Travelers (0) vs Pratt Eagle (2)
August 1st, 2007 - LP Wilson, Windsor, CT
The first time we played this team we knew they had a good goalie. And he made a few saves but nothing special. Last night their goalie won this game for them. I mean how many times did he come up with a great save? 4-5-6? Tony made a few great saves of his own. Espeically when we were trying to get the equalizer and leaving the defense thin. Besides those great saves what about all the near misses? Another 5-6-7 at least. They had a few also but we had alot more.
Inconsistent...maybe we can blame their good goalie for the loss, but I have to at mention our inconsistency this year. We played some great soccer at times. And we played wicked ugly soccer at other times. We had dedicated players who showed up all the time, but they were too few to make a difference. We need consistency, if you played great one game why not play great more often? If you show up to play why do you have dumb ass excuses not to show up more often? We had a 15 game season this year, we had 23 guys on the roster. I know there's vacation, injuries, work, and other things that get in the way. But look at the numbers. We avargaed 16 players per game where's the other 7? The bottom 7 (in attendance) were Gordon OK he was hurt, Kevin he joined after we had already had 5 games. I won't mention who the other 5 are because I don't want to be hated, but I'm sure most of you know who they may be.
Top 7 attendance, In no particular order, (Basile, Holl, Marrs, Cedar, Zehnder, Krechko, & Cage) 3 of these guys were NOT at the game for the playoffs! PLAYOFFS more important than the regular season games. They were on vacation....By the way I'll be in Block Island next week. If we had a game I was gonna drive back to CT for the game. Those who don't believe me F-OFF because I have done it 2 other times in the past for this team.
Part of soccer is having pride, passion and heart. Part of anything you do in life is that. We played most of this season with no heart, no pride, no passion for the sport or for the fun of it, or just for the greater feeling of being together away from all the problems in this f'd up world. My body is old, I feel the bumps and bruises every day, but for some reason when I'm out there playing soccer I don't feel the pain. There's people who want to play and can't because their country is at war and they might get blown up. There's people who can't play because they don't have grass to play on and yet they use the streets. There's people who lost legs, arms, eyesight, and still do sports with a passion, we were out there as a whole emotionless. Emotion is not yelling at the ref for thier stupidity, that's more stupidity. Emotion is getting the ball taken away from you and rather than put your head down or your arms up you turn around and run like hell to get that ball back. Emotion is when we lost last night you have nightmares of the misses, the mistakes that you made during the game that could have made a difference in the outcome. I really wish I was better at this writing english thing so I can better inspire this team to play at our potential. But it's difficult when after a game we sit around and drink and BS about baseball rather than the game we just played. How is talking about baseball gonna make a soccer team better? NO PASSION is what I see it as.... And now I' m pissed so I'm not gonna even waste my time proof-reading or spell chcking this - deal with it.
