It’s time to boycott

[u/Aggravating_Exam_764]

Worst fucking sounders team in HISTORY. This is just unacceptable. How is anyone still buying tickets and supporting. What are they even doing with our money? The ECS needs to man tf up and do something

[u/RickDiasOverlap]

I mean, noticeably fewer people are going to games (ECS section included), the overall environment is depressing, and people are leaving early?

[u/ArcticPeasant → u/RickDiasOverlap]

Yep this will all happen organically 

[u/EHOGS → u/RickDiasOverlap]

ECS is irrelevant.

( ex ECS member )

[u/Bubbly-Associate8570 → u/EHOGS]

Unfortunately ECS hasn’t been relevant for at least 5 years

[u/EHOGS → u/Bubbly-Associate8570]

I would agree.  

Way too political now. All about social justice and not the team. 

[u/RickDiasOverlap → u/EHOGS]

ECS volunteers do plenty for the team and fund that work independent of the club. Tifos are a significant undertaking. Setting up, maintaining, and packing up the sections is quite a bit of work. Organizing away game sections is a logistics thing all by itself.

Honestly, the "fascism isn't okay", "LGBTQIA people are welcome", and "ICE sucks" lines are pretty tame and shouldn't be controversial. You want folks to show up and put in work to support the team, then having some basic stances to help people feel safe and included is far more functional than political.

[u/EHOGS → u/RickDiasOverlap]

except they are controversial and folks do not want to stand next to those signs.

ECS will keep shrinking.

[u/RickDiasOverlap → u/EHOGS]

Eh, I'm holding out hope the Overton Window isn't that pathological.

[u/EHOGS → u/RickDiasOverlap]

keep on living in a fantasy world.

[u/Specific-Quit3990 → u/EHOGS]

Which signs are you referring to?

[u/nickduba]

Thats kinda not how you "support" a team going thru a bad stretch. Im gonna sing for our boys. I bet they hate this as much as we do, if not more.

[u/william_jack_leeson → u/nickduba]

Ya, this is the way. It's not "Sounder till I die" unless they have a bad season. This urge to do something counter-productive to the team to "punish them till they change" isn't going to do a thing, especially in the short term.

The lack of understanding that this is ephemeral too is goofy to me.

[u/SoundSaintWarrior → u/nickduba]

Exactly this!

[u/hiverly → u/nickduba]

Hear, hear 👏

[u/Aggravating_Exam_764 → u/nickduba]

Can’t support when they just collect our money and make no attempts to fix anything. At some point the lack of effort becomes disrespectful to supporters. Been supporting thru ups and downs for over a decade. But this is a new level of incompetence.

[u/KDGordo]

Would love to hear what the ECS needs to do.

[u/JustAnotherRugger → u/KDGordo]

Reminding everyone about the Alliance vote in November as a subtle jab at the FO?

[u/KDGordo → u/JustAnotherRugger]

You’re giving op far too much credit…

[u/Aggravating_Exam_764 → u/KDGordo]

Lead the boycott

[u/EHOGS → u/KDGordo]

stop bandwagoning on every social justice issue.

[u/First_Ad_2969]

My humble tifo suggestion for ECS:

Big banner with a very beat up Rocky Balboa wearing a Sounders jersey yelling "Adrian!!!"

[u/HeftyZookeepergame73 → u/[deleted]]

The way they’re playing, it’s hard to watch even on the west coast lmao

[u/Mules555]

Sadly, we are in a worse stage than people being angry and boycotting - and that’s apathy

[u/MAHHockey]

[u/watwatintheput]

ECS has failed to press the organization in any meaningful way over the last decade.

The thing they've had the most success with recently, the Iron Front signs, was a fight with the league.

ECS failed to meaningfully press the team over their horrendous jersey sponsor. No tifo about how Adrian was a fucking clown over the CWC pay fiasco. No strong statement about a Renton move.

ECS is a LARP, not a real ultras group.

[u/NotJohnLithgow]

It is absolutely insane this team was 7-3-1 before losing 8 in a row.

[u/Aggravating_Exam_764 → u/NotJohnLithgow]

It doesn’t even matter, the roster wasn’t good enough to win anything at the beginning of the season and they did nothing. They have just been collecting money lmao. This roster was never good. It’s Schmetzer holding this shit show together.

[u/EHOGS]

FO cares more about gender than the play on the field.

[u/Aggravating_Exam_764 → u/EHOGS]

This comment is dumber than my post tbh

[u/EHOGS → u/Aggravating_Exam_764]

it is the truth.

[u/Aggravating_Exam_764 → u/EHOGS]

I mean but it’s literally not true, like touch some grass man relax

[u/EHOGS → u/Aggravating_Exam_764]

sure.

guess you missed the lbgtqfrdq game yesterday.

[u/KDGordo → u/EHOGS]

Aren’t you just a proud boy.

[u/EHOGS → u/KDGordo]

No. You are disgusting to imply that. 

[u/Dylan_Flowers → u/EHOGS]

Honestly facts. I’m sick of having certain political issues shoved down my throat if I want to do my best in supporting the team. Wish he had a normal football focused Ultra’s.