Usually when a Metro alumni returns to the stadium, the response is positive (ex. Chung). But what about Petke? Cheer or Jeer? </lemming>
Cheer when he takes the field. Give him sh!t throughout the match. Thank him for his service to Metro, and then let him know he's a DC bastard now.
Well I don't know much about this...I dunno if you mean uve re-signed the player or that he's coming back in a match against ur team. Either way you should chear him...even if he didn't perform at your club, unless of course the player had a falling out with the fans...but I would say cheer deffo...saying as you've done it in the past.
Ditto, give a nice round of applause during the intro, give him a "Metro Reject" chant during the game.
i don't plan on cheering him (or booing him during intros). gametime, he's on the other team, theres no way i will cheer him.
Right it is kind of like your favorite women for sex you rather have her, but if she is not around you will find someone else to love to take her place.
Cheer him. The man turned down over 500K/year from Germany to stay a metro. He wants to be in the ESC when he retires. Just because the league doesn't have any loyalty and treats players like sh#t doesn't mean we should do the same.
Bob Bradley is playing within the system and he has every right to do so. However, in any other league (outside of Uday Hussein's Iraq Football League) players have some say over where they're sent to.
Tell that to 30 out of the 40 players traded at the NHL trade deadline. Trades are very uncommon anywhere else in the world. But that's just the way American leagues work - in any sport. Duh.
whatever, whatever. Like you said trades are uncommon anywhere else in the world. Players are bought and sold to other teams usually with the players approval. In American sports things are different however, you cannot compare the salaries of the NHL, NFL, MLB to the MLS. How would you like it if your company paid you 24K a year, told you to move to a different state and would not pay for moving expences? Duh.
He sounds really pissed off about it here. http://www.nj.com/metrostars/ledger/index.ssf?/base/sports-0/1052461847124960.xml
Cheer before and after the game, the guy's a Metrostar through and through, only now he has to wear the sheep's clothing.
"He treated me well, and kept me in the loop (on the trade). Obviously, he couldn't pass up that trade -- I wouldn't." -Mike Petke Doesn't exactly sound like a man who is pissed-off. Mike always played hard and through injuries. He wasn't one of the many Metro rejects like Petter Villegas who bitched and moaned every single day. He didn't ask to be traded and I thought he did his part to promote soccer in the area. I say.....cheer him.
He talked about the trade a little bit on last nights Metro Soccer Report on MSG and it was pretty interesting. As in the Ledger article mentioned above, he said that he believes now that the trade was for the best, but he admitted to "shedding a tear" over the trade and said that he had unrealistically thought he would be able to start and end his career with the same club. I'm sorry I won't be at GS tomorrow night to cheer for Petke when he's introduced. He deserves it. C in SJ
. I'd been with the MetroStars five years, and given them everything I had for those five years, and in those five seasons, I played on four bad teams." true. The one thing I'm going to miss is working with Bob Bradley," he said. "He treated me well, and kept me in the loop (on the trade). Obviously, he couldn't pass up that trade -- I wouldn't." true, mikes no fool. who wouldn't make that trade, he realizes it was for the better of the team. oh, and i noticed the paper still uses the old logo (top left on the link).
I will say now what I said to my friends when Mike was traded: as long as he does not hurt Clint or Tim, he's on my good side. I actually reminded my friend to watch the game tomorrow, because Mike was her favorite MetroStar. She can cheer for him for me.