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USL is the way and the light. Imagine watching your team for free on YouTube instead of paying way too much to watch teams that aren’t yours
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https://twitter.com/TwoUnitedFans/status/920455067165081602 this is all going so well
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Wow I'm shocked a that a fat ugly white dude who inherited his money and has no life experience is a terrible team owner, businessman, and person.
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Oct 18, 2017 02:17
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Sounds like Precourt might get forced to sell locally. Because wow gently caress you.
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Oct 18, 2017 02:26
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camoseven posted:Wow I'm shocked a that a fat ugly white dude who inherited his money and has no life experience is a terrible team owner, businessman, and person. What does his race have to do with it?
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http://kxan.com/2017/10/17/soccer-club-outlines-wishlist-for-potential-austin-location/KXAN posted:A site that’s been a source of speculation for different developments is the Austin American-Statesman property at 305 S. Congress Ave., where real estate attorney Richard Suttle is listed as the trustee. City documents show as recently as last week, Suttle filled out a reporting form to lobby for the development of an MLS stadium. KXAN has not yet heard back from Suttle for comment.
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African AIDS cum posted:What does his race have to do with it? Everything
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all-Rush mixtape posted:http://kxan.com/2017/10/17/soccer-club-outlines-wishlist-for-potential-austin-location/ thats probably the single best place to put a stadium in austin
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Oct 18, 2017 02:39
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Your Boy Fancy posted:Sounds like Precourt might get forced to sell locally. Because wow gently caress you. This is honestly what I'm thinking. If the local bidders leaked this in the first place, it's almost a :masterstroke: on their part. Precourt flips out like a comic book villain and goes out even further on that bridge (seriously, an MLS2ATX astroturf site with a Precourt Sports Ventures copyright notice?), but he's still going to struggle to get even a mildly satisfactory deal in Austin if the team they HAD couldn't do it, twice, and he'll still be toxic in Columbus to boot. Whatever new offer they might make to him to cut his losses would look a lot more tempting in that situation. An upside of Our Dumb League here is that they're in a better position to force him out if he's genuinely making them look bad, but on the other hand there actually IS room for improvement in the team's stadium situation (it was the first SSS and from all reports from angry Crew fans today it's rather Spartan). Ownership that's genuinely inclined to work with the city to fix that somehow could do a world of good.
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Oct 18, 2017 02:43
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G-Hawk posted:thats probably the single best place to put a stadium in austin I know. For those of you not familiar, the newspaper plant is about a mile away from 6th Street, regarded as the center of Austin hipness. From the parking lot, you can see all the way to the capital building. It also no longer actually prints the newspaper, as that has been outsourced.
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Oct 18, 2017 02:52
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all-Rush mixtape posted:I know. For those of you not familiar, the newspaper plant is about a mile away from 6th Street, regarded as the center of Austin hipness. From the parking lot, you can see all the way to the capital building. It also no longer actually prints the newspaper, as that has been outsourced. When did that happen and why hasn't it come up before in the Aztex' wandering? Nobody involved with enough money to redevelop it?
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Oct 18, 2017 02:58
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Dallan Invictus posted:When did that happen and why hasn't it come up before in the Aztex' wandering? Nobody involved with enough money to redevelop it? Well, it happened a while back, but the land the Statesman plant was sold from Cox Communications to....the family that owns the majority of Cox Communications about 18 months ago. The land is possibly the best downtown real estate in any major city that's looking to be redeveloped, which is probably why saying 'we want to build a minor league soccer stadium here' got balked at.
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So there's late-night scuttlebutt from Brian Strauss and others that 2-4 of the MLS teams that have full reserve teams in the USL might not bring them back for next year. Suspects floated about are Orlando, Philly, NYRB, and Seattle. Apparently it's part the MLS organizations going "Hey it turns out we have to spend money on these guys and we don't like it" and part the USL going "Yeah so we want to be D2 so you guys with your hundreds of people who show up to games are actually bad for us now".
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Oct 18, 2017 06:00
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Well I guess that will screw the pooch on Sounders 2 planned move to Tacoma/rebrand.
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Crazy Ted posted:So there's late-night scuttlebutt from Brian Strauss and others that 2-4 of the MLS teams that have full reserve teams in the USL might not bring them back for next year. Suspects floated about are Orlando, Philly, NYRB, and Seattle. Orlando, Red Bull, and Seattle can have their junior squads go away and I wouldn't give a rat's rear end. I would like to see Bethlehem Steel stay around, though, if only because a) they have an actual identity, and b) that identity has local historical roots.
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Oct 18, 2017 06:30
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whypick1 posted:Well I guess that will screw the pooch on Sounders 2 planned move to Tacoma/rebrand. The Bethlehem situation is all on the Philadelphia front office, as apparently they didn't hire local people run to run sales for Bethlehem Steel and it resulted in ticket sales low enough that about 75% of butts in seats were from freebies.
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Oct 18, 2017 07:57
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Crazy Ted posted:So there's late-night scuttlebutt from Brian Strauss and others that 2-4 of the MLS teams that have full reserve teams in the USL might not bring them back for next year. Suspects floated about are Orlando, Philly, NYRB, and Seattle. As long as they also have a D3, that would be fine.
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Oct 18, 2017 08:11
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Crazy Ted posted:So there's late-night scuttlebutt from Brian Strauss and others that 2-4 of the MLS teams that have full reserve teams in the USL might not bring them back for next year. Suspects floated about are Orlando, Philly, NYRB, and Seattle. I mean the MLS essentially pissed away a few million dollars on bad reserve teams to bulk up the USL and kill the NASL, not the worst trade in the world. Then they can just reform the teams later if they want in D-3, its not like it is really going to change much. Meanwhile they can just loan some guys out to other USL teams.
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Oct 18, 2017 08:36
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Kill the MLS2 teams. Grow the sport either by affiliate program (DC-Richmond has been mutually beneficial) or by just loaning players. If we’re giving all of USSF a rethink, let’s loving rethink it.
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Oct 18, 2017 13:51
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USL doesn't need them anymore (arguably they are a liability if one actually cares about the difference between being sanctioned as D2 and D3) and MLS barely needed them in the first place, player loans could do everything they could much more easily as long as all the destinations actually existed. On a lighter note: https://twitter.com/SoccerInsider/status/920422876477579265
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Oct 18, 2017 13:57
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Your Boy Fancy posted:Kill the MLS2 teams. Grow the sport either by affiliate program (DC-Richmond has been mutually beneficial) or by just loaning players. Swope Park has been great for KC and we've already signed quite a few players from there. It's not all bad.
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Oct 18, 2017 17:43
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Just create a drat reserve league.
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Nostradingus posted:Swope Park has been great for KC and we've already signed quite a few players from there. It's not all bad. counterpoint: when they play there aren't any parking spots for my adult league that plays down there so contract them all i say
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wicka posted:Just create a drat reserve league. We had one! And... killed it for this USL partnership.
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Oct 18, 2017 18:00
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In unsurprising news, Goff is reporting Hamid is gone next season. No clear idea where to, but not here. I will be shocked if DC outdraws Dallas in five years.
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Oct 18, 2017 19:06
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i completely support all the dumb and bad teams destroying their own talent pipelines
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Oct 18, 2017 19:58
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Azerban posted:i completely support all the dumb and bad teams destroying their own talent pipelines Honestly, the number of II team players that will actually ever be useful to the first team could just be loaned out to USL or CPL teams in the first place now that more of them exist than before, and the rest should be sold/cut loose and competing for permanent spots on those teams rather than being warm bodies on a B team that doesn't give a poo poo if it wins and draws like a quarter the crowds of the rest of the league. I used to be in favour of TFC/MTL/VAN having B teams in USL-and-then-CPL (or some other Canadian league) but they haven't usually proven to be worth the added trouble for the MLS team (compared to loan preference-type affiliate deals like Montreal-Ottawa) and they annoy the independent USL/CPL teams and their fans so whatever I'm not going to mourn their loss.
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Dallan Invictus posted:Honestly, the number of II team players that will actually ever be useful to the first team could just be loaned out to USL or CPL teams in the first place now that more of them exist than before, and the rest should be sold/cut loose and competing for permanent spots on those teams rather than being warm bodies on a B team that doesn't give a poo poo if it wins and draws like a quarter the crowds of the rest of the league. I used to be in favour of TFC/MTL/VAN having B teams in USL-and-then-CPL (or some other Canadian league) but they haven't usually proven to be worth the added trouble for the MLS team (compared to loan preference-type affiliate deals like Montreal-Ottawa) and they annoy the independent USL/CPL teams and their fans so whatever I'm not going to mourn their loss. And there's more to a reserve unit than just having a few guys become regulars on the senior team. It's so backups can get enough playing time to stay sharp in case they're called upon in an MLS game, or to have an extra lineup's worth of players in case the senior team is hit with a big injury crisis. Minnesota United had a few games this year where they couldn't even put seven guys on the subs bench. Having something resembling a reserve team would have come in handy.
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https://www.sounderatheart.com/thefuture/2017/10/18/16494300/sounders-2-moving-to-tacoma-for-2018-season Maybe the source was wrong and conflated moving the team with closing the team. I mean people might actually go to the games now...
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Your Boy Fancy posted:In unsurprising news, Goff is reporting Hamid is gone next season. No clear idea where to, but not here. In related news, today I finally got around to telling my rep that I won't be renewing my DCU season tickets
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camoseven posted:In related news, today I finally got around to telling my rep that I won't be renewing my DCU season tickets Lol, which one You should tell them Paul says hi and hear them inwardly loving groan
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Your Boy Fancy posted:Kill the MLS2 teams. Grow the sport either by affiliate program (DC-Richmond has been mutually beneficial) or by just loaning players. But I thought doing things the way they are done in Europe is how you become successful? Because that's how Spain and Germany do it. 'B' and '2' teams are the norm there and they seem to be doing well for themselves.
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You can’t even strawman correctly you weapons grade dipshit, go back to being quiet now that your team spends all that money to be worse than mine I hear spending money to field dogshit is a European tradition
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Oct 18, 2017 23:58
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Mods can you change git to gut in the OP thanks
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Oct 19, 2017 00:00
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so much disrespect itt for the reigning usl champs
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Your Boy Fancy posted:I hear spending money to field dogshit is a European tradition Listen if you're going to poo poo on Milan at least use the right thread.
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Gigi Galli posted:Listen if you're going to poo poo on Milan at least use the right thread. Heh
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Your Boy Fancy posted:You can’t even strawman correctly you weapons grade dipshit, go back to being quiet now that your team spends all that money to be worse than mine Oh no. It seems I've struck a nerve. My team may be poo poo, but at least I have the comfort of knowing that, for us, things will get better, and already have. For you, well, isn't this a good year for your standards? You're not guaranteed last place!
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You’ve struck a nerve because you’re dumb as poo poo and you keep defending a thing that’s indefensible
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Reserve squads have a place, but that place isn't in the second level of a pyramid.
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