As I said, Baby steps. And he is not anyone’s idea of a #10. I doubt Pascal assigned him that role even though he went in for maxi (if I thought pascal thought it was like for like, I’d lose some respect for Pascal). I think his assignment was to run like crazy and try to cause some havoc. And he seemed to understand the assignment. I want the assignment to include free kicks because that is the one place Julian has demonstrated some real ability and consistency.
Maybe you should move to Florida
I hope that those of you who want the schedule to shift were there tonight. If they shift the schedule that’s what our future looks like, meteorologically. And it’s not pretty. Good luck with ticket sales during 4-6 weeks of darkness and cold. It’s hard enough to resell tickets you can’t use in warm weather. Unless they splurge on some major name talent, winter matches are gonna be dreary affairs.
I’m not saying I enjoyed the weather last night or that this was you, but I swear some of yall just don’t know how to dress. The amount of people in light jackets or hoodies with soaked sneakers sitting around shivering is hilariously high. I layered up and it was comfortable. Dress appropriately!!!!
It’s definitely not me. Grew up upstate, spent 11 years in Boston. Hell, it snowed at my upstate house yesterday. I know how to dress. And whether you are from Minnesota or Florida, and it’s a baseball game, a football game or a soccer game, going to an outside game in shitty cold weather is pretty unpleasant. There’s a reason they play hockey inside in northern climes. And the MLS fanbase is not the English or German or even the Green Bay Packers fanbase built on 100-150 years of multigenerational tradition. MLS is still built largely on casuals.
I'd add Shore. The more I see him the more I like his game now and think he has a lot of upward potential.
I support the schedule shift and I was there last night. As were many others. I fail to see what the big deal is. The season will run from August to late May, there will be a January break, games in August and May will predominantly be in the northern cities, games in December and February will be predominantly in southern cities, there will be a few games in October/November and March/April just like there are now. People go to football games in the cold all the time. Personally I’d rather go to a game in 40 degrees than 95 anyway.
See it’s funny cause I was there last night and fully bundled with layers and am in complete opposition of switching the schedule. The stadium felt dead and the casuals won’t come out to a game like that. Hell my wife kept telling me last night, “Now you can’t ever tell me that I don’t love you if I’m here right now.” I would 100% enjoy sweating it out in shorts, a t-shirt, (and my Birkenstocks) than what we just endured last night. That was not fun nor worth it. And if Philly had won last night, man I would have been so pissed to have spent the evening in the rain/wind/cold. So many of the guys here who I consider some of the most hard core fans of the teams for just the reason that they are on this forum chose to opt out of the game because of the weather. And again they aren’t the casuals. If people are so upset about 100° games in Houston in the summer, then front load and back load their season. The fact that we only have one home game in each of June and July is just criminal when that’s probably some of the most pleasurable games to attend.
I think this is one of those moderating variable situations. When your team sucks, weather has huge impact on attendance. When your team is strong, weather has much lower impact. Not sure about that. But that's my guess.
Absolutely true. We could argue about the strength of the effect but it exists.
In my coaching work I talk about "multiple right answers." It's not a comparison of right and wrong. It's two right answers based on what each side is valuing or trying to maximize for.
I for one will probably not reup as an STH if they make the switch, and not just because it's less pleasant. If there were a secondary market, maybe it would make sense, but why bother when you can make a gameday call and save a lot of $$. I was there last night because I had already paid (and also because I'm a nutter). And there was no way anyone I knew would have taken one of my free tickets. Had I not previously committed, I would have watched at home.
Yup. Founding member and I stayed home. Went to breakfast with my sister visiting from Connecticut at 10am and it was 40° and sorta raining and my immediate thought was, "not going to the match tonight." And just had no desire to spend an hour putting on thermals, pants, rain pants, t-shirt, flannel shirt, thin hoody, electric vest, winter puffy jacket, goretex outer shell just to have my Shack Burger freeze 20 seconds after buying it.*
