Comments about ‘Real Salt Lake: Team looks to shake road woes’

Does Utah still have a soccer team? I thought they had left with the WNBA team. I filled up my gas tank the other day and wasn't given 8 tickets to the game. Oh well...go team...good luck...I hope you score!!

You obviously despise soccer, why don't you just stop reading these articles and stop posting your ignorant rantings.

You are going to upset the 12 soccer fans in Utah with your remarks.

They're still here. . . and will still be here when you're dead.

The team is still here, unlike your sense of humor! I am sorry you were not always picked by the athletic kids to play soccer, not all is lost though.. at least you still have a WAY COOL name like "T-Bone." Can't wait to see you at one of the games when ReAL is in playoff contention.

Real Salt Lake? Wake me when it's over.

It's nice to see that the coach and players are not addressing the actual "cause" of their road problems...the personnel and tactics. RSL was built to play on the narrow, quick pitch at Rice Eccles. As soon as RSL hits a full sized pitch, the home team goes right around them on the outsides due to RSL's lack of flank pace. Until that issue is addressed, RSl is destined to fail.

Oh, and to anyone who thinks it is either funny or interesting to post obnoxious soccer-hater comments after a soccer article...grow up.

12 soccer fans? ya right, did you forget the 2 million illegals that have invected our state? Problem is, they only do the jobs americans want and those jobs don't pay enough to buy tickets. Maybe we should use tax payer money and help build them a stadium and let them all in for free!!!

I've seen T-bone before. He's one ugly mug. It's a good thing he doesn't come to any matches cuz he would scare both teams out of town.

The team, much like the Starzz of the WNBA, will be gone within five years and then the taxpayers will get to pay for a stadium no one uses.

I keep hearing this number...5 years. So, is that from 3 years ago when we joined the league, or 5 years from now...or maybe 5 years from 2 years down the road?

Make up your mind...I need a solid date as to when this "league will fold", and when "RSL will be gone"

...wake up the 3 haters. We need some well thought-out comments on here.

For all the haters who post that the team will be gone in 5 years and leave an empty stadium: I dont think you understand that the new stadium is the EXACT reason they WONT be going anywhere. Its going to ensure they have financial stability for many years to come. Your only real gripe should be that you hate soccer but your tax dollars helped pay for it. Thank you :)

So why else do you think they'll be leaving? Because they suck? That leads me to my second point, which is that with one of the worst (if not worst) records in the league over the last 4 years, they still have one of the better attendance records in the league. 12 fans? Try >15k/game. Fans love the game, and will continue to attend and support even with a crappy team. Imagine your heartache when they're actually good. :)

Time for all soccerhaters to wake up and smell the coffee. MLS has weekly games on FoxSports, ESPN, and HDNet (hardly fly-by-night operations), American businessmen are buying into big European clubs (ManU/Liverpool), and you can even catch the occasional soccer highlight on Sportscenter.

Wakeup or go away!

If they continue to lose they will be gone in 5 years, just look at the Jazz, when they played poorly attendance started to drop, the same thing will happen to Real if they don't improve their on field preformance. The fans will stop caring, especially because they aren't as established as other sports teams in the area.

No, they won't be gone.

"Established"....haha, thats funny. What makes a team "established"?

The continued feigned ignorance concerning the stadium is mind-boggling. I have a hard time believing that anybody that possesses the intelligence required to operate a computer and access this site could still think that their tax dollars are being "taken" for the stadium. But I guess you can't expect anything more than ignorance from people who spent their free time searching for news stories about RSL to post their clever little comments about how lame the world's most popular sport is. Grow up children.
If you don't like soccer, that is just fine; go watch throwball and leave the grownups alone to discuss the posted story.

Heres the deal, when sports teams are bad, attendance drops because the fairweather fans stop showing up.
I also belive that RSL ownership projected that they would need to have their stadium mostly filled every game to generate a profit. So basicly
Poor Play=Lowered Attendance
Lowered Attendace=Less money
Too many season of not turning a profit and the team will move. Don't get me wrong, i am a huge RSL fan, thats why i think it is so important they do well, or we may end up loosing the team.

No amount of losing will cause the team to move. Checketts faces a huge fine if the team moves before 2037 - that was part of the deal to get the land for the stadium. Frankly it would cost him less to operate the team with zero fans than it would to move the team and pay the fine.

And I get tired of this "if RSL keeps losing the fans will stop coming" argument. The fact is RSL has been losing for 4 years and people are still coming.....in fact, attendance is up this year. You have to understand that soccer fans are considerably more die-hard than typical American sports fans, and they will follow their team win or lose (unlike front-running Jazz fans, for instance).

Sorry to disappoint so many of you, but RSL is here to stay.....forever. Go away, find your buddy Larry Miller, and you can continue your tantrum together.

As it relates to the article, RSL does need to find a way to win on the road. I personally think that most of the failures are due to strategy and personnel decisions. I just don't think that this team is built for a 4-4-2 formation. RSL does need to generate more width on the pitch, especially away from home. I think that Jason Kreis needs to reassess his approach to the game and use his personnel better.

However, right now RSL is facing a lot of injuries and key losses to international tournaments. With Sturgis, Beltran, Morales, Seitz, and Espindola all likely out for this weekend and possibly longer, other players are going to have to step up. Kreis is going to have to get creative. Lets give Cordoba a chance. Perhaps even Nimo to energize the midfield. Changes need to be made and now is the perfect time to tinker.

Let's see...how does the saying go; soccer is to sports, what candy is to nourishment!!! My nephew plays soccer and he's moving to California to get married to his best friend, Bruce.