PSF: Seattle Sounders 3-0 West Ham Utd (06/07/16)

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Re: Seattle Sounders v West Ham United: Match Thread

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richneal wrote:
Finally, and worst of all, it was sad to see some prick in a West Ham shirt lob his beer on a bunch of 6 and 8 year-old Seattle fans and their Mums and Dads when their first goal went in. Sometimes words fail me.
That is beyond stupid and really pisses me off, can't count the times I've been covered in beer by some prick and doing this to mums with their kids, WTF? :?
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Did we win? :)
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I'm headed to the match in Raleigh next week. Couldn't care less about the result. Nor should anyone else.

The Mrs. will be coming along and I will be happy to wear my AVCO away shirt, have a few pints, and possibly make a few new friends along the way.

Hopefully it wont be 100F...
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I just wanted to comment on the jet lag point:

As someone who has, in the previous year, competed in Boston two days after flying from London, and Moscow one day after, flying that far really takes it out of you. Your legs feel heavier than usual and if you have any leftover soreness from training the previous few days it doesn't really go away.

Even if you aren't 'tired' from jet lag (you aren't sleepy) you're not physically able to hit the levels you want to. It's why teams always want a short trip in Europe.

Also on the marketing thing, I'm sure the club wanted to win to (slightly) boost support. However, even if Bilic followed those instructions, the players don't give a toss about the 'brand', so will have not been mentally 'there' in that way.
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IMHO the usa trip should have been toward the end of our pre-season to enable us to perform well and promote the brand.
I'm sure this is what other teams do.
Typical West Ham to do things arse backwards. :lol:
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Rocketron wrote:IMHO the usa trip should have been toward the end of our pre-season to enable us to perform well and promote the brand.
I'm sure this is what other teams do.
Typical West Ham to do things arse backwards. :lol:
Well we have important European games at the end of this month/start of next, so you can understand why they chose to go now.
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What a blinding, blinding thread :lol:
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Rocketron wrote:IMHO the usa trip should have been toward the end of our pre-season to enable us to perform well and promote the brand.
I'm sure this is what other teams do.
Typical West Ham to do things arse backwards.
EastleighHammer16 wrote: Well we have important European games at the end of this month/start of next, so you can understand why they chose to go now.
I knew there was a reason I didn't post this earlier.
What a c-unit I am. :lol:
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Re: Seattle Sounders v West Ham United: Match Thread

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Hot Bot wrote:I just wanted to comment on the jet lag point:

As someone who has, in the previous year, competed in Boston two days after flying from London, and Moscow one day after, flying that far really takes it out of you. Your legs feel heavier than usual and if you have any leftover soreness from training the previous few days it doesn't really go away.

Even if you aren't 'tired' from jet lag (you aren't sleepy) you're not physically able to hit the levels you want to. It's why teams always want a short trip in Europe.

Also on the marketing thing, I'm sure the club wanted to win to (slightly) boost support. However, even if Bilic followed those instructions, the players don't give a toss about the 'brand', so will have not been mentally 'there' in that way.
I completely agree with you. 100%.

I just feel you would have had more impact with your post had you fallen asleep halfway through it and continued it someway down the thread once the jet lag had worn off
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As someone who makes the same trip to PST in California every month. It's ****ing terrible.

Yes you land three hours after you took off. But you spend almost 24 hours traveling and waiting around, and there are almost no red eye flights from London, so you can't sleep.
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Been to the West Coast twice in 6 months and it does me in. Even when I went to Chicago back in May I was up at 2am, 4am and 6am. Just as you start to get used to it, its time to come home.

I'm actually better coming back for some reason.
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I think it was a bizarre choice of trip. You build a brand by being succesful - getting into the champions league for e.g., not traveling to seatle where noone cares about football. Sorry, soccer. And losing because they are mid season and we just started our preseason. And we aer jetlagged. And a chunk of our squad isnt even there.

The Austria trip makes sense. Short haul, all about the training...
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My 22 year-old step daughter (who is American) lives in Seattle so I bought her and a friend two tickets in the WHU section (she has been to the BG once before so has some idea what we're about).

Her and her friend had an amazing time and ended up going out in Seattle with some English-based hammers afterwards and she has been buzzing about it for days and telling me about all the songs she learned etc so whoever that was, thank you for making them feel welcome and showing them a good time. :crest:
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