Live in the past????
My son played the Strikers multiple times last year and saw several of their games. He tried out for Strikers and played with those guys and got coached by Ganey in the past month. The coaching, to sum it up in one word, was fantastic.
My words aren't based off some fuzzy recollection. I've seen how they play, how they train.
Your passive-aggressive whining about how you got beat disguised as a criticism for a winning style of play for the Strikers is just ridiculous. Please stop while you are way behind.
There are many ways to react to a loss. My reaction would be, we need to learn how to defend the long ball better.
You decided to jump on public boards, run down an academy coach for tactics that beat your team, but couched your whine in language about how the USSDA wants you to play so it doesn't look like whining (epic fail, nothing worse than passive-aggressive bitching), run your mouth off about how the Strikers aren't being developed properly because they are not building out from the back.
Your criticisms are just ridiculous. Most of the players on the Strikers, including their two stud Asian wingers, their stud black forward and stud ACM, have been with the Strikers for a long time. I'm hearing your absurd claim the "Strikers don't know how to develop" but my two eyes have seen the Strikers torch their way through State Cup with mostly homegrown players. That looks like development to me.
I call you out for your passive-aggressive whine for how you got beat and now I'm ranting? I pointed out to you that you are clearly mistaken when you said Strikers don't run a 4-3-3, that your belief that a GK booting it changed the formation from a 4-3-3 to something else (not sure why you think this). You should be thanking me for telling you this.
Yes the videos are out. I don't need to see the Strikers star forwards beating your D like a drum. I've seen them do it to many teams. Here's a tip for next time you play them. Play more defenders further back and take away the space up top. Then you'll see the Strikers build out from the back to get it to their stud forwards, where I bet they beat your D again, because they are really good. It will also be harder for your team to build it out the back, because your lines will be pushed back.
This is the main reason your whinge is so ludicrous. You want to play a high line and get all the advantages of playing a high line (easier offense because your lines are pushed up), and you want the other team, who is loaded with speed up top, to play in a style where they don't attack the weakness of a high line, which is the long ball to speed Strikers.
Again, what wild claim am I making? I said Strikers run a 4-3-3, that their forwards and ACM are studs, that Ganey is a good coach, that Strikers can develop as evidenced by their State Cup victory with mostly homegrown players, that you have no idea what you are talking about, and that you are whining about the way you lost. All of this is true. Anyone can re-read these posts and see that I have said nothing wild.
I think it's accepted that Galaxy, GS and Strikers are the top 3 right now. As to the future, who knows. The reality is that Galaxy ends up picking off nearly all the top players, so it's hard to predict anything for any team beside Galaxy. If Galaxy picks off the Strikers core of stud attacking players, then yeah I agree Strikers are probably going down. But if the Strikers keep their core of homegrown stud attacking players and adds to that talent, and talent attracts talent, then I think they are going to be pretty good.
Just stop beating this dead horse. You are clueless when you say Strikers don't know how to build out the back or don't teach it. There will be many more games in the Academy season and you will see it happen.
To say that the defending state cup champs and an academy level coach don't know how to build out the back or don't know how to coach it .... It's just an absurd crazy thing to say.
