The road to the WOOSA crown may just go through this city on 8/24, a Sunday (!): http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/wed/sports/news_1s26wusa.html Good or bad, since it will be the third consecutive smaller crowd for the league's showpiece game? Numbers-wise, the answer is obvious. Paul
it was either San Jose or San Diego... I'll be in France then... France has a friendly while I'll be in Paris... San Diego should be a scalpers delight. I wonder why the new facility in Los Angeles wasn't considered??
good question...i guess they wanted it in a WUSA city...and besides if FC3 was in LA could we deal with the Oliver attacks all season
what, the Charge to LA stuff..... hey, I've wanted to move to LA for some time, me and Michael Moore could form a partnership... and I'd still be able to watch Kelly Smith... ..if you took a poll of the Charge players, I'd say 95% would like the move.
I still say that if it wasn't in a WUSA City or the new facility in L.A. then it should be in Blaine or St. Louis or somewhere in the middle of this oversize land. We, like our neighbors to the north, have too much geography.
I think San Diego needs to find a bigger stadium, but I do wonder what a Carolina-Atlanta final would draw in San Diego??
WUSA: Minor league. This sucks. If you're going to insist on having it on the West coast, then dammit, play the thing at Spartan or the HDC. What kind of message does this send to the sports world that for the third consecutive year, your supposed showcase game, your sport's super bowl will be seen by fewer people than the year before and the year before that? Is this the best they can do? The Genius of Lynn Morgan (tm) strikes again. Paul
After twice in the east, going west was the best option. San Diego would have a full stadium, even if a Boston- Carolina final happens. San Jose would gets more attendees, but I don't know if they'd sell out a Boston-Carolina final. quit moaning about things you have no control over... Just get more of your friends to attend wusa matches, so year 4 has a better chance to really happen
On TV, perception counts a lot more than reality. 7000 in SD will be a sell-out & will look good on TV. 7000, hell even 17000, in Spartan or in RFK will look like a ghost-town. The women's College Cup was played in cavernous Texas, & it looked like no one was watching. The next two years will see the SSS in Cary, NC hosting the event. The thing will look good on TV. Nice field, nice sight lines, enthusiastic crowd. BTW, I see you're coming up with obscure thread titles again. Old habits die hard.
Well we can only wish this year, tickets go for more than face value, just like the other event in san diego last january... as to wusa making it, when there are betting lines on matches, that's when we know it's arrived... anyone willing to place a kindly wager here... the proposition is 50.... goals that is... OVER or UNDER by the Charge....... I'm leaning to the high side based on seeing a healthy Kelly, and a stunning Dee and we needn't see Marienette to know her proficiency.
What happened to the "Arrington as Deidre Enos" school of thought? As in coming off the bench in the second half? No joking here; but the tone of the talk about her of late suggests to me folks want her to start because Scasna is perceived to not be ready yet. As for the title of the article, I thought of Super Bowl: San Diego. WUSA title game: San Diego. Nothing obscure about it from my end Paul
Who said scasna isn't ready yet. Arrington was impressive against maryland. Scasna was used in the clemens midfield role, and did acceptably well, considering she turned her ankle early on. Scasna will do some of the things Zhao did for the Charge last year. I would'nt she shocked to see a midfield or Smith Hoffmann Scasna and Fair... Scasna gives width on the right... And tullock becomes a defender.
for defensive reasons id use Monroe instead of fair (bench fair?! im sure diccico would like that hehe) ...but otherwise that sounds like a lineup id use...if indeed tullock becomes a defender which is more and more looking like the way to go...do NOT think McVeigh can be a consistant central defender...however tullock was drafted for that role. not saying that McVeigh wont be a major player off the bench however
I agree Krikorian has a fondness for Monroe we might see Fair as defender?? if so, put Tullock back in midfield... and that leaves Smith and Tullock for sure.. if Monroe is there, does Hoffmann start... and this puts Scasna at forward or on the bench... lots of ways to go here... Scasna playing at wide right mid give the Charge the technical stuff lost wide Zhao being gone... then we're back to the option of Scasna at forward with Arrington coming off as the sub... who knows which way krikorian will go.