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July 18, 2007

Phoenix: Warm-up Match Moved Again

Phoenix logoThe first Wel­ling­ton Phoenix home pre-sea­son game has been moved for the second time. Ori­gin­ally announced for the Basin Reserve, at some point it was switched to New­town Park and now, accord­ing to the offi­cial site it has been moved to West­pac Sta­di­um due to “concerns that New­town Park would not have the capa­city to cope with the big crowd expected.”

Sunday at 2.00pm is kick-off time and the tick­ets are only $10 (and free for under 16s). Oppos­i­tion Sydney FC are one of the A‑League glam­our sides (former Liv­er­pool and Eng­land star Rob­bie Fowl­er was over there dis­cuss­ing terms for a move last week) and should give the Phoenix a test.

I’m gut­ted the match has been moved from the Basin as I wanted to tell the story of the last time there was a major foot­ball match there back in 1994 (maybe). The All Whites were play­ing an exhib­i­tion match against top Ger­man out­fit Wer­der Bre­men and legend Wyn­ton Rufer was going to play a half for each side. As is so often the case, far more people turned up than expec­ted and most of us were still queuing out­side when the game kicked off. Any­way, a young lady in one of the flats above the trophy shop oppos­ite decided to ease our pain a little by lift­ing her t‑shirt over her head and giv­ing us a flash. But, I’ll have to tell that story some oth­er time.

If you are a Google Cal­en­dar user you can click on the but­ton below to sub­scribe to my Wel­ling­ton Phoenix fix­tures cal­en­dar, let­ting you know when and where the lads will be play­ing each week­end so you can either get your tick­ets or set your MySky.

Dan
Sport
2 Comments
May 15, 2007

WBL: Results Round Four

So tonight I messed up with giv­ing people their lane assign­ments, which prob­ably means that it’s pos­sible that Click­Suite might have thought that they’d won their round, and Clem­enger might have thought that they’d lost theirs (oh who are we kid­ding, Clem­enger would nev­er think that, and that’s why we love them), but as it turns out, it was Bowl­tron who were the win­ners on the night. The ran­dom point was awar­ded to the slow­est bowl­er, who happened to be me, on 2.34km. If Sil­ver­stripe’s ball had actu­ally made it to the end instead of get­ting stuck in the gut­ter, it might have been them, but it was­n’t, and so I totally got myself a happy end­ing, com­plete with two strikes after that. But I’m sure if you wanted to read only about me, you’d head straight to Hubris, so the scores are after the jump.

Joanna
Events / Sport
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May 11, 2007

No advertising? No way.

Hadyn ori­gin­ally pos­ted this over at The Drop­kicks, but since we used Wel­ling­ton as the example (and the map looks so nice), it seemed appro­pri­ate to cross post it over here…

The gist of the story is that the Inter­na­tion­al Rugby Board, in a bid to halt ‘ambush mar­ket­ing’ around the ven­ues for the 2011 Rugby World Cup (being held in NZ, did­n’t you know?), is request­ing a 5km advert­ising ban around ven­ues where games are being played. To quote Hadyn…

Now without any bias, that is down­right in-frickin-sane!

…which is entirely right. Take a look at what a 5km non-advert­ising zone around the Sta­di­um would actu­ally catch…

5km zone around the Caketin

…yep – pretty much the entire cent­ral city and inly­ing sub­urbs. Are all those dair­ies going to have to take down the hoard­ings of non-author­ised soft-drink man­u­fac­tur­ers? Will the buses have all their advert­ising removed for inner-city ser­vices? Oggi’s gonna take down all their bill­boards? Methinks: No. Way.

noizyboy
Sport
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May 9, 2007

WBL: Results round three

Oooh! Things are really get­ting excit­ing now.

Former league cham­pi­ons Xero took on Clem­enger last night and did­n’t come out vic­tori­ous.

Mean­while the ran­dom point awar­ded for most gut­ter balls (chosen by Sil­ver­stripe as last week’s ran­dom point win­ners) allowed the Bow­l­ing­tonista to give up last place to Click­Suite – although if I could repeat my hil­ari­ous joke about there being no ‘I’ in ‘Wellng­ton­sta Bowlng League’, Click­Suite did once again have the highest scor­ing indi­vidu­al play­er. Ryan man­aged to beat Clem­enger­’s Dr. Broad for that title even though Dr Broad got four strikes in a row, and Click­Suite are no doubt weighed down by their ridicu­lous facial hair that they’re grow­ing for May­stache.

And while Bowl­tron had prom­ised to form into one mighty lion if their score went over 500, unfor­tu­nately that just did­n’t come to pass. They still creamed us though, even des­pite our attempts at dis­trac­tion with clev­er rhym­ing chants. League table and indi­vidu­al points after the jump.

Joanna
Events / Sport / Wellingtonista
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May 2, 2007

WBL Round 2: The results

  Won Dr. Pt. Rnd. Total
Xero 2 2 2 0 12
Clem­enger 2 2 0 0 10
Sil­ver­stripe 1 2 0 1 7
Bowl­tron 1 2 0 0 6
Bow­l­ing­tonista 0 2 0 0 2
Click­suite 0 2 0 0 2
Dr: Drink Bonus, Pt: Points Bonus, Rnd: Ran­dom Bonus.

Team res­ults and com­ment­ary after the jump.

Joanna
Events / Sport / Wellingtonista
3 Comments
April 25, 2007

WBL Round 1: the results

So we met, we bowled, great epic battles were fought, and drink­ing was the win­ner on the day. And also Xero. Here’s the league points so far.

  Played Won Drawn Drink bonus Points Bonus Total
Bow­l­ing­tonista 1 0 0 1 0 1
Bowl­tron 1 1 0 1 0 5
Clem­enger 1 1 0 1 0 5
Click­suite 1 0 0 1 0 1
Sil­ver­stripe 1 0 0 1 0 1
Xero 1 1 0 1 1 6

Team bowl­ing scores are after the jump.

Joanna
Events / Sport / Wellingtonista
6 Comments
April 11, 2007

Bowling: It’s OOOOOOOOOOON!

We are super pleased and excited to announce that the Wel­ling­tonista Bowl­ing League is offi­cially a hap­pen­ing thing. Game nights will take place once a month until the round-robin is played out. The first night will be Tues­day 24 April at 8pm, so that we can all recov­er the next day.

There will be four people to a team, and your website/organisation may enter more than one team if you like. There will be a trophy. Register your team here in the com­ments, or email the.wellingtonista @ gmail.com before next Wed­nes­day 18. We’ll be bowl­ing at The Lanes on Wake­field St, and it’ll cost prob­ably $10 per per­son per game. Plus the drinks you will want to buy us.

Please do par­ti­cip­ate. Or are you scared that we will KICK YOUR COLLECTIVE ASSES? Cos we totally will.

Joanna
Sport / Wellingtonista
6 Comments
March 28, 2007

Wellington Phoenix FC

Gah. If the stor­ies we’re hear­ing tonight are true, then we are … under­whelmed.

Ser­i­ously, Black Star Wel­ling­ton was the bomb.

And even Wel­ling­ton City or Wel­ling­ton FC were bet­ter options.

But … “Phoenix”?

Ah well.

Update. Well, it’s offi­cial, and, hav­ing slept on it, I sup­pose it’s some­thing we can live with. At least it’s not the Wel­ling­ton Bumble­bees.

noizyboy
Sport
36 Comments
March 22, 2007

What’s in a name #2

And the Wel­ling­tonista them­selves are in need of a name for their 10-pin bowl­ing team.

Sug­ges­tions so far…

  • Strike Force
  • Wel­ling­ton-PIN-stars
  • Gut­ter Rollers
  • Ultra-Cock­tail-Hour-Super-Bowl­ing-Squad

That Pin-Stars is going to take some beat­ing, but, for the sake of hav­ing a name in the hat, howza­bout The Strike­mas­ters (in trib­ute to the 80s Wel­ling­ton heavy met­al band of the same name).

Fur­ther monik­ers wel­come.

noizyboy
Sport / Wellingtonista
5 Comments
March 22, 2007

What’s in a name #1

So, per­haps the most drawn out sports decision ever to be made by an Aus­tralasi­an sport­ing body has finally been con­firmed, and a Wel­ling­ton bid has won the right field a team in Aus­trali­a’s A‑League soc­cer com­pet­i­tion.

Now all they need is a name (oh, and some play­ers, and a home ground, but let’s not men­tion that).

So, what do we think. What’s a good name for our loc­al pro­fes­sion­al foot­ball team. The guys over at the A‑League dis­cus­sion for­ums have come up with some sug­ges­tions…

  • Wel­ling­ton Wiz­ards
  • Wel­ling­ton Won­ders
  • Wel­ling­ton Wan­der­ers

…but, you know, that whole sports team allit­er­a­tion thing is a bit passé. There’s some sup­port for just con­tinu­ing the Knights (noooo!), and, like­wise, for a good old fash­ioned append­age like United, FC, or City. Today’s Dom­Post had these sug­ges­tions…

  • Wel­ling­ton Thun­der
  • Wel­ling­ton Fever
  • Wel­ling­ton Hor­nets
  • Wel­ling­ton Blast

…of which Hor­nets does­n’t ring too bad, although, do we have hor­nets in Wel­ling­ton? Surely the Wel­ling­ton Killer Bees would be more appro­pri­ate? And des­pite the enthu­si­asm of the sup­port­ers on the back page of the Dom­Post today, I don’t think ‘Fever’ is the best idea in the world – the rich poten­tial for head­line puns when things go hor­ribly wrong is just too much to con­sider.

Any oth­er thoughts?

noizyboy
Sport
36 Comments