We’ve only had one game in the A-League season so far, but I’m celebrating the fact that we’re undefeated and inside the top six! Being a Wellington Phoenix fan definitely has more downs than ups so you really must celebrate every success, no matter how small and insignificant others may think it is. Personally I’m happy with last week’s result. It’s easy to forget that this result came without our three on-duty All White players (Durante, McGlinchey, Doyle) and an injured Finkler. My regular 3 readers of this column will recall I did correctly predict a 1-1 draw which I thought would be a solid start to our season. Wins are obviously ideal and we’ll need plenty of them should we hope to finish up the ladder but as long as we’re collecting points I’m happy. My Three Takeaways The crowd 8,146 fans were at Westpac Stadium on Sunday evening to see the new Nix team in action. While it was the lowest opening round crowd across the league, I didn’t think it was too bad considering it was in the middle of the school holidays which rules out a lot of families who would usually be in town. The [...]