Ghoat

On 06/08/2021 at 11:16, markjazzbassist said:

Great news, Norwich play good football and have a great youth program, great place for him to be!

4 year deal signed, look forward to being able to watch him most weeks 

On 03/08/2021 at 18:55, markjazzbassist said:

I am a euro snob supporter but I like berhalter.  He was a former USMNT player and he was excellent in MLS with teams that weren’t marquee.  Also he has a good football philosophy which is important.  I liked bob bradley for that era, loved Juergen just because he threw the establishment and concept of how we could play out the door.  Arena was a massive fail and I wasn’t a fan of that, he was a has been.  
 

I still believe our best players play in Europe, surprise surprise, they do!  Not rocket science there.  
 

to @Ghoat earlier point on Tata, I would have loved to get him as manager as well.  Hell if it all goes south I would still take him.  He knows how to get attacking football and has managed some big clubs and national teams.  

To the Euro-snob thing, the only time I really got into MLS, was when Tata was at ATL United. In part because they were new, and only a 2.5 hour drive (amazing stadium and atmosphere) but mainly beavuse the football Tata had them playing, especially with Martinez and Almiron. Since Tata left, I have lost interest in ATL and MLS as a whole, generally. Double whammy he left ATL for El Tri. Unlucky for him that Mexico is in a generational transition at the same time the US young players are maturing throughout Europe, and a wealth of young prospects are beginning to come up through the ranks. 

If we can just get someone to cement the number 9. I still think it can be Sarjent, and have hope for Dike.

Zardes for me kind of epitomizes the USMNT of old. He is not a great footballer - technically questionable, often has concrete feet on his first touch... but absolutely works his ass off for 90' plus, grinding away more on athletic skill and determination than anything else. I roll my eyes when he starts, but I personally find it impossible to not like and respect him. 

5 hours ago, markjazzbassist said:

i think Tata is excellent as well, i really like his style and tactics.  I think for the time being we just have the stronger player pool, they have a lot of aging players and too young players, they are where we were during the last WQ qualifying.  It's looking good for us, we need a strong WQ qualifying campaign, hopefully the Hex is forgiving this time around.

It's gonna be fairly rough, 3 games in 7 days on the international break in September and October. That's why that depth coming from the Gold Cup was so welcome. But I certainly like where we are heading in. 

3 hours ago, markjazzbassist said:

Well we won the gold cup.  You got to give berhalter credit, he has been dogged in the press since he got the job but he is producing.  I’m excited for WQ qualifying now.

That was a pretty big win, seeing what the squad was during the Gold Cup. I don't think anyone on that roster would make the starting Xi, and maybe only a few would make the bench. But that was a great tourny for that group, and Berhalter. They had to just grind out results in almost every match. Really good experience and looks promising for depth. 

I think it was a big loss for Mexico, rough summer for their homophobic chanters, losing cup finals  to both the USA 1st and 2nd teams. Hate it for em. Tata may be in the hot seat, he is something like 30-3-4 but 2 of those loses are to us in Cup finals this summer. I'd love it if they ran Tata off, because I think he is a great manager.

And actually we did change keepers, Virginia is in

Keane and Digne look like only 2 that stayed on

New team 2nd half. Looks like we changed everything but the keeper

Pretty good half for Kean, Gray and Davies. I don't think Townsend has more than 6-7 touches, he was invisible that half

Ref missed a blatant handling on Kean's volley, but pretty sure Kean was offsides on the goal anyway, so we're even now

Is there an audio stream, twitter maybe?

1 minute ago, Zoo 2.0 said:

They finished 15th out of 18 in the Mexican league too so even though it's early pre-season, I'm expecting a win for us here.

On another subject, amazes me how every single season like clockwork they fuck up on EvertonTV, always a technical issue !

ESPN is fucked up too, should have stayed my ass in Orlando another night I guess!

1 minute ago, RuffRob said:

i can just about cope with watching pre-season games live, but not sure I could watch a training session after knowing the result. 

Anyway, before they start - Are Puma's also mid season or pre-season?

 

They have played one league game

30 minutes ago, MikeO said:

True enough. Quite funny listening/watching the feed on Everton TV at the moment because they're having techy problems with the sound levels but you can hear them (just) talking about it. I said well over a decade ago they should've employed me to sort their shit but they missed out.  That said they've hugely improved on the recorded stuff, just seemingly can't cope with a live event. Ever.

ESPN stream is janky too. "your event is experiencing technically difficulties". God knows ESPN televises enough events from Camping World Stadium. Jackasses

1 hour ago, markjazzbassist said:

Lol, I was really drunk with a friend once and rapped about lobsters.  That was both the beginning and end of my rap career.

I hope there is footage of that somewhere...

I believe it's on ESPN2 for those in the US 

4 hours ago, Cornish Steve said:

It turns out I shall be driving the other way, to New Jersey. I shall be working from my office there all week.

Good luck to all who are traveling to Florida.

Boo

Plus it's New Jersey, did you lose a bet?

They refunded all the tickets, and the new tickets are like $20, so that's a bit more reasonable. Kick off is 2.5 hours earlier on Sunday I believe. Little disappointing to not get to see Arsenal and Inter, but the 20 year year old (she's full vax as well) and I will just go down Saturday stay with a friend, and try to make the best of the day Sunday. With my Everton mask of course  

54 minutes ago, StevO said:

Thanks lads, I’m sure all will be fine soon enough. Just got to wait for them to give her a bunch of tests, she’s got her Mum with her so she’ll be fine. Really hope it’s not Covid though. 

Hang in there brother, sending good thoughts

There will always be the lunatic fringe (on both side) and those that will always believe the moon landing, 9-11 and the JFK assassination was a CIA job - or some shadowy organization straight from The Black List.

Also, it appears this survey was at least partially constructed to reach a desired conclusion. By having a subset of "Those who will NOT be vaccinated" they have ensured they have captured people that may have legitimate concerns about the vax, but they have also captured ALL the conspiracy nut jobs - and then asked them if they believe in conspiracies haha.

To @Cornish Steve's question to "how you fix", I think the short answer is you don't. Way to close to 50% of people don't believe anything the current administration says. Of the other 50%, way too many of them didn't believe anything the last administration said. That's a problem. Luckily we have the news media, so you can pick your narrative, and then go the news outlet that supports it. Handy that.

I'm not sure what has caused the explosion in autism, but it's pretty horrific. Could it be vaccines we have taken for years? Yeah, I think that could be the culprit. I'm in logistics tho, so that's way out of my field, so who knows.

Do I think Covid-19 was exaggerated? Big picture, no. Has it been selectively used for political purposes, finance and sketchy policy based on dubious numbers? Absolutely. "Don't waste a good crisis"

Do I think it's being used to micro-chip? Hahaha no! I think there are those would love to do such a thing, but to @Sibdane's point, the NSA, cellphones, big-tech and electronic banking/cards...I am already tracked six ways to Sunday, so is it really needed?

I don't trust big money/big government to tell me what's best for my health, life and how I should think, because they are self-serving.  I am not sure the Covid vaccines are as needed or effective as advertised. But I think the positives outweigh the negatives (real or perceived) and have things that affect my life a lot more than a damn shot. So I'm fully vaccinated, and am worried about more important things.

Like bringing in a RB that can start day 1.

2 minutes ago, Matt said:

Is that him kicking it in the opposite direction than intended again? 

Winner, close the tread!

On 20/07/2021 at 17:19, markjazzbassist said:

Very happy with this signing. Smart and quality for a backup.

Bonus, his wife and her horse look good in Blue as well! Good signing all around

35 minutes ago, markjazzbassist said:

i'm fine with this transfer, it's 1.5m and he's a squad player, this is more of a lottery ticket type signing, either it goes well or it doesn't but it was a $1 scratch off, no biggie.  i liked him at leicester, i hope he's found some new motivation.

Good analogy. And he's already here in 'Murica with the team I understand.

It's 9am, already 85, heading for 95, and the current heat index is 95. Welcome to the South lads!

15 hours ago, markjazzbassist said:

it is strange, dempsey was from texas maybe he got all those kids excited.

Pulisic and Zack Steffen are both from PA, so if we can get those Philly kids dribbling the proper kind of ball 

let's face it, this is a zoo that makes us all uneasy and uncomfortable