New Keeper, !!! new players!!! , with little or no experience especially against US and Mexico, I was hoping we could go out with a good fight but I dont't see how
we'll see.
Hey Pull stones, what did I say!!!!, we defense like a strainer. I was highly optimistic when Lawrence came but, he has no solid game plan that can counter any of the teams in the HEX and this 4 5 1 does not produce results, we have to adopt a bolder approach to our game!
i don't know which game you was watching but I saw a TT team that frustrated the mexicans for 88 minutes and at one time had the game in the bag but for a few lapse in concentration and moments of mental fatigue could have pulled off an upset. you and quite a few on the other hand predicted a total blow out and mexican domination. if you were truly watching the hex with any kind of open mindedness you would have seen where we were never dominated and lost most of our games due to terrible officiating and goal keeper error.
if you were paying close attention on Friday you would have seen our players being hacked down abused trampled upon and the referees were absolutely non compliant with our players pleas for retribution and this has been the case for the whole hex. I believe at least two Mexican players should have been ejected from the game.......not only me but also the sports casters were of that view. do you really believe it's that easy to go to places like mexico and to some extent the whole of latin america and grind out wins? these places are hostile environments for away teams to get anything including favorable calls by the officiating crew.
look how many goals we had disallowed, penalties not given players not cautioned or send off because of questionable and sometimes just plain ole horrible officiating on the part of the refs. in the whole hex we were never dominated except in the panama game and to compound on the issue we were without some of our better players throughout this campaign, in other words we were terribly unlucky this time around, but to say the coaching was bad is absolutely unfair and bias. IMO Dennis did a good job and gas learned a few things along the way and could only be a better coach for it.
by the way what were you expecting a miracle? you don't lose the first two games of the hex as the weakest team in the tournament and expect to realistically bounce back. when we lost to mexico at home and saw all the mind games and the terrible conduct by the mexicans (and I was there in the stand to witness it) including the teef goal, I knew we were not going to the world cup. and if you think this game if fair and money is not passing under the table to referees and in rare cases players then you need to wake up, thus us concacaf not ueafa.
