2012-13 Crew Offseason Roster Thread

Of course he has earned the right to be here. I agree that he SHOULD be entering his prime, but it didn't look like it this year or last year. I am not on the "he is fat" bandwagon because that is ridiculous. At times though he did not look match fit. I give him sort of a pass early in the year because of the injury just before the season and in the middle because of the concussion. What concerns me more than his physical fitness is his mental state. He just doesn't seem to have the same fire that we are used to seeing. Maybe that is the concussions catching up to him or the complete ineptitude of the head guy on the bench, I am not sure. Towards the end of this season I thought the armband should have gone to someone different. I think he should be back, and I hope he uses this off-season to get as physically prepared as possible. We need him to lead and be the Chad we expect to see. If the problem is because he is fed up with the manager then I think he has to move on because unfortunately I think we are stuck with RFW.

 

He's a better LB than Williams, IMO. If not, he's definitely just as good, which means that Williams should have been moved to CB.

The biggest problem that this club has faced in the past 4 years is Robert's pride and ego. Vuko and Duka are great examples of this.

I think there was honestly NO INTENTION of playing either the rest of the year, but necessity forced his hand. Both only as subs. The only time Vuko started the second half of the year was a result of Williams' red card. Duka made only two (maybe 3) appearances as a sub in matches where we absolutely needed a more offensive threat and he was the guy that could do it.

 

With Duka, if the FO or he does not want to return I hope we trade him for another quality MLS player instead of just a draft pick or letting him go.

 

This is the big thing. I just don't think he was in it this season.

Whatever could that mean?

 

I never realize that Dilly was an incredible d-bag. How out of the loop am I?

 

Must be a Jersey thing.

 

I think we should keep just about everybody because we have a lot of talent and it was only the soccer gods that kept us from MLS Cup. The people we should get rid of are talented young attacking midfielders who get frustrated when they are subbed out of games. Lets get rid of them to teach them a lesson about "responsibility."

 

Ah the 2013-2014 season. Where the Crew and Toronto fight for bottom place trophy and RW will blame Hurricane Sandy.

 

I don't think that Mirosevic is out of contract, if he is then he signed for one year and I have never seen MLS sign a guy on a one year deal without some type of option to extend it.

I would hope to see Gehrig go, or at least not play at CB. I don't understand why Bob keep's playing him there.

I agree keep Duka

 

Points Per Game:
2009: 1.63
2010: 1.67
2011: 1.38
2012: 1.53

Linear Trend: Negative Trend
Equation of the line: Y= -0.0596x+1.702

Goals For Per Game:
2009: 1.367
2010: 1.333
2011: 1.265
2012: 1.294

Linear Trend: Negative Trend
Equation of the line: Y= -0.0286x+1.3863

Goals Allowed Per Game:
2009: 1.033
2010: 1.133
2011: 1.294
2012: 1.294

Linear Trend: "Positive" Trend - In that a positive trend is bad
Equation of the line: Y= 0.0943x+0.9529

Goal Differential over Four Years: +15
Goal Differental over Last Two Years: -1

 

Please refrain from using logic and data to assert a theory or confirm a hypothesis.

What I want to see is a another Roster Overhaul. Call it RW3.0-

Any good business follows the rule of firing the bottom 10%. So since certain players make less than others they are clearly worth less. Fire the worthless.

 

Good post KC.

One more thing is that I'm never in favor of getting rid of guys just to get rid of them. Or at least, players who were contributing. You have to either have someone better on the club already, or be committed to going out and signing someone better who you are fairly sure wants to be here.

Duka has never been a wide player, but since Robert can't play w/out two DMs, he got forced out there. Frankly, Speas seems a decent replacement for him. Meram is not.

 

I don't really understand why so many people are campaigning for Gehrig to be let go. I'd much rather let go of James and Mendes- 100k is too much for a backup defender that really isn't that good (I know people on here think that James is fantastic. He is a good guy, but I don't think he is a good player. Just remember that D.C. United let him go.).

Gehrig seems to be very well-liked in the locker room, is the reserve team captain, and is a good backup center back making the league minimum. Do I ever think he will be a starter? No. Do I feel comfortable with him starting 5 games a year if necessary? Yes.

 

Can we just cut RW bring on the Crewsers and just leave it be?

 

I'd disagree on that. Hesmer had a very, very mediocre 2011. Now, he didn't have any (at least that I can recall) memorable gaffes that cost us a full 3 or 1 here or there, but he was at fault for a fair share of goals. HebHam was stellar all season long. Even his bad matches were still good matches. Hesmer, based of his 2011 performance, cannot be argued that he'd have been a redeeming light and keep us in the playoff hunt as Andy did for us this year.

The defense, also, was much more solid for Hesmer last year than the revolving door that is was for Andy this year. The degree of difficulty for Andy's job was much higher, and he still outperformed Hesmer's '11.

 

Ah, okay... fair enough. Took that comment in a vacuum.

 

We battled injuries most of the year. But we were in playoff position with 7-8 games to go and went 2-4-1 before the TFC game to miss out. We were pretty much healthy in that stretch minus Balchan and Higuain for a game. And Marshall for a couple.

Did we lose some points due to injury? Yes.

Were we pretty healthy down the stretch with a chance to get in the playoffs? Yes.

Ergo, I don't think one can blame us missing the playoffs on injuries.