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Hi here's a drive-by effortpost on Detroit City FC: I assume in terms of NPSL, Detroit City FC is an organization whose reputation has largely outstripped the actual size and budget of the club, largely on the back of their Northern Guard Supporters. Easy to love, easier to hate, they're a driving force behind DCFC's reputation.   2018: Coming off of a spectacular playoff run in 2017 ending in a national semifinal appearance, 2018 was a year marked by notable organizational progress and growth moreso than league results, as they finished 4th of 7 (5-4-3) in conference play, far outside a playoff spot. Buoyed by a schedule that included Liga MX's Club Necaxa, Serie A side Frosinone Calcio, and Bundesliga 2's FC St Pauli, they played for an average 5,946 fans including a new record attendance of 7,887 against Frosinone at Keyworth Stadium. St. Pauli was hands down my favorite weekend of the year, where they made one of two US tour stops with a weekend full of events, including a panel on community-oriented soccer, a meet-and-greet, as well as a Rise Against concert the night before the match. At the end of the day, St. Pauli is still a pro club and DCFC never stood a chance on the pitch, losing 6-2. The result hardly mattered, though, as it was a surreal experience getting drunk with a bunch of German footballers who came here to see our little club. Very cool.    2019: During the offseason, the club opened the Detroit City Fieldhouse and Clubhouse, a facility with two indoor turf fields as well as a bar and restaurant overlooking them both, all run with the same ethos that guides the club itself. A planned jump to the NPSL's new professional league has resulted in some major changes, as well. The departure of an owner to head up USL Hartford, a new head coach, a partnership with one of the larger youth clubs in the region, additional stadium renovations including new turf, plans to continue an amateur squad and start a women's team, promises of fair, living wages for professional players, etc. In addition to intra-club matters, they'll be gaining some semblance of competition from the new USL League One team, Lansing Ignite. They have already announced three returning players for the professional roster: Club legends Cyrus Saydee and Tyrone Mondi alongside former Pittsburgh Riverhound Bakie Goodman. Excitement among the fanbase is at an all-time high, and expectations will be even higher. sleepwalkers fucked around with this message at 05:56 on Feb 6, 2019 |
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TraderStav posted:Just reminded me that I never picked up my season ticket for this year. Damnit They'll still be available! They stopped deposit sales on the 28th, but season tickets proper will be on sale in a week or two.
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Feb 7, 2019 05:14
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the only time i went to see the rowdies, ralphs mob spent a not insignificant amount of time chiding puerto rican fans for not paying taxes.
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Feb 9, 2019 16:14
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iunno that crest seems awfully kitschy. i guess that's kinda what lower level pro sports do, but eh. don't necessarily love it.
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Feb 12, 2019 04:01
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That’s part of the fun! You’ll figure out who has a fun supporter base that can take and dish poo poo talk and sometimes make some really good friends that way! Or you end up opposite a club that tacitly endorses fascism like NYCFC and genuinely want them to gently caress off the earth for good.
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Mar 13, 2019 23:04
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dadjokes posted:My guy, I can not imagine a less important sentence having been typed in the history of the internet. You're underselling the part they played in pitching DCFC to casual fans, players, staff, and international clubs, as well as the community efforts put forth separate from the club. I don't mean to undersell the job the owners have done, but they've said much of the same thing over the years. Separate from anyone specifically, pretending that all SGs are just "waving scarves like everyone else" does disservice to the work a lot of people put in across the country.
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Mar 30, 2019 20:01
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Managed to listen to some of the stream while driving home from 4th festivities and I am overjoyed. New HC Trevor James has wrung every bit of talent out of this Detroit City squad and it’s been so much fun to watch the now 11-game unbeaten streak. Gotta get revenge against the lone loss on the season on Saturday against Kalamazoo, and hope for the best of the incredibly dumb NPSL playoff seeding.
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Jul 8, 2019 02:36
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Detroit City FC beat Minneapolis City SC, and Cleveland SC beat Rochester Lancers to advance to the NOSL Midwest Regional final. They play tomorrow at 1 PM. Rochester played AFC Ann Arbor in the quarterfinals in the Most NPSL Match: Ann Arbor plays at a stadium sans lights; Rochester expressed doubt before they drove out about the ability to play the game with inclement weather on the horizon. The league and Ann Arbor reassured Rochester everything would be okay. Everything was not okay. There were halftime delays, and the game was postponed due to lack of light, despite Rochester’s requests to move the game to the backup indoor facility that was booked. The teams couldn’t reach a consensus, Rochester claimed Ann Arbor would have to forfeit because they failed to book an adequate stadium, Ann Arbor claimed Rochester was forfeiting due to refusing their suggestions to finish the match. A coin flip was apparently the solution. Before the flip happened, they agreed to play the remainder of the game at a neutral site in Erie, PA, where they didn’t have to play the same players that were a part of the prior match and extra time would be 20 minutes rather than 30. Ann Arbor lost on PKs, despite dominating all 110 minutes.
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Jul 20, 2019 22:01
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Delayed double post. Figured I’d drop this brutal shoulder check to a dude’s head here from the NPSL Midwest semifinal: https://twitter.com/gigglesngs/status/1152692105216700416
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Jul 21, 2019 04:27
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The NPSL Founders Cup looks like it may no longer be the beginning of an "NPSL Pro" league. For those not in the know, there were 11 teams signed up to run basically a trial for a pro league starting in 2020, circumventing the existing USSF Pro League Standards, mostly because the D3 standards requires a significant portion of any team to be owned by a single investor of a certain net worth. It has not officially been announced yet, but Miami FC and Miami United FC have dropped out of Founders Cup. Miami has officially announced they'll be joining NISA for the 2020 season, along with a number of other Founders Cup teams. If you have any interest in NISA, keep watching... Founders Cup will be retooled, and there may be some other interesting news about who may be joining the league in 2020 coming out this week.
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Jul 24, 2019 18:09
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Aggro posted:They’ve also changed the name to the Members Cup, at least on DCFC’s page. Yeah, it’s being renamed. The story seems to be that Founders Cup was technically its own entity, and when a number of teams dropped, the remaining clubs decided to rethink things and ended up back under the NPSL umbrella and added a couple clubs. Rumor is NPSL is full steam ahead with plans for a proper full amateur season in 2020, as well, rather than an abbreviated campaign in essentially the college off-season. Detroit City’s unis say “Founders Cup inaugural season” on the back, so someone’s gonna have to get some duct tape and a marker for that one. Supposedly DCFC and Chattanooga both are currently going through the process of getting the approvals to join NISA. My impression was they were further along than they really are, so that won’t come for a bit. Lower level soccer, everything is subject to change, etc etc, but don’t be surprised to see that down the road.
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Jul 25, 2019 04:25
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Aggro posted:Also, if anyone in NYC/Long Island wants to go to the DCFC/Cosmos game on October 12th, I’ll be there in rouge and gold. TraderStav posted:I was there last night and it looked like Atlas threw the game. That first goal looked so so bad. It was largely the same squad that beat Club America a few days ago, apparently. 🤷🏻♂️
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Sep 9, 2019 00:13
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https://twitter.com/NISALeague/status/1174430982461677568 There is no sigh big enough.
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Sep 19, 2019 15:06
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https://twitter.com/DetroitCityFC/status/1178102975748812805?s=20 This is cool and good! Season tickets are also currently the same price as last (this?) year's shorter, mostly amateur season despite taking on a full NISA schedule and adding a women's team. It's $120 for what'll likely be ~25 matches.
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Sep 30, 2019 21:03
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Aggro posted:I went to the Detroit City game against the Cosmos yesterday and had a blast. We had to be escorted into the stadium by security because apparently there were Twitter fights and threats leading up to the match. Some morons got thrown out before kickoff for throwing beer cans at us, and their supporter section was deadly silent after DCFC went up 2-0 in the first 30 minutes. The Cosmos pulled one back with about 10 minutes left, so the end was appropriately tense. Hi I was there, too! I capo’d the end of the first half and a bit of the second half. I could not wait for that match to be over and GTFO of there, honestly. Just got a bad vibe from the Cosmos supporters there. As silly as it sounds, a lot of folks have a hard time figuring out where the line is between banter and threats, and between the internet and real life. DCFC now has to get two points from two remaining matches to secure a Members Cup victory. They’ve played 24 NPSL matches this year, I believe, and have an absurd record, losing once.
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Crazy Ted posted:Lansing Ignite, which killed off a somewhat popular local D4 (different owners) team to join the USL D3 league, is folding after one season. They talked about needing 4,000 people per game with a schedule that had two weekend games total between June and end of August, dropped ticket prices to rock bottom when they were drawing ~60% of their desired number. That didn’t move the needle at all, and even their reported numbers looked overstated by a significant margin. The turf they put in for games was apparently awful and a baseball stadium is typically a bad temporary venue for soccer. Their on-field performance was fine! But everything else about the club seemed poorly laid out. Also ownership trademarked “Beer City FC” and attempted to start in Grand Rapids before USL told them to use their own stadium in Lansing. Also also, the NPSL team they killed off was done so voluntarily; the owner of that team joined the leadership of the Ignite. The biggest disappointment is that this may kill of their women’s side, which retained the Lansing United branding.
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