News: 2019 Media, FO, and in season discussion thread

Discussion in 'D.C. United' started by morrissey, Feb 25, 2019.

  1. UnitedBorn

    UnitedBorn Member+

    Dec 7, 2015
    301
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States


    Looks like we are hosting the Union in the 4th round of the USOC.

    We haven't beaten an MLS side in the cup since we won it all in 2013.
     
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  2. shawn12011

    shawn12011 Member+

    Jun 15, 2001
    Reisterstown, MD
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States

    Rumors are it will be at AF and not the Plex.
     
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  3. asitis

    asitis Member+

    Mar 30, 2005
    Charlottesville
    I got an email from DCU that confirms this: 6/12 @ 7:00 PM. It looks like they are only opening the west and north stands. Tickets are $10, north stand and $15 west stand. All are GA.

    asitis
    Edit: these prices are for STM's
     
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  4. shawn12011

    shawn12011 Member+

    Jun 15, 2001
    Reisterstown, MD
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States

    As if I would pay more than those prices for a USOC match with reserve players.
     
  5. JayRockers!

    JayRockers! Member+

    Aug 4, 2001
    I’d pay it for a hard ticket, parking included.

    Nope, working that night.

    Thx,

    Jay!
     
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  6. asitis

    asitis Member+

    Mar 30, 2005
    Charlottesville
    I'm guessing we might actually see a fairly strong lineup. We'll have a few players out on National Team duty, but we'll be eleven days past our previous game and two weeks away from our next. Everyone should be rested with plenty of time to recover for the next game.

    asitis
     
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  7. PSURoss

    PSURoss Member+

    Sep 30, 2002
    DC Burbs
    Dammed well better! I &?#$ing hate Philly, perhaps almost as much as NJ. It was the preseason games we played against them down in Tampa 3 years ago that really turned me into a club over country guy when Bedoya and Gooch were intentionally hacking and trying to hurt Lucho, which really set him back for much of the early part of the season due to the ankle injuries he incurred that game.
     
  8. Q*bert Jones III

    Q*bert Jones III The People's Poet

    Feb 12, 2005
    Woodstock, NY
    Club:
    DC United
    I don't really get how anybody could feel anything other than complete ambivalence towards Philly.
     
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  9. shawn12011

    shawn12011 Member+

    Jun 15, 2001
    Reisterstown, MD
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States

    I'm in your boat, Philly are Zwieback Cookies to me. Same as Spurs.
     
  10. fatbastard

    fatbastard Member+

    Aug 1, 2003
    Lincoln (ish), Va
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    You have to have positive feelings about something to be ambivalent.

    I can fathom why someone would feel okay about the city of Philadelphia
    I fully understand positive feelings about unions

    But the Philadelphia Union? Nah. Can't see it :cool:
     
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  11. song219

    song219 BigSoccer Supporter

    Apr 5, 2004
    La Norte
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    Vanuatu
    Someone else's sports hate? Who am I to judge? I just laugh at MLS because they think they can extinguish my Galaxy hatred by not scheduling any DC United games with them. To this day I have positive Chivas USA feelings because their fans hated the Galaxy.
     
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  12. griffin1108

    griffin1108 BigSoccer Supporter

    Dec 5, 2003
    Virginia
    Have you ever lived there? I did -- oof.
     
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  13. Q*bert Jones III

    Q*bert Jones III The People's Poet

    Feb 12, 2005
    Woodstock, NY
    Club:
    DC United
    So you're an LAFC fan now, along with @morissey?
     
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  14. morrissey

    morrissey Moderator
    Staff Member

    Feb 18, 2000
    West Los Angeles, Calif
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Always good to hate on the Galaxy twice over.
     
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  15. song219

    song219 BigSoccer Supporter

    Apr 5, 2004
    La Norte
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    Vanuatu
    #365 song219, May 31, 2019
    Last edited: May 31, 2019
    It's news to me that LAFC fans hate the Galaxy. Hating the Galaxy is common sense, I'm not become a fan of a team because they have a little common sense.
     
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  16. tallguy

    tallguy Member+

    Sep 15, 2004
    MoCoLand, MD
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Well, I think that the Sons of Ben are all right. Don't that way about the Union, tho.
     
  17. Bootsy Collins

    Bootsy Collins Player of the Year

    Oct 18, 2004
    Capitol Hill
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I don't care much one way or the other about the Philadelphia Union.

    Marylanders who claimed to be dyed-in-the-wool DCU fans who then jumped ship for the SOB as soon as the Union appeared and showed a little leg? Fuck them hard.
     
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  18. rocketeer22

    rocketeer22 Member+

    Apr 11, 2000
    Oakton,VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Not sure if posted elsewhere, but Richie Williams is joining Bruce Arena at New England Revolution.
     
  19. shawn12011

    shawn12011 Member+

    Jun 15, 2001
    Reisterstown, MD
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States

    Well at least one Marylander has stayed loyal for 23 years....................even after this Flo debacle!!!
     
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  20. Eastern Bear

    Eastern Bear Member+

    Feb 27, 1999
    Great Falls, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Another sign that DCU is just a bunch of posers. The guy wasn't here for more than a few months and he jumps at the first opportunity to be an assistant.
     
  21. pr0ner

    pr0ner Member+

    Jan 13, 2007
    Alexandria, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Uhh...I would say Williams's loyalties lie with Bruce Arena for far longer than with DCU. How does that make United posers?
     
  22. griffin1108

    griffin1108 BigSoccer Supporter

    Dec 5, 2003
    Virginia
    Agree 100%. He's going to work for the guy that recruited him in college, coached him to great success as a pro and, because Arena is my age, he won't be coaching much longer. At that point, Williams becomes the heir apparent for an MLS gig. If I were him, I would have taken the offer as well -- it just makes sense.
     
  23. fatbastard

    fatbastard Member+

    Aug 1, 2003
    Lincoln (ish), Va
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I might have as well, or maybe I might have shown some proper respect and responsibility and stayed in the job I promised to do for the remainder of the season - but who knows - people take jobs then leave them for different jobs before the ink on the first paycheck is dry every day.

    Now Loudoun United probably has their pick of about half the guys who they told weren't good enough for the job in March.

    They'll probably just hire the Academy guy and hire some local youth guy for that spot. I'm curious what it'll do to the team, they've been slowly playing like they didn't all just meet about a month ago ;)
     
  24. griffin1108

    griffin1108 BigSoccer Supporter

    Dec 5, 2003
    Virginia
    If you operate from the assumption that coaches are hired to be fired, then Williams move makes sense. Put another way, Williams could have said I will honor my contract and then DCU fires him two weeks later. Sure they would have to pay him the balance of his contract -- unless he was fired for some transgression that relieved DCU from its contractual obligations. In either case, the opportunity for Williams to coach in MLS would be gone. I don't have problem with him leaving and the FO did right to permit him to leave and NE rightfully compensated DCU for the inconvenience of losing a coach in midseason. For other examples of this, just look to Philly where one of their assistants left a few weeks ago to join his brother who is now a head coach in Germany.
     
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  25. shawn12011

    shawn12011 Member+

    Jun 15, 2001
    Reisterstown, MD
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States

    So what was the compensation, I have heard nothing.
     

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