Talk:Northern Spirit FC
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A number of editors seem to feel that NSFC attracted the lowest NSL crowd ever (800 aprox). This is incorrect - Green Gully v Adelaide City Attendance: 352 - http://www.ozfootball.net/ark/NSL/1986/round10.htm. IF you did through the ozfootball site there are a number of crowds under 800.Tancred 13:26, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
"The club was owned by Rangers FC for a small period of time who temporarily changed the clubs home colours to their own navy blue." Can anyone confirm this? I recall Spirit played in their blue away strip at home in a friendly against the Rangers Youth. I know the RFC logo was on the sleeve for one season as well. Spirit also played in Blue once in the NSL against Gippsland (I think) as they did not bring their away kit.Tancred 13:29, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
- On the first point, thanks for clearing that up, i didn't put in that info, but it did look a bit suss, so i should have checked it out. On the second one, again, i didn't put that in, i was assuming good faith, but it was late at night when i was editing and i couldn't be bothered at the time. I think overall this article can be expanded a bit, and if it happens, hopefully it can lead to better pages for other ex-NSL club pages. Blackmissionary 23:19, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] The Venue / Audience Figures.
Just on a note here. The negative attendance record of Northern Spirit turns insignificant when compared to Brazilian first division team AD S. Caetano of suburban S. Paulo, which on many occasions have had attendances between 150 to 400 - and they are a more recent Libertadores finalist after all!.
That the idiots of Northern Spirit thought that it would be a smart idea to rebrand the well known traditional North Sydney Oval to "Spirit Park" for their matches was at very best idiotic. I thought about checking out some of their matches, but them being advertised as being at this Spirit Park prevented that, as I had no clue where that was. Later I found outthat it was the North Sydney Oval and still managed to get to one match before they folded.
The NthsydOvl was actually the closest National Soccer League venue to my home. It had nevertheless the disadvantage that there was no chance of sitting not on an angle to the pitch, which is another strange matter.
Well, on their board was the probably estranged wife of former NSW Premier Nick Greiner, Ms Kathryn Greiner; certainly not a classic person to have even just residual knowledge on football. She probably would not even have been able to get herself a beer if her life depended on it. Oalexander-En 17:03, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
