What time did you leave ?

The thing i loved about the Phoenix supporter, and it's the reason i'll bring my kids to games, is that we as supporters SUPPORT them. If they're playing sh*t, the oppositions score a goal, the crowd breaks out into Wellington is wonderful, or We love you Phoenix.

We get right back in behind them, and show them that we still believe in them.

I have to say, for a lot of the match the crowd was VERY silent for this one. Maybe they were missing their 12th man last night?

Satyed until the final whistle.

Shame onyou people who left early.  Would you abandon your friends when the chips are down, no, so why would you do it to your team?  Fairweather supporters  

 
shut up

Those players would leave you lot for a better offer in a heart beat. Your team is your team, they are not your friends.

As said here, a lot of people were embarrassed by the rush from the sides of the yellow fever zone before full time. But impressed by the faithful support at and after full time. Those deserters should go to the northern goal at the next home game where they belong.

What was disgraceful was the performance, not the people showing their disgust and leaving early. It was disappointing that we could not compete and things just seem to be getting worse. Why should people not exercise their riht to show their disgust by walking out.

Jag2010-11-04 13:09:29

Their job is to play, play well (hopefully) and never stop trying.

 

Our job is to support them, encourage them, urge them to greater efforts.

In my humble opinion I cant see the point of paying money for a ticket (even if it was a kids one)and then leaving early, despite how badly your team is doing. sir les2010-11-04 13:55:46

Your getting the definition of a fan and a support confused.

Fan's can leave whenever they want. Supporters cannot

eitherway whoooo is not someone I'd want supporting, being a fan of my team.

I stayed until the end....I stayed until the players walked off. I chanted loudly for them until the final whistle coz thats what we are here for, to support them.

And because we lost ONE GAME at home since 08. We haven't lost 7 in a row at home like the glory. We aren't Sydney.   And we lost to a team who were bound to win the match anyway, and are in top form.

People left the game because our players had already gone - not because we were losing.

I left after the 4th goal - something I never thought I'd do - because I was so pi**ed off that the team just stopped playing for large sections of the game. 

If we were 6-0 down but the boys were still trying I'd cheer them on, but they had already left.

I've never seen that degree of laziness from our players and I was disgusted - walking out was meant to show that.  Look Brisbane was good, and I was expecting them to win, but a number of players just seemed resigned to that and didn't want to press for the ball - didn't want to even try.

And BTW, the undying support you give a team is for the club - not the players.  If the players don't have their heart in it part of being a support of the club is to say that.

This. I've always considered booing your own team to be a rather c**ty thing to do.

If I was a Chelsea supporter, and we lost 4-1 to Brisbane at home, then I might be inclined to boo. But 99% of the time I would not boo my team


EDIT: To be fair, I would far sooner walk out on my team than boo them. At least this way you can give them the message without kicking them while they're downShowUsYaNix2010-11-04 16:45:37

I'm 50 years old, been a football nut since I was 7 years old. I've never walked out on a team before fulltime, no matter what. If you want to take the good, sometimes you have to suffer the bad as well. Same if you are playing, sometimes learning to take the taste of defeat will make the taste of success all the better.  We all pay our money and that gives us the right to walk out, criticise and moan, that comes with the price of the ticket.Fair enough you may say. Walking out does send a message to the players, but surely hanging around and trying to pick them up gives a better message. Their confidence is low at the moment, no-one's improves when they get the boot put into them. If you want to twist the knife then you aren't really a true fan in my opinion.

hahaha more Yellow Fever  rules on how to and not to watch the Phoenix

giddyup2010-11-04 18:15:22

I hate cunts who leave games early, especially when it's regardless of the score or situation of the match. Plastic wankers the lot of them.

I find it funny people moaning about people leaving a game early, when they were watching the game online or on the telly at home 

What time did we leave? About twenty five minutes after final whistle. Some of the very last through the gate.   

Yeah well i can't get to matches can i mate.

for you and al the others who did the same.

Shame on you  fair weather fan

Obviously stayed as I/we always do.

1) Can we not boo our own team please it does not f**king help anyone - they are footballers not the bloody Taliban, (members of the Taliban sorry but I couldn't spell Al Queda a moment ago).

2) I killed myself chants-wise the Feverzone is very quite and I reckon us in the YF need to sit down and think about stuff. A couple of seasons ago we were considered as some of the best football supporters in the world. What has happened to that? We need more than Dagan and others waving a f**king flag around.

 3) Some good points raised here though Stefan and many others that we should not crap ourselves and be sick in the ashtrays just yet. It's one match, yes we are struggling a bit but there's no need to start sh*tting ourselves yet . Ive been hysterical in the past - lets not get friggin girly about things.

4) those that left? Go support Chelsea, Real, Barc etc all at the same time so at least one of your teams will be winning.

I needed to pee, so after the 4th goal I saw my chance and took it.


otherwise I would of stayed and clapped them off.

I have the first home strip, the 2nd home strip, two scarves, three hats, a hoodie and a jacket.
Three yellow fever shirts, no wait four yellow fever shirts and three of those canteen bandanna's I've been a member since season one and a supporter ever since we got granted the Licence and yellow fever came online.
Now that doesn't make me any more of a fan than any of you and it doesn't make me any less of a fan than you for leaving when the 4th goal was scored christ almighty get over it already it's not unique to last nights game it happens the world over people had enough and left plenty more people at home turned their telly's over to another channel or off early and went to bed
We make mountains out of mole hills on this site at times

The Nix players left with 10 mins to go, so I stuck around to applaud the Roar. They were bloody good.

Probably shouldnt say this but I closed the window on my computer that had the macth live feed on it in the 91st minute. Does that make me a bad person like Whooooooooooooooo?

  C-Diddy2010-11-04 19:57:46

Would the people who seem to think that people who leave early are not supporters not be better focusing their ire on the 5000-10,000 'supporters' who seem to have disappeared over the last couple of years, rather than ranting about people who do actually make the effort to go to games?

jesus wept.

this - and until the fourth i was singing for a draw or a win (with the right attitude from players and fans it's possible to score twice in a few minutes ask Man u fans with a ten year memory span and Everton fans - and manu fans who can remember a month ago)

never, ever, surrender!

at the fourth i was singing to cheer myself up

ok maybe that's a mental 'truce ;)

and yep when we belted out those chants at the end i was proud to be a fan

Even if we come 11th at the end of this season, I will still support the phoenix.
Thats why we have the 'phoenix til I die', its for all the supporters who really are phoenix til I die, not 'phoenix til we're down 4-1'.