The different approach to the ticket sales between Whitecaps and Sounders

[dutch13]

The atmosphere at this game is better than games last year in BC Place, and I think it is largely due to the "artificial sell outs". People are closer together, there are no empty sections for cheers to be lost in.

I think the fact that Toronto has yet to come close to making the playoffs, combined with continual increases in ticket prices is why they have attendance issues, which is much different from the Whitecaps.

I'll take Lenarduzzi's comments in regards to opening the lower bowl for playoffs with a grain of salt. He's just posturing to defend their reasoning for not opening it for Becks. Again, if we make the playoffs, and it sells out a week prior (is there a week between end of season and the first playoff game?) It would take a real idiot to not open the extra 5,000 seats.

Seattle continues to not open their entire stadium despite consistent sellouts every game/year.

 

[Captain Shamrock]

RL RCD, I don't think anyone is annoyed that you have an opinion some agree and some disagree with, it's the posting of an 8000 word diatribe every 12 hours on the same rant saying the same thing over and over that's annoying everyone.

We get it, you were frozen out for one game when you had eurosnob relatives in from out of town and you wanted to compare VWFC to Real Madrid and it left a sour taste in your mouth. You don't understand why they don't open seats up for big games but you also probably don't understand the potential pitfalls of any of the following:
1) Staffing increase costs and such for opening up any amount of additional tickets
2) Potential additional emergency services staff (Police, Ambulance, etc) that would accompany an addition x-thousand people
3) Potential for random hooligan quotient that could accompany a "low cost" upper bowl ticket
4) The potential for bad pub and or pissed off fans in Beckham hadn't played (well outside the control of Lennard Bobbaduzzi and co)

etc etc etc.

Can this horse go to the glue factory now that it's been more than tenderized?

JBN......the irony. Lean knows all about 'bad' posters apparently.

 

[Regs]

Over 60,000

 

[Regs]

Man, this stuff wasn't entirely easy to put together...

Here's the Whitecaps "official" attendance figures to date:

march 10	Montreal	21,000
march 24	DC United	19,394
april 18	KC	15,382
april 21	Dallas	18,027
may 5	San Jose	19,271
may 19	Seattle	21,000
june 10	Houston	18,811
june 16	Colorado	19,166
june 20	New York	20,060
july 18	LA	21,000
july 22	San Jose	20,112