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re: Fab sent home from camp
Posted on 10/13/15 at 11:17 am to 5thTiger
Posted on 10/13/15 at 11:17 am to 5thTiger
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Fabs decided he couldn't tough it out 9 more minutes for "his country". Heck, I'd take a beating by a pro boxer for 9 minutes if I could still stand for my country
Dumbest thing I've ever heard. What if you getting beat to shite by a pro boxer hurt others? So the beating was unnecessary and hurt others. Did you really accomplish anything? It is a scientific fact that sometimes your body just cannot go on. This isn't life or death, Fabs felt (as he should have) that there was a fresher player that could come on and do a BETTER job that he would do for the last 10 minutes.
We can throw out stats about PK save percentage and bullshite, but what does that matter if we don't get there? It's not like Fab's replacement gave up the goal. The only consequence of his action was that Jurgen blasted him in the media and sent arguably our best player home because his feathers were ruffled. And Jurgy once again had to make sure his authority is known.
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Posted on 10/13/15 at 11:31 am to LSUButt
Playing for PK's is rarely a viable strategy, and eating that sub until the 119th minute for the purpose of the penalty shootout was also poor. Jones was gassed at the 75th minute. Now that it comes out that Johnson actually has a thigh injury and wasn't taking himself off for the purpose of ruining JK's master plan, why should we believe a word JK says about it?
Are we that much worse than Mexico that we had to play for a god damn penalty shootout with them? The answer is clear and maybe playing for the shootout was JK conceding their superiority. Regardless, when both sides are organized, the US is generally a better team. When we play players out of position, and with no regard for spacing, of course we are going to make Mexico look amazing.
The fact that Beckerman was constantly overrun in zone 14 destroyed our spacing, as it caused Jones to tuck in, leaving his wing free. If Jones was simply a wing player with proper support centrally, maybe he wouldn't have been gassed. But the fact that he was is not indicative of poor fitness, but rather extremely poor tactics.
Are we that much worse than Mexico that we had to play for a god damn penalty shootout with them? The answer is clear and maybe playing for the shootout was JK conceding their superiority. Regardless, when both sides are organized, the US is generally a better team. When we play players out of position, and with no regard for spacing, of course we are going to make Mexico look amazing.
The fact that Beckerman was constantly overrun in zone 14 destroyed our spacing, as it caused Jones to tuck in, leaving his wing free. If Jones was simply a wing player with proper support centrally, maybe he wouldn't have been gassed. But the fact that he was is not indicative of poor fitness, but rather extremely poor tactics.
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