R10 v CCM | Sat 10 Dec | 7.35pm | FMG Stadium/Good George Brewing

Outside the Frankton Hotel in Commerce St. just down the main road from the George. Owned by a hood and frequented by same (according to an ex-girlfriend who lives nearby) so the towies should stay well clear.

Potentially our lowest ever crowd? Look forward to all the hot takes on our future in the A-League.

3060 in Dunedin in 12/13. Think we'll beat that.

Reckon 7-8K would be a fair crowd. Got 10k for a couple of U20 games last year, inlcuding the NZ knockout game. 

I was at that Dunedin game. Ironically, it was also the first game in charge for Greenacre after Ricki left. Must be a rule that coaches can only resign when the next game is an home/away game

Is this from the open training today ;-) ?

There has been nothing anywhere to promote the game other than a little email from WAIbop Footy.

I know about 15 people going that been said.

I was in Hamilton for work on Wednesday and did not such much in a way of promotion, banners etc.  

The only city that seems to have done it well historically (outside Welly) is ChCh, on each occassion.

There's been a lot of billboards in Auckland for the Mt Smart game.

Looking at importing some Colombian fans as we speak ?

Is it up to the councils to promote the game? Does the Hamilton city council underwrite it like the Dunedin (and potentially Christchurch?) councils?

Hamilton is pretty broke and all their councilors seem to care about is giving the population of their city tooth decay.

Maybe the performance and the result could mean more than the crowd on this occasion?

The club will likely blame Hamilton for the turnout but lets be realistic here. The travelling circus only works when the club are at least capable of winning games. I know a lot of casual football fans who on principle would not go to watch a wooden spoon team, I can't blame them. No one has loyalty in places like Hamilton, its purely an entertainment event. They should be very happy if they get 4-5k in a rugby city with 150,000 people when the team is last place.

Second game after he left! His first was at home to Newcastle, we lost 2-1.

It's OK guys we are rebuilding.

Bus about to leave Wellington. Yay,  Have 10 gig of wifi on cell phone and powerfor both phone and tablet. life is good, movies here I come. Will only use their wifi if necessary, I love 2 degrees most times.

My bad :)

1-1 is my pick.....hoping they start Watson and drop Kosta. Giving Litfin a good run second half would assist as well.  Bring it on...

I see the Yellow Fever section looks pretty full, pretty central rather than in a corner, Aisle 29 right? 

PAX is 4480 on my ticket bought a couple of minutes ago, could hit 5000? 

Only if the Nix score a try :) 

Mooving along..

I have no prediction for this match, frankly can anyone predict how the 'Nix will go? 

Well I've put some money on a Nix win so the answer is yes, one can

"Bringing in Hamish Watson up front is an obvious move, and one that would give the attacking trio of Roy Krishna, Gui Finkler, and Kosta Barbarouses a focal point to work around. That would require playing two midfielders instead of three, so it was no surprise to see Roly Bonevacia and Vince Lia working together as a combination in front of the back four at training."

Something I'd like to see, except maybe someone else for Lia.

argh heavy rain. Wtf its been sunny up here all damn week.

any wind?

Needs his bite.

Maybe so. I was thinking about  a better footballer but that may not be necessary ;).

I don't think Finkler has had bad form, he's not dominating the games as much as we'd like but he's been playing well.

I believe the Nix are going to win this game. It's just in the tarot cards. Someone other than Roy or Watson is going to score as well, so that's exciting....

If the rain stops there could be a 1000 more people, walk up crowds are always big here.

I am hoping for all out war.

Just give us the game we need

COYN

at steel park? Was just in town and seemed pretty heavy. 

I live on Nixon street and there was a little before. Hopefully it cools down.