Correction! I listened again and it was very hard to hear, but he actually goes
"Eben" (ofori), "J.P." (juan pablo torrez), "Keaton" so if you could fix that!
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"Eben" (ofori), "J.P." (juan pablo torrez), "Keaton" so if you could fix that!
We have too many of the same type of players. They aren't necessarily "too good".
Not a bad idea. Spurs doing something similar. Whenever we had the ball, which was all the time, we were basically:
Chanot Callens
Ring Sands
Maxi Mitri
Tinny, Medina, Taty, Sweat
So essentially bumping one of Medina or Taty for Parks. Or even Medina swapping with Mitri, because I thought he picked out some nice incisive passes, as Alex Da Silva pointed out.
As said far too often with Dome's teams, we looked good until we got to the final 18 and then we sorely lacked some underlapping runs to break the defensive line.
Also I'm beginning to sense some frustration with Tinny from Dome, and could see Scally getting minutes soon.
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Isi knuckled it, so it looked like he got wrong footed by the flight of the ball.
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Even scarier idea? Peeping Lampard behind Dome on the bench.
"Here is what the tifo was supposed to look like. The boat was supposed to “float” down the river through the sections and hit Rooney as he entered the water in 238.
The idea was based on the movie Birdbox but if everything had worked as I envisioned then you wouldn’t have needed to have seen the movie for the message to stick. I don’t think I need to explain the idea of Dome leading our team down a river blindfolded as a good metaphor for what this season is setting up to be. Rooney as an un-blinfolded insane person made sense as well.
The concept from the outset might have been a bridge too far but ultimately we were done in by the weather which damaged items we loaded in Saturday and kept us from fixing things this morning. Yankee Stadium restrictions and their staff damaging our boat minutes before kickoff didn’t help either.
For those that don’t know I am a TR board member and do a number of things for the organization including running tifo. Happy to accept full responsibility for this not working out which is a shame as we were so close to pulling it all off."
Pics Below. hopefully doesnt kill the speed of the forum, if it does ill make it all into one imgur gallery and post a link instead.
The idea was based on the movie Birdbox but if everything had worked as I envisioned then you wouldn’t have needed to have seen the movie for the message to stick. I don’t think I need to explain the idea of Dome leading our team down a river blindfolded as a good metaphor for what this season is setting up to be. Rooney as an un-blinfolded insane person made sense as well.
The concept from the outset might have been a bridge too far but ultimately we were done in by the weather which damaged items we loaded in Saturday and kept us from fixing things this morning. Yankee Stadium restrictions and their staff damaging our boat minutes before kickoff didn’t help either.
For those that don’t know I am a TR board member and do a number of things for the organization including running tifo. Happy to accept full responsibility for this not working out which is a shame as we were so close to pulling it all off."
Pics Below. hopefully doesnt kill the speed of the forum, if it does ill make it all into one imgur gallery and post a link instead.
"Here is what the tifo was supposed to look like. The boat was supposed to “float” down the river through the sections and hit Rooney as he entered the water in 238.
The idea was based on the movie Birdbox but if everything had worked as I envisioned then you wouldn’t have needed to have seen the movie for the message to stick. I don’t think I need to explain the idea of Dome leading our team down a river blindfolded as a good metaphor for what this season is setting up to be. Rooney as an un-blinfolded insane person made sense as well.
The concept from the outset might have been a bridge too far but ultimately we were done in by the weather which damaged items we loaded in Saturday and kept us from fixing things this morning. Yankee Stadium restrictions and their staff damaging our boat minutes before kickoff didn’t help either.
For those that don’t know I am a TR board member and do a number of things for the organization including running tifo. Happy to accept full responsibility for this not working out which is a shame as we were so close to pulling it all off."
Pics Below. hopefully doesnt kill the speed of the forum, if it does ill make it all into one imgur gallery and post a link instead.
I'm honestly surprised NYCFC allowed that TIFO through!
Great stuff on the Tifo. I could tell that something wasn't working right, so I am glad we got an explanation. Too bad about the problems - it would have been great.
The game started out very rough, but gradually got better and better. We controlled the ball more as the game went on and that control began to have more and more of a sense of purpose.
We had 66-34% possession, 21-6 in shots and 7-3 in shots on target. I think that overstates things because - as has been noted - many of our shots were searchers from distance as we lacked the ability to combine in the final third. Still, I feel a lot better after this game than after the first one.
And it is worth mentioning the turf. I am a big skeptic that our field's size and quality has much impact on games, but yesterday is a big exception. The area of temporary grass over the infield was terrible, and it played completely differently than the rest of the pitch. As a result, we really had a hard time playing out of the back on that side to start the game. This was a factor in a lot of our purposeless possession and even caused some turnovers that created chances for DCU. It was shambolic. And, I suspect it was a strategy for DCU, who appeared to choose to defend the supporter side goal to start the game. DC had warmed up on the side with the bad sod and probably knew of the issue. As a result, they pressed us hard and were inviting passes to the left - bad - side of the pitch. After halftime, DC didn't even try to build from the back - choosing to kick it long and avoid the problems.
Oh, and Mitritu is fucking baller. I can't wait for him to get totally in sync with his teammates.
The game started out very rough, but gradually got better and better. We controlled the ball more as the game went on and that control began to have more and more of a sense of purpose.
We had 66-34% possession, 21-6 in shots and 7-3 in shots on target. I think that overstates things because - as has been noted - many of our shots were searchers from distance as we lacked the ability to combine in the final third. Still, I feel a lot better after this game than after the first one.
And it is worth mentioning the turf. I am a big skeptic that our field's size and quality has much impact on games, but yesterday is a big exception. The area of temporary grass over the infield was terrible, and it played completely differently than the rest of the pitch. As a result, we really had a hard time playing out of the back on that side to start the game. This was a factor in a lot of our purposeless possession and even caused some turnovers that created chances for DCU. It was shambolic. And, I suspect it was a strategy for DCU, who appeared to choose to defend the supporter side goal to start the game. DC had warmed up on the side with the bad sod and probably knew of the issue. As a result, they pressed us hard and were inviting passes to the left - bad - side of the pitch. After halftime, DC didn't even try to build from the back - choosing to kick it long and avoid the problems.
Oh, and Mitritu is fucking baller. I can't wait for him to get totally in sync with his teammates.
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The thing about "I'm only a head coach" and I have to improve the players I have is basically taking all blame about not scoring and not having a striker off his back.
I noted a mistake in my previous post comparing the team results under Vieira and other coaches. I fixed it above but making a new post for those who wouldn't go back. Basically I charged Dome with 2 extra draws.
Corrected.
Vieira 39-22-22 1.65 PPG
Others 18-24-13 1.22 PPG
Others breakdown
JK 10-17-7 1.09 PPG
DT 8-7-6 1.43 PPG
Corrected.
Vieira 39-22-22 1.65 PPG
Others 18-24-13 1.22 PPG
Others breakdown
JK 10-17-7 1.09 PPG
DT 8-7-6 1.43 PPG
Does anyone believe that we are one striker away? He may be right, but there isn’t a high likelihood that player is arriving anytime soon.
If by striker you mean Messi and/or Ronaldo, then yes, we are one player away provided they have multiple moments of brilliance each match.
It's a glaring hole when you watch the team. Hard to say if it solves the problem because the front line looks out of sync and we have no idea if a CF will solve that problem or will just be an addition to the dysfunction. Taty did have 2-3 good chances at headers yesterday that a true CF likely does a better job with. We also clearly lack a player that can provide any type of target/hold up play.
Overall it's a massive problem, Dome rightfully is taking a lot of heat but its perplexing that Claudio seems to be getting a pass from most. How is it acceptable to start a season without even a backup level CF on the roster? Even if we get a first choice CF what's our plan if that guy gets hurt? Back to this?
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