2019/20 NISA Attendance Thread

Discussion in 'NASL' started by Darkwing McQuack, Aug 2, 2019.

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  1. kenntomasch

    kenntomasch Member+

    Sep 2, 1999
    Out West
    Club:
    FC Tampa Bay Rowdies
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    LA Force couldn't even be buggered to tweet during the game. (And Philadelphia's game was postponed, saving them embarrassment for a bit.)
     
  2. kenntomasch

    kenntomasch Member+

    Sep 2, 1999
    Out West
    Club:
    FC Tampa Bay Rowdies
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Friend of a friend received a dozen comps for 1904's opener.

    They are papering the house and they are going to lose a lot of money very quickly.
     
  3. athletics68

    athletics68 Member+

    Dec 12, 2006
    San Diego & San Jose
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Take a gander at 1904’s ticketmaster site. Pretty much every seat is still available other than what they’ve blocked off to give away. I’d say 1000 actual attendance would be a miracle but I’ll report back on Sat. It’s going to look terrible regardless in 70,000 seat Qualcomm Stadium. No clue what they thought they were doing choosing that venue.
     
  4. kenntomasch

    kenntomasch Member+

    Sep 2, 1999
    Out West
    Club:
    FC Tampa Bay Rowdies
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    You are presuming thought was put to this.
     
  5. athletics68

    athletics68 Member+

    Dec 12, 2006
    San Diego & San Jose
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Heh, true. I mean I can’t think of a reason thought would have led them to Qualcomm unless they’re playing a long game hoping to get into SDSUs new stadium on the site and make a play for MLS. But they’re going to eat years of heavy losses.
     
  6. kenntomasch

    kenntomasch Member+

    Sep 2, 1999
    Out West
    Club:
    FC Tampa Bay Rowdies
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    USL beat them to the truly viable smaller venue in town, right? I mean when you are shut out of Torero and you can't build, what else is there besides like Southwestern or maybe what's left of Balboa?

    This whole thing has just seemed too grandiose from the get-go.
     
  7. Darkwing McQuack

    Darkwing McQuack BigSoccer Supporter

    Nov 11, 2011
    Morrisville, PA
    Club:
    Philadelphia Union
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Reddit has bought into this league hook, line, and sinker. Between San Diego padding their numbers and the Fury nonsense it seems like nothing was learned from NASL sadly.
     
  8. athletics68

    athletics68 Member+

    Dec 12, 2006
    San Diego & San Jose
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    How has San Diego padded numbers? They’ve yet to play a home game... :confused:
     
  9. athletics68

    athletics68 Member+

    Dec 12, 2006
    San Diego & San Jose
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I mean Southwestern, Mesa College, SDSUs sports deck (at least as big as where the Force were playing), Balboa... plenty of other more appropriately sized venues besides the obvious best option at Torero.

    Qualcomm is either for the afore mentioned long shot long play, or is simply an act of hubris by a group that sees themselves as bigger than they are. Having heard them, I’m leaning toward the latter.
     
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  10. athletics68

    athletics68 Member+

    Dec 12, 2006
    San Diego & San Jose
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    They’ve pulled the event from ticketmaster more than a day from opening night. Guess they’re going into mad dash give all the tickets away mode.

    Correction, 1904 have pulled all their tickets from ticketmaster. However they are still available from the 1904 website where they’re now claiming the cheap seats have “sold out”. Conveniently you can’t see exactly which seats are available on the website like you could on TM.
     
  11. Darkwing McQuack

    Darkwing McQuack BigSoccer Supporter

    Nov 11, 2011
    Morrisville, PA
    Club:
    Philadelphia Union
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    #36 Darkwing McQuack, Sep 13, 2019
    Last edited: Sep 13, 2019
    Going off what Kenn is hearing with them giving away tickets for their first game. I get the idea behind it, but I’ll doubt they’ll get many returning customers.
     
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  12. kenntomasch

    kenntomasch Member+

    Sep 2, 1999
    Out West
    Club:
    FC Tampa Bay Rowdies
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    But...if you give someone a ticket, the next time they'll pay for it! That's accepted Bigsoccer wisdom and has been for years!

    I would imagine 1904 either moves to a smaller venue between home games one and two or (should they survive to the spring) for the spring.

    We have people going, so we will have evidence I am sure.

    As for the Reddit brigade, that is not a surprise. Same type of fanboy who wrote letters to Sunil saying they had never felt a connection to any league like they did to the NASL before the NASL had actually played a game as a league.
     
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  13. Darkwing McQuack

    Darkwing McQuack BigSoccer Supporter

    Nov 11, 2011
    Morrisville, PA
    Club:
    Philadelphia Union
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    And I’m sure if NISA goes belly up they’ll blame SUM, MLS, & USL again and flock to the next start up league. They’ll ignore that America soccer isn’t close to being ready for an open system and winter schedule yet.
     
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  14. kenntomasch

    kenntomasch Member+

    Sep 2, 1999
    Out West
    Club:
    FC Tampa Bay Rowdies
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Contrary FC has the largest supporters group in the country.
     
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  15. Darkwing McQuack

    Darkwing McQuack BigSoccer Supporter

    Nov 11, 2011
    Morrisville, PA
    Club:
    Philadelphia Union
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
  16. kenntomasch

    kenntomasch Member+

    Sep 2, 1999
    Out West
    Club:
    FC Tampa Bay Rowdies
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Didn't see ( a ) where the 4,556 figure came from for Oakland or ( b ) why a junior college football team has a 5k stadium, but, okay.

    Also, Detroit doesn't count as they're not actually in the league, but, again, okay, Reddit.

    1904 papered enough of the house to look like this, apparently:

    1904_first_game.jpg
    Supposedly they charged $20 for parking, only accepted cash for tickets and the ATM charged a $6 fee to get cash.
     
  17. kenntomasch

    kenntomasch Member+

    Sep 2, 1999
    Out West
    Club:
    FC Tampa Bay Rowdies
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    (Also, the Atlanta SC game that was originally scheduled for today at a local high school was apparently rescheduled to tomorrow at Life University.)
     
  18. athletics68

    athletics68 Member+

    Dec 12, 2006
    San Diego & San Jose
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    [​IMG]

    Yep. That’s the whole crowd for 1904FC (camera missed like 20 guys behind the goal making up the supporters group). Maybe 1000 actually there? And yes parking was $20, not many took them up on it.

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    CC were not accepted for payment and you had to get in line to physically pick up all online purchased tickets (other then the 5 people who bought through ticketmaster like me before they yanked the tickets). ATM did charge to pull cash out. And they were turning families with strollers away at the lone gate they had open (which was leading to Chargers style lines at said gate despite the paltry attendance). All in all, a total shitshow. They actually play next game I’ll be shocked.
     
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  19. Darkwing McQuack

    Darkwing McQuack BigSoccer Supporter

    Nov 11, 2011
    Morrisville, PA
    Club:
    Philadelphia Union
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    3,028 in San Diego
     
  20. kenntomasch

    kenntomasch Member+

    Sep 2, 1999
    Out West
    Club:
    FC Tampa Bay Rowdies
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    To which some Twitter genius insisted it was much more than that. Okay, then.
     
  21. athletics68

    athletics68 Member+

    Dec 12, 2006
    San Diego & San Jose
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Maybe distributed.... in attendance, not bloody likely.
     
  22. owian

    owian Member+

    Liverpool FC, San Diego Loyal
    May 17, 2002
    San Diego
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    this is probably a true number. Felt a little more than this but that's usually the case. But was a decent atmosphere and the level of play was better than I expected, mind you my expectations were pretty low.

    @athletics68 comments about the teething problems were spot on. Hopefully they sort it out next time.

    @kenntomasch have no clue why they aren't playing at a smaller venue, they're has been a lot of investment in HS stadiums around the city in the last ten years which would suit them a lot more. Maybe they want to make a point to play on natural grass? A lot of the nicer HS venues are artificial.
     
  23. kenntomasch

    kenntomasch Member+

    Sep 2, 1999
    Out West
    Club:
    FC Tampa Bay Rowdies
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Two things from the U-T:


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  24. kenntomasch

    kenntomasch Member+

    Sep 2, 1999
    Out West
    Club:
    FC Tampa Bay Rowdies
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Can't even get crowd figures out of Chattanooga anymore, but there is this:

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    Cosmos and Milwaukee, no chance.

    But Napa Valley continues to be terrible. They have now lost 2-0, 4-0, 6-0, 1-0 and 3-0.
     
  25. Darkwing McQuack

    Darkwing McQuack BigSoccer Supporter

    Nov 11, 2011
    Morrisville, PA
    Club:
    Philadelphia Union
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Hearing the crowds at the Sunday NISA games where pretty sparse. Miami also put on a clinic against Philly winning 8-1.
     

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