Fire sign Sherjill MacDonald as DP

We are going backwards as a franchise.. because our owner is a cheap lying douche bag... who has bought off the younger fans in Section 8 by showing up to the bar and buying them some beers. So their allegiance to him is a ignorant one blinded by Andrew Hauptmans lies..

Andrew Hauptmans cheapness is making Robert Kraft look at him blushingly

Thats a flat out lie... he left because they dicked him over about his contract extension... This what happens when you have non soccer people in the Fire's front office... Our once mighty franchise is being run by a cheap weasel. This owner sucks and so does the management outsider of one or two folks

ROFL.. I know this was tongue in cheek.. but in all seriousness Andrew Hauptman our owner has been lying to fans here in Chicago and saying he will spend money to sign players.. He is lying to fans about him not micro managing but in fact he for the first year and a half had to personally approve all decisions even though he had no soccer background..He then comes out and says he hasnt done any managing of the club until recently.. LIE!!!

he has been saying he will spend DP keane mon ey on the right player.. Ivica Olic was available to contact discussions and Andrew didnt go after him.. SO LIE!!!

Andy is a liar.. Bridge view is about to declare bankruptcy due to the stadium bonds.. Our stadium is starting to show signs of wear and tear and our owner is a cheap bastard...
One of the biggest mistakes MLS made was force AEG to sell this team

Swing..and a miss. Perhaps you missed the I put in my post to reflect the "seriousness" of the subject matter.

So this is sad, another community duped by an MLS team (ex. Red Bulls, Union). Hopefully any future prospective Soccer Specific projects are scrutinized closely by the municipalities.

The bigger issue for me is that Andrew Hauptman is not spending wisely. He paid a transfer fee for Puppo which made him a DP and Puppo only managed to get in 216 minutes of MLS play. He has now loaned him back to Uruguay. Now we have this MacDonald guy, who Andrew paid a transfer fee for. Between these two players, he has probably spent Keane money, but for what?

The Fire FO is a joke right now. It is getting harder and harder to justify going to games. I still have a season ticket, but I don't get overly upset when I miss a home match.

Only one solution: bring back Peter Wilt!!!!

That would be a start.

You're going to need to visit the permitting office. Your exclusivity period on sarcasm has expired.

In the Union's case it means Don't Purchase.

Good one. One day they might hit the pay dirt ...

Wow this is pretty serious stuff if it's true.

Who knows, maybe someday Comcast will buy us.

It's not.

The signing does absolutely nothing for me...but I'll refrain from declaring it to be a bad move of any sort until he's had the chance to play a few games.

Depends who you ask I suppose.

There is a Thread about the stadim already here.

http://www.bigsoccer.com/community/threads/stadium-profitability.1946141/

MacDonald is making $487,125.

Some of that money should have gone to Grazzini. Oh, and to have given Marco Pappa a larger raise, then maybe he would have contemplated staying in the league.

http://www.mlsplayers.org/files/August 1, 2012 Salary Information - By Club.pdf

Tonight will be the first chance I've had at seeing him play (assuming he does play.) How has he looked so far?

For all of the initial negativity (and I was pretty negative about him on the Fire boards after his first game), he's been exactly the type of player the team needed. He's a physically strong forward who can hold the ball and play well with his back to goal. I think his play is a big reason for Rolfe's great play of late. The 2 players complement each other perfectly.

He's not putting up big numbers (2 goals, 3 assists), but he's been an important part of the team's resurgence.

He's the type of guy most American fans would be happy to have on their team.He is strong on the ball and deceptivley quick, not super fast.But I think he just knows where to move ahead of his opponent alot of the times.But yeah, he's strong.. you'll rarely see him on the ground for being on the wrong end of a defender.And in many cases he has no problem with multiple defenders.More of a young Brian McBride then a Freddy Montero.He presence is a factor in the Fire's late season run, Chris Rolfe and him are finding form together pretty damn well.

He seems like an impressive player from the clips I've seen of him with the Fire

Didn't look bad last night. Nice set-up that Rolfe flubbed, should have been a goal. Definitely didn't look like a traditional target man, i.e. "big, strong and slow" but rather someone that looked to hold up the ball with his feet and bring others into the game. Looked threatening when someone was pushed up front with him in the second half--particularly Franco.

If my math is accurate, Chicago has 21 points in 9 matches since August, 1.

That's better than the league's leader seasonal average.

Whatever the Fire management has done, it certainly seems to be working just fine.

There's been a strange, but positive shift. We lost our two best players statistical speaking in Grazzini and Pappa and the team has still improved.