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Could not disagree more that Alvarez wasn't a difference maker.

I'll give you that. He's definitely an exciting player. There's a saying in American football - "The most popular player on the team is the backup quarterback." It's when you haven't seen the player's faults game in and game out that makes the new guy so exciting.

It's more of a comment on Alvarez than Bobb. Bobb may be great, but at this point, he's not in Alvarez's class. He may be this year. Who knows. But that's the whole point. People being too dismissive of Alvarez's massive contributions the last two years. He's a star right now!

How so?

And it was a beautiful goal! But it was in fact one goal. I hope he scores many, many goals this year but we really have no idea if he's capable of that.

I'm only questioning the attitude many are having of being dismissive of Alvarez's abilities. He's been one of our best players and will be missed. Bobb might end up being amazing and we forget all about Julian. But history tells us this rarely happens. I'm pulling for Bobb and think he's an...

Like I said, he might be all that. But with a young player, who has accomplished very little to date, it's a lot of expectation to think he'll contribute anywhere near as much as Alvarez has. Again, he might but history shows it rarely happens.

Yep people dismissing Alvarez's massive contribution the last two years are delusional.

People setting themselves up for big disappointment thinking Bobb is going to be all that. He might be, but in truth he's played very little, is very young, and hasn't really done anything yet. To think he's going to step up and make us not miss Alvarez is setting yourself up to be disappointed.

But he's not really proven anything has he? Decent player on a terrible team last year. Did some ok stuff in preseason, but can hardly be compared to Alvarez and his very valuable contributions to the first team and to his country.

The point is McAtee has literally proven almost nothing. Alvarez is an extremely accomplished player at the highest levels of club and international football.

Hate to see him go. He was a helluva soldier!!

We're comparing McAtee to Alvarez now? He's not even in the same ballpark as a player.

I love Bobb's potential, but a half dozen good showings over the last year doesn't even put him in the same breath as Alvarez. Maybe he will, but maybe not. That's a lot of goals to replace.

The problem is neither can even come close to replacing Julian's goals.

Yep reminded me of how he was at the beginning of the season two years ago. Just shrugs players off like they're nothing.

Surely we give Nunes a run out.

They need to play in big stadiums with natural grass. The trouble with the UNC game and the game at OSU were that the field is the fake Field Turf. It's great for American football but terrible for soccer/football. There are plenty of huge stadiums in the US that use natural grass. Maybe should...

Rarely are we all healthy though and players frequently need a game or two off here and there. He will get plenty of playing time if he's playing well.

Yeah it was a little under 3 hours.