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Originally Posted by Marcus CLS
I am a soccer fan but have no delusions about the type of game we will see. NASL is tier 2 not MLS. All the hype this past week was all about the Redblacks. The CFL has a long tradition and History in Ottawa but I am not aware of the same for soccer in the Nation's capitol. This is a new experiment and sport at the professional level for Ottawa. Despite having 3 CDN MLS teams and now 2 CDN NASL teams we have a long way to grow the sport at a top level in Canada. Rather then critique the caliber of play for the match I am choosing to attend as many games that I can to support the Fury and be patient that the team will grow along with the support they can get from the fans.
The attendance for today's game was fantastic given that for soccer in North America 15 to 20K is good. For a tier 2 team to get 14 k is a great start. If the Fury can maintain 10 k for the remainder of the season now that we are in TD Place we are sitting pretty.
I am old enough to remember going to Toronto Blizzard games at Varsity Stadium and watching attendance grow from 5K to 10K to 15k before the original NASL folded. I have had to wait 25 plus years for TFC to join MLS and a further 8 years for the Fury so I am just glad we have a team to support.
I have been in Ottawa for 17 years. Let's go Fury, All For One TFC. I will also be following the Montreal Impact in CONCACAF Champions league as the winners of the Voyageur Cup.
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Don't get me wrong, I'll go back and see more games. I just thought that today's game was bad relative to the couple of other Fury games I've seen.
OSEG is counting on 4-6000 per game, so 10k would be exceptional. Even 6k puts them near the top of the league.
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