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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2016 19:35:12 GMT
Anyone know how long they're in Florida for...I fly in to Miami on the 28th for a couple of weeks. 24th July for 10 days, so probably be flying back 3rd August? ... Club thought to be looking to possibly play one other game in Florida , though nothing yet confirmed
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Post by mailman44 on May 26, 2016 19:55:47 GMT
The Titan Soccer Complex, which is home to the college’s nationally ranked men’s and women’s soccer teams, will seat 3,500 fans for OCB’s matches. Capacity more so than "seats" is a better way to think about it. I think Les didn't want the lads on the Camping World Stadium in98 degree weather, 88 % humidity and a plastic pitch that adds another 5 degrees to the temperature. Also that pitch is hell on the body (knees, ankles, backs). No reason to risk our stars in a preseason friendly.
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Post by mailman44 on May 26, 2016 19:57:47 GMT
Closer to the match I'll get a head count for how many Stokies want to muster for a good old fashioned "tail gate" American style. Or do you lads prefer a proper piss up in a bar somewhere in the vicinity of Uncle Phil's pocket stadium?
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2016 20:04:50 GMT
The Titan Soccer Complex, which is home to the college’s nationally ranked men’s and women’s soccer teams, will seat 3,500 fans for OCB’s matches. Capacity more so than "seats" is a better way to think about it. I think Les didn't want the lads on the Camping World Stadium in98 degree weather, 88 % humidity and a plastic pitch that adds another 5 degrees to the temperature. Also that pitch is hell on the body (knees, ankles, backs). No reason to risk our stars in a preseason friendly. Possibly , not sure where Stoke are basing themselves , or training..possibly using Titan as their base? - Guns & Roses playing in the camping world on the 29th also possibly a factor , depending what set-up time is required
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Post by CalgaryPotter on May 26, 2016 20:12:16 GMT
A prestigious marketing opportunity and 'formal affiliation' ceremony to be played in Phil Rawlin's Garden shed. Sounds great. It is a weird one. Does anyone know the reasoning behind it? Concert at the Citrus Bowl apparently. I'm a bit titsed off. I fancied seeing the Citrus Bowl rather than Florida's equivalent of Leek Town
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Post by CalgaryPotter on May 26, 2016 20:14:20 GMT
Closer to the match I'll get a head count for how many Stokies want to muster for a good old fashioned "tail gate" American style. Or do you lads prefer a proper piss up in a bar somewhere in the vicinity of Uncle Phil's pocket stadium? Beach Party .......then back to Orlando to kick the shit out of Mickey!!
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Post by sladealive on May 26, 2016 22:44:47 GMT
Hi Guys, Im over in Orlando right now and attended last nights match at the Citrus Bowl, whilst the football may not be up to the standard of our Premier League, there are some great things happening right now for OCFC. They are well on the way to building their own stadium in down town Orlando, a 27000 ish capacity, with the home end safe standing. It is going to be a traditional English shape a step away from the bowl shaped arenas. They also own their own training complex in North Orlando and this is a superb place, their junior section is sited here ,with 12 pitches where 2000 kids turn up each week. Their home gates are on par with ours. There were 24000 there last night, but midweek games always attract lower gates. There fans are immense and as loud and passionate as anything ive witnessed of late at the Brit. There are huge tail gate parties before the games and the passion has to be seen, to be believed. They are a club on the up and have the fan base and investment to be huge. You may all have your own views on US soccer,but believe me, these guys could one day be big. BTW the ladies team attract 6-7000 each game.
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Post by mailman44 on May 26, 2016 23:35:58 GMT
Hi Guys, Im over in Orlando right now and attended last nights match at the Citrus Bowl, whilst the football may not be up to the standard of our Premier League, there are some great things happening right now for OCFC. They are well on the way to building their own stadium in down town Orlando, a 27000 ish capacity, with the home end safe standing. It is going to be a traditional English shape a step away from the bowl shaped arenas. They also own their own training complex in North Orlando and this is a superb place, their junior section is sited here ,with 12 pitches where 2000 kids turn up each week. Their home gates are on par with ours. There were 24000 there last night, but midweek games always attract lower gates. There fans are immense and as loud and passionate as anything ive witnessed of late at the Brit. There are huge tail gate parties before the games and the passion has to be seen, to be believed. They are a club on the up and have the fan base and investment to be huge. You may all have your own views on US soccer,but believe me, these guys could one day be big. BTW the ladies team attract 6-7000 each game. MLS is shit, American players are shit, and MLS fans are shit. There Bayern I beat you and Chesterfield to it ... Christ on a bike ....
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Post by bayernoatcake on May 26, 2016 23:43:20 GMT
Hi Guys, Im over in Orlando right now and attended last nights match at the Citrus Bowl, whilst the football may not be up to the standard of our Premier League, there are some great things happening right now for OCFC. They are well on the way to building their own stadium in down town Orlando, a 27000 ish capacity, with the home end safe standing. It is going to be a traditional English shape a step away from the bowl shaped arenas. They also own their own training complex in North Orlando and this is a superb place, their junior section is sited here ,with 12 pitches where 2000 kids turn up each week. Their home gates are on par with ours. There were 24000 there last night, but midweek games always attract lower gates. There fans are immense and as loud and passionate as anything ive witnessed of late at the Brit. There are huge tail gate parties before the games and the passion has to be seen, to be believed. They are a club on the up and have the fan base and investment to be huge. You may all have your own views on US soccer,but believe me, these guys could one day be big. BTW the ladies team attract 6-7000 each game. MLS is shit, American players are shit, and MLS fans are shit. There Bayern I beat you and Chesterfield to it ... Christ on a bike .... The standard is shit. You can't deny that! ;D
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Post by CalgaryPotter on May 27, 2016 8:06:06 GMT
MLS is shit, American players are shit, and MLS fans are shit. There Bayern I beat you and Chesterfield to it ... Christ on a bike .... The standard is shit. You can't deny that! ;D And with that pearl of wisdom from you Bayern, it as good as guarantees a 2-1 loss. Get your money on it!!
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Post by bayernoatcake on May 27, 2016 9:59:16 GMT
The standard is shit. You can't deny that! ;D And with that pearl of wisdom from you Bayern, it as good as guarantees a 2-1 loss. Get your money on it!! I expect us to lose on fitness grounds.
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Post by andrewguk on May 27, 2016 13:16:45 GMT
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Post by Sweeper on May 27, 2016 19:11:39 GMT
MLS is shit, American players are shit, and MLS fans are shit. There Bayern I beat you and Chesterfield to it ... Christ on a bike .... The standard is shit. You can't deny that! ;D And as shit as the standard is, the US keep outperforming England at the World Cup. Twice running with a better performance than England, right?
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Post by bayernoatcake on May 27, 2016 22:15:44 GMT
The standard is shit. You can't deny that! ;D And as shit as the standard is, the US keep outperforming England at the World Cup. Twice running with a better performance than England, right? I thought they were pretty awful in the last World Cup tbh and Klinsmann is a dodgy manager who needs replacing. Other than that, yes.
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Post by kustokie on May 29, 2016 18:58:38 GMT
Closer to the match I'll get a head count for how many Stokies want to muster for a good old fashioned "tail gate" American style. Or do you lads prefer a proper piss up in a bar somewhere in the vicinity of Uncle Phil's pocket stadium? Mailman. keep be in the loop. I might be interested Do you where and when tickets go on sale?
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2016 19:07:41 GMT
Closer to the match I'll get a head count for how many Stokies want to muster for a good old fashioned "tail gate" American style. Or do you lads prefer a proper piss up in a bar somewhere in the vicinity of Uncle Phil's pocket stadium? Mailman. keep be in the loop. I might be interested Do you where and when tickets go on sale? Tickets on general sale now via ticketmaster..search Titan soccer complex tickets in Google etc
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Post by kustokie on May 29, 2016 21:21:56 GMT
Mailman. keep be in the loop. I might be interested Do you where and when tickets go on sale? Tickets on general sale now via ticketmaster..search Titan soccer complex tickets in Google etc Thanks, Mickey.
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Post by mailman44 on May 29, 2016 23:07:37 GMT
Closer to the match I'll get a head count for how many Stokies want to muster for a good old fashioned "tail gate" American style. Or do you lads prefer a proper piss up in a bar somewhere in the vicinity of Uncle Phil's pocket stadium? Mailman. keep be in the loop. I might be interested Do you where and when tickets go on sale? Sorry mate just saw this. I bought mine already on ticketmaster. I'll keep you posted about the prematch pissup.
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Post by CalgaryPotter on May 30, 2016 3:49:30 GMT
Mailman. keep be in the loop. I might be interested Do you where and when tickets go on sale? Sorry mate just saw this. I bought mine already on ticketmaster. I'll keep you posted about the prematch pissup. Are people staying in Orlando and overnighting on the coast? I'm going to head down for 10 days.
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Post by NassauDave on May 30, 2016 3:58:22 GMT
I am in. Its a short hop for me to Orlando.
I am up for a big piss up if there is one going!
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Post by NassauDave on May 30, 2016 4:05:42 GMT
Phil Rawlins,
If you still read this message board, this sounds like a big f.u. as far as the venue is concerned.
Melbourne Fla, really?
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Post by CalgaryPotter on May 30, 2016 5:16:28 GMT
Phil Rawlins, If you still read this message board, this sounds like a big f.u. as far as the venue is concerned. Melbourne Fla, really? Or maybe it will give 250 Stokies the opportunity to get up close and personal with a few thousand Floridians? Smaller the venue, the more intimate it could be? I'm looking forward to it regardless. It would have been nice to have done the citrus bowl but meeting other expats, talking shit & watching Stoke is the main thing.
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Post by NassauDave on May 30, 2016 11:35:43 GMT
Phil Rawlins, If you still read this message board, this sounds like a big f.u. as far as the venue is concerned. Melbourne Fla, really? Or maybe it will give 250 Stokies the opportunity to get up close and personal with a few thousand Floridians? Smaller the venue, the more intimate it could be? I'm looking forward to it regardless. It would have been nice to have done the citrus bowl but meeting other expats, talking shit & watching Stoke is the main thing. I meant that its literally a bit out in the sticks for a venue. The size of the venue is not an issue.
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Post by mailman44 on May 30, 2016 11:59:15 GMT
Aye up lads,
We will have a great day out regardless. More intimate venue has a lot of positives. Think of it as the Yank version of Riet Im Winkl. Now that was a great day out despite the pouring rain. I'll have a couple of cases of ale for you lot, at your favorite price: free! To keep the Yank motif going it will be Miller, America/Budweiser, and Coors for the selection. No craft ales because I want you to get the full experience!
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Post by iconoclastimatic on Jun 4, 2016 16:16:03 GMT
Cant see what we will get out of it at all. Sending our young players there is pointless, better standard of football in Div 2 , would be better to send them there. No players over there worth coming here. Home for has beens and failures in the English divisions. Invest when the stock is low so when it skyrockets in the next 10 years or so you'll be locked in. I'm an Orlando City season ticket holder and we take our team seriously, of course MLS isn't at the level of the Premier League or the European leagues but that's only because of money. The league is taking off right now and when they get a new TV deal in the next 5 years they'll be in more markets and they'll get much more revenue. More revenue means among other things a higher salary cap. Right now the MLS cap is about 3.6 million USD a year with 3 designated players allowed to make more out of the ownership's pocket. The 2014-15 Stoke roster cost $68,000,000 by comparison. So it's not that you all have better football because of where you are, it's just that you can afford better players and it translates to a higher quality game. Remember, this is the USA, we spend billions on the Top 3 American sports leagues. An NBA salary cap is $70 million dollars for 15 players. MLB is 189 million. NFL is 155 million. MLS will be one of the best leagues in the world in the next 10-15 years, I have no doubt. Imagine MLS teams with salary caps of 100 million dollars. Think you might be interested in some of those players? That's why the legendary Stoke City has a partnership with the lowly Orlando City right now.
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Post by bayernoatcake on Jun 4, 2016 16:23:25 GMT
Cant see what we will get out of it at all. Sending our young players there is pointless, better standard of football in Div 2 , would be better to send them there. No players over there worth coming here. Home for has beens and failures in the English divisions. Invest when the stock is low so when it skyrockets in the next 10 years or so you'll be locked in. I'm an Orlando City season ticket holder and we take our team seriously, of course MLS isn't at the level of the Premier League or the European leagues but that's only because of money. The league is taking off right now and when they get a new TV deal in the next 5 years they'll be in more markets and they'll get much more revenue. More revenue means among other things a higher salary cap. Right now the MLS cap is about 3.6 million USD a year with 3 designated players allowed to make more out of the ownership's pocket. The 2014-15 Stoke roster cost $68,000,000 by comparison. So it's not that you all have better football because of where you are, it's just that you can afford better players and it translates to a higher quality game. Remember, this is the USA, we spend billions on the Top 3 American sports leagues. An NBA salary cap is $70 million dollars for 15 players. MLB is 189 million. NFL is 155 million. MLS will be one of the best leagues in the world in the next 10-15 years, I have no doubt. Imagine MLS teams with salary caps of 100 million dollars. Think you might be interested in some of those players? That's why the legendary Stoke City has a partnership with the lowly Orlando City right now. All of that means fuck all if the coaching and talent isn't there.
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Post by Pugsley on Jun 4, 2016 16:36:29 GMT
Invest when the stock is low so when it skyrockets in the next 10 years or so you'll be locked in. I'm an Orlando City season ticket holder and we take our team seriously, of course MLS isn't at the level of the Premier League or the European leagues but that's only because of money. The league is taking off right now and when they get a new TV deal in the next 5 years they'll be in more markets and they'll get much more revenue. More revenue means among other things a higher salary cap. Right now the MLS cap is about 3.6 million USD a year with 3 designated players allowed to make more out of the ownership's pocket. The 2014-15 Stoke roster cost $68,000,000 by comparison. So it's not that you all have better football because of where you are, it's just that you can afford better players and it translates to a higher quality game. Remember, this is the USA, we spend billions on the Top 3 American sports leagues. An NBA salary cap is $70 million dollars for 15 players. MLB is 189 million. NFL is 155 million. MLS will be one of the best leagues in the world in the next 10-15 years, I have no doubt. Imagine MLS teams with salary caps of 100 million dollars. Think you might be interested in some of those players? That's why the legendary Stoke City has a partnership with the lowly Orlando City right now. All of that means fuck all if the coaching and talent isn't there. Lol, you'd piss on your granny's chips wouldn't you.
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Post by bayernoatcake on Jun 4, 2016 16:48:43 GMT
All of that means fuck all if the coaching and talent isn't there. Lol, you'd piss on your granny's chips wouldn't you. Both are dead.....
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Post by kustokie on Jun 4, 2016 16:58:33 GMT
Best to stay in Oralndo area - there's more to do and it's only an hour drive to Melbourne. Got me tickets!
The MLS standard may be lower than the Premier League. So what? Do we just act like snobs and ignore it or go for a good day out. These friendlies are also a good day out and a chance to see the lads. My daughter bought me tickets to see them play in Philadelphia and I went with two of my lads to see them play in KC. The best day I had out watching soccer over here was seeing the old Kansas City team beat the Shit at Arrowhead Stadium.
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Post by kustokie on Jun 4, 2016 17:01:07 GMT
Invest when the stock is low so when it skyrockets in the next 10 years or so you'll be locked in. I'm an Orlando City season ticket holder and we take our team seriously, of course MLS isn't at the level of the Premier League or the European leagues but that's only because of money. The league is taking off right now and when they get a new TV deal in the next 5 years they'll be in more markets and they'll get much more revenue. More revenue means among other things a higher salary cap. Right now the MLS cap is about 3.6 million USD a year with 3 designated players allowed to make more out of the ownership's pocket. The 2014-15 Stoke roster cost $68,000,000 by comparison. So it's not that you all have better football because of where you are, it's just that you can afford better players and it translates to a higher quality game. Remember, this is the USA, we spend billions on the Top 3 American sports leagues. An NBA salary cap is $70 million dollars for 15 players. MLB is 189 million. NFL is 155 million. MLS will be one of the best leagues in the world in the next 10-15 years, I have no doubt. Imagine MLS teams with salary caps of 100 million dollars. Think you might be interested in some of those players? That's why the legendary Stoke City has a partnership with the lowly Orlando City right now. All of that means fuck all if the coaching and talent isn't there. You really are a miserable old sod!
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