Til I die.You’re always #team50 aren’t you?
Or turn 60.
Til I die.You’re always #team50 aren’t you?
By that measure, though, why not just throw a dart.
I'm not suggesting throw a dart. I'm suggesting having a process by which you evaluate all available talent without eliminating whole categories of options (e.g., anyone within the CFG system).You have to evaluate the available options each time.
Road map: I'd be much more accepting of tinkering with strong communication. It's the combination that's fatal. The road map is simple. Hire a good coach. Hire good players. Build a positive culture and effective strategy (part of hiring a good coach).Well, what are we judging the hire on? Pep himself is a tinkerer. And he’s not great at it. Nor is he great at winning latitude to be a tinkerer.
All of that is documented.
Soooo... and I’m serious, give us the road map to actually get good.
Because I think you misrepresented about 6 things there. So there’s that. But I like the positivity.
Why are you licking CFG chode just to say in way more words than necessary that they made a shit hire? It’s re-dic
There's a new contributor for the Outfield that has a set piece article coming out soon.Has anyone run the numbers to see how City's production from set pieces has or hasn't changed since Domé left?
I spent a couple of minutes trying to figure it out on WhoScored? before giving up.
Important to remember: I drank a lot enjoying the UCL results and mostly have no idea what I was on about. Soooo...probably not going to make sense here. You win some, you lose some. Sometimes you do both. Lolololol.Road map: I'd be much more accepting of tinkering with strong communication. It's the combination that's fatal. The road map is simple. Hire a good coach. Hire good players. Build a positive culture and effective strategy (part of hiring a good coach).
Licking chode: I did say this was a bad hire. I have no idea what you are referring to here.
Misrepresentations: Again, I really have no idea what you think I misrepresented.
Especially considering the position Armas has been put in for this season. Arguably their best player is now in Europe, Kaku doesn't want to be in NJ, and they still have an open DP spot.Are the reports about the Red Bulls talking to Thierry Henry to take over as coach for real? I'm putting this here instead of the RB thread because I'm mostly interested for the contrast with us. Both teams had coaches leave midseason. RB worldwide orchestrated their situation and had a coach familiar with the team ready to step up. Armas made tweaks that actually made them better in the second half of 2018 than they were under Marsch. And now after just 6 games of a slow start to 2019 they apparently are looking to replace him. If that's true, I'm not sure that's so much better than the very long rope that Torrent is getting. Unlike Dome, I think Armas has earned a full 2019 and if they dump him it seems panicky. Plus Henry doesn't have a coaching record that inspires confidence.
Eh. It was a fun 2+ years. He improved the team. But he won nothing, and left in circumstances that made it harder for the club to replace him than it should have been. He did not train a replacement and took all his assistants with him, leaving just ancillary guys like the goalkeeper coach. The resulting hire wiped out everything Viera started. That is an empty legacy. No hardware, no foundation for future success. No, he didn't pick Dome. CFG and the front office are more to blame than he is. But when CFG hired Viera, and did not make him train a replacement and did not convince him to stay through 2018 they laid the groundwork for their own failure. So he was a failed hire. The goal is not to finish second twice, play pretty football, win nothing and then fail to improve.
Put it this way. If you could guarantee all of the following would you sign on? Our next coach gets 1.8 PPG for 2.4 years, but the price is we win no playoff rounds, no USOC games, no conference championships, no SS, never qualify for CCL, and the subsequent coach gets 1.4 PPG until he's fired, and also wins no trophies. Would you make that deal?
PS: That's better than what we just went through for the past 3+ years.
Are the reports about the Red Bulls talking to Thierry Henry to take over as coach for real? I'm putting this here instead of the RB thread because I'm mostly interested for the contrast with us. Both teams had coaches leave midseason. RB worldwide orchestrated their situation and had a coach familiar with the team ready to step up. Armas made tweaks that actually made them better in the second half of 2018 than they were under Marsch. And now after just 6 games of a slow start to 2019 they apparently are looking to replace him. If that's true, I'm not sure that's so much better than the very long rope that Torrent is getting. Unlike Dome, I think Armas has earned a full 2019 and if they dump him it seems panicky. Plus Henry doesn't have a coaching record that inspires confidence.
What, dropping 90% of your first team because they don't like your tactics and playing a bunch of bench players and youngins while in a 20 game losing streak isn't a good coaching strategy?? Only logical reason I can see for RBNJ hiring Henry would be to hope they double their actual attendance due to having a big name that played relatively well for them. His resume has nothing positive when it comes to coaching.Are the reports about the Red Bulls talking to Thierry Henry to take over as coach for real? I'm putting this here instead of the RB thread because I'm mostly interested for the contrast with us. Both teams had coaches leave midseason. RB worldwide orchestrated their situation and had a coach familiar with the team ready to step up. Armas made tweaks that actually made them better in the second half of 2018 than they were under Marsch. And now after just 6 games of a slow start to 2019 they apparently are looking to replace him. If that's true, I'm not sure that's so much better than the very long rope that Torrent is getting. Unlike Dome, I think Armas has earned a full 2019 and if they dump him it seems panicky. Plus Henry doesn't have a coaching record that inspires confidence.
Armas should be given more time. It will be interesting to see Marsch as the head coach at Salzburg. For his sake I think it would be best to get a year assisting Nagelsmann, but I guess the Salzburg spot opened up and they decided to give him that.Especially considering the position Armas has been put in for this season. Arguably their best player is now in Europe, Kaku doesn't want to be in NJ, and they still have an open DP spot.
I love to rag on NJ, and I really hated Marsch (though still think he's a hell of a coach), but I kinda feel for Armas if he is really feeling this pressure.
FIFYNYCFC: We have the worst coach.
Red Bull: Hold mybeerred bull.
It’s not an either/or or one is bigger than the other. Last season was easy for Armas as he only had to stay the course. This year is above his ability since he is coaching as if Adams was replaced 1-2-1 when he doesn’t have a like-replacement, and Armas has not figured out how to redistribute responsibility and roles on the field to accommodate. So while Adams loss is huge, Armas hasn’t effectively adjusted for it.What is likely to be a bigger contributor to New Jersey's struggles this year?
1. Poor performance by the head coach, who led the team to 12 wins and 39 points in its final 18 games last season after having been promoted from within the club.
2. Losing their all-star center midfielder, who is now anchoring the midfield for the third place team in the Bundesliga.
There's a new contributor for the Outfield that has a set piece article coming out soon.
Put it this way. If you could guarantee all of the following would you sign on? Our next coach gets 1.8 PPG for 2.4 years, but the price is we win no playoff rounds, no USOC games, no conference championships, no SS, never qualify for CCL, and the subsequent coach gets 1.4 PPG until he's fired, and also wins no trophies. Would you make that deal?
I think I can see Maxime Chanot going down with a head injury somewhere in that cover pic.Well worth your time if you can stand watching us concede easily preventable goals.
When you put it that way, it makes me glad that Dome tried switching things up earlier in his tenure.Maybe Armas was good enough to keep a good thing humming (ie be a stand-in Manager but really is competent as an assistant) but he doesn’t have the charisma or deep tactical/roster understanding needed to start a fresh season? Maybe he’s not able to see how to replace Adams, not as a 1-2-1 switch, but how to reallocate tactical resources and field responsibilities to make up for it?
So if that’s the case, last year was “easy” for him as it was his wheelhouse of ability, but 2019 is out of his depth. Contrast that with Dome who can’t keep an engine running and the following year can’t even get the engine to turn over - he’s still pumping the pedal and flooding it.
Not sure Dome is competent to do either - he was a horrible caretaker and he’s failed miserably to mobilize the team this year, and his ability to judge talent/ability is completely bankrupt since he pushed so hard the take that we didn’t need a true CF/striker because his system would play to the strengths of our dozen wingers.When you put it that way, it makes me glad that Dome tried switching things up earlier in his tenure.