Basically, players that just got under your skin no matter what for even the most irrational reasons, whether it was their habits, or just who they are. I have been seeing the Crew since 2008 and these five just rankled me no matter what they did: David Guzman-Guy just reminds me of Blanco without any skills. Just a knuckle dragging thug making dumb decisions. Andres Mendoza- This guy was just a wackadoodle with a penchant for missing sitters and some of the most disturbing post goal celebrations you ever saw. I am still scarred by the one where he gave birth to soccer ball, especially from where I was sitting. Connor #$((($)# Casey- This thug killed us when he was on the Rapids and was instrumental in the most traumatic loss I witnessed, the playoff match we lost in a shootout here. So the Crew pick him up at the end of his career when he had nothing left. He got a red card here for no reason other than he was Connor ##((($ Casey. Tyson Wahl- The Nylon Wall made a terrible first impression and never recovered in my eyes. Of course, his comments when the Crew threatened to leave pretty much cemented my dislike of the guy. Dilly Duka- Maybe it was the Name, the Dilly Duka fist pump, the whole Jersey Shore thing, or that he just looked like a doofus, I just never took King Pickle all that seriously.
I always thought Tchani's first name was "Jesus", from what I kept hearing in the stands. Though I still liked him when he was on his game, he'd always have at least one WTF play each match.
Early Tchani was VERY annoying. His first match was in the playoffs that same year Warzycha inexplicably benched Schelotto the first leg and he was terrible and then got worse before he screwed his head on right. I agree he made some real head scratchers like giving up on some plays, but in the end was productive for the Crew. Similar story with Mensah that first DP year. The improvement of his game is just incredible when you look back on how disastrous he started.
Miroslav Rzepa has to be on the list of stinkers. We've had a number of keepers who were adequate to their time in MLS but who were rated more highly by fans than their play deserved. Sommer, Dougherty, Presthus, Hesmer, and Clark for example.
Nope. The GBS benching was in 2009. Tchani’s debut was in 2011 in the Wild Card game against the Rapids.
When I look back some of that drove me nuts seem silly in retrospect. Was Eric Denton really worth hate? He tried. Mark Willams? There was a dark comedy in just how bad he was. Knox Cameron? He just didn't belong in MLS, but I don't begrudge him. That could go for most strikers we employed from about 2005 - 2007. I hated watching Lehnart play for the Crew, and then missed just how ridiculous he was when he played for San Jose. There are just two players I look back on with next to no fondness.... Jacob Thomas and.... 2016 - 2019 Higuain
With the exceptions of Stern John and Guillermo Barros Schellotto (and for his first season only, Thomas Dooley), ALL OF THEM.
Higuaín starting the day of the Kei Kamara incident & I was really pissed at How we lost this gm and unraveled so I blame them both
Add in that Higuain is now with DC United .... From the Penthouse to the Outhouse in the Crew Universe. Quite the fall.
You are such a good role model for future generations. "Look, kids, you need to hate all of the players but most of all the ones on your team because they're all going to break your heart eventually."
Aaron Schoenfeld. Not for anything he specifically did ... but what he did not do. Looked the part of a scorer, but did not score goals. 5 goals in 51 appearances. Kept being brought on as an offensive substitute, to "provide a spark." Only way that was happening was if he had a box of matches in his shorts.
Thanks for ruining it. (LOL). I went from nodding my head in agreement, to reading your reply and thinking ... AITA?