Wow, what a crock!

http://publications.socceramer...

Elbow, forearm, hand, whatever! He meant to smack him in the face and should have been red carded.

Wow talk about jumping on the bandwagon after a defeat. The team on saturday played pretty much the way they have all season. The 2- beating of San Jose was totally uninspired and the defending early in the game was amongst the worst i have ever seen. I think most of the performances since then have been hit and miss in the same way, but they say that good pitching wins over good hitting and in soccer godd defense will ultimatly prevail over good offense.

But here are the ggod things, Cronin has improved a lot! He was terrible to start the season but has steadinly improved, Sunday was his worst game in a long time, totally mis- read the header (thinking it was going well wide)and then made the exact same mistake on the long free kick that hit the post. Still hopefully he can get a little training and improve there too, he handling and quickness off the line has improved a lot.

Franklin for my money has been a wonderful suprise, unfortunatly Abel regressed back again it's unbelievable how bad he looks some times, i rell think he is much better than that.

As for Buddle he has been astonishing I'm amazed at how many goals he has scored, but watch out he is nowhere near that good. (Really hope I'm wrong on that one).

My biggest concerns are Pires and Franchino, the last couple of games they played they looked terrible. Pires was the worst player on the field on Sunday. Those two and Abel so far below what he can/has done are my worries.




Here's what i don't get

interesting read:

Davis: Broken Galaxy
LA defense lapses in one-sided loss to D.C. United


http://web.mlsnet.com/news/mls...

This game should/must be the wakeup call- we can't keep going with some of these players and being hit and miss. Klien needs to be in the midfield to help hold the ball and set up some nice runs along side Beckham, move Franklin to where he belongs in the backfield and bring in a couple talented defenders from dumping some of the players that has already been mentioned. Also Cronin needs to be on the bench and I think not using Wicks from the start of the season was a disaster, if I recall he was the #1 keeper in the USL. Why would you have an untested keeper like Cronin over Wicks is something I will never understand (we've seen the difference between them). Now were in a bad position with Wicks out and Cronin all we have. Unbelievable!

We have a chance to really finish out the season right with just a few player movements. Come on Galaxy management, get this right! Damn :p

First off, we need AEG to wake up and get rid of Lalas - this is how this whole mess of a team for the past 2 1/2 years got started - he has no clue how to be a GM (remember his days in San Jose and NY). I honestly believe they have him there as just a figure head - a face of American soccer only!
Second, now that we have a GM that knows what he is doing, we need to ship out Ruiz (though I hate to see him go - i think he still has a lot to offer when he is healthy), Xavier (not worth the $$$), Vagenas, Roberts, & Vanney! Go and get some freakin' defenders! Move Franlink to his natural position - Right Back and get Klein into a midfield positions - he gets beat way to much as a right back. Enough said for now.

Okay, no Keller. Let's get El Gato or Matt Reis back. Please get someone that can move his feet!

rumor has it, when Keller retires, he will play for Seattle and his hometown crowd.

I just read that Ruiz could on his way out. Now just dump Abel and Pete and pick up a quality CD (Bobo Balde from Celitc), DM, and an experienced GK (Kasey Keller)that can stop the bleeding.

p.s. Were we the only group that found Donovan's first effort onside? Even when yellow for-tv line was applied?

On the bright side, had a houseful -- who've either never watched or disdained MLS -- getting ready for EURO final. Never expected they would be distracted by this match, but within the first few minutes everyone was paying attention.

They were impressed by both teams and enjoyed the action. Obviously not as thrilled during second half but they'd seen their own Premiership and La Liga clubs, respectively, wilt on occasion as well.

It won't help ease the pain of the loss and watching another repetition of mistakes, but it made me take a fresh look at the team and see even more clearly how far they have come from the beginning of the season. As everyone has mentioned they are fun to watch, and the mistakes they make don't look like they're being made by an amateur team. And they sure do look like a team -- with a plan, even when not executing.

And the first half was fun to watch.

Buddle did not outperform Landon today. Buddle definitely had his share of mess-ups as well. The guy can't play a one-touch, give-and-go to save his life. It's more than just scoring goals - you've got to play smart, make intelligent runs, make proper decisions with the ball, and that was all in short supply from Buddle today. But he did well on his goal, I'll give him that.

DC should have played a man down the entire second half. Gallardo throwing the elbow is an automatic red card. Too bad.

But the Galaxy were definitely not the better team on the day.

Just did the math for this match... Buddle outperformed Landkycakes... again. Time for USMNT duty already. It'll only help him improve his game.

Aw crap. Was hoping for at least another goal to make it look, well, less bad.

Edson worked his tail off, Landycakes seemed to but made a lot of blunders. Highly unfortunate.

That humidity didn't seem to affect Utd... pays to train in the soup, huh? By the 40th minute our guys were getting slushy legs. Utd. looked solid throughout. Damn.

we got out played today, move on to the next I guess against New England. east vs. west in 1st place

cronin has made a couple good saves, why can't he do that for the entire game

4-1. DAMN.

At least Cronin's getting a lot of chance to practice his trade today. That's a bright side. Right?

nice shot from donovan, damn too bad it didn't go in for some pride

Good chance for Landon.

damn, had a chance there nice cross in from Beckham

What's that, like 50 shots for DC? Oy.

found it on sopcast, I like punishment I guess.

hanging my head in shame...

Yikes.. sloppy, sloppy defense. It looks like Cronin's been left alone in the goal... and that's never good news.

yea don't even want to see it now :)

First half didn't look that bad. It could have gone either way. But second is awful.

crap, the game they had a chance to really show well on ABC live. I figured the humidity would start slowing them down but I was hoping to not be an embarrassment/blowout.

They are playing so slowly -- the heat and humidity like you mentioned. And now it's probably feeling defeated and hot. Not much offensive production this game.

SH*T...EDSON iS STiLL MY HERO =/

They just got the 4th. They're walking through
our D at will right now.

Glen, did you ever find a Sopcast stream? It's showing up on my player as Channel 31936, LA Galaxy Soccer. But we're now down 4-1, so you might be better off not watching.

Not any more. We're getting slaughtered.

whats the score, still 3-1?

Yeah, you don't much want to be watching this one
right now.

Laurie, just ABC is down for me other channels are still on. so I'll miss the rest of the galaxy game (from thr sounds of it maybe that' a good thing) and euro cup finals :(

Lucky misses by Fred and Gallardo... whew...

Damn. 3-1. that third goal was looking inevitable.

Galaxy really aren't playing well today. I think the humidity is getting to them

Glen, is it still down? Weird. Just ABC? Or everything?

It's hosted on this site, myp2p.eu. http://www.myp2p.eu/broadcast....

I can't seem to find it listed on SopCast

It's still up for me on sopcast.

anyone else have ABC go down. right when stoppage time started I lost the channel.

Oh yea Cronin, what can I say he still makes me nervous.

Were getting out played by DCU losing most 50/50 balls but I also have to point out this ref is sh*t! Javic did such a stupid play allowing the pk for DCU. They're covering Donovan well and some of the crosses from Beckham have been off.

Cronin looked like he had lead in his cleats.

How tall is Donovan?

EDSON iS MY HERO =P

Fine play by Donovan. A typical MLS goal for Buddle. Whatever! Take what we can get!

BUDDLE!!! Beautiful, never-say-die goal!!!!!

Already??? Not a good start.

Crap. Penalty in the fifth minute.