Another 0-0 Draw

A game was played.  Nobody scored.  Nothing of real note happened.  Same old same old from the 2023 Rapids.

So lets move on to the bigger picture.  First, the good news.  With the draw we go into the Leagues Cup break not being in last place in the league.  That "honor" is reserved for the inter Miami Messis.  So that's at least something fun to chuckle about for the next month.

Everything else though?  This team is arguably the worst team to watch at home in league history.  12 home games (in league play), 6 nil-nil draws.  7 goals scored in those other 6 games.  (( goals in 11 road games isn't much better).  I pointed this out about a month ago, since then we've been blanked in 4 games and won the 5th 2-1.  The Rapids still aren't fun.

Well now its spread from fans and bloggers and now Forbes, of all outlets has noticed.  'As MLS Sets New Scoreless Draws Record, Blame The Colorado Rapids'.  A couple of choice quotes:

Maybe there’s a simpler skapegoat though: The Colorado Rapids.

The Rapids took part in the record-setting affair on Saturday night, a 0-0 tie at home against the Houston Dynamo that was their mind-numbing seventh scoreless affair of the season. That’s 22.6% of all the scoreless draws that have been played this year in a league that has 29 teams.

Put another way, Colorado by itself has played in more scoreless ties through 23 games than occurred in three entire previous MLS seasons. The 1996 season featured only six 0-0 results. There were only three in 1998, and four in 2002.

When the Rapids aren’t tying, they’re almost always losing. They’ll enter the break 10 points adrift of the playoffs despite the introduction of the more forgiving 18-team format.

No fanbase deserves a team that is not only so bad but also so entirely uninteresting, and with no real obvious evidence that the front office is trying to solve the problem. The Rapids might not set historic marks for futility in terms of points earned. But they will go down as one of the least enjoyable MLS sides to watch.

Colorado so far has acquired one attacking wingback in a trade and signed one striker on a loan. Compare that to their fellow last-place team in the Eastern Conference, which just signed the greatest living player on Earth.

Yeah, and that's only part of the article.  There's no world where this fists into 'The Rapids Way' or 'Trust the Process' or 'rebuilding year'.  This is just bas soccer on a bad team that has no plan.  Navarro alone isn't going to fix this.  The Front Office needs to stop gaslighting about a 'push to get back into the playoff race' and come up with a real plan to construct a team who can complete in 2024 .  Because right now, there's no reason anyone should be buying tickets to this team for the rest of this season or the next.

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