WSW Guard of Honour at ROF - officially vetoed

bitter? how so? just cos two aussie commentators said it would be nice, and then joked that we wouldnt do it cos we are kiwis. I ask you - if it was the nix who had just won the competition would we get a guard of honour from WSW? not bloody likely!

I think most here are willing to acknowledge WSW's achievement but like most the ACL means nothing to me, nor should it mean anything to the nix - we can't enter it so why would we care who won it.

They can demand what they like but like taking a horse to water, you cant make it drink. If the Phoenix organisation wants to kiss arse so be it, but don't expect the fans to fawn all over WSW. That type of encouragement from FFA makes me cringe and from Slater too. So i wont be cheering them on or wishing them well. I hope the Nix thrash them but we probably won't. 

Gimme a break JD. If we won the OCL or the Chatham Cup even we would find it hard to get excited. Winning the ACL is a big achievement and great exposure for the league.

What exactly is the difference in your mind between a handshake and a guard of honour anyway? I don't care if our lot want to serenade them onto the pitch.

Are you under the illusion that this is actually tribal warfare or something, rather than a very carefully managed and marketed entertainment product?

If our players give their players a guard of honour or any other form of acknowledgement I know the Fever will be giving them hell anyway - it's just part of the pantomime.

guard of honour = distraction that our players do not need.

Give the carnts a Braveheart inspired mass mooning from the Zone

I dont like the idea but think that's a bit far. Standing and clapping before a game is hardly distracting. 

It's the forced deference towards your opponents I don't like

clap both teams on - Love who you want 

Fu*king hippie :p

I think a Rolf Harris track as they come out would be quite good.

But a "Guard of Honour" such as you find at a funeral might be okay:

RIP Western Sydney Wanderers: 

"We come here today to bury you, not to praise you..."

"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with Caesar."

Julius Caesar - Willy Shakespeare Act III Scene 2 

As long as it doesn't go so far as "would you like the ball sir, here I pass it to you"

@BrentonSpeed @wswanderersfc @ALeague No there will not be any different guard of honour tonight. There will be fireworks though!

— Wellington Phoenix (@WgtnPhoenixFC) November 6, 2014

Wouldnt be a good look without the cricket bats though

the 12th man's Greg Chappell did that Shakespear speech but he stuffed it up....."Friends, cunts and Romairians..."

Pyro though. That's worse, the RBB will be loving that.

Treating it like tribal warfare is all part of the entertainment.

Fever Haka?

Rolf Harris after they've lost? "I'm Jake the Peg..."

It's all in the The Soccer Tribe by Desmond Morris...what do they teach them in these schools?

Winnie the PooH

We really should have done a guard of honour, guys.

We did as they came off. Ofc Ole Ofc Ole Ole...

No Pyro, No Party!!!