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jamison

Member Since 05 Nov 2003
Offline Last Active Aug 31 2023 07:49 PM

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In Topic: Joao Sacramento (coach) to RBNY?

15 August 2023 - 04:41 PM

Yeah, I fail to see what a new coach would get out of the existing roster. We just dumped one of our better midfielders (CCJ), our top scorer from last year has barely played all year (Lewis Morgan) and our $5M big offseason signing to fix the offense is scoring goals at about half the pace per 90' than Brian White is at.

 

Until we get better ingredients, no chef is turning Wal-mart pasta into a Michelin starred Italian restaurant. 

 

I'd rather have a young American on his way up than another European looking for a start to his HC career. Jim Curtain had 3 losing seasons in his first 3 full years to start his career. Since then he's like 38 games over .500.  Not saying Troy will replicate that, but, switching managers every 18 months doesn't seem to be working for us, and we were doing that 20 plus years ago as well. Unless you are bringing in an INTL top talent like Tata Martino, give the American a chance, let him learn and grow, then see what you've got. 

 

This guy can cut his teeth in Portugal. No thank you.


In Topic: Jorge Cabezas Hurtado to RNBY

14 August 2023 - 11:00 AM

Can someone tell our scouting department they can look for people who can actually shave?????

 

Messi's first season was 2004. We're basically trying to compete with the guy by signing a team full of people born after he started playing.  In 5-6 years, that math works out. For now...we're fucked. 


In Topic: What kind of budget do we have for the summer?

13 August 2023 - 03:17 PM

This isn't an entirely fair comparison since they play different positions, but I was curious about how effective Gazdag has been for Philly, and how we've struggled to have a big signing hit for us in terms of scoring goals during that same time (Klimala, Vanzier). 

 

I took the publicly available transfer fee information, and then the MLS Player Union guaranteed salary data. 

 

If you take transfer fee & 2021-2023  salary data, Gazdag has cost Philly $4.07M. Klimala/Vanzier cost us $13.03M across transfer fee & 2021-2023  salary data, minus whatever we got for Klimala which I kind of assume was $0, but, who knows. 

 

In the last 3 years, Gazdag has scored 35g, 24a across 6085 MLS regular season minutes. 

 

In the last 3 years, Klimala/Vanzier has scored 15g, 11a across 4410 MLS regular season minutes. 

 

So, each goal or assist has cost Philly $69.1k.

 

Each goal or assist has cost NY $501.1k.

 

Again, it's not entirely apples to apples since they play different positions and I'm comparing one of the best acquisitions in recent MLS history to two of the worse performing ones, but...two teams playing a similar style looking for foreign talent went into the market and spent money. 

 

One had Ernst Tanner. One did not. 

 

I wish RBNY would spend more money, sure. But...at times they have...and they've fucking sucked at it. 

 

I'm not going to make it, but one could make an argument that we'd be sort of alright with the amount of money Austria is sending us, if the people spending it weren't absolute fucking clowns with that money. Maybe at some point Austria is like "eh...maybe we just keep the money here..."

 

Again, I'm not defending Austria, but next time they are going to send us a blank check, try not to hand it to an empty suit. 

 

Whatever money they send us isn't going to save us, if it's going to the same front office we have looking for talent now. 


In Topic: RIP NY Times Sports Section

10 July 2023 - 10:21 PM

and the odd nugget thrown to us by George Vescey or Richard Sandomir, etc. 

 

Yeah, no one really bought the NY Times for the sports section, but the wrote important pieces now and again. Guys at papers like that broke the steroid scandal in baseball (SF paper did that) and now who are we going to for this stuff? I subscribe to the Athletic, it's some good content, but it's not the same as walking into a room and going "I'm frrom the NY Times..."

Guess that gives them some more column inches to throw at us each election year by asking the same 7 people in an Ohio diner over the age of 80 why they aren't voting for climate change legislation. 


In Topic: Enough excuses

28 May 2023 - 04:34 PM

With Struber gone I think we've gone back to being a high floor, low ceiling team. We can't score for shit, but we are solid defensively. We stay in games, but aren't quite good enough to win them consistently. We're average. Hard to play against, but average.

 

Getting Luqui back should help a bit over time if Lesesne can figure out a way to play to his strengths; getting Morgan back will help. With all of our pieces, we're still 1-2 strong offensive players away from being a "good" team, but we're solid enough to make the playoffs with everyone healthy. Ndam has filled in well enough, so that has me less worried about when Reyes & others go on INTL duty, but the only real hope for this season turning into something that we're happy about rests on the sporting director realizing that we need more offense, and I think some combination of Morgan coming back & Vanzeir catching a hot streak.

 

Those seem somewhere between possible & not likely. Ideally, we get some quality replacements so the likes of Barlow & D. Nealis don't see the field regularly. But, that seems like our fate for now. I think we scrape it back together & make the playoffs, but we go out in the first round again as we'd need some sort of big splash signing to come in & make a difference, and I don't think that's very likely. 

 

If nothing else comes out of this year: We dropped Struber & seem to have found a good dude in Lesesne. 

 

Honestly, I don't hate that. I think a worse result would've been Struber doing just well enough to renew his contract. If nothing else, we've gotten out of that scenario.