Hasn't Packwood been playing RB and D-Mid ? and is Brooks now in question? Not 100% sure as it seems things change from week to week
I think Packwood started at CM with Birmingham over the weekend. Thought he has featured primarily at CB in the preseason, although with the youth team a combo of CDM and CB. Brooks appears to be in the doghouse after some untimely gaffes but I don't think this puts his prospect status in question as he is only 19 and the learning curve in even BL2 can be steep. Patience will be the key for these three under 20 defenders all playing for clubs in challenging leagues for players so young. I wouldn't put too much value in week to week analysis or news. It may take 2-3 years to fully see one or more pan out or fail.
Ranking the Camp Cupcake Candidates: GOALKEEPER 1. Sean Johnson 2. Nick Rimando 3. Bill Hamid 4. Dan Kennedy 5. Matt Pickens 6. Andy Gruenebaum 7. Ryan Meara 8. Steve Clark CENTER BACK 1. Clarence Goodson (possible omit) 2. Matt Besler 3. Omar Gonzalez 4. George John 5. Amobi Okugo 6. Austin Berry 7. AJ Soares 8. Chad Marshall 9. Marvell Wynne 10. Matthew Hedges 11. Drew Moor 12. Jay DeMerit 13. Jeff Parke 14. Nat Borchers RIGHT BACK 1. Steve Beitashour 2. Michael Parkhurst 3. Sheannon Williams 4. Chance Myers 5. Kevin Alston 6. Tony Beltran 7. Jalil Anibaba 8. Brandon Barklage 9. AJ De la Garza 10. Zach Scott LEFT BACK 1. Justin Morrow 2. Heath Pearce 3. Zach Loyd 4. Connor Lade 5. Michael Farfan 6. Seth Sinovic 7. Sean Cunningham 8. Corey Ashe 9. Daniel Woolard 10. Todd Dunivant HOLDING MIDFIELDERS 1. Kyle Beckerman 2. Osvaldo Alonso (eligibility depending) 3. Dax McCarty 4. Sam Cronin 5. Perry Kitchen 6. Ricardo Clark 7. Jeff Larentowicz 8. Cole Grossman 9. Jack Jewsbury 10. Logan Pause 11. Brian Carroll 12. Ben Zemanski ADVANCED MIDFIELDERS 1. Graham Zusi 2. Conor O' Brien 3. Mikkel Diskerud 4. Alejandro Bedoya 5. Benny Feilhaber 6. Lee Nguyen 7. Brad Davis 8. Brad Evans 9. Eddie Gaven 10. Luis Silva 11. Kelyn Rowe 12. Luis Gil 13. Danny Cruz 14. Andrew Jacobson WINGERS 1. Landon Donovan (most likely omit) 2. Brek Shea 3. Chris Pontius 4. Josh Gatt 5. Freddy Adu 6. Nick DeLeon 7. Dilly Duka 8. Darlington Nagbe (eligiblity depending) 9. Mike Magee 10. Sal Zizzo 11. Tony Cascio 12. Shea Salinas 13. Justin Mapp 14. Eric Alexander 15. Bobby Convey FORWARDS 1. Chris Wondolowski 2. Eddie Johnson 3. Kenny Cooper 4. Alan Gordon 5. Jack McInerney 6. Juan Agudelo 7. Will Bruin 8. Teal Bunbury 9. Charlie Davies 10. CJ Sapong 11. Steve Lenhart 12. Brian Span 13. Danny Mwanga (eligibility depending) 14. Edson Buddle 15. David Estrada 16. Andrew Wenger 17. Omar Salgado 18. Conor Casey My 23: GK Johnson, Rimando, Hamid DF Parkhurst, Beitashour, Morrow, Pearce, John, Gonzalez, Besler, Okugo (Goodson) MF Beckerman, Zusi, O' Brien, Diskerud, Bedoya, McCarty (Alonso) FW Shea, Pontius, Gatt, Wondolowski, Johnson, Adu (Donovan) ----------------------Wondolowski--------------------- ----------Shea---------------------------Pontius-------- ------------------Zusi-----------O' Brien----------------- --------------------(Cpt) Beckerman------------------------ Morrow------------------------------------------Beitashour -----------------Besler----------Gonzalez--------------- ------------------------Johnson-------------------------- Bench: Rimando, John, Parkhurst, McCarty, Diskerud, Gatt, Johnson
Our team right now... Key: Orange=Move down Red=Move down to Outsider Green=Move up Blue=Move up to Primary Purple=Monitor Black=Stay/Keep GOALKEEPERS Primary: Tim Howard Secondary: Brad Guzan, Nick Rimando, Sean Johnson Outsider: Bill Hamid Not featured: Matt Pickens, Dan Kennedy, Ryan Meara, Caleb Patterson-Sewell, Andy Gruenebaum, Steve Clark, Cody Cropper, Tally Hall DEFENDERS Primary: Fabian Johnson, Geoff Cameron, Maurice Edu, Steve Cherundolo, Carlos Bocanegra, Clarence Goodson, Timmy Chandler* Secondary: Michael Parkhurst, Michael Orozco, Edgar Castillo, Jonathan Spector Outsiders: Tim Ream, Steve Beitashour, Matt Besler, George John, Omar Gonzalez, Oguchi Onyewu, Jeff Parke, Zach Loyd, AJ de la Garza, Heath Pearce Not featured: Eric Lichaj, Sheannon Williams, Seb Hines, Austin Berry, Amobi Okugo, Michael Farfan, Connor Lade,Justin Morrow, Ventura Alvarado, Will Packwood, John Anthony Brooks*, Sean Cunningham, Greg Garza, Tony Beltran, Kevin Alston,Zak Whitbread, Daniel Woolard, Jalil Anibaba, AJ Soares, Chad Marshall, Marvell Wynne, Drew Moor, Eric Brunner, Matt Hedges, Seth Sinovic, Brandon Barklage MIDFIELDERS Primary: Jermaine Jones, Michael Bradley, Danny Williams, Jose Francisco Torres, Brek Shea, Landon Donovan, Kyle Beckerman Secondary: Graham Zusi, Joe Corona, DaMarcus Beasley Outsiders: Sacha Kljestan, Josh Gatt, Alfredo Morales, Benny Feilhaber, Freddy Adu, Ricardo Clark, Jeff Larentowicz, Brad Evans, Robbie Rogers Not featured: Mikkel Diskerud, Conor O' Brien, Nick DeLeon, Dax McCarty, Lee Nguyen, Alejandro Bedoya, Sam Cronin, Perry Kitchen, Joe Gyau, Luis Gil, Jose Villarreal, Stuart Holden*, Osvaldo Alonso*, Luis Silva, Brad Davis, Eddie Gaven, Kelyn Rowe, Dilly Duka, Sal Zizzo, Tony Cascio, Danny Cruz, Shea Salinas, Mike Magee, Eric Alexander FORWARDS Primary: Clint Dempsey, Herculez Gomez, Jozy Altidore Secondary: Terrence Boyd, Chris Wondolowski, Juan Agudelo Outsiders: Chris Pontius, Teal Bunbury, Edson Buddle, CJ Sapong, Alan Gordon Not featured: Eddie Johnson, Kenny Cooper, Charlie Davies, Jack McInerney, Andrew Wenger, Andrew Wooten, Villyan Bijev, Omar Salgado, Jerome Kiesewetter, Tony Taylor, Will Bruin, David Estrada, Steve Lenhart
Summer wcq roster: Goalkeepers Tim Howard, Nick Rimando, Bill Hamid Defenders Steve Cherundolo, Jonathan Spector, Fabian Johnson, Steve Beitashour, Carlos Bocanegra, Geoff Cameron, Clarence Goodson, Michael Orozco Midfielders Jermaine Jones, Danny Williams, Michael Bradley, Graham Zusi, Jose Torres, Joe Corona Forwards Landon Donovan, Brek Shea, Clint Dempsey, Terrence Boyd, Herculez Gomez, Jozy Altidore Gold cup roster: Goalkeepers Brad Guzan, Sean Johnson, Dan Kennedy Defenders Chance Myers, Michael Parkhurst, Eric Lichaj, Edgar Castillo, Maurice Edu, Omar Gonzalez, Tim Ream, Matt Besler Midfielders Sacha Kjlestan, Stuart Holden, Alfredo Morales, Mikkel Diskerud, Conor O'brien, Kyle Beckerman Forwards Chris Wondolowski, Josh Gatt, Chris Pontius, Aron Johannsson, DaMarcus Beasley, Juan Agudelo Alternates: Gk: Meara, Gruenebaum, Pickens Df: Chandler, S. Williams, John, Hines, Packwood, Brooks, Alvarado, Okugo, Lade, Morrow, Pearce Mf: Bedoya, Davis, Clark, Larentowicz, McCarty, Kitchen, Nguyen, Feilhaber Fw: Deleon, Rogers, Gaven, Duka, Gil, Salgado, Sapong, Bunbury, Johnson, Cooper
He would have if we had locked down the hex. Do you think he is going to sign up when we don't know if we are going to make it? If JK contacts him and likes what he says, we may see him in January
Clark is perhaps the most undeserved hated players on this board. What has he done so terrible? Yeah, he had a giveaway in the world cup in the middle of the field... But the CBs should have been supporting him and Howard was way out of position. Rico will always be one of the best CDMs we have had due to his athleticism, range, and tackling ability.
True. Still, his odds seem better with the USA than with Iceland, even considering how Iceland is doing right now.
Thing about the GC is, that given we're still struggling with countries like Jam and Guat, and given we don't have anything near a solidified first XI and Clint/LD/MB have seen so little time together, unless all that somehow changes before then and we collectively see a considerable bump in form I'm not sure we can use the GC as an opportunity to throw a bunch of new guys out there to evaluate. That's what I wanted, and assumed would happen for awhile. But going on what we're currently seeing with our senior team I don't think we can waste that opportunity to have them gel even more and hopefully get some confidence. Win the damn thing. I'd still hope we see a few new faces as the Hex won't be the time for that but our current senior team has so many unknowns right now, so little chemistry and the appearance of less confidence/fight in them than they used too a couple years ago, I don't see how JK doesn't call in the regular guys, a few new ones and try to build from there, unless of course something changes between the fall and spring. Otherwise, I'd guess that in Jan the young guys will be playing for a spot in the GC,in which JK probably picks about five of them and brings them in with most of the top guys.
Without Ricardo Clark, there is no way the US team beats Spain at the 2009 Confederations Cup. Also, the US team likely doesn't even make the Confrderations Cup because Ricardo's game against Mexico in the 2007 Gold Cup Final was stellar. Both of those performance from Rico in two of the USMNT's biggest wins since the 2002 WC were likely the two best performances by a US d-mid ever. Period And yet another point... Without his classy goal in the 09 hex against T&T, qualifying is very problematic Clark is very unfairly maligned. His high moments were simply huge to the US team
yah but he is 29, on the downside of his career and has been bad in his recent stints w/ USMNT, how is he promising?
It's not that he's promising now for our future... it's that he has helped us out a lot during the Bradley era and if we got into an emergency situation, the world would not be over if he were to get some time.
Ricardo Clark messed up. But he was not 100% responsible for that goal and in no shape or form does that mess up even compare to some of the mess ups we've seen at the World Cup. Where were the defenders backing him up? He was in the middle of the field! there's no excuse for that. And what the hell was Tim Howard doing? I swear the crap that Ricardo Clark gets for that one play is absolutely absurd.
Yes, he was partially at fault for a goal in the World Cup. There were others at fault too. It doesn't diminish that he had some absolutely huge moments for the US team as well. I'm not saying Clark has any real future with the US national team but it is terrible that so many US fans don't look back on his contributions to the US team fondly. It really is a shame. He had a huge role in some of the team's biggest wins the past decade.