These are the quotes from Thunder. Hardly a whinge.
"It was slightly below expectations I would say."
Christchurch City Council's events company Vbase paid the Phoenix a fee to bring a game to the stadium and required about 6000 paying spectators to break even.
Dome said they needed to crunch the numbers, but did not expect the match to generate a deficit.
"We have a business model between us and Vbase. We hope it's a win-win situation for both organisations.
"We certainly don't want to see Vbase or us losing money on these sort of exercises."
Dome said taking the team around the country was important for the Phoenix, but it had to be viable financially.
"We'll have to look into it and have a good think about it and whether it makes sense to [return to Christchurch].
"It will be a case of weighing up the best [financial] model for us."
Hardly an endorsement of the fans who turned up to see a below strength and underperforming team playing the bottom team. More couched in the negative stuff from Dome. Some fair comment in the article
Not sure what the problem is? He says they expected more and they don't wann loose money, everybody was happy with the crowd who was there. The attendance was a topic in the press last week so he addressed it. If he said nothing or said everything is fine people would question that. He is also not commenting the team performance because that is the coaches job, and if you saw Ernie post match interview you could see how disappointed he was. You can imagine Dome is not happy about the performance either, just makes Welnix job harder on every level.
I dont see Dome saying that actually. Thats the point.
I'm not having a big raz about it by the way, just noting it is typical of the negative tone he uses