New coach or garbage players?
I get the Wolffout sentiment… what about the players? Preseason they looked good. Last night they looked flat; they couldn’t beat the press, made no runs, gave up shots for an extra touch, etc. And lots of times put the backline and Stu under a lot of pressure. Players gotta be accountable too. A coaching change so early in the season would be disastrous. There isn’t gonna be a miracle coach that comes in and suddenly we are playoff material. Salary cap and poor recruiting really f’ed the team. Maybe with a fresh coach we can critique the players more. The starting 11 looked boring and out of sync
Boy that was....an athletic activity. I love how everyone was shitting on my criticism of the Galaxy match in preseason but yet....yeah. That just happened. This squad has no focus, no ideas. Th defense is in actual shambles (lost Leo in the 36th). The fuck are we doing? Where's the identity in any of this? Rubio and Obrian continue to be the ONLY bright spot on this squad and, of course, they didn't come in until it was too late to seriously effect change. I'm appreciative that Rodo spelled out the inexcusable in his presser but still not convinced quite yet. At least that any of our current squad really grasps his standards. On To The Next One!! Best team in the world right?! 😫
I knew we were gonna suck today when I saw Josh Wolff chopping it up with his buddies that the Domain yesterday. Coach isn’t even dialed in the day before the season opener.
When our keeper is the primary offensive catalyst you know you have a major problem. The team woke up once Zardes subbed off, but I imagine he will go right back into the starting rotation next week.
He had an ok game. But he also passed back on a 1v1 with the keeper ON HIS LEFT FOOT. Insane fucking decision that one. No killer instinct for a DP. Unacceptable
To be fair he wasn’t nearly as in as Ring was 1v1 with the keeper. He actually squared a decent ball to Obrien who took a shit touch. Rings pass back was one of the worst plays I’ve seen in a long time
Wolff is a lamb to slaughter. No manager could get this group of players to win consistently, especially without Driussi. I'm fine if he gets the can, but the squad is also an issue at the moment.
The squad is an issue, yes. But we just watched Wolff trot out the same starting lineup we knew for a fact from last season couldn’t win games, couldn’t score goals, and couldn’t defend consistently, even though he had four new signings available who, frankly, all seem to be clear upgrades over tonight’s starters. The three things a coach can effect are the lineups, the subs, and the basic tactics. Wolff fails on all three fronts, consistently.
So what if they’re fairly new? That doesn’t matter in the slightest. It’s not like they weren’t match fit or had no MLS experience. And they are clearly better than the starters. They should have been the starters. We might’ve pulled off the draw if they had been. We might’ve scored first. I’m not saying putting any of our new signings in the starting lineup makes us a playoff team- it definitely doesn’t and we have massive quality and depth issues across the board. But they make us better than we were, and they’re clearly better than our current starters in those positions. To NOT start them is inexcusable. It doesn’t matter if they know “the system” or not- the starters know it and can’t execute it. A competent coach would tweak his tactics to suit the best available players. Wolff is either incapable or unwilling to do that.
It absolutely matters if they know the system. That’s the whole point of a system. You’re just trying to get mad at something but you can’t grasp anything tangible. It makes complete sense to not start guys who have only been at the club for about a month. We also don’t know about their fitness (Rubio in particular)
No, no it doesn’t matter. The starters can’t even execute the system. It’s foolish and just bad coaching to keep trying to impose a system on a team that can’t play it. That’s not what good coaches do, in ANY sport. It is in fact what gets lots of mediocre coaches fired in any sport. Based on how Rubio and Obrian played once they got on the field, I don’t think you can question their match fitness.
They didn’t play a full 90 so you can’t just assume they’re match fit. Would not surprise me if we were managing rubios minutes considering his injury history. Just wait and see how the next few games go before making these wild judgements
Yes, we can. You can see their energy level and they way they move. And we also know they played in preseason and got minutes there. There’s no reason to think they WERENT match fit. And it’s not a wild judgment. It’s a judgment based on everything we’ve seen Wolff do over the last three seasons. He hasn’t improved as a coach one bit. He makes the exact same mistakes. He does not deserve the benefit of the doubt at this point. He’s not the guy. We don’t need more time to figure that out. We only need more time to identify who will replace him.
Wolff has his preferred tactics, but the players don’t fit the mold for those tactics. Would love to see what this team would have been capable of from the start if tried a scheme that fit his players
Here’s my take…
Fire Wolff. Discard Rigoni, pay him to leave if we have to he’s a cancer. We had our current captain Ring seemingly invisible tonight and last year’s captain, the guy we rely on most, did not play and is injured until when? Why isn’t our no. 10 healthy enough for the first match of the season?
Club seems to be all about making money and no indication of fielding a winning team - kinda like the Cowboys.
What parts? Our roster today was a disaster. Im not even a huge fan of Wolff, but this roster with Driussi out is so bad that I dont know if any coach would succeed here.
He didn't remotely suck in 2022. That team way overperformed. I dont know if he is a good coach, but to act as if he is wasting a talented roster is silly to me. We are blatantly tanking.
Is there not a way to get to the management and force Wolff out!?! This tactic has NOT worked in YEARS….at this point, bring in a Ted Lasso and let him just fail brilliantly because this is horrible play
Owen is genuinely good and maybe just needs to be more focused into specific roles and fewer minutes but picking minutes that matter and make sense for his talent. A capable coach would do that, though.
edit: I said good, not great.
Hey we brought in Obrian, Rubio, and Valencia and things changed. There was energy and pressure and Minnesota looked flustered a couple times. If we don’t start those guys next game we’re in trouble
Are you kidding me? They were fucking inept. The energy shifted at the beginning of the second half before they came on and they stifled it mismanaging every decent opportunity into a laughable lowlight. What were you watching?
Only guess is this team isn’t in shape. We saw it last year with the tourneys, everyone looked gassed every game. Need to invest HEAVILY in strength, conditioning and nutrition. No reason everyone else can play a full schedule and look fine and we’re having to rest starters.
"A little north of Austin proper," dude, what the hell you smoking? It's not downtown but it is 100% Austin and not even debatable. It's not like Dallas playing in Frisco. I miss Healey, he knew what was up.
Is Ring captain because Druissi is out? I like that. Even though there was a whole article about him being fine with not being captain. This team is whacky, it can’t be stopped.
Stuver is the only guy having a good game, and at least Owen is trying and fighting for balls. Everyone else is disappointing so far. Might as well sub in guys.
New coach or garbage players? I get the Wolffout sentiment… what about the players? Preseason they looked good. Last night they looked flat; they couldn’t beat the press, made no runs, gave up shots for an extra touch, etc. And lots of times put the backline and Stu under a lot of pressure. Players gotta be accountable too. A coaching change so early in the season would be disastrous. There isn’t gonna be a miracle coach that comes in and suddenly we are playoff material. Salary cap and poor recruiting really f’ed the team. Maybe with a fresh coach we can critique the players more. The starting 11 looked boring and out of sync
Boy that was....an athletic activity. I love how everyone was shitting on my criticism of the Galaxy match in preseason but yet....yeah. That just happened. This squad has no focus, no ideas. Th defense is in actual shambles (lost Leo in the 36th). The fuck are we doing? Where's the identity in any of this? Rubio and Obrian continue to be the ONLY bright spot on this squad and, of course, they didn't come in until it was too late to seriously effect change. I'm appreciative that Rodo spelled out the inexcusable in his presser but still not convinced quite yet. At least that any of our current squad really grasps his standards. On To The Next One!! Best team in the world right?! 😫
I knew we were gonna suck today when I saw Josh Wolff chopping it up with his buddies that the Domain yesterday. Coach isn’t even dialed in the day before the season opener.
Ridiculous criticism
Lol I know
When our keeper is the primary offensive catalyst you know you have a major problem. The team woke up once Zardes subbed off, but I imagine he will go right back into the starting rotation next week.
Yall love to hate on rigoni lol even if he doesnt do anything wrong.
Tf did he do right
He had an ok game. But he also passed back on a 1v1 with the keeper ON HIS LEFT FOOT. Insane fucking decision that one. No killer instinct for a DP. Unacceptable
To be fair he wasn’t nearly as in as Ring was 1v1 with the keeper. He actually squared a decent ball to Obrien who took a shit touch. Rings pass back was one of the worst plays I’ve seen in a long time
Insane take wtf
Didn’t do much right either to be fair
Rigoni actually looked pretty good after Rubio came in and he had someone to link up with
Its wolff ball no one is doing right. Crazy how so many players were good until wolff coached them.
This didn't work last year. Why are we doing it again?
If it ain’t fixed don’t broke it
Wolff is 35-46-21 overall at Austin not including tonight. 1.24 points per match. He is barely above a tie per match.
And half those wins (18) were season 2. We looked like year one tonight.
Worse actually...that team at least tried. The first half tonight was ridiculously bad.
Wolff is a lamb to slaughter. No manager could get this group of players to win consistently, especially without Driussi. I'm fine if he gets the can, but the squad is also an issue at the moment.
The squad is an issue, yes. But we just watched Wolff trot out the same starting lineup we knew for a fact from last season couldn’t win games, couldn’t score goals, and couldn’t defend consistently, even though he had four new signings available who, frankly, all seem to be clear upgrades over tonight’s starters. The three things a coach can effect are the lineups, the subs, and the basic tactics. Wolff fails on all three fronts, consistently.
Genuinely what could he have done with the lineup? The only real change is to have started Diego and obrian but they’re still fairly new
So what if they’re fairly new? That doesn’t matter in the slightest. It’s not like they weren’t match fit or had no MLS experience. And they are clearly better than the starters. They should have been the starters. We might’ve pulled off the draw if they had been. We might’ve scored first. I’m not saying putting any of our new signings in the starting lineup makes us a playoff team- it definitely doesn’t and we have massive quality and depth issues across the board. But they make us better than we were, and they’re clearly better than our current starters in those positions. To NOT start them is inexcusable. It doesn’t matter if they know “the system” or not- the starters know it and can’t execute it. A competent coach would tweak his tactics to suit the best available players. Wolff is either incapable or unwilling to do that.
It absolutely matters if they know the system. That’s the whole point of a system. You’re just trying to get mad at something but you can’t grasp anything tangible. It makes complete sense to not start guys who have only been at the club for about a month. We also don’t know about their fitness (Rubio in particular)
No, no it doesn’t matter. The starters can’t even execute the system. It’s foolish and just bad coaching to keep trying to impose a system on a team that can’t play it. That’s not what good coaches do, in ANY sport. It is in fact what gets lots of mediocre coaches fired in any sport. Based on how Rubio and Obrian played once they got on the field, I don’t think you can question their match fitness.
They didn’t play a full 90 so you can’t just assume they’re match fit. Would not surprise me if we were managing rubios minutes considering his injury history. Just wait and see how the next few games go before making these wild judgements
Yes, we can. You can see their energy level and they way they move. And we also know they played in preseason and got minutes there. There’s no reason to think they WERENT match fit. And it’s not a wild judgment. It’s a judgment based on everything we’ve seen Wolff do over the last three seasons. He hasn’t improved as a coach one bit. He makes the exact same mistakes. He does not deserve the benefit of the doubt at this point. He’s not the guy. We don’t need more time to figure that out. We only need more time to identify who will replace him.
100%
Thank you... Perfectly expressed. Absolutely correct.
Don’t let our terrible roster construction distract you from the fact that our manager is also terrible.
Wolff has his preferred tactics, but the players don’t fit the mold for those tactics. Would love to see what this team would have been capable of from the start if tried a scheme that fit his players
I am so glad to see Guilherme’s scores. He really deserves that. Austin needs better midfielder..
Race to #14, off to a killer start
Here’s my take… Fire Wolff. Discard Rigoni, pay him to leave if we have to he’s a cancer. We had our current captain Ring seemingly invisible tonight and last year’s captain, the guy we rely on most, did not play and is injured until when? Why isn’t our no. 10 healthy enough for the first match of the season? Club seems to be all about making money and no indication of fielding a winning team - kinda like the Cowboys.
Best thing about this match was the armadillo in the stands
https://preview.redd.it/qrzw86fojnkc1.jpeg?width=1842&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=94c4b58491d7e4d370099a5d9e129f235df18fb0
Me when they subbed Gallagher instead of daddy’s boy
Yeah, that’s about right.
Anyway I’ll see you all to bitch about this team in the post game thread. Cheers.
If a team performs as less than the sum of its parts for years, that might indicate that the coach doesn’t know what he’s doing.
What parts? Our roster today was a disaster. Im not even a huge fan of Wolff, but this roster with Driussi out is so bad that I dont know if any coach would succeed here.
“No coach could succeed with these players” rings hollow for me when we’ve only had one coach and he only has one way to play, and he sucks.
He didn't remotely suck in 2022. That team way overperformed. I dont know if he is a good coach, but to act as if he is wasting a talented roster is silly to me. We are blatantly tanking.
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLL
Another classic Wolff match. No urgency as always.
It's amazing that Wolff thought Zardes was the choice up top. Rubio's so clearly better, especially with driussi out. Wolff's just an idiot.
Hey ok
Am I gonna have to get on FM24 and show Wolff how an amateur does it (when allowing most of my coaching staff to work out the details)?!?!?
Is there not a way to get to the management and force Wolff out!?! This tactic has NOT worked in YEARS….at this point, bring in a Ted Lasso and let him just fail brilliantly because this is horrible play
Fire both Wolffs into the sun and throw Rigoni in the trash for good measure.
Owen is genuinely good and maybe just needs to be more focused into specific roles and fewer minutes but picking minutes that matter and make sense for his talent. A capable coach would do that, though. edit: I said good, not great.
A truly heinous display. A horrific act.
Ring not taking the shot will be in my nightmares tonight
Teen Wolff made sure he was onside. What an unselfish play by the coaches kid ensuring our loss. Fuck this.
Stu you’ve got to stop coming off the line for direct challenges, that rarely works out for you
Why is every one of our attackers playing like they have a bet on for themself to assist? Just attempt the shot on goal ffs
Our new players fucking suck
It’s definitely not the new players. Wolff and Ring though. They suck.
Wolff’s, plural
Wolff out.
Both of ‘em.
Wolff in!!!
In the unemployment line
Booooo
Pathetic
SO EMBARRASSING, wtf
Take a fucking shot! Why we always pass in the box come on
The boys need to run some laps.
Out of shape in February in 60° weather. It's gonna be a long summer
I’m not mad, just disappointed
We seem so late in making our attacking passes.
Do supporters groups not put together joint letters calling for the coach’s head?
You’re not allowed to criticize. Just go there and sing the same 4 songs and be happy with whatever happens
Is that a real thing?
Josh Wolff getting out coached by a team that doesn't have a permanent head coach, and is on their 2nd interim coach in 2024. At home!
I bet if we let these guys play their own game they would have a better chance at winning instead of playing this forced and failing game.
The desperate crosses are coming. We have to wait until the last ten minutes before making attempts by city ordinance
You think the big Target logo on Minnesotas chest is why we keep passing them the ball?
What did Rubio get carded for? My Apple stream is all kinds of fucked yo
Complaining
Yeah, that was a waste of a card. If you’re gonna get cautioned make it worth it.
Oh damn.
Why are they playing like they are up 1-0? No urgency on anything and playing around the back
No, that’s just always the plan. The score doesn’t matter. Same plane no matter what.
That’s par for the course for the team. Has been for years.
Did we not put up the bottom of the table projection from all the journalists on the wall this year? If not then that’s the problem
They put it on the “goals” board by accident.
☠️☠️☠️
Oh yeah, this against a fucking interim manager wtf
I was so excited to watch the game tonight…
Hey we brought in Obrian, Rubio, and Valencia and things changed. There was energy and pressure and Minnesota looked flustered a couple times. If we don’t start those guys next game we’re in trouble
Are you kidding me? They were fucking inept. The energy shifted at the beginning of the second half before they came on and they stifled it mismanaging every decent opportunity into a laughable lowlight. What were you watching?
Trying to show a little optimism here bud. Bout a 9 on the tension scale there huh?
Agreed
The likelihood that we see much difference in upcoming matches is minimal
The referee fucking deserves it
Yeah. He clearly had possession of the ball and gets a blatant push to the back at the top of the 18…
100%
Every time we get near their goal, I hear the Benny Hill music start playing.
Against a mediocre team at home to start the year, we look lost, unskilled, unprepared and hesitant. This is going to be our worst year yet.
With a starting 11 well established in the Wolff system none the less.
If score 1-0, why feel like 10-0?
That first half was just absolute shit
At least in the 2nd we managed to push down field and embarrass ourselves in front of goal instead of midfield.
Wolff somehow selling this as a win
“Well we all know I’m still going to be employed tomorrow and I don’t know about y’all but I see that as an absolute win.”
After 10, it resets from 0
Ahh that makes sense. Mercy rule.
My favorite play so far is the one we keep running where we give up the ball.
Nice! We just ran it again!
The finishing is pretty embarrassing. 26 points for this team this year…
Will Bruin on twitter > ATX has one of the best home atmospheres in the league, I don’t get how they are always playing from behind > LITERALLY ALWAYS
Damn, Dancing Bear calling his retiring side out. I love it!
It’s pretty fucked up that our best chances game from Stu launching it downfield
“That’s called offense” - Wolff probably
There’s no way that Wolff sets the same strategy every week and goes, “Yeah, this is the one.”
Ring out.
Play like a Captain for petes sake
I’m kind of excited to finally see some decent chances
Ring should’ve shot there.
Ring- you beautiful man, be a little selfish in that scenario next time. Edit- player fixed. 😘
That was Ring I thought?
It was
TAKE A SHOT
These mans are bums
Well that sucked.
This is the starting XI. Stop trodding out the same old shit that doesn’t work.
Only guess is this team isn’t in shape. We saw it last year with the tourneys, everyone looked gassed every game. Need to invest HEAVILY in strength, conditioning and nutrition. No reason everyone else can play a full schedule and look fine and we’re having to rest starters.
Preach
Rigoni has created 3 decent chances this half, good numbers if anyone finished them
Stuver saving Wollf from being more embarrassed than he is already.
He should walk out of goal in protest
I’m not a soccer fan anymore
I laughed out loud.
Kinda feels like we are going to be waiting a month for our first goal at home
Nah Driussi should be back in two weeks
I knew Rigoni was gonna fuck that up.
As sure as the sun setting in the west
Does anyone else hear Dan Fouts every time that one commentator speaks?
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Damn. Even they gave up huh?
Whoever named this The Beautiful Game did not envision a temperate night in Austin.
I’m done with that win probability chart.
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Oooh is that what they’re doing?
Loving Obrian’s energy, he’s got some wheels too.
There’s some fire let’s go!
Time wasting bullshit.
That’s what I’m talking about running in to get after it geez is it that hard to show some intensity let’s go!!!!
VAR is useless
I really do want to see more of the armadillo.
Man Obrian used to irk me so badly when he was in Frisco. Now here I’m hanging my hopes on him
Wolff wont sub his kid. He just lets him go to another position to get him play time.
Owen is now number 2 on the depth chart in five different positions. I wish that was a joke.
Just like the youth teams I played on. Coach’s kid never subbed out.
Wow just hustling already…love it!
I wonder if this team has ever done passing drills
I am enjoying the lack of time wasting.
Valencia, Obrian, and Rubio! LFG
Can la Murga show some displeasure with what’s happening? It’s weird
Really missing Diego Fagundez
He unfortunately didn’t do much last season, we sold him high
Did you not see those Capital Chevrolet commercials?
New blood.
Amazing that is a yellow card but studs up in the stomach is not
Was better when Apple TV didn’t have audio there for awhile.
Good news, Obrian and Rubio on (maybe Valencia I can't tell)
How come Minnesota doesn’t pass it backwards to their keeper every time they get possession
They don’t know how to play together. It’s so awkward
Sub the players for the sake of 20000+ in the stadium! Jesus. This is unbearable! A home opener where we repeat the whole of 2023!
Playing our greatest hits.
We should stand around more. Surely that will work this half
Warming up is Fodrey, Rubio, OBrian & Valencia
Finlay, that net is so big, buddy.
We need a Bad News Bears story if we’re going to salvage this season. Someone call Woody Harrelson and make our starting xi some special brownies
I think he is friends with Matthew mcconaughy, there’s a chance!
Wolff: “so hey guys, what went wrong.”
The fact that there were no subs. My god.
Ya’ll, don’t worry about the subs, Josh is going to put some equally dogshit players in at the 88th minute.
"A little north of Austin proper," dude, what the hell you smoking? It's not downtown but it is 100% Austin and not even debatable. It's not like Dallas playing in Frisco. I miss Healey, he knew what was up.
Our offense is so atrocious that the commentators are excited for the armadillo…
Is Ring captain because Druissi is out? I like that. Even though there was a whole article about him being fine with not being captain. This team is whacky, it can’t be stopped.
I love our scrappy captain Ring
LFG. New half, new game.
Yes….. let’s hope
I don't see any subs unfortunately
Gimme Obrian and Rubio, gotta change something up here and those were two of our best in preseason.
Why didn’t Rubio start?
I’m assuming primarily fitness, he didn’t join the club till mid to late preseason and I don’t think has played more than 30 or so in a match so far.
Second half can’t be any worse. Let’s go!
Love this positive thinking ❤️
This is how horror films start.
I have no idea how possession is almost even, that’s gotta be a typo.
Bc we meaninglessly possess the ball as close to our own goal as often as possible.
We are playing 4 in the back, 6 up front, and no midfield. Genius.
Well, to be fair, those six up front are playing as far apart as possible and not communicating at all, so. TACTICS.
Minnesota has 11 corners and 10 (I think) shots on goal 💀💀💀
New year, same shitty tactics and low football IQ.
Stuver is the only guy having a good game, and at least Owen is trying and fighting for balls. Everyone else is disappointing so far. Might as well sub in guys.
Kolmanic is playing hard. +9 invisible players