Kind of a neat piece on the Booth brothers playing against each other in Europe. The 2nd video in the article is pretty cool.
Kreilach coming out strong with a debut goal for the ‘Caps Damir Kreilach finds the back of the net and Vancouver takes the lead! ⚽ pic.twitter.com/X4om014Zmg— Concacaf Champions Cup (@TheChampions) February 8, 2024
He totally looks to be running better. Good for him. I’ll always cheer for him to do well, just not score goals against us.
Good for Dami. I wish him nothing but the best. I know this is sacrilege but I'm really glad he's not on RSL this season. I don't want to jinx him but I would be surprised if he makes it through the season without having to take games off for recuperation etc. It really is time for a new generation of RSL players so lets see how it all plays out.
A few other former RSL players: - Aaron Herrera opened his DC United stint with 90 minutes and an assist. - Corey Baird started in his first game with FC Cincinnati - Tate Schmitt is back from his injury and walked back into the Houston Dynamo's starting lineup - Brooks Lennon went another 90 for Atlanta.
Also, we've all complained about our left back play. We let go of Tate Schmitt, a homegrown on a near league-minimum contract, and he then walked into the starting lineup of a team that finished above us in the standings last year. We're paying 4X the salary and an international slot so Oviedo can sit on the bench. Basically we have 3 former academy players starting at outside back in MLS, while it seems we have a consensus that our own fullback play has been subpar. Probably not worth beating up on Fall too much since he's gone now. But it's all part of a very long-term trend of not trusting our own academy players.
It‘s not a good track record. I‘m not sure that Fall should take all of the blame or even a lot of it. Coaching/system has to be looked at (I‘m not one who can confidently do that). Also, even as recently as 2 seasons ago, Left Back was the league’s weakest position. I don‘t know if it t still is. If it is it could partially explain how Tate is starting at another club. The Herrera case is a bit of an outlier in that his production bottomed when Dami got hurt. Outside appearances seemed to indicate he had developed an attitude problem too. At the time I felt his departure was probably good for everyone involved.
For Herrera you could also add in salary. I think he was slated to get paid around 800grand if memory serves? There is probably plenty of blame to go round but I still feel like a good part of the who should be playing issue falls on Pablo M. He seems to have some sort of arbitrary system for playing players, not that that is good or bad, but it doesn't feel consistent. There was definitely was a difference of opinion between Fall and Pablo from just looking at the Moose stuff last season. Fall didn't want him here, especially after his hiatus, and Pablo stuck him back in right away after he came back and even put the entire season on the line for Moose. Probably to stick in the eye of Fall. All pure conjecture but... Tate, as another example, played surprisingly well and out of position if memory serves, and then just dropped off the radar with playing time. It's not a perfect science. I tell that to myself every game with Andres Gomez. The guy still can't find his team mates and looks to think he is the main man out there but then does some pretty good stuff out there to remind me he is only 21. But still, his goofs would get other players a seat on the bench for a game or two I would wager. Either way, it just seems that RSL could find better RB play. LB is probably one of the hardest in the game to keep nailed down but RB seems like there is almost an infinite amount of players out there to try.
Tate did have two goals as a left back. I don't know the level of production that we'd expect from a backup left back but it seemed pretty good to me. We didn't even trade him and get an asset in return. Just said, no thanks. Let him leave for free and Houston picked up a starter for nothing. At least we got something for Lennon and Herrera, but with Schmitt it seemed like we were just totally indifferent.
I had to look it up. The goals came in consecutive games in March 2022. We played a 3-4-2-1 formation in both games if the web info is correct. After that we switched to a 4-4-2 and he didn’t score again that season. What I remember about him that season is he would often get caught too far forward and other teams would attack into the space he left open.
Taters scored the winner in the snow game @ the Revs, just after they had set a league pts record! That season proved to be not great for NER. Tate had some serious "oof!" moments, but our whole defense was troublesome that year too. We could have stuck with him? I don't think Brooks Lennon would be as good as he is now had he stayed in Utah. Maybe RSL could have gotten more for him, but everyone won with his trade to Atlanta. I'd take Herrera back in a heartbeat, but I also think that his experience away from RSL will/has improved his professionalism. A loan would have been great for him instead of a sale, but we did get Vera, which has proven to be a good move too. I'm really torn with this one, but the team had Damir, Sava, and Chicho along with reacquiring Anderson Julio (and overpaying Rubio Rubin) to deal with at the time of the trade.
Hello. Does anyone here know if Luke Mulholland lives in Utah still? I am almost certain I saw him jogging near the cemetery on 90th and 7th east in Sandy.