Image Credt: Scott Varley

The 4 C's combined for 2 goals and a win that kept the Rapids playoff hopes alive yesterday. The first half was a snooze fest with only 3 shots on goal (2 by Colorado) and nothing that was really threatening. The second half started off almost as slow, but the Rapids slowly took control of the game. Click to continue reading...

The Rapids apparently left their playoff chances in Colorado when they left for LA, because the team played like they had no interest in continuing the season past the FSL game. A Galaxy offense devoid of stars managed 3 goals against a Colorado defense that was solid until the last 3 games.

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Image Credit: Mike Murphy, ASN

Yuck. The worst combination of poor Rapids play and poor officiating that I can remember. Just a disaster of a game on all fronts. Instead of a blow-by-blow review of that junk, I'll just hit the highlights.

Houston Goal #1: Journeyman keeper Preston Burpo apparently thought he was playing for yet another MLS team and played a perfect pass to Dynamo Brian Ching, who took the assist gladly for a 1-0 lead inside 2 minutes. Click to continue reading...

A whole lot of firsts for the Rapids on Saturday night. The first time this season they've come from behind to win. The first time in their history they've scored 5 goals on the road. The first time this season the Rapids gave up 4 goals. It was a wild and crazy affair at the Meadowlands Saturday night. Click to continue reading...

Much like the early years of the War for Independence Colorado, led by an Englishman, was held to a draw against the Revolution from New England.

The Revs started out in a 3-5-1-1 or 3-6-1 with every intention of playing for the draw and were largely successful early, breaking up attacks as they came through the crowded midfield. Click to continue reading...

Sorry for the sparse posting around here lately. Work has been busy and I'm not getting much sleep. Things are settling down though, so we'll have the Weekend Update tomorrow, my last mid-season Report Card on Thursday, and the NE game preview on Friday.

The Rapids started out on Sunday pushing the attack but had problems getting anything on frame. Click to continue reading...

Literally in this case, as Terry Cooke served in a perfect corner kick to the head of Mike Petke for the only goal of the game.

The Rapids started in a 4-4-2 and managed to keep possession more than they have in recent games. Still Dallas was the more dominate team, but like Colorado recently, they couldn't turn their control into goals. Click to continue reading...

No game review this week. If the players aren't going to bother showing up for the game, I'm not going to be bothered to analyse it. Suffice it to say that every time I've thought we hit rock bottom this season, we've done worse. With the results this weekend the Colorado Rapids are not only last place in the conference, but they are last place in the league. Click to continue reading...

Well, another two points down the toilet as things become ever more worrying. On the overall balance of play a draw was probably a fair result.

There were some signs of general improvement, particularly in the second half, but for me we still have problems in midfield where we were never really able to establish any degree of control, apart from a spell in the 2nd half during which we scored.

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I thought we were ok, not brilliant but ok. Actually, I thought we were infinitely better than in most of the games I've seen this season - at least we gave it a real good go, and tried to play football against the arch-spoilers, who to be fair were very well organised and defended superbly.

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Well, it was only Stoke so we musn't get carried away - especially given our 'unreasonable expectations' - but, despite playing with 10 men for an hour.

We saw more football from the black 'n whites tonight than we've seen in all the games combined so far this season, and perhaps half of last season too - full committment all round, and some really encouraging passages of play.

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When two United with different class meet last night, the only possible result was another heavy defeat for one of them, and without have to think hard it was for Newcastle.

But, as a Newcastle fan no matter how predictable the result is, it was still hurt me badly to see how the team going on so far after last Wednesday's Big Sam parted company with Newcastle.

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January in the north east of England can throw up vicious weather and that's what we had last night. The wind was blowing a paddy and it pissed down in the last ten minutes.

The pitch has a rugby team and a non-league football team playing games on it together with the reserves.

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After 10mins tooing and froing, we had a decent 20 minutes spell where we kept the ball and probed for openings. We created only one, which Owen bottled with the keeper closing on him. Stoke seemed to realise they had little to fear, and gradually took control.

From our perspective, the 2nd half was an abomination: we were truly appalling.

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What would be the better option for next season? I personally believe we should stick with Sam Allardyce. I understand why others don't. But quite frankly it won't make a jot of difference to the outcome of this season. We need to be realistic in this sense.

But I'm still optomistic about next season if we let things settle down for a while and really focus on what is positive and think about what it is that we can build upon for next season.

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Just some immediate thoughts which no doubt some of you will probably have mentioned elsewhere.

Well first of all, some of you wanted Barton out - you got it. Some of you wanted Butt out - you got it. Some of you wanted Martins out - you got it. Some of you wanted Cacapa out - you got it.

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Any difference between them? Maybe it's just where their team position in the Premier League table, besides that both have been failed to secured a winable fixtures into the grab. More worst to us, Big Sam and his "lazy" squad totally awful, disintegrated and showing no passion once again.

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One game that i would recommend is Online Football Manager. I think its a good game to start in if you're a beginner. And its free. The learning curve isn't that steep, and after a while, it gets pretty addictive.

The main interface

My Liverpool squad

Basically all you need to do in this game is login once (or twice if your really bored) a day and setup all your tactics, formations, substitutions and trainings. Click to continue reading...