Attendance: 7,802.........

My God... MLS meet black eye, black eye... MLS. OUCH!!!

 

Patheic. Wonder what is gonna be like on the Thursday night game coming up?

 

That is an embarrassment to Major League Soccer. Terrible lads.

 

The place was so empty I could actually hear Bruce practicing his Geordie accent on the bench.

 

Sunday afternoon always sucks, mothers day or no mothers day.

 

Please. You guys are dead wrong about the 'Bruce knows what he is doing. Reyna + good player (Angel) is way to go. Fans want winning, even if boring, etc. etc.'

I told you guys months ago you needed BIG STARS. Beckham was the gauntlet, and you counter with Reyna? JPA is a very good player, but a no-name relatively speaking.

You added 3m+ p.a. in expenses since Bruce came aboard, and his win boring strategy is exciting NO ONE. Admit it, its a failed marketing strategy.

Beckham changed everything (for the NY market). Even Chicago got it right (Blanco)

 

dude, whatever you said...i don't care....f**k off and don't return. no one cares about your input here. no one wants to know your opinion. no one wants to hear you pontificate on any subject, whatsoever. find a club to support, and f**k off of our boards.

this would be the part where you opened your trolling trap one too many times and maybe need to take a step back and shut your mouth.

 

We know you only care about BIG STARS. So, you know, go away.

 

Not just me, dude, not just me. 72,000 empty seats are whispering really loud.

How you guys write off this argument is just unreal. What does attendence have to fall to? 5,000? 4,500?

Beckham changed everything. Marketing savvy Red Bull should have seen that.
In this marketing battle, you can't show up with Claire Danes as your date, when your rival has Halle Berry.

Bruce obviously didn't (or more likely, doesn't care).

Wonderful too that Altidore got the bench today. Oh great....

BTW- The Yankees drew 51k+ last Mother's Day, so let's not use that lame excuse.

 

When I got to the Stadium around 2:15 p.m., it was a freakin' ghostown. I'm not surprised at all.....I was figuring it would be 5K since people don't come out on Sunday's and the Rapids aren't a big draw.

There is a misconception among fans that Angel would bring back all the Colombians from years past, but few of them care he's on the team.

I think NJ folks are much more "frugal" then others when it comes to spending on sporting events. I bought good lower tier tickets a week ago to see the Nets against LeBron James tomorrow and there are still good tickets left to see the game. You've got one of the best point guards in NBA history (Jason Kidd) on the Nets and Vince Carter. Who else in the country would still have good seats left to see LeBron James in the second round of the playoffs in a Game 4???

 

Actually the point is if YOU only care about BIG STARS, then go away.

 

Did you go?

If you didn't, you're in no position to complain.

 

I hate Sunday games. I can never go because I have my own games to play in. First I lost and then I get back just in time to see the guys drop their first game. Wonderful Day.

 

Get that stadium up boys, it's all you can do. I speak from experience.

 

Maybe they saw that Reyna and Freeman are not playing and Angel and Altidore are not starting and said we are simply not going to win this game.

Looks they where right also. Who likes watching crap in the afternoon?

 

New Jersey never embraced the Nets though. Thank God they're moving back to NY, in Brooklyn, 10 blocks from me. That stadium can't get built fast enough. The time it's taking to build the new Nets stadium and Red Bull Park, I'm gonna need a Snickers bar, cuz we're gonna be here awhile.

 

golazo, it seems as though you were just waiting for something like this to happen so you could proclaim bruce and red bulls a failure. even though there were few people in the stands (more than i thought there'd be, actually), the noise from 101 was unbelievable. add to that that the water giant is out with a sprained ankle, freeman is out with a sprained ankle, reyna strained a groin muscle, jozy is playing a u-20 game later in the week and the game was a freaking sunday afternoon, in competition with its own sport and other local sports events, and you have a lame game. so, you can't really base the success or failure of the team and/or bruce on this one "who cares?" game. it would have been nice to keep the winning streak going, but i'm not giving up on the red bulls franchise because of one crap game. as far as i'm concerned you can take your opinions and keep them to yourself if they're going to be continually negative. in other words, go opine elsewhere, please.

 

There are only two things that will help attendence :

1) A Front office that tries to get an atmosphere somewhere near to Toronto's - i.e try for real fans and work their tail off to do so rather than pumping the easier rugrat fanbase.

2) A team that doesn't suck over the period of two years. If anyone thinks that five games of pretty decent soccer can obliterate eleven years of complete and utter horseshit, they'd be about as wrong as the current administration on Iraq.

That's it. Simple, right? But either way, it's going to take time. Lot's of it probably. So we're going to have to be patient about this, as much as I want to get out my Guppy and NickSack voodoo dolls and start poking them with needles.

My guess is another 15/16k for next Saturday night and probably 6k if we're lucky for Thursday.

 

Can't disagree on that it has to take time eventually it will get there I hate the people who jump the gun ffs this team has been run like shite for almost 10 years some changes are comming thru it will take a bit of time to get set.

 

Dude, quit hijacking a thread. You already started your own thread dribbling the same garbage. Talk about lazy! You couldn't even be bothered to rephrase your nonsense. What did you do? Cut and paste?

*shoo*

 

i could really give a shit about attendance. what the ******** was up with our finishing??

 

I've seen this mentioned a number of times -- and I know the data backs it up -- but I don't really get why it is. The NFL doesn't have problems with Sunday afternoons and MLB intentially puts their Sunday games then -- and they usually draw pretty well on Sundays. Now, don't get me wrong -- I'm not saying that I expect MLS to draw like the NFL or even MLB, but my point is that if playing on Sunday afternoons doesn't intrinsically hurt them, why does it happen to MLS?

It doesn't seem to me that a Sunday afternoon would be a bad time to catch a game -- most everyone has off from work, the game is done well before any "bedtime" for school/work on Monday. Even if one goes to church, that should leave plenty of time to make a 3pm kickoff. Is it "youth soccer leagues"? I though they were mostly Sat afternoon gigs.

What is it about soccer or MLS specifically that would lead to diminished attendance those days?