Post-match: Sir Nancelot Raids Swamp Castle - Crew @ Orlando - Match 14 - 5/25/24 7:30 PM

I think it wouldn’t count if it was a tackle but as Bill is suggesting some kind of violent act like punching someone I think the red would be upheld.

Bottom line why not stop play and have a review vrs continuing and reviewing later which then erases everything that happened if the call is confirmed ?


While I see the points from both sides, I think for player safety the play should be blown dead. Review it and if it’s not a pk then give a drop ball. If you only use VAR for these important goal scoring scenarios it just makes no sense to continue to play while they are confirming the call. Just my opinion but it’s a very stupid rule which worked in our favor this time.

 

He does, best defense in the league, team’s leading goal scorer in all comps.

 

LZ was great at set pieces but other than that we got younger and better defensively while adding more speed as Rossi is a much different but also a high level attacking player. It was absolutely the right move to sell him. Why are we still talking about this ?

 

Come on, he's been alive since before then.

He's our leading scorer in CCC. Last year in the POs he drew the red vs Orlando, scored the tying goal vs Cincy, and drew the PK in the Final.

Plus, he can run all day and is close to, if not leading the team in minutes played.

 

Although Charlotte is better on a per game basis, the fact that we have allowed the fewest goals in the league, whilest juggling lineups for CCC, is really incredible.

Hats off to Schulte, Camacho, Cheberko, Moreira, Amundsen, Zawadzki, Farsi, Yeboah, Morris, Nagbe, Sands, Arfsten, Jones, Bush, & Hagen.

The forwards as well.

 

"I'm just not going to wear a hat anymore, ok?"

 

Though I am certain we will get passed by more teams during this next week, here is the schedule for teams ahead of us on PPG until we play our next match:

1) Cincy: Nashville
2) Miami: Atlanta, St. Louis
3) RSL: at Seattle, Austin
4) Minny: at LAFC, SKC, FCD
5) NYC FC: San Jose
6) LAFC (tied): Minny, FCD

First games back for us are NYC away and Miami at home. We will have +1 days rest on Miami.

 

We play At Miami

after the Cup Final we rest then it’s a interesting 3 game stretch:

14 @NYCFC (who play @LAG 19th)
19 @ Miami (10 days off after us, At Philly 15th)
22 home vrs SKC (similar schedule to us)

I think we go all in for the win at Miami and I think we beat SKC regardless. The line up vrs NY will be interesting but it’s also a important match up. The difference in the standings could go up or down a lot making this a critical stretch. Ppl will be bringing their best to beat us. Miami the only one who really has a advantage because they will go all guns blazing for us . Nothing would be better than beating them and hear Messi praise us out of respect.

 

Thanks for the Miami correction.

 

Because they’re trying to maintain the flow of the game? No call was made on the play to stop play, the VAR is secondary, and has time to verify the call before stopping play. It is an imperfect system, but better than we had, before. I wish they would go through after games and be able to apply red and yellow cards for simulation discovered that way.

 

If you listen to those videos they do of the VAR booth and the comms with the ref, I don't believe that I've ever heard them say a thing to the center while play is ongoing.

They chat about whatever it is amongst themselves - it's sometimes chaotic with everyone talking at once - but again, the center is not live.

Then when the ball goes into touch or there's a foul called and they need a restart, the booth turns on the centers ears and they tell him "delay, delay, delay". That's when they tell him what's up and he decides whether he wants to look at it .(I understand that he can waive them.off and signal for the restart if he thinks he saw it all just fine.)

I'm sure that next Friday PRO will post a video of the interaction on that play and I'll bet you a case of Kyle's finest that nobody said boo to him until he blew for the PK at the other end.

The only question is why he didn't he see it in the first place.

 

If they did what WHO asked for?

 

I've seen an EPL game where they have stopped play to go to the monitor. It might have been the team that suffered the wrong call was just playing around with it at the back waiting for VAR

 

Excuse me but I don't see a quote box anywhere in your post. I looked twice.

I'm just asking

 

Not if you use VAR on goals and fouls that are in the box (potential pk) for scoring opportunities

they definitely would not need to blow the play dead all the time. They just absolutely take far too long to make calls and it’s dumb to play for minutes and then it doesn’t even count and have to add extra time later. It may be better than before but it is still not a very good system.

 

Which is what I said it doesn’t happen all the time and in my opinion stopping play quicker instead of playing pointless minutes where players risk injury and waste energy. If VAR is certain just stop it no need to ask the center ref to take a look. Make him look at it. Not sure what the longest example is but 1 minute or 5 minutes it’s entirely too long to play only for it to not even count. Orlando never gets fouled to earn a pk which didn’t count if you simply blow the whistle. No matter how you do it it’s imperfect so it’s a matter of preference.

 

Ah. Thank you. Yes, that's likely the issue

 

It shouldn’t be up to the center ref, this is part of the problem. Some asshole center ref should not say I’m not looking at it and end up being dead wrong. But as soon as they see a opportunity they deem should be reviewed just enforce it and have him blow the whistle. You then do a drop ball and resume play if it’s not a pk. To me that’s better than potential injury, wasted energy and we never see a situation like Orlando who definitely would have otherwise (if it was not ruled a foul on Morris) got a PK.

I personally don’t see any benefit for the current structure.

 

The guy is such a good coach, but I have a different, off-topic question.

Did anyone catch the shoes Nancy was wearing last night? The whole look is something I'd love to put together for the office (but I would not be anywhere as cool as Wlifried Nancy), but they shoes he was wearing looked great.

 

Im sure someone can find a picture I’m guessing they were causal to match what he was wearing