Only difference was or is Doyle won more than Fioranelli has. Regardless of what people think , last years playoff team was all Kinnear’s and Doyle’s. This years was all Stahre.and Jesse. As incompetent as both either Dom and John were or are, I’m pretty sure they will have been able to win more than four games at this point.
Let's take a few to mean three. If I had to take a wild guess (and I am), it would be San Jose, Colorado, and New England. Three teams with owners that have been around a long time and who have not historically spent a lot of money on the roster. I do think a restructuring of the DP rules would be nice, though rather than a reduction of the number of slots, they could either increase the amount of their salary that counts against the cap (bumping it back up to 500,000k rather than the measly 350,000 it is now), or get rid of DP slots altogether and rework the amount of allocation money that the league operates with. At this point in time, I think I'd rather them go down the allocation money route, though I would bet that would also have to be negotiated with the union. Either way, if this conservative effort gains any steam within the ownership collective, expect some very tense negotiations.
How many multi-goal leads did the Quakes have to relinquish to win this award? Truly a team effort.* * Special thanks to the VAR crew, without whom this couldn't have been possible.
Really? I thought it was going to come down to the last game between us and Colorado... So then the last home game of the season will be truly meaningless?
The operative word is "can" clinch this weekend. If Colorado wins and the Quakes lose, the Quakes win the spoon and render the home match against Colorado meaningless. The Quakes will almost certainly keep up their end of the bargain by losing against the Red Bulls, which means even a draw against Colorado the following game would earn the spoon. And the Quakes will almost certainly lose in Seattle, regardless. I don't want to scare anyone away, but (as I infamously said previously) if you think the Quakes are going to earn around 30 points before this season is over, you're smoking crack.
#CONSISTENCY What a ride out West. pic.twitter.com/5RsMFLe7Ar— Major League Soccer (@MLS) October 1, 2018 The ups and downs of the Eastern Conference. pic.twitter.com/r6dDv0Ujsw— Major League Soccer (@MLS) October 1, 2018
I am trying to think back to 2008 and if the league was stronger then or not. There were less teams but I think the talent pool across the leagues rosters wasn’t as diluted as many teams had many foreign and domestic national team players. Comparing this team to the expansion year, I can’t find many similarities. The GK in Joe Cannon was much stronger and we had Nick Garcia on defense as well as Lima , Huckerbe , Ramiro and (a then) Scott Sealy and they all had a great second half of the season. Even rookie Shea Salinas was showing a lot of promise that year and the future looked bright. That team is currently much worse this year. Love Frank or not, even though we finished last, that expansion season was levels ahead of this one. They also won 4 more games I believe.
The league is definitely stronger now than in '08. No question. While our '08 team might have been better, you're focusing on the end of the season after we got Hucks and Lima. Before that, we sucked. But this year's team is historically bad. We are way beyond awful. The most relevant thing about making this comparision is that starting from scratch, with an expansion side, we were actually a better, more coherant squad in '08 than this season. This season marks the nadir of the team. We should never, ever be this dreadful again, ever. No matter how long the team exists. Go Quakes!! - Mark
conceivably, you and the last few attendees could quietly enjoy Fisherball, each with an entire section to yourself. yay for elbow room!
The bottom 8 teams in the @SupporterShield standings combined to place 0 players on the list, so I'd say I'm most disappointed in them.https://t.co/8eMHzFpYfz— Matthew Doyle (@MattDoyle76) October 4, 2018 Auro & Mihailovic would've made it if they'd been healthy, and the utter dysfunction of the Quakes this year robbed Yueill of anything meaningful. Colman, Lindley & Da Silva all disappointing for OCSC. Angking has gotten barely any minutes for the Revs, same w/ Toye for MNUFC. pic.twitter.com/SpHptLsbJh— Matthew Doyle (@MattDoyle76) October 4, 2018 This is in a league with no threat of relegation... bottom teams acting as if they *could* get relegated is one of the wilder aspects of MLS— Darius Tahir (@dariustahir) October 4, 2018
Which player is most poised to enter next year's 22 Under 22? BOEHM: Who's next?! Maybe readers should take a look at my 2018 22U22 list! It featured plenty of talent snubbed by others this year, but whose names will be in many mouths in 12 months' time. But setting that future-brag aside, I'm watching the San Jose Earthquakes and their academy closely these days. Arguably no MLS team has made less use of a talent-rich backyard than the Quakes traditionally have, though there are signs of positive change over the past year or so. Gilbert Fuentes and Jacob Akanyirige are extremely legit prospects; will they get the chance to show it with the first team?
What if we get rid of this ridiculous "dp" and "draft" system and other such nonsense that doesn't work in this sport, and let the best teams win. Let owners who want to invest, win. If the league folds because zero attendance at the bad teams stadium, well, that tells you about the culture of this sport in the country. That's the cardinal issue with a league that's set up as a monetary system, rather than a union of actual grassroots teams. Let's be honest, MLS is a plastic league with a ton of artificial clubs within it. It's quintessentially American. Only formed so we can host a world cup, and expected to fold soon after. Don't get started on this "parity" BS, all it does is actually weaken the league and harm development of players over all.
I wonder if American and other foreign ownership of EPL teams is going to eventually destroy the EPL. I feel sorry for so many EPL fans who have gotten priced out of attending games/teams their families have supported for generations. But Cheez-it is certainly right, FA teams at least all started with local supporters, whereas MLS teams are only anointed based on market size and membership in the Billionaire Boys Club.
I just can't take that argument seriously. The draft and DP system has worked fine for the league so far. MLS has grown at very fast rate and has been massively more successful in its relatively short history than anyone could have reasonably expected (aside from those initial investors, perhaps). To say it doesn't work is either willful ignorance or complaining simply because it's different than how pro soccer is organized elsewhere. Problem is, there was no way to replicate how soccer developed in other countries because the US isn't other countries. The only way a genuine top league could have been built is by billionaires willing to invest to make a pro sports league that they would eventually earn money from. If we were going to wait for teams to spring up out of clubs that naturally grow into a pro league...well, ain't gonna happen, sorry. There is no universe where that could have happened except in those where the US had remained a set of British colonies until at least the 19th century. Those universes probably exist, but it's not this one. I would also say MLS owners now have more control over their own destinies than they have ever had before with regard to building teams, spending money, etc, so it's closer to what you seem to want than it's ever been. What exactly is the problem? To decry the draft is especially strange since it's practically an afterthought at this point. At worst, it has literally no effect, and at best, a few good players get into the league through the college route. The league has problems, but to insinuate that it's not legitimate is pretty ridiculous, and if you genuinely believe that, is it worth the energy to rant and rave about it? Seems like ignoring it would serve you a bit better.
Ignoring the bizarre tangent into Eurodouchebaggery and getting back on topic... And there’s the final whistle, as New York beats the @SJEarthquakes 3-1. How historically bad has the 2018 @MLS campaign been for San Jose? With tonight’s loss, the #Quakes74 are guaranteed to finish the season with the franchise’s lowest points total ever.— Robert Jonas (@robertjonas) October 7, 2018
I agree with this completely. The league will never reach its potential until we compete in the world market for footballers, and bring in top players. The league pretends like it can act like the NFL or NBA, who are the only game in town for the top talent. The ridiculous and artificial constraints on salary competition are myopic. Fans aren't stupid, they know they are watching minor league talent. Oh and the superdraft is so irrelevant. Seriously, if we would have just opted out every year since the 2008 return, would it have impacted our roster at all?
This is a recipe for disaster, especially for us. So, if you want our team to die and go away forever, then this is the path to persue. If the league turns into a pissing contest between wealthy wankers, we are doomed, and the league would suck. Who wants to root for a team that never ever has a chance at the title? That's crap. Sorry. And I don't give a squat about the EPL, the Bundesliga, La Liga, or any other league. I don't get to go to their games, so I don't care. I might watch them from time to time (I watch Mexican futbol games occassionally. I like Toluca.) But what they do or don't do in Decrepit Olde Enguland means exactly zero to me. The MLS may be odd, you might find it weird, but it's the league we have. Getting rid of the salary cap will kill the league. Taking off the restraints means that San Jose in particular will die. Sorry, I reject every component of your argument in it's entirety. Go Quakes!! - Mark
I think you should care. When we attempt to sign a player, we are competing for that player with those teams. It's not about emulating other's traditions. It's about recognizing the structure of the industry in which we compete. It would be like saying the Yankees shouldn't care that the Dodgers sign baseball players from Latin America, because the Dodgers are in the National League. Or that General Motors shouldn't care about how Toyota makes cars, because we're in American dammit and we do things our own way.