[Eleven Bravo]

Which city should MLS go to

[Centennial]

Originally Posted by Eleven Bravo

Which city should MLS go to

I thought that MLS was already expanding to Salt Lake in 2005... what gives???

[suppitty]

Assuming SLC has allready been chosen then I say MLS should expand to Rochester and Seattle. One big market, and one medium market like they did this year with Civas in LA and SLC.

[savier]

Portland is way more deserving than Seattle. First of all portland's a-league club averages 5,000, whereas seattle only averages 2,500 and thats being generous. On top of that Portland doesn't have baseball to compete with like seattle. Also PGE park the timbers stadium could probably turned into a sss. It can be made to hold 30,000 if its set up as it was for womens world cup, with natural grass.

[Sachsen]

Originally Posted by savier

Portland is way more deserving than Seattle. First of all portland's a-league club averages 5,000, whereas seattle only averages 2,500 and thats being generous. On top of that Portland doesn't have baseball to compete with like seattle. Also PGE park the timbers stadium could probably turned into a sss. It can be made to hold 30,000 if its set up as it was for womens world cup, with natural grass.

Dude, welcome to the boards, but let me give you a bit of advice. Before you go saying things like "Portland is way more deserving than Seattle", you might want to go read through the hundreds of posts that have already been made on this subject.

No city is more deserving than any other city unless they come up with the owner, the cash, and the stadium. Number of fans for A-league teams doesn't mean squat. SLC and Seattle have owners, cash, and stadiums to play in, which means they are going to be in the league in the next two years. Portland, as far as I know, doesn't have the owner or the cash, so PGE Park won't get you a team by itself.

Don't get me wrong, I would love to see Seattle, Portland, AND Vancouver in MLS so you can carry on your Cascadia Cup thing at the top level. But there is no such thing as "more deserving." There are only cold hard facts.

[Bertico84]

Bring it back to Tampa. Please. I miss the Mutiny.

[riverplate]

For God's sake, get Philadelphia a franchise.

[Bertico84]

Originally Posted by riverplate

For God's sake, get Philadelphia a franchise.

Yeah, them too. Then we can add to the Tampa-Philly rivalry.

[Joe Stoker]

Rochester for sure. Here's wishing an I/O for Detroit. I don't trust that guy with the Sounders (or whatever he intends to re-brand to capture the bobblehead crowd).

[(TxT)]

Atlanta

Soccer is very popular down here and MLS will probably draw well, also there is a large hispanic poulation (mostly Mexican) that would attend the games. Two members of the national team are from metro Atlanta (Mathis, Wolff) so the locals would be able to have people to identify with. If not Atlanta then Birmingham, Nashville, Charlotte, Tampa, or Miami, MLS needs a team in the southeast. Charleston is too small of a market to support an MLS team for an extended period of time, they would do well i their first few years but after that the attedance would drop because it won't be the hot new thing. It is also too far away from the larger markets of the south (Charlotte, Nashville, Atlanta...) for people to travel on a saturday for casual fans just to see a game, hell I wouldn't even travel to Charleston for MLS.