Shirts off ettiquette - research

Was this the game that could have been cancelled at half time due to the water-logged pitch? Was this game where I stayed at my seat to keep up my record of being in the same place for every home game? Was this the game where I had to go to A&E the following day and had to stay in hospital for a few nights with suspected Pneumonia?

I wouldn't have minded so much if we'd have at least won the game.

I still take my shirt off though...

It was indeed, our very first A-League win, away to Sydney, Me, Feverish, Frankie, Eager, Jono and a few others.

I have to admit - I didn't partake of the shirt removal - it may have had something to do with Greenpeace being in the vicinity, and I didn't fancy them chucking buckets of water over me on a Saturday night

Video evidence - great stuff! (I was hoarse as buggery after tho'!)

http://yellowfever.co.nz/tv.asp?ID=14
ginger_eejit2012-01-31 19:21:56

shirts off singing ricki herberts yellow army for 10 mins wouldbemint.

as 1 'ricki herbert' tires, another on eneeds to tag in though

or if that stops, a phoenix chant needs to start asap.

It still disappoints me that 5 years later Phoenix City still hasn't been fully embraced by the club.

And Skatalites is pronounced Scar-talites not Scat-alites.

And the version used there was a cover by Judge Dread anyway.

Just sayin'

Your member title describes this situation perfectly.

That's not even the half of it...

http://www.yellowfever.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10141&PN=1


terminator_x2012-01-31 19:36:31

aarfff !! greene when are you not drunk

I've heard of a Blue Whale but never heard of a Ginger one...

Yep it is pretty funny to listen to that, what a long way the YF and Nix have come! One thing the Kingz never had, a thumping good pre and post match pub like the BB.

It would be awesome to hear the crowd singing it like this

what? Piney dont know? 

what a thread, loving it

best part is that we can probably say that shirts off has occurred at every single phoenix victory

i recall drunkenly putting my shirt back on in season 2 i think, must've been the victory game mentioned

was a fever zone regular in seasons 1/2, but just a nancy boy these days, do miss it sometimes, perhaps next season i might have to roll back the years...

Roll. Back. The. Years!

Talking about memories any body else remember that first game at the stadium pre season with the assortment of yellow and black jerseys worn by everybody due to the lack of merchandise.Still have my yellow midnight munches t shirt i wore.

As for coldest,seem to recall a midweek game a couple season ago which was an absolute shocker.

i remember my (the?) first game, 07 preseason vs sydney - is that the one?

got moved to the stadium from newtown due to popularity

still have the ticket, $10

we won 2-0 from memory(?), i'd never been in a singing sports crowd before

i remember singing 'same old aussies always cheating' for the first time, thinking to myself "are we allowed to chant stuff like this? i bet they'll outlaw it"

Bahahahaha so naive

man i got the bug bad that day, only missed 3 wellington games since i think
tragically dadi's bicycle kick was one, but happily the other 2 were the crushing streak-ending losses to roar/ccm last season

right that's it, im back in the zone next season

we should start a nostalgia thread
paulm2012-02-01 16:07:02

3-0 if I remember correctly.

And we sung "We didn't think we'd be this good". Was absolutely brilliant!

This is the one I remember as the coldest

Record low league home attendance: 4,115 v Newcastle United Jets on 4 November 2009

It was raining, about 8 or 9 degrees at most, miserable day, and people in the rain with shirts off at 80 minutes.

Some people relocated up the back under cover, others put shirts back on, the hardy few with shirts off put them back on at the final whistle.

I think I took the following day off work after that game to warm up again

Think it was Jets 2 seasons ago.

Yep thats the one should have known it would be the bloody Jets.

As for nostalgia,like some others that was first time in amongst chanting etc,had been to some Kingz and Nights games but just as joe blogs fan.

Also clearly remember just a bunch of convicts and the debate that raged on the forums afterwards about that and same old aussies.To this day seems some people dont get it that even when  kiwis  come back to the ROF in an opposition team  they are reclassified for the day as aussies.

Shirts off during the 6-0 mauling of the Gold Coast was an epiphany for me...thanks to TV cameras turning on me to show the viewing public my gut bouncing around my chin (which they duly ran for about 3 months after the game).

My favourite comment at work on the following Monday from several arm chair supporters was "Have you ever considered a career change to Turkish Belly Dancing?".

Anyway, the epiphany was that the desk job was doing my arteries no favours at all. So, since that fateful, fabulous evening when we gave Judas the serious spanking, I have exercised (including getting back on the football field regularly) and now the shirts off experience is, personally, a far trimmer event.

So, 'Shirts Off' has public health benefits...

Shirts off for me first time (and only time thus far) during the Nix season was our last home playoff game v Newcastle before the" Hand of Payne" Sydney semi. It was like" last chance to send them off..what the hell!" 
I'd already had a wee taste of shirts off joy on that epic November 14th prior.
Other than that, in the interests of public safety and good taste, I stay shirted.

Ditto - playoff v Jets was my one only shirt off experience for the NIx (that I can remember) - may have done it for the All-Whites game as well.

I would be in danger of blinding most of the fever zone and most likely the players such is my rotund paleness. (Perhaps wolves would start howling at me!)

I can confirm that shirts were most definitely off during the Gold Coast and Newcastle away wins!

Under what criteria though, although doing a search for A-League entry criteria found this for Hindmarsh:

The following activities are prohibited:

...
Engaging in any activity that the Stadium Management considers inappropriate


So a rather vague catch all (bit like the UK's breach of the peace legislation!) that just takes a wog-ball hating boofhead of a security guard/polis to take execption to the shirts off.

Reminds me of an away game of Sydney, Sydney had whinged their way to some favourable decision from the ref or such, and we (about 8 of us) started singing "f**k off Sydney, f**k off Sydney" etc.

One of NSW finest took exception to it, marched up and said if we didn't stop swearing in our songs we'd be ejected. Whilst this was happening the Cove were singing a song that was full of sweary words that could be heard right round the stadium

Wasn't there a bitterly cold game against the Fury in January two years ago? It was absolutely pouring with rain, and I remember singing "We've got the best summer in the league". Funny that the worst game I've ever been too weatherwise is one of my best nix memories. I think we also heckled Brockie during that game. "You'll never make the all whites" etc.

For shirts off I remember taking mine off versus Boca Juniors and then getting horrendously sick for a week afterwards. Totally worth it!

Frankie Mac2012-02-02 06:24:07

February 12th 2010 I think.

Post game harbour swim as well if I remember correctly.

Cool, I popped the shirts off cherry with you and ginger_eejit at the Jest semi. I wanted to on 14.11.09 but it was a family friendly area around me and I just didn't have it in me. Always regretted it so my next game was the Jest semi and I've done it at EVERY game since.

The Jest semi was an interesting game to take the shirts off for the first ever time. We weren't leading after 80 (it was 1-1 as you'll recall) and it finished that way.

Early in the second half of extra time we went ahead 2-1 and that's when my shirt came off along with many. But there were MORE THAN 10 MINUTES left to play.

I recall that there was a brief discussion here later about whether the shirts were supposed to come off:

- at ANY stage where we go ahead after being level/behind at the 80th minute

- or only if we are ahead with 10 minutes left to run (and therefore in any extra time the shirts only go off after 110 minutes

Of course we didn't really care much because we were just chuffed to be in the preliminary final against the Handball Cheats, but it was interesting nevertheless.

i went shirts off tonight alone in my lounge

anyone else?

I know someone else that does but I haven't started this yet LOL

Spill the whisky or shirts off? Laphroaig won for me

what is this 'laphroaig' i've never heard it before

Ah,now you speak of things that thrillhamezilla2012-02-04 01:04:01

I'm still waiting for shirts off at 4 kings

My favourite Islay single malt.
http://www.laphroaig.com/home.aspx

Has been known to be consumed rather hurriedly on more than one cold blizzardy evening on the way to the RoF... for purely medicinal, life preserving purposes of course... no bloody way my shirt was coming off!