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| Subject: I'm sure Bradley told them to come out more defensively. |
| Posted by: the_slammer on Tue Jun 30 2009 2:38:55 PM |
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However I also pin what you're talking about (pounding the ball upfield,
bad giveaways in our half of the field, etc) on our players cracking somewhat under the constant Brazilian pressure (buoyed by their immediate score - had we held them another 10-15 mins I think we might have seen them get frustrated like Spain did) and making poor decisions with the ball. Look, I'm not saying that Bradley is a great coach. I agree he waited too long to sub out Feilhaber and Altidore and that his refusal to play Adu or Torres is frustrating from a FAN'S perspective. I just think that we need to remember what we are working with here - generally, players a cut worse than the teams that we have been playing against. Also we need to remember that this tourney run was done without several would-be starters: 'Dolo, Edu, Ching all out. If we have those guys back there are suddenly a lot more substitution options, and we don't see Bornstein, Kljestan, or Casey entering the game. I am just apparently more inclined to cut Bradley a break at this point than most people, since one week ago all we heard was "We'll never be able to compete in major tournaments when Bradley's in charge. All we're designed to do is run CONCACAF and we can't even do that. Bradley sucks." Now a week later after we beat Egypt, Spain, and have a heartbreaker against Brazil in a major tournament it's turned into "Bradley is holding our most talented players on the bench and his tactics are terrible. HE prevented us from beating Brazil in a tournament final. Bradley sucks." Tough crowd. I guess some people won't be satisfied until we're consistently beating the world's elite every time we play them, even though our players are individually miles behind the entire roster of a lot of countries. |
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The attitude of some of the posters on here really confuses me. -- the_slammer Tue Jun 30 2009 10:38:59 AM |
Did you or did you not see a change in the style of play over both halves? -- Nova Hokie 95 Tue Jun 30 2009 12:56:41 PM |
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I'm sure Bradley told them to come out more defensively. -- the_slammer Tue Jun 30 2009 2:38:55 PM |
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No hiding it...I'm not a Bradley fan at all -- HoosInLondon? Tue Jun 30 2009 4:20:57 PM |
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Meant to say that South Africa lost both, of course... ** -- HoosInLondon? Tue Jun 30 2009 4:38:53 PM |
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I guess we'll have to agree to disagree -- the_slammer Tue Jun 30 2009 5:27:40 PM |
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Re: I guess we'll have to agree to disagree -- tightenuppeople Wed Jul 1 2009 6:56:48 PM |
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I guess it's how you look at it. to me, the tournament went like this -- CAVern Tue Jun 30 2009 11:27:24 AM |
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