Posted December 01, 2025 21:11
· last edited December 01, 2025 21:13
BrockieTheGOAT
I don't think there's really an Auckland fan base in Christchurch to make such complaints. The entrance of both teams into the A-League vastly different circumstances with Wellington essentially representing all of Aotearoa as the only NZ team in the comp. I think Wellington will also do a better job of appealing to South Islanders. Would be an interesting theoretical if Auckland did bring a game down as to how they would do. But yeah agree it makes more sense to take a game to Hamilton or something.
Re South Island United, do I understand it correctly that they will not play a single game in the South Island, only in the North Island, thanks to the weird OFC hub system? That's a complete farce. How tf they supposed to drum up any kind of support locally without playing games locally?? That feels like such a rug pull to promise a looooong awaited pro football in the South Island then play all the games in Auckland, it's almost comical LG
BrockieTheGOAT
Man get over it you Wellingtonians are so lucky to happen to live in the city where you have the opportunity to go to the games, have that game day experience, share that with your friends and family, while the entire South Island starves since forever. It's SO exciting here to get a single football match, we also literally never get international games (Tahiti, 12 or so years ago?)
I love reading the argument that pops up around these subjects that because you've supported the team it feels like a backstab. What about fans like me, I live in Franz Josef, drive 5 hours to get to Christchurch to fly to Wellington just for a match. Does support from out of wellington not mean anything? We love this team so much too. Throw us a bone every now and then and don't whinge so much about sharing the love of the game to other places. Do something cool to say bye to Rufer in the last Wellington game instead..?
You'll be very pleased you now have your own Professional team then. The whinge wasn't that you got a game, it was that you got possibly our very last home game for a lot of the squad. So Wellington fans don't get to say farewell.
Out of curiosity, Are Christchurch football fans going after AFC for not taking any games down there??
Surely that is taking the pi$$. (And don't call me Surely) All their games should be in the South Island. Chch, Dunedin, Nelson. Good grief. Epic fail on the horizon if no games are down South. Just learning that has actually fudgeed me off. All this song and dance about a South Island team and the South Island get shafted without even being lubed up.
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BrockieTheGOAT
I don't think there's really an Auckland fan base in Christchurch to make such complaints. The entrance of both teams into the A-League vastly different circumstances with Wellington essentially representing all of Aotearoa as the only NZ team in the comp. I think Wellington will also do a better job of appealing to South Islanders. Would be an interesting theoretical if Auckland did bring a game down as to how they would do. But yeah agree it makes more sense to take a game to Hamilton or something.
Re South Island United, do I understand it correctly that they will not play a single game in the South Island, only in the North Island, thanks to the weird OFC hub system? That's a complete farce. How tf they supposed to drum up any kind of support locally without playing games locally?? That feels like such a rug pull to promise a looooong awaited pro football in the South Island then play all the games in Auckland, it's almost comical LG
BrockieTheGOAT
Man get over it you Wellingtonians are so lucky to happen to live in the city where you have the opportunity to go to the games, have that game day experience, share that with your friends and family, while the entire South Island starves since forever. It's SO exciting here to get a single football match, we also literally never get international games (Tahiti, 12 or so years ago?)
I love reading the argument that pops up around these subjects that because you've supported the team it feels like a backstab. What about fans like me, I live in Franz Josef, drive 5 hours to get to Christchurch to fly to Wellington just for a match. Does support from out of wellington not mean anything? We love this team so much too. Throw us a bone every now and then and don't whinge so much about sharing the love of the game to other places. Do something cool to say bye to Rufer in the last Wellington game instead..?
You'll be very pleased you now have your own Professional team then. The whinge wasn't that you got a game, it was that you got possibly our very last home game for a lot of the squad. So Wellington fans don't get to say farewell.
Out of curiosity, Are Christchurch football fans going after AFC for not taking any games down there??
Surely that is taking the pi$$. (And don't call me Surely) All their games should be in the South Island. Chch, Dunedin, Nelson. Good grief. Epic fail on the horizon if no games are down South.