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22 Feb 2009, 07:00 PM
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Steve Cronin to Portland
I spoke to Steve last night and he informed me he was being sent to Portland of the USL. I for one am sorry to see him go. I would have liked to see what he could do with a real defence in front of him. Apart from that Steve has always shown himself to be a class guy and will be missed.
My best wishes to Steve as he embarks on his journey. You'll be back in the bigs soon.
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22 Feb 2009, 07:01 PM
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Location: PDena/ N.E. UK/ UCSC
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Re: Steve Cronin to Portland
Thanks for the update. That answers some questions about our GK depth chart. He was a decent MLS keeper, but his salary was too high for what he could bring.
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22 Feb 2009, 07:06 PM
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Re: Steve Cronin to Portland
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Originally Posted by srosenbery
I spoke to Steve last night and he informed me he was being sent to Portland of the USL. I for one am sorry to see him go. I would have liked to see what he could do with a real defence in front of him. Apart from that Steve has always shown himself to be a class guy and will be missed.
My best wishes to Steve as he embarks on his journey. You'll be back in the bigs soon.
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Thanks for the news. I also would have liked to see what he could do with some defense in front of him. Probably better for him to play in Portland than spend a season on the bench behind Ricketts even though it means there's a good chance the Galaxy are giving up on another player who will probably go on to play well elsewhere.
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22 Feb 2009, 07:09 PM
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Re: Steve Cronin to Portland
Yeah, thanks for the update. I wish him luck.
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22 Feb 2009, 07:22 PM
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Location: Los Angeles
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Re: Steve Cronin to Portland
I wonder if there's any chance he will come back to the Galaxy in 2010 after a stellar season in 2009 in Portland. He will probably be headed to DC United or Chivas. <sigh>
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22 Feb 2009, 07:29 PM
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Re: Steve Cronin to Portland
A year of seasoning may do hims some major good.
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22 Feb 2009, 07:40 PM
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Re: Steve Cronin to Portland
I like Steve.Good luck to you....
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22 Feb 2009, 07:43 PM
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Location: Los Angeles, CA
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Re: Steve Cronin to Portland
So just to be clear on how this works:
1) We no longer hold his MLS rights, correct? Any team could now swoop in and take him to MLS if they wanted to and had the roster/cap space to sign him?
2) Last year he signed a new more lucrative contract for multi years. Does this just get voided? I.e., is there no protection for a player? Kinda harsh to go from $100k to USL salary.
Any MLS rules/roster experts out there that know how this works?
I for one am mostly just pissed off more about last year. We suffered through a guy who learned on the job just to jettison. that's not smart. This year could have been the payoff for last years struggles.
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22 Feb 2009, 07:49 PM
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Location: Ventura, CA
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Re: Steve Cronin to Portland
I hear what your saying Mbar, but Steve had stone hands. The experience helped, but he spilled balls a college keeper should hold. Good shot stopper, but my guess is we dropped maybe 5 points from our keepers las year. Can you afford a 100K back up in our league. His number was up as soon as we signed Rickets.
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22 Feb 2009, 08:19 PM
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Location: Baltimore
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Re: Steve Cronin to Portland
Bye. He cost us half of the lost in the last season. Cannot say I miss him.
I still want Joe Canon back but well.
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