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You may have read stories reporting the players voted 350-2 to strike. I'll tell you why that's not
really true. Let me state right out by that I am not a labor expert nor am I 100% in the know about
the current MLS labor situation. But I can still shed some light on this vote.
As we get to the final positional ranking of the this year's previews, we now know most of the
Generation adidas class. As usually happens with the strikers, those signings take us from a
average senior class to a good one overall. Every year MLS is plucking more of the top tier
forward talent out of the pool early.
This isn't your usual MMG game breakdown, instead I want to talk about the upcoming season, some of
the Good and Bad as I see it. It's been tough to get a handle on this team, with the inconsistent
results it's hard to know how this team will look. Yet results aren't always the key to spring
games.
If my calculations are correct, and they certainly might be off, FC Dallas is exactly one third of
the way through the 2010 season. 10 games played, 30 game season, ok yeah, that's one third. A
third of the way seems as good a point as any to break down how FCD is doing. A 2-2-6 record, only
two wins, but only two losses.
Mock Draft's are kinda worthless, no one really knows what a coach will do and as soon as a couple
picks come off it all changes anyway. Still, there fun for a few minutes, and worth a giggle
afterward about how wrong they were. So here's ours.
Two of the permanent pages in this site are the FC Dallas Roster and the Roster Dance. The roster
is, of course, just a list of the players while the Roster Dance breaks down the team by MLS roster
rules showing the generations adidas, senior, and international slots. For most of the season these
two features are perfectly adequate to explain the FCD roster situation.
It's not exactly Monday and this isn't exactly fresh, but here is it none the less. Real life got
in the way of this article being done this weekend; well, real life and the SuperBowl. Today I had
set aside some time to go to the afternoon FCD training session. Unfortunately it was canceled, so
I figured since I had a little time I would give you this belated Gaffer.
On Tuesday FCD played the final of three early pre-season scrimmages against college teams at Pizza
Hut Park. These three scrimmages were mainly used to build stamina for the starters and evaluate
the numerous trialist and draft picks in camp. So rather than give you a break down of every
player, I'll concentrate on the trialists that played in the second half of this game.
With roughly a week to go until FCD cuts down rosters numerous questions still exist about the 2010
FCD roster. A couple of them are beginning to be answered but there are still quite a few large
ones that leave this roster in limbo. As always you can find my current squad and the team make up
thoughts on the Roster Dance.
The players are thinking about striking. They've voted themselves either the power to hold a strike
or they've voted to go ahead and strike, depending on who you believe. In my opinion it would be a
bad idea for them to hold the strike cause it won't work. Let me be clear, I think what they are
asking for isn't unreasonable.
While a five hour drive isn't something I want to do every day, this annual trip to Midland is
quite fun. It's a small event for the reserves, but it's taken seriously out here and is a lot of
fun. A crowd of about 1800 on the short notice of this event isn't to shabby. WTUS PR guys says
they draw more than that in regular season events.
FC Dallas knocked off PDL side DFW tornados in a scrimmage on Tuesday morning in temps approaching
100. The FCD starters played the first half and the reserves the second half. Milton Rodriguez had
a hat trick in the second half, the only 45 minutes he played. Good run out to push the sharpness
and fitness for the first team in some brutal conditions.
I haven't done a Gaffer in a while, partially to the World Cup distraction, partially to other lame
excuses. So I figured why not try and get back in the saddle on the holida. It's been a spectacular
World Cup, with some of the craziest stuff I've ever seen all happening at once in the
quarterfinals.
