Review: FA - FO - the 2025 Front Office, etc. Thread.

Discussion in 'D.C. United' started by song219, Jan 21, 2025.

  1. United1

    United1 Member+

    Feb 23, 1999
    Arlington, VA
    Club:
    DC United
  2. Th4119

    Th4119 Member+

    Jul 26, 2001
    Annandale, VA
    Napoli is clearly a second rate club to be signing an over the hill washed up Premier League player.
     
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  3. Winoman

    Winoman Drinkin' Wine Spo-De-O-De!

    Jul 26, 2000
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I wish we were as "second rate" as them!
     
  4. DCU1984

    DCU1984 Member+

    Jan 15, 2009
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Pfft forget KDB, Modric is available.
     
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  5. Winoman

    Winoman Drinkin' Wine Spo-De-O-De!

    Jul 26, 2000
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    We want Baggio! :eek: :D
     
  6. sitruc

    sitruc Member+

    Jul 25, 2006
    Virginia
  7. Th4119

    Th4119 Member+

    Jul 26, 2001
    Annandale, VA
    #wewintrophies
     
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  8. United1

    United1 Member+

    Feb 23, 1999
    Arlington, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    What an amazing record! The club should be congratulated for this feat. Truly, well done.
     
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  9. Wyrm2

    Wyrm2 Member

    Apr 29, 2007
    Silver Spring
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    This makes me unreasonably angry. I know it's just a social media post congratulating themselves for selling a lot of $1 hot dogs, but the team got stomped and they are "celebrating" this sort of trash.

     
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  10. griffin1108

    griffin1108 BigSoccer Supporter

    Dec 5, 2003
    Virginia
    I remember years ago going to a meet the coach event with Ben Olsen at RFK. We were just sitting in the stands talking as a group and Olsen asked, "did they feed you any of those gray RFK hot dogs tonight?"
     
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  11. Section 107

    Section 107 Member+

    DCU
    United States
    Jul 18, 2018
    Is this ad for real or is someone trolling the team?

    Brilliant if trolling; otherwise I am w Wrym, its embarrassing.
     
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  12. Mountainia

    Mountainia Member

    Jun 19, 2002
    Section 207, Row 7
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    It's funny no matter what the intentions were - hoax, joke, trolling or serious!
     
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  13. Winoman

    Winoman Drinkin' Wine Spo-De-O-De!

    Jul 26, 2000
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    6,182 weenies in the stands, and 23 (+coaching staff) on the field.
     
  14. song219

    song219 BigSoccer Supporter

    Apr 5, 2004
    La Norte
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    Vanuatu
    It’s no MPF.
     
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  15. Th4119

    Th4119 Member+

    Jul 26, 2001
    Annandale, VA
    It’s honestly so much worse for me.
     
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  16. sitruc

    sitruc Member+

    Jul 25, 2006
    Virginia
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  17. Th4119

    Th4119 Member+

    Jul 26, 2001
    Annandale, VA
    This is the jump the shark moment for me.

    I’m well behind many in this group, but this is beyond pathetic on every level. I get no discount over face value on season tickets and cannot comprehend giving an organization who posts about hot dog sales immediately after a loss to a rival any more money.
     
  18. Mountainia

    Mountainia Member

    Jun 19, 2002
    Section 207, Row 7
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    It's so bad, I have to think some staffer at DC United did this to purposefully embarrass the ownership. Because if this was something they discussed and agreed was a good idea, there is some serious rot in that organization.

    So it's just GOT to be an internal FU. Of course, that's still bad. But not as bad if it wasn't.
     
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  19. griffin1108

    griffin1108 BigSoccer Supporter

    Dec 5, 2003
    Virginia
    I believe you are overthinking this. The FO - paid staff - is comprised of sports marketing types with no understanding of soccer culture and no sense of DCU history. The media post surely was put out by some intern with even less institutional knowledge than that. From these bozos perspective, posting that makes perfect sense because it shows the FO "won" the $1 hot dog promotion. That's all they care about. The actual competition simply is an ancillary vehicle for promotions and concessions revenue. Stop thinking that anyone in the FO gives two shits about the on field product -- they don't.
     
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  20. song219

    song219 BigSoccer Supporter

    Apr 5, 2004
    La Norte
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    Vanuatu
    To them DC United is an entertainment product no different from a concert or a circus. Their thinking is that once in awhile fan is the one you have to market to. The problem with that thinking is that if the club will have to market to these people all the time if the club is just a product. Of course season ticket holders are just suckers.
     
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  21. griffin1108

    griffin1108 BigSoccer Supporter

    Dec 5, 2003
    Virginia
    The FO "might" notice if the STHs all dropped them. They much be hurting because I got the invite to the AV Lounge spiel and I haven't had season tickets for two seasons. ******** 'em.
     
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  22. Mountainia

    Mountainia Member

    Jun 19, 2002
    Section 207, Row 7
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    What you're saying makes sense. I was more hoping the first thing I said was true (I kind of like he subversiveness of that.) But what you're saying makes it sound like the second thing - serious rot. That's just my shorthand for an organization that has lost its way.
     
  23. fatbastard

    fatbastard Member+

    Aug 1, 2003
    Lincoln (ish), Va
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    ... at least the post is being properly ratio'd.
     
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  24. song219

    song219 BigSoccer Supporter

    Apr 5, 2004
    La Norte
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    Vanuatu
    The best analogy is minor league baseball. Very few, at least in this area, have any sort of deep loyalty to such a team so these sort of promotions. Isn’t there some promotion where monkeys race each other around a field on the backs of dogs?
     
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  25. griffin1108

    griffin1108 BigSoccer Supporter

    Dec 5, 2003
    Virginia
    True story -- at the 2014 US Grand Prix in Austin, the featured entertainment was "Rascal, the Cowboy Monkey" complete with toy guns and a saddle on a dog. The other half of the bill was Kid Rock -- the monkey was both more entertaining and smarter.
     

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