The annual Dolan-Warren awards ceremony has been axed, with the A-Leagues set to announce the players of the season at halftime on grand final days. Other awards will be announced digitally. [aap]https://t.co/N0cG4bhHr2
Anyone afraid of what’s coming? Up. The. Port. 🔵⚫️🔵⚫️
The arrival of Auckland FC is going to be great for football in NZ. I think the majority of Nix fans are eagerly looking forward to the presence at last of a proper derby rival, with promise of large numbers of travelling fans. Those two games per season should be huge and good fun.
But I hope for the Black Knights sake, 'Up. The Port.' doesn't stick as a catch cry. Seems a bit of a contrived crusade by 1-2 of their fans on their FB page. Hopefully over time organically they get a Yellow Fever type fan group, that come up with better material than that. Stuff that makes you say yipe that identifies the 09.
Is it common for people to say "up the supporters' group"? Has anyone ever said, "up the yellow fever"?
Or do you guys like saying "up the p0rt" as a joke, because of the penetrative connotations?
Edit: fudge, got autocorrected. I didn't mean to say "Wellington is the home of football" has penetrative connotations.
Yeah it is a strange one, usually fans would cheer on their team rather than their supporters group, it would be like instead of us saying 'Come on you Nix' we said 'Come on you Yellow Fever'.
Supporters groups usually are the ones doing the cheering on, not the ones needing to BE cheered on!
A lot of people are missing the point. You may or may not think "Oop Da Peurt" (edit: word filter lol) is cringe, but no-one has come up with an alternative which has become popular. Someone suggested "AK Ultras", which I would personally like because it sounds like a brand of machine gun, and if that overtakes The Port, so be it.
But saying "this name is cringe" without suggesting an alternative that becomes more popular is self-defeating. This is what always happens with name debates - if you don't want to waste weeks or months, you've just got to run with whatever gets traction first.
Anyway, I've warmed to "The Port" since someone on Facebook opposed it because it sounded like a reference to wharfies and was therefore too communist (notwithstanding that an actual left-wing active support group is forming!)
A lot of people are missing the point. You may or may not think "Oop Da Peurt" (edit: word filter lol) is cringe, but no-one has come up with an alternative which has become popular. Someone suggested "AK Ultras", which I would personally like because it sounds like a brand of machine gun, and if that overtakes The Port, so be it.
But saying "this name is cringe" without suggesting an alternative that becomes more popular is self-defeating. This is what always happens with name debates - if you don't want to waste weeks or months, you've just got to run with whatever gets traction first.
Anyway, I've warmed to "The Port" since someone on Facebook opposed it because it sounded like a reference to wharfies and was therefore too communist (notwithstanding that an actual left-wing active support group is forming!)
Why do we need to suggest an alternative name? I'm pretty sure some have already in other threads but also we're mostly Nix supporters so why should we?
They can do what they want and we can say it's shark. That's fine imo.
