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I am stunned NYCFC pays this keeper
Posted on 5/21/16 at 9:08 pm
Posted on 5/21/16 at 9:08 pm
Vid shows all goals
The 6th goal is just shameful
He seems to dive once ball is past him to save face
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The 6th goal is just shameful
He seems to dive once ball is past him to save face
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Posted on 5/21/16 at 9:15 pm to LSUMJ
That defense though.
Saunders is usually alright as far as MLS keepers go. This game was pretty terrible from that whole team. I'm glad Patrick Mullins can say he had nothing to do with this one
Saunders is usually alright as far as MLS keepers go. This game was pretty terrible from that whole team. I'm glad Patrick Mullins can say he had nothing to do with this one
Posted on 5/21/16 at 9:54 pm to LSUMJ
This match was atypical. NYCFC is not this bad and NYRB is not this good in a broad context (they were on this match, however). Saunders is an okay GK, not good but not horrible. He does have slow reaction time.
Posted on 5/21/16 at 9:58 pm to LSUMJ
US hockey has surpassed US soccer, AINEC
Posted on 5/21/16 at 10:05 pm to Mr Personality
US hockey has always been good. I remember when they beat that Russian team that everyone thought was the greatest...
Posted on 5/22/16 at 12:01 am to cwil177
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Saunders is usually alright as far as MLS keepers go. This game was pretty terrible from that whole team. I'm glad Patrick Mullins can say he had nothing to do with this one
Last Weekend against the Timbers he looked like Tim Howard and he decides to pull this garbage this week?
Posted on 5/22/16 at 4:13 am to LSUMJ
If there was any match that could have been fixed in MLS, it would have been this one.
Posted on 5/22/16 at 5:35 am to crazy4lsu
Meh this is more of the culmination of all the awful decisions made by NYCFC during its short history.
David Villa is perhaps the best forward in history when it comes to finding channels and space to exploit. He's been perhaps the least shite player for NYCFC, but he's still limited on his range of motion by a dinky bumpy pitch on a baseball diamond.
...Which brings me to Pirlo. Here's an idea, let's sign the most creative passer of his generation and expect him to deliver his trademark long range passes on a dinky bumpy pitch on a baseball diamond. Oh yeah never mind the fact that Pirlo is extremely limited in his pace, so inferior players can crowd him out while playing on dinky bumpy pitch on a baseball diamond.
Frank Lampard doesn't give two shits about the club that pays him. He's approaching Rafa Marquez for the worst DP signing championship belt. He's more indifferent to MLS than David Beckham was before Landon Donovan called him out in Grant Wahl's book. Who the hell is going to call out Fat Frank for not giving a shite? Khiry Shelton?
NYCFC thinks that it can win without a stalwart defender despite the fact that the team concedes goals for fun on a dinky bumpy pitch on a baseball diamond. Hell the Pigeons' best player last year Poku doesnt play because NYCFC's marketing team cares more about shoehorning two DP playmakers in place of a defensive midfielder.
Let's fire the brightest young coach in MLS who had his team playing marginally well at the end of last season despite host team playing its home games on a dinky bumpy pitch on a baseball diamond and replace him with a woefully inexperienced but big name manager who has no idea in the slightest on how MLS operates, let alone the general landscape of American soccer.
If I'm Don Garber, I'm having a serious sit down with Man City and the Yankees on how they've basically torpedoed the most promising and potentially lucrative franchise in MLS in less than two years.
David Villa is perhaps the best forward in history when it comes to finding channels and space to exploit. He's been perhaps the least shite player for NYCFC, but he's still limited on his range of motion by a dinky bumpy pitch on a baseball diamond.
...Which brings me to Pirlo. Here's an idea, let's sign the most creative passer of his generation and expect him to deliver his trademark long range passes on a dinky bumpy pitch on a baseball diamond. Oh yeah never mind the fact that Pirlo is extremely limited in his pace, so inferior players can crowd him out while playing on dinky bumpy pitch on a baseball diamond.
Frank Lampard doesn't give two shits about the club that pays him. He's approaching Rafa Marquez for the worst DP signing championship belt. He's more indifferent to MLS than David Beckham was before Landon Donovan called him out in Grant Wahl's book. Who the hell is going to call out Fat Frank for not giving a shite? Khiry Shelton?
NYCFC thinks that it can win without a stalwart defender despite the fact that the team concedes goals for fun on a dinky bumpy pitch on a baseball diamond. Hell the Pigeons' best player last year Poku doesnt play because NYCFC's marketing team cares more about shoehorning two DP playmakers in place of a defensive midfielder.
Let's fire the brightest young coach in MLS who had his team playing marginally well at the end of last season despite host team playing its home games on a dinky bumpy pitch on a baseball diamond and replace him with a woefully inexperienced but big name manager who has no idea in the slightest on how MLS operates, let alone the general landscape of American soccer.
If I'm Don Garber, I'm having a serious sit down with Man City and the Yankees on how they've basically torpedoed the most promising and potentially lucrative franchise in MLS in less than two years.
Posted on 5/22/16 at 6:13 am to thenry712
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Frank Lampard doesn't give two shits about the club that pays him. He's approaching Rafa Marquez for the worst DP signing championship belt
When he entered the game in the second half and his name was announced, he was massively booed. It was awesome.
Posted on 5/22/16 at 1:50 pm to thenry712
It's the MLS...what do you expect?
$100mil for shits and giggles
$100mil for shits and giggles
Posted on 5/22/16 at 2:50 pm to thenry712
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If I'm Don Garber, I'm having a serious sit down with Man City and the Yankees on how they've basically torpedoed the most promising and potentially lucrative franchise in MLS in less than two years.
I don't follow enough to know all the details but not simply holding a spot for NYCFC until they had an actual football field to play on seems based on nothing more than grabbing a lot of the Sheik's money as quickly as possible.
You would think the MLS would be taking greater pains to steer away from "retirement" and "exhibition" vibe.
Nothing flies in the face of that more than having Pirlo and Lampard toiling around that little baseball diamond.
Posted on 5/22/16 at 4:21 pm to wm72
Lampard is his own worthless animal. From what I have seen, Pirlo has played hard and Villa has been exemplary, on and off the pitch. So NYC made a wasted signing, it happens sometimes and it happens everywhere, not just in MLS.
Regarding the establishment of NYC before a ground was set, I agree, the motivation to have the Arab millions was undoubtedly a factor. Yet it was not simply a money grab. A lot of work had been done to proceed with a ground in Flushing Meadows. Plans were drawn, meetings were convened, hearings and town halls were conducted, Mayor Bloomberg was involved and helping to execute, trade unions were engaged and brought onboard. What was not expected was the community opposition that swelled up and strident objection by a newly arrived Mayor de Blasio.
I personally think the community missed a great opportunity. The ground was to be located on a decaying, inoperable huge fountain that was built for a world fair in the 1960s. A dozen soccer fields were to be built nearby for public use. Additional land within the borough was to be acquired and converted to green space to replace the acreage taken for the ground. However, a message of a rich oil prince from the Middle East taking playground space from children resonated. The threat of never ending lawsuits and bureaucratic red tape proliferated. So, what you see now is the result. Nonetheless, people are enjoying the club and support is good so I will not fault the placement of it, only the process.
I really like the idea of a club within the city of New York but it is not easy to find available land to build a soccer ground, and if it is found, that is just the beginning of the saga. The latest thing heard is that NYC is looking at building in one of the very last large open land areas in the city: the Sunnyside Yards. Sunnyside is an enormous rail yard just across the East River from Manhattan. It has long been coveted by developers and is now being moved upon. Development will be build over the rail yards on platforms supported by pillars, and NYC is working to be in a corner of the land. We shall see what happens.
Regarding the establishment of NYC before a ground was set, I agree, the motivation to have the Arab millions was undoubtedly a factor. Yet it was not simply a money grab. A lot of work had been done to proceed with a ground in Flushing Meadows. Plans were drawn, meetings were convened, hearings and town halls were conducted, Mayor Bloomberg was involved and helping to execute, trade unions were engaged and brought onboard. What was not expected was the community opposition that swelled up and strident objection by a newly arrived Mayor de Blasio.
I personally think the community missed a great opportunity. The ground was to be located on a decaying, inoperable huge fountain that was built for a world fair in the 1960s. A dozen soccer fields were to be built nearby for public use. Additional land within the borough was to be acquired and converted to green space to replace the acreage taken for the ground. However, a message of a rich oil prince from the Middle East taking playground space from children resonated. The threat of never ending lawsuits and bureaucratic red tape proliferated. So, what you see now is the result. Nonetheless, people are enjoying the club and support is good so I will not fault the placement of it, only the process.
I really like the idea of a club within the city of New York but it is not easy to find available land to build a soccer ground, and if it is found, that is just the beginning of the saga. The latest thing heard is that NYC is looking at building in one of the very last large open land areas in the city: the Sunnyside Yards. Sunnyside is an enormous rail yard just across the East River from Manhattan. It has long been coveted by developers and is now being moved upon. Development will be build over the rail yards on platforms supported by pillars, and NYC is working to be in a corner of the land. We shall see what happens.
Posted on 5/22/16 at 5:44 pm to John Keating
Yeah, I've been to a few of the NYCFC matches and agree that Pirlo and Villa have been fine. However, the pitch on that baseball diamond is just so small as well as the aesthetics being awkward and downright distracting. It just doesn't seem like a "real" match.
Not as closely as you, but I live in Brooklyn and do follow the developments about the proposed stadiums a bit.
It's hard to believe anyone really thought these projects were going to be quick and easy to push through, especially with Bloomberg on his way out.
Projects of this size always run into huge delays or are outright abandoned, particularly when they:
1) add a ton of lucrative tax breaks and rule bending add-ons for investors which hardly seem all that necessary
2) propose converting large stretches of public park into private use space
I live about 20 blocks from the new Barclays Center and that was delayed many years as well.
A sweetheart deal converting limited public land while giving huge tax breaks to a multi-billionaire sheik was never really going to have the vast majority of the populace jumping for joy.
Not to say that there's no way for NYCFC to get a lot of area fans more interested when they do get an actual stadium (as long as it's not in New Jersey).
However, there's certainly a general feeling from a lot of the younger crowd in trendier, Brooklyn and southern Queens that seemed a key demographic NYCFC were courting that the club is a bit of a joke at this point.
Not as closely as you, but I live in Brooklyn and do follow the developments about the proposed stadiums a bit.
It's hard to believe anyone really thought these projects were going to be quick and easy to push through, especially with Bloomberg on his way out.
Projects of this size always run into huge delays or are outright abandoned, particularly when they:
1) add a ton of lucrative tax breaks and rule bending add-ons for investors which hardly seem all that necessary
2) propose converting large stretches of public park into private use space
I live about 20 blocks from the new Barclays Center and that was delayed many years as well.
A sweetheart deal converting limited public land while giving huge tax breaks to a multi-billionaire sheik was never really going to have the vast majority of the populace jumping for joy.
Not to say that there's no way for NYCFC to get a lot of area fans more interested when they do get an actual stadium (as long as it's not in New Jersey).
However, there's certainly a general feeling from a lot of the younger crowd in trendier, Brooklyn and southern Queens that seemed a key demographic NYCFC were courting that the club is a bit of a joke at this point.
Posted on 5/22/16 at 6:19 pm to wm72
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However, the pitch on that baseball diamond is just so small as well as the aesthetics being awkward and downright distracting. It just doesn't seem like a "real" match.
It is almost like watching pinball.
Edit: I have been to New York and Brooklyn about a dozen times but never lived there. I would love to do so. My great grandparents are buried in Green Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.
This post was edited on 5/22/16 at 6:24 pm
Posted on 5/22/16 at 6:50 pm to John Keating
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Edit: I have been to New York and Brooklyn about a dozen times but never lived there. I would love to do so. My great grandparents are buried in Green Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.
I never really thought I'd live in NY but kept visiting for music related business and always enjoyed it so much that I finally moved.
I lived in Manhattan for the first year but wasn't really wild about living there for the tiny living space and almost anything I was interested in happening in Brooklyn instead etc.. .
I moved to Clinton Hill, Brooklyn (a brownstone neighborhood between Williamsburg and downtown) in 2009 and really love it. . .
Posted on 5/22/16 at 7:02 pm to wm72
I know exactly where that is, I ate a place called Locanda right off Gates Ave around that area once. Great Italian food.
Posted on 5/22/16 at 7:16 pm to John Keating
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I know exactly where that is, I ate a place called Locanda right off Gates Ave around that area once. Great Italian food.
Small world. . . Locanda Vini e Olii is a couple of blocks from my apartment. It is very good. . . we eat there every couple of months.
It's really a great neighborhood. . . the gentrification process has unfortunately reached the instant high rise Condo + Starbucks/ Chipotle Grill stage down the hill toward the east river but Clinton Hill is still pretty mellow and all the area between here and Williamsburg has really exploded with good bars, shops and restaurants the past few years.
Posted on 5/22/16 at 7:27 pm to wm72
it's amazing how Brooklyn has kind of evolved over the past 20 years or so... When I used to go a lot back in the 90s... Everyone I knew was in Manhattan... No need to ever go to Brooklyn... It almost seems that's flip flopped now..
It seemed people I knew back then were more apt to move to Hoboken than Brooklyn, in search of cheaper housing..
Its been a while since Ive been back, but Ive heard the gentrification in the East Village has really drained the soul out of that neighborhood..
It seemed people I knew back then were more apt to move to Hoboken than Brooklyn, in search of cheaper housing..
Its been a while since Ive been back, but Ive heard the gentrification in the East Village has really drained the soul out of that neighborhood..
Posted on 5/22/16 at 8:01 pm to wm72
I was just in Brooklyn this week. I stayed a couple blocks from the Barclays Center because my brother lives right near Prospect Park. I could never live in NYC and really dislike most of it, but Brooklyn > Manhattan by a lot.
Posted on 5/22/16 at 8:22 pm to Vicks Kennel Club
I loved Manhattan, but can't really compare the two, since Ive never spent time in Brooklyn..
Going to see shows at the Mercury Lounge and Brownie's... good times! I liked the whole lower east side/east village/bowery area..
Going to see shows at the Mercury Lounge and Brownie's... good times! I liked the whole lower east side/east village/bowery area..
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