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threeagainstfour posted:Seeing LAFC dead last in the west feels great, given that every MLS media head continued to say they were champs in waiting even as they looked completely mediocre through their first 4 games. Obviously I'm a fan, but it is kind of scary how good Seattle are this year
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Azerban posted:well, i'd like to see how seattle are going to make the playoffs this time! *seattle make the playoffs easily* ah! well. nevertheless, Dallan Invictus posted:I for one never wonder if or how this will happen in any given year whatever dumb offseason poo poo happens to the Sounders, I just feel it in my bones like the approach of winter or death. where are our checks, Don
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CubanMissile posted:loving lol that the folks in Columbus decided to gently caress over their legacy fans in favor of being more boring for the sake of a focus group of people that are never going to watch the games anyway. Like a cheap tent: https://twitter.com/ColumbusCrew/status/1394472920534106115/photo/1 ...a cheap tent which probably spent a lot of money to be what, in its infinite wisdom, thought was a nice tent, only to wind up folding anyway.
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They only folded on the name. The awful logo is staying so it feels hollow to me.
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Aaron Long tore his Achilles, out for the year for RBNY. I haven't seen any of his games so far this year, but he was really good in prior years.
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binge crotching posted:Aaron Long tore his Achilles, out for the year for RBNY. I haven't seen any of his games so far this year, but he was really good in prior years. This is very not good for us. The thought of Sean Nealis and Amro Tarek trying to hold down the fort is nightmare fuel.
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Jovial Cow posted:This is very not good for us. The thought of Sean Nealis and Amro Tarek trying to hold down the fort is nightmare fuel. That seems rather fitting because "nightmare fuel" describes the taste of Red Bull perfectly
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Columbus' even newer logo replaces the 'SC' with 'Crew' and triangle with '96', and the effort applied to the changes was minimal.
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May 18, 2021 22:00
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An  re-design of an re-brand
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My main hope now is they will scrap this during the offseason and either revert completely to the previous badge or at least go back to the drawing board.
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ESPN posted an interview with Howard Webb, head of PRO who oversaw VAR's initial implementation in MLS. One interesting nugget is that they want to broadcast live audio during reviews but FIFA needs to approve it, which is another, albeit minor, reason to hate FIFA.
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whypick1 posted:ESPN posted an interview with Howard Webb, head of PRO who oversaw VAR's initial implementation in MLS. One interesting nugget is that they want to broadcast live audio during reviews but FIFA needs to approve it, which is another, albeit minor, reason to hate FIFA. During the welcome back tournament, didn’t they broadcast a couple decisions live?
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whypick1 posted:ESPN posted an interview with Howard Webb, head of PRO who oversaw VAR's initial implementation in MLS. One interesting nugget is that they want to broadcast live audio during reviews but FIFA needs to approve it, which is another, albeit minor, reason to hate FIFA. that was interesting, it seems like the biggest difference is the hawkeye camera making offside decisions precise that is causing so much rage in european leagues, whereas mls essentially maintains a ref judgement on offside calls as offside-ish that may be more in the spirit than the letter of the rule.
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Nottherealaborn posted:During the welcome back tournament, didn’t they broadcast a couple decisions live? They mention that in the interview. I must not have watched those games because I certainly don't remember seeing/hearing that.
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I remember it happening a couple of times during the Returnament, yeah, and the discussion at the time was that they were fine doing it then as a trial during a weird one-off "look we need to put SOMETHING on TV or lose even more money" tournament, but they wanted to get FIFA/IFAB approval to make it more permanent and, well, those guys are famous lovers of change, right?
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quote:Real estate developer Ted Segal is near an agreement to purchase Major League Soccer’s Houston Dynamo FC for about $400 million, according to multiple people familiar with the transaction. hm, idk hope they want to spend
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I hadn't really internalized the Montreal rebrand until today. Man, what a bummer.
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I’m still trying to understand what thought process results in so many marketing people and team owners deciding that City Name FC is the gateway to riches.
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CubanMissile posted:I’m still trying to understand what thought process results in so many marketing people and team owners deciding that City Name FC is the gateway to riches. AAC probably makes a lot of branding decisions for the league.
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CubanMissile posted:I’m still trying to understand what thought process results in so many marketing people and team owners deciding that City Name FC is the gateway to riches. Also, man how about that tackle on Andy Polo?
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i assume at some point they did a bunch of survey research on soccer fans who dont watch mls but watch european, mexican, international or other leagues and found that goofy american team names was seen as one of the barriers for them becoming mls fans (ancedotally i remember hearing this criticism of mls for a long time from non-mls soccer fans) which is dumb but may also be correct for a subset of potential fans
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CubanMissile posted:I’m still trying to understand what thought process results in so many marketing people and team owners deciding that City Name FC is the gateway to riches. It makes it a Global Brand, letting them pitch Infinite Growth to investors! Of course, it makes them sound exactly the same as every other team, so they end up having no brand at all. 
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G-Hawk posted:i assume at some point they did a bunch of survey research on soccer fans who dont watch mls but watch european, mexican, international or other leagues and found that goofy american team names was seen as one of the barriers for them becoming mls fans (ancedotally i remember hearing this criticism of mls for a long time from non-mls soccer fans)
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Crazy Ted posted:...they'll always find some kind of reason to bitch about the product anyway. I'm pretty sure that reason is "it's American"
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Austin should score goals once in a while imho. Also VAR sucks
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Crazy Ted posted:Well sure if you're talking about teams like Tampa Bay Mutiny back in the day with the logo being a minimalistic crab holding a soccer ball, but the kinds of people who are like "ugh god the Portland TIMBERS what an amateurish Americanized name" are the kinds of drab pissants you'll never reach in a million years because they'll always find some kind of reason to bitch about the product anyway. yeah agree, we're a long way from the 90s cheese and obviously some people will never be won over. I just meant at some point MLS changed marketing strategy from lets make soccer more like other American sports to lets make MLS more like other soccer leagues and to some extent it has probably worked on the whole, though some of the results (like changing Montreal's name) seem real dumb
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DC United going through it right now with their supporters groups. I wonder what normal supporters groups are like where people are fans instead of idiots pretending to be off brand hooligans. Every game bottles are thrown, every game people are cursing and throwing slurs. Every game the old timers get a bigger chip on their shoulder and think they can harass people and get away with it. Frankly, I don't know why anyone would join the supporters groups here, the average maturity of the group is very low, and you're just asking for trouble.
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Shammypants posted:DC United going through it right now with their supporters groups. Is there any time when that is not the case? Anyway who wants a collecters item? https://www.adidas.com/us/columbus-crew-sc-21-pride-pre-match-jsy/HI1460.html
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Another Austin match is now a national broadcast - the Portland match originally scheduled for July 3rd is now July 1st on FS1.
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 coming down on Inter in 10 minutese: The penalties are: -$2 million fine to Inter Miami -$250,000 fine to Jorge Mas -Paul McDonough suspended until 2023 -Inter Miami fined $2,271,250 in Garberbux for 2022 and 2023 Edward Mass fucked around with this message at 23:36 on May 28, 2021 |
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Edward Mass posted:
lol @ all of this, especially the part where this also affects Atlanta https://twitter.com/tombogert/status/1398406960177946634
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Five DPs and underreporting the wages of three other players and still finishing 10th. Keep rocking, Miami.
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the funniest thing about watching miami is when they show a close up of matuidi about 40 minutes in and you go, oh yeah I forgot miami had signed blaise matuidi, I thought he was injured like pato also their stadium is pink
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Inter Miami exists to make everything else in mls seem less ridiculous by comparison and this is just really adds to that legacy
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6 games total for Williams. https://twitter.com/tombogert/status/1400891291853070343?s=21
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