Pregame: Houston vs. RSL (Sat. 4/22/06)

Spot on my friend. We're taking Klein and Ballouchy and asking them to get up and down with a lot more pressure than when we've got an outside back behind them. That pretty much makes Ballouchy, who has yet to answer questions about his defensive abilities, responsible for one of the more dangerous outside mids in the league, Mullan. And as you said, Klein, one of our best attacking options, will have to play as lot more defensively unless we're taking it to them.

 

I doubt that Ellinger will travel with three defensive replacements, unfortunately. He's got Brown and Akwari already. I therefore suspect that he will substitute another attacking player for the traveling squad over Cabrera.

 

I don't see how Watson will be on the bench since he is going to be doing the pre-game show from Fiddler's Elbow tomorrow. I'm not even sure how he is supposed to do that since he shouldn't even be allowed in given he's under 21.

 

You might want to contact him. He might need it.

 

I hope that the Fiddler's Elbow is non-smoking establishment.....I plan on being there. Besides the Loyalists and RCB, are there any BSers planning on showing up?

Come on, I know it's hard to tear your eyes away from your monitor......

 

Fiddler's is 21+ but the Salt Lake Pizza and Pasta part of it isn't, that's why on the newsletter sent out they invite people to watch at Fiddler's Elbow/Salt Lake Pizza and Pasta. I guess it's better than nothing considering they only went for the older crowd at Lumpy's last year.

 

My offer to loan you my ID (provided that you shrink a few inches and cut your hair, haha) still stands, since I'm still under indentured servitude to the M.Ed. until Wednesday...

 

Looking into my palantir,




I forsee a win for RSL. A bold prediction it may be, but a W has to come on the road sometime, somewhere.


(yes, I need to clip my nails......)

 

If Real Salt Lake is not something that you've heard often, sure, it may sound a little strange.

But the more one hears it, the more one hears a nice ring to it.

I know about all the controversy surrounding the name, (no royalty in Salt Lake, Madrid copycats, blahbiddyblah) but it has really taken root to anyone that cares about RSL.....at least, as far as I know.

*Boz prepares to get dissed*

 

Yeah, we need to get a road win eventually. I predict that it will happen.... some day. But not today. I predict that if we scrape a tie, the team will celebrate as if they won the MLS Cup and the fans will feel drunk even if they've never touched alcohol in their life.

(p.s. Boz: no F.E. for me today. I'm making apple pie and watching the game with friends.... that's the life...)

 

Ha ha.. you have a good point. Which reminds me... I hope we get a point tonight...

 

Some might call it "excited about improvement".

 

Awe, fresh apple pie on a perfect Happy Valley Saturday. I'm so jealous!


GO ReAL!

 

Half an hour from kickoff = time to close the pregame thread and go to the PBP thread. RSLFM, I believe the honor to start this one is yours.