I think it is great that the women's team are getting as good a player budget as any other team in their league and also have access to the best facilities and conditions in their league, you'll never see me criticising Domey for that.
The men beating the Mariners at home in the state they are currently in is nothing to crow about though.
We are in a similar state to CCM with injuries and senior players just returning though, had we lost or drawn today I expect you'd have been piling it on!
I’m Jim Jeffries with a musket in a bar. Firstly, despite it recorded forever I can’t remember what I said 3 minutes ago and secondly it’d be boring with all these emos here without Napier around. He’s not a bad guy.
Wow, lay off the sake man, you’ve gone postal a couple of times on here.martinb
AucklandPhoenix
I did like the “garden gnome Cosgrove” line.
You just cant mend the relationship after that 😂
Geez mate steady on.
I’m Jim Jeffries with a musket in a bar. Firstly, despite it recorded forever I can’t remember what I said 3 minutes ago and secondly it’d be boring with all these emos here without Napier around. He’s not a bad guy.
We are in a similar state to CCM with injuries and senior players just returning though, had we lost or drawn today I expect you'd have been piling it on!
It’s a step towards a bare pass. It does also show how we miss senior players. James, Hughes and LKH meant McCarron hardly had to touch the ball. They took a lot of responsibility.
Wow, lay off the sake man, you’ve gone postal a couple of times on here.martinb
AucklandPhoenix
I did like the “garden gnome Cosgrove” line.
You just cant mend the relationship after that 😂
Geez mate steady on.
I’m Jim Jeffries with a musket in a bar. Firstly, despite it recorded forever I can’t remember what I said 3 minutes ago and secondly it’d be boring with all these emos here without Napier around. He’s not a bad guy.
What worked 3 days a week? Every now and then I hit a bit of sincerity in a conversation, that’s true. And have you seen the football and the reffing? It all gets a bit gloomy now and again.
And while I gave a few ‘cheerful’ future thoughts people could control, here we’ve also got this mega-chain earthquake kinda due (different to the one’s that pop up on the news) and Mount Fuji hasn’t erupted for just over 300 years, so that’s always a possibility for any given day here too!
Geez though by the end we were dominating so much the ref played on advantage AND came back to give the CC guy a yellow. We hit a few calls finally.
so does Dome get credit for the results this weekend? or is it only when we lose that he is responsible?
A win is a win, so he get some credit, we are not monsters. Crowd was still not amazing and to be fair, it was not exactly a hard opponent. I guess it could be good start to prove all the haters wrong. The woman team played amazing.
Wow, lay off the sake man, you’ve gone postal a couple of times on here.martinb
AucklandPhoenix
I did like the “garden gnome Cosgrove” line.
You just cant mend the relationship after that 😂
Geez mate steady on.
I’m Jim Jeffries with a musket in a bar. Firstly, despite it recorded forever I can’t remember what I said 3 minutes ago and secondly it’d be boring with all these emos here without Napier around. He’s not a bad guy.
What worked 3 days a week? Every now and then I hit a bit of sincerity in a conversation, that’s true. And have you seen the football and the reffing? It all gets a bit gloomy now and again.
Geez though by the end we were dominating so much the ref played on advantage AND came back to give the CC guy a yellow. We hit a few calls finally.
I’m Jim Jeffries with a musket in a bar. Firstly, despite it recorded forever I can’t remember what I said 3 minutes ago and secondly it’d be boring with all these emos here without Napier around. He’s not a bad guy.
I’m Jim Jeffries with a musket in a bar. Firstly, despite it recorded forever I can’t remember what I said 3 minutes ago and secondly it’d be boring with all these emos here without Napier around. He’s not a bad guy.
You called him a coward.
He’s sniping not playing the ball. That’s fairly cowardly to me.
Sure I was running my mouth and probably should have stfu, but mocking something sincere is a way of being dismissive and rude.
I’d like a few things anchoring us. You know my whole life it’s been ‘good things take time’ and now it’s the 70 year old farmers wanna get a jacuzzi and travel before they go. Not that I begrudge them- it’s tough work. But it feels like giving them the Fonterra monopoly was to represent NZ and fly our flag. They’re throwing in the towel. It feels like the country is gunna get carved up.
And reading a bit of history- we give something away we might not get it back. Vietnam was a colony for over a thousand years. Egypt had no independent ruler between Cleopatra and recently. We’ve got the FBI in Wellington. Our answer to our population overhang is privatise health it seems. And Americanize it so the costs land on us individually, in the end, to enriched corporates.
That’s all genuine man. Eden Park number 2 gone with little resistance.
It’s all shaking up. I don’t like how it’s going. Where’d the magic Kiwis go man?
That’s not a LOL, bye Felicia thing to me. But also, it’s off topic. And for some ott. But it’s sincere soul searching man.
Anyway I’ll see my family in Japan soon and they’re doing okay!
(Also sake or nihon shu isn’t that popular here these days. Shochu and highballs, which are just mixed drinks mostly, are a bit better amongst real drunks. And Korean shoju is cool, like Kpop. Also osake or sake refers to all alcohol here on menus.)
But yeh dude’s got football chops and heritage and that’s his style and I’d rather that than the everything Nix is crap brigade which just grates.
Trotsky, why are you in Japan? An economic refugee chasing the money? Or are you working to help the downtrodden masses? Your political bullcrap is tiresome as is you getting on the sauce and regaling us with your political views and abuse. If you are such a martyr for the cause, come home and work to right the wrongs that you think we are all suffering or are you just another chardonnay (or shochu as you seem to prefer) socialist?martinb
Buffon II
martinb
AucklandPhoenix
I did like the “garden gnome Cosgrove” line.
You just cant mend the relationship after that 😂
Geez mate steady on.
I’m Jim Jeffries with a musket in a bar. Firstly, despite it recorded forever I can’t remember what I said 3 minutes ago and secondly it’d be boring with all these emos here without Napier around. He’s not a bad guy.
You called him a coward.
He’s sniping not playing the ball. That’s fairly cowardly to me.
Sure I was running my mouth and probably should have stfu, but mocking something sincere is a way of being dismissive and rude.
I’d like a few things anchoring us. You know my whole life it’s been ‘good things take time’ and now it’s the 70 year old farmers wanna get a jacuzzi and travel before they go. Not that I begrudge them- it’s tough work. But it feels like giving them the Fonterra monopoly was to represent NZ and fly our flag. They’re throwing in the towel. It feels like the country is gunna get carved up.
And reading a bit of history- we give something away we might not get it back. Vietnam was a colony for over a thousand years. Egypt had no independent ruler between Cleopatra and recently. We’ve got the FBI in Wellington. Our answer to our population overhang is privatise health it seems. And Americanize it so the costs land on us individually, in the end, to enriched corporates.
That’s all genuine man. Eden Park number 2 gone with little resistance.
It’s all shaking up. I don’t like how it’s going. Where’d the magic Kiwis go man?
That’s not a LOL, bye Felicia thing to me. But also, it’s off topic. And for some ott. But it’s sincere soul searching man.
Anyway I’ll see my family in Japan soon and they’re doing okay!
(Also sake or nihon shu isn’t that popular here these days. Shochu and highballs, which are just mixed drinks mostly, are a bit better amongst real drunks. And Korean shoju is cool, like Kpop. Also osake or sake refers to all alcohol here on menus.)
But yeh dude’s got football chops and heritage and that’s his style and I’d rather that than the everything Nix is crap brigade which just grates.
This isn't specifically about Dome but Piney said on his podcast that Rob Morrison had some stern words to "the football department" after the Perth and Jets losses. The word apoplectic may have been used by Piney but don't quote me on that.
I almost spat out my eggnog where I got referenced upthread as a target for misogynist comments, but I really have to pop into say that NP's nasty little post beginning with the word "Trotsky" is crossing the line, reminding me of the kind of garbage I used to get from The Port
Ramming liberal dribble down your throat since 2009 This forum needs less angst and more Kate Bush threads
You obviously don’t remember the tv show “Citizen Smith” and for all you know I may have been referring to Brian Trotsky a very good left back I played with in the 70s. For you to think I was referring to Leon Trotsky must mean you saw similarity between Martin’s political rants and the views of Leon To be able to take offence to that connection. Forgive me for showing no sympathy, you are forgetting who was maligned first in this thread.Doloras
I almost spat out my eggnog where I got referenced upthread as a target for misogynist comments, but I really have to pop into say that NP's nasty little post beginning with the word "Trotsky" is crossing the line, reminding me of the kind of garbage I used to get from The Port
Feel free to drop over to the politics thread then. I’d say I’ve been posting about a lot more than simply politics.
And fair challenge about coming home. You got a job going? Local football pundit? We are a diaspora nation. Japan has been a low growth economy, as well as my personal situation, I’m kinda settled here due to not getting on the (Auckland) property ladder a while back. And it being my immediate family’s home country. We’re doing better work wise, with the subsidised childcare here and having no car. That cuts out or reduces 3 daily costs. Japanese workplaces often pay for your train costs, which is another useful thing.
I’m here buying kiwi kiwifruit, pumpkin and manuka honey contributing export dollars. NZ cheese has been priced out of Japanese supermarkets for about two years. There’s still places you can buy expensive 100g of NZ cheddar sometimes. Or Parmesan. But I haven’t seen that brand in 5-6 months. And there used to be home brand pies that were made in NZ briefly.
Long story short, I’m freaked out by all the change and what it might mean to be Kiwi. I think the rate of change is freaking a lot of people worldwide though. But NZ since the beginning has been dominated by primary industries. Tourism is now substantial too, but not as reliable. If Fonterra is pulling up sticks, and giving up what little sway we had on international markets… I got no idea man. If I did I’d be rich in NZ. I’m just scared by what looks like people bailing on the 20th c NZ rapidly. And the new housing without proper support could easily become slums.
As for the socialist tag, I’m probably too thick to be one. A large part of what is good about NZ in terms of the places where we’ve taken care of people and avoided trouble comes from our socialists and the woke colonial office of that era that wanted a treaty. Otherwise we’d be South Africa or a colder, unhappier Hawaii or similar.
But as well, while overseas there’s a fair reputation for Kiwis that we work hard and play hard, we also have a reputation for not being entrepreneurial, for being lazy or being comfortable not pushing the envelope and/or, compared to others being an easy backwater mark, and not standing up for ourselves. We don’t have the drive for a dollar and a deal that some do. We’re not hard nosed Aussie winners, American hustlers or whatever. There that’s on topic. And that might come, at least partially from government dependency.
My feeling is we’re so small we have to band together and get things done that way. The state is the easiest mechanism for it, but not the only one. And if Fonterra is the shot we’ve taken and we can’t do value added product 😳. And our factories all seem to be folding given the difficulties of the electricity market among other things.
But that also means we have to agree on things. Wind farms seem a better bet than desperately searching for unknown fossil fuels we’ve given away the rights to in the exploration contract, for example. But neither is likely a lot of immediate jobs in the next ten years. No hay on a wind farm! But it is a few other economic goods.
Don’t think Trotsky is a quite right. Unless it means you’re sending around pick axes. It doesn’t right? Right?? I’m not smart enough to be Wally Nash. Probably happy as I am. One of Bernard Hickey’s overseas generation. Grand parenting by vid call.
Edit: And don’t play the victim bud. You’re better than that. Truth’s a defense against libel. You don’t have to make it true. Don’t be a Sydney blinger throwing in challenges and complaining when you get some back. Anyway we’re all off topic. And long out of date if we’re framing everything by the Cold War.
Anyway you’re right. All this crap is off topic. Which is where I should take it. Please feel free to school me there. And Merry Christmas and all! May a canceled export order of lamb or better as you wish, find you! Thanks for the check too Buffy.
Anyway this thread is specifically for Auckland Phoenix’s anti-Dome local political agenda in which Domey is responsible for all ills. Here’s the other successful academy based selling club in the league:
Feel free to drop over to the politics thread then. I’d say I’ve been posting about a lot more than simply politics.
And fair challenge about coming home. You got a job going? Local football pundit? We are a diaspora nation. Japan has been a low growth economy, as well as my personal situation, I’m kinda settled here due to not getting on the (Auckland) property ladder a while back. And it being my immediate family’s home country. We’re doing better work wise, with the subsidised childcare here and having no car. That cuts out or reduces 3 daily costs. Japanese workplaces often pay for your train costs, which is another useful thing.
I’m here buying kiwi kiwifruit, pumpkin and manuka honey contributing export dollars. NZ cheese has been priced out of Japanese supermarkets for about two years. There’s still places you can buy expensive 100g of NZ cheddar sometimes. Or Parmesan. But I haven’t seen that brand in 5-6 months. And there used to be home brand pies that were made in NZ briefly.
Long story short, I’m freaked out by all the change and what it might mean to be Kiwi. I think the rate of change is freaking a lot of people worldwide though. But NZ since the beginning has been dominated by primary industries. Tourism is now substantial too, but not as reliable. If Fonterra is pulling up sticks, and giving up what little sway we had on international markets… I got no idea man. If I did I’d be rich in NZ. I’m just scared by what looks like people bailing on the 20th c NZ rapidly. And the new housing without proper support could easily become slums.
As for the socialist tag, I’m probably too thick to be one. A large part of what is good about NZ in terms of the places where we’ve taken care of people and avoided trouble comes from our socialists and the woke colonial office of that era that wanted a treaty. Otherwise we’d be South Africa or a colder, unhappier Hawaii or similar.
But as well, while overseas there’s a fair reputation for Kiwis that we work hard and play hard, we also have a reputation for not being entrepreneurial, for being lazy or being comfortable not pushing the envelope and/or, compared to others being an easy backwater mark, and not standing up for ourselves. We don’t have the drive for a dollar and a deal that some do. We’re not hard nosed Aussie winners, American hustlers or whatever. There that’s on topic. And that might come, at least partially from government dependency.
My feeling is we’re so small we have to band together and get things done that way. The state is the easiest mechanism for it, but not the only one. And if Fonterra is the shot we’ve taken and we can’t do value added product 😳. And our factories all seem to be folding given the difficulties of the electricity market among other things.
But that also means we have to agree on things. Wind farms seem a better bet than desperately searching for unknown fossil fuels we’ve given away the rights to in the exploration contract, for example. But neither is likely a lot of immediate jobs in the next ten years. No hay on a wind farm! But it is a few other economic goods.
Don’t think Trotsky is a quite right. Unless it means you’re sending around pick axes. It doesn’t right? Right?? I’m not smart enough to be Wally Nash. Probably happy as I am. One of Bernard Hickey’s overseas generation. Grand parenting by vid call.
Edit: And don’t play the victim bud. You’re better than that. Truth’s a defense against libel. You don’t have to make it true. Don’t be a Sydney blinger throwing in challenges and complaining when you get some back. Anyway we’re all off topic. And long out of date if we’re framing everything by the Cold War.
Anyway you’re right. All this crap is off topic. Which is where I should take it. Please feel free to school me there. And Merry Christmas and all! May a canceled export order of lamb or better as you wish, find you! Thanks for the check too Buffy.
Anyway this thread is specifically for Auckland Phoenix’s anti-Dome local political agenda in which Domey is responsible for all ills. Here’s the other successful academy based selling club in the league:
Feel free to drop over to the politics thread then. I’d say I’ve been posting about a lot more than simply politics.
And fair challenge about coming home. You got a job going? Local football pundit? We are a diaspora nation. Japan has been a low growth economy, as well as my personal situation, I’m kinda settled here due to not getting on the (Auckland) property ladder a while back. And it being my immediate family’s home country. We’re doing better work wise, with the subsidised childcare here and having no car. That cuts out or reduces 3 daily costs. Japanese workplaces often pay for your train costs, which is another useful thing.
I’m here buying kiwi kiwifruit, pumpkin and manuka honey contributing export dollars. NZ cheese has been priced out of Japanese supermarkets for about two years. There’s still places you can buy expensive 100g of NZ cheddar sometimes. Or Parmesan. But I haven’t seen that brand in 5-6 months. And there used to be home brand pies that were made in NZ briefly.
Long story short, I’m freaked out by all the change and what it might mean to be Kiwi. I think the rate of change is freaking a lot of people worldwide though. But NZ since the beginning has been dominated by primary industries. Tourism is now substantial too, but not as reliable. If Fonterra is pulling up sticks, and giving up what little sway we had on international markets… I got no idea man. If I did I’d be rich in NZ. I’m just scared by what looks like people bailing on the 20th c NZ rapidly. And the new housing without proper support could easily become slums.
As for the socialist tag, I’m probably too thick to be one. A large part of what is good about NZ in terms of the places where we’ve taken care of people and avoided trouble comes from our socialists and the woke colonial office of that era that wanted a treaty. Otherwise we’d be South Africa or a colder, unhappier Hawaii or similar.
But as well, while overseas there’s a fair reputation for Kiwis that we work hard and play hard, we also have a reputation for not being entrepreneurial, for being lazy or being comfortable not pushing the envelope and/or, compared to others being an easy backwater mark, and not standing up for ourselves. We don’t have the drive for a dollar and a deal that some do. We’re not hard nosed Aussie winners, American hustlers or whatever. There that’s on topic. And that might come, at least partially from government dependency.
My feeling is we’re so small we have to band together and get things done that way. The state is the easiest mechanism for it, but not the only one. And if Fonterra is the shot we’ve taken and we can’t do value added product 😳. And our factories all seem to be folding given the difficulties of the electricity market among other things.
But that also means we have to agree on things. Wind farms seem a better bet than desperately searching for unknown fossil fuels we’ve given away the rights to in the exploration contract, for example. But neither is likely a lot of immediate jobs in the next ten years. No hay on a wind farm! But it is a few other economic goods.
Don’t think Trotsky is a quite right. Unless it means you’re sending around pick axes. It doesn’t right? Right?? I’m not smart enough to be Wally Nash. Probably happy as I am. One of Bernard Hickey’s overseas generation. Grand parenting by vid call.
Edit: And don’t play the victim bud. You’re better than that. Truth’s a defense against libel. You don’t have to make it true. Don’t be a Sydney blinger throwing in challenges and complaining when you get some back. Anyway we’re all off topic. And long out of date if we’re framing everything by the Cold War.
Anyway you’re right. All this crap is off topic. Which is where I should take it. Please feel free to school me there. And Merry Christmas and all! May a canceled export order of lamb or better as you wish, find you! Thanks for the check too Buffy.
Anyway this thread is specifically for Auckland Phoenix’s anti-Dome local political agenda in which Domey is responsible for all ills. Here’s the other successful academy based selling club in the league:
Brother you can't say "take it to the politics thread" and then post a 9 paragraph essay on politics. Especially when you're probably the biggest culprit.
The idea is always a goodun, form, cost of living and the simple fact that a lot of people leave the city at xmas could account for lower than hoped for numbers
Brother you can't say "take it to the politics thread" and then post a 9 paragraph essay on politics. Especially when you're probably the biggest culprit.
The idea is always a goodun, form, cost of living and the simple fact that a lot of people leave the city at xmas could account for lower than hoped for numbers
I mean, I would say the average Joe and casual punter has completely switched off from the nix after the shark show of last season. The no shows at the derbies has done nothing to change that opinion (based on results alone). This govt, cost of living, sharke football on show, has all contributed. They need to win the general public back as it’s almost a bit of a perfect storm situation, not one the club has really faced previously.
I’m hoping that the weekend does something and they’re able to get some sort of positive result in Melbourne, we almost need the city to fall in love with the club again. I know that opinion may ruffle a few feathers, but I certainly get it. Club have completely dropped the ball. 2-1 got me and the fam there but need a few more positive results to buck the trend imo.
I’m not a Dome fan and think the club would benefit from a change at the helm. However, I don’t own the club and those that do are much better businessmen than I could ever hope to be. They are obviously happy with him and meets whatever metrics they have for him and possibly their expectations too.
This might generate some chat…. Personally I disagree with fans having the power and expectation that they can demand an$ cause change at a club. I firmly believe that the club owners make th3 decisions, its their $s on the line not ours. Discuss without blaming the current Government please.
I’m not a Dome fan and think the club would benefit from a change at the helm. However, I don’t own the club and those that do are much better businessmen than I could ever hope to be. They are obviously happy with him and meets whatever metrics they have for him and possibly their expectations too.
This might generate some chat…. Personally I disagree with fans having the power and expectation that they can demand an$ cause change at a club. I firmly believe that the club owners make th3 decisions, its their $s on the line not ours. Discuss without blaming the current Government please.
Im not with you on Domey dont think he gets the credit due for keeping the lights on during a very difficult period. Keeping a club going when based overseas must have been friggen hard. Would suggest maybe he is meeting the KPIs Welnix are setting given the budget he has to work with. !00% with you on your comment about fans, never ceases to amaze me what some seem to think they can demand from the owners by way of explanation on what they are doing or how they are running the club..
Brother you can't say "take it to the politics thread" and then post a 9 paragraph essay on politics. Especially when you're probably the biggest culprit.
Both of you are yawn.
I’m talking about my life, Pol Pot. Which is why a prick being dismissive is offensive. I was talking about the topic.
Anyway back to you Auckland two pretending this is a neutral politics free thread trying to get a dude fired.
I’m not a Dome fan and think the club would benefit from a change at the helm. However, I don’t own the club and those that do are much better businessmen than I could ever hope to be. They are obviously happy with him and meets whatever metrics they have for him and possibly their expectations too.
This might generate some chat…. Personally I disagree with fans having the power and expectation that they can demand an$ cause change at a club. I firmly believe that the club owners make th3 decisions, its their $s on the line not ours. Discuss without blaming the current Government please.
I said that 3 pages back. A few times. totally agree.
If we’re so sure we know what we’re doing, take out further mortgages and let’s buy it out and run it.
And also I wanted to know, not unreasonably, beyond a vibes change , what they want from a new GM that’s different? Are there any models in the A league or further afield? No answers yet.
Absolutely their money and if they’re backing Dome and the direction of the club, it’s better to talk about the onfield stuff and the coaching.
I will point out, repeatedly, that we have already had references to Pol Pot, Sir John, Leon Trotsky and misogyny in the last few pages, but no serious comments on the upcoming game against Victory. If it wasn't for a single post saying "we're doomed" I would think the game next Monday was cancelled. Any updates on Oluwayemi's injury?
I will point out, repeatedly, that we have already had references to Pol Pot, Sir John, Leon Trotsky and misogyny in the last few pages, but no serious comments on the upcoming game against Victory. If it wasn't for a single post saying "we're doomed" I would think the game next Monday was cancelled. Any updates on Oluwayemi's injury?
Wrong thread this is the all about Domey,we are doomed,politics thread
