Home game vs Houston being moved to Hartford, CT

[Jon]

I think it's pretty clear why we're playing the match in East Hartford... It's so close to Manchester!

Okay, done making light of the situation... I'm as pissed off as the rest of you. I had planned on trading my 9/6 tickets in for extra tickets to this game but that's not going to happen any more. Now I'm down to just 2 out of 4 remaining home games. I live up in Rockland with a car and there's no way I'm driving up to Hartford for this game. Not worth the traffic headache.

This team is in serious trouble when it comes to STH relations. They need to get in front of this story and provide some actual info about the status of a future stadium within NYC. Barring news of that they're going to see another big drop in ticket holders.

 

[Ulrich]

I'm pretty good with geography, I think RB arena is outside city limits

Hence the "Fck it"

There's a big different in a 30min commute and a 3hour commute.

 

[413Blue]

Can you imagine what happens when David Villa, who has given like 100024% all season long, running his ass off during the hot ass Chicago game, playing 3 games in a week etc. shows up to this game with 10k quiet local fans?
This is a really shitty situation, and the FO messed up on this one big time, and is still not quite handling this right. F*&* the FO, CFG, Yankees et. al, but we don't support this team because we are in love with Jon Patricoff, the Steinbrenners, the petro-family and co, we support this team because it's our team. The players have a real passion for performing for us, even the shittier players like Mikey Lopez. We support them, not the owners.
Hopefully this is a one-off mess. Take the $10 bus, get drunk, and make the players feel at home. You will remember this match for the rest of your life. The players will truly be grateful when they see all that blue up there, hearing all that noise.
"Everywhere we goooooooo,
everywhere we goooo,
we're the New York boys,
bringing all the noise,
everywhere we gooooo"

BTW, I sort of skimmed the first 10 or so pages of this thread because it blew up while I was working, but has anyone done the Historic First MLS Match in CT(TM) bit yet?

 

[Tom in Fairfield CT]

Make sure you all add Fuck mother nature. You know, the cause of the problem, while the team tried to find a good solution to a shitty, uncontrollable situation.

I shit on the team plenty, but crying about their solution when it doesn't fit your exact needs, even though they are refunding money, providing buses, etc is hilarious.

i don't know how some of you handle real life when this kind of minor bump in your schedule provokes this much vitriol.

 

[Keith Putnam]

If they win the insufferable crybaby snowflakes on here will stop complaining.

What's up with all this "snowflake" bullshit in this thread? I understand it's somehow become the insult d'jour for asshole right-wing internet trolls but I'm not feeling the relevance here.

 

[Midas Mulligan]

Icahn stadium

This one seems obvious. They could even lay down grass and bring in temp seating with all of this lead time. I think that would have been pretty damn fun.

 

[Ulrich]

This one seems obvious. They could even lay down grass and bring in temp seating with all of this lead time. I think that would have been pretty damn fun.

With the City in the background (unless they aimed the cameras at the stands) it'd have been awesome. It's a great venue, been there plenty of times. Transport is typically a dedicated bus from the subway, but they could have had a fleet of them running non-stop like they do for most events there.

 

[Kjbert]

I don't believe Icahn Stadium can legally hold other events

Is this better or worse than getting bumped out of your own stadium for a pre-season NFL game?

Depening on how and if they market, the crowd could be surprising

 

[Kjbert]

Outside of renting their stadium (we don't get a discount), do we know if there is any upside to our Yankee ownership arrangement at the moment?

 

[Gotham Gator]

Finally have a few moments to catch up on this thread.

• The situation sucks. I had this game circled as a special occasion for the family. Not anymore.
• The party to be most pissed at is the Yankees - more precisely their inability to control their grounds crew. I don't believe for a second they can't turn that field around in 48 hours when the situation requires.
• The Club was in a bind, and there is no solution that would have made us happy. But, there are some things they needed to have done to make the situation better.

1. 1. Apologize. Understand that we are going to be apoplectic. Give us the apology that we deserve. And for God's sake, stop trying to market this as some kind of a cool one-off event.
   2. Explain. Tell us exactly how the decision making worked to get us to this spot. Which other venues and dates were considered. Which were rejected and why.

• Fans shouldn't boycott the game. If that trip is inconvenient, that's one thing, but don't bail on the team out of spite. The players had nothing to do with this, and they deserve our support.
• I like how Rox and others are trying to make the best of a bad situation. This is a chance to see the team in a spot with excellent tailgating and in a rectangular stadium. It can be a cool event.
• Let's not worry about how this looks to other teams. Who gives a fuck? I could care less what Red Fool or Orlando or any other fans think. News Flash - they don't hate us because of our stadium situation. They hate us because we are good.

 

[Ulrich]

I guess this is also a good time to reflect on the slowness of building/completing a training center with a dedicated stadium having 5k+ seating. The excuse of hard to build in NYC doesn't hold water with this. It wouldn't have served the masses of spectators, without adding a ton of temp seating, but it would have been a true home match for the team in familiar space.

Late to the game with a full academy. Late with a training grounds/center. Late with a stadium.

 

[NickFromAstoria]

Outside of renting their stadium (we don't get a discount), do we know if there is any upside to our Yankee ownership arrangement at the moment?

It's a good question, honestly - maybe Randy Levine or Lonn Trost are making backchannel calls to people like Emma Wolfe to keep the stadium fires burning, but all the public records show that it's just consummate CFG guy Marty Edelman working city officials.

 

[Angela Miller]

I think it's pretty clear why we're playing the match in East Hartford... It's so close to Manchester!

Okay, done making light of the situation... I'm as pissed off as the rest of you. I had planned on trading my 9/6 tickets in for extra tickets to this game but that's not going to happen any more. Now I'm down to just 2 out of 4 remaining home games. I live up in Rockland with a car and there's no way I'm driving up to Hartford for this game. Not worth the traffic headache.

This team is in serious trouble when it comes to STH relations. They need to get in front of this story and provide some actual info about the status of a future stadium within NYC. Barring news of that they're going to see another big drop in ticket holders.

The only thing i will respond to in this post is the first sentence ! I'v spent the last 25 years of my work life in Manchester . Yes we have great shopping and restaurants and Highway access to all that . Is that what you mean when you bring up Manchester ?? Cause I have no idea what you mean with your first sentence ?? 95% of this forum have no clue about this area of Connecticut . I live in East Hartford 28 years and 3 blocks from the stadium. Darling you have me quite puzzled ??

 

[Jon]

The only thing i will respond to in this post is the first sentence ! I'v spent the last 25 years of my work life in Manchester . Yes we have great shopping and restaurants and Highway access to all that . Is that what you mean when you bring up Manchester ?? Cause I have no idea what you mean with your first sentence ?? 95% of this forum have no clue about this area of Connecticut . I live in East Hartford 28 years and 3 blocks from the stadium. Darling you have me quite puzzled ??

I was making a connection to our parent organization. I would've thought it was obvious...

 

[413Blue]

Make sure you all add Fuck mother nature. You know, the cause of the problem, while the team tried to find a good solution to a shitty, uncontrollable situation.

I shit on the team plenty, but crying about their solution when it doesn't fit your exact needs, even though they are refunding money, providing buses, etc is hilarious.

i don't know how some of you handle real life when this kind of minor bump in your schedule provokes this much vitriol.

Just wait until tickets go on sale. Gonna be at least 100 posts when people see that they have to pay the "facility fee" at P&W.

 

[Fantazma]

It's Twitter, but evidently RBA was offered and turned down.

Our Front Office are a bunch of fcknuts.

fuck that...i still prefer anywhere but RBA...gives more reason to say "hey you could of been supporting this team all along" if we give them good attendance

 

[Angela Miller]

I was making a connection to our parent organization. I would've thought it was obvious...

You know the people of this forum have a way of Assuming that one should automatically know what one is talking about without any explanation . Now i'm even further confused about this Parent Organization maybe if i were apart of said group I may have gotten the inside clue here . So sue me for being stupid about this group one thing that's very clear in your post this PO was not mentioned at all . I read it over and over no mention of a PO ! My children are and have always been animals . So tell me dose this disqualify one from being a member of the PO?? Thanks !

 

[Fantazma]

Icahn stadium, Fordham, Columbia, any of those would have been better options and all within the 5 boroughs.

i dont even know if Icahn can be used for anything outside of smaller track and field events. I know there is the cosmos copa tournament but i think thats other fields. Columbia has football game that day, Fordham would of been option but maybe also "too small" even with bleachers probably cant accomodate 20K ish we get during home games

 

[Taurus]

Should we start speculating on what 35+ big name superstar that doesn't fit our system they will panic sign to try to quell the angst this time?

Balotelli played poorly for the last Nice game.

 

[Fantazma]

i think it attendance may be close to 10K....the curious people from the area that dont get to to see live soccer will maybe want to watch a game. or maybe villa/pirlo effect brings more curious people.