The Ex- Thread: Former Crew Legends, Rejects, Has-beens, and Never-was-es.

You know who love getting fisted?




. . . Sock puppets.

 

This has been a thoroughly enjoyable thread to read. Can we start a poll or something on when:
a.)tRR makes his first game day roster
b.)gets his first first-team minutes
c.)gets his first start

Next opportunity 02/04 @ Bristol City

 

This has been a thoroughly enjoyable thread to read. Can we start a poll or something on when:
a.)tRR makes his first game day roster
b.)gets his first first-team minutes
c.)gets his first start

Next opportunity 02/04 @ Bristol City

 

Didja hear Leeds got beaten 4-1 by Birmingham City? I may not have mentioned it yet.

 

Oh dear, Leeds sacked Grayson.

We all know how well Rogers adapts to coaching changes.

 

A new manager means a triumphant return to the twitter-verse though, doesn't it?

 

That does suck for tRR. I wonder if the new coach wants him around at all. And its too late to be loaned out. I hope he finds a spot.

 

<Missionary and Pastor enter stage left to state how the new manager is not developing tRR correctly>

 

Grayson sacked? So soon after winning Leeds hardest working manager award?

 

That big Serbian, Nikola Zigic, (6 ft 7 1⁄2 in), scored all four goals.

 

Bummer.

 

Traditionally I don't have a dog in this, um, discussion. However, "Must spread . . ."

 

Ok can we re-rename this thread back to "tRR discussion trumps all other topics thread"?
Christ, enough about rogers already. (the coaching change would have actually been an interesting tidbit had it not been prefaced by 6x previous pages about Rogers)

New rule: All posts in this thread about tRR must be accompanied by pictures at least one of his sisters. Pictures must not be duplicates of previously posted pictures. Topless pics allow you to post about tRR indefinitely. MODs please add this to the Crew Forum bylaws. Thank you.

 

So I don't know if this is the right place for this, but Hejduk wasn't able to come to terms with the Gals. Do you guys think this means he's heading to the FO? Or not, while Bob is in charge?

 

On a side note, the same articles notes that former Crew...uh....legend, Chris Leitch has elected to retire.

 

He was recently spotted in Columbus.

 

No Hejduk, no peace.

Look Homeward Massive.

Can we be Frankie?

And any other such countless slogans, were this possible. If he wasn't such a California guy, I'd actually take the time to hope for something like this.

 

Word amongst the Applebees staff says that Leitch will work in the SJ FO.

 

Getting away from tRR for a bit, there is a good, new article in the Dogpatch about Gino:

http://www.dispatch.com/content/blogs/covering-the-crew/2012/02/padula-second-career.html

One thing I really liked:

That's my kind of coach. It would be nice if they would put on some coaching clinics to share this (and it's the same kind of thing I've heard from Rob Smith when he has done coaching clinics for us).

 

Makes me a remember a coach I had back in the day for club that coached in one of the Westerville high schools, can't remember which one. In a tournament somewhere a teammate didn't take the ball to the corner to kill the last minute of a game and boy did he lace in to him. Remember after the game the other parents couldn't believe it. I can tell you the next time that kid needed to kill off a game, he went right for the corner. Now at younger ages I can understand no yelling, but by the time you're at higher levels you should be able to deal with it.

 

Disagree. A GOOD coach knows which players respond well to what types of motivations. I had kids that I could rip into with expecations and they knew that I was doing it because they did something they knew not to do. I had other kids that you had to treat with kid gloves for a variety of reasons. Sometimes, you even have to treat the same kid differently depending on the situation.

I remember on year, I was coaching a team that was absolutely devoid of talent. My senior captain skipped out on practice three days in a row. I had no idea where he was. This is normally a kid that can tak anything. Regardless of what I said, he'd take it in stride. He showed up and looked like crap. couldn't concentrate, yelling at the younger kids. I pulled him aside and asked him what was going on. Here, I thought he just skipped out on me, so I was already a little ticked at him and had been rough on him for the first 45 minutes. He proceeds to tell me that he's skipped school the last three days to work at some "work today/paid today" places because his dad (only parent) got picked up for DUI and they couldn't get him out of jail. HOLY CRAP did I feel like bantha fodder.

Sorry to take this off course, but I have to disagree that yelling at kids is ok, even at the higher level. I believe that as long as the kid isn't getting paid to play, then it shouldn't be ok to treat them like a professional athlete. And yes, I consider scholarships as "pay".

 

The profile you gave sounds like Steve Serr, one of the biggest d-bags in all of Central Ohio soccer. Right up there with my good buddy Keith Laughlin.

 

One of my favorite experiences was playing him and some of his (still in HS) team indoors (I forget where--possibly Oak Creek). Most of our team was on the wrong side of 30 by that point (and I may have been pushing 40) and we were geting trash-talked before the game about being old f*rts and the like (but kept silent). They figured they were going to run all over us and pushed way up, leaving our main forward unmarked. Five goals later, they began to see that they had a problem.... What they did *not* know was that the above-mentioned forward had played a bit. At Northwestern. Oops. We had a pretty good defense and ran out the clock in the second half, unscored upon. About the only thing we had to say afterward was "Scoreboard".

 

Couldn't remember the name, but that was him. He was in the Bobby Knight mold for sure. He was an a$$, but knew his soccer. Not going to turn this thread on it's head, but the way some kids are coddled and primped these days is a bit much. I see what crewfan is saying that yelling is not always the right reaction. Sometimes a point needs to be made and my opinion was that to completely dismiss it as a tool may not be the right move.