Wouldn't it be great if the Phoenix toured NZ
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With Phoenix fans all around NZ wouldn't be great to have a
friendly tour where the Phoenix takes on each region in the
NZFC???!!! It will also show what those north of the Bombays
are made of and if they are really footie fans or just feeling
insignificant because Wellington does it better :-)
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With Phoenix fans all around NZ wouldn't be great to have a
friendly tour where the Phoenix takes on each region in the
NZFC???!!! It will also show what those north of the Bombays
are made of and if they are really footie fans or just feeling
insignificant because Wellington does it better :-)
Pre-season tour sounds good
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Indeed - if this could be organised as a pre-season tour it might
give the nix a good head start. There are a number of
friendlies between A-League teams pre-season though anyway right?
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Personally, I'd like to see us pre season in the UK against lower
league/conference sides. Lets warm up pre season against
reasonable opposition. Maybe too costly I know, but I'm not
sure what benefit there would be playing NZ teams.
As always, I'm open to convincing........
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Personally, I'd like to see us pre season in the UK against lower
league/conference sides. Lets warm up pre season against
reasonable opposition. Maybe too costly I know, but I'm not
sure what benefit there would be playing NZ teams.
As always, I'm open to convincing........
You don't understand how wonderfull a nationwide YF road trip would be do you?
There would be drink-driving charges galore.
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Hope they come back to CHCH
ive got a song that wont take long, Adelaide are rubbish.. the second verse is same as the first.. ADELAIDE ARE RUBBISH
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You sing you're not Auckland any more. So stay away.
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You sing you're not Auckland any more. So stay away.
Exactly, this is a Wellington team, not a national team.
Should those in charge of the national side do more to promote the
game so it gets more than 2,500 to an international? Of
course they should. Should the Phoenix be responsible?
Not in my way of thinking. I'd prefer to see effort put into
getting some good Aussie/Asian teams for pre-season games.
Bring on the day when someone in Chch and someone in Auckland
sees what it takes to run a decent A-League side and builds it a al
Phoenix, derby matches, that's where the real fun begins.
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The current pre-season tournament against A-league teams is stupid. We play them 3 times each, we don't need to play them again before the season starts.
We need games against quality teams (who aren't A-league
teams)
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It might be good for the Phoenix to tour - to possibly raise the
profile in other places. Which would increase potential advertising
money.
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It might be good for the Phoenix to tour - to possibly raise the
profile in other places. Which would increase potential advertising
money.
Huh?
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I'd like to see preseason games played in areas more likely to
attract travelling fans - Palmy being the obvious choice to me as
all Black Vomit/Green Frenzy have to do is catch a train or a cheap
bus to get to the Ring of Fire during regular season. Playing
matches in places like Christchurch where there is a good
population size and good support (a la our preseason match against
Queensland) is great from TV support but I personally think home
crowds are more important.
That being said, matches in Christchurch are also a good idea because the last one attracted a bigger crowd than most Knights regular season matches if I remember correctly!
That being said, matches in Christchurch are also a good idea because the last one attracted a bigger crowd than most Knights regular season matches if I remember correctly!
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I'd like to see preseason games played in areas more likely to
attract travelling fans - Palmy being the obvious choice to me as
all Black Vomit/Green Frenzy have to do is catch a train or a cheap
bus to get to the Ring of Fire during regular season. Playing
matches in places like Christchurch where there is a good
population size and good support (a la our preseason match against
Queensland) is great from TV support but I personally think home
crowds are more important.
That being said, matches in Christchurch are also a good idea because the last one attracted a bigger crowd than most Knights regular season matches if I remember correctly!
That being said, matches in Christchurch are also a good idea because the last one attracted a bigger crowd than most Knights regular season matches if I remember correctly!
In the CHCH game it was around the 4000.
best game of football i have been to in NZ that was..
haha
ive got a song that wont take long, Adelaide are rubbish.. the second verse is same as the first.. ADELAIDE ARE RUBBISH
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Ah I thought it was 7000...so I don't remember correctly
haha
There's still been lower crowds at Knights matches (1,632 vs Central Coast Mariners, September 28, 2006!)
There's still been lower crowds at Knights matches (1,632 vs Central Coast Mariners, September 28, 2006!)
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f**king O'Leary... Che commits a foul outside the area and
O'Leary gives a penalty...
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I'd like to see preseason games played in areas more likely to
attract travelling fans - Palmy being the obvious choice to me as
all Black Vomit/Green Frenzy have to do is catch a train or a cheap
bus to get to the Ring of Fire during regular season. Playing
matches in places like Christchurch where there is a good
population size and good support (a la our preseason match against
Queensland) is great from TV support but I personally think home
crowds are more important.
That being said, matches in Christchurch are also a good idea because the last one attracted a bigger crowd than most Knights regular season matches if I remember correctly!
That being said, matches in Christchurch are also a good idea because the last one attracted a bigger crowd than most Knights regular season matches if I remember correctly!
Pre-season friendly against Pukekohe then? 
Apparently I'm apathetic, but I couldn't care less.
"Being a Partick Thistle fan sets you apart. It means youre a free thinker. It also means your team has no money." Tim Luckhurst, The Independent, 4th December 2003
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Pre-season friendly against Pukekohe then?
You're certainly earnt it
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The only time I want the Nix in this town is for a competive match
in the O League or something. I'd certainly love to see the Nix
play the mighty City. Now that would be superb.
I don't want to see the Nix come back and give us Aucklanders
a taste of what we're missing.
No thanks. Too painful. Too soon.
It's NZ Football Conference from now on for me thanks.
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You sing you're not Auckland any more. So stay away.
I sing we're not auckland anymore and I'm from auckland
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You must support Waitak then.
Oops sorry.
No one supports Waitak.
No fans, no stand, no chance.
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f**king O'Leary... Che commits a foul outside the area and
O'Leary gives a penalty...
You just had to remind me, didn't you.
Three for me, and two for them.
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You must support Waitak then.
Oops sorry.
No one supports Waitak.
No fans, no stand, no chance.
...and that's why Auckland will never work. 1200 support Auckland and no one supports Waitakere in a city of a million.
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You just had to remind me, didn't you.
I've got photographic evidence somewhere... must be on my home machine though as I can't find it.
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Why so. The reason Waitak doesn't work is that they have a typical New Zealand football attitiude to games. Rock up. Sit in your hands. Moan or applaud. They actively discourage singing. Uncle Rex and his cronies don't want to encourage that sort of behaviour. Oh no, there's is a "family" club. They have the red zone. At least the Croats make us ex-Bloc-ites welcome, although the sooner we get back to the back of the stand at Kiwitea St the better.
Besides Auckland isn't one city. It's a collection of perhaps
six distinct communities who happen to have no geographical
distinction. There's Bogans out West, WASPs on the Shore,
Wanksta's down south, Blue collar Leaguies around Mt Albert, Old
Money Grammar chaps in Remmers and the Bays, and Yuppies and Asians
out Howick.
Football will come to Auckland, but only if the people of
Auckland City, with its Croatian passion and money, run it. They
need to base it at Mt Smart and build on the Auckland City
foundations.
There is the base there for 8 to 10,000 regulars. Perhaps more
with a decent marquee signing.
Mt Smart is a football ground. You can forget about trying to
attract the Bogans or Shoreites. They won't cross town, but the
people out East and Central will support a team, and you will get a
few extras. The Kingz showed they could do it in season two and
three.
It can be done.
I live in hope.
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By the end of season three there were very few to be seen, and just
as many people making excuses about crossing Auckland... also, not
sure how the FFA would take the heavy Croatian backing seeing how
much effort was put in to remove Sydney United and Melbourne
Knights, even though it is widely seperated in the Auckland City
scheme of things.
Just a few thoughts.
Just a few thoughts.
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f**king O'Leary...� Che
commits a foul outside the area and O'Leary gives a
penalty...�
We were heading for a 0-0 draw but then Bazeley has a brain explosion.
Is that the same game that Paul Nevin got sent off in?
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The current pre-season tournament against A-league teams is stupid. We play them 3 times each, we don't need to play them again before the season starts.
We need games against quality teams (who aren't A-league
teams)
I think they should change the format of the pre-season cup. They should have the 8 regular teams, an Australian Institute of Sport team, the Northern Thunder, the two top NZFC teams, top Fijian team, top Solomon Islands team, and two others that the FFA can decide on.loyalgunner2007-12-05 17:42:21
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Daikiwi shut ur mouth,i support the waitak team
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i support the waitak team
You poor poor thing.
Three for me, and two for them.
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Why so. The reason Waitak doesn't work is that they have a typical New Zealand football attitiude to games. Rock up. Sit in your hands. Moan or applaud. They actively discourage singing. Uncle Rex and his cronies don't want to encourage that sort of behaviour. Oh no, there's is a "family" club. They have the red zone. At least the Croats make us ex-Bloc-ites welcome, although the sooner we get back to the back of the stand at Kiwitea St the better.
Besides Auckland isn't one city. It's a collection of perhaps
six distinct communities who happen to have no geographical
distinction. There's Bogans out West, WASPs on the Shore,
Wanksta's down south, Blue collar Leaguies around Mt Albert, Old
Money Grammar chaps in Remmers and the Bays, and Yuppies and Asians
out Howick.
Football will come to Auckland, but only if the people of
Auckland City, with its Croatian passion and money, run it. They
need to base it at Mt Smart and build on the Auckland City
foundations.
There is the base there for 8 to 10,000 regulars. Perhaps more
with a decent marquee signing.
Mt Smart is a football ground. You can forget about trying to
attract the Bogans or Shoreites. They won't cross town, but the
people out East and Central will support a team, and you will get a
few extras. The Kingz showed they could do it in season two and
three.
It can be done.
I live in hope.
Mate, thats a great post.................. Auckland a city of
villages............
However a must on the tour is Northland in the mighty city of
Whangarei
.
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Socceroo/ Mariner / Whangarei
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Being a Wellingtonian I'm not aware of this issue with Waitakere,
but watching World of Football the other night I noticed, in the
highlights of the Waitakere home game, the almost total absence of
supporters. This is a team with Bazeley, Pearce, Emblem, Hay,
Tottori et al, and also a team heading to the FIFA World Club
competition in Japan. How does the club keep going with such
a good squad without any spectator backing?
Selhurst Park, 25 January 1995
What else could he have done?
What else could he have done?
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