Tim Kearney Quotations

We got unlucky with Corey getting hurt, I think we got unlucky with a couple of calls. Boom, right back down our throats at the end.

Luckily he didn't have to work as hard or often in as other games. When we need him to step up, he does.

Phillip is just a hard-nosed player. He's more of a defensive player. We're hoping Kyle Masson works out. He has very good speed. Speed can do an awful lot.

I think it's a lack of commitment. We have a real gap. We have the Comets, a 18-and-younger team. Then you go all the way to 13-and-younger. There's a five-year gap where there's no travel soccer.

I saw us losing it toward the end of the first half. We asked them to do specific things at halftime, and they didn't do it.

Outside of the inexperience our other big concern will be the lack of size. In the Commonwealth District that was a major concern, I'm assuming it will be one in the Cedar Run as well.

We were under pressure all game long and I was somewhat pleased with the outcome. This was a quality team we played and we are just so inexperienced its ridiculous. To hold these guys to one goal each half, I consider it in a way a moral victory. I think it is going to do nothing but help our team.

We have some strong players. Cory, Carter Mills, Bram Simms all play at a very high level. I see that to be our strength. I don't see them as the guys that can carry the team. We need to find a few others that play all-year round that need to step up.

We have a very inexperienced team. We have a couple of kids that got a fair amount of playing time.

We did what we asked them to do the entire night. They came down one side and changed the point of attack to the guy on the weak side. That's one of the few times we did it all night long. Good things happen when you do that. You'd think they'd remember that. We've seen Christian hit the ball like that in practice, we'd love to get him open like that more often.

We kept knocking balls out of bounds, I don't know what it was. Some of the guys I expected to play their normal game, which is a pretty steady game, and they didn't play well. We didn't seem to hold the middle of the field real well.

We didn't get the ball wide, which I asked the guys to do. It was like they didn't want to be out there tonight.

We always say a bad cross can be a good shot. You never know, you put a ball in play like that and we have a few players that can do something with it.

We just gave them a few basic instructions and they didn't really do what I asked them to do. I asked them at halftime, they play a very compact game and they like to start everything in the middle and work their way out, so I asked our guys at halftime to start playing the ball wider and over the top of their last offender and they just didn't do it as much as they should have.

We hustled, we stayed with them physically and nobody gave up. That is what I liked.

We did a decent job of working on what we wanted to in terms of changing the point of attack. Getting the ball wide, getting it in, getting it wide again. We didn't take advantage of several of our opportunities. For the first time out I'm pleased.

The soccer Gods aren't in our favor right now. We are getting a lot of bad breaks. Good teams create good luck. We're getting better. I liked what I saw out a lot of guys tonight.

I told them I'd rather be unlucky at the beginning of the season, than at the end of the season.

Forest Park is one of the top teams in the region. We knew going in that they have quality players. They have a specific pattern they play. We asked our guys to do a few things, but they didn't execute the way I wish they had, but even so I am not disappointed with the effort.

I'm not sure. It's not good. He clearly controls the back for us. He's constantly talking to the other guys.

I'll let one of them attack and one of them stay back. They both really have good games. They distribute the ball very well.

Carter wants the ball. He worked hard tonight. Corey Sims as always worked hard. On the two goals, he can't be doing everything.

The kid is probably going to do some things for us. Felix with size and really good speed, we're hoping to see something from him.

The first guy that headed it should have been the guy that was marked. He wasn't marked. From there bad things happen.