The Phoenix Brief - 20th May 2024

Sack the Coach!

Author

Ralph Highnam
May 20, 2024

Just joking with the sub-title, what a season it’s been! Chiefy should be given the freedom of the city for what he has achieved with a young squad sprinkled with a few veterans; if we can keep most of that squad, we’ll be well placed for next season.

We’ve enjoyed doing the Phoenix Brief, we will be amping it up next year and promoting it more now we’ve got into a flow, so until we post again, thank you for reading!

Ralph & Hayden

The Weekend Past

The Phoenix Men played at home in front of a massive 33,000+ crowd at the Sky Stadium versus Melbourne Victory in the 2nd leg of the Play-Off Semi-Final. Typical of all the matches this year between these teams, it was tight and close, with few real chances but Victory took theirs, we didn’t, so we end up losing 1-2 after extra-time. BUT, who will ever forget that roar when Zawada scored in the last second of normal time to send the game into extra-time!?

In the other semi-final, Central Coast drew 0-0 with Sydney to go through 2-1 on aggregate that means they host the Grand Final versus Melbourne Victory next weekend.

Also:

Stuff: Zawada confirmed to be leaving - “money into the younger-players”

Games This Week

Next weekend, the Grand Final

(women’s season is over)

For Your Diary - Future Wellington Games

(coming soon)

Phoenix games are on Sky Sports in NZ

Buy Phoenix tickets at Sky Stadium (top tip: keep it simple, just buy a Silver Ticket and move around when you get there, ~$32 for an adult - it’s cheaper if you pay in advance)