Match #8 versus Tampa Bay Rowdies 5/22/10

Thanks for the offer, but I wasn't able to make the match. Only caught the last bit of it on the webcast. Sounds like had I been there though the ref would have left wishing he'd never been born.

 

that's cool, it was put to good use.
And, oh trust me I was trying to get people to go with me to harass the ref. He was a total joke. I seriously thought he was in the pocket of TB. Either that or pissed at Jeff Cooper.

 

ref in Tampa's pocket? lol

While watching the game I was pretty convinced that the ref was simply an idiot. We just happened to benefit the most from his idiocy.

I also thought that Tampa somehow played worse while up a man in the second half than we did when the teams were even. St. Louis created enough to have tied it and I was pretty concerned until we finally found goal #2.

 

I was actually under the impression that the ref got bullied quite a bit in ref school.

 

Haha, no, I certainly don't think he was literally paid off. But damn, what a horrible, horrible call. He literally pulled out the red when he was 50 yards away from the play. And that was his call. The line judges didn't even call it.

And yeah, AC was really pushing the action with 10 men in the 2nd half. But, to no avail. You all played a good game. Your first goal was pretty quality, I gotta admit.

Next time.

 

Let's not forget the goal he took away from us. Ref's don't lose matches for you though. They just make it damn hard to win one.

 

I love Velton, but that was a Red Card. The ref may not have been in the best position, but it was a no brainer. Velton stopped his feet and took that guy out.

 

Though it may be, it wasn't all Tim either. They were both tugging and pulling like crazy.

The bigger issue was the fact that we got flat screwed out of a foul right in front of the ref at the opposite end yet he can make the call with almost no line of clear site.

 

and I was obviously joking about the ref being in TB's pocket.
With the way we played, especially in the 2nd half, the score should have been a lot closer and would have been different with 11 on the field. OH well, shit happens and all we can do is bitch about it until the next game.

 

Since all the good talk back and forth maybe we should form some sort of soccer alliance, since we do have the same colors.

and be against Miami FC and the STL rivalries.

 

Ah, but we make the colors look so much better.

And, seriously, what's with the Tampa jersies? That yellow part on the back makes it looks like they're wearing backwards bibs or tiny little capes.

 

well our away jerseys are awesome.

 

Indeed.

Well, the look...I seriously hate the colors. The hue of them.

But that home shirt with the hooped sleeves? Terrible.

 

I'll disagree. The Tampa Bay Rowdies had to have the colors and that shirt with hooped sleeves. I love the nostalgia of it. Tradition is more important than a hip new jersey.

 

Don't like the yellow back part on the white jerseys neither, but these green and gold hoops were made for soccer

 

Doesn't matter to me about anything being new and hip. I'm all for simplicity and tradition, but ugly is ugly.

 

FYP and Crossed my fingers

 

This came up in the England FA a couple of years ago and all the striped shirts, Newcastle and Crystal Palace etc, had to have numbers on a plain background because they claimed the stripes could lead to mistaken identity and number confusion. I assume that's why the Rowdies have the yellow bib on the back- to make the numbers more visible. That's the only reason I can think of.


Also, I guess its just because I remember the old team, but I always loved the Rowdies kit:

 

Well that's cool in a nostalgic way. What they have now looks nothing like that.

 

Yeah, I've seen those in the EPL, but the Rowdies' other kits with the white torsos still have the bibs.

 

It almost looks like three different people designed different parts of the uniform. The socks and sleaves are right out of "Where's Waldo". The front of the jersey (excluding the sleaves) is okay. From the back, it almost looks like they're wearing white suspenders.

I know it's not uniforms, it's the players that where them that counts, but they just struck me as an odd combination.

 

well the AC St. Louis logo: SCREAMS VIVE LA FRANCE

 

...no, pretty sure that just screams SAINT LOUIS.

It's not like the fluer-de-lis was picked out of a hat as a team logo.

 

actually it screams St. Louis since the Fleur de Lis is the city symbol and on our city flag.