Nix vs Perth Feb 2nd 5:00pm - The Fox pre and post game

 As the link I posted shows, there will be rail replacement buses leaving from out back of Britomart, so only a bit extra walk. It's just that buses aren't as fun as trains.

Is there any free & unrestricted parking over in the Kingsland shops anyone?

Found out today that I won the Sony Phoenix Challenge. 2 flights to Auckland, hotel for the night and tickets to the game. Me and my son are both season ticket holders and we are buzzing that we will get to go the game. Hope it's a posh hotel and we win comforatbly.

This is now another cellar dwellar battle.  And funnily enough the breakers v wild cats is a 1st v 2nd on the table.  Polar opposites

Text Sport Jeremy Brockie to 3920 and you could win tickets

What pub are we drinking at?

The Fox on the Viaduct is the plan.

Guess that's we are heading after the game then?

Also pitchers of crafts beer at SS B&G.
Including a few Wellington models

Why would you not head back to Foxes? If you want cheap beer in Auckland, you wont even get it at the RSA

 Packed to the gills with sevens people though...

Lets just head to Kingslander and then walk/stumble over the road to Eden park

 Post match as well needs to be considered.  Probably better to get back into town for that.

 to be fair the ads are everywhere now.  Massive coverage. Pax anyone? Realise I might have also been having a go at our sponsors when these are generic A-league ads. So sorry, Clem maaate!

Don't think the owners affect the crowds as much as no Ifill and no wins. Get all your Auckland rellies and friends along!

 can't find one online- maybe one of the other aucks with some better grade of technology than me could post one?

Got told they have sold 3-4K so far. More than same time last year. Apparently the Friday before the game last year they shipped 7K on one day.

I'm interested in seeing how we play against Perth. I assume it will be more of the same as we saw on the weekend, which against Perth could not be very pretty. We have a few midfield options now and wouldn't mind us playing a narrow diamond to outnumber the Perth midfield, if we decide to play a bit more of a possession game. Ifill and Husygems in that system would have a bit of freedom to drop into space and/or drift wide to provide width which I think comes naturally to both of their games. Also with at least one deeper midfielder it should give our FBs freedom to push forward:

                     Moss

Bertos Sigmund Dura Hogg

              Manny/Lia

Manny/Cernak    Sanchez/Fenton

          Fenton/Sanchez

Husygems                    Ifill

A bit tough on Boyd but something I would like to see the 'Nix try and he would miss out in the starting XI

Subs: Paston, Boyd, Cernak/Lia, Brockie/Totori/Smith/Lindsay/Boxall/anyone available.

 Will get a photo tomorrow. The main picture on the ads is a crowd shot, featuring three young people with their shirts off, painted yellow and with N - I - X written on their chests.

 Quoting Murry Deaker from radio 30 seconds ago.

"NO one will show up" Let's see if JAFAs prove him wrong again.

Not that he even knew the Phoenix were playing at Eden park this Saturday.

Not That Young I Hope !!!

I'm torn a bit here.

Obviously I want a big crowd for the team, NZ football etc.

But I'm almost hoping they get about 3000 at Eden Park, all of them wellingtonians who have flown up, to show Welnix how awful their rotating team idea is

I'm with JD, I want the club to get money out of this game.  But at the same time I want welnix to see that Wellington is our home.

Yep I'm the same. It's a horrible thing to hope for, but a little part of me wants it. Another part of me wants a big turnout to support the team.

Maybe the best thing to hope for is for them to have to massively discount the tickets to $10 so that shows people are only going along because it's cheap - but we still end up with a big crowd supporting the team?

I don't think it'd be perceived that way. That kind of happened last time didn't it? They put cheap tickets up on grabone. Just ended up annoying me because they never did that sort of thing here, and Auckland got to lord a decent one off crowd over us, due to the novelty factor and cheap tickets. 

Well about 4-5 of us are heading from Perth again to Auckland. Look forward to sharing each others misery from this season thats been. Going to head to Viaduct about 5:30pm on the Friday Night as well for anyone going to the Breakers/Wildcats game, which as people have mentioned is a top of the ladder clash. 

Really looking forward to getting back to NZ