Wow, it's been some change to the team. Much better movement in the midfield and overall, more decisive decisions, confidence, and even showing that I'm wrong by saying that they can't counterattack. They actually should have scored at least one more goal towards the end and would have truly put the game away. I think the key has been varied runs (see Espinoza and Cade making diagonal runs). They may not work all of the time, but it's less predictable and opening space for the Quakes. I'm jut enjoying the ride. I won't go into the continued defensive challenges.
Monteiro and Jebo have been a revelation! Both are settling in, finding their scoring touch and they've been lethal. We're starting to see some attacking chemistry, I'd be hesitant to switch things up at this point by trying to add Chofis someplace, even though he was our top scorer last year.
I have been to that stadium many, many, many times. I know where people sit and how it works. That crowd was not 11k.
Two goals. Three points. One Player of the Week for Jamiro Monteiro! 🙌 pic.twitter.com/nnv1CX4Sbe— Major League Soccer (@MLS) May 19, 2022
How it works is that they count all tickets distributed. For example, I have three season tickets and only used two last night. All three would have been counted, though. There’s one phantom fan you didn’t see on TV.
I agree that it wasn't 11k. The attendance numbers are always higher than the turnstile numbers. But no, it wasn't 3-4k as you suggested. If you were actually there you'd have a better idea. The "I wasn't there but I can tell from my couch" stuff doesn't cut it, sorry.
Monteiro player of the week Two goals. Three points. One Player of the Week for Jamiro Monteiro! 🙌 pic.twitter.com/nnv1CX4Sbe— Major League Soccer (@MLS) May 19, 2022 Monteiro TOTW Yueill bench Midweek's best of the best 👏https://t.co/IQ3xmW8QAf | @Audi #GoalsDriveProgress pic.twitter.com/52DcXmhDFN— Major League Soccer (@MLS) May 19, 2022 Yueill goal of the week nominee Who scored the best goal on Wednesday night? 🤔Vote now for #ATTGotw.— Major League Soccer (@MLS) May 19, 2022
This is a stupid thing to argue about. I said "I'd venture to guess". That is not a definitive statement.
No trade needed. Send as gift wrapped and just make it mandatory that he has to play every game for Portland.
I was a season ticket holder for years. I've spent enough money on the team. I used my experience in going to many games with various crowd sizes for a throwaway statement about how many people looked like were there. Please don't tell me how to spend my time or money, and please stop lecturing people. I made a conscious choice not to renew my tickets because I was tired of paying that amount of money for a sub par product. Telling me to come to the games when I had done so for several years is just the worst kind of fan shaming. It's okay to just ignore someone's comment if you don't agree with it. I will do my best to take my own advice from now on and use the handy tool built into the forum to accomplish it.
Nope, not telling you that you have to come to games. But if you're not actually there, sorry, I'm not going to take your attendance estimates seriously. Carry on!
I agree, 100%, but, like I have said in the past, MLS has been known to use the tickets "distributed" number for the attendance figure, and has nothing to do with how many actually walked through the gate. So every ticket sold, whether it be the STHers', at the ticket booth, and the various giveaways, get added together for the number of people that could potentially attend the game, and that is what they use.
Oh, absolutely. It's a scummy way for MLS to make it look like it's actually more popular than it is. Based on the games I've watched so far this year, it does seem as though there is a significant dip in attendance across most of the league. That's just my perception, though. The newest teams seem to have bigger crowds, for obvious reasons, but there are lots of empty seats this year. And that's to be expected. Many people still aren't comfortable going out and doing all the things they used to. Plus, you have the dollar being worth far less than it was same time last year, meanwhile, prices either haven't changed to reflect this or have gone up. It's a big ask to go to a sporting event when you have things like rent and basic necessities costing far more than they previously did.
The team is playing better, won a close game with a bunch of good goals, but people insist on arguing about attendance for a Wednesday school and work night game with Silicon Valley commute traffic, a pandemic that has not ended yet, gas prices near $7 a gallon, when the "new soccer specific stadium" shine has worn off years ago... get over it, the stadium isn't going to be filled mid-week. This is not Europe. This is not South America. Soccer is not the hottest ticket in town. I think the "fake" number is more important anyway, it gives people better understanding of the revenue the team is getting from the ticket sales.
Yeah as I said my reaction was more like - hey there’s more people here than I thought there would be vs. oh the humanity, attendance is horrible!! And the energy was good. Lots of solid ref booing and chants.
Woke up, checked the PC and saw the Quakes had won...vs. the Timbers. Watched the highlights and that diving header was a great goal. That’s the sort of goal that makes one say, Wow, just wow. Go Quakes, keep the momentum going.
Yes but change "MLS" to "every sports league in North America" In American soccer circles, actual attendance vs tickets distributed may be the only conversation dumber than promotion / relegation...
Things are a lot better than they used to be though. I remember years ago there were so many arguments about MLS attendance #’s and some guy had a web site or something to try to track it. This was back before nearly everyone had a SSS and when there was probably still some concern about whether the league would make it. I think we’re pretty well over that hump and I don’t hear a lot of “attendance war” stuff between fans like I used to see.
On the second goal, I didn't think Cade's pass was as perfect as Danielle made it out to be, and it wasn't really a simple finish, but my was it a pretty bender.
More to add: And then when the Quakes moved to Houston we had to hear how it was the right move because Houston was drawing way more fans with the championship team they stole from us, and that it was a move MLS had to make so that municipalities know that MLS and MLS teams are serious when they threaten to move because they aren't getting the funding they want from said municiplaities for stadiums, etc. Ah yes, good times....