Phoenix vs Adelaide in Christchurch

I can reluctantly agree on that

Yep the crowd was awesome, but one off
One thing that makes last night even better was when they compare it to the Adelaide game crowd in season one. Let's not forget that the tickets were mostly free that night, so ChCh was more legit

Yes we do, so a big thankyou to Terry, hopefuly next season we can a couple of matches down here.

Its not just about crowd numbers. Where would the players come from for a new team? NZ is pretty well stretched with one a-league team bringing another one in atm would stretch it more.

Correct. Its about promoting Phoenix around the country. Good on Terry. But lets get realistic. If ACDC werent performing yesteray in Wellington then they would of played at ROF.

Hopefully all the games will be in Wellington, but as long as we don't have to go to Palmerston North again, then one game in ChCH might be ok.

Chch has definately earned a game for next season, I would love to see one at Eden Park as well. Maybe even at the new Dunedin stadium the following season with all the scarfies would be great.

Who cares if it's a one off? Surely 19000 people is good for everything? and finally Terry may of made some $? ;)

Oh f**k it! Lets just move the whole A-League to Chch!!!

 

Christchurch deserves another game next season, surly we will get one.

 

hahaha, well just let me know when 19 thousand people turn up for the phoenix in wellington.

Too many issues associated with moving a Regular Season match out of Wellington as discussed many times on this forum.  

That is Auckland though christchurch is completly different.

Yes a one off crowd would always be bigger.

Try telling Season Ticket Holders they are going to miss out at least once a season...

I reckon the loss of the novelty factor, the loss of the 'first game in the new stand' means it would be unlikely to be larger.

Would still be a good crowd though.

Well just got back to Wellington and I throughly enjoyed that match, especially the Fever Zone considering at one point before the game I was expecting a royal F*** up with seating... To the d*** down the front doing his mexican wave I hope your boyfriend knows you were at the game :P. Anyways CHCH deserve a game next year imo.

This.

I think that that crowd we got last night warrants one game a season down in Christchurch!

  Scottishbhoy2010-01-31 11:20:12

Wilso hows the yellow stickers?

If you didn't go to the game in CHCH or Palmerston north  and were a season pass holder you still paid for it.

Not sure what the match schedule for next season is with melb heart coming in. If we go from 27 to 30 game season thats 15 home games, I reckon 1 game at Ami Stadium and 1 at Eden Park.

Seeing as the tickets were the same as last season for the same number of home games in Wellington then I'm not sure that's true.  Rather Season ticket holders got two free games, they didn't pay for.

Why on earth would they play at Eden Park ?

 

Auckland had their chance Twice to get behind a football side and didn't want to know about it.
Agree the fixture set up this season is sh*te should be home-away-home-away
But just because more teams are coming into the league next season doesn't mean we have to start moving the Phoenix around the country willy nilly

lol @ the clubs PR line.

Same reason they played in chch, to gain more support for the club.

This. Onewa Domain FTW

 

Whatever the reason the nix are stronger for it. I am only talking about playing 2 out 15 home games away from wellington as it will help build a case for a second nz franchise in the future. I would be saying the same thing if it was the other way round and there was no team in wellington.

changing confederations might help to 

Well done to chch for getting the numbers but did the players really feel it was a home game to the extent that we had a playing advantage - based on reports in the press from Nix players this as not the case.

The ground, conditions etc were  not to our advantage as we hadn't really played there before, though the great crowd was ... fantastic..

If I was playing to win the competition I would try and keep my games at the real home as much as possible particularly as it does seem to get us results as evidenced through the 18 game no losses at ROF.

Yep, take the game out to the other cities as part of pre-season and get more interest. Hopefully those liking it will want to come up to Wellie for 1 or more games and witness a real home game of the Nix and that will be a good result based on the players knowing they do really have  home game advantage. Hopefully if the NZFC issue with Nix having a 'reserve' team in the NZFC is resolved, that game could be the curtain raiser which may stimulate even more interest for those supporters of the away NZFC team to come watch their team play the Nix reserves and then get good value with the Nix game following......great for all including value for money for everyone and more interest and people watching the NZFC games (and not to mention valuable game time for our non playing team members) !!!!
I-C-Red Devils2010-01-31 11:51:24

Hi I was there last night.....it was the best game ive ever seen as it was my very first pro footie match.    The atmosphere was awesome and I had the best ime ever. The game was exciting as we only got one goal and Adelaide could have scored at anytime. But our keeper was tooooo good. Cant wait till my next big game.

Just watching the replay on telly, sounds great! What was the crowd figure?

When was the last time Manchester United played a "home" game away from Old Trafford