R1 vs Western United | Sun 13th Oct | 6:00pm | RoF

It's Whacking Day

Oi Fudgeface

It'd be a shame if Customs found a rotten apple when the Bitumens came through.

stoke the fires boys and girls, this needs to be a massive welcome home for Dura and Rudan!

I. Can. Not. Wait. 

I'll take the loss, so long as we win a game this season.

We need to coordinate what we should do and say to these turn coats.

How about turning our back to them, I am sure I will get some people who will rubbish my idea, but its just a start!

How about putting some more ideas on this forum??

I would be disappointed if we treated Dura in such a way given his length of service as our captain.

Rudan though is a different story

Rudan though is a different story #SnakeEyes

Coming down from Auckland for this.

Does this mean we now have a genuine rivalry with another A League side?

totally disagree, Dura, whilst a great of our club, had a chance to stay but chose to leave! had he gone to any other club I'd be ok with it, but he chose to go to snake FC with the biggest Judas ever!

He was a great servant of the club and an absolute legend for us, but he walked out to join a guy who appears to have shafted the club by working to build his new side when he was still contracted to be doing that for us.  By all accounts we were trying to get Dura to stay too. I feel like he doesn't necessarily deserve as much anger as Rudan but he's also forfeited a fair amount of goodwill there. At the very least I don't think he deserves a warm welcome

so what is the banner going to say?

We may win the banter battle. But on the field, we are going to get humped. 

Reverse Jinxing has started!!

What are we expecting crowd wise?

I'd say around 10k-12k do we know ticket sales atm

weather looking promising so fingers crossed for a better than 12k crowd.

Super excited! Living in Chch so going to watch on sky. 

A real tough one to call as it's a transformed Nix side playing against a brand new club.

Both clubs had respectable pre seasons but I'm expecting 3 points being the season opener and at home.

That's if we want to be playing finals footy. The real test will be Victory, Sydney FC and Perth so if we struggle against the new boys on the block we're in trouble

Gutted I won't be there, I expect the zone to be pretty rusty on the song sheet this season especially at the start with no Dura to sing about on repeat anymore.

Nervous wait for 1 Adult ST and 2 Children ST's to arrive.

Just looked up some other teams first A-League games:

WSW: Drew at home to CCM 2012

Melbourne Heart: Lost away to Newcastle Jets 2011

Gold Coast: Won away to Brisbane 2009

North Queensland: Lost home to Sydney 2009

Phoenix: Drew home to Victory 2007

Ahhh the 2-2 draw in front of 14,000. We nearly won it.

There's a snake in our house?

"Snakes & Ladders" would be a good banner.

If we win - "Snakes don't climb ladders!"

Really need to win this with how hard are next few games will be might not get many points from those

you if the "dura" song starts I'll be super annoyed, and I'd expect our own players would be a little confused as to why we are chanting for an opposition player too,

How many chants have we got left? Louie Louie and Oh Wellington?

I'd expect a bit of "Melbourne C" and "Same old Aussies"

Doing my bit for the anti-jinx by not being able to be there at the game and in transit when it's on so I cant even watch online...

Surely "The roof, the roof, the Rufer's on fire" will get a bit of airtime

"We don't need no Rudan..."

Crap just realised that with no Dura, Krishna, Singh and Williams most of the regular chants are gone. Gonna be a long preseason for chants in the zone by the sounds of it.

or Phoenix "B"?

“What do we think of Western United?? 

Sh*t!

what do we think of sh*t ??

Western United”