Post-match: OUR HEROES ARE BACK! CCL ROUND OF 16 FIRST LEG CREW @ REAL ESTELI 4/8 8:00 PM

Does anyone know if SpectrumTV has a DVR add-on? Watching the game last night I would have loved to rewind a couple times..

 

He's been in Columbus for at least a few days already.

 

Or just as biased.

 

I believe you have to rent a cable box for that. DVR is not available through the app.

 

From the Esteli press. The bolded part made me spit coffee on the keyboard.

The first goal came at the 19 minute mark when the defender of the Train (Esteli is called "El Tren del Norte", or the Northern Train), Oscar Acevedo intercepted a pass and forgot to clear it before being mugged by Gyassi Zardes who beat Argentine goalie Alvarao Rezzano. The second marker came at 25' with a corner from Lucas Zelayaran and the captain Jonathan Mensah found the position due to the weak marking from Acevedo. Until that point, the pinolero team looked hopeless, without weapons to get closer in the score. At 35' the game became a rout when Luis Diaz found Zardes in the 6 yard box. Here something incredible happened, the most dangerous man for the Crew was in the kitchen as if he was at the beach with a Cuban mojito in hand taking in the sun, with no one near him. We noticed that the Nicaraguan defense was conscious of the distance recommended by the WHO as they were marking their opponent.

 

Hilarious

 

I have Spectrum here in Middletown. My cable box has a record function!

 

Mark Williams
Chad McCarty
...Eric Denton? Frankie?

 

Not a bad start. I recall Julius James being happy to make some hard tackles in the 15 yards on either side of the half line.

 

He will throw in flipping the bird at fans .. at no extra charge!

 

Lest we forget:

 

Theres a difference between being feisty and being a hard man. Its true that its a bad idea to get into a fight with a crazy man but Im not sure Frankie is the prototype Dave Semenko.

O' Rourke was a hard man back there, although his real toughness was in his refusal to be beaten with the ball. Hed tear your leg off and beat you to death with it before hed let you by him. Fouls and cards and such seemed to mean little to him.

From what we've seen, Wormgoor is the same. Hes a working class grown ass man who supports his wife and four daughters by kicking your ass. Nobody ever accused him of being the second coming of Franco Baresi but he doesnt back down for anybody.

McCarty was supposed to be a tough guy but the act died the day he got a fist to the face and got both a concussion and a busted up face. When he came back he was never the same and was quickly out of the league. He now sels insurance and coaches at a high school.

Matt Komosko is before most of you guys time - I cant believe @Kryptonite left him out - but it seemed clear ro most people that Fitz brought him in specifically to protect McBride, who used to take a fearful beating. He had close to zero soccer ability but made up for it with a willingness to knock you down and kick you in the face. Accidentally.

But if you put my star forward on the injured list, be prepared to see yours there as well.

Honestly though one of the toughest guys the Crew has ever had was Duncan Oughton. Hes not remebered that way because he was so laid back and goofy off the field but he took pretty much zero crap on the field.

Adam Moffat was the same, minus the goofy part. Lay a cheap shot on hjm and spend the rest of the match running for your life.

Honorable mention to Josh Williams. Whenever theres a scuffle on the field hes the first guy there, squaring off with whoever is being an asshole. He taketh no shit and hes got your back. A great teammate.

 

https://www.bigsoccer.com/threads/herron-is-class.543167/

Memorialized via a BS thread. Hahaha... Geeg still gives me shit about calling Herron, true Crew. Will never die.

 

I'd not forget to mention Mike Clark here, as well....

 

I forgot about O'Bookme and with Andy Herron, it makes decisions all that much harder.

Who was the guy who said he'd never play for Nee?

 

Ante Razov:

"You are an idiot and I will never play for you again"

 

The fact that his nickname was "Stone Cold"...well...you all figure it out:

 

Didn't he suffer a pretty bad knee injury but still played out the half/game? Almost ended his career if I remember correctly.

 

2004, the year the Crew won the Shield.

Second leg of the Playoff series with the Revs, Crew had lost the first game 1-0, Knee was totally blown up, played the entire second half in what can only have been incredible pain. Refused to ask out when another knock or even a misstep might have meant never walking right again.

Crew tied 1-1 and was out anyway, Oughton had surgery and sat out all of 2005. The Bearded Clam got canned, Sigi came in 2006 and Dunc was still sitting out. Finally got back in the middle of the 2006 season.

He didn't play much afterwards, but - not many people recall this - was actually on the 2008 Cup winning team.

Very tough guy.

 

When they did those "game faces" Duncan made a big deal of his because he had a band-aid on his nose after getting knocked there.

Before all that happened, we had to cut one of our international players. Back then, roster rules were a lot more simple. We could only have a certain number of international players, which counted on the same roster...none of these subsets like we have now. Anyway, we ended up cutting Tenywa Bonseu which some fans disagreed with at the time.

IIRC, Duncan got temporarily cut due to roster restrictions, but there was an agreement in there that he wouldn't sign with another team.

He was on the 2008 team, but didn't even make the gameday roster and Sigi only used two subs. You know what they say about hindsight.