Comments on: LA Galaxy Offside, Version 2.0

By: Laurie

Laurie — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 23:11:11 +0000

Lucas, too funny. I WILL actually be in Portland tomorrow, but unfortunately I have to be at a memorial service for a distant elderly relative-by-marriage. Otherwise that would be fun. Thanks for the invite!

By: Lucas

Lucas — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:54:54 +0000

Laurie: Are you coming down to PDX for the flounders funeral tomorrow?

If you come to the pub and introduce yourself I will buy you your drink of choice – I’ll be the one wearing green and shouting incoherently.

By: NathanHJ

NathanHJ — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 02:33:05 +0000

Sam,

They are.

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 01:56:35 +0000

HJ? That had better be his initials.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:16:09 +0000

Hey guys. I was at the game and it had some amazing atmosphere. Every time Donovan touched the ball, there was a loud chorus of booos and everyone in attendance chanted “Beat LA” quite a few times. Great game. And yay for JustJack posting! Do it!

By: Scott

Scott — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 23:48:25 +0000

Folks, until ownership WANTS this situation to change it will not.

Think we could pick up some defenders from a 7-8 year old league somewhere? They will usually work for pizza and snow cones. I think that would get them under the cap.

Steve,I get your point but this group does not remind me of a German Shepherd , they have instincts, heart, and never give up. No, this group of defenders is akin to watching a pack (because collectively they have a CHANCE), of Basset Hounds. They wander yelping and barking but not really sure where their prey is. They distract easily and have been know to get their canine rears kicked by the likes of Possums and Squirrels.

The above works because our poor goalkeeper is beginning to remind me of that screaming squirrel in the tire commercial. Every time someone approaches the goal all he, the local animals, and the crowd begin to scream in terror in the hopes the attacker will swerve away.

Ugh, this is getting ug-lee!

By: jen

jen — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 23:26:33 +0000

“So my trade choice Vagenas for a German Sheperd and Vanney for a pylon (or a cardboard cut-out of Franklin)”

Oh Steve, thanks for the laugh!!!

Ahh, I don’t know what to do. I don’t think it’s Ruud’s fault. Instead of firing yet another coach I’d like to see Lalas go and the shift of control go squarely to the coach and director of soccer. Because Lalas has been the constant these past years and no matter the coaching change the result has been crap (sooner or later). I think Ruud has the ability to get the most out of marginal players — he has demonstrated that so far this season — and let’s face it, with our three DPs the only depth we have is with marginal players.

So is it really fair to tie Gullit’s hands and then blame him for most or all of the problems? We (they — whoever) did that to Yallop last year and he took the fall for it. Gullit is a better coach than Yallop, or at LEAST more suited to the Galaxy than Yallop was.

By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:21:27 +0000

Time to sell my MLS cup tickets! I am only hoping we finsh above the smurfs, but who knows. They have aquired some good pick-ups during the transfer window, and we have picked up nothing.
Ruud was quoted as saying he is selling his home because his wife doesn’t like the house.
I hope heads will roll now, but they way things have gone, nothing will happen. We will soon be sitting at the bottom of the west. I am just bitter about our downhill slide.

By: Glen

Glen — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:10:11 +0000

I think a few of the players on the team can play high pressure quick movement similar to EPL, but the remaining can not resulting in this kind of finish (working their butts off and not coming up with the win). I don’t think this will ever work for the Galaxy or other teams (MLS) with out having the depth/cap space available to them to pull the smarter/skilled players. I look forward to the day our league will be playing at this level. I agree something has to give, AEG will not be happy having the season going this direction, down the ladder but I’m not sure anything can be done. What a disappointment having this new defender come on board and have him not even playing.

Dallas won their game against Toronto so that moves us another step down!

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:08:38 +0000

So many problems.
BTW the LA Times reported that Ruud is selling his house in Hollywood Hills…good news ahead?
We all know the problems today. Let me gripe about player selection.
I was mad 20 minutes before the match when I saw Tudela wasn’t even on the f!@#$%^ bench. This guy has way more soccer sense than Vagenas (more on that in a sec) and Vanney..awful again, repsonsible for 2 goals at least (the third was too crowded for me to see.)
Does Pete have naked photos of Lalas or Bravo..I can’t figure this out. I have not seen a game in 2 years where Pete has outplayed Tudela on a bad day. Everybody is talking trade stuff, I have 2 ideas for a better use of Pete’s salary.
1) A really expensive caution pylon – won’t do any harm and might win a challenge with someone running at it
2) A german sheperd – why pay a huge salary for someone to run aimlessly at a ball when a dog will do it cheap. Also, Pete’s best play of the day i when he stepped over a ball (seriously). My dog excels at this…hell my cat does too. A dog would also be equally good at randomly moving the ball around with little success at pass completion.

So my trade choice Vagenas for a German Sheperd and Vanney for a pylon (or a cardboard cut-out of Franklin)
Kudos to Franklin. My buddies in Sec 133 call him the Eraser,…he removes the mistakes of the other defenders, and usually fixes his own as well. Glad to see him back.

Randolph had some good stuff…anyone else think he’s looking a little chunky, though.

Please, give us the Randolph, Tudela, Beckham, Klein midfield we need for playmaking.
The defense..man, I’m out of ideas at this point.