Comments about ‘Real Salt Lake: Poof! Wizards make RSL's hopes vanish’

The loss was a tough one, especially off an own goal. ReAL needs to find a way to finish on the road. That being said I watched the game on TV and that field is horrible. A convert baseball outfield. I've played on better in Community Rec. leagues. The team played solid and Jamison Olave is a stud on the back line. Too bad you can't vote for him to be an All-star. We really need to finish the shots that we get, but keep shooting.
Keep your chins up boys and lets take care of business against DC on Thursday.
GO RSL!!!

Like I said, boys: OUR goal -- the one that WE put the ball in to get points -- is the one where the guy on the OTHER team is standing. Yes, THAT one. I know it's confusing, but trust me. Don't put the ball in the other goal; that's THEIR goal. If you do, THEY get the point. Got that? Now, let's work on that in practice this week. Meanwhile, if we want pizza, we have to buy our own; Mr. Checketts has said he won't buy us pizza if we score for the other guys.

Robert, You sound really cool. To bad we all can't meet you. GO REAL!!!

Surprise, Surprise. RSL lose embarrassingly. They are an embarrassment to this great state of UTEah.

RSL lose again and don't deserve their expensive stadium. Maybe their coach should teach them how to put the ball in the other goal instead of trying to help the other team win.

I watched the last 40 minutes of the match. How come our team doesn't have "Salt Lake" on their jerseys? I always have to look at the other team's jerseys to see which color we are. Doesn't Checketts get enough money from the taxpayers to put "Salt Lake" on the jersey. What in the world is Xango anyway??

Good news: RSL scored
Bad news: They scored for the wrong team.

Always tough to lose on an own goal since it is basically an incredibly lucky break for the other team. It happens though. It is how Liverpool lost in the Champions League this year. Beltran has been improving. Let's hope this is just a one time fluke for him.

We are playing tough defense. Olave should be an all star. He is one of the most solid defenders in the league.

Obviously we need better finishing. Has Williams put a shot on goal this year? We really need Espindola back and then another dangerous scorer. I still think we need Beckerman at Defensive Mid and Morales at attacking mid. We then need to find two dangerous scorers and put them out on the wings. If Espindola was healthy they could try it with him on one of the wings. Look at a team like Barcelona. They have midfielders like Ronaldihno, Messi, Robihno. Your midfielders should be the best ball handlers and shooters you can find. Williams is not a scorer, Dema is not a scorer, Beckerman is an occasional scorer. We have one midfielder who is a potential 10 goal guy. I hope one of the "secret trialists" works out.

I'm surprised by the uneducated posts on here, not only by the RSL haters but also but the fans. RSL doesn't play DC on Thursday they play Houston and Robinho doesn't play for Barca, he plays for Real Madird but I guess I will accept those as innocent mistakes. Anyways though, its a tough one to swallow to have the game be lost on an own goal. But I think RSL is still headed on the right path, I agree that Espindola needs to get healthy and maybe put him out on the wings because I think he can provide the crosses to set up the Dr. Hopefully RSL can get back on track against Houston this Thursday as it will be exciting to see a nationally televised game. Don't let this loss distract you, RSL is still in second place, and are still in good position. Keep plugging away and the results will sure enough come. You have beat the best teams in the league and have fought hard on the road.

Would it help the players to paint our goal red, blue and gold? Perhaps put some blinking lights on it? Or maybe Checketts can stop being so cheap and start putting some real money into the team to attract some quality players. Most who play on the team would be third-rate players if they stayed in their own countries and played.

I have a question for the RSL fans. Will that point we scored for the other team count toward RSL's cumulative total for purposes of the playoffs?

Roger: Checketts is not cheap. I heard he bought a used school bus from the Davis County School District to transport the team to and from their games -- free of charge to the players! (Now they won't have to get to away games on their own). Further, now that summer is here, he has even promised to install air conditioning.

Anyway, two guys were cut last week from Malawi's national team, and I've heard through the grape vine that Checketts has his eye on them for next season. Wait and see, he'll snatch them up as soon as he gets back with the team and their new bus. Go RSL!!!!!

Why do you and every hater here (Boggs, Leonard) keep bashing RSL. Go read a throwball article. I do not like coming on here everyday seeing a message by Utefan berating my favorite team. GO RSL. GO soccer.

"Why do you and every hater here . . . . keep bashing RSL"? Answer: Just read the headlines.

the real question is why is it worth the time for "haters" to keep posting over and over and over???

We have more fans at one home game at Lavell Edwards Stadium, than RSL gets in one year at Rice Eccles.

RSL didn't play bad. We were unlucky with the owngoal in the 89 minute, it happens to the best teams in the world (Liverpool this year in the CL game agaisnt Chelsea). We will win next game. To all you RSL fans remember the MLS is a very balanced league where there aren't housepowers that will most likely win the league every year like it happens in Europe(Real Madrid and Barcelona in Spain, Milan, Inter and Juventus in Italy, etc). Sometimes the MLS looks like some of the European second division leagues where at the beginning of the season every team can be promoted or relegated. This makes the MLS a hard and unpredictable league to win, which in my opinion is great to watch.

Cougar fan. Check your numbers, BYU home games have an average of 60,000 per game. Real Salt Lake almost 20,000 per game with 16 home games per season. So 16 x 20,000 is, let me guess 320,000 per season. I love the Cougars and graduated from BYU, I just hope you didn't graduated from BYU because you would have failed in College Algebra. Stop bashing soccer.

Can I get my tax money back?

BYU plays 6 home games a season averaging 60,000 per game. 6 x 60,000= 360,000+. It is probably more since BYU sold out every game last season which is more than 64,000 per game. Besides RSL doesn't get 20,000 to a game. They're lucky to get 2,000.