If not an ideal late game-breaker sub started meaning not a competent professional soccer player recently than I wholeheartedly agree
I agree. I was waiting for our forwards to dribble into the corner and kill the game. The Revs personnel tonight was not a collection of players built to kill off a game easily. The 2012 Revs always have more offensive than defensive subs available, but yet we have no depth, real experience, real leadership, or competition for playing time on the backline. I like the new attempts at offense, but we gotta build the defense. Given the recent schedule, injuries tonight, and heat I think that this group did a good job to get the tie. However, I do feel that with a little more composure and effort they might have been able to get an upset tonight. Matt had a few nice saves. Really like Cardenas, but the man is shooting anytime he gets a a half step free near the box. Sene was Sene tonight. Gets pushed off the ball too easily and can be careless with the ball. The Revs could have scored two goals off of set pieces tonight. Sene's "cross" and Guy's (?) header in the first half. Still wondering what the story on Moreno is. Count me in the group that values AJ, but thinks he still has a long way to go.
"We're going to attack." Except for tonight apparently. First half wasn't bad, but the second half was pretty much 10 behind the ball. And of course, when you're hoping to get a goal you bring in BB ... so he can ONCE AGAIN just whiff at a shot in front of the net. Amazing. 1 goal scored in the last 270 minutes.
I suspect he's not playing so he can't get hurt since they plan to cut him when their two new forwards are available.
If Kei Kamara doesn't get suspended for his flying elbow to Matt Reis' head (12 stitches, by the way), then the MLS Disciplinary Committee should be disbanded. Especially since Rowe had to sit for a far less egregious offense.
Rowe's was not less egregious. There was no reason Meara should have been kneed in the head there, it was careless by Rowe. Kamara is going for the ball (a legit 50-50 ball, the Rowe one was not, 50-50 as in each player has an even chance for the ball, Rowe had a 10% of coming up with the ball) his arm swings in early and catches Reis, unintentionally, but recklessly. Should have been a yellow and a foul, but Kamara had a legitimate chance at the ball he just swung his arm dangerously. As far as a suspension, who knows, the disciplinary committee hasn't set any public guidelines and precedent seems not to matter. Kamara didn't get a card, and should have so does that effect the committees choice? And one more thing about the committee, I don't think their suspensions means they think player X should have gotten a red card at the time, which is the way I think many are interpreting it. It's more hurtful for a team to lose a player mid game (and miss the next) than have his scheduled absence in the next game. I think the idea of looking at game suspensions as equivalent to a red card is wrong.
Guy made the incredible effort, but it was Nguyen who delivered it. That was the most beautiful delivery I've seen from a Revolution set-piece all season. Get Tierney outta there and let Nguyen and Feilhaber take over set-piece duty. Although, I admit, Benny isn't exactly impressive on free-kicks, but he's better then the alternative.
FWIW, I thought the Revs did try to attack in this game - they just had problems getting and maintaining possession.
Wasn't crazy about Heaps' third sub. the way I look at it, your team needs points. You just dropped 6 must have points. I like that Heaps wants to win but I think at the 78th minute on the road playing a team like KC, you have to secure the tie and walk away with 1pt. I would have subbed Lechner for Barnes.
Go get to the 45 points that some think might get us in the playoffs, we now need to average 1.57 PPG going forward. Since we can't win on the road, we're going to have to pretty much go 7-0-1 at home. So you're saying there's a chance.
Exactly. This was one of the many of examples of how poorly that game was called. I doubt that it will even get looked at but if anything from this match deserves a suspension, it would be Saad's stomp on Alston. Live, it looks completely incidental but on replay, it looked very intentional to me.
I thought an elbow was supposed to be an automatic red? Also, the double ankle kick on Nguyen (by Nagamura?) should have been carded.
I thought McCarthy was one of the best players on the pitch last night, possibly his most impressive outing of the season. He used his size to swallow just about everything that was whipped into the box. There may be hope for him yet. Was that Alston slide a penalty in your opinions?
Yeah McCarthy has actually been decent lately, I'm still not convinced he's the long term answer to partner Soares but I have no complaints about him recently. Our fullbacks, on the other hand, need to be replaced ASAP. Alston has really been a huge disappointment, he looked so promising his rookie year but never got better, possibly regressed, and went from a possible future national team right back to a below average MLS right back. He's fine defensively besides the occasional mental lapse, but he is just so pitiful going forward he has to be replaced. Tierney needs no explanation, for a starting MLS fullback he is pretty awful. They're a big part of the reason we can't break through teams who bunker, they have all the space in the world when teams drop back and they both do absolutely nothing with it. Neither are good enough to start in this league.
I still think we need a more experienced CB and let McCarthy, Soares, and Barnes fight it out for partner. Soares has been lukewarm and I could see him going the Alston route (which I agree with you on)
I think we need desperate help at both fullback spots as mentioned above, but this would still be a good move too. Anyone heard anything new about Zoboli?
Yo - so I may not be who you're asking in particular, but at the time I thought it 100% was but after replays I saw that he got the ball and therefore it was a good no call. Dangerous on his part to go in like that - if the ball doesn't get knocked into him, it'd be a PK, but good no call, despite what I would want it to be.
You're assuming we're going to take zero points from our remaining 7 road games? Really? If you're offering that as a bet, I want some of the action.
Of course you do. The only problem is, like in all other threads, when your proven wrong, you don't come back to face the music.
There's a reason I don't respond to everything you post (probably same reason a grand total of Nobody has responded to the 8 Points Out thread you started yesterday).
That's why I sarcastically said we're going to have to go 7-0-1. I think our road woes are going to continue. We may even win a game on the road, and get a couple of ties ... but either way, we're just not going to hit that 1.57 ppg mark.
I'm not talking about replies to me. I'm talking about replies to everyone. I'm glad you don't reply to me.