By: Paul Merritt
Oh Man...
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| Photo Credit: www.coloradorapids.com Wikipedia, the home of perspective
He ran as if his
boots were lead… and yea you know the rest. Conor Patrick Casey took part in 6
different campaigns, netting a total of 50 goals for the Rapids… making him the
club’s leading scorer and netting the Rapids the 2010 MLS Cup. Gashi is coming off
of that same stretch, for the reigning Swiss League champion and essentially
their annual runner up, winning 2 Swiss Super Leagues, A Swiss Cup, and 2 Super
League Golden Boots along the way. He comes to The Burgundy Boys a few months
shy of his 28th birthday.
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| CC also leads the Rapids in all time Punch Out! villain references Pairing Gashi up top with Doyle and strengthening the middle should put PM in at least mental grasping distance of the 2010 glory days — I bet if he closes his eyes on a warm summer day in Denver, he can almost see Wells Thompson going in shin high on some poor bastard — so if anything a big, creative point man should serve as a tactical security blanket for Pablo when the tough teams come to town. |
Look… I’m not
going to sit here and act like I had any idea who this guy was before about 2
hours ago, but from what I have seen so far the guy is simply a scoring machine and has inspired some pretty slick YouTube production. I mean, I threw together a collection of low
and hard Jeff Larentowicz free kicks one time to troll my friend’s Twitter
account…
Direction!? COHESION!?! WHO.T.F. ARE THESE GUYS!?!?!
SuperDraft shenanigans, beloved (and expensive) talismans flying out the door, manager under fire, and NAMES… if you’ve been paying attention since OP’s little vacation to Colombia, a little Rapids off season drama stopped twisting you up a while ago. It has been a little crazier than most this year though, with the Tim Howard stuff and all the negative national attention.
Direction!? COHESION!?! WHO.T.F. ARE THESE GUYS!?!?!
SuperDraft shenanigans, beloved (and expensive) talismans flying out the door, manager under fire, and NAMES… if you’ve been paying attention since OP’s little vacation to Colombia, a little Rapids off season drama stopped twisting you up a while ago. It has been a little crazier than most this year though, with the Tim Howard stuff and all the negative national attention.
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| By God… look what a little bit of municipal pandering and a shit ton of money can accomplish! |
The weird part
about it all is that somewhere in the middle of all the Pablo isn’t a real
manager shit, and the Tim Howard is a desperation move shit, and the Irwin/Moor
moving on shit, these guys put a little something together. Yeah.. the Marco Pappa era is off to a
rough start, but Pfeffer adds some depth, and Power Hour is a better player than
he showed last year... If you look at it with a little hope, and don’t ask the
obvious questions like “wtf are we going to do for a keeper now?”, you can see
that working. Who knows man? Maybe SK woke up one morning, asked his attendant
to find some sports programming that wasn’t focusing on this whole “Rams to LA”
thing, and watched the first half of a Premiership match or something.
One last quick little stat…
Hard to get really tied up in the numbers when a dude has never played for your club. So many variables to account for, so many possibilities in terms of how they’ll get along or what might come out of your youth program.
One last quick little stat…
Hard to get really tied up in the numbers when a dude has never played for your club. So many variables to account for, so many possibilities in terms of how they’ll get along or what might come out of your youth program.
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| Go ahead and Google “Danny Earls goal machine”... I’ll wait |
I guess you can’t
really measure by buzz or hit counts on YouTube either, but you can CERTAINLY
speculate with them!
Anyways, the simple form for strike rate (goals divided by appearances, expressed as a percentage) gives you an idea of the value of an attacking player and why the super duper clubs pay what they pay for cats who put the biscuit in the basket as it may. Robert Lewandowski’s career league strike rate is 59.9%. Lionel Messi’s is a completely fucking ridiculous 85.1%.
For fun, I ran back to my old pal Wikipedia and tabulated some Rapids… new and old. Guess who tops the list?
Anyways, the simple form for strike rate (goals divided by appearances, expressed as a percentage) gives you an idea of the value of an attacking player and why the super duper clubs pay what they pay for cats who put the biscuit in the basket as it may. Robert Lewandowski’s career league strike rate is 59.9%. Lionel Messi’s is a completely fucking ridiculous 85.1%.
For fun, I ran back to my old pal Wikipedia and tabulated some Rapids… new and old. Guess who tops the list?
Shkelzen
Gashi — 39.1% league strike rate
Conor
Casey — 35.8% league strike rate
Paul Bravo 35.2%
league strike rate
Deshorn Brown
31.8% league strike rate
Omar Cummings
22.7% league strike rate
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