My Ticket rep emailed back. Said basically the same thing didnt want three stadiums. Also said more info in a week or 2 but will be able to roll forward to 2022 or use in 2021.
2021 Schedule Thread
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i genuinely think fans and even the supporter groups (e.g., 3rd rail, etc) would have reacted better had the club come out with this information as soon as they found out about what MLS's scheduling was going to be like for 2021. Obviously, they couldn't make their arrangements with RBA or any other venue without knowing that first. Now, if they were prohibited by MLS to give any hints to the schedule then ok. But then just say so and mention that RBA would be considered as a venue for home games in 2021. The point is, they should have been more forthcoming with the situation and their choices, even if they weren't able to give us fans an actual choice, being transparent shows a lot of good will. Having an actual plan for refunds, credits, etc based on these circumstances would be nice too. I am willing to bet the fine print in the pay it forward into 2021 agreement has something about venue changes and that refunds would not be given.
I am assuming when 2022 rolls around, covid will be under control enough that MLS can go back to scheduling like they did before and we'll have to deal with a YS/Citi split. Although supporters will be unhappy with the split, at least it's in NYC. The only thing that will make fans forget and garner renewed support is a stadium deal announcement with a timeline for construction to begin.
I am assuming when 2022 rolls around, covid will be under control enough that MLS can go back to scheduling like they did before and we'll have to deal with a YS/Citi split. Although supporters will be unhappy with the split, at least it's in NYC. The only thing that will make fans forget and garner renewed support is a stadium deal announcement with a timeline for construction to begin.
I couldn't care less at this point where this club plays. In fact, why not play more matches at RBA? I dropped my season tickets and hate watching the home matches at YS. The camera angles suck and you can't see half the field on the broadcast. Might as well just rip the band-aid off this season when attendance will be limited.
And when COVID ends and fans can come back, it'll look a heck of a lot better getting 10,000 fans into RBA than 10,000 fans at Yankee Stadium.
And when COVID ends and fans can come back, it'll look a heck of a lot better getting 10,000 fans into RBA than 10,000 fans at Yankee Stadium.
Well, MLS is always quirky with scheduling because playing through the summer conflicts with other tournaments like the Gold Cup so MLS takes 2 weeks off at some point in the summer. Next year with the World Cup taking place in the winter (first match on November 21 and likely players being called into camps one month prior), the MLS Cup playoffs are going to be interesting.
You know what it comes back to? $$
The club is going to continue to shit on supporters because supporters happily or begrudgingly give their money to the club. Fans justify it by saying they love the players or want their name on a brick. But in the end, the club is just going to continue with their lack of transparency.
Every year, this club becomes more and more an existential crisis
The club's biggest problem is that they keep making the same mistakes over and over again and have no read on the fanbase. Most often it's their failure to "get out ahead of this" where they could have been more forthcoming and eased/explained the blow soon to be delivered. Instead it's the same pattern of suggesting that they care (for example, a survey asking supporters whether they would travel to RBA), ignoring the feedback from the fanbase (for example, ignoring the likely results of the RBA survey), failing to explain an unpopular club decision in advance or contemporaneously (for example, failing to explain in advance why the club is playing half of its home games at RBA, failing to provide information on how this will affect STH, and what options will be available), delivering the bad news without warning (for example, releasing a schedule with half of the home games at RBA), causing anger, disappointment, and further mistrust from the fanbase and accompanying bad publicity (for example, all of the foregoing this week following the schedule release), and then having to react in a manner that is too little, too late (for example, fan services sending a couple of tweets at the angry fanbase). Repeat. And repeat again. Being proactive won't necessarily solve some of the disappointment, but it would certainly help in many ways including the trust factor, allowing supporters to understand or at least process certain decisions in a reasonable manner, quell unnecessary protests and social media reaction, etc.
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I agree 100%. This is horseshit, but (to me) not because of who else plays at RBA.
They're just not very good at this. I think a symptom of a front office full of people who are more concerned about their next job than their current one.
