Team NSC - USA Soccer Ball

[Barrel of Fun]

Have NSC won since we adopted them?

 

[GumbyGrrl]

Have NSC won since we adopted them?

No such luck. Since 1 August, we've had 2 draws and 2 losses.
Against the MLS-bound Portland Timbers, 'Papa' Joe Warren picked up a red card and VanOekel was subbed in to defend the penalty kick (unsuccessfully). The rest of his game was good, including a nice double-save at 1:27 in the highlights video, but we couldn't find the goal. Of course, it probably doesn't help that our top goal-scorer (Cvilikas) was on the bench until the 79th minute...

http://nscminnesota.org/home/459036.html

 

[HampshireSeagulls]

2 draws and 2 losses?

LAGOS OUT! We want a tried and tested, er, English coach.

In an ideal world, Peter Ward would wander in, demand the job, take over and propel the club to never-before-seen heights of success.

 

[hairygrump]

well this has died off abit hasn't it? shame I wouldn't mind some more stars news

There's two reasons for this, probably. First, the Stars played a bunch of games early in the season (two weeks with two games and one with three!), so they're getting rest they should have had earlier now. That, combined with two games with no goals from the boys is leaving us not much to talk about, even on our own board.

That said, the team held a "fantasy camp" last week, where fat old guys with more money than self awareness that like soccer (no disrespect; I'm like them in all but the money part) got to train and play a game at the Stars stadium. Those guys hung 11 goals on each other, so we know it's not the pitch keeping the scoring low.

 

[Ayeready]

well this has died off abit hasn't it? shame I wouldn't mind some more stars news

Yeah, I would have posted a match report but was too bloody depressed/drunk to make a job of it.

Only two games left of the season if they don't pull their collective fingers out and get us some points.

Sigh.

I promise I'll post pics from the next game, hangover be-damned.

 

[hairygrump]

Say, it's probably worth pointing out that if any of you folks have 13M GBP laying around, our club is looking for investors, and they're probably not going to be able to compete in our Div 2 league next year without some serious financial backing.

http://www.insidemnsoccer.com/2010/08/30/nsc-get-serious-in-request-for-minnesota-stars-business-partners/

Isn't the franchise system of sport competition great?

 

[GumbyGrrl]

Yeah, I would have posted a match report but was too bloody depressed/drunk to make a job of it.

Only two games left of the season if they don't pull their collective fingers out and get us some points.

Sigh.

I promise I'll post pics from the next game, hangover be-damned.

We actually have 4 games left - 2 away and 2 home.
Wish us some luck.

 

[BeepBeepImaJeep]

Austin Aztecs up next? They're affiliated somehow with Stoke from what I remember?

So basically it's Brighton vs Stoke. Right?

 

[Stoo82]

Says on Twitter that our chaps lost 2-0 to Austin. To make matters worse Neil Hlavaty was sent off.

Oh dear.

Keep the faith my American Cousins. Yeeee Haaaaar!

 

[KneeOn]

Come on you Stars! SORT IT OUT.

 

[Ayeready]

That was a completely miserable game. Austin have already secured a play-off spot, so I was hoping they'd phone this one in before the game started.

Then at half time, I was hoping we'd draw.

Then in injury time I was just hoping they would at least score a goal. No suck luck.

Unless I'm completely wrong, we played a 4-5-1, which I've been saying for a while is a better way to make use of our solid midfield selections and stop wasting time on Tarley. Can't say it did us any good.

But this game did mark the return of Rodriguez and Devin "The Pleasurer" Del Do. So that's nice. Van Oekel had some heroics that stopped this from turning uglier.

I will say this, our stadium is nicer. The Azteks have to play on a field marked for American Throwball, you could barely see the football pitch markings.

We have another road game, and then only two games at home... maybe the last ever professional games in MN.

 

[thesuperrookie]

The boys need to get their act together.

Afterall, they have to impress daddy warbucks in Brighton so he can purchase the team and build us a new stadium. It is the least he can do for the NSC.

Am I right?

 

[Mendoza]

I can't believe the team might end after just one season, shocking!!

Someone will come up with the megabucks surely?

 

[SeagullTim]

We have another road game, and then only two games at home... maybe the last ever professional games in MN.

Unbelievable really. What do you think you'll do if the worst happens?

 

[Ayeready]

Unbelievable really. What do you think you'll do if the worst happens?

I don't know... presumably the team would exist on some level, maybe on a lower league: grit my teeth and wait for it to return to a higher level.

B&HA fans have endured a fair amount over the years, so at least Stars fans will have role-models for dogged persistence

 

[GumbyGrrl]

Unbelievable really. What do you think you'll do if the worst happens?

I will mope around the house a lot (I have experience from last year when the Thunder went away) and return to my Eurosnob ways.
I think we can watch EPL and Serie A, plus Euro 2012 qualifying and Champions League...

 

[SUIYHP]

Sad to hear about the financial problems . I hope for the best that someone will come and help you lot out.

 

[hairygrump]

Gumbygrrl's point is important though. We were all moping around about 11 months ago thinking we wouldn't have a team to support, but there was enough interest in the area to make sure second division football kept alive around here.

We'll just see how many saviors we've got floating around.

 

[Brightonfan1983]

It's astonishing, reading this thread from the start. A roller-coaster of strangely familiar excitement, expectations and the uncomfortable heavy disbelief.

Many fingers crossed.

 

[GregX]

It's astonishing, reading this thread from the start. A roller-coaster of strangely familiar excitement, expectations and the uncomfortable heavy disbelief.

I think you've just defined football.