Wasatch Mountain Cup, The RSL Repilcators vs. The Cheyenne Mountain Boys A.K.A. SG1, 8/4/12 7:00 UDT

Wasatch Mountain Cup = Rocky Mountain Cup re-branded since the cRapids haven't won the damn thing in over 6 years now, it's pretty much found it's home in the wasatch mountains.

 

the way we are ********ing with karma would make canyonvue blush.
It's the RMC you cheeky bastards.

The lineup for this obviously heavily depends on the Tuesday match in Costa Rica.
With that said, I would wager we see something like this (given the charter flight)

-------------------Nicky
--Wingert--Watson--Borchers--Mansally
-------------------Alvarez
---------Steele---------------Johnson
---------------------Gil
-----------Espy-----------Braun

Bench: Reynish, Olave, Beltran, Grabs, Beckerman, Javi, Sabo

• Sabo and Javi need rest, especially since they'll likely be asked to play the full 90 in Tico Land.
• Johnson is a machine - rest him later
• Alvarez had a stellar game against these guys before, use it
• Espy has been getting subbed off lately and I think this is the reason why - I do think he'll be subbed off here again, though
• Nicky has to start. I wouldn't trust Reynish against a u-8 team
• Braun should have got minutes against these guys when we won the thing here. Oh well

 

lol, it's all in good fun, just like twisting the knife in those bastards as much as i can.

 

Paging Jason...

 

Please just keep Steele on bench, Will be interesting to see how Braun plays when he gets a shot.

 

Sadly with the amount of rotating needed to keep guys fresh and injury free, we likely see Steele. I'd rather we didn't but we can hope for a good 90 from him at some point right?

 

Keep Steele on the bench and play Seba. The kid played well at the beginning of the season. I'd like to see him get more time.

 

Kid played so well early and then nothing, how does this play with a young players confidence.

 

The management of Velasquez and his time and injury is probably one of the biggest questions of the season on this forum.

I trust the coach on this one, he sees more in practice etc. and who am I anyway?

Many of us here just feel the team looks and flows better (at least offensively) with Seba on the field. We're seeing a similar love for Alvarez of late...but we also saw a 'blossom of love' for Steele after his first few games, that's since turned into general disdain.

 

How many fans are going to this one? I guess no bus is going? We have 6 going as this is our annual trip. Should be fun nonetheless.

 

Your going to Costa Rica? Dick!! No really good on ya, represent us all well.

 

Unless Denver recently relocated to Costa Rica I'm guessing he's not
I wouldn't mind seeing some Velazquez as well but I have a feeling JK is taking it slow with him and trying to not rush him into games. Kind of how Gil was groomed over a few years before he started playing more regularly.

 

My real question is how Seba's performances became transformed into offensive juggernauts when he was mostly an adequate stop-gap entry.

 

Too many threads, sorry thought Steve was heading to Costa Rica.

Agree somewhat on Valasquez but too throw him too the wolves early and have him not only survive but excell, it seems counterproductive at this point to hold him back. It may be just me but I would like to see Valasquez get the minutes over Steele every day.

 

Absence makes the heart grow fonder. He can't be worse than Steele right?

 

#beatthecrapidswithourreserves

Remember last year when we did that to the Revs?
Good times.

 

Steele has pictures of Seba with JK's wife - I'm convinced.

Also, while nobody played well in that USOC debacle, Seba came on and was god awful. Like he was the worst of the worst awful

 

Steele played awful in his games save the goals. We all said it. Many of the post game comments were "had Steele not scored that winner, I would have been so pissed at him for his play" in essence.

The Alvarez love has been around for quite some time, not just recently. He is quality that Kreis seems to want to hide despite there not being an expansion draft to worry about

 

I wish I was going to costa rica instead of Denver....one day....one day.

 

With Pareja apologizing to the whiny fan base for the team's perfomance, it would be nice to smash them in their own house 3-0.