Fanzine 🔥

Hi everyone! We're Playing With Fire 🔥 - a fanzine supporting the Wellington Phoenix women's team. We started working on it during the school holidays and we've learned heaps along the way. We hope to get some copies printed for the match next week at Porirua Park.. but we're too excited for the new season not to share with you what we've been up to - it's going to be AMAZING!!! We hope that others will be able to contribute with ideas, food reviews and fan art if and when we find the time to write issue two. Thanks to Macey, Daisy and Brooke N who all took time out to meet up with us to be interviewed for issue one.

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PlayingWithFire

Hi everyone! We're Playing With Fire 🔥 - a fanzine supporting the Wellington Phoenix women's team. We started working on it during the school holidays and we've learned heaps along the way. We hope to get some copies printed for the match next week at Porirua Park.. but we're too excited for the new season not to share with you what we've been up to - it's going to be AMAZING!!! We hope that others will be able to contribute with ideas, food reviews and fan art if and when we find the time to write issue two. Thanks to Macey, Daisy and Brooke N who all took time out to meet up with us to be interviewed for issue one.

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That looks really cool! 

I really love this. Well done all involved. 

Outstanding effort. Well done.

That’s very cool! Well done team, love to see this passion for the nix from the next generation. 
Hope to see these printed! 

That looks so cool! I'm definitely up for buying a copy at Porirua Park if/when you're able to get them printed.

Awesome. Thank you for the positive feedback, we managed to print 25 copies at home this morning. Then we stapled and folded it. Then mum found some typos on the back page 🤔.

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Don’t worry, that just makes them more collectible!

Sell em as limited edition for extra

Nelfoos

Sell em as limited edition for extra

Yeh absolutely. Keep a few copies from each edition back and sell them in a few years time as a set! Famous typo and all…

Wouldn't be a proper fanzine without some typos!

This is awesome to see, Fanzines were a massive part of football culture before the internet came along, great to see you getting into it

Any chance a Facebook page where we can download it? Typos and all! I have some photos from back in the day I can send you if you have an email address. Could lead to an interview 

Caught a glimpse of the Playing with Fire sign on the broadcast yesterday 🙂
Love the punny posters!

BEST NEWS EVER 🔥🔥🔥

The club have given us a thumbs up 👍 to sell at the gate for Sunday's match at Porirua Park.

We're aiming to have 50 copies available. Each copy costs $10 and money raised will help kids in Porirua attend jamboree next year.

Great news! I hope I get there early enough to purchase one 

Also - we will have some colouring in sheets to give away. 🙀🔥

You can colour them in at the "colour in Nixie" table that the club are planning to run (as long as it isn't too windy).

These started out as page numbers in the fanzine and we thought they would be cool to colour in.

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Any chance a Facebook page where we can download it? Typos and all! I have some photos from back in the day I can send you if you have an email address. Could lead to an interview 

Ooh, sounds interesting. We have an email address. It's in the photo above. Would love some photos.

We're thinking of a website but it's way down the to do list at the moment. Let's see how issue one goes first.

We've been stapling copies of our Phoenix fanzine while watching the Canadian Super League Final where Bex Lake is playing for Vancouver Rise. 20 minutes to go and Vancouver are ahead 2-1!! GO BEX! 🔥⚽

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Cheers guys, that was a fun read!

So now you get to suffer the curse of every successful zine writer, “so when is the next issue coming out?”

Bought 2 copies before he had the chance to setup up shop. One with teething typing mistakes and one without. It has a real fan created feel, which is great. Done with passion. Interesting little facts.  I read it properly during half time. Money goes to good cause.

 Will I buy the next issue? If I can get my hands on one, for sure. Would I recommend to others? Without hesitation,  especially if you are into fan made stuff. It's honest and refreshing.

To me, this kind of fan made stuff needs to be encouraged. It has purpose and fills in a void.

Thanks for the feedback everybody. 🤪

Next up - issue two 🔥2️⃣🔥 - we need your help! We would love to feature some guest articles alongside feedback, ideas, articles or food reviews.

We will work on it over the school hols, so aiming for February. 👍 

Hi everyone,

Work on issue two is well under way 🔥⚽. What a season! 

We'd love to feature some contributions from other fans. We'd consider anything of interest and Phoenix womens team related - from fan art to food reviews, match reports or away ground guides (we've never been to Phoenix away game so we need help from overseas fans for that!).

We want to do a two page feature on the ACL🧎‍♀️🩺 that's been shaping the season and any help in proof reading or writing that feature would be fab :-).

If you've got any ideas, email us at pwfnix@gmail.com.

Thanks everyone. 🔥

Picked up a copy of issue one yesterday - great work, very cool, I hope next time I’m back I’ll pick up issue 2. 

PlayingWithFire

Awesome. Thank you for the positive feedback, we managed to print 25 copies at home this morning. Then we stapled and folded it. Then mum found some typos on the back page 🤔.

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I’ve been in the design field a long time and worked on a bunch of publications and the amount of times you open a newly printed work and the first thing you spot is a typo that’s been missed even though its been checked  4-5 times by several people is not zero. 

There was a "Learing Centre" run by Somalians in Minnesota that specialized in spelling.😉😉

Do you have any leftover first issues? I'd like to get one for my daughter who is a keen fan. A really great initiative by th way - well done!

Gordinho

Do you have any leftover first issues? I'd like to get one for my daughter who is a keen fan. A really great initiative by th way - well done!

Thanks. Great feedback. Yes we do have some spare copies of issue one. Best thing is to email us on pwfnix@gmail.com or else send us a DM here.

We had a great time talking to fans at the game on Sunday. It was great to hear that we have some regular readers, and that they have awesome ideas for future issues. Please keep the ideas and feedback coming.
 
We would love to feature contributions from across the Phoenix community. From fan art to away game travel tips. Just drop us an email with any ideas. 🔥😍

Hi everyone, we're all go for making Issue 3️⃣ - a FOOTY FINALS SPECIAL ⚽🔥!!

The kids made a decent start over the holidays and have come up with:
- their top ten goals for the wāhinx this season (seems to be an excuse to watch endless highlights on YouTube)
- their top five goals conceded (an excuse to watch the highlight videos again)
- random player awards from best hat trick to nicest player to funniest face to best re-signing video
- something about Mackenzie Barry
- a feature on Macey Fraser's right boot
- how to make noise tubes (cardboard rolls taped together and painted)
- food reviews on dumplings and the butter chicken Poutine food truck
- other people's fan art ("Macey Macey Always Pacey" is pretty awesome)
and
- footy finals bingo for the back page 

However - we have some blank pages and would love to feature guest articles from other Nix fans. We're open to ideas but we were thinking along the lines of your season highs and lows, match reports, away game guides, more fan art, poetry, good luck messages etc. While we're mostly focussed on the Wahinix we don't mind featuring occasional articles about the men's team, the footy ferns or whatever else might fit.

DM or email through any ideas.. we'd love to make it more of a community thing.

Thanks 👍 🔥
Playing With Fire team

Can I grab one with that issue 2 I asked for please?

Sure can!