I was kinda wondering where Ali's write up was.... Please, its a forum. Why don't you post up your write up or was mine on the nose?
Fact of the matter, it was not up to the usual standard of games these two sides can produce. None of the games have been this year. So whinge all you like about what you 'think' my opinion is. If you had an ounce of intelligence, you would have figured out most of my obnoxiousness is created by people like you that spout continuous crap about being the best team in Australia (cause you beat CCM) best team in Africa and 5th best team in the world and a breading ground for the good honest coalface grassroots NZ footballers yet the Phoenix are destroying all that is football in this country. Focus on winning your local comp. You can manage that... right?
An ounce of humilty and a degree of perspective and you would find people would revere your club and supporters, not despise it cause its those facets you lack, that I find more offputting than anything else about your club.
Hey JV, some of have shown a degree of intelligence and that precious once of humility you so crave. No-one is saying ACFC si the best team in Australia, and that the Phoenix is destroying all that is football in NZ. We did have a genuine beef when the Nix was loaded up with Australians and NZ players could hardly get a look in and NZF was pouring funds into the team to keep it afloat while they don't put a cent into the ASBP and in fact take money from clubs like ACFC. Our beef all along has been with the priorities of NZF who don't seem to give a stuff about their own national league.
There has always been a bit of resentment of the Nix because they've got most of the attention and the publicity. When ACFC beat the champions of Africa in 2009 (come on let us enjoy our little moment of being the champions of Africa) we got almost no publicity in NZ. That hurt because it was a brilliant effort.
Now the Phoenix are gearing up to providing a good pathway for young NZ talent into the professional ranks of the A League I applaud what you're doing. I'm a big fan of the A League and always support the Nix. But you are still the glamour boys and we're the little guys so we have to beat our drum a little harder to get noticed. I'm sorry JV sees that as "spout continuous crap". We're trying to have some fun.
You are only the little guys relative to the Phoenix though TB. And it's just weird that for a few ACFC fans that seems to be such a big problem and the source of so much angst. Surely you have enough self-awareness to realise that how some of you feel about the Phoenix is exactly how just about every other club in the country (including most of the ASB Prem) feels about ACFC.
You are actually
the second biggest club in the country, and it makes a lot of this talk about "the great little community club punching above its weight" seem a little ridiculous. There are hundreds of clubs around NZ who love to get even a fraction of the publicity, funding, support etc that ACFC get.
Yes, ACFC has won a significant amount of CWC prize money that has gone back in to the ASB Prem but that argument assumes that no other NZ club could have won the O-League. ACFC isn't funding the ASB Prem, the NZ qualifier for the CWC is, which is how the whole deal was set up in the first place (an important difference if you're trying to use it as a stick to beat NZF with).
And as I've pointed out many times in the past ACFC's relationship with the Trillion Trust is, in a word, remarkable. Good on you, but most other clubs around the country simply do not have access to such a benefactor.