Can’t wait for the gaslighting from front office and their apologists on this one

ADRIAN IF YOU AREN’T WILLING AND/OR TOO BROKE TO SPEND MONEY ON THE CLUB, THEN ITS TIME TO SELL. YOU CAN WASH YOUR HANDS CLEAN WITH A SOLID PROFIT. ITS TIME.

This team is broken. It won’t be fixed until we have ownership that invests in elite quality on the field. Schmetz can only work with the players he has. Waibel can only spend the money he is given. Adrian took this team from one level to another. Time to hand off to someone else to get to the next level.

To the ownership…fuck you. The clubs is an embarrassment and a disgrace.

Put the owners on the top, put the GM in the middle and we'll burn the fucking lot

...and beat Austin at Q2 Stadium. While depleted by injuries. Sound familiar?

And it was exciting! Vargas, Baker-Whiting, Leyva, Atencio, and Dobbelaere -- all contributed and would go on to contribute more. (Plus that chip from Rui was nice, huh?)

All those guys are gone now. And it's damn hard to root for the, uh, GAM that replaced them.

I mean Rothrock.

Sounders season ticket members can return up to 7 regular-season matches for credit toward future renewals or seat upgrades.

One idea to send a message to ownership is to coordinate a massive ticket return for an upcoming home game, Vancouver on Aug 16th for example.

These returns would show the front office the frustration from the fans in a tangible way costing the team money in returns from fans. These returns would be credited to next year's season tickets for any renewals.

This could extend to future games especially toward the end of the season if there isn't investment from the front office or fight from the team.

Sounders lose 1 - 3

Whole game was awful. Ragen red card was just the cherry on top.

No improvement since the Timbers game.

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Ragen now out for next two games. One for red card and one for yellow accumulation. 😡

Let’s keep hoarding money for no reason. I love it. Very exciting!

Why are they refusing to play?

The next up have earned a chance. If they win, they are the starters now. If they lose, then the former starters will have a chance to earn their spot back.

Recent Big signings across the league
Lewandowski to Chicago
Griezmann to Orlando
Saint-Maximin to Charlotte
Casemiro to Inter Miami

I keep hearing J.Oshan says “there’s no correlation between spend and performance”, but I don’t buy it. It’s clear the MLS is moving in the direction of bringing proven higher quality talent even if it’s for a season or two. I feel like we are being gaslit into just accepting subpar output from SFC and only for them to shield themselves from accountability by sending out the Georgis, Kalanis, the Antinos, etc when they lose badly.

The Portland loss has exposed cracks and after 3 years of no ambitious signings, if this season is a losing season, I am afraid what happens to the fanbase.

At the same time it’s clear Adrian does not plan to spend a dime and to work within the league. I don’t think that will satisfy the fans.

My roundabout question is what will be the breaking point for the fans (not just Alliance Members but the whole fanbase)?

So due to recent performance—and a complete lack of impetus to go out and get new, exciting players for us to root for—I’ve been researching what a "No Confidence" vote in Craig Waibel actually looks like.

Requirements

• 40% participation (call it ~10-12k votes)
• 67% votes to remove (~6700-8000 at a min)

I’ve got 4 votes through my 4 tickets, but I have a hard time imagining another 7k+ votes going for "No Confidence." Do we think it's even feasible to get a vote like this passed? And if it isn't, is the Alliance Council just for show?

I’ve honestly never been disgusted enough in my STH ownership since 2009 to look into this, but now that I have, I'm curious if it's even achievable. Does this need to be a grassroots effort to convince other STHs that we need change at the GM level—and that we actually have the power to execute it if we turn out the vote?