Porter job watch

You are the only person who responded but, having given it some time, I thought I should mention that the 14W-17L-3T numbers I threw out were my projection of SN’s first MLS Cup culminating season to a 34 game schedule. That season, IMHO, sucked but it sure had a nice (but very brief like 3 games?) single elimination tournament at the end. But, IIRC, the Revs entered September with each week being “must-win” and they lost like 3 weeks in a row. Only the low bar to entry on the playoffs and other results kept them in the hunt. Finally they squeaked in and go down in history as “Eastern Conference Champions” and “MLS Cup Runner Up” even though they had a horrible, sub 1.4 PPG I think, regular season.

SN went on to have some really good teams and he coached them well. All post-contraction draft. But I’ll never say that was a good team and I wasn’t too convinced of his coaching either. Maybe it’s an argument for more patience given SN turned out pretty good but I do know…

That 5 games doesn’t convince me.

Also, as a side note, I think the thread was dying its own natural death until you went fishing…

 

San Jose latest to send out the grim reaper:

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MLSsoccer staff
Monday, Jun 24, 2024, 03:17 PM

 

"Fishing"? You're hilarious.

 

So, if a 4-game winning streak gets Porter off the hot seat, does a 2-game losing streak (getting outscored 5-1), put him back on it? Asking for a friend...

Berhalter is available... <ducks>

 

For anyone paying attention, no. I fully understand the injury list an what he has to work with in this moment. On top of all that, with Gil and Borrero we can compete. Without them, there probably aren't too many teams we can beat. Porter in inherited this uneven roster.

 

It might be interesting to define how these boards would evaluate Porter at the end of the season. What will it be?

1) How well the last 4 games were played?
2) They simply made the playoffs - success by definition for many
2) An assessment just based on the MLS season
3) An assessment based on MLS + Concacaf + Leagues Cup?

Whether the injury situation improves or not, how are we going to evaluate him? I agree with what I read in another thread that amounted to: yeah it’s tough and there are a lot of injuries but boy they sure look like the don’t know what they are doing as a team. Too many missed, easy passes. A shambles on defense too often. 21 games into the season, why is that?

Also, a shared responsibility but didn’t he once talk about 4-5 additions during the summer window? Tick tock IMHO.

 

I evaluate all managers the same way, regardless of results: can we tell what his preferred style of play is, and is it positively impacting the quality on the field.

1) what is the hallmark of Porter ball? I can't see any coherent themes across the revs 21 games with the exception of a commitment to having players without ball playing skills in key ball playing positions.

2) is it helping the team? Considering every time he opens his mouth he contradicts himself I'm going to go with no

#PorterOut

 

Noted. But sooooo little chatter

For instance, this can happen:

https://www.mlssoccer.com/news/cf-montreal-acquire-polish-defender-dawid-bugaj

Before Thursday somehow.

 

Yeah, the window just means he can't play tonight. Nothing besides incompetence (or measuring 9 times) to prevent the Revs from signing someone now.