Coverage in online news sites is good, though not all stories get into print newspapers. On TV news often the 'Nix might not get or very little mention, though TBF I don't watch broadcast TV much anymore so not sure about this season. The league as a whole doesn't get much coverage, compare that with NRL where non Warriors games will get coverage across all media platforms non 'Nix games will rarely get coverage (except for online), unless there was something very much out of the ordinary that would warrant mention.

A big problem in recent years has been that a lot of coverage has been negative regarding the license of the club - so people not closely following the club will get negative impressions.

so what is the second popular sport there after NRL?

NRL is not the most popular sport. Rugby > daylight > night time > daylight > other sports.

Football gets coverage but its not the HAL, its EPL. In terms of participation, football (incl. futsal/indoor etc.) is generally the most popular organised team sport/activity.

geez so you are just like sydney/brisbane amazing how cities can only get behind one sport 

To be fair the all blacks are the most dominant team in international sport and have been for a century and New Zealand also has two of the top club competitions in world rugby whereas the all whites and a league are not that.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BxZm5WnB0k9/

Apparently Kalezic once bought a rugby jersey, threw it at Krishna and told him he was shit and should play rugby instead in front of all of his teammates.

How the hell did that guy not get sacked earlier?

I heard about that awhile back, dick of a coach to do that. Great out come though.

Wellington on The Ball
https://www.wellingtonphoenix.com/news/wellington-phoenix-sign-former-fifa-puskas-nominee?fbclid=IwAR2Bx1XLA33U3znX44MlO8HEvomEFRFkrnKHXtkugRkBRfLQw2_DWTaR-FM

So Wellington still have to meet metrics for this up coming season, gonna be hard when we are rebuilding. And there wont be any new licences handed out until the next TV deal.

I just hope we don't cum last or we are out.

Where did you see that? That contradicts all the news up to now.

That's perfect, Canberra can replace them. Independent A-league does not start till the 2020-21 season. 

That's not the case from what I've seen. All I've seen is that they're still working on the details and won't announce anything until the end of the month, there will be a transition period starting now, and that the current clubs are shareholders and have no licensing restrictions anymore.

Wrong, Wrong, Wrong!. The Welnix owner was on Pacific Radio and was asked if anything had been sign? He said NO! nothing has been signed off on anything and wont be for sum time. So that means Nix are still under the licence agreement they signed 3 years ago.

Well, knowing how you tend to interpret things to spin as sensationally as possible forgive me if I take anything you say with a grain of salt. I googled Pacific Radio but couldn't come up with anything that looked like it.

The press release announcing the independent A-League on July the 1st said that they're working through the details and the contract is due August 1st, that's what might have made you confused.

You always take every comment and spin it in the dumbest possible way.

Singh selected in Bayern squad for preseason USA tour

“Papua New Guinea striker Tommy Semmy will spend the week on trial at Wellington Phoenix in an attempt to earn a spot on the 23-man roster. The 24-year-old has scored 17 goals in 31 games across two seasons for ISPS Handa Premiership club Hamilton Wanderers”

twitter. 

Oh how I bet nomates wishes Nix could afford lower English league players 👀

now that is an exciting signing we need more of these guys from oceania and asia playing

Stop trying to be positive 

They've got a number of players from the nz domestic league trialing including foreigners. Doesn't mean they're going to sign them. But, foreigners from the NZ league that the Phoenix have picked up turned out to be some of the best players in the A-League so there's a pretty good hit rate there.

I don’t disagree. And you know I was dangling bait for nomates - Roar have picked up some useful players from the lower leagues of England and Scotland before, who also turned out to be some of the competitions best ... so you never know 

huge incentive to be a wellington coach with such a unique talent pool to work with 

That's the thing, Welling have a whole country to themselves to scab talent from, be it imports or locals. We don't need to go looking for 3rd rate Englishmen like Roar except for Ball how was snubbed by them. 

😂 lol

Nomates    Add  "Why have enemies when you can have fans like him" just after Wellington Phoenix in your sig

The best way to rile up nomates is for the Phoenix to issue a positive press release that he can find something tenuous to negatively spin.

Oh plz Im always supporting the Nix unlike someone we know, plus I don't take there crap either from fluctuating crowd numbers to selling %40 of the club.
You guys also got me banned from YF so fk off!.

Tommy Semmy, the PNG striker currently tearing it up in NZ has been given a one week trial, hopefully he does well. 

Not sure how you can actually assess a player in 1 week

Maybe it’s also a trial for him to see how he likes the team/living in Wellington?

he lives in hamilton at the moment, how different from wellington would that be?