Vince Lia

Nice chat with Vince

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Get an image of the article here if you can't be arsed with the registration thing:

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Pimping a competitor of the sponsor though...

Icebreaker?

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Caffe L'Affare.

Ha very nice article

http://www.wellingtonphoenix.com/article/vince-lia---150-games-for-wellington-phoenix/o6id5avyyit91up8fmcdly952

What a champ!

Two goals in 149 games. Hopefully they can set something up, he need more goals!

Congratulations to the man

Great, so now we have to play him ... 

Say what you like but he has played about 149 games more than us keyboard warriors. 

Be happy for the guy for 5 mins that he got to this despite most "fans" continuously badmouthing him.

This is what I said 7 damn years ago and I still kind of agree; but I think he's done well to keep up with the pace of the A-League (generally) though I think now he's a couple of steps behind play most of the time.

Good on him for reaching 150.

I'm not taking sides here but that is quite funny from you Termy.

he slogs his guts out and has been super loyal - congrats Vinnie!

Well played tonight Vinnie

yep, classic

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well done vinny

never my fav player, but you gotta nod your head to his contribution

always gives his best, does a fair bit of the dirty work for the team, always seems a professional and sounds like he's respected amongst his team mates

you could do a heck of a lot worse

Hats off to Vinnie. Lots of unwarranted stick round here over the years. Occasionally justified, but mostly not. 

Level-headed managers like Ricki and Ernie knew better than that though, and valued him for what he brings.

Can't have a successful team in a salary-capped league without guys like Lia in your squad to do the business.

Good work son, keep it up, see you at 200.

Vinnie, you are a Lia-ability in the best sense of the word. Congratulations and thanks.

What a performance by Vinnie in his 150th game in Perth. One of his best I can remember. 

(Having said that I thought Krishna, Sigmund and Bonavacia were our best 3 on the park, but Vinnie, Durra and Mossy were awesome too.)

Happy 30th to one of our favourite designated scapegoats.

Hey 30 is a factor of 150. That's nice.

http://www.wellingtonphoenix.com/article/qa-vince-lia---true-phoenix-legend/12esmorj4mxhu1fjrs14jhzdp9

2 weeks notice, awesome!!!

You're kidding right? 

the least we could do

Really looking forward to seeing Daniel back. Should be a fun day. Hopefully can make the dinner, but don't think can afford it. 

Yeah if I had the money would love to not only attend the dinner but actually play in the game. Maybe they will want a referee for it...

Either way, will be fun to go watch, here is hoping for a sunny day!

I'd love to attend both but right now I wont even be able to go to North Harbour. Sad, I also like Lia.

wtf ? Why Patrick? This notice was the first I have heard or seen of anything being done for Vinnie. I appreciate your sources are better than main stream media. Why are you always coming down on people that do not have the access that you have? 

First I heard of the testimonial was when Siggy and Lia announced it at bethels on the weekend. I think it's fair for the club to have waited until everything had been organised to announce it. 2 weeks isn't that short an amount of time. 

Domey announced it at the SydNix drinks before the Sydney game & told people there not to mention it until they could announce it after the Chinese game. So doubt many people outside of those guys & girls knew anything about it.

During commentary of the Chinese game, Siggy mentioned it but im guessing a few people here would have been at the game.

Is that what he meant?  I thought he meant its cheap because of the no notice given.

Thank you for clarifying that. Usually a testimonial game is announced at the start of a season with ongoing events organised by the players friends, family and fans plus the club puts up for a game and dinner. 

I guess here in NZ we do things half hearted. I would have loved to have attended both events plus the game in Auckland but I wont be able to make any at this stage. I imagine it is not just me, there could be other fans in the same position. Despite the live/hate relationship Vinnie gets from various fans, 10 years at the club deserves recognition, proper recognition.

Fixed my spelling and grammer.