Are you being paid by the team for this column. I’m not sure if you were watching the same match we all watched while in attendance at the stadium. The squad did more to perpetuate a belief of ‘work harder not smarter’ when the opposite should be true. All I saw was chaos and a lack of strategy as to how to play. The worst 3 match home stretch I’ve ever witnessed as a STM. I left the stadium feeing the season is over given the current coaching staff. Our players are getting hurt either because of the stadium turf or the training staff. The injuries on this team over the last 2 seasons is ridiculous.
I will give them credit for not sitting down and crying when the 3rd goal was scored. But you cannot CANNOT expect each opponent to gift you an own goal, you cannot expect that each opponent will collapse in the final 20 minutes of a match the way the Rapid did. Yes, it was glorious to come away with 1 point when it looked all was lost, but come ON. And you cannot expect that Gil will get into a shoving match with an opposing captain each match which actually was the turning point in the emotion of the team, IMHO. If the strategy cannot move from "let's kick it back towards our own goal instead of moving forward" , we are doomed.
They were lucky this game. The way the team is playing now they don't look like they will make the playoffs and if they do they will be one and done. Porter can cry about injuries but all teams have them and they are capable of doing fine. The past two seasons the players picked up a lot knocks during training and injuries seems to be the same this year. Is he going to blame it on the players being out of shape like he did last season? What happens is Gil gets hurt? Hate to think of that scenario.
Are you being paid by the team for this column. I’m not sure if you were watching the same match we all watched while in attendance at the stadium. The squad did more to perpetuate a belief of ‘work harder not smarter’ when the opposite should be true. All I saw was chaos and a lack of strategy as to how to play. The worst 3 match home stretch I’ve ever witnessed as a STM. I left the stadium feeing the season is over given the current coaching staff. Our players are getting hurt either because of the stadium turf or the training staff. The injuries on this team over the last 2 seasons is ridiculous.
I will give them credit for not sitting down and crying when the 3rd goal was scored. But you cannot CANNOT expect each opponent to gift you an own goal, you cannot expect that each opponent will collapse in the final 20 minutes of a match the way the Rapid did. Yes, it was glorious to come away with 1 point when it looked all was lost, but come ON. And you cannot expect that Gil will get into a shoving match with an opposing captain each match which actually was the turning point in the emotion of the team, IMHO. If the strategy cannot move from "let's kick it back towards our own goal instead of moving forward" , we are doomed.
They were lucky this game. The way the team is playing now they don't look like they will make the playoffs and if they do they will be one and done. Porter can cry about injuries but all teams have them and they are capable of doing fine. The past two seasons the players picked up a lot knocks during training and injuries seems to be the same this year. Is he going to blame it on the players being out of shape like he did last season? What happens is Gil gets hurt? Hate to think of that scenario.