Attendence numbers

The Union was nice enough to host us last night. We had about 15 players at the game and the SOB tailgate..it was a great time! Lots of Sons of Ben are coming out to the game on Sunday...should be great.

Gearing up for the match on Sunday!

 

As you can see from this thread on the Union's SoB board, the Independence made a plea to the SoBs to come out to the Boston game. From the looks of this thread, it sounds like they plan to spice things up at WCU. This was a good idea by the Independence marketing team. No better place to market your product than in front of 18K soccer fans.

https://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1504225

 

My suggestion to the Independence...beg, borrow, rent or steal a large video display board and pipe the Union feed into the stadium. Invite ticketholders to come early and watch the game in the stadium before the Independence take the field.

 

It's a little late for that now, but it would have been awesome. Maybe they can do it next time. I'm just pumped that the SOB connection has been made!

 

Not sure where to post this, but thanks for inviting us to the game. I think I speak for the rest of the SOBs when I say that we had a great time and enjoyed some very entertaining soccer (although we were hoping for 3 points). It was great to watch the team push for a winner for the last ten minutes instead of sitting back and accepting the one point. My 7 year-old daughter had a great time singing and chanting with us and was thrilled to meet the players.

Overall it was a great experience and I plan on coming out for more games. I hope we can keep the Independence/SOB link going.

 

It was great to see a number of supporters from Sons of Ben at the game last night. Hope to see you all at future games. I think last night's attendance may have been the best all season, certainly the best in a while.

 

More than the first game - of over 6,000???

 

The box score unfotunately did not post an attendance number. At most I want to say there were 4,000 people there (out of 7,500 seats) but I enjoyed seeing my first game. the sons of ben really livened up the crowd although props to the puma section for making plenty of noise as well.

 

Even 4,000 would be a tremendous increase over the recent crowds, and a good sign. The weather was tolerable last night I believe.

 

I realize this is a temporary stadium situation but there should have been more (any?) signage from the main (north) WCU campus. A common mistake many people make when they go to games on college campuses is they mapquest to ______ University, not necessarily "John A Farrell Stadium at West Chester University"

I found it with no problem using the campus website and maps as well as the directions page on WPS (but not the separate facilities page, which just gives the history and a seating chart but no scrolling)

 

Signs would be nice. I know I should have checked the location better before I left home, but once I passed the campus on New St, it looked like the road was going to the middle of nowhere, so I turned around and drove down Rosedale Ave before consulting google maps on my phone for the location of the stadium.

 

3,091 was the (un)announced attendance for the last home game with the Breakers. I think the earlier start should help the crowd this Sunday. Also the Breakers game was an add-on game and had a later start time than most.

 

3,000+ is a modest step in the right direction. Also the TV coverage (especially the repeats on TCN and CSN) of a pretty exciting match, with fans in the shot and a lively atmosphere, might entice samplers to check out the product.

 

Sunday attendance was 2,559 to see one of the best keepers in the world. I believe the rainy start was a factor.

 

True. I've talked to many soccer fans who didn't know that the league existed, let alone the Independence.