I don't want it to be the NZ Phoenix. If they make it a NZ wide club, they need to change the name. Even though I'm from Auckland, the Phoenix is Yellow and Black, the Ring of Fire and the bloody wind and rain like against Bocca Juniors. Don't take a passionate club and make it into a mediocre franchise.
I think like Piney, that it was almost coming right- I think against Brisbane and Melbourne we almost got the mix right. We were close to playing as good as this combination of players can without Ifill and right in those games, just unable to find the moment or the spark to get decisive goals and momentum. If we stuck with that 'settled' starting line up we might have started to get results. The problem this season is we haven't really had a settled starting eleven at any point- no players in front of the defence have established positions. Louis perhaps.