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#196 Caasi Gohd

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Posted 08 April 2009 - 11:48 AM

After reading some of the comments in the FIRST THREE WEEKS of the season I'm starting to understand Tim Leiweke and his "win now, fuck the future" mentality. It seems to be what the people want.

At some point, a lot of people need to be pinched and reminded that this team has been garbage for three years and that puts us at a worse disadvantage than an expansion team. Our GM died, Yallop ravaged our backline and then folded under the Beckham pressure, our ownership group caused our new coach to quit (if you think Gullit was "fired" look at all the surrounding evidence), and after three years of losing, high-roster-turnover and constant pressure, it's going to take some time to rebuild.

When both teams sent out reserves on the field, that should have been a huge indication that maybe the game was going to suck. When Landon Donovan was dressed in a suit at the club suite, that should have been an indication that maybe the team wasn't TOO concerned with winning. (There's a reason I stayed home yesterday.) But it's going to be okay. The sky is not going to fall. Our reserves essentially drew a reserve match, not a huge surprise.

We have a lot of players with a lot of good upsides, and I still think we'll be fine this season. Hell, I like our chances against the scum this Saturday.

When Gullit quit, I voted for Hugo Sanchez. Unfortunately, that was only a rumor and we got Bruce Arena. Okay. At some point we have to start being more patient. This is +3 years of shit that we have to clear out (and one massive turd that we can't remove until at least the end of the season). I think we need to know better than to expect it to be corrected after one bad league game, and one reserves open cup game.

Of the two games I've seen, and based on what I read on the play by play last night, I can tell you this much. We're controlling matches (more than I can say for last season's games) but not working well in getting into their own third (We ARE missing one of our starting forwards) on top of that, we've still had defensive lapses (new defense). As you can see, none of these are incorrigible. Give it a little time before you turn into Ali.

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Posted 08 April 2009 - 03:31 PM

After reading some of the comments in the FIRST THREE WEEKS of the season I'm starting to understand Tim Leiweke and his "win now, fuck the future" mentality. It seems to be what the people want.

At some point, a lot of people need to be pinched and reminded that this team has been garbage for three years and that puts us at a worse disadvantage than an expansion team. Our GM died, Yallop ravaged our backline and then folded under the Beckham pressure, our ownership group caused our new coach to quit (if you think Gullit was "fired" look at all the surrounding evidence), and after three years of losing, high-roster-turnover and constant pressure, it's going to take some time to rebuild.

Of the two games I've seen, and based on what I read on the play by play last night, I can tell you this much. We're controlling matches (more than I can say for last season's games) but not working well in getting into their own third (We ARE missing one of our starting forwards) on top of that, we've still had defensive lapses (new defense). As you can see, none of these are incorrigible. Give it a little time before you turn into Ali.


it's not that we're losing, it's that team is repeating the same pattern of the past 5-6 years and being told we can expect different results. sanneh is this year's vanney, who was last year's xavier, who was sampson's chinchilla or that other costa rican flop.

and i beg to differ about us controlling games, we looked okay for stretches of time against two of the weaker sides in mls. lets see what happens saturday when we face a team that's actually good.

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Posted 08 April 2009 - 07:12 PM

Yeah I dunno Isaac, I just see a team without BMac and more old guys that are sucking maybe even worse than last year.

At least Xavier was fun to watch.

I think it's pretty obvious that, per instructions from the very get-go by Leiweke, Bruce has his old wily veterans to try to "win now" while he also tries to build a real team going forward - the old guys for a year or so to plug the leak while he tries to revamp going forward. Fine idea, but man... so far, it's painful to look at.

I'd rather not win one single game all year but see improvement and cohesion with a talented young group of players as a solid core than watch a bunch of old has-beens embarrass themselves.

And besides, ever since I've read this forum, Doomsday and Elation are the two languages spoken, you can hardly even find somebody to translate Rational when it does pop up.

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Posted 09 April 2009 - 02:05 AM

Give it a little time before you turn into Ali.

I'll give you guys before the end of the year till you turn to the dark side and realize we're never going to win. Ever. Period. Exclamation point. Dot. Dot. Dot

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Posted 09 April 2009 - 10:06 PM

Not that it's at all interesting, but I posted some Open Cup match pix in my gallery.

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Posted 09 April 2009 - 10:30 PM

Not that it's at all interesting, but I posted some Open Cup match pix in my gallery.

These photos make that game massively more interesting then it was

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Posted 10 April 2009 - 12:05 AM

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The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which "unskilled people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it." The unskilled therefore suffer from illusory superiority, rating their own ability as above average.

#203 Caasi Gohd

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Posted 13 April 2009 - 07:28 PM

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I call this shot: DEMA WAS INNOCENT!

In this picture you can see:

a) Dema going in with ONE leg, not two.
b) Medouchy stepping on the ball at the moment of impact.
c) Dema making contact with the ball first, not the man.



DEMA WAS INNOCENT!!




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