Sounders fans to get money back [R]

hhaha lol whats gonna happen next week when they lose and NOT score again?

 

This should really help out with their sense of entitlement!

 

http://www.prostamerika.com/2010/05/09/match-so-unacceptable-fans-will-be-compensated-24045/

 

I'm speechless !

 

You guys can talk rivalries crap all you want.

The fact that the Seattle FO is doing this shows they care about their fans.

It shows that they care about that relationship they have with the fans. That they don't take them for granted. That the product on the field does matter.

 

yeah it shows they appreciate you but.... loses are part of the game besides this was only a 4-0 lose

 

I think this has much less to do with the fans, and much more to do with protecting the brand and having an organizational philosophy demanding excellence. This is a cannon shot across the bow of the players.

 

It wasn't that we lost. It was that after the second goal, the players just gave up. They quit. All the Sounders except Montano, should be ashamed at their performace yesterday. Losses happen, even blowout losses, but that doesn't mean you stop playing and half ass it the rest of the way. Getting the money back is nice, but I'm more pleased that people will be losing their starting jobs, and some their roster spots all together. I can stomach a loss, but having players with no heart who don't give 100% every minute they're out on the pitch pisses me off.

 

No, it shows that the Sounders are run by savvy people.

 

This is a good point. Well stated.

 

a free ticket is not the same as money back.

 

The sad part is how many of the players the Sounders rely on were the ones that just quit -- I specifically refer to John Kennedy Hurtado, who has been the Sounders best defender for a year, but just stopped caring yesterday. It was sad to watch. If anyone should be refunding money it's him.

In terms of the announcement -- it doesn't mean that much to me. Assuming life doesn't carry me to job opportunities in other cities or whatever, I'm in for the long-haul. So the cost of one game is not really an issue. What is an issue is the lack of movement to make things better. That is something that all clubs should be doing all the time, IMO -- trying to get better players and perform better on the field. When you trot out fifth-string national team defenders like Brad Evans as a forward, well you know you haven't done enough.

 

Very simple , you got deep pockets bring in better players and make yourself the Manu of the North America.
On a lighter note NY/NJ RB owes their season tickets holders a free game as well.

 

Sounders are run like a real football club. They know we deserve better and they put their money where their mouth is.

 

First we must get someone to convince Sigi that Pete Vagenas is not very good and Nathan Sturgis isn't either. Oh and Taylor Graham makes a lot of money for a guy who has not seen many minutes.

The problem is that the Sounders haven't gone out and got any players other than Montano and the guys they picked up in the draft.

 

This x10.

And cut the dead (expensive) weight off the roster to free up cap space for better players to come this summer. Nkufo won't make this team a lot better on his own. We need to bring over someone else with him.

 

I'm waiting for a pc4th poll on this.

 

Taylor Graham is awful. I don't know why he's still playing in MLS period.

 

We hold these truths to be self-evident.....

 

Seattle invented losing by 4 goals.

 

I think if I'm a Seattle owner or Seattle coach, the first thing I'd do is tell my players to stop complaining about the referees during matches and just play the damn game. I'd tell Freddy Lungberg that he's here to be an inspiration, a leader and not to roll around on the turf clutching his ankle at every 50/50 challenge or chase the referee or linesman around the field like a lunatic. Until Sigi and his boys stop playing the victim it's going to be hard for them to turn things around.

Perhaps this gesture by the owner is a sign that he gets this. Maybe this is a shot the players can't ignore and they'll know that owners feel that whining to the degree they've done it is unacceptable.

AH (owner)

Even given the performance yesterday, in the first half we were the better team. Offside gets called on a goal, (it's) called back (when he) wasn't in an offside position. If the referee makes the right call there we're up 1-0. Kasey, who's obviously manned up and willing to take responsibility for the goal that they score. It's a different game if we go into halftime up 1-0. But it didn't. The offside did get called.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ht..._sounders_fc_to_pay_back_its_se.html#continue

oh well, never mind. Carry on as usual.

 

What about the emotional damages?