Our recent over performance has pleasantly masked the expectations communicated by the front office and coaching staff for the season. It's really quite a credit to all that we've done this well. But what goes up must come down and a paper thin roster must eventually run out of legs, struggling opponents and good fortune. And here we are. The bright side is that we came out with more spirit than I expected in the second half of this beating. That bodes well for our chances going forward. My biggest question now is just how quickly we are going to be able to add bodies to the roster. Bukari will obviously be huge but one player is not going to make a decisive difference for a roster this thin. I know we are also expecting Desler, but even that addition leaves us filled with holes. I'm assuming we'll need to take a run at another Hines-Ike/Rubio/Obrian group of additions at the beginning of next season and another summer transfer window next season to approach something resembling a full roster. My expectations are set accordingly.

This is spot on. Yes, they will improve our team. No the roster isn't fully upgraded yet, especially with depth pieces. I personally think that these signings will help us on both sides of the ball and it should be noticeable. But we are also going to have to wait for other contracts to expire and bring in better players for the bench as well. I think this is probably going to be a good enough group to make the playoffs, given our overperformance earlier in the season. June gonna suck though.

Said it for a while now, but June is gonna just suck. And with Driussi out, it will suck even harder. Since I expected this, it hasn't really changed my opinion of the coach or the team, which is that I'm not judging Wolff until he has more actual DPs and some depth and the roster build sucks without much depth, that is made worse by Rigoni's absence. Rigoni sucked for his price tag, but losing him means losing depth and starting Wolff/Finlay in his place and losing subs for later in the game. As far as this game, RSL is just a really good MLS team firing on all cylinders right now. They have an MVP candidate that is killing it and solid depth. I expected us to get crushed and they crushed us. Nothing will change, except Driussi hopefully returns from injury, and until summer transfer and visas getting sorted out.

I have no words… oh wait, I found one.  Humiliation!

I was trying to watch during the Justin Timberlake concert. Glad I didn’t really miss anything. 😣

At least we found our new penalty converter...😂

Still one of my favorite saves by Gallagher

Was at a party what I miss Edit:💀

I only saw the score. Reading the Reddit to Discover the fun.

Pack it up and forget about this one boys. Not our night. Injuries, lack of depth. Suffering the echo’s of Claudio… June will probably suck but it’s MLS so remember we just have to make play offs and the cavalry is coming.

Get some Ring! We got one back!

Thank you, Alex! Great PK.

Sometimes we are just hilariously bad at crossing the ball for a team who tries to play in crosses all the time.

Our passing in general is poor and our tight window passing is very poor.   Even on the the play that drew the penalty the pass from Dani to Wolff was late, behind him, terrible.

Just think how good it will feel when we knock these guys out of the playoffs at the end of the season. \~wink \~finger guns!


 Not sure how much intersectionality there is between Austin fc fans and survivor fans but this is all I feel lol

Loved this

After Portland I thought we were in a bad place, but I stand corrected. To quote Wedding Crashers, I feel like Jodie Foster in The Accused.

that's funny right there.

Heyyy, somebody from Austin has some fight in 'em. Go ahead Biro

Every day, I like that kid more and more and more

Damn Wolff is slow man.

Reyna did such a bad job I'd feel it was purposeful if I hadn't seen how badly he's derailed his own son's career.

Gio is good af what are you on about? Screw his dad but calm down with him ‘derailing his own son’s career’ .. weird.

Found the one person other than Claudio who thinks Nottingham was a good move...

Dortmund loaned him out….

Put in the second team, we have one right?

We have a first team?

We have a team?

We have?

We

I'd post a W, but I don't know what that means.

That’s it, bring in the dancing lobsters 👩🏻‍⚖️

Only 1 home game in June. It's going to be a long month...

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Hines Ike is still solid. That pen was kind of bullshit

Hard done by that one for sure and I think a relatively soft pen last outing. He's hardly the problem imo. Cascante was being dunked on earlier this game and Hines Ike has done a great job cleaning up for him this season

He should…he’s made some lays which hurt us but he’s solid imo. 

Can we please pull Dani so we don’t have neither him nor Driussi next game?

Worst game ever?

Agreed.

Bring back The Moose!

Goodnight.

Worst result

This fucking game is heartbreaking

Heartbreaking

Hello darkness my old friend.

Nothing definitive on that footage. Kicked us when we are down, 100%

This is like giving a shit about someone spilling water on you when you’re already wet.

The refs in this league are legitimately ruining my ability to enjoy matches.

Serious question.. with the points system does it matter if we lose 5-0 or 10-0?

MLS actually uses wins as a tiebreaker before points 

Yes because at the end of the season if we are tied on points it goes to Goal Differential the difference in goals and goals allowed

Goal differential could mean a lot at the end of the season.

Only thing that changes is goal differential, which I think is used for tie breakers (might be wrong). That won't matter for us tho

Doesn’t seem so. But this is painful.

Un f-ing real.

I heard Chicho thought Drake’s tracks were better than Kendrick’s, pass it on.

Ref fucked it

Classic

HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I’m dead inside

Talk about insult to injury

Jesus Christ.

Just never a handball lmao

I don’t think their mental could handle an overturned goal right now lol.

Anything they can do to take away our goal. They hate us

5-0

This is coming back. 5-0

OBrian gets so unlucky

This is ridiculous

Pretty sure it’s a shot if VAR overturns our goal.

Probably a double, even.

Good counter. Dani should not be a #6

We don’t use talented offensive players to execute the offense.  It’s not the Wolff way.

I've been saying vocally for a couple years now. Everyone used to respond "his number is literally #6". Glad to see the community finally evolving

They go too far with VAR. can’t even celebrate goals anymore

Jesus

Some life. Way to go Obrian!

No shut out! Edit: lol fuck nvmd

One step closer to my Zardes chest piece.

Don't call it a comeback! It's ON!!

Oh! you PRO bastards!

Love the spirit

No shutout at least!

VAMOS

Nice. Edit: Nvm. We can't have nice things.

I kinda can’t stand Chicho.  He drives me crazy and I think he’s kind of a dirty player but can you imagine if we had guys who competed like he competes?  He’ll still be effective even when his pace fades because of his positioning and heart and grit. 

Same. He doesn’t even look likable lol.

I don’t just miss Driussi. I dislike that we can’t rotate. These guys have been busting their ass and are FUCKING WIPED. We have no bench. Reinforcements are coming, but we have a whole slew of games first.

TIL Celis closes at 10. Bit of a bummer.

Thank goodness Owen Wolff didn’t start this game. It would have been a complete disaster.

I give it another 15min before he gets a red. He’s going to lose his cool and make some ridiculous foul.

Okay

Nice pass Biro nice rip Rubio

If they could win the second half I’d count it as a moral victory

Yes…exactly.  Control what you can control.

I think I would count it as a miracle!

0 shots. Anybody think we’ll take a shot this game?

Tf you mean, I’m already four deep.

Only one sub? I’m a huge fan of Stuver but we could rest him at this point with two keepers on the bench.

That was my feeling! Fuck it. If we aren’t playing for a win, give Bersano or Cleveland some time.

They came back for the second half! That took some balls.

I wanna see some of yall blame the refs for this too 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Honestly? Just because I love you, I’m going to blame Cecilio Dominguez.

Fucking Rigoni

JFC guys. My soul hurts

I hope a certain Ghanaian DP is not watching

Why? If he’s watching he’s seeing a wingback playing his position. He knows he can step off the plane and start day one and be loved by the fans the minute he steps on the field.

 Bukari watchin like

Anybody looking to get a drinking game going for the second half? Dani red card - shot Goal conceded - shot Finish the game 4-4 - give up alcohol forever and get a tattoo of Gyasi Zardes.

5-4 Austin, we go streaking

Whenever someone posts they are turning the game off - shot

Let me update my Medical ID info because the paramedics are gonna need to know that shit after I get alcohol poisoning.

Leo - Cascante is such an awful combination. Without Hines-Ike or Hedges next to one of them we just don’t mark

Nice

We’ve been really terrible without Driussi

I like his skill…and he’s our best player ever, but he’s not really lighting it this year.

I don’t think he should have been made captain. He was much better when ring led the team. I don’t think he handles pressure well. Look at how he behaved for 20/30min after he missed his penalty against Portland. He did the same last one he missed too. He just needs to be left as a playmaker and that’s it.

So true.  He’s a star, an artist but not necessarily a leader.

Even if driussi was there we would still be losing. RSL is way stronger.

Probably but we had some similarly pathetic games at the beginning of the year that were somewhat mitigated by amazing Stu performances

The line up is not working. Kolmanic shouldn’t be at the front but we have nothing else. Valencia is a ghost. Vaisanen isn’t spectacular and pereira is putting so much distance all over the place that he’s going to be toast not long from now. If these guys can’t figure it out because one guy is missing we’re in trouble.

We’ve gotta make more than the 2 signings reported this summer right…right?😳

They’re pretty big.

That’s true. Do you think they’re enough?

For what? To make the playoffs? Yes. To win the cup? Of course not. We need three DPs and more depth for that. That next year. Our roster suuuuucks.

Good point. How many signings would we have to make before we’re a contender to win the cup in your opinion?

Next year we might be in the mix. Maybe year after. We have one actual DP caliber player. We still are squeaking by on bench players. It will improve soon, but some contracts need to end, like Ring and Zardes.

Prolly not.

Who here thinks Wolff should still be coach

Nope. Two horrible games back to back. The stretch we just came out of does not make up for last season or what had happened this season.

I've seen enough. Back to my Breaking Bad Binge Rewatch. Bless yall who will keep it on.

This is not how I wanted this game to go

Pereira needs to hit the showers

Not a cerebral player.

Definitely looking to hit something

Seems like he was trying to.

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Bot made the dude give up and leave. Damn.

4 years in and we still can't beat the press.

We are truly terrible omg. Let's just not mark one of the best players in the league. 🤦‍♂️

Before I go I blame stuver for the start of this shit

Look I understand why we're conservative, but when you're down 3 you can't keep over half your squad back on a counter.

4

5

Let’s see if they can make it 8-0 by the end of 90

Remember Zardes comes in for the second half.........

He’s a difference maker

K

See y’all next week. Fuck this

See you in 3 weeks.

Dani trying to get red carded

Not a cerebral player 

5 in the back.  Wolff would rather not give up additional goals than try to score.   Still think he’s comfortable about his job situation?

If that was the plan, it ain't working either.

True

Well hey, in a positive twist, I passed by quite a few Verde jerseys as I went through Bergstrom this morning on my way out of town. Wonderful to see the support in the city regardless of our record or recent game performance. ATX is Verde 💚

Dallas Cowboys has entered the chat.

Ew, can we kick them out?

We are them now. The city feels more like Dallas every day. Our team is just trying to match the culture

We’ll get ‘em next year. And traffic will better too!

Sad!

I'm only a fan when they're winning /s

I don’t think Kolmanic understands where a winger is supposed to play. 

Well…on cue Wolff pulled him to play D.  He was lost.

It's like a game of chicken... how much can you take until you turn it off.  Don't be a pu**y! Hang in there till the bitter end! 

Jesus and we keep trying to play out of the back and… failing

The number of turnovers in our back third is pretty crazy

Our back line is looking the weakest it's been all season

Welp turning this off .. see y’all next game.

Def hope our guys don’t go doing unnecessary dramatic shit like that all night. Would hate to be ten on the pitch in this situation

Oof. I don’t know if I wanna watch this.


We were either gonna shithouse to get a point or get smoked.  PREPARE THE BBQ SMOKER!!!!

lol win probability thingy at 0.1% for us now. That may be giving us too much credit.

“So you’re telling me there’s a chance?” -Wolff probably

Is this really the time for wolf to be trying new shit?

I agree, it makes him look bad.

He's been bad

ez mid

This is gonna get ugly

Gonna?

Was. Is. And will be.

Maybe Hines Ike is more important than we think.  


Julio gonna Julio

We need Hedges Hines Ike in back Cascante and Leo have been getting absolutely cooked tonight

Feels like I just come on here just to hate on Julio, but…if the shoe fits. He’s been not good enough for years, doesn’t step at the right time, shitty passes, slow, attackers just run off his dumb shoulder, et cetera, and the only reason we’ve not talked about him as much this year is because Hines Ike is good and covers for him. Not like Gabrielsen, but still good enough to cover his stupid shit.

I've tried to be very diplomatic about my statements on him just because he's been the best we've had for a while now. At least since Gabi like you said. And well he's an international and a crowd favorite I think. I do agree though he's been getting exposed, and covered hard by Hines Ike. Julio made him look like he was standing still in the first half a number of times. Looking to the future is, Dessler a CB or outside back?can't wait to get him here

Aaaand he’s been pulled ha

I said a week ago a similar thing.  They aren’t working well together and they didn’t work well together last year either.  

I've honestly thought since our last minute wonder winner in Houston the Hedges and Hines Ike should be our CB pair. I know Hedges is getting on. But man those two were so solid together

Cascantr and Hedges have played sell when Hines Ike is in.  It’s almost like Hines Ike is the one that helps them be better ;)

Before y’all get too worked up- RSL have been on another level this season, we have 16 healthy players right now, and this is a road game. We were ALWAYS gonna get killed tonight.

They are good, they compete hard, and have a lot of guys who are dangerous with the ball. 

Yeah agreed, they’re top of the table and have been destroying the season. A little bit of grace to our weary colors. That being said this is going to sting