(02-05-2018 11:15 PM)chiefsfan Wrote: Heh. Jermaine Jones said today that MLS rigged the blind draw so he could play for New England when he came into the league.
It's not entirely unbelievable given the "random" draws that you get out of soccer, but its also Jermaine Jones, so take it with a grain of salt.
I'm just glad he didn't end up in San Jose. And yes, MLS is a mess.
(02-03-2018 12:18 PM)chiefsfan Wrote: Swans get a critical point at Leicester. Managed 7 points out of our first 3 of 4 straight league games against Top half teams. Home vs Burnley next weekend to finish the stretch before a slew of relegation 6 pointers arrive.
Will finish this match week out of the Bottom 3 for the first time in several months. Brom, Stoke, and Huddersfield are currently in the bottom 3.
Wilfred Bony and Leroy Fer out for the rest of the season due to injuries. Swans can't catch a break.
Bony has struggled all year, he won't hurt us that much. Fer is a tough loss. Where this hurts us is the ability to make any sort of an FA Cup run. Both Ayew and King are cup tied, Bony and Fer are out for the year, and Britton, Rangel, and Sanches are all out injured.
I think we have something like 16 of our normal 25 man squad actually available for the FA Cup. Considering half those will be rested for PL play, we're going to be playing a bunch of U23 Kids in any of our remaining cup rounds.
(02-03-2018 12:18 PM)chiefsfan Wrote: Swans get a critical point at Leicester. Managed 7 points out of our first 3 of 4 straight league games against Top half teams. Home vs Burnley next weekend to finish the stretch before a slew of relegation 6 pointers arrive.
Will finish this match week out of the Bottom 3 for the first time in several months. Brom, Stoke, and Huddersfield are currently in the bottom 3.
Wilfred Bony and Leroy Fer out for the rest of the season due to injuries. Swans can't catch a break.
Bony has struggled all year, he won't hurt us that much. Fer is a tough loss. Where this hurts us is the ability to make any sort of an FA Cup run. Both Ayew and King are cup tied, Bony and Fer are out for the year, and Britton, Rangel, and Sanches are all out injured.
I think we have something like 16 of our normal 25 man squad actually available for the FA Cup. Considering half those will be rested for PL play, we're going to be playing a bunch of U23 Kids in any of our remaining cup rounds.
02-06-2018 11:32 AM
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(02-03-2018 12:18 PM)chiefsfan Wrote: Swans get a critical point at Leicester. Managed 7 points out of our first 3 of 4 straight league games against Top half teams. Home vs Burnley next weekend to finish the stretch before a slew of relegation 6 pointers arrive.
Will finish this match week out of the Bottom 3 for the first time in several months. Brom, Stoke, and Huddersfield are currently in the bottom 3.
Wilfred Bony and Leroy Fer out for the rest of the season due to injuries. Swans can't catch a break.
Bony has struggled all year, he won't hurt us that much. Fer is a tough loss. Where this hurts us is the ability to make any sort of an FA Cup run. Both Ayew and King are cup tied, Bony and Fer are out for the year, and Britton, Rangel, and Sanches are all out injured.
I think we have something like 16 of our normal 25 man squad actually available for the FA Cup. Considering half those will be rested for PL play, we're going to be playing a bunch of U23 Kids in any of our remaining cup rounds.
Fer has got to be the most relegated player in PL history, so losing him is probably a good thing
(02-03-2018 12:18 PM)chiefsfan Wrote: Swans get a critical point at Leicester. Managed 7 points out of our first 3 of 4 straight league games against Top half teams. Home vs Burnley next weekend to finish the stretch before a slew of relegation 6 pointers arrive.
Will finish this match week out of the Bottom 3 for the first time in several months. Brom, Stoke, and Huddersfield are currently in the bottom 3.
Wilfred Bony and Leroy Fer out for the rest of the season due to injuries. Swans can't catch a break.
Bony has struggled all year, he won't hurt us that much. Fer is a tough loss. Where this hurts us is the ability to make any sort of an FA Cup run. Both Ayew and King are cup tied, Bony and Fer are out for the year, and Britton, Rangel, and Sanches are all out injured.
I think we have something like 16 of our normal 25 man squad actually available for the FA Cup. Considering half those will be rested for PL play, we're going to be playing a bunch of U23 Kids in any of our remaining cup rounds.
How is Ayew cup tied? He scored against Wolves?
Edit: oh Andre I assume. Didn’t realize Swansea had signed him
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(02-03-2018 12:18 PM)chiefsfan Wrote: Swans get a critical point at Leicester. Managed 7 points out of our first 3 of 4 straight league games against Top half teams. Home vs Burnley next weekend to finish the stretch before a slew of relegation 6 pointers arrive.
Will finish this match week out of the Bottom 3 for the first time in several months. Brom, Stoke, and Huddersfield are currently in the bottom 3.
Wilfred Bony and Leroy Fer out for the rest of the season due to injuries. Swans can't catch a break.
Bony has struggled all year, he won't hurt us that much. Fer is a tough loss. Where this hurts us is the ability to make any sort of an FA Cup run. Both Ayew and King are cup tied, Bony and Fer are out for the year, and Britton, Rangel, and Sanches are all out injured.
I think we have something like 16 of our normal 25 man squad actually available for the FA Cup. Considering half those will be rested for PL play, we're going to be playing a bunch of U23 Kids in any of our remaining cup rounds.
Fer has got to be the most relegated player in PL history, so losing him is probably a good thing
Strangely not even in the top 10.
Most relegations from the PL is 5....Nathan Blake and Hermann Hreidasson
They can be caught by Robert Green(Huddersfield) who has been relegated 4 times
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(02-03-2018 12:18 PM)chiefsfan Wrote: Swans get a critical point at Leicester. Managed 7 points out of our first 3 of 4 straight league games against Top half teams. Home vs Burnley next weekend to finish the stretch before a slew of relegation 6 pointers arrive.
Will finish this match week out of the Bottom 3 for the first time in several months. Brom, Stoke, and Huddersfield are currently in the bottom 3.
Wilfred Bony and Leroy Fer out for the rest of the season due to injuries. Swans can't catch a break.
Bony has struggled all year, he won't hurt us that much. Fer is a tough loss. Where this hurts us is the ability to make any sort of an FA Cup run. Both Ayew and King are cup tied, Bony and Fer are out for the year, and Britton, Rangel, and Sanches are all out injured.
I think we have something like 16 of our normal 25 man squad actually available for the FA Cup. Considering half those will be rested for PL play, we're going to be playing a bunch of U23 Kids in any of our remaining cup rounds.
Fer has got to be the most relegated player in PL history, so losing him is probably a good thing
Strangely not even in the top 10.
Most relegations from the PL is 5....Nathan Blake and Hermann Hreidasson
They can be caught by Robert Green(Huddersfield) who has been relegated 4 times
That is quite surprising, just by virtue of him being at Norwich and QPR I figued he'd be close.
(02-04-2018 10:35 AM)VA49er Wrote: Wilfred Bony and Leroy Fer out for the rest of the season due to injuries. Swans can't catch a break.
Bony has struggled all year, he won't hurt us that much. Fer is a tough loss. Where this hurts us is the ability to make any sort of an FA Cup run. Both Ayew and King are cup tied, Bony and Fer are out for the year, and Britton, Rangel, and Sanches are all out injured.
I think we have something like 16 of our normal 25 man squad actually available for the FA Cup. Considering half those will be rested for PL play, we're going to be playing a bunch of U23 Kids in any of our remaining cup rounds.
Fer has got to be the most relegated player in PL history, so losing him is probably a good thing
Strangely not even in the top 10.
Most relegations from the PL is 5....Nathan Blake and Hermann Hreidasson
They can be caught by Robert Green(Huddersfield) who has been relegated 4 times
That is quite surprising, just by virtue of him being at Norwich and QPR I figued he'd be close.
Robert Green, the gift that keeps on giving haha.
yup. Too good for the championship and not good enough for the PL.
BTW, Nathan Redmond might give 5 relegations a run for the money seeing how young he is. He's 23 and he's already been relegated twice(Birmingham City and Norwich) and is possibly working on his third this year with Southampton..
Swansea scores 8 to absolutely flatten Notts County in a 4th round Replay tonight. Those 8 goals is one goal more than we scored in a 3 month stretch earlier this season. And that was despite starting a total of 2 players who are in our normal PL Starting XI, and giving a couple 20 year old's with zero first team appearances run outs.
Swans advance and will tie a modern FA Cup record when they play their 11th consecutive away Cup tie against Carvahal's former side Sheffield Wednesday on the 17th.
FA Cup Tonight:
Swansea City 8 Notts County 1
Birmingham City 1 Huddersfield Town 4 (AET)
Rochdale 1 Milwall 0
Huddersfield will host Man United in Round 5. Rochdale will host the winner of tomorrow's match between Spurs and Newport County.
NWSL and MLS have both announced they will vote as a bloc Saturday for Kathy Carter. USL is expected to follow, giving her 24 percent of the vote already. NWSL's choice is curious because NWSL players have been pretty vocal against her. But half of NWSL is joint owned by MLS, so yeah.
Athletes Council may announce its choice tomorrow. If they choose Carter, Saturday will be a formality, because it would give her 44 percent of the vote already, and she'd need just a few state associations to join in.
It's kind of disturbing how much of an influence MLS has on this thing. They have way too much operating control within the professional ranks.
02-09-2018 12:09 AM
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(02-09-2018 12:09 AM)chiefsfan Wrote: NWSL and MLS have both announced they will vote as a bloc Saturday for Kathy Carter. USL is expected to follow, giving her 24 percent of the vote already. NWSL's choice is curious because NWSL players have been pretty vocal against her. But half of NWSL is joint owned by MLS, so yeah.
Athletes Council may announce its choice tomorrow. If they choose Carter, Saturday will be a formality, because it would give her 44 percent of the vote already, and she'd need just a few state associations to join in.
It's kind of disturbing how much of an influence MLS has on this thing. They have way too much operating control within the professional ranks.
Yep...and nothing will change.
It sounds like most, if not all, of the state associations are supporting Martino from some of his interviews.
02-09-2018 09:22 AM
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Apparently the committee in charge of the vote and collection met in executive session to discuss details...off the record. This just screams business as usual now...the worst candidate (Kathy Carter) will win.
(02-09-2018 09:26 AM)BearcatMan Wrote: Apparently the committee in charge of the vote and collection met in executive session to discuss details...off the record. This just screams business as usual now...the worst candidate (Kathy Carter) will win.
Wtf, hopefully this turns everybody else against the MLS. I'm steadily leaning towards burn the mother down. This is ridiculous, there is no reason for us to not be a top 10 country consistently.
(02-09-2018 09:26 AM)BearcatMan Wrote: Apparently the committee in charge of the vote and collection met in executive session to discuss details...off the record. This just screams business as usual now...the worst candidate (Kathy Carter) will win.
Wtf, hopefully this turns everybody else against the MLS. I'm steadily leaning towards burn the mother down. This is ridiculous, there is no reason for us to not be a top 10 country consistently.
We shouldnt be as bad as we are but you are going to be disappointed if thats your expectations.
Think we will consistently be on par or better than Brazil, Germany, Argentina, Spain, France, and Italy is la la land.
We should be consistently a Top 20 country with the occasional move into the top 10.
Is it too late for some of the fringe candidates to drop out and tell their supporters to go with Martino? I fear that if it goes to a second vote someone will stay in and cause Martino to not get enough votes.
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(02-09-2018 11:26 AM)PurpleReigns Wrote: Is it too late for some of the fringe candidates to drop out and tell their supporters to go with Martino? I fear that if it goes to a second vote someone will stay in and cause Martino to not get enough votes.
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Apparently the "Group of Six" as they call themselves are literally in a hotel room at the conference center as we speak drafting up an agreement to throw support behind the candidates who make it through the first round, but as was stated above, it may not matter if they can't break up the athlete's block.
(02-09-2018 09:26 AM)BearcatMan Wrote: Apparently the committee in charge of the vote and collection met in executive session to discuss details...off the record. This just screams business as usual now...the worst candidate (Kathy Carter) will win.
Wtf, hopefully this turns everybody else against the MLS. I'm steadily leaning towards burn the mother down. This is ridiculous, there is no reason for us to not be a top 10 country consistently.
We shouldnt be as bad as we are but you are going to be disappointed if thats your expectations.
Think we will consistently be on par or better than Brazil, Germany, Argentina, Spain, France, and Italy is la la land.
We should be consistently a Top 20 country with the occasional move into the top 10.
I doubt it. Here are teams that should be better than us consistently. Brazil, Argentina, Italy, Germany, Spain, England, and France. That leaves three places for teams like the US, Mexico, Peru, Portugal, the Netherlands, Uruguay. Historically speaking our group has the type of systems/associations to produce and have at a higher level than the US. But we're the 3rd largest country by population and the richest, three times the size of almost every team mentioned. Even given 25% of our best athletes playing we should compete with talent alone. Even at 10% (much closer to reality) given our advantage in resources we should be competing at a top level. That we are not shows we are doing something wrong. We will struggle to pass up that first group. But we could easily be the top in the second and that's top 10.
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