Name your 3 modest aims for the season

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OK, so we all want the Nix to win the league. But this thread is about more modest aims.

You have to name 3 smaller things you would like to have happen this season. Things that are possible, not unreasonable, but would still be an achievement.
Maybe it's to have a particular player score a goal.

My three are:

Beating Adelaide. The only team of the other original 7 who we haven't beaten yet. I'd probably prefer it at home, but either is OK.
Jon McKain to get more recognition. He's one of our best players in my opinion. He should have been selected for the A-League Socceroos squad.
Play a beautiful passing game like we did in season 1.

Bevan2009-08-03 23:09:17

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1. Win the league.
2. Qualify for Asian Champions League after the rules are changed and then win it.
3. Win World Club Champions after defeating Arsenal in the final.

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1. go through the league undefeated

2. win every game with a 4-0 or higher score line

3. make everyone hate us

oh wait, this is the phoenix

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1. Ifill and Greenacre develop a good partnership and together score more goals than Smeltz
2. Rojas and Costa get a decent amount of gametime and impress
3. Play with attacking flair

a.haak

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1. Win the Golden boot and prove it wasn't all Smeltz's doing
2. finish with the Least amount of goals conceded
3. Top 2 finish and really wipe the look off of the person who wrote in the smh we'd finish last
giddyup2009-08-03 19:28:53

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Don't finish Bottom

Don't finish second bottom

make 6th.

ive got a song that wont take long, Adelaide are rubbish.. the second verse is same as the first.. ADELAIDE ARE RUBBISH

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Concede less

Score more

Make the play offs

Peoples Republik of Aucklandia

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1,2,3

Make the top tv news headlines in NZ for a good reason.

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Prove there is life after Smeltz & Moss (ok they are firmly written in our folklore.) in the Phoenix.

Finish top 5 with entertaining attractive football.

Try to maintain my 22 game A League Home Game Attendance streak for as long as possible - selfish I know but a record I am very proud of.

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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Ifill or Greenie retaining the Golden boot for the Nix

Watching a home play-off game

Surviving the away trip to Tardland

He dribbles a lot and the opposition dont like it - you can see it all over their faces. (Ron Atkinson)

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Win opening game at Newcastle (this will create the chance for a last minute flood for season tickets and a cracking atmosphere in opening home match).

Make top 6.

Singing "who are ya" at Smeltzie* as he gets subbed by Gold Coast after yet another goalless performance (and walking past 'golden boot' Greenacre).
Turfmoore2009-08-03 19:52:14

I know, I know, its serious!

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To sing 'stand up...' by its intended tune

To not miss the early flight to ChCh morning after CCM home game

To introduce the kids to the FZ without them asking their mother the next day what x, y and z mean.

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Average crowds of at least 12000

Make the sports news at least 3 times a week

Finish higher than any previous season

TBH right now all I want is to be walking struggling against the wind in a mass of YF going down the concourse.

You know we belong together...

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Get sh*t faced.
Try not to drop phone while sh*t faced.
Avoid certain people.

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Oska wrote:

Average crowds of at least 12000

Make the sports news at least 3 times a week

Finish higher than any previous season

ï¿½

TBH right now all I want is to be walking struggling against the wind in a mass of YF going down the concourse.

Modest or aspirational?

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Modest would be

Sell out RoF for every home game

Marco Rojas wins golden boot and Johnny Warren medal

Win every game with Barca-Sexy football

You know we belong together...

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1. Capture the imagination of a wider support base and make inroads into eggball culture in NZ

2. Give the AFC a headache by 'qualifying' for the Champions League

3. Prove beyond any doubt that the Phoenix should be in the A-League until the end of time

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Oska wrote:

Modest would be

Sell out RoF for every home game

Marco Rojasï¿½wins golden boot and Johnny Warren medal

Win every game with Barca-Sexy football

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SC03 wrote:

1. Capture the imagination of a wider support base and make inroads into eggball culture in NZ

2. Give the AFC a headache by 'qualifying' for the Champions League

3. Prove beyond any doubt that the Phoenix should be in the A-League until the end of time

As long as they don;t see it as more reason to have us finished altogether

You know we belong together...

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* Win the first Game against Newcastle convincingly, thus 10000 to RoF for 1st home match.

* Make it to all games, Including Palmy and ChCh.

*Beat Gold Coast at Home!

All Aboard the Phoenix/ All Whites Bandwagon!!

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1. Huge crowds for home games

2. Costa and Marcos to 'mature' as first team players

3. Be able to afford to kit the family out in those super cool stripey shirts.

+ be able to spell check each post.

+ not hit update so soon

Junior822009-08-03 21:03:30

"Phoenix till they lose"

Posting 97% bollox, 8% lies and 3.658% genuine opinion.

Genuine opinion: FTFFA

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1. Big away win to create interest, then;

2. Fine weather on August 16th to attract bigger crowd, then;

3. Don't lose that match in an embarrassing fashion so big crowd comes back for the next game.

Repeat throughout season.

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Ok boring

1. Consolidate our position
2. Get some decent crowds
3. Stave off going doing a Kingz / Knights

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1. See the Nix in a playoff game
2. See the Nix in the next playoff game
3. Be at a playoff game when the Nix are playing

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karori wrote:

3. Stave off going doing a Kingz

Get destroyed by SKY TV ?

How's my driving? - Whine here

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Partly - my concern is falling crowds due to economy - only 10,000 for a shield game was pathetic, can't just be the Rugby eas borning (I was there, and it was). Also the season ticket number has stuck again - 2008.

if we don't get bums on seats (again I have season tickets for 3rd year) we will fail

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Hard News wrote:

karori wrote:

3. Stave off going doing a Kingz

Get destroyed by SKY TV ?

A very serious concern IMHO

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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1, Unbeaten at home

2, make the last 4 in the playoffs

3, watch phoenix play attractive attacking football

Reserve 3

1, see fat B**stards face when Smeltz announces midseason he's transfering to a European club!

2, beat GC home and away

3, Greenacre or Ifill win Golden boot

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1. Beat GCU at the ROF.
2. Daniel to play like season 1 again and hence give us a good attacking platform.
3. Crowd average 9000+

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1. Have a good crowd for each game 9,000 or so.
2. Good partnership upfront.
3. Make playoffs

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1. See Muscat spitting the dummy in wellington

2.seeing daniel and deigo forge a combonation (shades of daniel & felipe)

3. Ifill and Greenacre sharing golden boot

3= unbeaten at home

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1.Top 4 finish for the season
2.Bigger, better crowds than last year.
3.Beat GC at the ROF in their first ever loss.

Improving,,on the up, a work in progress from Italiano and the Nix. Bring on the bathroom bling in '24! COYN!

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1. Have average crowds of 12 000 (10 000 to break even so this would make Terry some money which will only encourage him in future with the Phoenix.
2. To score many more goals than we concede.
3. For Kevin Muscat, Seo, and Joel Griffiths to join the same team and play an away game at the RoF and all break their legs in 7-12 places.

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1. Goals. More of them. Throughout the whole of the team and prove we don't need Smeltz'
2. Score a Beautiful Free kick
3. Win by 3+

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1. Sky TV NZ to televise ALL A-League games at reasonable times.
2. Sigmund to score a 90th minute winner in front of the Zone against Gold Coast United.
3. Hard News to take up jogging so as not to scare small children when the Nix are winning with 10 minutes to go.

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DKP22 wrote:

Freaky, I was thinking the very same scenario and there you go and say it for me. Goal scored from a crunching header to win a home play-off preferably.

Also like to see Daniel beat six players on a mazy, dribbling run to score the winner against anyone. And I'd like Ricki to make wise and judicious substitutions that pay handsome dividends.

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1.Rikki Herbert to sign and play more Kiwis in the team like he intimated he would when undermining the Knights

2.Play a more positive passing game

3.To substitute according to form and not favouritism

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bobmorton wrote:

1.Rikki Herbert to sign and play more Kiwis in the team like he intimated he would when undermining the Knights

2.Play a more positive passing game

3.To substitute according to form and not favouritism

thanks Jeremy

Founder

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1.More intelligent substitutions
2.more shots on goal
3.less back passes when in a decent attacking situation
3=more (female) breasts

I like tautologies because I like them.

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