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GB's avatar

Holy cow Rob, being sarcastic-who knew. Keep doing you. I am a dedicated fan but it is-has become so hard to be excited and to watch. When Fortune is starting it tells me we just don't care if we win or not. Look up the stats and see if he has started and we won. When they scored, Kelsey was so wide open. Why was Morales and Gregersen on the bench, they are just better. Sell GG and make what money you can, he cries more than he does anything. The announcer stated they (meaning ATL) have changed their tactics. Why on earth is Pineda in charge of anything? He's just not a Head Coach. 3-5-2 played correctly with the correct players and we had a chance. I would put Morales-Gregersen-Cobb as my 3---Wiley-Myumba-Dax-Slisz-Lennon as my 5--Almada and a forward of your choosing. (Brennan, Jamal, Rios) or maybe get a one. This is what most teams play against us and they win. Abram is so inconsistent he just need not play. We have Brennan on the bench, give him a shot. Sell, Sell, Sell like a stock exchange with these players Wolff, Misquera, Abram, Fortune, GG, Hernandez. Rios and Jamal try harder than GG, they may not score as much but they work harder. Pineda and Boca just don't have a clue! Garth was hired to help and he just talks with NO action. Please Garth make a move to better this club, we have a very large fan base that has suffered for 5 plus years after Boca dismantled the winning team. Sorry for the rant..

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Nyle Farooqui's avatar

Abram is the player that is likely to get the second buyout in my opinion. He’s been terrible. With how much his salary is too, he’s underperforming.

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Michael S White's avatar

I pay money for Rob to tell me he didn't watch, but he rates the players anyway?

I'm frustrated too, but 5 Stripes Final is a sevice and I the we deserve better than lazy, snide commentary.

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Rob Usry's avatar

I did actually watch but I’m not sure what you would like for me to say about subs that did absolutely nothing. But if you would like to take your anger out on me that is fine. I can’t fire anyone or make it better.

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Michael S White's avatar

Angry? That describes you using sarcasm instead of actually writing something worth reading.

I'm a casual fan, I don't scream and yell or ascribe motives to players when I'm not happy with thier performance. That's what you do.

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Dan K's avatar

Personally I like the sarcasm. At this point there’s not much different to write than what’s been written the last 6 games — players are running (sometimes), passing the ball (sometimes even to their own players), and generally looking like they don’t know what they’re doing. And that’s not sarcastic - that’s the truth.

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Rob Usry's avatar

Can’t please everyone. Everyone’s pissed off and so am I. But I’ve been doing this for nine years now and if you don’t know I’m a sarcastic dickhead by now then what are we even doing here. I apologize to anyone who didn’t know this already. Here’s to hoping we have matches actually worth seriously analyzing soon.

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Michael S White's avatar

I'm saying I would like something other than sarcasm.

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Darlo Koldenhoven's avatar

Brad-3 My rating comes from the reference of a keeper and coach. During warmups Brad drops a kick on a dime to an assistant coach at the half line most every time, yet during the game his distribution decisions are suspect and rarely on target. His restarts must be better and the players must know who and where their teammates are for the second ball. This group needs to play in a way to have fun. They seam to lost the joy of playing. Do the basics.

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Jeff's avatar

The sign of a good coach is that the team plays better together than the sum of its parts. We are the opposite. We have soooo many guys underperforming right now it is unbelievable. And when we have anything short of our absolute full, first choice starting 11, we are basically a shadow of ourselves. No adjustments. Almost always the wrong replacement lineup choices. Time to move on : (

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Derrell's avatar

Don’t worry you guys will get your wish and when it happens…..then what?

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Verse's avatar

Can everyone go into concussion protocol so we can get our season tickets money back? That’s a thing, right?

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Troy McIntyre's avatar

Liked Dax in the starting role. Need to understand why Fortune over Firmino.

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Sam Wammock's avatar

I’m done. Boring snooze fest 100% controlled by Cincy. ATL never threatened. This “team” is lost at sea. What’s the deal with Almada? What was he stuffing his face with on the bench off sitting by his lonesome? The ratings obviously reflect frustration but they are fair. Again no redeeming quality in the performance. Cincy is a good team that got an easy early goal then basically went into kill the game mode. ATL ran around mostly aimlessly.

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Brian O’Neill's avatar

Wow. It’s come to this

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Derrell's avatar

Not bad not good we move on. Interesting that our “star boy” just sat down and mouthed “I’m sore”

Yeah I don’t think Europe is calling this summer sir

We now know who the who is in the locker room

I actually saw a team play when he left the game

But I’m sure I will find myself in the minority on this one

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Don Bollmer's avatar

Based on your rating comments and the effort put forth, in glad I haven’t invested more in Five Stripes Final. If you don’t care, just say so.

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Rob Usry's avatar

Sorry

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Fleeced by Araujo's avatar

What hurts the most is feeling like everything was lost in about 15 minutes. This isn’t fun y’all.

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DOB's avatar

Siri! Insert “we suck again” gif!

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