NCAA TOURNAMENT 2024

[Newenglander]

Gonna leave this here with no comment other than to say where one gets one's news apparently does matter...

https://ephsports.williams.edu/news/2024/11/17/mens-soccer-spectacular-overtime-goal-tough-defense-see-williams-beat-messiah-1-0-and-move-on-to-the-round-of-16-of-the-ncaa-national-tournament.aspx

actually just watched the video for the first time - I think the finger wagging was what convinced the ref it was not a foul

[Hopkins92]

First time seeing the entire play. Wowzers. How in the world did he miss that call? Too close to the play??

[PaulNewman]

Gonna leave this here with no comment other than to say where one gets one's news apparently does matter...

https://ephsports.williams.edu/news/2024/11/17/mens-soccer-spectacular-overtime-goal-tough-defense-see-williams-beat-messiah-1-0-and-move-on-to-the-round-of-16-of-the-ncaa-national-tournament.aspx

actually just watched the video for the first time - I think the finger wagging was what convinced the ref it was not a foul

And that should have been the tell, if one was needed which it wasn't, that it was a foul...esp with ref looking right at the play and being reportedly highly experienced. I wonder what he was thinking 10 seconds later.

[PaulNewman]

Gonna leave this here with no comment other than to say where one gets one's news apparently does matter...

https://ephsports.williams.edu/news/2024/11/17/mens-soccer-spectacular-overtime-goal-tough-defense-see-williams-beat-messiah-1-0-and-move-on-to-the-round-of-16-of-the-ncaa-national-tournament.aspx

And here comes another 3 pages of whine and cheese!

PN, you were on track to win the class clown superlative.  Now you are the front runner for the Instigator!

Freddy, you should know by now...

I love all of the awards...

I'm turning 65 in a few days and I feel like I'm 12 (and that's on a good day).

Btw, the big kid from West Springfield who committed the non-call foul happens to be Williams' leading scorer with 8 goals and 2 assists...also a frosh who played all 19 games with no starts.

[Newenglander]

Gonna leave this here with no comment other than to say where one gets one's news apparently does matter...

https://ephsports.williams.edu/news/2024/11/17/mens-soccer-spectacular-overtime-goal-tough-defense-see-williams-beat-messiah-1-0-and-move-on-to-the-round-of-16-of-the-ncaa-national-tournament.aspx

actually just watched the video for the first time - I think the finger wagging was what convinced the ref it was not a foul

And that should have been the tell, if one was needed which it wasn't, that it was a foul...esp with ref looking right at the play and being reportedly highly experienced. I wonder what he was thinking 10 seconds later.

I used to tell my teammates - and then my son - as soon as you throw both arms up as if you didn't cause a foul you are all but admitting it...........

[PaulNewman]

"that effort would pay off only a minute into the second portion of extra time when Lorcan Mitchell and Kellan Grace combined defensively to dispossess a Messiah midfielder"

I'm going to swallow my pride and tip my cap to Falconer here.  Mitchell deserved to get his 3rd assist of the season. And as a fan for the opposing team I would still be out of my mind 2 days later. Not sure why the kid who actually was awarded an assist was credited with the "combined defensively to dispossess" portion of the programme (nod to the Cat from down under).

[Hopkins92]

That article, man... Someone needs an editor. Sheesh.

[Another Mom]

Do folks who check the board for new posts every 10 minutes prefer to keep refreshing with no posts to read or finding new posts even if they are tedious nonsense from old-timers?

Definitely prefer the tedious nonsense from old timers over no new posts!!

Though to be fair, I don't find anyone's post to be tedious or nonsensical. Keep it up!

[PaulNewman]

That article, man... Someone needs an editor. Sheesh.

Yep..a whole paragraph signed by a notary on the 100% call for a PK for Williams...and then the most famous call never made being termed a solid defensive combo effort to dispossess leading to the GW.

[PaulNewman]

For the referees out there, could the ref, upon realizing the "dispossessed" player was not moving, have called the play back 5 seconds later before the goal was scored?  I didn't see whether the Messiah player got up or not, but the ref had his eyes on the play and him, and if nothing else might have halted play for an injury check. Or no?

[Hopkins92]

That article, man... Someone needs an editor. Sheesh.

Yep..a whole paragraph signed by a notary on the 100% call for a PK for Williams...and then the most famous call never made being termed a solid defensive combo effort to dispossess leading to the GW.

I mean, as a person that edits a lot of stuff, I'm more annoyed by the verbosity and meandering of the article.

[PaulNewman]

For those curious, and I hope this isn't overblown, the Messiah recap has absolutely no mention of the game ending play in terms of an egregious missed call.

[PaulNewman]

That article, man... Someone needs an editor. Sheesh.

Yep..a whole paragraph signed by a notary on the 100% call for a PK for Williams...and then the most famous call never made being termed a solid defensive combo effort to dispossess leading to the GW.

I mean, as a person that edits a lot of stuff, I'm more annoyed by the verbosity and meandering of the article.

I figured that's what you meant but I wanted to seize on the opportunity to make sure folks didn't skip over and miss the PK shout paragraph.

[Kuiper]

Gonna leave this here with no comment other than to say where one gets one's news apparently does matter...

https://ephsports.williams.edu/news/2024/11/17/mens-soccer-spectacular-overtime-goal-tough-defense-see-williams-beat-messiah-1-0-and-move-on-to-the-round-of-16-of-the-ncaa-national-tournament.aspx

Seems like a student wrote the first draft and then ran it through ChatGPT with the instructions to "embellish."

[Freddyfud]

I can't access the link, I get the message below