Exactly. Team chemistry will make or break a team. I think if its there the Crew is going to do well this year. So far the indications seem good.
Now we are getting to the heart of it. Kinnear and Nicol coach teams Sigi coaches players. One advantage Houston and NE have is that every player knows their role and everyone else's.
Let's get Ronaldo, right now he is in prime Crew form, recovering from a bad injury, isn't that how we like our players?
Here's where the road forks for me -- did they all underachieve, or did they all buy in and contribute, to the point that no one guy had to do it all? You could argue that DeRo and Ching had off-years (Ching due to injury, DeRo due to...I don't know), and they still won MLS Cup, with their 2 best players not playing at their highest level. Throw in guys like Holden, Jacqua, etc., and they were just a LOT better than we are now. Chemistry helps, but so does talent.
The coach is key as far as chemistry is concerned. Quite frankly, I'd rather have a less talented coach whose commitment is clear; who lives in the city where the team is based; and who bleeds black and gold. Not one with one foot in LA who dreams of past glories on the college circuit and wishes for a job coaching the US U-8s.
My God Vancouver, where the hell did you get that???? What a crock of crap from Sigmund... What a crock of crap!
I'd love to see the massive list of coaches that fit this description who have some other work experience than in the K-3 League.
Can't get the quote thing to work BUT this is very Bill Clinton-esque. He PROMISEd his kids. He didn't promise the fans. He WANTed the Crew to... Remember, CEOs and coaches can't tell the complete truth because then noone would buy their products and the biz would fold.
Thats a little unfair don't you think? MLS is not the most stable environment for a coaches and job security. It not like Sigi was given a 5 year guaranteed contract or anything. While you sit in your home in your town that you have had for 10-20-30 years (and a job for probably equally that long) or more the coach basically has had to leave his family and home for over 11 mos out of the year. That to me sounds like a great deal of commitment. Do you think that it would really matter what a coach bleeds if he cannot turn a team around. If he can't he will gone.
How many players, of any sports team vacate the city after the season is done? Does LeBron live in Cleveland year-round? Will Shaq stay in Phoenix when their season ends? Jody Shelley even said that he'd return to Columbus during the summer months. Quite a few NHL players start talking about "spending summers at the lake" when it appears that their Stanley Cup run has ended. I wouldn't be surprised if even Duncan Oughton or Frankie Hejduk got away from Columbus for a few weeks during the holidays. This isn't directed at any one person in particular, but I wonder how many fans of the above people actually continually whine about players or coaches vacating during the off-season. It's the off-season. Take a vacation. Come back, fully recharged and ready to have another go at it. And start the season already. We're complaining about how people spend their time during their off-season personal time.
LeBron lives just outside of Cleveland in Bath Township. His closet is bigger than the living quarters of 95% percent of posters on this site. It's three times bigger than my place. http://www.newsnet5.com/sports/11402547/detail.html On point, I believe Sigi will be coach of the Crew barring absolute catastrophe although I am starting to feel that Hunt-Schmidt is the MLS Dolan-Thomas except in lieu the overpriced worthless signings, we get no signings.
This thread aged well. Spoiler alert to anyone who was not following the Crew in 2008: That year was a good year.
Sigi performed so well in 2008, I can't imagine we'd not make sure to lock up his contract for at least 2009-2010. Why that'd just be stupid.