Posts by Carol Lewis

Anyone interested in getting a thread started for the USL Championship (formerly USL League One) for next season?

wiredfalcon2 said:Right in the ☕

That’s awesome! So, what’s the word on things lately? Is there any kind of special deal or something going on since we’re heading toward the finals... I'm just asking for a friend, you know... 🍿

wiredfalcon2 said:It’s just Sami, Mike, the NFL, those big corporate giants, the Functuts, and Cohort against the whole damn world 👋

Seriously though, where's your backbone?

Slow-roasted spit meat - our house specialty 🙏

Susan Cooper7 said:I have to weigh in on the situation with the Rijeka squad as well. I’m in complete agreement with boldbadger1 regarding the officiating; there is no realistic way to deny that the refs have been favoring them throughout this entire half-season. However, looking at today's match, seeing Pelumba attempt to strike Frigan with a kick from ground level was uncalled for. He missed, sure, but in my book, that was a straight red card offense. If he had landed that, and then we saw those two strikes following Tekla's lead to make it 2-0, the game would have been effectively over right then and there.

Can you give me five examples? Seriously, I’ve been looking through this entire half-season and I can barely find five instances... thanks.

wiredfalcon2 said:Demons Unleashed:

Nafter Saturday night’s whistle blew on the match between FC Rijeka and FC Istria 1961, things finally clicked. A lot of people who were squinting through the fog finally saw things for what they actually are.

If you look at it one way, it’s obvious that FC Istria 1961 is completely unprotected. We're just left to the mercy of refereeing scams and the blatant rigging of the top tier of the league standings—a place where our club definitely doesn't belong. Then, if you look through the other eye, you see that the one guy sitting on the regional board within the US Soccer Federation, who should be out there defending the interests of clubs from this exact county, is basically having a total meltdown after Ampem scores that equalizer in the 97th minute.
The "experts" called the officiating a disaster. That clown Pajač will probably do some theatrical weeping, while Mišković will just give him a pat on the back for a job "well done."

So, what’s left for Istria? File an official protest through the federation, whose president also happens to be the sporting director for the very club we’re supposed to be protesting against.

It’s pure absurdity. It feels like only the fingertips are poking out above the swamp that is this league. In this case, "Mr." D.R.S., for everything you used to do for our club—THANKS. For ever wanting to see you near our club again—NO, THANKS! We don't need a "friend" like you; we're better off with enemies. Maybe there aren't legal barriers preventing someone from holding both these roles at once, but in actual human society, there’s something called MORAL. There's a moral barrier to holding those two positions simultaneously. But clearly, thick-skinned guys like you don't know the word "MORAL," or maybe you skipped class the day they taught it in school.

It’s considered "moral" to lie and deny the truth to your fellow citizens and the media regarding that move to Rijeka, right? As long as you collect enough signatures for the regional board, even though everyone knows the whole deal was baked and settled back in Qatar.
Istria is strong. Our path might be rough, but it’s the right one, and it’s honorable.

As for you, I hope you handle your job at FC Rijeka half as "well" as you handled maintaining Drosina's turf—which, by the way, was ranked as one of the worst pitches in the entire league.

DP92

Well, I mean, yeah... true enough 🤣🤣

ruggedowl13 said:Did you catch that robbery?
First off, Hajduk goes on a total cleaning spree—three red cards in one go—basically kicking Livaja right out of the game at their home stadium. Then, just a few days later, they get lucky with some questionable penalty call that knocks Slaven out of the Cup and hands them a spot in the European quarterfinals. And don't even get me started on how they missed that blatant penalty for Gorica... or that sketchy penalty given to Istra during the Osijek match just to slow them down. Now we have this mess from last night...

It’s just unbelievable at this point. I swear, there isn't a single refereeing decision in Major League Soccer that hasn't somehow swung in favor of FC Cincinnati—it’s getting ridiculous. It feels like the league officials are out there in peak form, just picking favorites left and right...

🤣🤣🙏

Nope ☕

bluebison47 said:It's a lie, because the whole thing is backwards—it's actually the Dad putting a coat on Miško. 😬

It’s not just one person, either... I mean, so many people have that exact same image burned into their brains... it’s like a classic case of the Mandela Effect, where everyone just collectively agrees on something that never actually happened...

wiredfalcon2 I don't know, I was just sitting there thinking about how things used to be... you know, before everything became so fast-paced and loud... and then I saw what neonorca38 was saying, and it really got me stuck in my own head for a minute... because it feels like we're always rushing toward something without actually looking at where we're standing right now... anyway, I guess what I mean is...
Is there actually any truth to that old rumor about a photo showing little Mickey helping his dad get his coat on... because honestly, I’ve been thinking about how much of those childhood memories we hold onto are just stories we tell ourselves to make the world feel a bit more wholesome, you know? It feels like one of those perfectly curated snapshots from a classic American sitcom, something you'd see in a grainy black-and-white commercial for laundry detergent back in the fifties, where everything was just so simple and everyone was so polite... but when you really dig into the details of these family legends, they often turn out to be nothing more than a beautiful myth... 🤔

Yeah, it’s a lie. Prove me wrong... ☕

wiredfalcon2 said:There you go, fixed your post to make it actually sound true. ☕

It’s honestly hard to imagine a bigger lie, yet you just keep doubling down on it every single time you get the chance...

Man, just thinking about those old-school flashes of brilliance... you know, that pure, unadulterated magic you'd see from someone like Quaresma or Anas back in the day... 🙏

Serse Cosmi ☕

Adam Myers4 said:Honestly, you shouldn't have even stepped into the box at the 16-yard mark for that penalty in the first place!

That's honestly so true... 🤣

bluebison47 I don't know, I was just sitting there thinking about how everything seems to be shifting lately, and then I saw what neonorca38 said... it really got me wondering if we’re all just looking at the same thing from completely different angles, you know? It feels like sometimes you try to make sense of the chaos, but the more you dig, the more the pieces just don't seem to fit quite right, almost like trying to solve a puzzle where the edges keep changing shape while you're holding them... it makes you wonder if anyone actually has the full picture, or if we're all just making it up as we go along...
Man, I honestly went down such a rabbit hole trying to lay out every single scrap of data from Football Manager... I mean, I’ve been digging through everything from 2006 all the way up to the present, though I left out the current season since things are still shifting... I spent ages breaking down the absolute numbers by season and sorting them into different tournament formats—you know, the 12-team leagues, the 16-team setups, even those 10-team ones... and then, once I finally felt like I was getting somewhere, I finished it all off by segmenting the stats from the moment VAR was introduced back in the spring of 2020... just trying to see if that really changed the flow of things...



Anyway, I'll step back now and leave the rest of this conversation in your hands... 😬

It feels a little unfair, honestly, because you can't ignore that version of the Hajduk squad either... the one that spent most of the match just struggling to even get a foot inside the opponent's penalty area... ☕

🤣🤣🤣🙏

Mattia Binotto and Charles Leclerc at the end of the race...🤣

Jacob Castillo70 said:Nah, they just sit there waiting and waiting...

I mean, you gotta think— checking.. and checking.. 😁

Timothy Castillo6 said:Let's just throw this in there too:



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Man

Man, what a race 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏