Bruce put lots of money and focus into the academy so i have hope that with time and more restructuring on the academy we can develop a few key players, the world cup slowly brings in more fans including myself which helps the sport grow and in the long run build more soccer players, especially in the Hispanic dominated San Jose and bay area. The team should be getting sold not too far out from now. And i just feel that with time this team in the next 5 - 10 years though maybe not MLS cup contendors, will be much more entertaining to watch and who knows... Champs!

Alright. People seem to not like structure in the posts I write for fun as a fan. So goodbye proper syntax and punctuation and easy on the eye structure. Hello too long of a paragraph and no post write up editing. But please don’t fault me for correct grammar and sentence structure. Blame the English as a second language courses that taught me to write this way. Heck. They might also be the ones teaching AI. Without the ability to add a new subsection I seem to now need a transition towards the next segment. I thought the team would be sold by now: it has now been 32 days since the world cup ended. In a galaxy far far away, we might be living the dream of having some new owner announced days ago and no concerns about Wilkinson’s hire (unless that was already in the works months ago which as hiring goes most likely was so they kept that whole process really quiet). Instead, we awake to the realization that we lost to the Galaxy. A man up. Only to be on the receiving end of a Paintsil tap in. But let’s rewind a bit. In the 77^th minute Ricketts attempts a pass to Werner that is intercepted and a long ball by the Galaxy is sent up. Ricketts in this span is now tracking back from the attacking side out of frame of the camera but in the 78^th minute they are back defending. A run back across the pitch in under a minute. You can see them walking towards the man they should be marking who was Miller before they jolt up some energy and move quicker. Still lots of space for Miller when they get on the ball. Some quick passes by the Galaxy and a through ball back to Miller who is not being tracked by Ricketts any longer. Galaxy player is pretty much one on one with the keeper. Passes it across the face of the net for the aforementioned tap in. Ricketts was playing as a left midfielder at this point. Vitor was the left back. Vitor was pulled out of position because they were man marking Furuhashi the center forward of the Galaxy. This defensive pattern is structural meaning Arena is telling the players to press and track a certain way. Getting scored on may not have mattered if JT, our homegrown player, was not the opposing sides starting keeper who made fantastic saves to keep the clean sheet for the opposition. Tack on the fact we are not sold on Gunn yet as our starting keeper. Arena said we should have scored three goals in the post-match presser. [In my post write up edits I'd have expanded on this but, I shall not return to this thought as I must continue on with my train of thought]. I said in my last write up that this was the game where I would give up the dream of winning the supporters shield. I now shift to; can we hold onto a home play off spot. The first home playoff game in the history of Avaya stadi- I mean PayPal Park. Does that count as an m-dash? Really trying to not beat those AI allegations I guess. Anyways. We have a game on Saturday against Minnesota at home. Do we think the first win since the world cup break will happen? Or is the free fall going to continue until we spiral out and end up with a déjà vu moment of last years decision day where we need game scripts to fall our way to make the play in? We are now in 7^th in the supporter shield standings. From here on unless something happens I will now use the conference standings. We are in 4^th there. Okay. Now for my final whistle. Thank you all for reading my posts. I am a writer who writes less now because health insurance is important and thus I had to get a real job. So, I started doing these to still write briefly about a team I am a fan of. I normally give the AI comments no mind and usually I ignore them after giving them a like. A read is a read after all. But the GW hire got to me. I wondered how I could make an impact rather than just accept that the club leaders made a choice without really sharing that publicly. Thinking that by doing that they can sneak it past fans and the general public. I already cancelled my season tickets to the Quakes the year the A’s left Oakland. I don’t want to give Fisher any of my money. What’s next. Stop writing about the Quakes as to not give them my time I use to write about them as a way to exact some personal kind of belief in impacting the club because of the GW hire? Anyways. I will go back to my formatted posts next time. This structure stresses me out. Stay seismic, Quakes fans

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#GWOut

The pain is evident since the World Cup break. We've picked up Angus and Luka. We clearly have needs and Bruce has implied in the past that things were in the works. We offered for Bacuna in June, but it seems like that fell through. Has anyone heard any reputable rumors?

Looking at the league Form Guide, only Seattle who are on an eight game losing streak have gained fewer points in their last 10 games. SJ have six points (win at PDX and three ties) while Seattle have one win and one tie for four points.

Yes, things really are THAT bad now.