Ho, I posted earlier about Riley moving to the middle but on reflection I agree with you that she is better in space.
I really like your idea about Sammy at center mid. She would be much more involved in the offensive play. She can score with either foot & finds her mates well. She is also a tough defender.
Where I part ways is with Kaylie. I don't think that she defends well at all. She loses the the majority of 1v1 battles. Also don't think she has brought much offensively. She still has a tendency to dribble too much, though improved. And she only goes left. She also has a tendency to force low percentage strikes from distance. She does serve a nice ball on set pieces. Really think she represents a significant loss at a critical position. Perhaps she would work better at wing.
First you had a post about standings
It was complicated and may have come down to either goal difference or goals scored
Were it only is and Ohio st yes we would have tiebreaker but 4 teams have the same record
We tiebreaker over OSU
Penn st tiebreaker over us
Nebraska tiebreaker over penn st
Osu tiebreaker over penn st
next Kylie and I guess the answer might be
It doesn’t really matter as we cannot improve by replacing her..
Dilemma was graduations and transfers left 16 girls on the roster come summer camp. Three were goalies, two backup forwards, and one back.
Dilemma #2. PDA offerred no help this year as only two of the u17 girls committed in div one( as best as I remember) we got a needed goalie, the best of the PDA girls Allie Post, two forwards who will need time to mature( they are 5’2. And. 5’4) and get accustomed to the pace of the game. I believe Naila will be a really nice player but she and Allie offerred no offensive relief
We struck out grad transfers especially the 5 center backs
so as I said in another post in 2021 we got 10 goals from backups this year one and very little in the way offensive movement
ergo we are not , without surprise, as good a team as last year
incoming 2023 has one defender, 2mids, 5 forwards ( two may or not become attacking mids) So again we need hit a home run in grad transfers ( at least two)
My problem is with the exception of Madison Pogarch all our grad transfers seem to be PDA grads who ran out of time in other programs
We, this year , need to be better recruiters
Of grs
Last ms Daigle …….. I guess desperation Kylie would be one of the very few left footed attacking mids around. She loses balls because the ball is between her and defender rather than her body protecting the ball.
So as with Kassidy there might be flaws in their games but we don’t have a lot of choices for replacement.
the other flaw is we need Riley ang Kylie to be playmakers. SMmy, Becci, Sara cannot carry into range to shoot. Rather they need someone to drop the ball at their feet
this is much longer than I expected but I was doing this for out of state friends not on either board.