2018 Rankings......

Discussion in 'Chicago Fire' started by firefan2001, Feb 27, 2018.

  1. xtomx

    xtomx Member+

    Chicago Fire
    Sep 6, 2001
    Northern Wisconsin, but not far from civilization
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
  2. firefan2001

    firefan2001 Member+

    Dec 27, 2000
    Oswego, Illinois
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    With our current roster or the lack of a roster, 11 is to high.
     
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  3. lurak

    lurak Member+

    Aug 24, 2007
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    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.
     
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  4. firefan2001

    firefan2001 Member+

    Dec 27, 2000
    Oswego, Illinois
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I was thinking more like 18
     
  5. lethargytartare

    lethargytartare Member+

    Oct 2, 2000
    Magrathea, Horsehead Nebula
    Club:
    Yeovil Town FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Scotland
    that's where we were from July 5th through October 22nd last year, so it's as good a prediction as any.
     
  6. Der Stich

    Der Stich Member+

    May 3, 2005
    Chicago
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    "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.
     
  7. xtomx

    xtomx Member+

    Chicago Fire
    Sep 6, 2001
    Northern Wisconsin, but not far from civilization
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    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."
     
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  8. bunge

    bunge BigSoccer Supporter

    Oct 24, 2000
    So what you’re saying is, our squad is like an ellipsis. One starting caliber player per dot. It all makes sense now!
     
  9. firefan2001

    firefan2001 Member+

    Dec 27, 2000
    Oswego, Illinois
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2018/02/28/armchair-analyst-frontrunners-pack-all-23-mls-teams-tier

    Tier 5

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    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

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    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.
     
  10. lethargytartare

    lethargytartare Member+

    Oct 2, 2000
    Magrathea, Horsehead Nebula
    Club:
    Yeovil Town FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Scotland
    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.
     
  11. bunge

    bunge BigSoccer Supporter

    Oct 24, 2000
    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?
     
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  12. lethargytartare

    lethargytartare Member+

    Oct 2, 2000
    Magrathea, Horsehead Nebula
    Club:
    Yeovil Town FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Scotland
    why not? We wasted Blanco's last year letting Hamlett learn to coach.
     
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  13. firefan2001

    firefan2001 Member+

    Dec 27, 2000
    Oswego, Illinois
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
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  14. Sting111

    Sting111 Member+

    Jan 17, 2011
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    "The preseason optimism for the Fire has evaporated." What is this guy even talking about? Preseason optimism, really?
     
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  15. lethargytartare

    lethargytartare Member+

    Oct 2, 2000
    Magrathea, Horsehead Nebula
    Club:
    Yeovil Town FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Scotland
    she's probably writing in front of a mirror.
     
  16. xtomx

    xtomx Member+

    Chicago Fire
    Sep 6, 2001
    Northern Wisconsin, but not far from civilization
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    That is why not.
     
  17. firefan2001

    firefan2001 Member+

    Dec 27, 2000
    Oswego, Illinois
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
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  18. xtomx

    xtomx Member+

    Chicago Fire
    Sep 6, 2001
    Northern Wisconsin, but not far from civilization
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    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
     
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  19. xtomx

    xtomx Member+

    Chicago Fire
    Sep 6, 2001
    Northern Wisconsin, but not far from civilization
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
  20. firefan2001

    firefan2001 Member+

    Dec 27, 2000
    Oswego, Illinois
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    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.
     
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  21. xtomx

    xtomx Member+

    Chicago Fire
    Sep 6, 2001
    Northern Wisconsin, but not far from civilization
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    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.
     
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  22. loonixxx

    loonixxx Member+

    Chicago Red Stars
    Aug 28, 2004
    Soccer Limbo
    Club:
    Jagiellonia Bialystok SSA
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Agreed. The Fire were a force at home last season.
     
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  23. Jiggly_333

    Jiggly_333 Member+

    Chicago Fire
    Mar 8, 2015
    Corner of Bedlam and Squalor (It's that way ->)
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    Nat'l Team:
    Japan
    But what if the teams below us are worse?
     

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