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Way too many people who thought we had zero chance of getting a point against England are now pissed when we did get a point and look essentially their equal.

Weah at the 9 is the new "thing" that apparently is making the rounds. It doesn't make any sense. He's never been very good as a solo forward and is the perfect right wing for this team. His role should be exactly what it was against Wales, we should just actually get him the ball more when he has space. It's not reasonable to think we're going to completely overhaul the way we play with putting Weah at the 9. Maybe if we went to a two forward system, but again, we're not about to change that much about the way we play. The lineup against England should be the same as the lineup against Wales but with Aaronson over Weston. Reyna is the planned 60 minute sub in for Weah and Weston likely comes in at the same time if it seems like either Aaronson or Pulisic need to come out (or maybe for Musah if he's fading and we feel we need to go all out for offense but an Aaronson/Weston pairing ahead of Adams is asking so much of Adams). If we're panicking and throwing experimental shit at the wall, Reyna as a false 9 with Weah in his normal spot on the wing is way more appealing to me that Weah at the 9. Honestly, give me Weston as a 9 over Weah for this team.

Dest? Weah? I'm fine with Pulisic taking free kicks but I'd rather our most dangerous player but in and around the box on corners.

Is that a serious question?

Wales could absolutely lose to Iran. And so could we.

It really makes zero sense for Pulisic to take corners.

I wish we hadn't completely ignored Weah on the right basically the whole 2nd half. It felt like every time we had a decent break, he had tons of space there and never saw the ball. Also shocked that Reyna didn't come in at the same time as Aaronson.

Aaronson being listed with the midfielders is interesting. I think we see him get a start over Weston at some point. I would have taken Pepi over Haji and Arriola over Morris. No Steffen is a shocker but completely comfortable with Turner starting and either of the other guys playing if it comes to that. The biggest worry to me with the roster is what happens if Musah can't play every minute? Acosta can be fine backing up Adams but needs to play out of his mind to do anything other than kill off a game as an 8 and Weston/Aaronson are great but I don't think pairing the two together would work at all. And Luca isn't playing and has looked bad lately and Roldan is Roldan.

Wait, now people are complaining that Scally is on the roster? Lol.

FIFA rules require you bring 3 GK. The US is also not super fucked if the 3rd GK has to play. The difference between Turner/Steffen and Johnson/Horvath isn't a situation where you might as well just not play the game if you have to go to 3rd or 4th string GK.

Is making the MLS best 11 for the season generally considered to be a mediocre year?

It's Gandalf. They aren't directly quoting Gandalf to have it be a blue wizard no one knows anything about. This video even starts with "I do believe there is a very good chance he could be Gandalf". This is a content creator making a video about something he hopes is true that he knows isn't going to be true.

4, 5, 6, and probably 3 are things that you'll probably just have to keep watching the show to find out more about. But I agree that if you're going to type out that list and nitpick everything in the show, you should just stop watching. You're not going to enjoy it because it's not going to perfectly match the lore. My main complaint about the show is that they really made Middle Earth seem small. The one time they did this well was the Harfoot travel scene with the song and map. Other than that, people are just wherever is convenient whenever it's convenient. It was also weird that the Southlands village was like 50 people, half left and there were now only 50 people, almost all of them die in a battle cutting them down to 50 people, and then they get volcano'd reducing their number to 50 people. Like I'm sure there was covid stuff that made filming weird, but they did a bad job showing the scale of things. But overall I really enjoyed things and can't wait for the next season.

It's Gandalf. No one gives a shit about Radagast or the blue wizards. People like Gandalf.

I was definitely thinking about this post during at least one scene in the last episode

Do more of these situations popping up make you feel less comfortable in playing in streamed games?

For maximum chaos, I kinda hope the investigation finds that Garrett has been cheating the whole time

If he turns out to be Sauron, I wonder how they will try to explain (or if they will) him saving Galadriel in the ocean.

She did have J3 the hand immediately before this one but she also took a long look at her cards before making the all in call. Not sure how you can ever give the money back.

Completely serious. There were 16 "plays" in the video you linked. Long made two bad passes and let his man beat him on a run once. He was mostly fine and definitely not outmatched. You're crazy if you're placing any blame on Long for the goal. But it's clear that no matter what Long did, he (and Berhalter for including him) were going to be at fault to you. The team played like shit and lost. The worst offenders were the midfield trio of Adams, Weston, and Luca. Long's performance only stands out to anyone who was already going to scapegoat him regardless of what happened.

Is this supposed to show Long being terrible? Because really he looks mostly fine here. He under hits two passes (and the danger in the first one is really on Vines for sitting and waiting instead of coming to the bad pass) and then gets beat once defensively. Certainly not a great game but the problem this game was much more on the midfield trio than anyone else.

Really disappointing how bad the midfield was this game. Crazy how much missing Musah stands out.

I love that people have started complaining about Tim Ream not getting called in when people have bitched about literally every time he has been called in.

If you're expecting the timeline of this show to perfectly match up to the thousands of years that passed during this time in Tolkien's lore, you're just setting yourself up for disappointment for no reason. They are condensing key events that happened over thousands of years into a time period that makes more sense for a TV show.

You're right. Looks like I was mixing up the scramble where he got hurt with the "high stepping" scramble earlier.