Why does Atlanta not have their own forum yet?

dark knight · Feb 22, 2018

I'll see if this can be sorted.

VFish · Nov 27, 2018

Honore de Ballsac said: ↑

Holy smokes that's soon. The Uniteds should be, must be, crapping themselves. You don't want to just dump something out on the pitch and call it "pro."

Wonder if Minnesota is giving Atlanta a false sense of accomplishment. A handful of exciting signings doesn't make a competitive team. I wouldn't want to try to christen a major market and billion dollar NFL Enormodome with a team that stinks.

I'm thinking Chicago, Seattle and maybe NYCFC all kicked off with more sound squads. Yes there's 60 days to go, but the level of the league and expectation has been greatly raised by 2017. When does camp start? I appreciate it when teams act like you only get one chance to launch. Betting otherwise is risky.

Bawk bawk, sky falling.
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Short bus post of the year.

Honore de Ballsac · Nov 28, 2018

Of 2017 you mean?

Question is: what did their roster look like 58 days before they launched? That's what I was wondering at that time.

There was quite an ATL hype train rolling at that time, and it continues to roll because they've lived up to it and then some. They've hit all their marks - hopefully Barco comes through too.

GoDawgsGo · Nov 28, 2018

Honore de Ballsac said: ↑

Of 2017 you mean?

Question is: what did their roster look like 58 days before they launched? That's what I was wondering at that time.

There was quite an ATL hype train rolling at that time, and it continues to roll because they've lived up to it and then some. They've hit all their marks - hopefully Barco comes through too.
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Just eat your crow in silence.

Ya they must've totally been crapping themselves knowing they're working with the biggest check book in the league. Probably ran out of toilet paper every day in that office.

Honore de Ballsac · Nov 28, 2018

You know, I laughed along at first - because it was one of those throwaway "counterpoint to all the hype" thoughts.

But implying, with hindsight, that a post from Jan 2017 is the dumbest post of 2018 is kind of dumb right? Atlanta had a lot of money but the roster was thin and the hype was so monolithic it was worth questioning at that time. We have had World Cup winning international coaches and players bomb out in this league. We have had high-priced DP's bomb out in this league - this season there were a bunch of underperformers. We've seen high-priced DP's cost their teams' overall roster quality. And we've seen relatively big budget teams like Toronto FC flop for years.

Aanywhoo - I don't expect a smarter response this time either. So uh, "Aw shuks. Durn it! I was certain Atlanta United was gonna be rilly bad somehow and I was dead wrong!" There's your sig.

Honore de Ballsac · Nov 28, 2018

P.S. I thought LAFC's situation was similar coming into this season. Obviously the evidence of ATL and LAFC has made me less skeptical about teams trying to put together an entertaining and competitive squad in a short amount of time.

astroturfFC · Nov 21, 2020

Can we get an Austin FC Forum now? Jersey, Coaches, Players, Stadium. It'd be nice to have the forum itself ramped up by the time we kickoff.

TrueCrew · Dec 16, 2020

astroturfFC said: ↑

Can we get an Austin FC Forum now? Jersey, Coaches, Players, Stadium. It'd be nice to have the forum itself ramped up by the time we kickoff.
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I cannot believe I am going to say this often, but I wholeheartedly agree with my fellow poster from Austin.

And get logos for the logo-less. Nashville & Miami.