Saw a toon shirt with "Macdonald, 9" on the back.
Maximum respect!
Phoenix v Newcastle United | Sat 26th | Westpac | 4:30pm
4) stadium food phish as always, fritzs stand was too far to walk to
Yeah, the stadium should really provide us with menus and take orders from our seats. Man some people are hard to please.
If you did bother to go to the mezzanine bar, you would have seen quite a variety of food. The stadium should be congratulated for the changes made.
I go to the ground for the football of varying codes not for the variety of food and beer.
I believe if they served decent fish and chips,pies and hotdogs most fans would be happy (as Fritz's has proved)
However I want to congratulate the Aisle 26 bar for improving the range of beers and cider since the first time it opened when they offered Tui and Tui Dark
btw..still refuse to believe anyone goes to a game of football to order a Nasi Goreng from a stadium outlet...cheesey chips with curry sauce , different story :-)
Saw a toon shirt with "Macdonald, 9" on the back.
Maximum respect!
Is that Malcolm or burgers?
For a Carlsberg-sponsored event, it was surprisingly hard to find some. Most places seemed to sell Wild Buck...
And the stadium needs to better manage crowds moving through the concourse. Queues formed in major thoroughfares and so on, and the queues were soooo slow!
Great day overall though.
Around aisle 22 the queues and stalls completely blocked the passage. Ludicrous.
5) some the bars limiting 2 beers per person, didnt stop most getting rat arsed
Again, a dumb rule that just increases the queues. In the Pavilion Bar there were limited points to pay by eftpos which again slowed everything up.
Saw a toon shirt with "Macdonald, 9" on the back.
Maximum respect!
Sadly I'm old enough to have watched SuperMac from the Leazes End. At his best he was magnificent, with frightening speed
He was in an early series of Superstars in 1975 and ran 100m in 10.9 seconds, without spikes on a cinder track.
Gordon Lee...so much to answer for...Bastard!
For a Carlsberg-sponsored event, it was surprisingly hard to find some. Most places seemed to sell Wild Buck...
And the stadium needs to better manage crowds moving through the concourse. Queues formed in major thoroughfares and so on, and the queues were soooo slow!
Great day overall though.
Around aisle 22 the queues and stalls completely blocked the passage. Ludicrous.
For a Carlsberg-sponsored event, it was surprisingly hard to find some. Most places seemed to sell Wild Buck...
And the stadium needs to better manage crowds moving through the concourse. Queues formed in major thoroughfares and so on, and the queues were soooo slow!
Great day overall though.
Around aisle 22 the queues and stalls completely blocked the passage. Ludicrous.
Bizarrely at the Carlsberg outlets you could only buy two beers per person, but at other outlets you could buy the usual 4.
Once you got past Aisle 26 there were no queues for beer. Rarely venture to that part of the stadium, but for this game I was in the Toon Centre
I go to the ground for the football of varying codes not for the variety of food and beer.
I believe if they served decent fish and chips,pies and hotdogs most fans would be happy (as Fritz's has proved)
However I want to congratulate the Aisle 26 bar for improving the range of beers and cider since the first time it opened when they offered Tui and Tui Dark
btw..still refuse to believe anyone goes to a game of football to order a Nasi Goreng from a stadium outlet...cheesey chips with curry sauce , different story :-)
Mostly agree, but you are assuming most fans are Anglo types.
While food and drink should be secondary to the event (or something that adds to the event experience) - if it detracts from it (e.g. too costly, too cold, too naff generally) it just becomes another incremental reason to not attend a game.
I think it would be great if you could get nasi goreng as well as fish & chips, but then again I also like bovril and not averse to a bit of stotty cake so I'm easily pleased.
I go to the ground for the football of varying codes not for the variety of food and beer.
I believe if they served decent fish and chips,pies and hotdogs most fans would be happy (as Fritz's has proved)
However I want to congratulate the Aisle 26 bar for improving the range of beers and cider since the first time it opened when they offered Tui and Tui Dark
btw..still refuse to believe anyone goes to a game of football to order a Nasi Goreng from a stadium outlet...cheesey chips with curry sauce , different story :-)
Mostly agree, but you are assuming most fans are Anglo types.
While food and drink should be secondary to the event (or something that adds to the event experience) - if it detracts from it (e.g. too costly, too cold, too naff generally) it just becomes another incremental reason to not attend a game.
I think it would be great if you could get nasi goreng as well as fish & chips, but then again I also like bovril and not averse to a bit of stotty cake so I'm easily pleased.
My name is Warwick..and I'm a binge drinking, football tragic who eats curry after 11pm on match day,, a habit determined by UK licensing laws of the 70s/80s :-)
Admitting you have a problem is the first step to recovery and takes guts.
Welcome brother Warwick. Would you like a celery stick or a lentil burger washed down with a soy milk?
I go to the ground for the football of varying codes not for the variety of food and beer.
I believe if they served decent fish and chips,pies and hotdogs most fans would be happy (as Fritz's has proved)
However I want to congratulate the Aisle 26 bar for improving the range of beers and cider since the first time it opened when they offered Tui and Tui Dark
btw..still refuse to believe anyone goes to a game of football to order a Nasi Goreng from a stadium outlet...cheesey chips with curry sauce , different story :-)
Mostly agree, but you are assuming most fans are Anglo types.
While food and drink should be secondary to the event (or something that adds to the event experience) - if it detracts from it (e.g. too costly, too cold, too naff generally) it just becomes another incremental reason to not attend a game.
I think it would be great if you could get nasi goreng as well as fish & chips, but then again I also like bovril and not averse to a bit of stotty cake so I'm easily pleased.
My name is Warwick..and I'm a binge drinking, football tragic who eats curry after 11pm on match day,, a habit determined by UK licensing laws of the 70s/80s :-)
me to!
Your name is Warwick too?
Or he's a Hunt!
Initial match report from unofficial Toon website (nufc.com), they do a full report later, as always seems fair..from a Toon perspective
[text pasted rather than link as no direct link to match report]
After a 4-0 romp against Sydney in Dunedin, the second game of Newcastle's New Zealand tour was a rather more competitive affair, as Phoenix went looking for a second Premier League after beating West Ham on Wednesday.
Clad in grey, United were again clad in tops displaying the names of John Alder and Liam Sweeney and both sides wore black armbands. Further commemoration of their passing then saw the teams line up as a Maori iwi (tribe) performed a traditional Waiata (song) on the field.
Following a joint team photo, kickoff was then delayed still further as an ensemble in full costume appeared to face the Newcastle players with a Haka war cry routine. Applause then followed on 28 and 63 minutes in tribute to Liam and John, with appropriate images displayed on the scoreboard in the Westpac Stadium - another vote of thanks to exiled NZ Mag Kane Wintersgill for his efforts.
United were forced into an early change when Siem De Jong was unable to continue just after the half hour mark, but recovered to test Glen Moss - the Phoenix 'keeper blocking efforts from Yoan Gouffran and Ayoze Perez.
The only goal of the game arrived four minutes before interval, when Yoan Gouffran headed home Vurnon Anita's cross via a post after Jack Colback's corner.
Colback then came close to getting off the mark for his new club after Perez played him, only for home player Andrew Durante to make a saving block.
The only non-Australian side in the A League dominated the early stages of the second half, but found Magpies goalkeeper Rob Elliot in good form, the Irish international pulling off a pair of noteworthy stops.
A raft of replacements then affected the flow of the contest, with Newcastle opting to substitute Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa after he was booked for a solid tackle - before testing the referee with another cruncher.
One or two players looked to pick up knocks during the game and after using all of their outfield replacements, United were forced to play with 10 men from the 86th minute when Rolando Aarons limped off the field.
Alan Pardew's side barely created a chance worthy of the name after going ahead, but they held on through four minutes of injury time to record a second win of their tour - and go one better than their 1985 predecessors, who were held to a draw when they visited Wellington.
Or that West Ham had rubbish tactics that relied on Andy Carroll and had no plan B? There was some of that too.
I read somewhere that Sam Alladyce complained about the fast pace the Phoenix played. I was gobsmacked. I thought the EPL players would show up the A League players for pace and skill. Certainly in WHU's case, that wasn't what happened. They looked ponderous at times and the Nix were slick. I don't think the lumbering Andy Carroll would have made any difference. First ankle tap by Ben Sigmund and he would have limped off.
I understand WHU even struggled against Stevenage before coming on tour.
My only complaint is why does Brockie still get so much game time? I'm sorry, his finishing is substandard. Gorrin showed him how you look up and place a shot. Honestly I think if Krishna was given a full game he would have scored at least once on Saturday. ACFC's lethal Tade would have done even better. Brockie is a waste of time leading the line. Why do you still persist with him?
Brockie has been pants recently, but before that had a couple of decent seasons of scoring, including being in the running for golden boot for the competition. As a coach Ernie is looking at a guy who has the football skills to challenge for the golden boot and saying I back myself to get him firing in my system. I thought Brockie put in a good shift up front tbh. But no goals. Still others had better chances and blasted over.
Krishna might have got more time, but I think Ernie is more confident about what he gets from Roy and wants Brockie to find his form and be first choice. Krishna got a good goal, but also wasted a lot of chances last season.
From a Phoenix point of view, tonights support was flat. As you can pick from the name, I am a Westham/Phoenix supporter I was amazed at the support given to the Bling and the comparative quiet support offered for our home team . For most of the second half of the Phoenix game the only noise came for the WHU block. What was that all about?
There was very little support given to the Smurfs, other than derisory chants aimed at the Claret Smurf's fans every time the Smurfs scored...oh okay I get your point
Saw a toon shirt with "Macdonald, 9" on the back.
Maximum respect!
Sadly I'm old enough to have watched SuperMac from the Leazes End. At his best he was magnificent, with frightening speed
He was in an early series of Superstars in 1975 and ran 100m in 10.9 seconds, without spikes on a cinder track.
Gordon Lee...so much to answer for...Bastard!
Super Mac was awesome, 5 goals for England against Cypris once. Got sold to the Arse for 333,333.33. Jackie Milburn was another hero that score goals for fun wearing the the Newcastle kit. Was he a number 9 or a number 10? I think it may have been a 9 but toon fans will easily correct me. Those were the days, when men were men and got up after a tackle instead of pretending to have been shot with a 50 cal round.
Saw a toon shirt with "Macdonald, 9" on the back.
Maximum respect!
Sadly I'm old enough to have watched SuperMac from the Leazes End. At his best he was magnificent, with frightening speed
He was in an early series of Superstars in 1975 and ran 100m in 10.9 seconds, without spikes on a cinder track.
Gordon Lee...so much to answer for...Bastard!
Super Mac was awesome, 5 goals for England against Cypris once. Got sold to the Arse for 333,333.33. Jackie Milburn was another hero that score goals for fun wearing the the Newcastle kit. Was he a number 9 or a number 10? I think it may have been a 9 but toon fans will easily correct me. Those were the days, when men were men and got up after a tackle instead of pretending to have been shot with a 50 cal round.
No 9.
Saw a toon shirt with "Macdonald, 9" on the back.
Maximum respect!
Sadly I'm old enough to have watched SuperMac from the Leazes End. At his best he was magnificent, with frightening speed
He was in an early series of Superstars in 1975 and ran 100m in 10.9 seconds, without spikes on a cinder track.
Gordon Lee...so much to answer for...Bastard!
Super Mac was awesome, 5 goals for England against Cypris once. Got sold to the Arse for 333,333.33. Jackie Milburn was another hero that score goals for fun wearing the the Newcastle kit. Was he a number 9 or a number 10? I think it may have been a 9 but toon fans will easily correct me. Those were the days, when men were men and got up after a tackle instead of pretending to have been shot with a 50 cal round.
Wor Jackie was initially a winger and then switched to centre-forward, so he was wearing the No 9 shirt by default.
Before SuperMac we had Wyn Davies who was a more traditional centre-forward of the times
From my time as a fan of the 70s we had John McNamee as the de rigueur hacker, with back-up from Frank Clark
We had some good inside forwards (number 10) in John Tudor and Alan Gowling,who was a Manc reject
Never forgetting our magical midfield players of those days, Jinky Jim Smith and Tony Green
Did that pic show up in its entirety? On my tablet on half is showing but when I go into edit, the whole pic is there.
That 1976 League Cup loss to Dennis Teaurts over head kick was a classic game.
Did that pic show up in its entirety? On my tablet on half is showing but when I go into edit, the whole pic is there.
It's like my vision late last night..blurred :-)
Did that pic show up in its entirety? On my tablet on half is showing but when I go into edit, the whole pic is there.
It's like my vision late last night..blurred :-)
That 1976 League Cup loss to Dennis Teaurts over head kick was a classic game.
Classic = heartbreak to cup-starved Newcastle fans!
But it took two teams to make it a classic. That was a hell of a good team you had then. Hibbert was part of it wasn't he?
The waiata sung for Liam Sweeney & John Alder was an emotional and touching tribute to commemorate the sad loss of two fans who were supporting their club
[Just checked earlier posts on this thread and seen that there is some disquiet about lack of respect in observing the minute's silence. I thought the waiata was an unexpected but appropriate tribute from New Zealand. Quite rightly there'll be many minutes of remembrance in the upcoming football season but we have provided a local and heart-felt tribute to the loss of two football fans]
the waiata was brilliantly well done which is the main reason why it was so inappropriate. The whole point of a minutes silence is that you can clear your mind of everything and focus on the sadness of the event - in this case the death of two great NUFC supporters. When someone or a group is performing, and performing well, that - unfortunately - can become the main focus of attention.
Not a NUFC supporter, but the partnership between SuperMac and John Tudor was one of the best of that era.
The waiata would've been fine, if we had been told we were standing for a song to remember the two fallen fans, we were told we were standing for a moments silence.
Would've been excellent after the moment, but not over the top of the moments silence, that is what made it disrespectful.
Exactly what I thought. Well said Jono.
So basically it was Tansley's fault. Hardly worth getting worked up by whether it was branded a silence or not.
FWIW I thought it was great to see us do it like that. At some point this country needs to move past acknowleding Maori culutre in haka form only.
4) stadium food phish as always, fritzs stand was too far to walk to
Yeah, the stadium should really provide us with menus and take orders from our seats. Man some people are hard to please.
So much this!
Too far to walk? I've heard it all now.
Who the hell goes to a stadium to eat anything but chips and the odd pie/sausage roll?
The waiata sung for Liam Sweeney & John Alder was an emotional and touching tribute to commemorate the sad loss of two fans who were supporting their club
[Just checked earlier posts on this thread and seen that there is some disquiet about lack of respect in observing the minute's silence. I thought the waiata was an unexpected but appropriate tribute from New Zealand. Quite rightly there'll be many minutes of remembrance in the upcoming football season but we have provided a local and heart-felt tribute to the loss of two football fans]
If there is ever anything remotely "cultural" at a football match you can guarantee some old white person will come on here and complain.
I thought West Ham were reknown for playing cultured football?
That 1976 League Cup loss to Dennis Teaurts over head kick was a classic game.
So basically it was Tansley's fault. Hardly worth getting worked up by whether it was branded a silence or not.
FWIW I thought it was great to see us do it like that. At some point this country needs to move past acknowleding Maori culutre in haka form only.
Bleeding heart, namby pamby, liberal.
So basically it was Tansley's fault. Hardly worth getting worked up by whether it was branded a silence or not.
FWIW I thought it was great to see us do it like that. At some point this country needs to move past acknowleding Maori culutre in haka form only.
My two cents worth. As an Australian who grew up in a country that does not portray the fantastic culture of its native inhabitants in a positive light, I found the Waiata extremely moving. You are extremely lucky in this country that these types of traditions are alive and well unlike in Australia where most people's idea of Aboriginal culture is dancing to didgeridoos and tapping sticks around a campfire.
Long may it continue!
The waiata sung for Liam Sweeney & John Alder was an emotional and touching tribute to commemorate the sad loss of two fans who were supporting their club
[Just checked earlier posts on this thread and seen that there is some disquiet about lack of respect in observing the minute's silence. I thought the waiata was an unexpected but appropriate tribute from New Zealand. Quite rightly there'll be many minutes of remembrance in the upcoming football season but we have provided a local and heart-felt tribute to the loss of two football fans]
If there is ever anything remotely "cultural" at a football match you can guarantee some old white person will come on here and complain.
*Looks towards Steve-O*
So basically it was Tansley's fault. Hardly worth getting worked up by whether it was branded a silence or not.
FWIW I thought it was great to see us do it like that. At some point this country needs to move past acknowleding Maori culutre in haka form only.
My two cents worth. As an Australian who grew up in a country that does not portray the fantastic culture of its native inhabitants in a positive light, I found the Waiata extremely moving. You are extremely lucky in this country that these types of traditions are alive and well unlike in Australia where most people's idea of Aboriginal culture is dancing to didgeridoos and tapping sticks around a campfire.
Long may it continue!
Pooftah!
NUFC fans don't think it was disrestful. https://twitter.com/NUFC/status/492893654122364929
