Robinson had some good games for us, and filled some holes, but this year his performances ranged largely from unremarkable to unsatisfactory. I've said elsewhere we didn't do right by him - too much of his best development time was spent on the bench. But it was, at this point, time to go. Best of luck, Jalen! Go wherever you can get on the field!
Agreed even LAFC has to have s few deck chairs. My issue is when the FO puts a dark red shade of lipstick on the deck chair and tries to tell me it is Marilyn Monroe. For you young kids she was the most beautiful woman back in the 60s.
I've met the guy. He's really nice and polite and willing to talk with fans. But he NEVER progressed as a defender (AND THATS ON HIM - NOT ANY COACH) and kept on making basic mistakes that cost us many many points this season. Personally, I would have cut him two years ago, and brought in young defenders from any farm team.
That’s odd. I put it all on the coaches. If some coaches can get deck chairs to perform well over their level it can be done. Ben, in my mind, hasn’t figured out how to get anyone to become better. At all. Every player in DC plateaus, gets benched, and released. Every one. Getting better at your position requires coaching specific tactics that teach players their role in the system and how their position effects those around them. If you just tell them to go out and defend hard the ones with better instincts initially do better. After that they regress. Everything is on the coaches.
Without a doubt it's loser talk and he should go. The organization has clearly set the bar low for Ben if he is confident enough to admit that publicly.
I didn’t read the article. He actually said we had a good season with a bad ending?? LAFC had a good season with a bad ending. We are not LAFC.
Taken from the article “Go interview all the players,” said Olsen. “I disagree. Of course I disagree with that. To me, belief is scoring a goal in Toronto in the 93rd minute. All players have reasons and thoughts on what went right and what went wrong. I am open to all of them, to all the criticism, all the reasons that they think things went well or poorly. Overall, my thoughts are that this was a good season. And it ended in a bad way, and left a bad taste in my mouth and a lot of people’s mouths because of the way it ended. “But when i go through all of this stuff,” Olsen said, lifting the stack of stat sheets in front of him, “It was a good season.”
it's an interesting mix of feelings this morning. Happy for the Nats, thrilled for Nick D...feel some sort of sick feeling that DCU threw so much opportunity out the window.
There are many options for a coach to go between that and what he said. There are two options, he either believes we had a good season or he is feeding us BS I'd say he actually believes it.
My question is which of those two beliefs/statements you posited for our coach is more lame? I hope he truly believed, which is naive. Either way it's time for both Kasper and Olsen to be gone. Restructure the front office to be proactive to the modern game and stop living off remnants of past glory.
Actually, we are really lucky that MLS is a single entity. Otherwise, we would have been relegated long ago and would be in MLS2 or MLS3 by now.
I gave up the ST after years and years of waiting giving ownership the benefit of "Wait till we get the new stadium".
He had a very bad year and was a shadow of himself from 2018. While he definitely has some skills, I have never been a big fan. I saw Acosta as a gifted player who was quick-tempered and could be put off his game when faced with physical play. He also had a tendency to sulk when things didn't go his way. He is not the type of leader you need on your team when times are tough.
So, given that we had a mediocre season and we're losing the 2 most interesting players we had, esp the biggest name player ever, and the team did more to shrink the brand than build it by going with Flo, AND, the Nationals who were only 16th in attendance just won the world series...next season dcu risks falling further into local irrelevance if they dont make an even bigger splash in player and coach market.