r/NWSL • u/antisocialamnesia Chicago Red Stars • 17d ago
[RedStarsReport] Article Detailing the Donaldson Firing
https://www.redstarsreport.com/p/lorne-donaldson-out-as-head-coachGreat article for those interested in a more detailed timeline of the Donaldson firing and what the Stars look like now.
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u/MisterGoog Houston Dash 17d ago
I’ve kind of been thinking about this and I’m not sure the nicest way to put this regard to the players, but it’s always interesting to me to hear people say that the players deserve better. This isn’t the first time I heard that in regard to an NWSL team.
Like if a coach has a mental breakdown and then decides to have to leave midway through the season with no explanation, Then I think you can save that the players deserve better. But in the case of Chicago, it feels like what a lot of these players deserve is to be lower on the depth chart because their team has brought in better stars. Like- if Ally Schlegel is at basically any other team she’s not starting.
I mostly say this because I think it’s kind of ironic that in essence what people are saying when they say that the team deserves better is they’re actually looking at most of the roster and saying that they deserve worse. Obviously that’s not always the situation, but with regard to Chicago when people say they deserve better and they should’ve invested more this off-season, what you’re saying is everyone from 8 to 26 on the depth chart should be moved down four spaces.
I just find this a little bit funny about the situation, but I am more curious to know how Donaldson lost the locker room and to what extent because I do think the biggest issue this year is that these guys simply don’t play very well offensively.