Time to start getting the car tunned to make that 120 miles one way trip to Buck Shaw come April '08. More importantly, gather at the Grad at Davis to make some noice to make sure they will put on the away games after a 2 season hiatus. Is there a venue in Dixon or Woodland as a fall back? I gathered about 10 families at Steve's Pizza in downtown Davis to watch the Quakes-Chicago MLS Cup game and the manager moaned and groaned before switching to the game. We threatened to walked out (more than half of the customers) and got our way. We no longer host our kids' soccer team events there.
I am from San Jose but am going to UC Davis and would love to get together with some people to watch our quakes. And its funny cause my roommate works at Steve's pizza. Let me know where you go to watch the games
The place to watch soccer games used to be the Graduate. I have not been there for 2 years since the Quakes went on break so I don't know how soccer friendly the Graduate is now. I hope the Aggies will go far in the NCAA soccer tournament to give the game some buzz in Davis. Too bad the Aggies will have to travel to play the first game at Cal instead of playing at home.
i actually have never been in the Graduate but would definitely go if they showed quakes games and i hope the mens team does well i actually played with one of the guys on the team in high school, Paul Marcoux
I just watched Tottenham-West Ham at the Grad yesterday. It was just me, and the guy wasn't thrilled, but he did boot someone else to give me a TV. I'd imagine if you guys got a regular group together, you'd have no problem. If they've got Setanta, I'd imagine they have FSC and regular business would probably convince them to get Direct Kick. It's only 100 bucks for bars and with their prices, three guys could probably take pay for that in one game alone.
did you watch it live? I had to download a realplayer stream from some retarded serbian tv channel onto my mac at 5:30 in the morning... I have setanta when I'm in sac, so I'd only be interested in the games that aren't on setanta1 or fsc. if the grad has setanta ppv, im in.
No, I watched the 4:00 pm replay before I headed back home. I have no idea what they have, but I'd bet it's not Setanta Premium. Worth calling and asking, though.
i live in fairfield and plan on going to all the games.....i will be purchasing my season tickets soon.....if you guys want to get together to start a group or planning ways to get to san jose pm me.....
We're in Dixon and would like to be included in a Yolo-Solano group. I don't think there is a fall back location in Dixon at all. The Graduate generally seems the best choice for such things as gathering to watch away matches, but if we have an in at Steve's to guarantee a channel change that sounds great too.
My son and I watched the US v. Venezuela match on the big screen at the Graduate - it was a pretty good crowd. They shouldn't have any problem showing the games. Besides, how many out-of-town baseball games do they really want to show there, anyway?
I didn't call the Grad ahead of time and arranged to have my son's soccer team to meet there for the US-Sweden game not knowing the Grad was charging a cover that night to broadcast a boxing match. We scrambled and went somewhere else. It is best to check ahead of time at the Grad on the web. They are planning boxing once a month on Saturdays. From inside info, the night we couldn't watch the US-Sweden game, the Grad was half empty during the boxing match. Let's us show up en mass on the first game in April to LA and make some noise to let the Grad know WE WANT SOCCER and not two have beens punching air.
I'm in Sacramento and can't really justify driving back to San Jose to see the game at the Brit. I'd be up to meet fellow Quakes fans somewhere out here as well.
The Graduate in Davis has Country Night on Thursdays and Saturdays for 18 and over only with a cover charge. It is not as soccer friendly as couple years ago. Any suggestion for other places in Sac, Woodland, Dixon or Fairfield? I have to work tonight so I am taping the game and will start watching at 11p with a cold one and wings all by my lonesome.
my roommate works at steves pizza in davis and said that they should change the channel for us if we went in there he said it shouldnt be a problem like a couple yrs ago because they pretty much fired everyone that was workin there the other year so thats a suggestion
And then there's the thread on the main board about perhaps going to the Grad I'd go either place but need to know before 7pm to make it.
I think it got too late on us....I think you posted about 3 minutes after I told my sister nothing definite had come together and she could come on home from Davis to Dixon. Next time, we will need to do better making plans sooner.
Can't believe I missed this thread before. Anyone coming from Yolo, Solano or beyond to saturday's game? I've got a group of 18 lined up - taking the 10:55 Capitol Corridor train right to the Coliseum.
I did not take the train to the Chicago game because the return trip wouldn't work time-wise. I sat next to several people I never met before at the stadium who took the train out from Sacramento. I think this is the only afternoon game in Oakland. I don't believe there are trains going back to Davis after the night games but I will have to check the train schedule.
Capitol Corridor will no work for night games. For the upcoming Galaxy game the Coliseum - the train works well going down, but coming home you have to ride BART - either two stations to Lake Merritt and then walk to Jack London Square for the train (about a 20 min walk) - or BART all the way to Richmond to catch the Capitols. I tell ya, it was nice having a cold one on the way back. Way nice.
Are you going by train with 18 people again for the 8/2 LA game? I probably will too. My group size is TBA but far fewer than 18.