R2 vs Perth Glory | 9pm Sun 18th Oct | Prestigious Distance Derby

Lets forget about the Newcastle game and look forward to the biggest derby in the footballing calendar.

Forget Melbourne v Melbourne. Forget Sydney v Western Sydney. Forget Real Madrid v Barcelona. This. Is. The. Distance. Derby.

Will Zadkovic completely fluke a screamer again or will he finally have a mental breakdown after watching too many JAYFC videos? Find out Sunday night.

To commemorate this huge occasion, a new trophy has been created;

http://www.wellingtonphoenix.com/article/long-dist...

"The Wellington Phoenix and Perth Glory will be playing for a new trophy when they meet in the second round of the Hyundai A-League at NIB Stadium on Sunday.

The two clubs have collaborated to form the Long Distance Derby Cup which acknowledges the 5255km between the two cities which is the longest distance any club travels in world football."

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrivals.

I can't wait until we hoist the CCCC (the climate change criminal cup)

IT'S NOT A FUCKING DERBY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!!!!

how awful would it be if this was our first piece of silverware...

Terrible idea. 

Wait why are people hating?

Because if we win this game we won't care about winning the league. We'll already have the most prestigious trophy in our cabinet.

I don't mind the whole distance derby thing. Even though its about as far away from being a derby as possible, that's the point. It's a good idea to have a rivalry and also to celebrate the fact that this is the furthest that any two teams have to travel to play regular football on the planet (depending on who is currently in the Russian Premier League). We're also two teams completely isolated from most other teams so its a natural rivalry, we have too many inconveniences in common.

No, its over the three regular season games.

Yea. it doesn't meet the definition of a "derby" but its more or less the same thing, so who gives a fudge?

Perth vs Nix seems like the perfect rivalry.

Should we burn effigy's of Jacob Burns prior to every game now?

The trophy thing I'm not that fussed about. Maybe it's me, but I have never felt even the merest hint of rivalry with Perth. Other than the fact that they are in the same league as us, obviously (the Jacob Burns factor also helped), and the fact I dislike them just as much as I dislike every other A League club. The horrendous Fox Sports attempts to manufacture a rivalry just leave me cold to be honest.

Any updates on the team fitness issues?

I'd have thought those reasons would cause us to be allies, if anything, rather than creating a rivalry

Friendly rivalry not a bitter one.

Is the distant derby trophy someone sprawled asleep in an aeroplane seat?

It doesn't matter. We're gonna get dicked. Really have a bad feeling about this one.

Fire up!

Not a true fan.

As far as I'm concerned we only have one true rivalry, and it's with a club who wear blue, are much closer to home, and can never play our first team in a competitive match....

I'm talking, of course, about Miramar

Listen to #PhoenixCity. Greenacre delivers.

And the fair play award.

And the Johhny Warren Medal.

Pffft. First piece of silverware? Where have you been man!?

The Phoenix didn't win the johnny warren medal.

Fair play award hardly counts. 

just as long as we win. 

Toilet seat > anything else.

Put the toilet seat down!!

Because I dislike every other club in the league? Okay then  :-)

That post was part of J82's 94%

If they renamed this We Hate Those Soft Scum From Australia's East Coast (And You Can Piss Off Too, Adelaide Barrel Boys) Trophy, I'd be in favour it it.

Sorry honey.

The trophy? We'll be up for it.

It's not a derby so whoever thought that up should sacked! just win the dam A-league title 

I know

The only reason some other clubs have a rivalry is because they are close to each other geographically. Why wouldn't the complete opposite warrant one too? We have a lot in common and have plenty of history to support a rivalry.

· Perth are the only team we beat in all three games in season 1. Since then, we have only earned 9 points out of 9 against one club twice; against Newcastle Jets in 2011-12, and against Sydney FC also in 2011-12.

· Our first home win was against Perth (won 4-1)

· Our first ever clean sheet was also our first away clean sheet and it was against Perth. Our first home clean sheet was also against Perth.

· They were our first ever finals opponents, the first team we had to play in extra time and the first (and only) team we have faced in penalties. And of course it means they were the first team we beat in a penalty shootout.

· Of all the foundation teams, no other has a head-to-head record as evenly matched as ours; 10 wins, 6 draws, 10 losses. 34 goals for, 30 against. The only teams that have a smaller overall goal difference and similar WDL record are two newer teams (Melbourne City and Western Sydney Wanderers).

And then there's our performances each season. I posted this in the "Long Season Beckons" thread last season after the first match:

If you take their points tally from last season (and ignore the cheating part) we are once again very close (Perth had 50 points to our 46).

So what more could you want in a rivalry?

I agree.

Because this is something unique in sport why shouldn't it be a rivalry? Derby's are so fudgeing cliche most teams have them. Where the only two teams on PLANET FUCKING EARTH (give or take) that have what we have!

Pfft.... Mariners and the Jets are closer than Perth and us (without counting same city teams of course) and look where it got them.

I much prefer the GRRRrrrrrrRivals to the wooh, now taking it too seriously...

It's more that we both have to put up with being forgotten by those on or near the Aussie East coast

Rivalries develop organically - you can't artificially create them.  You can't just pick two teams and say "righto Perth and Wellington you guys are rivals".  It takes, as people have suggested, a geographical closeness or some sort of momentous reason for teams and their fans to develop a rivalry.

If they put an Auckland team in the A-League THAT would create a rivalry.