My seat mate said Carroll had to cover his face to stop everyone see he was laughing at the boos emanating in his direction.
I know it's Easter weekend, but we seem to be down 1,000 from last season. I got a call from a number in I think Minnesota on Thursday from somebody claiming to be from the team. I was on a list of people who had bought single tickets before but not recently and they were trying to figure out why. I told him I was an STH and he asked if there was anybody else I could recommend talking to. There must be a significant drop off in sales if they're outsourcing that kind of cold calling.
Makes sense right now they are boring and not winning just like last year. It's not like it's a mystery. The only problem is you do this long enough and now even winning will bring this 1000 back. But at this point there are many mls teams that would kill for our attendance numbers.
We were talking about the sales dropping once the honeymoon feel goes, well that started...and i'd hate to see where it goes if the ugly/disappointing Union soccer continues. The fact the stadium is in Chester really hurts, it hasn't been too noticeable because of passionate fanbase filling the seats over the last few years. But looking at other MLS examples, downtown stadiums constantly sell out (SKC, Portland, Seattle) while suburb ones struggle (Chicago especially), the Union have been an exception and the next few years might really test it depending on success. This is why I love attendance, and follow it.
Houston downtown stadium epic fail..... Seattle is unreal, PTFC is again NW and also still honeymooning. SKC just rebrand. Id consider that a new team. Its all doing good or not. You're two examples (Chicago and Union) both suck. SKC and Seattle are doing well. PTFC last year won the West right? DC attendance.... sucks, not a good team. Only ones I think should be doing better is Colorado and FC Dallas.
I think it factors due to good or bad, but it is still a short period of time to study this. I'd like to see what would happen if the Union got good, and what would happen to attendance, but well that will never happen
Look at the locations of their stadiums for part of the answer. Both of them historically have had terrible attendance figures. It was sad to see a virtually empty stadium today in Colorado, but it's common there.
forget stadium location... when we have 2 perfect game days in a row and can't sell out it's a problem no matter what.... these past 2 games should of been SRO
Easter weekend is a tough sell, as a lot of people started their holiday travel on Friday (I think my company was the only one open in our entire complex on Friday!). I was pleasantly surprised to find someone able to take my tickets for Saturday, as I figured a lot of people wouldn't be heading out. I agree about the previous game, though.
Id say we have had a problem for a season and a half now attendance wise. People do not want to come out. We haven't won in 6 games.... and 1 win in 8 games. I have a little family that we all grew together in 107 of about 8-10 STH. But other than that, casuals don't show up anymore. And honestly, if I was a casual, I wouldn't go to the games if I was "eh" about soccer. 1. We do not score. (Only 1 game more than 2 goals and shut out at home last week) 2. We have not been winning (this year or last year was a bump down the stretch). 3. No big name draw (Sorry, love yah MoMo but you're not a big name draw to a casual, just to soccer fans) 4. Not easy access to the games from downtown (Every Eagles, Phillies, Flyers game those subways are JAMMED). I cannot think of a good reason for a causal soccer fan to come out. The Union are like crack/cocaine to me. Its bad, I waste all my money, but I can't get enough of it.
i agree with all that. i should have also qualified that im directing alot of that at the river end. we had entire rows empty in 138 this past weekend. That is happening kind of often, and it annoys the bejeezus out of me. that end should be full no matter what.
When there's a fire capacity on a facility, aren't all tickets "limited"? Does that schtick in marketing actually work?
Speaking of stadiums and attendance, what happened to the thread about Chester and Stadium (lack of) development?
Not sure if we need more seats (probably not, the way this season's going) but the other stuff like a restaurant behind TRE would be nice.
For the 17 times a year you might go? I'd be surprised if they invest at all. Chester is a bad investment, or at best, it's somebody else's investment. Something like 80% of new restaurants fail in two years, locating it in Chester doesn't seem to be a plus.