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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parking the bus in a friendly game?  Even Mourinho would not have done it.  [/quote]

Thank you. A friendly, where we’re trying to see the extent of our young players’ abilities, is not “a big game or occasion” to park the bus. I’d rather lose heavily and have the players learn something other than defend for their lives and send hopeful punts.[/quote]

So?  They used a strategy to get a result.  They could have lost badly with the strategy and then you would have ranted about player selection and how we can't even defend when we try.  Nothing about this result says anything definitive about direction or coach selection.

We already know how you feel about the direction, no need to hear it daily. 
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I think it is healthy that fans like him/her express their frustrations with the USSF and coaching incompetence.  And they have good reasons to do it.  Franco Panizo asked Gyasi Zardes what Sarachan asked of him as a substitute: "Just bring energy. Bring energy. That was the main goal."  He followed up by asking what was asked tactically: "You've got to stay high and just try to make something happen."  So basically the tactical instruction amounted to run around with lots of energy, stay up high, and hope something good would happen.

When Weston McKinney was asked the same question he said that he was told to "just express yourself" and to "get the ball, turn and run forward"  and not to play "diagonal ball back to find space" but to "play diagonal ball forward" and "if it does not work out, to try again next time until it does."   This is our current coaching at the national team level!!!  No wonder we failed to qualify for the World Cup. [/quote]

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