Anyone else offended by DeRo's attendance comments?

chill out dude. maybe you and SJQF need some quality time together.

 

I don't think the comment about Graz was a slight - he was certain to be sent off the team to clear cap space.

And the attendance - you have to see it from the player's point of view. They see, on average, 8000 more people when they visit other stadiums than when they play in Spartan.

 

Probably a Danish. Maybe even a Kaiser.

 

What the hell does that mean?

 

Maybe it wasn't a personal slight. Maybe a good number of the players were relieved to see Graziani gone.

 

Leave DeRo alone, he smoked a tainted doobie before one of the games and all he saw were the loud colors of teal and piss yellow around him. Anyone could have made the mistake.

 

We all live in a yellow submarine, yellow submarine . . .

 

The silly Canuck should be glad for any crowd, because every game he plays for the Quakes features a bigger crowd than he would ever be able to sit on the bench in front of in the Great Frozen North.

He even sees bigger crowds at home than most of his esteemed Canadian National Team Compadres in glamour leagues like the Nationwide Second Division and Scottish Premier League.

That said, keep up the good work 'Quake fans and may the 2003 season see your biggest home attendance in the last five years.

 

I don't know why he is complaining. Toward the end of last season we started getting high numbers on the attendance chart. And why is it when we do sell out the stadium we lose? He only has him and his teams to blame. But then again, there isn't a good fan-base or crowd going to the games consistantly. There is a good amount that go every game but it doesn't cut it for pro-soccer. There is always going to be a bias on american soccer and he just has to learn to live with it.


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You got to give the guy a break, of coarse the attendence thing was exaggerated, and technically we really didn't lose Graz, he is on loan. Of coarse I don't expect to see him in a Quake Kit again ethier. But all that aside, he can bitch, whine, complain all he wants, isn't that what we spend most of our time doing here?

 

How can you say stuff like that you liar! If we keep having fans like you around here, MLS will never take off. If you keep writing stuff like that, I, personally, will start the next "Move SJ" thread. I get so tired of people like you sticking up for players and supporting your team so positively.



















I know. I am just kidding. There is much merit in what you say.

 

What? Who got the yellow card? That music...where's that music cominng from?

 

I think it's those horrible speakers!!! How'd they get in here? Someone should fix those already!

 

Hmmm. I listened to the interview yesterday and I didn't think that DeRo's comments were any big deal. His point as I recall was that the attendance has been sucky because the media coverage of the team/MLS has been virtually non-existent. He was complaining that they were a championship team last year and that the mainstream sportsfan was completely oblivious of it/didn't know how to support a championship team, and made the direct connection with the lack of media coverage.

(BTW - I think what he said is what a lot of people with the organization probably think, but are unable to say because, you know, they don't need to bash people and media organizations that they are currently trying to improve their relationship with. Kinda counter-productive.

Dwayne on the otherhand, being the laid back lifestyle guy that he is, is not one of those stiff, front office types, and you know was not inhibited to say what he really thought about the attendance situation.)

As far as the Graziani thing - sure he could have said that losing Grazianai was a bummer. But let's face it - he's obviously super-psyched that he now is in position to be a regular starter up top whenever he is available - something that the Donovan-Graziani factor had pretty much shutdown by the third or fourth game of the season last year.

Even though many of us would like to see him continue in the high-energy super-sub role that he performed so well at in 2001 and almost as well at in 2002, he obviously wants to be the number one go-to type guy, and he wants to make a big impression this year (assuming that he gets the opportunity ahead of Mullan, Ching, etc.)

In that sense, he wouldn't want to play up the fact that the Quakes' firepower just went way down in the off-season. He's got to have self-confidence if he's going to step into the starter role. Yallop wouldn't exactly be happy to hear him making comments that suggested that he thought he was not nearly as good as Graziani.

Not really a surprise there.

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BTW - if you email your questions in to the radio show they will usually ask them. I've done it on several occassions (including yesterday) and I think they've always included at least some of them. That's pretty awesome if you think about it - getting a chance to perform your own interview, by proxy.

I'd like to see them get Yallop or Johnny Moore (esp. since I wasn't at the CQ thing and I'm still wondering what the super-secret VIP info was).

 

How dare Pwamme point out what everyone in the league has known for years...that the quakes attendance sucks. Ohh the nerve.