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Tell Us About the Atmosphere

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
giddyup wrote:
cgerra1 wrote:
The best thing about the atmosphere was that it was allowed to generate. No music played during the game itself allows chants to grow & spread - thats why US sports grounds are like morgues whilst English footy grounds have real atmosphere.
 
Normally all NZ sports ground announcers tend to play some sh1te music whenever there's so muchg as a 10 second gap in play. Fans CAN entertain themselves (as we saw yesterday) & generate their own atmosphere.
 
(Rant over).


 i agree totally
 
And so do I
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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
phil_style wrote:
giddyup wrote:
cgerra1 wrote:
The best thing about the atmosphere was that it was allowed to generate. No music played during the game itself allows chants to grow & spread - thats why US sports grounds are like morgues whilst English footy grounds have real atmosphere.
 
Normally all NZ sports ground announcers tend to play some sh1te music whenever there's so muchg as a 10 second gap in play. Fans CAN entertain themselves (as we saw yesterday) & generate their own atmosphere.
 
(Rant over).


 i agree totally
 
And so do I


Exactly!!!!!  Don't need music.  Just add passion!!!
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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
I think a lot of credit has to go to the stewrds and general stewarding policy, evidently they were well briefed and knew that a football crowd would be quite different from a rugby crowd.
We were allowed to stand the whole game and sing some quite bawdy songs, without being told to sit down and shut up once.
Two thumbs up to the stewards and hopefully we'll enjoy a similar laissez-faire approach when it comes to the Melbourne game, although with a bigger crowd and allocated seating - that might be wishful thinking.

When Hibs, went up, to win the Scottish Cup - I wisnae there - furfuxake!

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Great game, Great turnout!!!

Big ups to all who went to support the Might Nix!!
 
Yellow Fever is running through my blood!!!
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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
I think a lot of credit has to go to the stewrds and general stewarding policy, evidently they were well briefed and knew that a football crowd would be quite different from a rugby crowd.
We were allowed to stand the whole game and sing some quite bawdy songs, without being told to sit down and shut up once.
Two thumbs up to the stewards and hopefully we'll enjoy a similar laissez-faire approach when it comes to the Melbourne game, although with a bigger crowd and allocated seating - that might be wishful thinking.
 
I agree - lets hope it continues! (and maybe we shouldn't give the stewards so much grief next time..nah)

Founder

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Feverish wrote:
I think a lot of credit has to go to the stewrds and general stewarding policy, evidently they were well briefed and knew that a football crowd would be quite different from a rugby crowd.We were allowed to stand the whole game and sing some quite bawdy songs, without being told to sit down and shut up once.Two thumbs up to the stewards and hopefully we'll enjoy a similar laissez-faire approach when it comes to the Melbourne game, although with a bigger crowd and allocated seating - that might be wishful thinking.

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I agree - lets hope it continues! (and maybe we shouldn't give the stewards so much grief next time..nah)


Only if they agree to go on a diet
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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Me and my mates were going to start up a mexican wave, but we were sort of in the middle of the crowd, so would of been fairly pointless lol as it could only really go so far!
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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

HEY........HEY..............HEY............NO!

No mexican waves.

All I do is make the stuff I would've liked
Reference things I wanna watch, reference girls I wanna bite
Now I'm firefly like a burning kite
And yousa fake fuck like a fleshlight

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
just put up a report from a YF member who wanted to let people know what the day was like ( in case you weren't there)
 
 
Saaame old Phoeeeenix, taaaaaaking the piss...

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

HEY........HEY..............HEY............NO!

No mexican waves.


 again totally agree
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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
giddyup wrote:

HEY........HEY..............HEY............NO!

No mexican waves.


 again totally agree
 
again???????
 
Has anyone ever agreed with me in the past?

All I do is make the stuff I would've liked
Reference things I wanna watch, reference girls I wanna bite
Now I'm firefly like a burning kite
And yousa fake fuck like a fleshlight

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago


 
again???????
 
Has anyone ever agreed with me in the past?


i had earlier agreed with someone else who had made a sensible statement about how we conduct ourselves at the football   hence my  " again totally agree"
giddyup2007-07-23 19:13:20
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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
fair play

All I do is make the stuff I would've liked
Reference things I wanna watch, reference girls I wanna bite
Now I'm firefly like a burning kite
And yousa fake fuck like a fleshlight

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
So lads, just so we can all keep up:

1. No Mexican Waves - MonkeyBoy, you in particular should be standing in the Fever Zone anyway.
2. No, 'you're S***' as the keepers take a goal kick.
3. Frankie Mac says no Hymn books. hmmm... the new Fever t-shirt ?
Hard News2007-07-23 19:40:45

How's my driving? - Whine here

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
pull out the old boltons a wan#er clap clap clap clap clap i got the finger pulled at me by a player after chanting it with my mates at a WA state league match
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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
A mate returning from Wellywood this morning reckons the atmosphere on the streets was pretty jovial.
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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
pedersen wrote:
pull out the old boltons a wan#er clap clap clap clap clap i got the finger pulled at me by a player after chanting it with my mates at a WA state league match


We got it from Con Boutsianis the season after he'd run out on the Kingz.  We're giving it the 'if you see a thieving Aussie clap your hands' and then the f**ker scores and flips us both fingers right in the middle of the pitch.

Wish the ref had seen it.

How's my driving? - Whine here

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
that's classy  
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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

the ref caught the guy who gave me and my mates the finger and he pulled the old who me it wasnt me i didnt do anything the look on his face was priceless it was a bit like gilardinos face in  this vid    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAL2DAXR3H8

pedersen2007-07-23 21:06:41
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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
pedersen wrote:

the ref caught the guy who gave me and my mates the finger and he pulled the old who me it wasnt me i didnt do anything the look on his face was priceless it was a bit like gilardinos face in  this vid    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAL2DAXR3H8



 he deserves a stupid badge, that's on par with a fight scene out of melrose place

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Founder

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

just for old times sake can we sing  and we HLC and we HLC. always sounded good when a few thousand sang it.

qpr 4 ever

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
what we had was good but i know this can be great if we get more people in the YF zone and more people chanting.
 
we can build from this solid start.
WARZYCHA2007-07-24 17:02:59
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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
WARZYCHA wrote:

fever zone was good for a start but i feel we can improve. I think about 200 of us were chanting but in places it was only 30-50. The wellington chant was the best as everyone was singing/chanting it together.


I really hope that the YF zone does not have "families" as the look on some of the parents faces were not very welcoming.

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i think for the real season we have core chants and a few random ones, we need leaders though to avoid people slacking off

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great fun though and great result for the fans, no nutral fans can argue with 3-0.

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�im pumped for the melbourne game.

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IM PHOENIX TIL I DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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ps by families i mean mum/dad taking there 5-8 year olds out for An adventure, if your a parent on this site and dont mind if your young child heres drunken chanting and the occasional outburst of swearwords then fine bring em in to the YFzone, as long as the chant they'll have fun haha


I had me four year old daughter in there and she loved it was singin and clappin along but yeah i agree its not going to be a section for families etc...

Had to laugh when we were singin "your sh*t and you know you are" my daughter asked why are they singin about their shirts daddy HAHHAHA has a ball cant wait for next game
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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
cheers to Jamie Farrington from Champs Sports for selling the Retro Rickis to people at the pub. Thought it was a bit harsh of Jonesy to call you the fourth best sports store in Wellie...

Founder

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Yellow fever zone was great.
 
Particularly the drunk scottish guy sitting behind me


That was probably me, I wasn't drunk, just getting warmed up - I did enjoy kicking off 'Are you England in  disguise' though!


A drunk Scotsman ,surely not!!

The answer to life's problems are rarely found at the bottom of a beer glass - but it's always worth a look.

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Hey feverish any updates on the new Nix merchandise???
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