Nix vs Sydney Sunday 9 Dec 4:30 + Tee Dubs vs Otago 1:45

Game needs its own thread.

Nix vs WSW thread in a death spiral.

Can somebody sticky this?

Season ticket holders can bring their pals and get a chance to win a trip to an away game.

Pray for good weather now!

With all this angst about crowds I wonder what the Welnix attendance figures are like?

Have not seen or heard much from any of them in general recently.

Do they all go to every game?

I am a follower type so I need these natural born leader types to show me what to do.

 Me and a mate are coming up from Christchurch for this one.

 We swap match threads on a Wednesday usually.

I think we have to be very careful about promoting the game based on players in the opposition.  Long term we need punters to want to pay to come and watch our team, not the opposition

By this sunday, it would have been 8,000 days since Sydney last won in Wellington. Since then they have lost 6 straight.

I think there needs to be some serious consideration to a roof at the stadium

I've heard that they regret when they initially designed the stadium that they didn't factor in being able to put in a roof in the future. It'd cost way too much to do it now apparently. Forget exact figures. 

It is cheaper to build a new stadium, than retrofit it to put a roof on.

 That's what they should do.  Knock her down, build a rectangle with a roof.

Hire a couple of Russian heavy lift helicopters for the trip to the Dunedin game and bring their stadium back with us

There's a lot of other much simpler things they could do in the meantime, like improve the walk to the stadium.

For starters, there always seems to be a lot of people struggling along the walkway on a bad day who don't know that you can actually walk all the way from the Railway Station to the gates undercover if you cut along platform 9 and then around and up through the carpark. The problem is it's obviously not a proper footpath that has been designed for lots of pedestrians. Surely that would be relatively cheap and easy to upgrade though and it would make walking in much more pleasant.

Close enough. Meant to be 1,800 days.  Still a shite load.

http://www.footballaustralia.com.au/wellingtonphoenix/news-display/Big-Build-Up-For-Sydney-FC/54683

Wonder if we can sneak Nixie into the Santa Parade also. It's a big if but if the weather is fine, they say the parade gets 60k people. Hopefully we can drag a few of them thru the turnstiles. Santa Parade is 2:30pm and the Carols is 7:30pm, so the game would be a good bridge between the two events.

I feel cynical that we'll get people from the xmas parade.  Would be a good gap filler but I dunno, I'm losing faith in the public of Wellington.

Nixie can be holding a sign: 

"Why aren't you watching Tee Dubs at the stadium right now? Plastic Carnts."

Have the YF Mobile in the parade and offer Santa Zone tickets from it for $10

(Santa Zone, behind the goal with the handful of away fans)

Can't see why we wouldn't get families going to both.

Is NZ Football doing any sort of promo to get people to go to these curtain raiser games?  Their social media needs a shit load of work.

I noticed on the back of the Dom Post today  an article saying something like Sydney may leave Del Piero at home and on the same page a few ads away this..

The Phoenix need to do a lot more work on the social media trying to get people along to the Nix games as well. I would love for the club to hire a fan that knows how to use twitter properly to advise the club on what they can be doing better.

yes also numbers might not be so great if del piero dosn't play

 I doubt that has much impact here.

Remember to leave "The Pub" with enough time to buy a program - I need to get the % up.

was talking to a non nix fan uyesterday and he mentioned the roof thing as well, he said that the council were so short sighted when they didn't consider a roof, too expensive now though. Fior mine, blaming the stadium's facilities is a poor excuse, it's an open stadium which on a fine day is stunning. The walk is no that bad, if people were smart they'd follow the crowds. The killer is the $30 parking at the stadium, make it $10 and they fill the carparks and people would have to walk 10 minutes from town....add onto thqat the expensive drinks, cold chips etc and that you can't bring anything but water into the stadium. If we removed all these blocks from our stadium it would make it so much easier for people to attend

Fuck all this "how do we get a bigger crowd" shit...how do we make the Zone loud again?

I'll put my hand up here - I have been skipping the zone lately - but it seems to me like the old powerhouses: News, Greenie, Santy, Davey Rutherford, all the assorted Miramar Drunks etc etc have really dropped the ball too.

How do we turn the volume back up?

Sponsor Coops attendance?

Not sure whether it's because I'm sober at games (circumstances not a plan) but I've struggled to feel it this season.  I'll certainly put my hands up as having been shit. 

We've even struggled to get the new flags flying, partly due to wind and partly because finding people to put their hands up to take them on, and even the big banner was a train wreck on Sunday.

Right...problems are clear...let's hear solutions?

Where are the young drunk folks?

...err.  Are you saying I should be supplying my lot with drinks?

We have been a little quiet lately. I love the big banner but it never seems to be very legible on telly. Especially when wind is involved. Maybe its just that its not up for very long? Could we someohow pin it down in an open area of seats so it is permanent?

I think we do need to reinvigorate the zone. Ive taken 1st timers recently and they werent as sucked in as I had hoped. I dont neccessarily have the solution, but sometimes I think there is an intmidation factor for people. We are the hardcore and I think sometimes outsiders are a bit cautious to come and join in.

Maybe what we need is to try and fill up that zone again and make it as welcoming as possible. Once you stand with the fever, you are one of the fever, and we forget about everything else and support the nix. Maybe we need some sort of gimmick of our own? I dont know.