Sigi in the Circle & Mega TAAAilgate 2 ft. Crew vs Florida Man(s) | Match 18 - June 29, 2019 7:30

OTOH, I'm raking in those Grouchy points like Drake is raking in whatever is the Canadian equivalent of Benjamins.

Wilfrids, maybe.

 

I told my wife tonight that if they lose to Orlando, there’s a good chance we won’t win a game for the remainder of the season. Somewhere near the 70th minute I said “We’ve had so many home games back to back. We need an away game so we can do something else on a Saturday night.” It’s getting real hard to sit through this crap.

 

This season reminds me a bit of 2016.

The team had an opportunity to build on an MLS Cup run and completely shit the bed. Horrible offseason with the Kei hold out. Horrible season. Horribly coached and managed as far as player personnel went throughout the season. Later on, we realized that maybe the sabotage was coming from the top. That Precourt, despite his tweets about Every Rose Has it's Thorn, and the For Columbus jersey really wanted the team to fail....

This season, the team had the opportunity to capitalize on one of the best feel good moments in sports history, with the fans saving the team. Unfortunately, they made an extremely poor decision with the manager, but compounded it by giving him a 5 year contract.

Maybe Porter would be this incompetent with a 2-3 year deal, it's possible. But the level of security given him has produced laziness and victimhood from our manager. It's permeated down to the players. It's created a rot within the team and locker room.

And this isn't something that goes away in 1-2 years. This is a problem that sticks around. And interest will wane, as we have seen even with the die hards on this board. It's a completely wasted opportunity. And if Haslam and Bez are as smart as everyone thinks they are, extreme changes need to be made as soon as possible. And Porter needs to be on notice that the changes will include him if he doesn't turn this around immediately.

 

********ing hell.

Just when you think this team can't sink any lower.

Another loss. At home. To Orlando. On Sigi Night. In front of the first decent crowd in a while.

Ugh.

 

Coaching doesn’t matter.

 

I'll need to mae a runn to teh sto re tomrrow

 

Let's play a game. Which Crew players are clearly better than MLS average for their position? Last year I would have said Steffen and Zardes. This year nobody. Zardes and maybe Mensah and Sauro are middle of the pack players at their position. Everyone else is below average. We need reinforcements a lot better than Romario Williams and the Costa Rican guy or Edwin Gyasi.

 

Really tough game to watch. Crowd seemed to be rather large (guess lack of rain can do that!). Got our wish with JJ starting, and saw all the proof we need to keep Mullins from ever seeing our pitch.

There are two games that are circled on my calendar. August against the worst team in MLS. Have to win them both.

 

Can't be a very cheerful locker room right now.

 

Have we tried repeatedly and aimlessly hoofing crosses into the box yet?

 

Yes. Ad nauseam.

 

I don't know what you guys we're watching. Williams was terrible. Worse than terrible whatever that is. What a disappointment. You can't do anything if you can't trap the ball. He can't trap the ball. Not once. He doesn't make good runs. Not great defensively. Physically beaten by Orlando's center backs every time. It was like paying with no forward. If the video is available - go watch it. Actually the whole team has trouble trapping the ball right now. Not good for a team that plays possession.

It will get better when Trapp and Zardes and Mensah and Awful return. Trapp, Zardes and Mesnah are right up the middle. They are MLS quality players and they do make a difference. Until then, I don't see the Crew winning - possible even scoring.

 

This was the biggest thing I noticed last night. And they mainly came from Jimenez and Francis. I can’t remember a single Jimenez cross that was decent, all too low. Francis was at least whipping them in into decent positions, hard to get it to one guy though when the entire opposition defense just marks him (JJW).

 

I've seen this movie. 1 out of 5 stars. Do not recommend.

 

Will it? We weren't exactly good when we had them all available except Afful. Trapp Zardes and Mensah have all been a part of this 1 win in 12 except the last two matches. I don't have as much faith in them turning this ship around.

 

To be fair, he didn't say it would get much better.

 

I did not have a lot of nice things to say in my response to the post match experience survey they sent out today.

 

"Congratulations, you have done something even Queso Boy couldn't do: kill the Crew in Columbus."

 

Let's get scientific here. Pure science. The Crew started to fall apart when Frankie disappeared. The were a competitive team and then - no Frankie! Bring back Frankie and bring back the team! Pure science and math!

 

He was there last night!

 

Sometimes, we hoof them over the net and ontot the stage.

 

Yeah. I still don't know what's been going on, but I've seen Frankie at the last few games. Just nothing, as far as I can tell, like in his former role. He just seems to be another gameday fan right now.