I wasn’t at the game (KC Current instead) and only saw the highlights. I was impressed with KZ’s comments afterwards regarding the referees. So nice to see a coach not blame the loss on controversial calls. We all know what PV would have been focused on in his press conference.
This team talent wise isn't good enough to overcome when a referee makes a bad call, that's the long and the short of it. They have to be better even when calls don't go their way and the talent just isn't there to do that. They were in the game and a pair of questionable calls went against KC and the game turned. And on the referee, this is the same one that gave Luna that red card earlier this year that was easily rescinded. He shouldn't be reffing this level whether you believe he was to blame or not.
One of the guys sitting behind me made a comment about futbol reffing as the most subjective of the major sports. I had to turn around and remind him of the nature of holding calls in American football. He kind of shrugged and said yeah, but. I was giggling inside. Bad reffing will always be beat by better play and I do think these guys have the talent to play better. That is the perennial fantasy of the fan, that your team of ragtag misfits is the next Wrexham. I am not saying that this particular set of players will win MLS cup but that skill only goes so far. Or as I might say, in TQM language from long ago, it's 20% skill 80% confidence. Also, do not give good divers excuses for play acting. This team needs to think faster when play switches to attack. There were missed opportunities for long balls due to lack of quick action. Cross opportunities where there were no targets near the 6 yd line. I hope whomever becomes the SKC coach has some skill in coaching attacking tactics.
Wrexham, to this point, have been more of the voracious monster stomping through villages. The championship is a different beast, but they are very well funded, and the $10m in debt they're going each season, covered by the cost of the video doc, makes them quite wealthy.
FYI, off topic, but well worth a watch. It breaks down the Wrexham financial situation, though it's a year old. And I couln't edit, that's $10 m in debt total, not each year: and the money isn't known on the show, but the indirect benefits make the club really international, so their outside of England merch sales are huge.
NFL football is esentially an adjudicated sport. The outcome of each game is heavily influenced by how the referees choose to interpret and enforuce the millions of rules that govern that game. Soccer, calcio, futbol can very much be impacted by referee decisions, but there are 10 rules, not one million rules, so they don't determine the outcome of each in game action like they do in the NFL. The NFL IS THE sport for people that like to complain about refs. NBA a close second. Soccer a distant third.
That vid was great and I think it reinforces my point. The money the spent on players on the ones they already had and from same level. Big for the league they were in, 1.5 to 2 times the average salary, and not bringing in big stars at 5, 10, 15 times the average salary. I am an engineer but I paid attention in economics for engineers and know that debt is not a bad thing and most of the wealth has gone to growing the brand outside its Wales birthplace. Rob and Ryan are working with Wrexham the way a real and loving owner should, trying to make a better experience for all. That creates good vibes that can snowball as we have seen. As a lifelong baseball fan I say we must not forget the vagaries of the strike zone nor the ability of the umpires to put themselves in the worst possible position to make a close call.
Yeah, as a kid, I lived in Reading, England, so Reading have been my club since then. They usually really suck. 2005-06 they had the best single season in English football history, in what is now the championship, got up to the Prem, 8th place, then next season relegated. Got a "rich oligarch" owner, back up to the prem. Relegated, the oligarch wasn't really one, was the son of a mob-like oligarch, who lost interest. Series of super rich owners who have gutted the club since, down to league one, series of EFL points deductions because their finances remain crap from going up, trying to stay up, sinking and trying to get back to the prem. Now in league 1, played Wrexham a couple times last season. Not sour grapes. Just noting, at the next level, the spending is way, way out of whack, typical spend is 200 percent of revenue. It can ruin even a darling of English football, which Reading was, knighted manager and everything. Chasing the prem is a dream, and a nightmare, for a club.
Chasing any sports goal is both a dream and a nightmare. I wish baseball had adopted a promotion relegation system years ago, would have made rooting for the Royals different all these years as I am sure they would have gone up and down a couple of leagues since I attend my first game in the mid 1970's.
I used to think so, but now I'm not so sure. Back when clubs relied on attendance, gate and game revenue, there was no real problem. Today, it really sucks backing a club teetering on the edge of financial ruin because it sought to be promoted too far. It's not uncommon.