R17 v Radelaide Sat 1st Feb 7:30pm SS2

Aucklanders are too cool to chant, but give 'em time. Some dude was yelling at me "we should have our own team if we can get that crowd every time!"

According to yellow fever tweet there was no mics near the fans. So was some chanting but didn't sound like it.

Also between ticket fu#k up and security being d!cks, sounds like they need to sort some things out before another game next year.

Does that take us up to fifth (briefly?)

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1. Jason Pine ‏@pineyzb56s

   Boxall and Cunningham will both miss next match after getting their 5th bookings tonight #WELvADL

Great result,

Good to get it over the reds as we will see a bit of them on the run home.

Oh and so much auckland hate I mean the population is far more spread out and harder to get to the stadium. Cant we just be happy there was 18k, .

Longer, I get; but harder?

Man. What a game. This tweet I did got a bit of a traction

Just to clarify my experience!

I bought tickets months ago for the Fever Zone.
After I bought my tickets, the fever zone was moved

I tried just going into the fever zone tonight anyway, way too many families giving me grief about standing up etc. So I moved and took my pals with me. We went behind the goal, I told a bunch of people I knew at the game to come join us. Maybe make a makeshift fever zone, since we couldn't get into the one we thought we had tickets for.

In the first half, this kind of happened. About thirty odd people joined us. We stood, we chanted, it was great. Then security came and told us to sit down and stop chanting. Boo! This is when I sent that tweet. How dare they! I told them that I was supposed to be in the Fever Zone, but the zone had been moved. So I was going to chant all I liked. 

Luckily, the security never came back.

Though, I kind of wish they did. In the second half, a large contingent joined us on the east end of the stadium. They started a whole bunch of awful bloody chants, regulars including a non stop "fuck you Adelaide", "Adelaide are faggots", and to a young female photographer trying to take pictures of us - "tits outs for the boys". Ugh ugh ugh. 

Quite frankly, this was embarrassing, and made active Phoenix supporters look like assholes on the whole. And for the first time ever, I wanted security to come and shut us up. 

We weren't allowed in the Fever Zone, we tried to make the best of what we had. I so hope we can work out some way to properly nail the Fever Zone for future home/away games. So that this kind of thing doesn't happen again. What a bunch of dicks (the people who joined us, not the Fever Zone, wish I could have been there with y'all)

And some wonder why all the Akld hate...

The fever zone moved because patrick et al had gotten tickets two bays over, so i went where the chanting was. I worried that might stuff things up and apparently it did.

You guys at the east end looked cool. We were trying to do call-response with you!

Also trouble at mill - with ticketmaster selling tickets for seats that didn't exist:

Tony Wilson ‏@TonyWilsonNZ17m

Not so pleased with @Ticketmaster_NZ who managed to sell us, & scores of others, seats that didn't exist #epicfail #WELvADL @WgtnPhoenixFC

I remember the first time I was in the fever zone. As a visitor in Welly from Auckland. Sometime during the first season. It was so great, and it made me a lifelong fan. If there's anything these home/away trips should achieve it should be introducing new people to the experience of being an active Phoenix supporter. I really hope future home/away games allow for a large number of people to be part of the fever zone and to experience just how awesome being amongst it is. It's a hard thing to get right, sure, but it's worth talking about after these games.

I was sitting in the south stand, surrounded by quiet well behaved families, etc. then second half, for no reason a security guard (a young skinny white guy, who looked a bit like a girl) walked down the aisle to the bottom row, then would turn to the left for five seconds with a strange look on his face.. Then to the right, for five seconds... Looking down just a single row,  then walk back to the top.. Repeat x about 12 times over a 30 min period. It was truly bizarre.

Words can't do it justice which is why I got my friend to take a video... I'll post a link once he sends it to me.

Regarding the Auckland hate... I think it's fair enough that Wellington based fans hate on the owners for taking games away... But the somewhat personal anti auckland comments (and I'm talking about this forum in general not just this thread) or hating on fans from Auckland for not singing enough, etc is lame... Why hate on the people who actually turn up and watch? They are helping the club, even if they aren't in the fever zone and taking their shirts off, etc. 

Although, I agree the people making the abusive Adelaide chants are losers, it's embarrassing.

Anyway, a win! Yes!

Back a t the hotel after the game for what will probably be my laxt home away trip. Tired of the expense the ticketing cock ups the being told to sit down, the fucwits who buy f3ver zone tickets then sit arms foldedwith faces like slapped arses. Tonight in terms of noise was a shambles desipte best efforts primarily due to season ticket holders being spread all over the joint.

Other than that good win. Great first hour. The through ball carlos played to kenny for him to score was glorious.

Krishna lucky to stay on the park with a two footed dive at galekovic. Car from convin ed he has anything to offer the nix.

To be fair that is probably the fault of ticket master, not the people who buy the tickets who probably have no idea.

Probably a fair call

Yeah Krishna should have seen red imo. Was a horrid tackle.

Two footed lunge towards a keeper on the ground never looks good.

F*cking Akld b*st*rds