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Certainly, you guys are in a good spot with those long legs, but without momen-tum, it is not gonna end well. It's time race in front of you, stay focused, and make it happen. Make no mistake about it, we have a lot of confidence, but we need to hit our lines and find the comfortability. Lemme tell ya, this is gonna be in-r-esting, and it's key here that we find our flow. Anything can happen. We don't wanna play into their hands and put them in the catbird's seat.
Just A LIIIITTLE BIT short, and it will force the issue. We will be on the outside looking in."
Where do you get that Tomac wasn't allowed to go because of DeCoster?
The biggest problem is a lack of commitment form U.S. riders plain and simple.
Im with Sloan on this. This is a rider problem for you guys, nothing else. And instead of looking at who the best rider in the US nationals is, you should look for the rider who is best suited for the given conditions.
It doesen’t matter how fast you are on a perfectly groomed US track if the race are in a rainy England in september. There is like 101% chance of rain there then so send your best mud rider.
If it is a hard packed track in germany, send the rider with the smoothest riding style that have the best chance to adapt to that kind of track.
If you want to beat the best europeans, you need to look at the riders, not the manager when it comes to overall performance.
At red bud you could hear all the american riders reving the shit out of their bikes and riding around one gear lower than the MXGP guys.
I would look at riders like AC or Sexton that have the ”new” generation of riding style, that rides smoother and more down low as the MXGP riders do, that kind of rider will have a better chance to adapt to most of the MXDN tracks around the world.
And yes, i know that both of them hit the ground, but as the riding style goes they are more european looking than Tomac and Barcia.
Craig on a 250 and AC / Sexton on big bikes could be a interesting line up.
As a european and a big fan of the sport, following both MXGP, SX and Nationals it’s easy to see that the overly agressive US riders struggle at the european circuits against the european riders now days. So i would send the less agressive riders that ride in a simular way to the event.
AND make sure that they have the same passion for it like Zacho that went over a month before the event in Assen and did what he and Anderson could to be as prepared as possible.
By the way, I’m not American, it isn’t “us losing”. My country will likely never have a shot at winning.
Pit Row
A strong list of an eventual replacement of Roger if RC doesn't want the gig.
― Albert Einstein
RdC is the man with a very illustrious career - both on and off the track. By suggesting a change might be in order in no way diminishes that or takes away from any of his accomplishments. Nor is it disrespectful.
What does it hurt to try it for a year or two? Personally, I'd like to see Payton give it a go. Maybe Rog would benefit coming back into the position after a break...
.....and yes, I joined just to post that /\.
Ricky is of course a great person for the job but I think we can wait till the current manager, who has done an incredible job is tired of, or simply cannot perform his duties (this post may start that process, Im afraid since it would piss me off for the lack of support).
Decoster has a son that is a United States Marine, questioning his patriotism is down right stupid and only done by people with complete ignorance of "The Man" and his history in this country.
I vote we keep supporting the person who has done the job, and done it INCREDIBLY WELL for the last several decades. And when he is ready to retire, then maybe ask Ricky if he is interested
And a motivated team and,
Fresh air
Pit Potluck
Some Cowbell
Three American Flags
That's all we need.
But DeCoster is also NOT the solution right now to bring a Team USA win. We need someone new to bring excitement to the team riders and get them fired up.
Roger is old. You get tired. He has done it so many times there is no way he can motivate the riders as RC or RJ could.
Eli, Anderson, and Craig. Roger can put someone as their 'coach' that will fire them up. Probably RJ would be the best choice to do that. The problem is the top riders don't care enough about it anymore.
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