Crewture Editor Ryan Kozlowski (above) has spent the last two years saving trees.

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR:

Sometimes in life you get a little sidetracked, other opportunities show up, you get frustrated, shift your focus, or lose motivation. Probably a combination of that, along with an internship with Dayton Dutch Lions F.C. in 2010, started to take away my time from making Crewture an interesting website to visit.

But, I want to bring it back, and will try my best to put an interesting story up daily in 2012. There is no competition or better ideas anymore, there will be no more crying on my soapbox.. There are many other great Crew websites that have filled the void since Crewture's downtick, such as Massive Report and Crew Xtra-Not-so-Xtra, and I'm much the outsider since 2010.

Not sure how many games I'll get to in 2012 and how many banners I'll make, ran into some personal problems that makes it impossible for me to be some sort of leader. Crewture just was a part of the magical 2008 season and it's a part of Crew fan history, along with much else, and want to keep it going for many years to come.

Open to all insight on how to make it better. Open to some new writers.

Overall, no matter where I'm watching the games from in 2012 I'm going to try harder to make contact with different soccer types (fans, players, figures who lurk in the shadows) and get some interviews to make this interesting again, along with less copying of other websites.

Crew fans haven't always been politically correct. This never was a politically correct website. What Crewture is and hope will be is somewhere where people can be real. If I get an interview I want something that someone wouldn't usually say (Brian Dunseth gave me an interview sort of like that back in 2008), not what is fed cliche into a microphone after a game. I want writers with real thoughts and balls, who will not sugar coat everything. This is a man's game, the Nordecke is a badass section, we all should be able to take compliments along with constructive criticism.

In life there are tabloids, there's Jose Mourinho type coaches who say whatever they feel like saying, and there's real hard hitting journalism. I hope for a combination of the three with not too much of either.



Also got to thank a few comments similiar to this over the last year, which helps in the motivation to get Crewture back to where it was. So, thanks for the comments:

Crewfighter-

Hey man, you probably don't know who I am, but I used to follow your website almost religiously. All the things you did for the club were pretty sick, especially your numerous banners and two-sticks.

I can't remember what made you kinda stop, if it was the backlash you got for trying to start that Ultras group, or because you moved back to Pennsylvania. I just wanted to say that the Nordecke kinda needs someone with your passion again.

I mean, Rick makes a lot of stuff like always, and then there's probably a small group of less than 10 other people that make stuff. I've tried to do my part. I just completed my third two-stick and am working on my fourth. I'm hoping to get season tickets for next year and I just want the Nordecke to be as powerful as it used to be. Thinking about coming back at all?

Well were back.. Online at least.