And the Rapids are six points to the good in the race for the Spoon, with the other two contenders also playing at home this week.
Next record up for challenge: the worst first half season in MLS history. Current record holder (16 games) -- Chivas USA, 1-12-3 (6 points), 0.375 PPG, in 2005. Rapids 2019: 0-9-2 (2 points) and counting, 0.182 PPG. (In a 17-game first half, the record is DC United, 2-12-3 (9 points), 0.529 PPG, in their epic 2013 season.)
Is the next Messi or Pele going to be available for the #1 pick? Unless we already traded it to someone else.....fyi Hazzard to Real Madrid and Pulisic to take his place in Chelsea (the Europe one, not the NYC 'hood). Sigh. And to think we let Watts go..... R
The #1 pick is going to Nashville or Miami as expansion teams. Just because what we replaced him with was bad doesn't make getting rid of a poor player a bad decision.
Not Messi or Pele, but you could throw Watts in there for a good trivia question. "Who are 3 people who have not been in my kitchen" or "Who are 3 players who scored on Tim Howard."
Well crap...Bruce Arena hired as GM and Coach of the Revs https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...BlitzRss&utm_campaign=usatoday-newstopstories Bruce Arena is off the big board of available coaches...New England fired their coach and GM and replace them both right away. Can you imagine if the Rapids fired Hudson and then Smith back to back? And then hired a guy like Arena? All in the span of a week? Pipedreams baby. Pipedreams
So you're saying if you had your choice between Interim Coach Casey and Bruce Arena, you'd take Casey? I'd take Arena in a heartbeat. I'd take him over Pablo, I'd take him over Hudson, I'd take him over Casey.....the list goes on of people I would rather have him over
If the only two choices are "KSE gives Arena the money and control he needs to run the club" and Casey I'd take Arena. But if they're willing to give Arena the money and control he would need to take the job they should give it to a better option.
I wish I knew what to expect. You need to have a coach & players that play a specific system well. When they supposedly tried that with "The Rapids Way" it resulted in about as dismal a stretch that I recall (and I go back to year 1...). And the fallout continues. In retrospect, they did not seem to have a system, and the Rapids young players that I thought had some promise were replaced on the roster (or the pitch) with others who neither seemed better quality nor fit the system. In 2016 Cronin, Sjoberg, Azira, Burch, Gashi, and Powers led the team in minutes. (Doyle and Miller were also with them in the top 8, too). Um, that team had a great records, "so guess we can't play those guys anymore!" We got Gatt and Saeid for then Team Captain Cronin. Tied with Beckerman for Ballouchi as the worse Rapids trade ever. Azira went for a 2020 4th round draft pick, which I doubt will be the next Pulisic. Do we wonder why the Smith reign is setting the bar below the worst ever seasons we've had?? And we're a team with a striking minority of winning seasons, the the bar ain't very high. I understand that he talked an optimistic game this February. I was OK to see what they rolled out. I think I have seen enough. R
But now those have been replaced with young prospects. We have to see how they pan out but this is about as young a team the Rapids have ever had. I understand the long-term plan here (get young, develop kids, make good first team players and/or sell them, repeat). The short-term plan has been uniformly awful though.
I don’t think I’d want Arena either, but we are starting to get to the point where this is the only kind of credibility that is going to make players of any talent/ability sign with the Rapids for future DP (or even non-DP) positions. Otherwise we’ll be back to Mr. Moneyball Smith scouring some obscure league for talent for the foreseeable future with no credible plan how to use the talent the team actually has.
New England can have Arena. Sam Allardyce may also be off the table in the next couple weeks. The Bolton Wanderers were relegated from the Championship to League 1. Right after the season ended, they went into administration, which will guarantee a 12-point deduction next season in League 1. Chinese investors are prepared to purchase the Bolton Wanderers from the administrators. According to current reports, they are prepared to hire Sam Allardyce as manager. If Allardyce returns to Bolton, he will face a task bigger than the Rapids face. I have to think that his heart is in Bolton, but that better sense would prevail if he were offered Coach and GM duties in Colorado. To the Everton fans on here, I would concede that Sam isn't a great coach when he has talent and a team near the top. He is, however, the best coach I know when he has a team with little talent and its backs to the wall. That describes the Rapids, as well as the Bolton Wanderers. If the Rapids hired Allardyce, in spite of Kroenke still being the owner, I would return and buy season tickets. There would be something worth watching, at long last. JMHO