WTF is going on with our scouting? Its not impressive at all. Why? bco'z Frank is now jack of all trade? or the club hit rock bottom?
What's the barometer by which you're measuring scouting (and saying it sucks). I honestly can't bring to mind any way that someone not a coach or in the locker room would have any way to tell that.
Of course, if we say that Humo sucks balls, that is a factually true statement and a compliment, except for the fixed Humo.
I'd use the barometer of success bringing people in. This year we drafted or signed: Puppo Robayo Nolly Berry Dube Jumper Friedrich Tornaghi Walls Rolfe Alex Of those, I would say only Friedrich, Tornaghi, Berry and Rolfe have been successess. Two of those had spent time with the club already (Berry and Rolfe), one was a very well known defender (hardly a scouting success), and Tornaghi is a legitimate good find. Some others are doing ok as practice squad players, but that isn't who Fire should be bringing in. It should be people with a chance at starting.
All of you are complainig, but none of you are giving ideas of new signings. WTF? First 3 replys are worth shit.
Has the Greek League pipeline gone cold? We need a Grazzini replacement fast but I don't see it happening this year. Our paper mache midfield won't hold that long. We were fortunate that Vancouver sucked on Sat.
And how exactly is that a failure of scouting? Scouts don't negotiate contracts. Who gets "found" and who you can come to terms with and SIGN are two different lists. I still don't see how outsiders *really* get a view on how good (or bad) our scouting is.
Puppo - looks like a flop Robayo - looked great on paper. I expected him to be really good. Flop. Nolly - nothing expected Berry - Great find. Rookie, cheap, and starting almost every game. Fantastic. Dube - Took a chance, cut ties early. Not much harm done. Meh. Jumper - Looks promising. Not expected to do much, but has been getting some minutes and looking pretty good. Friedrich - Great signing. DP quality without the DP price. Tornaghi - Great signing. We finally have a great backup, and he made a number of great saves while SJ was away with the national team. Walls - nothing expected Rolfe - Good signing. Alex - Good/great signing. In a league with a salary cap, every team will have to have some players that are not expected to start. If our 2nd round draft pick can make the team, then he is contributing. If he can get minutes on the field as a rookie, I'd say that's doing really well. Alex doesn't look like he's going to set the league on fire, but he's good enough to be starting, and he's young. We need someone to play that position, so his signing is a great signing based on need IMO. So I'd say Puppo and Robayo are flops. Those are costly flops to be sure, but other than those 2, I think they did pretty well this year.
i dunno if its scouting or not, but its frustrating to look at some of the other teams and see such familiar Euro names that play attacking roles: NY has Henry, LA has Beckham and Keane. hell even Toronto got Koevermans last season. Portland brings in Kenny Miller this season who was a great SPL scorer. you'd think Chicago would be attractive enough to bring in a Euro-stud at some point, eh?
Frankie and crew seem to prefer scouting central and south american talent. Which could work if the players they found were actually talented. Unfortunately, they usually aren't