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  1. kenntomasch

    kenntomasch Member+

    Sep 2, 1999
    Out West
    Club:
    FC Tampa Bay Rowdies
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
  2. Mikey mouse

    Mikey mouse Member

    Jul 27, 1999
    Charleston, SC
    Club:
    Charleston
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Is it me or does "Nando" strike you as a rambling fool in some of his quotes?
     
  3. kenntomasch

    kenntomasch Member+

    Sep 2, 1999
    Out West
    Club:
    FC Tampa Bay Rowdies
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Having read most of the articles the Antigua Observer writes, I have come to the conclusion that either everybody talks like that or everybody writes like that.
     
  4. dinamo_zagreb

    dinamo_zagreb Member+

    Jun 27, 2010
    San Jose, CA / Zagreb, Croatia
    Club:
    --other--
    Nat'l Team:
    Croatia
    What about their situation now, after first game?
     
  5. kenntomasch

    kenntomasch Member+

    Sep 2, 1999
    Out West
    Club:
    FC Tampa Bay Rowdies
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Well, they signed some more guys.

    Presumably, they went home and will come back, unless they stayed in or near Charlotte before going to Wilmington and Charleston this weekend.

    But I think it's going to be touch and go. And I don't know how many games they can hope to win.
     
  6. dinamo_zagreb

    dinamo_zagreb Member+

    Jun 27, 2010
    San Jose, CA / Zagreb, Croatia
    Club:
    --other--
    Nat'l Team:
    Croatia
    I just looked at their schedule - all games away!?!? Why is that? Sure they can not survive in this situation.

    I was hoping to see them in CCL as CFU representative, but that seems impossible now. :(
     
  7. kenntomasch

    kenntomasch Member+

    Sep 2, 1999
    Out West
    Club:
    FC Tampa Bay Rowdies
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Yes, they are playing all 26 games on the road, for reasons that have not been adequately explained. I do not know how they will generate revenue.
     
  8. kenntomasch

    kenntomasch Member+

    Sep 2, 1999
    Out West
    Club:
    FC Tampa Bay Rowdies
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    So they've lost their first three matches, 2-0, 2-0 and 4-0.

    They do the Tampa/Orlando split this weekend. Then Harrisburg/Richmond, then Pittsburgh/Dayton.

    I honestly don't know who they'll be able to beat.
     
  9. dinamo_zagreb

    dinamo_zagreb Member+

    Jun 27, 2010
    San Jose, CA / Zagreb, Croatia
    Club:
    --other--
    Nat'l Team:
    Croatia
    So no CFU Cup for them, as it is scheduled for 26-30 April? No official schedules for that competition, but it will be played in before mentioned period.

    I read somewhere they gave up their spot, but nothing official.
     
  10. Mikey mouse

    Mikey mouse Member

    Jul 27, 1999
    Charleston, SC
    Club:
    Charleston
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    they were abysmal on Saturday vs. the Battery. really should have been 7 or 8 to 0. Battery had 27 shots on goal or one ever three minutes or so.

    Antigua barely made it into the Battery's defensive third.

    They were obviously tired from the match the night before but they have expanded their roster. They had 17 on the bench and Former Battery midfielder JC Mack was in Charleston to speak to the team about joining them http://www.chssoccer.net/battery-v-antigua-game-notes/

    it is going to be long season for them, but they did seem to frustrate Charlotte and wilmington for stretches in those matches so who knows? even a blind squirrel finds a nut sometimes.
     
  11. kenntomasch

    kenntomasch Member+

    Sep 2, 1999
    Out West
    Club:
    FC Tampa Bay Rowdies
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Last team to go winless was Sacramento in 1999, IIRC. They lost a match in shootout and got their only point for it.

    They also had the odd circumstance where a result counted twice by league decree. They were not even interested in paying to rent the stadium for another game, so hey said "Whatever the result of this next game is, it's going to count twice." And they lost Iike 5-0 or something.
     
  12. msilverstein47

    msilverstein47 Member+

    Jan 11, 1999
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
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  13. kenntomasch

    kenntomasch Member+

    Sep 2, 1999
    Out West
    Club:
    FC Tampa Bay Rowdies
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Epic. Just epic.
     
  14. kenntomasch

    kenntomasch Member+

    Sep 2, 1999
    Out West
    Club:
    FC Tampa Bay Rowdies
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Dexter Blackstock plays for Notts Forest, so he possibly could have contributed $100k.

    Mikele Leigertwood (whose name is misspelled in the story...he is Antiguan, after all) plays for Reading, so that's a possibility, too.

    But Justin Cochrane plays for Boreham Wood FC in the Conference South, and I'm thinking his career path doesn't look like one that would have him able to throw $100k around.
     
  15. kenntomasch

    kenntomasch Member+

    Sep 2, 1999
    Out West
    Club:
    FC Tampa Bay Rowdies
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    http://www.antiguaobserver.com/epi-challenges-governments-allegiance-to-cudas/

    “I find it quite strange and peculiar that the government and I think that most people who know me well, know that I have supported the Honorable Prime Minister and the UPP government for a number of years in terms of voting and I find it quite strange that they would take crown lands, the lands of the people of Antigua & Barbuda, and give basically to a private organisation, a private company owned by Gordon ‘Banks’ Derrick and Fernando Abraham to conduct their business and I am saying that if you have opened this Pandora box to helping private businesses, then what are you going to do for other businesses?” (FA presidential hopeful and former A&B international, Veron “Epilus”) Edwards said.
     
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  16. ceezmad

    ceezmad Member+

    Mar 4, 2010
    Chicago
    Club:
    Chicago Red Stars
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
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  17. Macsen

    Macsen Moderator
    Staff Member

    Nov 5, 2007
    Orlando
    Club:
    Orlando City SC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    This is not going to end well for Antigua. I sense a corruption scandal about to be uncovered.
     
  18. JBG - Bribe Taker

    Mar 17, 2000
    Mt. Pleasant, SC
    Club:
    Charleston
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Dear god, I hope Antigua's government moves as slow as ours and we can at least make it through the season before they go t$ts up...........
     
  19. msilverstein47

    msilverstein47 Member+

    Jan 11, 1999
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    glad at least someone of stature in Antigua is showing some basic common sense...this "deal" has to be worse than building that FL Marlins baseball stadium and then sticking taxpayers to pay the bills.
     
  20. kenntomasch

    kenntomasch Member+

    Sep 2, 1999
    Out West
    Club:
    FC Tampa Bay Rowdies
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Uhhhhhh.....no.

    This would not be a worse deal.

    If the Antigua government sold some of its lands for (what is probably) less than market value and gave the proceeds ($100,000 or thereabouts) to a for-profit enterprise, that's certainly cause for an investigation and might rise to the level of Antiguan Scandal.

    But Dade County will have paid, when all is said and done, $1.1 BILLION by 2048 for the Marlins' Stadium.

    $1.1 billion.

    No, this would not be worse.
     
  21. msilverstein47

    msilverstein47 Member+

    Jan 11, 1999
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    you are not thinking about all of that tourist revenue or the jobs that are being created
    with that $1.1 billion
    ;-)
     
  22. brentgoulet

    brentgoulet Member+

    Oct 12, 2005
    PuertoPlata, DomRep
    still 0 points and now already 6-0 down after 48 minutes
     
  23. kenntomasch

    kenntomasch Member+

    Sep 2, 1999
    Out West
    Club:
    FC Tampa Bay Rowdies
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Very well might be the worst team ever.
     
  24. kenntomasch

    kenntomasch Member+

    Sep 2, 1999
    Out West
    Club:
    FC Tampa Bay Rowdies
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    So they are 0-5 and have been outscored 18-3. And they don't play Rochester until June 21.
     
  25. Macsen

    Macsen Moderator
    Staff Member

    Nov 5, 2007
    Orlando
    Club:
    Orlando City SC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States

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