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

This needs to be our banner.

can’t be giving burgess a hard time. One of the loveliest guys you’ll meet, after a couple of messages on Instagram he took the time out each week to thank me for coming out and then gave me his playing boots from the season. True legend. Although he hasn’t seemed to have been in the squad for pre season.

I'm picturing this with snakes instead of teddies

This is good but that bird is too feathery to be a Phoenix.

Needs more fire!

Radio Sport - On a news brief Dome said Ticket sales for our game on Sunday is the best he's seen for an opening game, no specifics given though

Should try to get Samuel L Jackson into the zone for this one

Ill be coming from Napier and haven't bought a ticket yet so...+1

AAAYY LET'S SELL OUT THE CAKE TIN!!!!!!

Absent for a long time but this shark is wild. Rudan is a cod. Have a read!!
https://twitter.com/patrick478/status/1181669853087883264

Can we print the whole thread and make it our banner?

If not I’d settle for “Welcome Back Fudgeface”

jeepers is football fans got over anything easily there would be no actual rivals in football - they way this has panned out is actually good for the league, we have a genuine reason to be upset at Rudan and by association Snakes FC. This is how rivalries start and end up being fixtures that are talked about and looked forward to every year. Way better than league created rivalries.

Psycho! (Rudes not Patrick...)

Agree; may get a few extra fans along too. 

Or non football rivalries as well. 

Like Boston Red Sox selling Babe Ruth to NY Yankees, after Sox had won a few World Series, and then going on a 86 year drought (Curse of the Bambino).

What would be the best long standing football rivalry (excluding derbies, and simple geo political stuff), based on some sort of dustup?

What doesn't add up to me then is, if Rudan felt the club no longer supported him and his ambitions, then why would he recommend the club to his mate Uffie, who then took the job???

I think what is a given, is that if Rudan didn't assist Welnix with getting a replacement coach signed early on in his mate Ufuk - Dome & Co would have unloaded on Rudan more in the media, for leaving them in the lurch.

So Rudan did himself a big favour there, not copping too much flak from the club itself when he left, even if his antics helped derail the tail end of the season.

Then Talay says apart from Durante, he really would have let the players go anyway.

Meanwhile Nix's marketing department get a free leg up, with a genuine rival/public enemy and hopefully 1st game bumper crowd.

I think him saying that was just an excuse for him to pin the blame on the board. 

Any pax news?

What has the flag of Mexico got to do with anything?

What is it about Patrick that encourages demented people to go after him? Watto, Rudes, the NZF person who saw his doppelgänger at NHS?

Yep I'm happy we seem to have a genuine rival. I'm keen on blowing off some steam and giving the snakes a bit of an earful, but I'll also be there to mainly support my team. Can't wait to fly down this weekend! I'm sure I have a USB laying around somewhere... 

Sorry, what's this USB for??

Most of the interviews in the press have been from the club playing down any rivalry. 

Can we get someone from YF to be interviewed to put across the fan perspective and help build some hype?

Classic A-League. That Taylor interview was fudgeing stupid, to put it blunt.

The club missed an opportunity here. Instead of those thunder sticks, if they gave fans inflatable snakes to bang together, it could have been on a winner! ;) 

Not sure that you can read much into that one way or t'other.

Bought two tickets at 6PM today. PAX 8545.

Well done sir. 

and I think I saw NZTA are closing Remutaka Hill from 9pm for maintenance works.

IGNORE this..I got month wrong.  Sori

Family zone is sold out

THE HYPE IS REAL. 

Don't tell him, he will take the credit.

"I saw the biggest crowd ever, because of unmatched football wisdom"

'Stable Football Genius'

Lineup predictions?

This is how I hope we lineup the subs is a bit of a toss up who makes it on there.

swap ball and mccowatt, put Sotirio at the 11 ahead of mccowatt and put Devlin behind Piscopo

Yeah, I want McCowatt to start but I guarantee he will be on the bench with Sotorio starting.