Boycott your first home match

can we just pleeeeeez find out what the facts are about this ccc match before talking boycotts already? there's 1 1/2 months for that.

look, the revs just got the petition yesterday
the mls commish's office, today
and there's just an unconfirmed tag at the end of some fda piece as the only "hard" evidence.

just keep signing.

 

I can't speak for the rest of Revs fans, but I've been dying to see this team in person for quite some time. I'll be at the first home game (...assuming we actually have home games this year...), but I think I'll bring a sign that says, "Home Games for Sale" or something like that.

God, this sucks.

 

Mike, couldn't agree more. I want to support the players who, I would be willing to bet, would rather play a game at home (even if it is in March). I can't believe that 'weather' is the issue, given the conditions under which the Patriots play (not to mention many Premiership games). I just don't get it and clearly someone in the Revs management structure doesn't either. I can't believe that Nicol is OK with playing this type of match away, twice.

 

whats wrong, cant get tickets to our opening game?

 

http://www.mlsnet.com/content/03/ne0225cc.html

FDA was right....

 

Don't give them ideas! They're probably calculating now how much could be saved by not playing any Revs games at "The Razor".

 

It's not the 'weather', it's FIELD CONDITIONS!

March/NE = Mud.

If they played at Gillette, depending on what the weather does over the next 4 weeks, they could totally ruin the field. No one else is going to invite the team over to ruin their field also.

Who knows the issues involved with Nickerson, or whether it's even available?

They could probably hold the game in Florida or somewhere and have 250 people show up. Would that be better, to have neither team get a home-field advantage and to have both teams lose money?

There's all kinds of stuff flying around on this topic w/o anyone (that I've heard) really knowing what the issues are.

 

WTF?

that is sad. i am more disappointed than angry... the Kraft's are usually pretty good about soccer... but this doesn't make sense... the Revs finally have a great year, get into an international competition and then this...

 

First of all, lack of a home match doesn't necessarily spell doom for the team. You always have a chance.

But the weather excuse is ridiculous. As I posted elsewhere, the avg. mean daily temp F in Boston in March is 38.9 degrees. We *want* our opponents to experience an invigorating New England spring! Doesn't the US have a better advantage against Mexico playing them, say, in Seattle in November than in LA in July? It's an insult to Rev fans everywhere.

Still--move the team? No thanks. I would have to drive even farther than my 500-mile round trip to the Razor, and end up rooting for the likes of Untied or the Mutts.

 

That's a great question. Anyone know the answer? Or is there just an assumption that it is off-limits.

And you can't tell me the difference in field conditions between a 3/26-27 game at Gilette Stadium with it's state of the art subsurface heating system and a 3/31 baseball game at Fenway Park is that decisive....

I mean we're talking 4 or 5 days, and the Red Sox will be playing at home.

 

yeah, right

 

Its still BS

They could have played the game at Nickerson.

OR Florida for that matter.

Florida isn't exactly home - but MLS still has dibs on Lockhart right. And it oughta be more friendly than the middle of Costa Rica.

It is a BS move. No excuses.

I feel sorry for you guys.

 

And comparing this to either the Pats or to the English Prem is like comparing apples to oranges or bananas.
The Pats play in the Fall into the beginning of winter. The field is not frozen before hand, they just have to maybe keep it from freezing if there is a cold snap. The Winters in England are far more mild than they are here, so it's not a fair comparison.
Again, I'm no field expert, but I'm thinking that, right now, the fields are frozen, and covered with snow as well. Perhaps they could start clearing the snow now, and turn on the undersoil heating a few weeks before the game to thaw out the field and bring the grass out of dormancy. But that is just speculation, I have no idea if that would actually work, nor do I have any idea how much it would cost. And we still have no idea what the weather will be like between now and then. We have seen a late March snow storm before.
I too was excited when I first heard that we were playing in this competition, and I hate this development as much as any one, but it might not be as easy as some people want to believe.

 

This is SHITE !!!!

This is assinine. We should just forfeit the match. I wish I hadn't got caught up in the emotion of the run last year and bought 3 season tickets for the first time in 3 seasons. I've already called the ticket office to let them know not to contact me about renewing next year.

We've gone from losers, to winners, to pathetic in a very short time.

Shame on everybody involved in this decision.

This organization is making it quite clear to me that it cares nothing about the fans.

Have fun spending the cash you get from my 3 season tickets, my off the charts parking fees, and the money I need to spend on sodas for my kids.

The REVOLUTION will not see one thin dime after 2003 from me if this match is indeed not played in New England.

I'M MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANY MORE!!!!

Scott

 

That sounds great and all but I keep thinking back to the day when we helped out the Revs give tours of the new stadium and management boasted how the field could be played on "year round" because of the drainage and heating systems they put in place at Gillette.

Just the typical Revolution doublespeak.

I'm sick of it.

 

Lokomotiv Moscow takes on AC Milan in 15 minutes in Moscow. Current weather conditions: 24 degrees. They found a way to play their European games in February, after a long winter.

 

i can tell ya right now that there wouldn't be that many people willing to go and sit through a game at the Borro in this weather, 3,000 tops. However, on March 26th, two weeks before their opener and three weeks from their home opener that seems a little ridculous. Unless they think that it'd just be too much travel, or would be easier just to stay there? Then again maybe they just have some sort of Latin and South American fetish.

 

this is total BS, it is an outrage, and no less but to play both games at the home of the other team, it is ridiculous, MLS will never get respect this way, from its fans and from the rest of the World. It is totaly unfair to the Revs soccer fans and to it's players. We all know its HELL to play down there.

MLS wants to test different markets for expansion, here was a good opportunity to do so, if Boston area was offlimits. But it is an outrage.

I would have taken the costa ricans anywhere else but their own home stadium. so so stupid

 

This is about the dumbist thing I've ever heard.

George

 

boycott?

this is dumb - the concalaugh chumps cup just doesn't rate. winning it would be nice, but it doesn't make waves here, or abroad. nobody, out side us rev fans would care or notice if we did well in a tournament that teams put in little effort, for a small reward, in at best the third best confederation.

ManU or Real Madrid doesn't have to 'market' playing in europe to fans - if it it did, it probably wouldn't put in much effort kinda like the world club championships.

the revs would be better off winning the league.