Showing your colours

Showing your colours

Can I pick up on a comment made under another thread, and that's about people coming to Phoenix games wearing Arsenal, Liverpool and (ahem) QPR shirts etc?

Im sure they would love to where a phoenix shirt, but unless you are a 12 yr old, you cant buy the shirts for love or money untill the next shipment arrives in Oct. UberGunner2007-09-24 07:02:04

That is pathetic.
sanday2007-09-24 08:49:59

I was discussing this before the game on the weekend. It is a little odd, although it was amusing seeing the gooner chant down the 8 year old in the Shevchenko shirt at the Backbencher. 

Haha Celtic fan on big screen - you got your arses felt by the Hibees 3-2!!

Wear a phoenix top to the next game - ya mhanky barsteward!

Or if retro Rickis are sold out you could get a Black fever Night time fever top

I don't think wearing other club colors in the beginning is too much of a problem. there were 12k people at the game - the supply of phoenix shirts available to retailers was around 500 until October and retro Ricki's have sold about 1000, +50 backbencher YF tops, and assorted other home made phoenix gear. At least by wearing a club top of some description you are showing you are a football supporter. If you are at the game then it goes without saying you also support the phoenix. given enough time, the entire YF zone will be a sea of yellow and black, but until the supply of phoenix gear meets the demand, i don't see why people cant wear their Liverpool or Chelsea tops. It creates plenty of banter at the pub, and you can find other like minded people to celebrate/commiserate with about your teams performance on the weekend. UberGunner2007-09-24 10:33:21

Perhaps with other EPL fans there might be banter - but plenty of us that go to the game don't give a flying fig jam roll about the EPL.

I went to the game by train this w/e and there was a guy with a manu shirt on, wot a plonker, its like wearing domestic colours ot an international, its just not done. Phoenix or nowt!

There was a guy in a Hibs top at the BB for the Newcastle game - I was talking to him -  but didn't give him sh*t - but perhaps if I did see him again in a hibs top - I would suggest to him he might want to get a phoenix top or scarf.

If anyone was going to wear Hibs gear - it would be me, as I'm trying to drum up numbers for the NZ Hibs SC (I'm the NZ 'state' rep for Oz Hibs SC) - but I've worn my retro ricki shirt to every game since the Sydney game now

If you were at "New-Highbury" would YOU give sh*t to the Hibs or 'nix shirts?

Be what you like for six days a week - on match day you are Phoenix.

Wear yellow and black - can't afford an official shirt or they have run out?

Make yer own like Madhouse does!

I've been wearing my Berwick Rangers shirt at the games (it's yellow and black) but the wife has kindly bought me a Phoenix shirt for my birthday so I'll be ditching the Berwick top from now on.

Did prompt a few random questions from punters at the BB though - like "Why the f**k are you wearing that shirt you poor bugger?"

Thanks Ellandback - not often that Chelsea and Leeds agree but nail on the head. 

I want a shirt to do with the phoenix for free?

Why do you have to wear a "Football" jersey?

i AGREE WITH THE CLOURS THING BUT REMEMBER ITS A RUGBY NATION EVERY SPORTING EVENT YOU GO TO THERE WILL ALWAYS BE OLD SKOOL WAIKATO AND OTAGO SHIRTS! there were two guys at the nix game with waikato shirts on and good luck telling them not to weat them lol If in doubt wear BEIGE

Posted in the other thread - I think the main problem is the fact that Arsenal, Liverpool and Man U shirts make it look like you're supporting Adelaide!!

make your own shirts:

1) get plain black tshirt (or rub a piece of coal all over a white one until black)
2)  with a twink pen, write "Wellington Phoenix" on the back (and if you're hardcore, on the front go on)
3) let the twink dry
4)with a standard highlighter, colour in the dried twink, careful to get all of the white
5) if you want to really stand out from the crowd,  get a yellow ribbon, either one of your kids gymnastics ribbons or maybe dog obediance or being-able-to-swim-the-length-of-the-pool ribbon,
and stitch it onto the shoulder, using intermediate cross stitch like you learn at form 2
6) this step is crucial: lightly cover the shirt in glue (i recommend 'paste' type glue - if you don't have any, a flour and water mix works fine ) and sprinkle yellow glitter over the entire tshirt (warning: too much and you may look slightly like a paedophile)

go to the game! fit in and look fabulous!

spot on urban gunner we are still nix fans at the end of the day

phoenix shop hada new range intoday as i walked past, polos and t shirts by the look. stuff looked quite good, not sure of the prices though

Im surprised there hasnt been others opposing the banning of EPL shirts. Totally agree, we are Phoenix supporters together, regardless of who we support in England, but the opportunity to wear EPL shirts in football circles is limited if you are no longer regularly involved with a club.

It's a bit tiresome all these "rules" about what we should wear, sing, sit (or stand), think etc etc about the Phoenix.  If I want to wear my beloved mid-90's Man U replica shirt I will wear it.  I'm sure like lots of football fans I am reluctant to fork out $150 for a Phoenix shirt given they have only existed for 5 competitive games and given the history of their predecessors may only last a season or two.  Many EPL teams have, on the other hand, proud histories of achievement (okay, not Spurs), and their shirts can be worn knowing they will continue for many years to come.  If the Phoenix last a few more years, and do reasonably well (here's hoping), then we can retire the EPL shirts.  Until then I'll have to go to games sitting next to my workmate in his naff Liverpool jacket and, when summer comes, his obnoxious "Mascherano" shirt.

life's depressing enough withought me having to wear my Hearts top as well!!
Im not going to give ginger eejit anymore ammo!!
Kiwi Jambo2007-09-24 16:11:44

Feel free to wear it at home or Old Trafford... Barca2007-09-24 16:25:54

Beige Brigade from the cricket fame

Oh. I did a wikipedia search on the colour to try and find some relevance, but decided it must have been an arbitrary tongue-in-cheek posting as I couldn't see anything that explained such an esoteric selection. Cricket ranks only marginally better than rugby for me.

just don't wear anything that says EVERTON while  at the backbencher the guy in the norwich top may refuse entry

i thought we all agreed to go shirtless??!! 

It's a bit tiresome all these "rules" about what we should wear, sing, sit (or stand), think etc etc about the Phoenix.  If I want to wear my beloved mid-90's Man U replica shirt I will wear it.

Well said, that person

I thought that we were trying to get people going to these games and supporting the team.   To have some "fashion Police" giving people a bit of crap because they don't happen to be wearing a Phoenix shirt is trainspotting in the extreme.   If I was to turn up in my ManU shirt (a birthday present) and have some t**ser either abuse me because I wasn't wearing the correct shirt, or waste beer on me, would ensure that I wouldn't come back.   I think some of the Phoenix Phanatics should just step back a little and realise that their antics could put a lot of people off - the exact opposite reaction to what is required.
 

How many times have you 'suggested' this? And how many times have you been told it aint going to happen because of the Reebok template?

And I still don't understand people going to a game and wearing another teams shirt. It makes no sense and makes you look like you don't give a sh*t about the Nix - only the EPL.
valeo2007-09-24 17:49:52