Achtung! Sooooooooooo any of you guys interested in the international sawker cup?

That's not good.

Ok, someone help me out here. How much time is left? The clock going in the other direction is screwing with me.


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That was fun to watch. Even if I really didn't full grasp what was going on.


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Denverdave said:
Yeah - but they MUST get by Ghana first. And Ghana is just not a good matchup for the US style wise. It helps that the referee for the match is a Swede....but not one with any WC experience. And Ghana are the masters of faking fouls.
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Mission accomplished...
now they only need to beat or draw Portugal and that doesn't look so daunting now. How badly hurt is Altidore? That could still be a factor but given a -4 GD there is a lot of hope in the US right now
 
That was awful and wonderful: We score at the very beginning and very end and play like dog-doo in between. Very frustrating -- especially the boneheaded play by our midfield toward the end where, instead of being smart and taking the ball to the corners and wasting time they played long balls again and again. Is (San Jose Earthquakes coach Mark) Watson coaching this team? Also, that has to be the absolute worst I've ever seen Bradley play. He'd better get over this in a hurry or we're toast against Portugal and (especially) Germany.
 
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bsman said:
That was awful and wonderful: We score at the very beginning and very end and play like dog-doo in between. Very frustrating -- especially the boneheaded play by our midfield toward the end where, instead of being smart and taking the ball to the corners and wasting time they played long balls again and again. Is Watson coaching this team? Also, that has to be the absolute worst I've ever seen Bradley play. He'd better get over this in a hurry or we're toast against Portugal and (especially) Germany.
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Yep, and they can't play the "we scored 1 and just need to hold the lead for 85 more minutes" strategy if they want to advance. That could have gotten ugly.
 
Tig said:
Yep, and they can't play the "we scored 1 and just need to hold the lead for 85 more minutes" strategy if they want to advance. That could have gotten ugly.
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Seriously....they gave Ghana way too many scoring opportunities. They did play brilliant defense but you give someone like Renaldo that much time around the goal and you will pay dearly.

I hope Altidore will be ok by the next game. They need his creative offense.
 
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Denverdave said:
Seriously....they gave Ghana way too many chances. They did play brilliantly defensively but you give someone like Ronaldo that much time around the goal and you will pay dearly.

I hope Altidore will be ok by the next game. They need his creativity going forward.
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reverend1 said:
Hockey is more popular than soccer, but I think it's regionally popular. Up here in original 6 land people are into hockey, the rest of the country not so much. That despite their efforts with putting franchises in Arizona and other ridiculous places.
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I'm from one of those ridiculous places, and the team has tremendous hometown support. And a Stanley Cup. Just sayin.

We also had a minor league franchise since the early 70's, and I grew up playing hockey in Winston-Salem. Most people would have no idea that hockey has been around in many parts of the south and west longer than we've had NHL franchises.
 
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Guitar Heel said:
I'm from one of those ridiculous places, and the team has tremendous hometown support. And a Stanley Cup. Just sayin.

We also had a minor league franchise since the early 70's, and I grew up playing hockey in Winston-Salem. Most people would have no idea that hockey has been around in many parts of the south and west longer than we've had NHL franchises.
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I wouldn't include Carolina as a ridiculous place. The Hurricanes have always done well. We have an ECHL franchise here and I am very familiar with all of the teams throughout the south. That being said there is a big difference between having to draw 1,500-3,000 per game at $20 to survive to having draw 25,000-30,000 at $80 to survive. The NHL's entire idea behind bringing a franchise to Phoenix was that the snowbirds would support the team. Never happened.

BTW when I lived in Keywest the only sport the local high school played was roller hockey.
 
The good news is, Bradley can only play better, right? I'm not an expert on the game but he was bad. And I dont think we have much choice other than to play back and look for counter opportunities. We dont have the offensive game to open it up and if we do, our suspect defense is in real trouble.

I'm still confused as to why we dont do better. Bradley for example is a much better player than he showed. I dont see that many bad giveaways in my daughters U17 games. Just a little more control of the ball and it would have been a boring win. The two goals were both brilliant though.
 
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