Not really all that related but the Nets have been the New York Nets, the New Jersey Nets, and then the Brooklyn Nets. But they were first the New Jersey Americans in the ABA (in their first year, after which they moved to Long Island).
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Eh. The last time he scored a goal was 20 months ago.
apparently hes been on trial with them since February, kinda weird they waiting this long to sign him.
not that weird. guy can't finish to save his life. AND he plays dirty and dives.
TFC must be desperate. Slow CBs and aging roster and they sign Dwyer. their fans must be on the #armasOUT train
I never understood the Armas hire, but he hasn't been working with a full roster. Pozuelo alone is as important to TFC as Maxi is to us. And if your roster analysis is correct, he might have jumped onto a sinking ship, but that's his choice. Signing Dwyer does seem to be a desperation move.
I like the schedule this week. There are two games today (Toronto-Columbus and Philadelphia-New England) where it is worth rooting for a tie, and if that doesn't happen you can just be happy that someone dropped points no matter who wins. Then all of them plus Miami have double game weeks with short rest (which comes upon repeated short rest for some of them), and we even get to play Toronto on 2.5 days rest. Toronto might be on a downward slope compared to the other teams in that group, but I would not mind if they just get buried early so we don't have to worry about them the rest of the year.
I'm ever more convinced that CCL is more of a handicap than benefit to MLS teams and will remain so for the next several years at least. Maybe someone wins it before then because tournaments generate inherently erratic results, but that's exceedingly speculative while the damage it does to your regular MLS season is near certain.
I'm ever more convinced that CCL is more of a handicap than benefit to MLS teams and will remain so for the next several years at least. Maybe someone wins it before then because tournaments generate inherently erratic results, but that's exceedingly speculative while the damage it does to your regular MLS season is near certain.
On an unrelated note: how funny/sad would it be if fans really vote for their teams for Goal of the Week, and since very few people care for RSL, Rubio Rubin's bicycle kick does not win the GOTW? Further proof that those things should be left to pundits and not put in the hands of the twitter masses?
He's comfortably ahead, but with no Atlanta, Portland or Seattle nominated, it's not a true test.
Reading Doyle's column today I notice he says that Cincinnati's record excluding their first 4 games is 8-10-38 which is of course in W-D-L order. MLS has always used W-L-T. So I checked the standings and they too are now in W-D-L format.
I think this just happened today but for my own curiosity wondering if anyone noticed the switch earlier?
I think this just happened today but for my own curiosity wondering if anyone noticed the switch earlier?
Haven't noticed when this happened. But this would match how the rest of the football world treats tables.
Thank goodness! It made no sense to go from a 3pt column, to a 0pt column, then to a 1pt column. Not a big deal, but when I'm reading tables I like to see it this way. MP-W-D-L-P-PPG-GF-GA-GD
I would prefer GD-GF-GA but with the MLS tiebreaker format i like GF first
I would prefer GD-GF-GA but with the MLS tiebreaker format i like GF first
I really think it was today, or the previous 48 hours at most, because I think I would have noticed if they had switched earlier.
And yet MLS still calls them standings not tables. I mean, if you going to discard Americanisms go all in. I'm tired of this drip, drip, drip. MLF. And now I'm wondering if they are going to make some intern go through every article on the website from the last2 decades and switch the format there too.
We have always been at war with
It's actually been all season. I noticed it when they switched to the new website, they were displaying standings as W-D-L.
1. How does the change from W-L-T to W-D-L affect column size?
2. The first 3 tiebreakers in order (1) Wins, (2) GD, and (3) GF. Why do you prefer GF before GD? Just wondering. I like the GF-GA-GD order also because I think it is logical but I don't connect it to the tiebreaker rules.
- Total number of wins
- Goal Differential
- Goals For (GF)
- Fewest Disciplinary Points*
- Away Goals Differential
- Away Goals For
- Home Goals Differential
- Home Goals For
- Coin Toss (tie of two clubs) or Drawing of Lots (tie of three or more clubs)
Also use this as a reminder that Cincinnati in those first 4 games of their expansion team had 2 wins, 1 draw, and 1 loss. Their loss being at Seattle and the draw being at Atlanta.
I've seen (many places, not just on here) people saying that Austin are going to be a decent team this year and using their decent results to verify that. I'm still expecting them to be a bottom of the Western Conference team. Sure they made some nice signings, but not enough, and not the splashes needed for an expansion team to be a contender (like LAFC and Atlanta both did).
i still see austin as borderline playoff team, fighting for that last spot for sure. imo their issue is the lack of depth (like many teams really), they have good first team and even have top players in certain positions, like ring, but once schedule starts getting hectic with mid week games and call ups for summer tournaments they may struggle.
Maybe borderline because there are 7 spots. I just don't think they're materially better than 3-4 teams in the West. They're currently 8th in the standings, though there is still some time for the standings to really get settled. Colorado and Vancouver are above them now, but I could see Austin finishing ahead of them. Houston is below them and Austin could finish ahead of them, maybe Dallas though I don't quite think so. Minnesota has been atrocious so far but I imagine they pull out of this funk and finish top 8.
I think it is a longshot that Austin finish ahead of
Seattle, LAG, LAFC, Kansas City
That leaves 3 spots for 9 teams, which includes 2020 playoff teams Portland, Minnesota, Dallas, Colorado, and San Jose. Austin has a shot, but it's tough.
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