Supporters Shield Race

[leafsman]

The MLS Cup is what matters most. The only people who care about the Shield are the supporters groups. The average fan only the cup matters and people wont remember who was the regular season champion.

Whats the benefit of pro/reg?

[molenshtain]

Whats the benefit of pro/reg?

1) Every team in the country(s) fall under the same pyramid, from the biggest Professional clubs down to sunday league sides.
2) the idea that you or I can form a club and see it rise to the top
3) In our case, we would theoretically no longer be incorporated as part of the league and all the current MLS teams would become their own stand alone entity's, and therefore supporters would have a far larger hand in the welfare of the club, and therefore a greater kinship towards the team.

This, theoretically, would in turn lead to a top down growth in the game. But there are many significant obstacles in place that make this scenario an impossibility in the near future and highly unlikely beyond that. There are also a hell of a lot of structural problems, some self-inflicted some not, that make it really unforeseeable atm.

There will likely come a time down the road when MLS and USSf are big enough that they'll have to decide whether they want to permanently go the single-entity route and stay the course, or really create a pyramid and see where that takes us. It'll be a long while 'til US Soccer forces itself to confront the fact that demand for local professional clubs across the US and Canada massively outweigh the supply, and that leaving that hole unsatisfied is bad for business long term.

Still a very long way down the road though.

[Fort York Redcoat]

The MLS Cup is what matters most. The only people who care about the Shield are the supporters groups. The average fan only the cup matters and people wont remember who was the regular season champion.

Whats the benefit of pro/reg?

Let's play a game.

[The Supporters Shield is what matters most. The only people who care about MLS cup are average fans. The supporters appreciate the most winning team in the league and won't care who wins the post season tournament.

What's the benefit of playoffs to the supporter who watches every game of the season?]

Not great diminishing one group vs the other.

This thread is divisive. Let's keep it to structure and lay off the pigeon holing.