Comments on: Ching In, Twellman Out

By: Johnman

Johnman — Thu, 04 May 2006 22:28:37 +0000

What a heartbreaker. Taylor would have made a great 70th minute sub. Hopefully CHingy can get on the field.

By: eric

eric — Wed, 03 May 2006 21:57:18 +0000

This makes me nervous! I agree with Seamus that most of our offense will come from the midfield and I think that is what happened in 2002. But It would be nice for Johnson and ching to find their scoring touch during the three warm-ups and carry it through to the second round or more.

By: bill

bill — Wed, 03 May 2006 21:02:08 +0000

Wolff!!!!!!!! c’mon. I hope bruce checks on Josh and finds he has the flu and needs to call up Twellman. Twellman can finish the ball but at times he appears to be his own worst enemy and gets himslef down. When he is loose, he’s one of the best!!

By: Seamus

Seamus — Wed, 03 May 2006 12:52:49 +0000

I wouldn’t expect anything from Ching or Twellman or Wolff or Johnson regardless. I think the midfields offensive play is much more crucial. And we have the most offensively talented group of midfielders to ever play for the US on this squad. Granted, McBride is the lynchpin–so him staying healthy is really key. But I don’t see any problems with him “getting winded” because he’s “alone” up top. There is plenty of quality getting forward from the midfield and depth in speed on the bench in case someone like Beasely gets winded from going forward too much

By: chuck

chuck — Wed, 03 May 2006 02:13:24 +0000

Well, (I suppose) we ought to support Mr. Ching. It’s understandable if you don’t trust in Ching, but I think we all trust in the Bruce.

Personally, I would not have chosen Ching, but hey! Bruce didn’t call to ask my opinions this time around…

By: Trent

Trent — Wed, 03 May 2006 01:44:43 +0000

Well, we all learned something today. For me it was what Jeff Agoos did with those compromising photos he had of Coach Arena. Clearly, he bequethed them to Brian Ching.

Again, Daryl, nice LiveBlog.

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 03 May 2006 00:56:08 +0000

McBride and Reyna pretty much have to play out of their minds for the US to do well. Johnson is always a wild card at forward. He could get hot…Ching on the other hand is a head scratcher but the exclusion of Twellman isn’t the end of the world.

By: Lish

Lish — Wed, 03 May 2006 00:11:34 +0000

One up front is an… interesting (?!) choice for World Cup play. Letting our forward get winded in the first half is definately a strategy our opponents will appreciate.

By: ashley

ashley — Wed, 03 May 2006 00:11:26 +0000

Twellman looked fine in the matches before the German friendly, but he looked slower than a miffed Wynalda in Germany. Short, too.