Get Use to It.

"Get used to it".

That's the words uttered by TFC President Kevin Payne on Wednesday night. To be fair, the exact quote was "They should get used to it. We're gonna play these games. I don't think it's a detriment". This was the response to TSN's Jason DeVos and his questions at half time regarding the fact that the TFC supporter's groups were strongly against this friendly game being played against AS Roma of the Italian Serie A.

Look, I get it. Bring in the big club to sell tickets to people who might like the big name teams from around the world but don't necessarily like MLS. I also get that you want TFC to play these games (as opposed to getting 2 big name teams to come in and just selling tickets to that game). You want the people who wouldn't normally buy TFC tickets to see the team and think "yeah, maybe I will check out a TFC game after all".

The problem is this: you can't just tell a whole group of people (who make up most of your season seat holders by the way) "too bad, it's happening, deal with it" and expect them not to be upset. The team has never made the playoffs and outside of 1 season, hasn't even been close. There has been many rumors about behind the scenes issues and plenty of mismanagement. Not to mention there have been plenty of players that have been mediocre at TFC but once they moved on, they seemed to preform much better. TFC is a club that is a complete mess. No other way to describe it. So to tell your dwindling season ticket base to "get used to it" is just detrimental. Here's, in my humble opinion, the worst part. This game was jammed in the middle of a short week for TFC. TFC played this past Sunday and will play again on Saturday. To boot, TFC is on a little 2 game win streak in MLS (though as a fan, it feels like much more than a "little" win streak) and I'm worried that the messed up training schedule and the loss to Roma might take the wind out of their sails.

End of the day, these are going to happen. It's an attempt to get more people to come out to the park and watch MLS games. I think that's not going to change anytime soon. I have "gotten used to it". I just don't go because I like to watch MLS, Canadian Championship or, Concacaf Champion's league games. Kevin Payne, I've gotten used to it. All you needed to admit that this could have been scheduled at a better time. I hope you "get use" to less and less people coming to games because a stupid comment like that will not help your case.