FC Cincinnati’s season ended on Saturday the exact opposite way the club has done most things: helplessly floundering in front of a small audience. The 1-0 loss to the baby bulls hurts in brand new ways every time I stop to think about it. And as tempting as it is to write 3000 words on how disappointing the playoff loss was, there is little value in railing on and on about the game itself.



I will say, Gibson being concussed was a huge issue that I have not seen anyone give the club flak for. And in the name of the almighty Twellman, FCC paid the for their lack of medical competency in the form of cosmic karma when Gibson failed to defensively handle a fairly routine breakaway. He spent most of the rest of the game looking lost and you have to say none of it was his fault. If concussions are a big deal in American Football, they need to be in soccer as well.



And Adi failed to come up big. I said last week it was his team now that Konig was gone, and well, this is where we are. He is a massive presence up top but his inability to properly judge headers is a concern that needs to be addressed going into the MLS season. It wasn’t that he was being beat to the ball, it was that he consistently failed to get underneath them to even challenge for them in the first place. I’d like to see him head off to Arizona with the Reds and take fly balls in the outfield until he can properly judge the flight path of a ball.



But enough about the game. The question on my mind now is was this season a success? And I’m not sure how to answer that.