Nix v NQF - Friday 15th

Presumably the one DM in Manny enables Timbo and Vincent to be less defensive, therefore a more attacking formation.

Oh whoops- I meant one midfielder (manny) playing a more defensive role- as opposed to the two that we have seen over the rest of the season (vinnie/tim- who can now push further  forward).

My God, "Don't wear your colours in our boozer or we'll bottle you", "wear a jacket over your shirt and keep your head down and be respectful and you'll be ok" who the f**k do they think they are, the Green Street Hooligans?

I think it's one of the great things about the Phoenix fan base that visiting fans are actively encouraged at the Bencher pre-game or at the Kings post-game. 

It makes the fans head home talking of how great a time they had and why we see numbers from the likes of Sydney grow each year.

It's not my fault I'm such pleasant company...

Lol, reading further and enjoyed this one too "As mentioned by several other people the only reason that the "colours" thing was mentioned is that some nobs from the Roar took liberties earlier in the year."
(the liberties being wearing their Roar tops and starting a Roar chant)

haha, and this "Whether you still want to come to the pub or not is up to you - we've advised you that we'd prefer it if you didn't display your colours so its your call"

aitkenmike2010-01-12 15:00:08

This would never happen in Whanganui.

and they keep saying things like "respect us on our patch"

Betcha Ricki won't change the run on team. Maybe Greenie in the reserves for Diago.

Are they trying to look tough? If they are, then it's a massive fail. It just makes people lol.

Priorities mate! You shouldn't work for any employer who'd stand between you and the Phoenix in the first place

Actually for this reason, I think Welly Rugby has the right idea - this year WRFU members can e-mail a match ticket to a mate for any home match they can't attend. Would love to see the Nix adopt something similar for next season for cases like this.

Even the guy being reasonable says (the end of the very last post)

We should have a whipround and send the Wharfies tonners there on an end of season tour this year...

Not being able to wear your colours.... It's like being back in Rotorua, ahhh the memories!

I remember whenever brisbane come,they come into our pub in 'their colours' chanting and carrying on,we just chant back. All in good fun. Same goes for some perth guys posting a pretty much identical post on here before they travel over to wellington for a game,again its taken in the good humour as intended.

Good news about the yellow card count from here on....according to Fred Woodcock (who is never wrong)....the card limit for suspension gets extended after 21 rounds from 5 to 8....so Durante and Brown (who are on 4 yellows) now have some breathing space.  Vince Lia though still has to be careful as he already has 7.

Excellent.

as much as i would love to see greenacre back i the team, we cant distrupt the good form the teams on at the minute, maybe a place on the bench

Surely he has to slot right in,drop Lia/manny/bertos for him any day.

Gag thief.

I'd rather not drop Manny after his latest performance. Maybe Lia or Bertos though

Hmm theory being Lia has been much better at DM,while manny is only there so we can have more going forward with Lia and brown getting into good positions up front of late. Having greenacre back will mean we have this anyway.

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With a 2020 game of cricket on Friday as well wonder what sort of crowd they can expect..  

if it rains then there'll be no cricket . but then again we'd probably miss a few if it does rain. catch 22.

It's not in Wellington it's at The Mount.

Ah you are right sorry as you were...

Would have been quite good if they had a 2pm game then off to the nix after.

Good TV coverage tonight from both TV1 and TV3. Showed Greenie runniing around with the mother of all bandages on his knee. Lads looked pumped and in high spirits. Dadi was interviewed and forgot Ricki's name....made up with a "sorry boss". very funny!

http://www.3news.co.nz/Wellington-Phoenix-riding-wave-of-confidence/tabid/317/articleID/136984/Default.aspx

and

http://tvnz.co.nz/football-news/greenacre-needs-fight-nix-place-3328864/video
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i think the nix are doing right, stay with same formation and team this weak, it a must win game. maybe try having greenacre and dadi together in an away game. where it less important. (not saying all games arnt important but wining our remaining home games is most important i think)

I kind of disagree, really. I know that is what Ricki wants to happen but I don't think it works out like that. Manny drops back as another CB a lot of the time and Lia + Brown didn't ever get noticably more forward than they have done in the past.

Still think that playing 3 DM's (basically) is a bit of a waste when we have such great attacking players on the bench. Can't argue with 2 wins though..
valeo2010-01-12 21:16:58

Very nervous about Friday night's game - not because I don't think we can win but rather because I think we should win. No disrespect to the Fury who are a good team with a good culture who battle hard and give nothing away and, of course, they have Robbie.