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Posted November 10, 2015 21:32 · last edited March 18, 2021 07:34

ConanTroutman wrote:
james dean wrote:

I just find it really strange that the head of the league, an 85 year old man who owns shares in one of the clubs, is able to give advice to another club to tell them how to manage their brand.  It's completely bizarre.  Why does he have any say at all?

Surely there has to be more to this than simply him deciding that more people would support the Phoenix if they were called NZ instead of Wellington - it cannot be that simplistic can it?  Surely they have one shred of analysis to back this up, or it is being driven by NZF or possibly SKY?

It's another example of a spurious condition imposed on a whim with no justification. What has changed from the previous 2 times the FFA were happy to grant a license for a team called Wellington (when we were set up and when WelNix took over)?

They needed us then and were happy to use us, make us feel speacial, wanted, loved. Now after all we've done for them the FFA have found someone younger and richer. So either we tart up and parade around, making a fool out of ourselves, or we're left to walk home on a Sunday morning, our mascara smudged and feeling a little bit ashamed of what we've just done.

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ConanTroutman wrote:
james dean wrote:

I just find it really strange that the head of the league, an 85 year old man who owns shares in one of the clubs, is able to give advice to another club to tell them how to manage their brand.  It's completely bizarre.  Why does he have any say at all?

Surely there has to be more to this than simply him deciding that more people would support the Phoenix if they were called NZ instead of Wellington - it cannot be that simplistic can it?  Surely they have one shred of analysis to back this up, or it is being driven by NZF or possibly SKY?

It's another example of a spurious condition imposed on a whim with no justification. What has changed from the previous 2 times the FFA were happy to grant a license for a team called Wellington (when we were set up and when WelNix took over)?

They needed us then and were happy to use us, make us feel speacial, wanted, loved. Now after all we've done for them the FFA have found someone younger and richer. So either we tart up and parade around, making a fool out of ourselves, or we're left to walk home on a Sunday morning, our mascara smudged and feeling a little bit ashamed of what we've just done.

Ryan edited November 10, 2015 21:33
ConanTroutman wrote:
james dean wrote:

I just find it really strange that the head of the league, an 85 year old man who owns shares in one of the clubs, is able to give advice to another club to tell them how to manage their brand.  It's completely bizarre.  Why does he have any say at all?

Surely there has to be more to this than simply him deciding that more people would support the Phoenix if they were called NZ instead of Wellington - it cannot be that simplistic can it?  Surely they have one shred of analysis to back this up, or it is being driven by NZF or possibly SKY?

It's another example of a spurious condition imposed on a whim with no justification. What has changed from the previous 2 times the FFA were happy to grant a license for a team called Wellington (when we were set up and when WelNix took over)?

They needed us then and were happy to use us, make us feel speacial, wanted, loved. Now after all we've done for them the FFA have found someone younger and richer so either we tart up or we're left to walk home on a Sunday morning, our mascara smudged and feeling a little bit ashamed of what we've just done.