https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2018/02/26/2018-season-preview https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2018/02/27/mls-power-rankings-2018-preseason
We're number two! (alphabetically) We're number two! (since we seem to be a bit crap at the moment) Oh, we're number eleven. Nevermind
11 is way too high. They must be giving the Fire a break since the game with Colorado was rescheduled. Middle of the pack because they don’t play this week.
that's where we were from July 5th through October 22nd last year, so it's as good a prediction as any.
"The ellipsis can consist of either three or four periods, or "dots." A single dot is called an ellipsis point. An ellipsis that indicates the omission of one or more words within a sentence consists of three spaced dots." I'm a pretty permissive guy but one thing I do put my foot down for is too many dots in an ellipsis. 6 is way too many. Good day to you.
Are the dots in the title thread intended to indicate the omission of one or more words? If so, I agree with you that three is standard (four, if at the end of a sentence). However, if they are intended to simulate the lack of players currently on the team, then there should be more of them. We are down eight players from a full roster, there should be two more ellipsis points. If it is intended to demonstrate the prediction of our friend @firefan2001 as to the Fire ending up in sixth place in the league at the end of the season, then I say, "Take that shit to the Optimism Thread."
So what you’re saying is, our squad is like an ellipsis. One starting caliber player per dot. It all makes sense now!
https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2018/02/28/armchair-analyst-frontrunners-pack-all-23-mls-teams-tier Tier 5 Chicago Fire Chicago finally climbed their way into the playoffs – and all the way up to third place in the Supporters' Shield standings – after years of dormancy. It was a very nice and long-awaited bounce-back for a franchise that's mostly had a miserable decade. They've followed that up with a strangely quiet offseason. The biggest news was the egress of David Accam, who was traded to Philly for a sack of GAM and TAM. It makes sense, then, that the biggest acquisition of the offseason was a winger, Serb Aleksandar Katai. He's not Accam's direct replacement (Accam is an inverted left winger, while Katai is an inverted right winger), but he'll theoretically serve the same purpose once the ball is kicked: lots of goals and a little bit of playmaking. As it stands now, though, it looks like the Fire are betting large on a cadre of youngsters. Homegrown rookie Grant Lillard maybe has the inside track on the starting job at left center back, and draft pick Jon Bakero, the 2017 Hermann Award winner, is maybe probably perhaps gonna be the playmaker this team's fans have wanted for nearly a decade? Both guys are excellent. I love Bakero and if you like pretty soccer, you should too. But it's a weird gamble for a team whose most important players (Bastian Schweinsteiger, Nemanja Nikolic and Dax McCarty) are all over 30. If Lillard and Bakero and Daniel Johnson are as good as I think they can be, Chicago will have improved. If they're not – and bear in mind I've been wrong maybe twice before in my entire life, so it's possible here – they're in trouble. OPENING LINEUP NOTE: Maybe Christian Dean instead of Lillard since Lillard's nursing a slight knock? Also, the Fire don't play their first game until Week 2, so things can change a little bit.
Doyle's betting an awful lot on 3 college kids. Not sure how the math of replacing Meira, Accam, and deLeeuw with Lillard, Johnson, and Bakero equals improvement, but I'd be happy to be proven wrong.
You'd have to be insane to think that’s an improvement. Basti has one year left and we’re going to waste it on letting kids learn how to play?
Started 11, but back where we belong..... https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2018/04/17/mls-power-rankings-nycfc-retain-top-spot-after-busy-week 23rd...... Nice job Andi, Nrod and Pawno.......
"The preseason optimism for the Fire has evaporated." What is this guy even talking about? Preseason optimism, really?
We draw with the current wooden spoon favorite and we move up 4 spots. https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2018/05/01/mls-power-rankings-atlanta-uniteds-reign-mls-continues "HUGE PROGRESS"
16 LAST WEEK: 20 HIGH: 11 | LOW: 23 The Fire post a draw that feels like a win, and capping off their most successful road swing in almost four years is an accomplishment of sorts. But they get the buzzsaw that is Atlanta United next, so we'll see if they can hold the titans at bay. Previous: Tied 2-2 at TOR | Next: vs. ATL on 5/5 This is pathetic
We weren't expected to win and we lost to a team like Atlanta, I bet if we somehow won we would have gone up 4 or 5 spots for the same reason.
And that reason is also nonsense. If we win, we should go up. If we lose, we should go down. This "not supposed to win" AT HOME, really says what crap we are.