Wellington Phoenix Men

Nix v Mariners

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over 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
valeo wrote:
QLD away is going to be very tough. They've finally broke their hoodoo. (unfortunately for us..)
 
btw I thought we defended awesomely from set pieces.
theyve been poor at home for the past 4 seasons, i dont think 2 consecutive wins "breaks" their home hoodoo.
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Was a great game. waiting for the replay on TV.
The ref was a dick but lets face it most of them are in the A - league.
The Crowd would have been more but the weather wasn't the best and I don't think people have as much money to go around spending at this time of year. the new year will bring us more. the sun will be out.
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Scottishbhoy wrote:
loyalgunner wrote:
6 762
 
 
Pathetic..
 
So really they only sold..3381


I made the same comment to a mate of mine at the game.

All sorts of excuses are being made about this; We had Sunday games at the start of the season, Its Christmas, it's labour day, we are in a super-dooper recession. Fact of the matter is, when I show people Nix games on tele the first thing most of them say is that it looks empty. No one goes to watch it live - why bother?

There's not a lot I can do to convince people to come. I found it very hard going giving away my free ticket. Ended up giving it to my girlfriend who comes to every game anyway (see an old thread as to why she didn't get a season pass ).
So I didn't recruit a new Nix supporter really, I just saved myself 30 odd bucks.

We had such a fantastic turn out last season, and now we occasionally start to play better football than we did and actually are getting results (we now I more points than we got last season if I recall) we don't have the people on the seats to witness it.

The 241 deal hasn't worked. Even though I am going to take advantage of the January deal and bring 3 kiddies along with it I doubt that this will work either due to the time of year. I think that these marketing campaigns should have started a lot earlier in the season, maybe as soon as the numbers dipped below 8,000.

A mate of mine says that the ROF looked ugly and empty last night. But we got a bigger crowd than the Jets so I should just shut up really.

Central Hawkes Bay Nix
and tragic follower of Charlton Athletic 
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well done Team
vital 3 points
nice to see Jets help out too
it's all on
5 teams for 3 places
exciting times and great to see the team well in the hunt

E's Flat Ah's Flat Too

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Not sure if this has been mentioned but has anyone noticed that in the Dominion Post, there is a picture of Gumprecht and Lochhead but the writer Sam Worthington seems to think Gumprecht is Matthew Nash.

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Come on guys! Get to the damn games!
We've got nearly as many wins as the Victory this year and we can't get half their crowd?
I know this is the wrong place to be saying this - you're not the people who need converting - but dwindling crowds = no money = no Smeltz Mach II = no goals....= our license is given to none other than Townsville or Canberra.

= I cry like Ronaldo.

That's it - I may live in Japan, but I'm buying a season pass next year.
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Giggs 11 wrote:

Not sure if this has been mentioned but has anyone noticed that in the Dominion Post, there is a picture of Gumprecht and Lochhead but the writer Sam Worthington seems to think Gumprecht is Matthew Nash.



I'm not going crazy hooray! Would've been quite embarrassing for though as I spent the whole game calling him Gumprecht, if it turned out to be someone else
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progeny wrote:
Come on guys! Get to the damn games!
We've got nearly as many wins as the Victory this year and we can't get half their crowd?
I know this is the wrong place to be saying this - you're not the people who need converting - but dwindling crowds = no money = no Smeltz Mach II = no goals....= our license is given to none other than Townsville or Canberra.

= I cry like Ronaldo.

That's it - I may live in Japan, but I'm buying a season pass next year.
 
sorry ill bring 2 of me to the next game.
 
Preaching to the wrong crowd dude

Allegedly

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progeny wrote:
Come on guys! Get to the damn games!
We've got nearly as many wins as the Victory this year and we can't get half their crowd?
I know this is the wrong place to be saying this - you're not the people who need converting - but dwindling crowds = no money = no Smeltz Mach II = no goals....= our license is given to none other than Townsville or Canberra.

= I cry like Ronaldo.

That's it - I may live in Japan, but I'm buying a season pass next year.
 
just as long as you realise that whatever address you do put Ticketek will send it to Upper Hutt
 
 
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For my 2 cents worth...
 
Yf - exceptionally noisey tonight, possibly because of the excitement of us scoring so quickly.
 
The referee - t**ser. It might have been our first time having him but he gave us sod all in comparrison and both sides were as bad as each other. You really need to look in a mirror and reflect on the performance. Substandard at best.
 
Excellent that the Nix held out, last year they would have folded and this year, they are showing some steal. ok and we rode our luck but who gives a sh*t??
 
Plodder, you beauty, 50 A League games and nearly scored. He went on with a specific role and did it. Congrats Jeremey. oh and thanks for the Jersey. the cause is a good one.
 
The rest of the team really drew within themselves. Not the flashiest performance but the hard graft ones count too! they never gave up despite immense pressure. Stand proud lads.
 
Bertos, your crosses with a strong wins were causing them all sorts of head aches when to did them. Well done Leo.
 
The  buy one, get one free ticket idea. Damn good and I'm pissed off that few outside the normal faithful, took advantage of it. $14 for a decent game and where were they?? I'd like to thank the club for the initiative and hope they persivere with it.
 
I'm also pissed off with some whom (not on this site) are all talk about going to the games yet find, create or conjour up an excuse not to be there. The lethargic attitude of these people is reminiscient of Some people up north towards the Knights, Kingz & the Beckham game. You are missing out on a lot of fun. Support your team, the more the merrier. Dont talk about it - Just do it!
 
Daniel, Thanks for acknowledging the new area of the ground dedicated to giving you verbal yet positive encouragement. It meant a lot to us after the effort that went into that banner especially from my sister.
 
Lastly, Piney - you're legend and between you and one of the best players from Wellington (Chote) & your sideline guru you make a damn good team. I listen on my walkman and it's great to hear from a different angle something we couldn't see. Thanks heaps. Between listening to you and the YF over the other side, it gives an alround atmosphere for me at least. I recommend others take an FM walkman with them and tune into 106.4 FM inside the ROF!!
Lonegunmen2008-12-20 15:30:36
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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Lonegunmen wrote:
For my 2 cents worth...
 

 
I'm also pissed off with some whom (not on this site) are all talk about going to the games yet find, create or conjour up an excuse not to be there. The lethargic attitude of these people is reminiscient of Some people up north towards the Knights, Kingz & the Beckham game. You are missing out on a lot of fun. Support your team, the more the merrier. Dont talk about it - Just do it!
 


Agree. Soon as I found out about the deal I got my mate and his Gf to come along and then they pulled out a few hours before kick off saying something about a work party. lucky we got someone else but that's not the point.
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tigers wrote:
progeny wrote:
Come on guys! Get to the damn games!
We've got nearly as many wins as the Victory this year and we can't get half their crowd?
I know this is the wrong place to be saying this - you're not the people who need converting - but dwindling crowds = no money = no Smeltz Mach II = no goals....= our license is given to none other than Townsville or Canberra.

= I cry like Ronaldo.

That's it - I may live in Japan, but I'm buying a season pass next year.
 
just as long as you realise that whatever address you do put Ticketek will send it to Upper Hutt
 
 


dont you mean lower Hutt
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Scottishbhoy wrote:
http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=qzb6FE9pCHc&feature=channel
 
 
We need more of that, around the 8min mark in the vid.


Having not been in NZ last year I really can't believe the size of that crowd compared to what it's like now! Where the **** are all those people??? There are many excuses that have been trotted out but I don't think any of them can account for about 8000 people just disappearing.

Was genuinely gutted when I got in last night and saw the size of the crowd, really thought the 2 for 1 might work out. On the plus side my mate managed to rope in about 8 extra people from his work so that was something at least...

If we win next week I will expect (hope) at least 8000 at the Newcastle game...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe_B5CzbTJo - Caceres winning penalty v Perth - footage from the Fever Zone

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 On the point about the 2-for-1 deals, I think the YF zone last night was the perhaps worse I've heard in quite a while.

 While the idea of getting free tickets is a good one, preferably people who A) go into the YF zone to actually take part, or b) no free tickets in the YF zone at all.

 The YF zone this season has broken into distinct groups of people who all try to chant at different times, often over the top of each other, or quite badly out of sync with the rest of the crowd.
 It didn't help to have a bunch of w**kers in the YF zone who were not interested in the game at all, and were only there because they got a freebie.
 
 The YF zone is for football supporters, not every idiot and his friend who want to act like t**sers, throw rubbish, and utter random noises when the rest of us are chanting.

 And that's not even starting on the little sh*t heads who spend half the game jumping on those f**king Sony w**ker sticks. I like to have my hearing in one piece, and the amount of those things going off in, or near, my ear is extremely tiresome.
 
 Oh yeah, and it would help to have the 2-for-1 deals advertised everywhere from the start of the week, not a Wednesday/Thursday when the staff at the Wellington Phoenix Shop have no idea what the deal is about.
 
 Advertise in the Dominion Post, pay some students to plaster posters everywhere = lots of people.
Ard Righ2008-12-20 18:25:36
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The two-for-one deal should have been plastered on the posters on the bus shelters which were already there to advertise the game.

The two-for-one deal was not that well promoted.

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Half time chat with three Liverpool fans calling for Benitez's head as he has a goatee.

Mike Moran, possibly world's greatest photographer. If you're in aisle twenty four and he waves he's waving to me and Bill but you can wave back to him if you want.

Bill - YES!!!
Me - "I like winning"
Tony "If I lived in Wellington, yes, I would get a season ticket."
Alastair - "here Tony have a scarf.."
Suzi -' Why did I agree to this?"


dairyflat2008-12-20 19:08:46
Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe. 
20/5/20

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The lower crowds seem to be an issue right across the A-League. The reported crowd for the Jets v Victory game last night was 6,300 -  our crowd was comparatively good.

There is a lot of latent support for the Nix in Wellington - turning that latent support in to bums on seats is hard with many cash strapped coming up to Christmas and worried about what will happen to their jobs in the New Year.
 
The 2 for 1 and free kids ideas are great. The run of better results also helps with the Nix profile as does the outstanding community work the club gets involved in.
 
Once the economy settles, we get more consistency with the results and, hopefully, a couple of bigger names added to the squad crowds will grow.
 
In the meantime we all do our bit to get family and friends along - when they go they love it.
 
P.S. When we make the play offs we will get 9 to 10k for the play off games.
 
 
Whitby boy2008-12-20 19:34:53
He dribbles a lot and the opposition dont like it - you can see it all over their faces. (Ron Atkinson)
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Ard Righ wrote:
 On the point about the 2-for-1 deals, I think the YF zone last night was the perhaps worse I've heard in quite a while.


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I thought the zone was in pretty good form. 
 
Must depend where you stand.

I know, I know, its serious!

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What does everybody think of Hearfield? Can't say I rate the guy too much, personally, but am I missing something in him? Well something he offers to the teamEl-Kun2008-12-20 19:59:02
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Couldn't agree more....I thought the YF zone was for fans who wanted to watch and support the game, not for morons who were too drunk to know what they were doing half the time and acted like total tw#ts.
The guy who spent half the match with his back to the pitch telling everyone that he'd lost his "f##king passport", "found his f##king passport" but didn't know where the police station was and that the security guy who cautioned him had tried to "f##king get him kicked out 6 months ago" was particularly pathetic.
Neither he nor his mates seemed to know who we were playing, hurling insults at "your team", but then thats not surprising as he spent the game wandering up and down the aisle making inane comments.
Oh, and by the way if you are reading this passport boy....assuming you can read....Torres doesn't play for Man Utd and the guy you were shouting at was wearing a Liverpool shirt.
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Wasnt able to get to the game last night, but you could hear the fever chanting through the TV nice and clearly!!!
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There should a 3 news item on Campbell live on the the mystery of why there is less crowd this season than last season when the Phoenix are doing much better now than last season. I think that once the nix reach the top four or by chance on the top of the table, there would be more media coverage and then we see them come through the gates.
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good to see tops of in the zone even though that wind was damn cold on the naked flesh
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Enjoyed that! Great start! Not the greatest match but agree with the comments about hanging in there for a result. Would have been pretty depressing to have lost or got a draw from that. Thought CCM were pretty disappointing for all their possession.
Enjoyed the Fever Zone! Great to be among fans who have a passion for the game and their team and aren't afraid to show it loudly and with humour! It is interesting to talk with non-football people about the Nix and Yellow Fever. They seem to be under the impression that YF are just a bunch of drunken louts. They just can't get their heads around football supporters apparently. Hopefully the guy that came along with me will have changed his opinion. Certainly the prematch at the BB and the Zone at the game had a pretty good atmosphere.
Thought the ref didn't have a great game but hesitate to be too abusive. Imo Durrante's and Brown's cards were great tackles (I am biased though) and Smeltz did nearly get his head taken off with a boot that went uncarded but was similar to the one he was booked for. Perhaps we should all do some refereeing and find out how easy it is.
Re drunken w**kers in the Zone. When I was in the UK at matches if anyone acted like a t*sser in the home end they generally got "sorted out" if you know what I mean. Where are the stewards if they were throwing bottles?
Liked the santa hats, hats with plats a nice touch, and the shirts off at the 80th is becoming an institution.
So the game wasn't a classic but we got a result and the YF could head off with the knowledge that we had participated to the fullest and played our part in achieving that result and had some fun doing it!

We Still Love You Colin We Do!

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Ard Righ wrote:
 On the point about the 2-for-1 deals, I think the YF zone last night was the perhaps worse I've heard in quite a while.

 While the idea of getting free tickets is a good one, preferably people who A) go into the YF zone to actually take part, or b) no free tickets in the YF zone at all.

 The YF zone this season has broken into distinct groups of people who all try to chant at different times, often over the top of each other, or quite badly out of sync with the rest of the crowd.
 It didn't help to have a bunch of w**kers in the YF zone who were not interested in the game at all, and were only there because they got a freebie.
 
 The YF zone is for football supporters, not every idiot and his friend who want to act like t**sers, throw rubbish, and utter random noises when the rest of us are chanting.

 And that's not even starting on the little sh*t heads who spend half the game jumping on those f**king Sony w**ker sticks. I like to have my hearing in one piece, and the amount of those things going off in, or near, my ear is extremely tiresome.
 
 Oh yeah, and it would help to have the 2-for-1 deals advertised everywhere from the start of the week, not a Wednesday/Thursday when the staff at the Wellington Phoenix Shop have no idea what the deal is about.
 
 Advertise in the Dominion Post, pay some students to plaster posters everywhere = lots of people.
 
Way to act superior
 
Maybe we should just have a 3k crowd every week,and ban everyone else.

Allegedly

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Isn't he right, though? I even heard a 'you're sh*t ahh' (cringe) chant on tv. It's obviously changing in Welly..

a.haak

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zizoustainrod wrote:
Re drunken w**kers in the Zone. When I was in the UK at matches if anyone acted like a t*sser in the home end they generally got "sorted out" if you know what I mean. Where are the stewards if they were throwing bottles?
Shame its been posted about in the forums and not sorted on the nite.I thought after a couple of minor incidents last season it was agreed that we should be proactive in this type of thing.Bitching afterwards wont fix it,needs to be knocked on the head at the time.Maybe even literally if required.

GET YOUR SHIRTS OFF FOR THE BOYS

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 And that's not even starting on the little sh*t heads who spend half the game jumping on those f**king Sony w**ker sticks. I like to have my hearing in one piece, and the amount of those things going off in, or near, my ear is extremely tiresome.
 
Totally agree with this. Only the TV it sounded stupid. Its such a gimmick.
 
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On the TV.....
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Hetfield wrote:
the little sh*t heads who spend half the game jumping on those f**king Sony w**ker sticks.


Feverette?
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ballane wrote:
zizoustainrod wrote:
Re drunken w**kers in the Zone. When I was in the UK at matches if anyone acted like a t*sser in the home end they generally got "sorted out" if you know what I mean. Where are the stewards if they were throwing bottles?
Shame its been posted about in the forums and not sorted on the nite.I thought after a couple of minor incidents last season it was agreed that we should be proactive in this type of thing.Bitching afterwards wont fix it,needs to be knocked on the head at the time.Maybe even literally if required.


I have been to every game this season and most of the last. felt compelled to post for the first time now. On page 18 it says about the fight in row M. The quote above sums up what happened. I was in row L and had to put up with these t***ers all game. Throwing bottles, chanting any rubbish, off time. kicking us in the back,popping those annoying blow up things, hitting us round head with bottles, whipping us in the eye with shirts. It boiled over in 80th minute when the bloke next to me told the bloke behind to stop hitting him in the eye. Bloke behind says in reply 'you can f off you wa**er. So it no surprise that he got hit in the head. It is only a shame it took so long to happen or that the red badge did nothing to contain these fools a bit sooner. Totaly wrecked what should have been a glorious game, and has compelled me to move to aisle 22 for the next game. What has happened to the YF zone, why should the dedicated fans have to put up with this sort of thing? and although it was well deserved, surely fighting our own is not what we should be doing!
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i had the impression that if a fan complained to red-badge about a behaviour that is out of order, then they would keep an eye on things and take action if necessary (which seems to have been the case)
 
sounds like either i)they weren 't told, ii) didn't notice, or iii) failed to do their job, if they were aware of what went on
 
maybe the red badge game falls apart without Buzz'12345' on duty
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I never noticed any trouble tbh. The zone was nice and loud though. 

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The noise of those thunder sticks popping is music to my ears.

We had some little sh*ts behind us going hard for the first 10 minutes before the guy next to me starting to pop them with keys, then somehow persuaded them to pop them and chant.
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ingtaerfever wrote:
ballane wrote:
zizoustainrod wrote:
Re drunken w**kers in the Zone. When I was in the UK at matches if anyone acted like a t*sser in the home end they generally got "sorted out" if you know what I mean. Where are the stewards if they were throwing bottles?
Shame its been posted about in the forums and not sorted on the nite.I thought after a couple of minor incidents last season it was agreed that we should be proactive in this type of thing.Bitching afterwards wont fix it,needs to be knocked on the head at the time.Maybe even literally if required.


I have been to every game this season and most of the last. felt compelled to post for the first time now. On page 18 it says about the fight in row M. The quote above sums up what happened. I was in row L and had to put up with these t***ers all game. Throwing bottles, chanting any rubbish, off time. kicking us in the back,popping those annoying blow up things, hitting us round head with bottles, whipping us in the eye with shirts. It boiled over in 80th minute when the bloke next to me told the bloke behind to stop hitting him in the eye. Bloke behind says in reply 'you can f off you wa**er. So it no surprise that he got hit in the head. It is only a shame it took so long to happen or that the red badge did nothing to contain these fools a bit sooner. Totaly wrecked what should have been a glorious game, and has compelled me to move to aisle 22 for the next game. What has happened to the YF zone, why should the dedicated fans have to put up with this sort of thing? and although it was well deserved, surely fighting our own is not what we should be doing!
Nothing has happened to zone, i question why you put up with that crap for so long.I would suggest there are many from YF who would not have put up with any of that crap.It would have been sorted and if Red Badge chose to ignore it then its a case of taking matters into your own hands.

GET YOUR SHIRTS OFF FOR THE BOYS

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tigers wrote:
i had the impression that if a fan complained to red-badge about a behaviour that is out of order, then they would keep an eye on things and take action if necessary (which seems to have been the case)
 
sounds like either i)they weren 't told, ii) didn't notice, or iii) failed to do their job, if they were aware of what went on
 
maybe the red badge game falls apart without Buzz'12345' on duty
 
Lol Tigers...see what happens now I dont work for them anymore...seriously though, if you do see anybody being a dick, then let the Red badge guys know straight away. It is a shame to see bottles flying again..I saw one from lower down in 21 and my son told me of one from behind us..likewise we were in 21 aisle L near those muppets but didnt see the fight....
 
There do seem to be less Red badge staff there now so giving them a hand by letting them know about the t**sers (not getting stuck in) is a good idea I think and fits in with the self policing that was discussed at the AGM.
 
Just my opinions anyway
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HK_Keeper wrote:
Hetfield wrote:
the little sh*t heads who spend half the game jumping on those f**king Sony w**ker sticks.


Feverette?


Just keeping them out of the zone
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