R20 v Glory | Sat 17 Feb | 7.30pm | ROF | NOT a milestone game, honest...

.... and so did Castro.

Crowd 4802

This feels so good!

Tando saves pen = MOM :-)

Stuff reports 4,800 turned up for the game. Shame really - expected more on a Saturday night; would have expected 6K.

Excellent TV footage after our winning goal, of shirtless Patrick  - deep into injury time, still drumming relentlessly (even trying the sideways position with the drum) and leading the vocal charge of the Fever.

It wasn't great but it was a big step up on the dross of late. Really pleased for velaphi and Singh who had great games in the circumstances. Fox and Durante we're immense, Galloway had the best game I've seen him play. Kaludjerovics was very disappointing, as was Burns. For the first time in a while, there looked to be plenty to build on. Ljucic looks very good at times, and Khrishna, well he's head and shoulders isn't he.

After a couple of 4-0 thrashings? 

Only the fairweather fans do not watch their team just because the team is going through a rough season or three.

All it means that the core support is clearly only 4,5K and not the 5,5K-6.0K I thought we had.

Don't think that can be the conclusion.

4.5 after speculation and intrigue in the squad all season and a lot of terrible play.

Look at the dissatisfaction on this forum. Some core support didn't turn up today and that should be the obvious protest IMO. That has to be one of our worst crowds.

I call it the Eugene Dad penalty. 

That's because he realised it will be ruled an own goal is leaving the club.

Let's  all rightly vote for the Singh goal as goal of the round. Hit with a reverse bend/spin on an angle. Just brilliant.

I agree with that. And if we did not notch up a lucky win against the odds, it would be even more soul-destroying. 

And by the way, what was with Doyle's exhaustion? He looked like he put in more effort than anyone else  - but was also uncharacteristically wayward tonight, while Galloway (despite losing the ball as often as usual) played better than ever.

You want coincidence?

Guess who was in our goal that night.

I decided to celebrate my birthday with this game by getting some mates down to the game. Brilliant goal by Singh, Castro got kicked in the balls, I led a chant, Castro took a laughable sharkty penalty, a 90 minute winner and fireworks when we were walking out.

Great birthday ?
Definitely better than last year's one when we lost 5-1...

Maybe half that

We did nothing from 10 min to 80 min but happy days 

cool that recognised it. Was unnecessarily homophobic 

Hi all,

For those asking, Wellington's home crowds numbering below 5000 (in Wellington unless otherwise stated):

3060, 3 Mar 13, Melbourne Heart in Dunedin

3898, 8 Jan 12, Perth Glory

4025, 27 Feb 13, Newcastle Jets

4115, 4 Nov 09, Newcastle Jets

4628, 14 Dec 11, Brisbane Roar in Dunedin

4738, 24 Nov 10, Melbourne Heart

4806, 17 Feb 18, Perth Glory

4828, 26 Mar 17, Newcastle Jets

4892, 24 Feb 13, Adelaide United



Cheers,

JR

We successfully tricked them into winning despite it being McGlincheys 200th A league game. Success!

Art Deco weekend in Napier probably stole a few thousand people away...

Nerves started about 6.45 when Italians, Sail, Rossi, Paracki, Parkhouse, Lowry? And more all wandered into the Phoenix Lounge.

They sat quietly through the the game, only standing and clapping at Singh’s goal

WE WON - only Adelaide’s stumbling play letting us down 

Yeah right, and there was a Mothers’ Union convention in Dunedin.

What makes me laugh are the silly buggers who waddle to their seats carrying copious quantities of beer, chips etc after about 10 or sometimes more minutes of play and then stand around looking for the seats!!

You don’t see that in countries where football is taken seriously.

Pity they missed Singh’s goal, but at least they turned up.

Don’t get the criticism of AK. He’s constantly finding decent space and pointing to where he needs the ball, much as Paul Ifill used to do. Not getting the delivery unfortunately.

Just watched the replay. Castro was sublime at times for them. Spent to much time on the ground though for my liking. Hilarious watching that pen. Karma hit him hard as it shouldn't have been a pen, dived into Galloway.

Did anyone notice (this may have already been mentioned) that when he scored Perth's goal someone was clearly heard through "ah ya C@#t" through the onfield mics.

So last night the team walked out to The Datsun Violets - You can't beat Wellington, imo it was cringe. I'm ok with it being a pre-match song, but the walkout song needs to build some crowd atmosphere.

Imo the best we've had for that was Dario G - Carnaval de Paris, it had a natural chant to it, got everyone singing before kick-off, would love ot see it back.

Sirius - 2020 (Evolution) remix was also not so bad, at least built up the atmosphere.

That was Mitch Nichols, here's a short vid of it for others

Disappointed with Burns last night, lost the ball far too easily, but did make some great runs.

Tando, what a good debut.
Well done team.

Very funny, was surprised they didn't at least edit it out on the A-League website from their highlights package. Mind you, probably a regular saying as part of the Aussie vernacular.

Couldn't watch the game live because of work, but it was great to see the fight and effort from the boys, a huge step up from the dross of the past 3 weeks. Crowd looked a little light but to be fair we've been pretty awful of late too, so not a huge drawcard. 

We just needed some wins on the trot. We failed to do that all season. There was no momentum, for both crowds and results.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, the walk out song should be Home Again.

i thought there was another low crowd against one of the teams that no longer exist in a midweek game when it was pissing down for the whole game, not sure what season it was.

How well did Patterson play? 

I remember him dribbling over the sideline Totori style 

this actually suggests that the fans have stuck with the 'Nix throughout this season, up to this point

saw kevin bloody wilson the other night..going by his vocabulary that word is part of the australian education english syllabus 

couldnt agree more....no song could be more wellington than home again...hobnail boots recorded an acoustic version of it cos it was the song that got them over being homesick in europe...can never have too much shihad 

Not exactly fair reflection on his play. We needed his mobility and I think he is an improvement on Parkhouse or on Watson, from the early signs against Perth. He is a young bloke and he showed good commitment and decent skills.