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Pre-Season Games
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Wombat
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He came to Manyoo with a huge rep that he didn't live up to but still showed that he had heaps of quality.
Forum Phoenix
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Yep. Forlan was class.
true believer
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Nearly single handedly won uruguay
The world cup .
The world cup .
Rowdy
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Wellington Phoenix Pre-season match ticket prices defended:
The pre-season hit-out against the Central Coast Mariners in Nelson on Saturday will be the Wellington Phoenix's most expensive home game of the season but an organiser of the event has defended the pricier tickets.
The most expensive adult ticket, a covered seat in the west stand at Trafalgar Park, costs $45, which is $14 more than the most expensive ticket for a regular season A-League game at Westpac Stadium in Wellington.
"It's just purely to try to cover as much of the costs as possible," Trafalgar Events director Aldo Miccio said, with the company paying for all of the costs of the fixture.
"You imagine if you've got 23 players flying out from Sydney and you have to accommodate and feed them. Plus there are 44 players flying out from Wellington because we offered to take their reserve team as we thought it'd be great for Tasman United to play them in the curtain raiser."
The company organised a pre-season NRL game between the Warriors and the Dragons in Nelson earlier in the year which was attended by 9200 spectators and saw them break even.
Miccio said they charged more for that game than the Warriors would for regular season games at Mount Smart Stadium as well.
"It's no cost to them," he said of the Phoenix and Mariners.
"They don't look to make any profit. They just want to play somewhere and they just want to play an opposition.
"To fund the Mariners to come to come out from Sydney, they would probably have to triple the tickets because they wouldn't get the people along to see the match in Wellington."
The cheapest ticket, a child's ticket on the embankment, costs $15.
Miccio said Trafalgar Events is "most likely to run at a loss" with ticket sales sitting around 2800 on Thursday. However, the intention was to bring a pre-season game to Nelson in the hope that a successful event would lure the Phoenix back for a regular season game in the future.
"It's a massive risk and we're more than likely not to break even on this event, but that's okay. Barry [Galbraith] and I just want to do something for Nelson.
"We're not doing this for profit, we're doing this is to try get A-League games here in the future, which the Phoenix would run.
"If they can see there's a reasonable crowd here then we would like to think they would consider alternating between us and Christchurch so every second year we can get a regular season A-League game."
Miccio, the former mayor of Nelson, said they needed to sell "at least 5000" tickets to break even but remained optimistic that sales will surge closer to game day.
"I think if it gets to 3000-4000 we'll be comfortable with that.
"The weather is good so it'll be a great day out. The people who haven't really watched football before, it's a great opportunity to showcase that to them. A match like this we haven't seen [in Nelson] since the days of the Chatham Cup."
The pre-season hit-out against the Central Coast Mariners in Nelson on Saturday will be the Wellington Phoenix's most expensive home game of the season but an organiser of the event has defended the pricier tickets.
The most expensive adult ticket, a covered seat in the west stand at Trafalgar Park, costs $45, which is $14 more than the most expensive ticket for a regular season A-League game at Westpac Stadium in Wellington.
"It's just purely to try to cover as much of the costs as possible," Trafalgar Events director Aldo Miccio said, with the company paying for all of the costs of the fixture.
"You imagine if you've got 23 players flying out from Sydney and you have to accommodate and feed them. Plus there are 44 players flying out from Wellington because we offered to take their reserve team as we thought it'd be great for Tasman United to play them in the curtain raiser."
The company organised a pre-season NRL game between the Warriors and the Dragons in Nelson earlier in the year which was attended by 9200 spectators and saw them break even.
Miccio said they charged more for that game than the Warriors would for regular season games at Mount Smart Stadium as well.
"It's no cost to them," he said of the Phoenix and Mariners.
"They don't look to make any profit. They just want to play somewhere and they just want to play an opposition.
"To fund the Mariners to come to come out from Sydney, they would probably have to triple the tickets because they wouldn't get the people along to see the match in Wellington."
The cheapest ticket, a child's ticket on the embankment, costs $15.
Miccio said Trafalgar Events is "most likely to run at a loss" with ticket sales sitting around 2800 on Thursday. However, the intention was to bring a pre-season game to Nelson in the hope that a successful event would lure the Phoenix back for a regular season game in the future.
"It's a massive risk and we're more than likely not to break even on this event, but that's okay. Barry [Galbraith] and I just want to do something for Nelson.
"We're not doing this for profit, we're doing this is to try get A-League games here in the future, which the Phoenix would run.
"If they can see there's a reasonable crowd here then we would like to think they would consider alternating between us and Christchurch so every second year we can get a regular season A-League game."
Miccio, the former mayor of Nelson, said they needed to sell "at least 5000" tickets to break even but remained optimistic that sales will surge closer to game day.
"I think if it gets to 3000-4000 we'll be comfortable with that.
"The weather is good so it'll be a great day out. The people who haven't really watched football before, it's a great opportunity to showcase that to them. A match like this we haven't seen [in Nelson] since the days of the Chatham Cup."
true believer
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Any carry over for the red card.
Seems a big call in a friendly. unless it was ugly
Seems a big call in a friendly. unless it was ugly
Blackadder
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AFAIK no
nebakke
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From the small clip that was posted on the new fans facebook post - I know that Nux isn't exactly applying a high pressure either, but the boys seemed to be holding on to the ball fairly well, with little panic, which is a nice change from last season 
It's not as exciting, but then, I'm not sure my blood pressure can stand another season like the last
It's not as exciting, but then, I'm not sure my blood pressure can stand another season like the last Blackadder
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Full time 2-1 to the 'Nix, I guess a positive that the Mariners didn't fall apart after Faty got sent off.
dibo
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Laws of the game still apply. Can get sent off for denying an obvious goalscoring opportunity too.
true believer
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Jesus wept
Rowdy
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Capn Gus Bloodbeard
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The murmerings on social media are already worried about a repeat of last season. Lost all our preseason games and we've already copped a red card.....the fans won't tolerate a repeat of the disciplinary problems from last season.
Not making a comment on the losses myself - no sense getting too concerned over results in preseason - but just commenting on what perceptions are.
Not making a comment on the losses myself - no sense getting too concerned over results in preseason - but just commenting on what perceptions are.
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