DCU Update

With Mediate opening up a senior spot, is it a done deal that they promote Joe Vide back to a senior spot?

I can't wait to see the team with Gallardo, Guerrero, Moreno, Emilio, Peralta and Martinez all healthy and rarin' to go.

Any word on Cup Final ticket sales so far?

Thanks for the update! Thought you'd be too busy getting into some Miami Vice to hook us up, but how wrong I was!
Vamos United!

Will there be any special t-shirts or scarves marking the occasion tomorrow night? Anyone know?

I had a dream....

-----------Crayton----------
--Namoff-McTavish-Martinez--
------------Simms-----------
--------Fred-Gallardo-------
Quaranta-------------Guererro
---------Moreno-Emilio------

Glad to see everyone back! This should be a great game now!

@ Anthony: Let's not get too crazy, we've got approximately 72 matches to play this month, including one on the road at a surging San Jose team.

Wow. Great news on Fred's speedy return!! Seems like just the other day he was out for 2-3 weeks.

Gallardo to start? "Signifigant minutes"?

Not a big crowd expected. Maybe 12,000?

12,000 isn't too bad for a non-regular season and non season ticket-holder mid-week match.

I know that DC United is hyping it up as much as their website and news paper ads can do, but it's still a tournament that is probably largely considered insignificant.

I tend to like the atmosphere a bit more for the Wednesday matches anyway. Even with the smaller crowds, it's usually a larger percentage of hardcore fans.

It's good to see the roster getting healthier. I hope that Moreno gets a rest for the first half. Especially if we can start Gallardo and Fred.

Given the need to be prepared to play 120 minutes and use four subs, the stronger the bench, the better.

Vide deserves the Sr. roster spot by a mile, "Down goes Dyachencko...Down goes Dyachencko" if only we could hear Cosell utter that phrase.

12,000 seems like a big turnout to me. That's what we drew for Atlante for a weeknight SuperLiga game which received lots of hype (not so much from Goff as from the Univision TV channels).

I say stick Burch back there with McTavish, make it a 4-4-2 and keep Fred on ice until halftime, if necessary.

I am travelling from hated New York (yes my moniker is misleadind but former-DCAustinite doesn't ahve quite the ring to it) for this game.

I guess I'm sold (somewhat) on Burch as a decent back in the center. He's done what's been asked of him. Playing it safe, one might stick Burch at left back and keep Martinez in at CLB.

spike_2.0:

Martinez hasn't played as a center back since mid-May. It'll be McTavish and Burch in the middle tomorrow night.

Speaking of McTavish, I highly recommend everyone check out the most recent entry on Behind the Badge, featuring the comedy stylings of Namoff and Quaranta.

A Burch-McT pairing in the middle makes me a bit anxious. Why not the NYRB solution of Namoff in the middle with McT, and Burch and Martinez outside. Martinez is totally two-footed, unlike Burch, and can cross with either foot, so he should be as much at home on the right as on the left.

That post brought a tear to my eye.

I'm going. My Eurosnob (Gooner) bro-in-law is in town on business. I'll try to tear him away. So that could be 12,003 with DCAustiniteNewYorker.

Thanks Goff for making my day. Sucks about Dom, but we all saw that coming I guess.

I'm with Chest on McTavish and Burch in the middle. I think moving Namoff into the middle was more of a tactical change to guard against Angel/Richards. Burch/McT should do just fine against the USLers.

As for the midfield, I don't know what the formation would look like, but it would be sweet to somehow have Gallardo, Guerrero, Simms, and Vide starting.

Martinez belongs in the center. Unfortunately both he and Tom Soehn don't seem to agree with me.

I like Martinez on the outside - but without Peralta I agree he is without a doubt one of our top 2 center backs.

School night be damned, I'm bringing the whole family tomorrow!

Why not same ads on regular local tvs? like dead nbc dead cbs dead abc dead fox so the ordinary people can see it rather than showing on already kown people.

New England - 0
Joe Public - 1
30th minute

is joe public really taking out the big spendin' yanks on plastic field??!

hehehe.. 0-2..i hate new england!

it's really really bad for the mls as much as i hate revs. this is outrages.

Are Joe Public really that better, or are NE just not trying??
It would a damn shame if MLS teams don't put any kind of effort into this tournament.

2-0 Joe Public
both goals from Richardson #21
DC SHould give him a look

Goal #3 for Joe Public
3-0
46th minute

It's embarrassing for MLS, but I can't help but laugh. XD

Hahahahahahahahahaha

Matt reis looking pretty dumb on that third goal.

I hate the revs.

it's not that ne are trying but that they just suck in quality in general. aggregate 5-1

Hahahaha
Away goal rule in effect so ne needs 5 to advance.

I just walked in and turned of FSC. My thoughts after watching 3 minutes:

Do away goals count quintuple, sextuple?

Should we add NEngland-Joe Public to Brazil-Ghana for fixed matches?

Are the Joe Public fans complaining that this tournament is a distraction from the Trinidad league?

Plastic field is not an advantage when your opponents have one as well.

I have to admit- I fixed this match.

goal
jp 4
ne 0
hat trick for richardson.
dc should consider snatching him.. if they couldve.

Four past reis!!! Hahahahahahahahahahahahah

Next time DC plays New ENgland, we should wear red.

... and Richardson masks.

I bet Ben Olsen and the player's union are behind this.
They've already divvied up all the trophies during a late night, underground poker match... Third round of rock scissors paper begins next week.

Ref should add 5 minutes just to make it unbearable.

Either Joe Public are a pretty decent side after all, or the Revs aren't particularly interested in broader international success. You got to live and learn, I guess...

I just hope against hope that the Goats can find some way to put the kibosh on Tauro.

Bye Heaps.

So with that red, Heaps will have to miss the next... never mind.

Chest: agree on Burch in the center. If he can get solid at that spot, he can go far. He's got size, is not slow, and has good aggressive tendencies. Center backs are hard to come by, especially Yanks. Just keep fingers crossed that he doesn't have a hiccup.

Have to give my favorite whipping boy, Soehn, some credit for the evolution of Burch. He should make a fine assistant coach somewhere.

Jay heaps......class act

is there possibly a live feed of the next game?

Tauro-chivas is on fsc.

Chivas down to 10...

Hilarious for New England.
Good plan saving something for the congested schedule when they wussed out of the USOC also.
Where is that Reis for MVP talk now, I wonder? Oh how I hate that guy!!!!!
This is great !!!!