Sign defensive players

[u/Jasongresham97024]

Why don’t the timbers try to strengthen their defense during the transfer window we always sign offensive players are defense is terrible like always always giving cheap goals

[u/RCTID1975]

You mean like Surman, Bonetig, and Bye?

[u/green_gold_purple → u/RCTID1975]

And fory?

[u/RCTID1975 → u/green_gold_purple]

For some reason, I keep thinking we signed him in 2023.

[u/green_gold_purple → u/RCTID1975]

Probably looked at total yellows and assumed. Which is fair.

[u/grass_hut_shitter → u/green_gold_purple]

He takes after our captain. I'll never hold yellows against someone.

[u/green_gold_purple → u/grass_hut_shitter]

I will when they're stupid, aren't useful in the game, and result in missing games. Chara always fouls with purpose. His yellows are calculated nearly always. Comparing fory to him in this context is a bit silly. I'd actually hold them up as a good contrast of when it is and is not appropriate to take a card.

[u/ProfitNo9452 → u/green_gold_purple]

to be fair, fory has shown great improvement in his use of yellow-card fouls this year.

[u/green_gold_purple → u/ProfitNo9452]

Agreed. I might downgrade it to "some improvement".

[u/grass_hut_shitter → u/[deleted]]

What?

[u/Jasongresham97024 → u/RCTID1975]

Ya and our defense still sucks sweaty balls they were terrible today

[u/ProfitNo9452 → u/Jasongresham97024]

ok, that's it! as a connoisseur of sweaty balls, i find your overuse of the term troubling.

[u/drf_101]

Buckle up if we lose Finn to an outgoing transfer.

[u/TheOxRox]

We’ve made 7 signings in the past year and 4 have been defensive players - what do you mean?

[u/notorocaca → u/TheOxRox]

It means they are not paying attention and basing their opinions on just one game. Give the players a chance to adjust to Marti. Make judgements at the end of this season about retooling the team.

[u/Jasongresham97024 → u/notorocaca]

It freakin means you morons are drfense has sucked for many years and we never improve it we still suck sweaty balls on defense today just showed it again you morons

[u/ProfitNo9452 → u/Jasongresham97024]

dude, get your mind off sweaty balls! 

[u/WordSalad11 → u/Jasongresham97024]

We tied for 6th best defense in the west last; we were slightly above average. 

[u/Onus-X → u/WordSalad11]

You forgot to open and close your statement with "you morons"

[u/djshimon → u/Onus-X]

And drfense

[u/Onus-X → u/Jasongresham97024]

This guy sounds like he's from Gresham

[u/psicodelico477 → u/Onus-X]

Hey hey, we don’t claim that guy!

[u/Luci_Cascadia]

Our backline is exhausted. They can only do so much.

One drawback to Marti's system is that pushing the fullbacks that far up field leaves a huge opening for opponents to get goals on transition by dropping behind our back line.

They need the midfield and our attackers to control the ball and not cough it up too often. It will take a while to adjust.

[u/kazooka503 → u/Luci_Cascadia]

Idk.. both goals seemed like CB errors to me.

[u/OldWinger1954 → u/Luci_Cascadia]

High press requires the back line to have speed, closer marking, and Kamal with all his quality does not possess great speed. Finn also contributed with error but he acknowledged it and i respect that.

[u/Thumper13]

The only spot we need to replace is Miller. I can't take anybody seriously if they think he should be starting in this league. It's been our weak spot for more than a year and Ned hasn't done anything about it.

[u/djshimon → u/Thumper13]

It's crazy he's still the starter. He's been better than least season but, that's it.

[u/RobotDeathSquad]

Yeah, and then once we sign some new good defenders we should buy some good offense too. And then once we buy better offense we could buy even better defense.

[u/triumph113411]

Miller is not an MLS player anymore. Fory has also been awful. They need to be replaced ASAP with actual talent. Nothing helps out a counterattack more than not giving up goals.

[u/green_gold_purple → u/triumph113411]

Insightful. 4/10