It's that time of year! Time to go on record before the season starts and make your predictions. Have guts and don't hedge your bets!!!! Every team will have injuries. Every team has questions marks. But how will the Red Bulls do in 2015?
I'll go first. A few facts:
- We lost the best offensive player in history and literally didn't replace him.
- Lost one of the best CB's in team history.
- New defenses take a fairly long time to gel.
We are clearly worse than last year. That can't be argued. What is interesting is that MLS swapped 2 teams out West (Houston & KC) and added 2 expansion teams in the East. Add in the the Worms, Toronto & Montreal have never been a factor in MLS that's 5 Eastern Conference teams with huge question marks. Play-offs should be a shoe in, right? Right?
My prediction is that we are much, much, much worse than the past few years. Due to re-formatting of conferences, we fight it out for the last Wild Card slot until the end of the season. But in the end, we miss the play-offs.
On a separate prediction, Boy City is better than us this season. Much better coach, organization and clearly better players. Next season they wipe their ass with us.
GMoney