All - Please join us on Tuesday at The Green Turtle at Verizon Center beginning at 4:30pm for a super-duper Open Cup rally. We'll be there with the monstor 7-foot trophy, blaring DCU chants and passing out info about the Open Cup final to all passerby. The party will continue from 5:30-7:30pm with the We Win Trophies Tour, also at The Green Turtle, so we'll keep it rocking. Wear black. -Kyle PS - 10% of all sales on Tuesday at The Green Turtle will go to United for D.C., so it's doubly good to be there!
Not cool, dude. This is about the club going for a trophy. Set your personal ideas aside and support the Black-and-Red. -Kyle
I AM supporting United. Somebody has to let your bosses know what a completely incompetent fool Soehn is. If Payne had pulled the trigger a few weeks ago, he could have gotten Richie Williams to lead United down the stretch. Now we can enjoy watching Tommy tank the CCL. I believe in the players (well, most of them, Avery John is worthless) it's the coach who inspires ZERO confidence. It took him 3/4s of the season to figure out what the rest of us did in April... United doesn't have the right players for a 3-5-2 to be successful on a regular basis. Till Soehn is gone, the chances of me spending hard-earned-money to drive 8 hours round trip to watch him play people in the wrong position, are slim-to-none
Will you guys have t-shirts? I never got the "we win trophies" coupons even though my wife and I both have full-season tickets.
Kudos to the pair who had one of the MLS cup trophies at the fair at Gallaudet today. I hope you got a bunch of interest!
If United is going to talk about being all about winning trophies, how about actually putting out a line-up capable of beating Harrisburg when we play Toluca?
How about taking this rant to the Fire Tom Soehn thread and leaving this thread for those who want to support our team in the USOC Final?
Thanks for the heads up, Kyle. I work nearby and will try to come by after work. What does any of this have to do with a rally on Tuesday at the Green Turtle?
Not a gripe but just a question. Why didn't the Cup tour hit some suburban bars? Kilroy's in Springfield has been a pretty big supporter of the Barra and DC United in general as have other bars in Arlington. Big fan base out in the 'burbs you know....
It's a shame there's not a thread already talking about Soehn's shortcomings as a coach. FWIW, I'm not exactly his biggest fan, but your rants in this thread aren't really helping. Getting back on track, who's planning to go to the Green Turtle today? I'll be there by 4:30. Go United! Beat the Sounders!!
I'm going to try to drop by for a few minutes for my second appearance on the We Win Trophies tour. It'll be between work and a meeting but I should be able to poke my head in the door and grab a beer at least!
Well, the tour has been pretty happy-hour centric. I'll go out on a limb and say that plenty of suburbanites work in DC, near many of these establishments.
Kilroy's does a hell of a Happy Hour every day and has been a supporter as have other bars in NoVa (I'm sure in MD too). What I'm saying is why not go to the bars that have supported soccer? Of all the Barra members that go to Kilroy's on a regualr basis I can't think of one that works downtown.
But isn't hitting soccer bars like preaching to the choir? Most of the places they did hit were not the usual viewing party places: http://wewintrophies.com/ But I will give you that they might have wanted to hit more VA places than Union Jack's, Summers and Rock Bottom. Lots of happy hour hipster places along the Orange line. What was tough is that with Congress out of town the past few weeks it's been pretty dead around here in general. What would be cool is if they can do something similar leading up to the 2010 season opener. K
It's not preaching to choir at all. Of the 150 or so people that jam Kilroy's everyday for HH maybe a handfull are Barra members. I thought the general concept was to try and generate interest where there is none. Why not do it at a bar that's supported soccer and the team in the past?
Good point, perhaps the team is working with limited resources. I spoke with someone recently who seemed to think they were going to try to focus on the "college crowd" as the academic year gets started. I think there's also a push to grab the "young professional" crowd. All of which makes sense to me, cause it seems to me this is the group that is most likely to turn up on a weeknight for a game. Weekends are great for group sales and youth orgs, but I think the team is trying to make weeknights more of a happy hour extended event. To me, this is a reasonable plan. We'll see. It will work great if word gets out that you can have a great time at a United game on a weeknight, and it becomes almost viral in a way. I think the SG's stand to benefit in numbers even more than the team maybe.
It's also outside the beltway and nowhere near a Metro. I understand what you're saying, but I also get the market the FO was looking to hit with this bar tour. The bars on the tour are all Metro/transit accessible, in places that get great HH crowds and have good nightlife.