Nice crowd for the game tonight. And a nice game for the crowd at that. I guess the weather and the performance finally worked out for the "Family Night" promotion. Imagine the atmosphere if we played in an appropriately sized stadium (say 5,000?)

Here's hoping we get to see at least one more home game this season.

i knew it was a good crowd.. awesome to see that... finally

Kudos guys. Not sure what what everyone else did but Roch also had over 7,000 on Friday night and we had over 2K for the second straight match (really good for us).

Sadly until we have a new stadium our only small stadium options are Sportsbacker(The main issue is parking with a Squirrels game) or building onto Ukrops park. I agree a 5,000 or 6,000 stadium would be good.

It feels like we have to come up with something sooner or later. City Stadium can't have that much longer, can it?

If we're gonna wait out metal bleachers and concrete we're gonna lose. I'm not sure we're gonna get a new stadium from the city unless part of the stadium collapses during the game and Kickers threaten with lawsuit. Interesting enough if you look at cities that gave their teams hard times it usually took something happening for a new stadium to be built.(Just for note I hope nothing ever happens at city stadium. At least nothing with anyone there.) I just think it will have to be funded by the Kickers for it to happen. Squirrels will win the stadium competition with claims of higher attendance and more money. They may do a lot of promos to get people but they can use that argument against the Kickers all day and the city will listen. We all know this and the RTD articles about the new ballpark in planning for 2014 says it all.
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You know if they wanted to keep the Kickers where they are if they could somehow take city stadium apart one side at a time and put in soccer specific bleachers that would work fine. They could take down the rising bleachers first and put in the new side. When they finish that the fans sit there while they do the half circle side. The Kickers could still play there while construction was being done. The location isn't bad but the stadium needs to be completely redone and perhaps a Kickers sports bar or something that overlooks the game.

I certainly wasn't thinking about city/county handouts. Especially in this economy and the heightened sensitivity to government spending. I was wondering more about what they could do with the big complex the Youth Club has by Chippenham Parkway.

Or maybe we wait until the Squirrels move and play at Sportsbackers? I think the City has it's own ideas about redeveloping City Stadium.

its funny though, the City has plans for the Stadium sight, but the area residents would rather have the stadium then an extension of Carytown shops. It'll be an interesting battle and in true Richmond form,<sarcasm> it'll probably come down to how close of a relation the proposed property developer is to the mayor. Immediate family.. will be carytown shops.. when you start getting into 2nd and 3rd cousins it could be a 50/50 thing </sarcasm>

And the latest proposal I heard had a new Squirells stadium partially or totally overlapping the Sportsbackers site. So that might even be an option anymore

Overlapping sportsbacker? What happens to VCU's team? Sportsbacker is the home of VCU soccer. Where the heck do they think we're gonna play? Do they expect VCU to give up its nice home to go play at city stadium? The walls of Sportsbacker are even lined with VCU soccer accomplishments. I'm sorry but I don't like this idea that you just knock VCU out of the way for the Squirrels. Perhaps this is why VCU has been interested in city stadium. I wonder if they see the city screwing the soccer team so they plan to buy the land and develop a new stadium for VCU soccer(and I assume the Kickers as well).