Since the Revs have reached the finals The Front office has said renew now and receive discounts to the Playoffs.... Hmm.. Good plan... but they also report having 18 home matches next year. This is a bump from 16 home matches this year. Where will the two extra matches come from? Man United I assume will be one of them, the NATS don't begin Qualifying til 2004 if I am not mistaken. I would assume some would be playoff ticket holdings along with possible US Open Cup Tilts. Where do you think the other matches will come from? Are we going to be invited to CONCACAF CUP in 2003 since we are at the least a runner up to the MLSCUP. I know 4 teams will qualify for this tourney... What does everyone think of the Revs playing the likes of ATLAS, Cola Cola in Mexico. Will we be able to maintain the nuecleus of this team next year? My main concern is that many of our players may head to greener fields in the European leagues.
Hmmm, 18 games? So that's 4 "special" games in addition to the regular season. Maybe they are doing what they figured they probably should have done this year, and make at least one playoff game part of the season ticket package. The Man Utd game would definitely be one of the tickets. I'm thinking that they could include the three group games from the Champions' Cup and that would be your four. No way they'd open up chapter 11 for an open cup match. I would expect all those games to be played away. Maybe New Britain would be a good place to play home OC ties. That also might be a good way to make a claim for that middle ground between Boston and New York. Might as well push our agenda so that soccer fans in Conn would support us, rather than them. And I wouldn't worry about us having a weakened team next year. There have been a bunch of other threads on this topic, but even if we are forced to lose a few salaries to give raises to the guys that deserve them, all it means is cutting some of the guys who haven't contributed much anyway. The way I see it, we can still get a top-level player and perhaps a upper-middle level guy who can give us a huge upgrade over what we have. If anything, I can see us kicking the crap out of those Mexican pretenders, and don't even mention the A-League equivalents from the Caribbean and some of the Central American teams. Tom
Rumor is Man U and 2 US matches. Plus I thought it was 20 matches so I would also assume that the CONCACAF Champions Cup was also part of the equation. The more soccer for the Revs the better IMO.
20!!!!! Thats insane. It would mean that MLS would partake in 70% of these tickets.... 30% would be non MLS events... Who takes that money to the Bank? THe Krafts, US Soccer, or MLS?
The CCC is definitely 3 games home and away in the group phase, so depending on when we play these (late March, anyone?), I would think the Revs would want to have these under the season ticket plan if they could at all possibly swing it. American sports fans in general, not to mention the media, can only visualize 3 types of games: Regular season league games, playoff games, and everything else is a meaningless exhibition. These are not in the first 2 categories and they are definitely neither "meanigless" nor "exhibitions." So the Man U game, and if they throw 2 US friendlies, there's your 20 games! Sweeeeet! Tom
Actually, I thought the 20 games was an indication of moving to a single table, two-home-two-away setup (and thus 18 home games), with two extra matches.
right. they haven't figured out the format for next year yet. given us's participation in 2 summer tourney's (confederation's cup and gold cup) they might try again to switch everything around once more. not to mention the alignments and # of games played over the prev years.... this past year it was 28 matches, 2 conferences...next year undecided on both counts....year after, expansion (?) and a whole new set of rules again. one day the dust will settle on organizing this league.
Bash me some more. Sorry for getting the team name wrong. Why is it that so many people decide to pick at everything that is said around here and not discuss the topic at hand. Anyone want to answer that... nah forget it... lets just keep the discussion on topic.
I thought that he was just correcting you, and not in an unfriendly tone. It's probably better to hear it like that than to be called an idiot (or worse) the next time you mention that club in a post. To help get the thread back on topic, I read somewhere that Garber was talking about adding 2 games to the regular season schedule next year.
Thank you, Soccertim; once again, you are the voice of reason. as for the topic, If Garber adds 2 games to the season, that would bring it to 30 total (15 home games). I'm wondering how that would work out... Maybe if we play everyone in our division 4 times (2 H, 2 A), then in the west 1 H, 1 A. Then we play an extra home-and-home against the team that mirrored our rank in the conference, which means that the 1st place Revs would face the 1st place Galaxy 2 more times next season. Could be interesting. But that still only brings it to 28. Wonder where those other 2 games come from... What was the format this past year?