Onderwerp: [NT] USA vs Australia

Well it was a good win. We are about even in rank at the moment though that's my fault and we are the better team statwise.

Missed another PK, as always. I think we're about 2/7 on those for the season.

Both teams had their chances but I felt like we deserved the victory.

Their team had ridiculous stamina. After the 60' mark when players get tired, it seemed only our players showed fatigue. All of their players kept their speed and stopped a couple breakaways by running them down when defenders usually fail to do so.

overall, should move us back up a spot.

Since you havent' started the costa rica thread yet...

Why Riddle(a winger) at mid instead of someone like Tarley?

27%defending is a ton for someone with such low defending, huge card risk.

Powell's debut yesterday!
He needs more tec and playm, but he is still young. Go P.J.!!!

Tarley would have been a better choice. I'm not quite sure how I missed him...he's one of our top U25's so that was just an error on my part.

Red card hurt us. We were in such great control of the game until that point :(
Was just angry with the score I suppose.

Also, Dimaria lets in 5 goals on 11 shots when he's 18/18 vs a mediocre striker at best. In the meantime we still have trouble putting away our chances.


Edit: Also, Hale still sucks. For as much as I loved him on the U21, he really doesn't convert over into a NT player
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i wonder what our rank would be if we didnt play friendlies, dating all the way back to vondos crappy record with them too

our team isn't what it used to be, to be honest.

Sure our rank definitely shouldn't be this bad, but in reality look at what we've got.

Our best players are STILL the 32-33 year olds, even after many many skill point drops.

Oaker? Galloway? Miles ahead of any midfielder we have today.

Even our defense is having trouble. We have a couple 18/18's but they possess very few extra skills like passing or playmaking that can really be game changing. We used to have players like Brand who was at least 17/17 and had magical passing, now I'm lucky to get someone with very good passing.

The only place we really haven't dropped is with our strikers. Cumberland, Buno, Singer, Havlicek, Knowles, etc... All quality players with great secondaries.

dude stop whining already I remember when you used to say u were the best tactician and what not and u didn´t do anything while in charge of the NT. If you really cared and believed that we messed up then why didn´t u run back then or now and try to ¨fix¨our errors?

Everytime I read one of your comments its either negative or you somehow try to praise your supreme tactical skills nothing ever productive.
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youre still here? just curious, what do you do when you log in besides 'read my comments'?

"If you really cared and believed that we messed up then why didn´t u run back then or now and try to ¨fix¨our errors?"

I'm confused by this statement...

I do care a lot and I put a lot of thought into lineups and tactics and such. In this previous game I had just forgotten about Tarley because he got lost in the database and I guess I simply missed him.

Not sure what you mean about going back and fixing errors.

If you want productivity, I just cleared out at least half of the players over 30 on the team for good, so there ya go.

And you're still here why?

because i am managing my team, which vondo isnt

I missed it, is it too late to make popcorn?

This conversation is yet another perfect example (in addition to the usual ones, of course) of why I WILL NOT RUN FOR NT COACH.

Geeze Llama, why must you take everything personally? You are so defensive on the poor job you have done did you bother to read that slammmy's comment was direct at vovo and not you??

Thou doth protest too loudly.

Slammy is here to recruit for ultimate manager... that's about it...

Slammy, jon and I are getting quite bored. The gap between us and the rest of you is getting bigger every season.

Its all rather disappointing imo