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If this is the tackle of Drones that I believe it was, it wasn't a horse collar, but I am almost positive he was tackled by the opening on the helmet, which is a personal foul just the same. I rewound and watched several times, feel pretty confident that is how he was brought down.
Drones was also supplexed after the whistle on the play Greene (sp?) was flagged for a personal foul and that wasn't called either. If that had been a running back, a little more normal to let that go, but they rarely let it go on extra curricular QB hits these days. They game was not horribly officiated in n my eyes, so not really complaining about the officiating overall, but those two did stand out to me.
add an equivalent to the backcourt violation in basketball (don't reward bad offense) and an equivalent to hockey's blue line (don't reward bad defense), and you have a sport I could get into.
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Don't we have the Laws on our side?
We can reverse psychology and hit him with the: "YOUR BROTHERS ARE PERFECT LITTLE ANGELS AND FOLLOWERS OF THE LAW!" shouts.
Another one I saw was receivers dropping the ball when it was right in their hands.
But this went both ways. We were fortunate that some wide open SC receivers also dropped balls that hit them in the hands.
Is it attitude and coaching, or the fact it was the first game (of the season for some and of their careers for others)? If they are still dropping catchable balls in 3 weeks, then there is definitely more to it.
Totally agree. I've never played soccer myself(other than gym class or kicking ball around for fun) but watching the British Premier League teams(even the bottom 3-5) is a lot of fun. Since they tweaked the rules to prevent total stalls and discourage the 'four corners' type play once you're up a goal, it got a lot more interesting. And I LIKE the stoppage time 'vagueness'-helps prevent stall tactics (like ones in American football where they do four kneel downs as clock runs out). Conversely, I hate watching NCAA games where the clock 'counts down' like it does in most other sports like football and basketball.
I like that there are extremely limited subs, I like that you can end up playing with ten (or even in rare cases 9 ) men if you get red cards.
I like that a goalie has to cover 192 sq feet of goal area(8 ft by 24 ft)-until you've stood in the goal and seen first hand how much space that is, you can't really appreciate the difficulty in doing so.
Plus the average player runs a total of 5-10 miles during a game and that between the various leagues, the BPL teams play 50-70 games a year. I love that for the BPL every team plays every other team twice - home and home). No 'playoff'-just do it(show it) on the field-no 'beauty contest polls'
MLS is not nearly as much fun to watch in my opinion
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Pavia lives for that kinda banter I'm pretty sure its what fuels him. He will literally go out of his way to make controversy for fuel
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You are probably correct. I think the two biggest things that turn americans off of the sport is the running clock with inaccurate stoppage time, and the field is so big that it reduces the amount of action in the game overall. I really like watching some "soccer style" sports that I've never come close to playing. Lacrosse, handball, even indoor soccer is fun to watch.
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Going to the game, check. Lot 18 probably not. I will wander over from Chicken Hill about 6:45.
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I'll be there mid-afternoon.
Maybe Lot 18, if my pass gets here in time. FedEx said it was in Fredericksburg yesterday and would be delivered to Nova today. Then overnight it ended up in Memphis - with delivery now expected by tomorrow night. Leaving for the burg Friday morning with or without it.
I attended my first Charlotte FC match
this right here was your first mistake - MLS is NOT the way to get into watching soccer. MLS is awful - watch european soccer - Bundesliga, EPL, La Liga, Ligue 1 - all of those will give you a far better experience than any MLS match ever could
I actually think that a lot of Americans really don't like soccer because they watch American soccer. It's kind of like saying I don't like football because I watched a peewee game and the kids just looked like they were running around confused the whole time.
That was the point I was (maybe unclearly) trying to make.
When you have Love hitting 50+ yarders routinely and a generally good Yards/punt average it gives the appearance of "good special teams."
But the basic mistakes have been incredibly costly and have continued to linger throughout Stu's tenure.
Overall, attention to detail has not been a calling card of the Pry era.
I think soccer is a bit like golf in this way - both sports are boring as hell to watch if you've never played before or don't fully understand what's going on. Both sports are much more interesting to watch if you've played and have an appreciation for what is happening in front of you. I played a lot of soccer growing up (still do play some now) but didn't get into golf until my senior year of college. I remember going to a friend's house growing up and his dad always had golf on the TV and it was THE MOST BORING thing in my world at the time. Now, after playing golf, I have a different level of appreciation for the sport and I enjoy watching it.
I also really enjoy watching soccer - the 1-0-score games may seem boring to some folks and some styles of play can be slow and uninteresting (looking at you Italy ca. 2006) but the closer games are actually really fascinating - a team can be dominant for most of the game and then make a blunder that their opponent capitalizes on and lose the game. The whole complexion of a game can change in an instant. 1-0 in the 70th minute can be really exciting
Well you've seen it more than me, but live it sure looked like his hand was in the neck hole.