While that is correct, it is the coaches job to not play the guy who isn't capable of saving said shots.
This very forum was clamoring for Clark after his fine performance against Columbus. So which is it? If Olsen plays the superior GK, he gets blamed and if he plays the hot (but more error-prone) GK he gets blamed. It seems as if some people will blame Olsen for literally anything.
It is an assistant coaches job to tell him to keep his hands up in order to save that savable shot. Ben has flaws, however no one hereabouts has been able to come up with a viable replacement. The anyone or unnamed South/Central American coach answers don't cut it. If anyone wants to talk about specific replacements I am more than willing to but until you come up with the next coach I am getting tired of this Ben has to go crap.
Clark is experienced enough to have saved that shot. No he had a brain fart. He needs to be benched to send the message but he should be played again later on in the season.
It wasn’t Olsen’s fault that the save wasnt made but what was his fault was how Philly outcontrolled the ball, and, not long after we scored just marched down field and got a point blank shot on goal. In the end does it matter? This week it was presumably a goaltending lapse (although they scored 3 and not 1 goal), next week it will be a defensive lapse or whatever. It’s all just chapters in the same book.
I have three names: John Harkes, Josh Wolff, Carlos Llamosa. Discuss. As a disgruntled fan I don't have to find the replacement for Olsen. That's a job for our "machete" ownership group -- whoever they are today. As a disgruntled fan and observer of DCU games, I can voice my opinion that the product on the field is crap and the standard response is fire the coach not the players. Especially since last year the players essentially have been fired and the one constant is the coaching staff -- yet the results still stink. That shambolic defending all game long is on someone who developed the game plan, either that or we witnessed the reprise of the "once tontos" gaffe France pulled in 1982 when it got up 3-1 in extra time in the WC and managed to blow the lead and lose on penalties to West Germany.
Harkes I am wiling to give him a shot. I like what he did in Cincy. Wolff I am not sure he is ready for the big chair. LLamosa I think he can fill the big chair but has not gotten the chance yet. No it is not your job or my job to find the next coach. But as you say this is where we sound off.
If we didn’t try for Bob Bradley, then I think that was a mistake. For all the grief he gets he’s a good coach and now he has a team running second in the West at 5-0-2, and he has guys like Ciman making hero plays.
Yea but I mean we had the potential to just transfer him instead but there probably were hard feelings.
Porter is not the boy genius everyone thought him to be at Akron, but his Timbers team did win a Cup.
There are legit options out there and available, but I don't know if Olsen would be canned even if the team got 0 points between now and the Audi Field opening. Though he definitely should be if that happens.
The bunker inside the 18 yard box puts a lot of strain on any defense (mentally). Any time you do that you are going to have lapses in concentration which are usually why goals are scored. Shammy's point is spot on here.
I'd love to see Llamosa, a magnificent player and a great success story get a shot but does he have the class a paperwork, does he have the chops, and would he be willing to swim all that way just to board the Titanic? Harkes? One is all you need, no Bradlyesque nepotism needed there's too much in this town as things are Wolff. Better than Ben who right now is as useful as a toilet that won't flush. Dave Sarachan if the USMNT lets him loose
Llamosa is a great assistant, not sure how he'd be as head coach, but he was a hell of a player. Didn't some team just shaft him? I have no faith in Harkes being able to coach in this league. He's okay for USL; and I wouldn't let him near DCU while his son was employed by the league, let alone the team. Wolff can't possibly be any better than Ben. I'd hate the team as much as many of you seem to if Bradley had been named coach. If you only look at short stints he seems okay but he always gets run out of town after a while, he seems toxic to me. Sarachan should really only be an assistant coach, he's proven that time and time again. I think he's fine in an interim role with the Nats, I wouldn't give him a team of his own. I love Ben, he should be employed by the team in some capacity for life But the longer he coaches this mess, the worse his over-all legacy becomes. One day I'd love to get him drunk and find out why there is a Chad Ashton.
Wolff has been working with Berhalter since 2014, so I would assume that some of those smarts have rubbed off. At least enough to remove the stain of the 2013 stint with DCU as an assistant. Throw another name in the mix -- Davy Arnaud. Or just figure out a way to pry The Wanker out of Salt Lake City. Or clone one of Lagerway's nose hairs and create a real GM. Anything really.
Olsen's win percentage is so low that practically anyone could replace him and get equivalent or better results, short of Simon Borg. So here are some examples: College coaches: I would take Kevin Grimes or Jeremy Gunn in a heartbeat over Ben. Former MLS coaches/assistants: Enzo Concina, John Wolyniec, Robin Fraser.
Never heard of Grimes or Gunn so I will need to research them. Concina, Wolyniec and Fraser, pass. Poor coaches. Not really an improvement.
I agree with the premise that it would be a hard position to fill right now, but at this point I think virtually anyone would be an improvement. Why don't you touch up your linked in profile?
DCU needs to be at one point per game until they begin their home schedule. If you think differently, you're a certifiable moron. Expecting any soccer team to win games on a 15-game road trip belies complete ignorance of the most basic rule of soccer: win at home, draw away. If they were to win their next game, they'd be at 8 points after 8 games. Or you could just throw shit at the wall and hope things stink less. John ********ing Wolyniec, for ********s sake? ********ing hell.
You think they'd be winning less than a third of their games? Because that is the bar that Olsen has set over his career (and it's even worse over the last couple years). Wolyniec won the USL in 2016. My point is that at this point I would take any schmuck with his coaching license over Olsen+Ashton.