Why y’all mad, Bros(ki)?

Posted on 7/7/25 at 6:48 am

Posted by DByrd2

Fredericksburg, VA

Member since Jun 2008

9979 posts

Posted on 7/7/25 at 6:48 am

Everyone, including myself, did a hefty amount of mouth-breathing last night during and after the match. That match thread is gonna be full of juicy receipts, regardless of what happens next summer.

I gotta say, though… Y’all can’t be talking out of both sides of your mouth.

1). We shouldn’t have even been in that match last night.

- None of us realistically (key word there) expected the U.S. to win that match, and after the friendlies leading up to the tourney not one of us was doubtless we’d make it out of the group.

Sure, the baseline USMNT expectation is to advance to the GC final, but not with this team. These players.

So you guys turn around and throw the baby away with the bath water and talk trash on the manager that got this squad to VERY CLEARLY come together and achieve more than any single person, pundit, or fan could have expected? Come on, you guys are better than that…

2). Pulisic vs. Poch?

- I don’t GAF who you are, unless your name is Messi/Ronaldo and you’re in your prime, you don’t have the autonomy to say “I only want to do part of this”. The manager is the one that runs shite, not the players. If the players want to dictate terms, they need to stop playing and be managers.

I get that it is controversial when your best player and manager are at odds, but this situation is a symptom of Gregg’s “besties and vibes” environment. God forbid someone with a sack come in and establish a baseline of expectations higher than that of his predecessor.

Weak arse mentality. “Oh I’m tired.”

frick you. Tell that to the players in Europe and SA. How many of them tried to get out of a major tourney? None.

Better yet, tell that to the fans that work 68-70 hrs a week and just want to have pride in their country on a regular basis, while your privileged arse gets to skip out on the biggest moments in part of what you consider your own “job”. I bet they wish they could cut work with a deadline down their neck like you did, Pulisic.

Most of y'all were just as “wtf” about the Pulisic situation as the rest of us. Don’t turn around and clap back at the man in charge just because he has a worker that fricked up. Let him handle it. The noise y'all are making is just mob mentality BS.

3). “Poch is an idiot with his tactics and lineups”

- Wow. We finally have teeth in attack, and you guys cry because we make mistakes in defense despite having a squad where two of our five best players in camp got injured and couldn’t play much (Wright and Cardoso).

Cardoso wasn’t playing well, but Wright had been. I’ll grant you that.

But holy hell, fellas… We had a bunch of guys that are in USL and MLS come in and play every game of the tourney. We would have KILLED for this offensive tactical approach and play when Gregg was manager, but now Poch does it and we don’t want to acknowledge the amount of work it took to get these kids to play the way they did and make it as far as they did? Piss off with that.

I wish we had kept Gregg now so that you turds could be watching us boot meaningless crosses all fricking match.

Poch had a base of Richards, Ream, and Adams on that squad. Not a single other player was a starter before this tourney and friendlies. Doesn’t matter who played well in the tourney. Hell, most of these guys wouldn’t even be part of the first 15 picked for the squad outside of the two that were mentioned above as injured and Tillman.

He took a raw, untested group as a whole and beat every one of our actual expectations, but he sucks and should be fired? That is, objectively, a stupid take.
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The common American fan is an idiot. “frick the manager, we have good players and don’t need him”… GTFOOH.

This isn’t the Dream Team like basketball had. Pulisic is the best we have ever had, no doubt. The collection of talent in our XI is the best we have ever had. Having identified that, none of them are legit world class talents. Not one.

So where do they get the free pass from?

Back the manager who knows wtf he is doing in terms of culture cultivation and setting expectations. Our XI will largely look the same as the last WC next summer, so all the teeth gnashing about players vs. manager is just useless noise… God forbid the players have to fricking work to prove they belong in the culture that the manager is building.

And on that note, what American manager knows what a winning national team culture is like? Don’t worry… I’ll wait.

But American managers would know about that better than a man that played for Argentina and won a Top 5 league championship, right? Y’all are wild, man.

Be better. Use your noodle. He isn’t going to axe Pulisic or any other starters that come in and work hard to be great with the team unless their mentality is shitty. Our normal starters got complacent under Gregg. You don’t get rid of that with a blank check mentality as a manager.

Come to work. Work hard. Have some pride and remember where you came from. Get paid. Get glory.

I’ll happily eat crow if we get grouped in the WC next summer. I think QF is floor for us if we have all starters available. Y’all doom and gloom dudes must have never been part of moving a team from a trash culture to a prideful and fighting culture.

Splash some cold water in your faces and watch what happens. Don't cry because results middle in the interim when you don’t even have your main players, playing in a tournament most of you mouth breathers have called insignificant, but then turn around and call for the manager’s head when it isn’t won outright despite the squad WAYYY outperforming expectations heading into this thing.

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“People so stupid, people so dumb.” - Tom McDonald, noted Philosopher.

This post was edited on 7/7/25 at 11:51 am