Phoenix vs ? - We need our own 'derby'

Phoenix vs ? - We need our own 'derby'

Who would be our rival team for us o have our own 'derby'?

Maybe Perth, and it could be called the 'Longest Derby' considering the longest trip made by any two teams to play each other in a competition in the world would have to be Perth vs Wellington

Tasmania FC

Gold Coast

Um no. Phoenix cannot have a derby unless there's another wellington team.... that's whata derby is. The A-league doesn't have the tight geographic spread necessary for derby matches. ..  sorry.

Derby County

You can't really just pick a team and say its a derby match either...

It will be the next nz team in the a league... If there will be one

No derby,

1. there is no team in WEL nor whole NZ.
2. most importantly no aus team is as good as the Nix

In the first 2 seasons I always regarded Perth as our 'derby' matches...

Not so much anymore.

Team Wellington

None in the A-League.

Perth if I had to pick, just for the novelty.

Team Welly vs Phoenix Youth

Ahhhh the 'wooden spoon' derby. So glad we seem to have moved past that one. 

I kind of like the concept of Perth as our "local Derby". Has a tongue-in-cheek-ness consistent with our great club (we do sing about the wind, rain & the Phoenix in the same breath). Needs a wee tag - global derby?

They're all grudge matches cos we're playing Australians.

Ah, yet another of these topics that comes up once a year.

There can be no derby, but we really do seem to hate GCU and Newcastle (though not as much since JG has gone).

Has been discussed before (and on the podcast if I remember rightly), but there is apparently a match in Russia where the two teams are further apart.

IIRC relegation has changed that.

I'd say for this season at least it's GCU cos they stole Smeltz and Porter.

In the past for me at least it's been the Roar, I fu$king hate the roar.

all blacks

Are you trying to tell me that the 'Queensland Derby' last week between two teams 1000km apart wasn't actually a derby?!

Qld Derbies:
Roar-B2
Roar-Furries
Furries-B2

F3 Derby

B1-Westies (next year)
Stabbies- (next year)

Nix-Chch (3yrs)

Any team with Robbie Kruse.

or Topor stanley or dadi - perth last year - w@nkers

ditto!

yea my thoughts exactly. i cant stand that toppor stanley guy.

A-league commentators keep trying to force Derby's upon everyone. (F3 etc)

A derby cannot be a Derby without some history, you also need a bit of controversy somewhere in history to heat it up that extra couple of notches.

Indeed - it was St Petersburg v Vladivostock. 'stock were relegated last year.

From Wiki

Situated in the far east of the country, their location poses a significant problem for away teams:9 hours by flight from Moscow. When playing FC Zenit Saint Petersburg at home, a trio of Zenit fans (Evgeny Stepanov, Aleksandr Zaraysky and Veronika Davidova) drove 15,000km across the country only for their car to break down when in Vladivostok, leaving them unable to drive home. These fans thus took the Trans-Siberian Railway back to Saint Petersburg, upon which the club rewarded them with a new car on October 1, 2006. In addition to this, Igor Akinfeev, the CSKA Moscow goalkeeper, said that "they should play in the Japanese League", after his team lost 4-0 after a seven hour flight.[1]

Awesome, having to get the Trans-Siberian home after the game

What about Adelaide, ive always hated them (I dont know why) and also earlier this year when ifill got judged off side and that p***ed me off

If/when there's another New Zealand team in the league (Christchurch?) - then that would be regarded as a New Zealand derby. I'm sure it would create significant interest - even though it wouldn't really be a local derby as we think of them overseas.

Give Auckland another shot and team (big population / good grounds)

aucland vs phoenix would be one hell of a rivary