Its only a matter of time that we are granted ACL entry anyway.  

About a week old but you get the idea

I hope barbauseless does his hammy and your club folds. 

Aren't you a nice person.

Need to fek off out of our league and concentrate on creating their own fully professional league.

Yes they do. Almost every week WP has the lowest TV ratings and very average crowds and you have for a long time now.

This is why calls are out for WP to be replaced. It's not because they are garbage this year but they have been for many years now.

Out of the 10 years we've been squatting in the A-League we have only had 3 bad seasons. Look anyway after we get some of the $57.6Mil next year things will be different.

You do realise every other team will be getting a similar amount ?

LOL

Where not just funding a team, where funding a nation!. Big difference between us and the other sides.

Bozza being used by the FFA to flush out the Nix folding asap

Bozza's entitled to his opinion I suppose.  From what I hear plenty of Kiwi's are incensed with his comments.  I don't necessarily agree with everything he says, but he does make some pertinent points.  I felt the much maligned NZ Sky commentator Fred De Jong made some interesting observations on Bozza's comments.  Once again he said he felt some of the things Bozza was saying was understandable from an Australian point of view.  And I totally agree with FDJ.  I don't know if Bozza meant his comments to be as offensive as they came over(probably did) but he had one or two good points.
  Now my learned colleague RyanM is much closer to the Phoenix than I'll ever be, but I think chris Greenacre is doing OK as temporary Coach.  I don't know if he'll have the job next season but I saw enough in the Newcastle game to suggest the Nix are on the up.  Sure one swallow doesn't mean Summer is here, but I'm honestly encouraged enough by what I've seen lately to go the TAB and have bet on the Nix making the top six.
  I'd sooner have seen EM still coaching the mighty Nix, but he delibertly left when he did to give the carecaker coach as easier ride as he could, and CG has taken advantage of the opportunities offered.  That was a good performance by the Nix at Newcastle, for my money only the herucan effort of young Hoole denied the Nix all three points.  The young Newcasterian was everywhere.  He was like the ever ready man; tireless.
  If I have a problem with the Nix it's the ease Newcastle created space through the middle.  Fix that up along with our defence and our prospects look OK.

I think quite a lot of people over here completely agree with him. There might be anger at the way he went about it but not with the content of his message, it's been a very disappointing season. There were issues at the start which could be used to justify the problems but those are now gone, there are no excuses and haven't been for a few games now.

I think Des and Greenacre have done a good job, and the team have said that their preparation is excellent, but apart from when we played CCM the team has not looked convincing. The team actually looked better under Merick when we were having narrow losses at the start of the season.

The YF ran a poll to see who we would want as a coach and Ramon came up top with Rudan second and the Des and Chris third. So it's clear we're not happy with the status quo either. I'd like to see Chris go off and coach an Premiership side for a few seasons before coming back to the Phoenix with some titles and a lot of experience, I don't think he's the person to entrust the future of our club with.

Interestingly the rumors were that Des and Chris were going to be confirmed as coaches for the rest of the season today but that's been postponed.

With the Phoenix NZL players should be counted as visa players. Australian as domestic 

Will only happen when we qualify for the ACL. :sick:

Should've taken the red pill brah

Bozza putting the boot into Nix big time on Thursday shootout, well prepared with facts and figures this time lol. But I'm not sure Bozza is as random as he's trying to come across - problems with the Nixs licence and bozzas softening Joe-public up for a knock out blow maybe??

The blow doesn't need to be softened.

Opposite. FFA are trying to flush them out.

July criteria date is due to possible replacement rush.

Something's going on. Bozza's comments are OTT for the situation lol 😂

How ott? What did he say?

ok just watched. Nothing OTT about it. If a pundit is being honest, this is what theyd say.

Edit. Ok yep got it. Its been in the works. Threatening clubs to improve metrics or face the axe does womders for goodwill.

Metrics/Shetrics it don't matter, We got 10 years of squatting and politically we have immunity from being kick-out. FFA's nuts are tide to looking after us and FOX TV is paying our bills. SKY TV only need to pay a dollar more and it meets the metrics. And some one needs to win the spoon every season - Why cant it be us without any fuss?.

I like Nomates, loves his team but keeps it real. 

I see where you get your name from now. 

I don't mind the Nix. We need more teams, not less. As for them offering the league nothing, aren't they playing more NPL based players than any of the other clubs?

Why do you want the spoon? Why would you even want to be in australian league? Wouldnt it be more exciting challenging auckland city and having an opportunity to go to the club world cup every 2 years? Hell the club would probably be bigger in that environment. IMO its a joke they couldnt even bring rojas back..when the best kiwi player would rather play for an aussie team thats not a good sign.

We're already in the NZ Premiership, and having an amateur or semi pro team is not as good as a pro team, club world cup or no.

You forget that we signed players like Kosta and Finkler very early, when Rojas was still playing regular football in Switzeraland, it was probably too early for him at that point so we grabbed the players available and probably didn't have the cap space left to make a play for Rojas (two marquees already signed). There was a rumor that Ernie was furious at Welnix for not being able to match the Victory offer.

I think if Kosta had decided to stay at Victory instead of coming home then we'd have signed Rojas instead.

Can someone put just the comments from Bosnich on youtube? Or transcribe what he said on Thursday please?

It's odd because he's been pretty supportive of the nix before this point.

I think Bozza is simply pointing out a team/club that is falling way below expectations and doesn't look to be improving. With the mention of expansion and the reality of the number of clubs trying to get into the A-league he is simply pointing out the obvious- what is the Phoenix doing that Tasmania, Wollongong, the Knights, Brisbane, etc cannot do? I do believe if the Phoenix improved the coaching, recruitment, crowd numbers, general interest then you would probably find Bozza singing a different tune. Watching the Victory, Sydney, WSW, Brisbane, Melb City, Perth, these clubs have brought drama and action for the mutual can the Phoenix say the same?

Derbies aside Melbourne Cities crowd numbers are not much higher than the Phoenix, I think they are the biggest disappointment in the league.