Reality or excuses? This has been a vindictive government that realised it doesn’t get many votes in Wellington and targeted Wellington for lay offs.
And this is some time after Sir John told us Wellington was a dying city.
It’s the same all over- music, hospitality, and other luxury lifestyle goods are down.
When the club started out it was mostly economic good times, with the prospect of more in the future, propped up as it was by immigration and the housing market. Outside the housing market there was no inflation for 20 years that we talked about and the housing market was a one way slot machine for those involved.
Now Fonterra is bailing out of its brands, we are desperately trawling for oil and gas we can’t find while ignoring our responsibilities by treaty to avoid severe climate change, dumping responsibilities on councils and then blaming them for not being able to fix water systems without cash. We’re about to give up on flood, landslip and storm victims cos they cost a bit much. And earthquake ones too. Can’t afford it so that lot is cut loose.
What’s Fonterra’s excuse? It can’t make money selling cheese in New Zealand?
Even now a rural connecting road out may be out for a year or more.
It’s a bit harder to find a football party amongst all that.
We had a point when a blockbuster a year was dropping at Christmas, fresh from Wellington to the world. Fun times. Exciting times.
All we got to look forward to now is higher healthcare and super. Or a bunch of cut loose poor old people without houses, being kicked by a smug property class.
Not much of the city feeding into the football now.
If you have a limited and decreasing market it’s a hard sell.
And this is some time after Sir John told us Wellington was a dying city.
It’s the same all over- music, hospitality, and other luxury lifestyle goods are down.
When the club started out it was mostly economic good times, with the prospect of more in the future, propped up as it was by immigration and the housing market. Outside the housing market there was no inflation for 20 years that we talked about and the housing market was a one way slot machine for those involved.
Now Fonterra is bailing out of its brands, we are desperately trawling for oil and gas we can’t find while ignoring our responsibilities by treaty to avoid severe climate change, dumping responsibilities on councils and then blaming them for not being able to fix water systems without cash. We’re about to give up on flood, landslip and storm victims cos they cost a bit much. And earthquake ones too. Can’t afford it so that lot is cut loose.
What’s Fonterra’s excuse? It can’t make money selling cheese in New Zealand?
Even now a rural connecting road out may be out for a year or more.
It’s a bit harder to find a football party amongst all that.
We had a point when a blockbuster a year was dropping at Christmas, fresh from Wellington to the world. Fun times. Exciting times.
All we got to look forward to now is higher healthcare and super. Or a bunch of cut loose poor old people without houses, being kicked by a smug property class.
Not much of the city feeding into the football now.
If you have a limited and decreasing market it’s a hard sell.
You wanting to blame the Nix's woes on this current government and Sir (actually deserved) John Key proves that fans are excuse after excuse.
Avatar just dropped but hey because they milked a kids book into three movies (Hobbit) (which all sucked and made the new ones go off sure) you think a movie a year should come and be made in an industry struggling globally to make decent movies.
Lastly, football was always a hard sell in wellington, even harder if you have a club that is doing nothing to entice current and new fans
Dude, first we aren’t that far apart. I hated the Hobbit movies with a passion. And the Avatar movies are not blockbusters. They lost their touch.
Yes, entertainment is struggling internationally. Recreation is struggling internationally. Sport is struggling as it is designed for TV viewing and that’s dropped off with streaming, gaming and other things exploding without reaching the former media.
Tbh Marsden point and Comalco are quite a lot like Eden Park- there with their hands out, yet somehow deserving of millions unlike a 19 year old asking for a few thousand. But that’s by the by. And why is it always my mates? If I had mates that powerful the Nix would have won the league by now.
I mean, if you want to run the club, go for gold. Who is our mainstay? What do we need to do to bring them back and who will be our mainstay in 5 years? Tough ask but are they the same?
It is honestly awesome to see you angry and that you care about the club. I think that’s good.
But also man, it’s the economy…
(Edit: Also dude at the end of the Clark government Sir Michael and Sir John had a conversation about rampant property inflation and the lack of investment culture in NZ, partly down to a lack of trust post 1987. Neither major party considered this a problem again, cos getting fat on property inflation is the same as getting fat on productive investment as far as voters are concerned…the Ardern government did a few things, which are hitting now, but…)
Rob talked casually to YF members about generational change a few years back. A rebrand couldn’t hurt. But it might be better with a few more 7-0 wins first..!