Your cuddly old Uncle Ernie vanished on Sunday night.
The next two off-seasons appear far from restful for Winston Reid.
As the Phoenix get set to host Melbourne City in their A-League elimination final tonight, Daniel Richardson looks back on five moments that shaped their campaign.
The last time the Wellington Phoenix played finals football, their plan was to concede no goals and then try and nick one on the break.
How high have your expectations gone?
New recruits to New Zealand Football's under-20 team have been getting a "crash course" on the team's style of play as the countdown to the Fifa U-20 World Cup begins.
The Wellington Phoenix host Melbourne City in their A-League elimination final at Westpac Stadium tomorrow night with a semifinal spot on offer next weekend.
Wellington Phoenix are prepared to win ugly in their do-or-die Hyundai A-League Finals Series clash with Melbourne City FC at Westpac Stadium on Sunday.
ERNIE Merrick believes the finals blueprint that delivered so much success at Melbourne Victory can work at his new club Wellington Phoenix.
When the Wellington Phoenix were going to training at Newtown Park during their 18-week pre-season they would have been dreaming about games like the one they will play on Sunday.
Wellington Phoenix striker Nathan Burns has been voted as the A-League's player of the season by Australia's football media.
Last July, the Wellington Phoenix started their Hyundai A-League pre-season campaign with matches against English Premier League sides West Ham United and Newcastle United.
Don't let the solo training session fool you, says Glen Moss. While the rest of the Wellington Phoenix trained together at Newtown Park on Wednesday, their No 1 goalkeeper was off doing other things.
The FIFA U-20 World Cup New Zealand 2015, which commences in a little over a month, won’t be just about what happens on the pitch.
Ben Sigmund was nursing a cold elsewhere and Glen Moss trained alone, but Wellington Phoenix coach Ernie Merrick was confident both would be fit by Sunday.
As Wellington Phoenix prepare for Sunday's do-or-die Elimination Final, fans may be running out of chances to see newly crowned Phoenix player of the year Nathan Burns in the Hyundai A-League.
Two recent winners of the ASB Chatham Cup will clash in the first round of the 2015 edition of New Zealand Football’s national knockout cup competition.
Maybe the Phoenix result at the weekend wasn't such a bad thing.
Striker Nathan Burns scored a hat-trick at the Wellington Phoenix awards dinner on Tuesday night.
Wellington Phoenix star midfielder Michael McGlinchey has urged his team-mates not to let their Finals Series chances slip by when they host Melbourne City in Sunday’s do-or-die Elimination Final.
It was perhaps the closest and most exciting finish to an A-League season, with the top five teams all finishing within seven points of each other and all with a chance of claiming the Premiers Plate with just weeks to go.
All White Shane Smeltz, Thomas Broich and Besart Berisha headline the PFA's A-League Team of the Decade, leaving no room for Italian legend Alessandro Del Piero in the starting line-up.
The Wellington Phoenix will host Melbourne City in their A-League elimination final on Sunday and a win could set up a tantalising semifinal against the Melbourne Victory across the Tasman the following week.
Auckland City FC coach Ramon Tribulietx says a move to the Brisbane Roar would be a "wonderful opportunity".
Auckland City are off to a seventh Club World Cup finals after a thrilling penalty shootout victory over Team Wellington in the OFC Champions League final in Suva on Sunday night.
Auckland City FC have qualified for the Fifa Club World Cup for the seventh time after beating Team Wellington 4-3 on penalties in the OFC Champions League final in Suva last night.
The Wellington Phoenix have created various slices of history this season and that trend will need to continue in the playoffs if they want to claim a maiden A-League title.
There's two things the Wellington Phoenix won't do against Melbourne City, on Sunday.
The Wellington Phoenix will have to do it the hard way in the A-League playoffs.
WELLINGTON Phoenix coach Ernie Merrick has endorsed Ramon Tribulietx as the ideal man to take charge of Brisbane but believes current Roar coach Frans Thijssen should have been retained for next season.
Auckland City FC might have faced down the footballing world at the Club World Cup in Morocco last year but coach Ramon Tribulietx says lining up against Team Wellington in Suva on Sunday will be one of their hardest games in years.
He doesn't like getting too far ahead of himself, but Team Wellington coach Matt Calcott admits a win over Auckland City in today's OFC Champions League final could create a notable change in the capital's footballing landscape.
Andrew Durante's nickname is missing a few letters. The Phoenix skipper is known as 'Dura' among his team-mates but surely that should be 'Durable'.
Let's hope the Wellington Phoenix meet their own expectations.
Four weeks and four players will make all the difference to Wellington Phoenix when they host Sydney FC on Sunday, coach Ernie Merrick believes.