Phoenix Ownership - Rob says FTFFA

 Sorry starting to come acoss as a man with to much money who wants to impose his beliefs on everybody.

Going to tune off in future as some of the stuff that falls out of his mouth is looney tunes stuff.

I have to argue against that cutting them slack. Tony P and Terry worked to include the fans. How do Welnix do that? Decide to toss the fever scholarship (and while Smithy tells that story better, that's what they has happened) talk about taking the team on the road, fans are pathetic etc.

They have/had a ready made fan base. Embrace them. No one said give us a say in running the club but it would surely not be stupid to engage the fans, listen to them and perhaps learn from them too. It helps to keep them on side and if bums on seats are what they want.... Hello?

Here's an idea - if they don't know how to run a football club back off and employ people who have experience of doing so.  Don't wade in boots and all without knowing what you're doing.  Gareth's "passion" is all well and good but it is massively misdirected and even his biggest fans would have to admit that it's been a huge failure on his part.  

I don't think anyone questions his overall intentions for the club - what I worry about is his actual ability to deliver what he's intending.

I think it's worth noting that all of this projects have caused a lot of sound and fury in the media, but hasn't really delivered anything.

Let's cut Gareth some slack, guys. Stop complaining, He's fronted up and put his money into our club.

Just because he knows bugger all about football but makes broad, sweeping statements about how it should and shouldn't be played is no reason to say nasty things about him

Just because he labels fans as pathetic and unsophisticated, and questions their knowlede of the game, is no reason to say nasty things about him.

Just because he wants results but doesn't appear to want to spend on strengthening the team is no reason to say nasty things abouit him.

Just because the marketing of the club and games seems to be non-existent is no reason to say nasty things about him.

Supporters daring to say less than complimentary things about the man at the top? Disgraceful! Who do they think they are. Ungrateful swines.

That's it. Gareth Morgan has contracted Bob Jones Syndrome. Wait until he starts his own political party.

http://truth.co.nz/exclusive-matheson-interviews-daniel-lins-cortes/ 

this is pretty interesting...

Meh. I don't get why the questions are put up as text rather than just played as part of the interview. Makes it seem deliberately out of context. Just try listening to what he says without the question in your mind and its not actually that bad (so far)

yeah its freaking annoying 

he pretty much says how much he loves the fever and hates the owners, and respects ricki

also claims lia, manny, dura are all unhappy and that players will leave

Yeah it's pretty shoddy that it was presented as an 'interview', but we never hear anything said by the interviewer. In saying that, nothing he says is revolutionary, I think we all knew that some players were not happy about being told they weren't good enough for the team, so of course a few of them would look to leave the team next season.

That last part is what seems out of context. All he said was the players were unhappy (could be at results, you don't know because you don't hear the question), then he went on about owners wanting new players, and said maybe some will leave next season. 

If you take the text question out. 

- players unhappy at performance 

- owners want to bring new guys in, have spoken about it in a disrespectful way

- some players will be replaced 

"The players just got together and said we had to start winning games," Durante said.

"If we want to make these playoffs, which is paramount for the playing group, then sometimes there has to be compromise.

"There's always next pre-season if we want to really master that playing game, but we'd be really disappointed if we didn't make the playoffs this year.

"At training we're still working on it, we're still doing it. But I think we were taking a lot of risks in previous games, we were all out of shape.

"Ricki's still encouraging us to do it at training too. We've just come to the conclusion that it doesn't always have to be pretty. If it needs to go long when we're under pressure - it goes.

"In previous weeks we've tried to play our way out of pressure and we've been caught.

"We still want to develop that system, and I think it's important the club goes that way, but I think for the remainder of the season the playoffs are more important and the club can build on it for next season."

I recommend people do not listen to it because they advertised their content in here illegally, and presented it in a very misleading way to try and stir. 

And if you do want to listen to it, go straight to the interview at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5YuRpfLrdI&feature=player_embedded rather than their website so they don't get any advertising revenue from us.

Yeah but nothing like a "players hate owners and are all going to leave next season because of it. 

I don't actually mind them slowly implementing the game plan, it's what they should have done in the first place, and I believe what they were doing from preseason. Until Gareth opened his mouth. 

sorry - claims players may leave

And the players mentioned may leave because they want to go back to AU and not stay here in NZ.

I don't think he says anything that's a revelation or we did not know/suspect already.

was it really an "illegal thread" 

i dont think so.

just didnt follow forum rules of putting it in an existing thread... 

may be a slight overeaction from you guys

And if so, do the questions match up to those posted on the other website that shall not be named?

But what he actually said was, the players were unhappy (could be at anything, including performance - we didn't hear the question). Then mentioned the owners want a new style and will bring new players in. Some players will be replaced. 

If you take the question of it, that has nothing to do with those 3 being unhappy at the owners and leading a player exodus. 

I kind of took it as advertising. Creating a whole new thread with a provocative title telling people to listen to your show.