By Fixture 2014: 0-6-1, 6 points, 10GF, 11GA 2013: 2-1-4, 7 points, 9GF, 11GA Last year's result: NE (L 0-1 last year) Upcoming games RSL (@D 1-1 last year) @NY (L 5-2 last year) SKC (L 1-2 last year) Gained another point on last year's results. Moving on up....
If the 2014 Fire had the 2012 Rolfe and the 2013 Magee, we'd be in pretty good shape. Instead it looks like the Fire have become the destination where a player's career goes to die.
With Montreal's win today we are dead last in the Eastern Division and one of three teams yet to win a game (FIRE, San Jose and Portland).
Both Portland and San Jose play tonight and we could possibly be the ONLY winless team. DC and New England won tonight. Who was it that said that DC didn't improve from last year and wouldn't finish ahead of us? I believe it was Mr. Optimist. Currently we are 5 points from the number 5 spot and done playing the so called bottom of the table teams (Chivas, DC, NE....). Now we get vs. RSL, @ New York, vs. Kansas City, @ Columbus, vs. LA and @ Colorado. We will be lucky not to finish dead last in the league, great job Dollar Menu from building us up from the ground up.
DC stuck with their legend Ben Olsen after one of, or maybe the worst season ever. We dumped our technical staff and started over. DC pummeled Dallas while we're still searching for our first win. Klopas finally got his. I was against a 2-3 year rebuild.
More like Hauptmancakes built whatever we had and shit on it and then burned it to ground. Built it from the ground up....bitch please.
Our technical staff, Leo, Mike and Leon. Do you really think we would be doing better if Frankie didn't get fired?
I do. We'd still have the new guys as well as Austin Berry, and Magee would be playing up top where he belongs.
Klopas wasn't a perfect coach but he was improving. If we weren't willing to give him room to grow like DC is giving Olsen, we shouldn't have hired him. Of course, Andrew could save money by hiring him in the first place so there's that. Would we be doing better though? Realistically we couldn't be doing much worse but I know the question is more rhetorical than realistic. I think Klopas would have needed some better assistants like CJ and a new, MLS experienced person in Javier Leon's position to really make a drastic improvement. I think Klopas is a better coach now than he was when he got us to the USOC final. I think with CJ and a Garth Lagerway at his side we'd be in the top third of MLS, instead of one of the bottom three.
Andycakes and his band of merry idiots ********ed this team over so bad we're going to paying for their mistakes for years.
Agreed. Apparently Andrew is spreading the tale that Klopas screwed things up monetarily and Hauptman bailed the team out this offseason with his own cash. Allegedly he's saying he spent $700k to buy out contracts and that's some sort of martyrdom. Where's the allocation cash? That's what I say.
Hauptman should tell the truth but he won't because he's a giant douche. Javier Leon is one of the big reasons we're so ********ed right now.
8th Chivas has the tiebreaker against us. By tomorrow we could possibly be dead last in the league, if San Jose and Portland win their games.
Wow, just wow. This is just sad. First, that he would throw Frank Klopas under the bus. The guy is/was a friggin' Chicago soccer legend. Again, a way to continue slowly kill off the Fire past. Second, I would like Mr. Hauptman to give specifics (was Rios a Klopas guy, was Castillo, was MacDonald, was JLA, was Soumare???) Third, that somehow Hauptman spending $700k is some kind of grand gesture, as opposed to what the owner/operator is supposed to do. I did not have a problem with Klopas as a head coach. I consistently said that Klopas as head coach was not our biggest problem (although a significant upgrade could be found-Yallop is not a significant upgrade). However, there was no way that Klopas should have been both Head coach and technical director, especially when the Fire had no general manager/president and that he was surrounded by buffoons. A decent director of player personnel and a club president (you mentioned Lagerway) and we would have been so much better suited. By the way, this situation has not changed. We still don't have a dpp or president to speak of here in Chicago.
As I said last year, Dear Leader is our biggest problem. You can whine about this or that player, this or that coach or even this or that FO idiot but as long as Dollar Menu is in charge, we can change players, coaches and FO staff all we want and we're still going nowhere because he won't bring in better people than we had before because that would take an investment in the team that he is not willing to make because he can still ride the weave of expansion teams and the general rise of soccer until he finally cashes out and ********s off to go wreck something else.
Kind of. He was still our captain so I could see Frankie resigning him to a new contract. Didn't Frankie sign him to that ridiculous contract five years ago.
[I'll be careful when I answer this, because some posters here are getting their tonsils bruised by their Klopas polesmoking.] No, the team failed to make the playoffs in 3 out of 4 seasons. And even in the one so-called "postseason appearance," it was a meager play-in game that they lost. The coaching staff was not smart enough to beat a team of amateurs, nor the statistically-worst MLS team to ever take the field, AT HOME, in the USOC. They basically ran out the same 4 defenders every match. They failed to master the concept of "roster rotation," be it for incentivizing good or bad play, to address fatigue, or to blood youngsters. And tactically, well let's just say that Klopas, et. al were certainly not Sir Alex or Mourinho. Relative to the performance on the field, the roster was poorly and expensively assembled. [And yes, SOME of this is on the former TD/Manager, although there are those who refuse to accept that their boyfriend had any hand in this.] That Klopas' Montreal team is doing better than the FIRE is no surprise, IMO. Their roster is better than the one he left behind in Chicago. [Seriously, Di Vaio vs. Anangono?] Shouldn't Montreal be BETTER than they are, given the quality of their roster? In sum, no. The FIRE would not be better off standing pat with the former failed managerial staff. It would have rewarded FAILURE [again], rather than punishing it. And it was offensive to ask the fans to pay for Klopas' "OJT" as manager and as TD. It would have been even MORE offensive to the paying customer to ask them to pay for an inferior product that is led by an inferior leader going into 2014. Hopefully Klopas can improve at his job, and support himself through his work in the game.