Just curious as to why our most popular and most Negative Nellie has been not seen pretty much all season? I know a lot of the Barra/Screaming Eagles have seen him out and about on occasion, but seriously, where is he? I'd be real interested in hearing how lucky United was this year..
He was at the NE playoff game just gushing about United and their chances. He said pregame, "If they win tonight, they'll win the Cup" This came of course after 15 minutes of Convey bashing. Although he did say that Gomez was what the team needed all along to allow Jaime to be himself. Then he told me he was going back to Romania for the next 4 or 5 years. Hope he comes back on BigSoccer....
I would have enjoyed his posts better if he'd made more use of his enter key. Big long paragraphs kill my eyes.
Me too. He always got so much crap on this board, and most of it was undeserved. I for one learned to enjoy his contrary views and hope he returns one day.
Don't know what you got til it's gone Don't know what it is I did so wrong Now I know what I got It's just this song
Anytime anyone references a Cinderella song on Big Soccer, it just warms my 80's crappy metal heart. Seriously though, I wish Sormun would jump on every now and then just to tell me how wrong I am..
See, in the end Sormun turned out to be legit. He always was calling for the missing flair in the team. In the end, we found ourselves with a team that had grit and flair. Glad to hear that Sormun caught it before he headed back to Romania. He truly was one of the people trying to inject reality (albeit negative reality) on to these boards when we, myself included, were grasping at straws.
Yes and no... Yes, this team did lack a bit of flair in recent seasons, but to suggest that was the missing ingredient is an injustice to the players on this team that worked their collective asses off all season long.. Need I remind you that some of sormun's "reality" included jettising United's strickers for the Richmond Kickers strickers? Look, we all were right on some things, we all were wrong on a lot of things.. My main beef with sormun was that his versions of reality were often flights of fancy rather than actual solutions to problems this team had.. We were all looking for solutions that made sense and that were applicable to this team and I felt at times that he went over the top on a few different occasions.. With that being said though, you are absolutely correct in stating that he was harsh on this team because they deserved to be criticized on most occasions.. I just wished he would have had a healthier outlook for the team rather than constant criticism.. And this comes from a fan who has been very critical of this team on the air and in print as well.. Come on back Sormun, we miss you!!
He's a stand up guy who I've met at a couple of offseason get togethers. I feel badly because, as stated above, a lot of the crap he got was very undeserved. What angered me the most was that some people with conflicting views would make fun of any grammatical mistakes, being negligent of the fact that he had just moved here and was learning English. In some ways, I'm glad he hasn't been around the boards that much becuase that was just appalling. It made me sick that because he liked to slam Convey in broken English that some would trash him over his view. Not trying to say anyone in this thread did it, but hopefully if he does come back to the boards he is treated with a little more respect.
Right on, Todd! I wonder whether some of the Sormun bashers have a fraction of his cajones when it comes to personal interaction? I suspect most of them would be shrinking violets when given the opportunity to discuss contrary opinions with the coaching staff. Not Sormun, however! Even at Ray's buy the fans a beer night he was asking his pointed questions of Ray. It was good to see you the other day, man. Hope you make it back for a game or two soon, and maybe we'll catch you online. GM
This is funny. I was thinking of starting a Convey Curse or Coincidence thread just to lure him back in. You know: DCU championships with Convey = 0 DCU championships without Convey = 4 Once he was unloaded, DCU reclaimed their former glory. Coincidence?
I think I was one of the last to interact w/him here. His last words were "I see what the coach is doing and by the end of the year the team will be good." I wasn't convinced. Turns out he was right, cause we improved. Plus we got lucky. But given how anti-Convey he was, I'd guess he'd attribute a lot of the resurgence to Convey being out, like eldiablito said. I have no idea if he's around or not-but of course you can't blame him for not being around given the level of viciousness directed at him by a few.
I don't think so. It wasn't a curse or anything, but Convey, for all his talent, didn't make DCU a better team. Now, early in his career, he wasn't responsible for the downfall. That was the team getting older, a little complacent and some poor choices by management. But, once they decided to build around Convey, that was a mistake because Convey is a supporting part. A good supporting part, no doubt, but not the kind of player that carries a team the way Donovan does or the way Jaime and Marco did. As much as we may have wanted it to happen, it just wasn't going to because that's not the type of player Convey is. I think one of the smartest things Peter did was refusing to play Bobby centrally and mainly use him on the flank so that when he did leave, he was easily replaced by another flank player rather than disrupting the center of the midfield, which is the most important ingredient to the team's success. For the record, I think that once he adjusts, Convey will do just fine in England - on the flank - and be a good player over there. But, he's never gonna be the star that, say, Beasley or Donovan or Eddie Johnson have a chance to be.
Without Convey: 1996: Win Championship 1997: Win Championship 1998: Lose in Championship Game 1999: Win Championship 2004: Win Championship With Convey: 2000: Miss playoffs 2001: Miss playoffs 2002: Miss playoffs 2003: Make playoffs, out in 1st round Maybe it's a good thing sormun ain't around for this
Good one. Keeping w/your song theme, from Rod Stewart: http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Rod-Stewart/Some-Guys-Have-All-The-Luck.html Some guys have all the luck Some guys have all the pain Some guys get all the breaks Some guys do nothing but complain .... All of my friends have a ring on their finger They have someone Someone to care for them it ain't fair I got no one
Seeing as how Convey was with us for the first half of the season, I would not say we won without him. He was still an important factor for our success, We had a respectable 3-3-4 record in games he played in and a 2-3-2 record without him. I say we broke even with him on the field, and he played his part in our successful campaign.
Former Yankees first baseman Don Mattingly. Top notch hitter and a quality player, but ring-less. I think he was the hitting coach for this year's Yankee squad. I had a long conversation with Sormun at one of the Happy Hours at Summer's. Great person to talk to about United, and the game itself. I'm glad I got that opportunity.
Yep. Also, the Yankees were in four World Series between 1976 and 1981, winning two of them. Mattingly joined the team in 1982 and had a very distinguished career (a possible Hall Of Famer) until his retirement in 1995, but never got to play in the World Series. The next year, the Yankees won the World Series, as well as three of the next four, thus making Mattingly probably the greatest Yankee to have never won the World Series. Right now, Convey is the best United player to have never won MLS Cup. May he continue to have that title.
I think there's a certain Bulgarian who might take umbrage with that comment. And I don't mean that hairy-chested defender Ray brought in last year! And what about Abdul Thompson Conteh?.... Mike Amman?.... Juan Berth Suarez?