while still talking about a major news topic - it's usually the opinion of one writer, so whether it's pro-Phoenix or anti-Nix, it's a bit of a brush to label it fully as the Dom Post's viewpoint.

From this I have no problems with it - it shows pro-Petone ideas, from the mayor, Gareth etc, and then tells us what critics think too, it somewhat blandly doesn't come to any conclusion, definitely wouldn't class it as pro or anti Nix at all. 

I could go on but I feel nobody will agree with me anyway, just my take from the outside.

I have banned N-Bomb for 24 hours for disagreeing with opinions and sentiments being posted here by others.

I didn't think the editorial was that bad either, apart from the annoying "soccer" references.

Non-Phoenix fans will have a slightly different view of the cost/benefit equation and the editorial reflects that.