I dunno, based on some of the TikTok videos my kids classmates post, I'm starting to thing John Lithgow and Bomont may have been the good guys in that movie
If there were not nut jobs who think it should still be illegal, he wouldn't have gotten the reaction.
Charlotte has released all their ticket prices and they are interesting. All STM require a PSL not just the club seating and Supporters have a $50 Supporters fee tacked on to their bill.
The Battery still need to expand the College of Charleston stadium a bit. I think they’re about 800 seats or so short of league minimum currently after the expansion they did last year. Not that Covid allowed them to use them. Parking might be a little difficult as they anticipate being close to allowing full capacity for games but that could always change. My ears are telling me that this will be their home for the foreseeable future. Convenient drive to way more people than the suburban Blackbaud stadium.
The college stadium is bush league frankly. Not enough space and Blackbaud had pub good tailgate scene. If they don't come up with something more permanent and far better, I fear they will die a slow death. Have always had affinity for that franchise - because of stadium and because they wear proper colors. Their fan are always great too. Charleston is perfect size city for USL C team. But like everywhere eese, they need deep pocketed ownership to make it happen.
That's actually not as bad as I thought. It's pretty close to what New CCS is offering. Pricey, for sure, but not outrageous. The PSL thing is still a bad idea, I think.
That was the thing about Blackbaud Stadium: despite what some people alwys wanted to imply, there had never been any idea that it might be expanded into an MLS venue. The Daniel Island zoning and community is tightly managed and they never would have approved, Charleston SC is way smaller than anything MLS would consider, and in any case the place was sited on the far end of a company parking lot. It was essentially land locked. The whole idea, the whole point, was how cool you could make a little jewelbox 5000 seat soccer stadium. As such, it was a perfect little place. Not some borrowed small college football field but a purpose-built professional soccer stadium complete with a very very cool little pub (The Three Lions) filled with great memorabilia (including a display of early Crew stuff - I wonder what happened to all that) plus pool tables and that sort of thing plus a childrens play area, pitchside table area, etc. A wonderful place. The owner was a Brit, Tony Bakker, who wanted to replicate the experience he had growing up back home. It made minor league soccer cool. Put up a couple dozen like it around the country and you could easily sell USL Championship.(Which, incidentally, is probably what has to happen and, with alll the loose money going into minor league soccer these days, actually could. USL needs a Lamar Hunt or two.) Side note: I was at Blackbaud with my boys the night that Eric Wynalda got his knee shredded. It was the last game he ever played in. Earlier that day one of my sons and I annoyed hell out of the Fort Sumter tour guide by repeatedly chanting "Hang Jeff Davis!" and "Death to Traitors!" on the boat ride out.
Rumor has it, there are quite a few locales with pretty nice minor league facilities that MLB just told to go pound salt. It might not be a bad idea for USL to reach out to some of these communities about whether these facilities might, with some reasonable modifications, be made suitable for hosting soccer teams.
Cincinnati is launching a USL2 team this year. Seems like a resurrection of the Dutch Lions. Will play at Xavier. https://cincinnatisoccertalk.com/20...usl-league-two-with-addition-of-kings-hammer/
This seems like an odd thing to do if MLS is about to launch a U-23 league of its own. Unless you take the "the region is underserved" argument at face value. I hope it doesn't mean that MLS is delaying its U-23 plans.
I suppose it's possible that they are gearing up for the MLS U23 league launch. Maybe they have some players they want to park. Maybe they don't feel like waiting instead of sitting on their hands. The reasons for running a USL team don't and won't change when MLS finally pulls the trigger. And frankly, it won't cost much. A USL championship franchise is somewhere around 12 million now, and Leavue 1 is, if I recall correctly, 2 million. This is USL league 2, and I don't know what the fee is but it can't be that much. So maybe they plan o joining the MLS thing when it happens, but in the meantime they have the project up and running for a pretty low price. Makes sense to me.
https://www.goal.com/en/news/it-doe...fears-serious-knee/1g8oabf2tg65l192ez3j66jn0w While I can't whip up too much sincere sympathy when other teams lose players to injury, I don't really want any player to get hurt. Especially while on loan to another club. Maybe it'll end up being more of a strain than a tear. But, as the Swansea coach says, it "doesn't look good."
As expected, Morris suffered a serious ACL injury: https://www.swanseacity.com/news/jordan-morris-miss-rest-season-after-cruel-injury-blow England aside, this has to kill his entire 2021 MLS season, as well.
I don't think FCKY is behind this Kings Hammer team. I think they are doing it on their own. They are a pretty sizeable youth club. I'm starting to see a number of clubs similar to them invest in adult teams. Beginning to think it is their way to try to capture talent. A way to counter the MLS DA teams. I like the idea. Ideally I'd like to see transfer fees start funneling to these clubs that do most of the actual development of young players (before MLS academies swoop in and lure them in).