Weekend Round-up

By: Ian | February 7th, 2009

As the season gets closer and closer, the news is flying fast and furious.  I wouldn’t have it any other way.  Isn’t that we live for as Quakes supporters?  Any juicy morsel of information that might give us hope for a championship run, or for that matter an excuse to fly off on yet another rant.  Anyway, here’s what’s going down in Quakeland.

* Cam Weaver Watch: Yes, let’s all be honest, we know very little about this kid except for a few glimpses from his Sounders days and some not-too-helpful statistics.  So Centerline Soccer is on top of it as usual with a report from Friday’s practice.  Sounds like we might finally have a player with the strength to hold onto the ball up front and maybe even get on the end of a cross or two. If he really is a cross between Ching and Jaqua, I just hope he didn’t inherit a pissy attitude and a vulnerability to injury from Papa Ching.  

* Galaxy games to Buck Shaw?: Who’s with me in getting a petition started?  With Becks finally confirming what everyone already knew, that he would rather trade in Posh for Alexi than play for the Galaxy again, let’s bring the rivalry home to Buck Shaw.  It will be so much better in the intimacy of our real home stadium, where we can get our paws, or at least our best insults, on the Scum.  As this SF gate article explains, the shared ownership of the A’s and Quakes enables the move to be made fairly easily though there are no plans to do so as yet.  

* The Nominations are In…: Speaking of Becks, with his departure, so goes the ever popular “We don’t give a f*@# about Beckham” chants.  Judas (aka Landycakes) is also desperate to leave the Galaxy behind.  So which MLS player earns the title of new Quakes public enemy number one?  My top pick right now is Eddie Robinson.

* Random Stuff: The Byers signing fell through.  Ah well, hard to miss an unknown quantity such as he was.  Somma has been signed to a senior contract and Quakes management seems to be pretty high on him.  He could well be a key player for us in the future.  

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• Dave |  February 7th, 2009 at 5:40 pm

  
  
  

  Hear hear on getting Galaxy games back to Buck Shaw. I hate the Coliseum, we completely lose home-game advantage up there, and there’s no point in making all of us drive the hour up north. Let’s get out of that place.

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• Suzanne |  February 7th, 2009 at 8:37 pm

  
  
  

  We have Public Enemy #1, and his name starts with K and rhymes with Kai Kamara.

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• meltoid |  February 9th, 2009 at 11:52 am

  
  
  

  i hate games at the stadium! i cant believe the season is coming up so fast

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• brizzle |  February 9th, 2009 at 5:50 pm

  
  
  

  Excellent work. What about Convey? What’s the news?

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• joel es latest soccer news |  February 9th, 2009 at 8:32 pm

  
  
  

  Thanks for the info. I like your site. It is my first time here.

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• Melissa |  February 9th, 2009 at 9:27 pm

  
  
  

  This is totally why I can’t write the SJ Offside blog. A) I kind of like Kei Kamara. The kid seems harmless. and B) I live in Oakland so those games are super convenient for me.

  And no idea if anyone caught Cannon’s last Facebook comment… Guy knows how to use this social networking thing. Just sayin’.

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• ack |  February 9th, 2009 at 9:34 pm

  
  
  

  Thanks for the info. Found this a little bit ago, but i expect it will be great once the season gets rolling.

  Any word on front office changes? I just e-mailed my ticket rep, and got a reply that she’s no longer with the quakes. Will it be someone new (and thus #5 in their short history), or someone I’ve had before?

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• Ian |  February 10th, 2009 at 12:17 am

  
  
  

  Thanks for the love everyone. So far no firm word on Convey, last news was that the Quakes are close to a deal but nothing is official yet. Not sure about front office changes, my ticket rep has been the same so far.

  Melissa, the job is definitely hard. Maintaining hatred against Kamara even as he joyfully dances on Youtube. I visualize his whining ways on the field to keep strong in the face of it all.

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• ack |  February 11th, 2009 at 9:42 pm

  
  
  

  I think I was wondering if there had been any purges to try to save money, or if this was something else.

  I’ve gotten the word that I’m on to ticket rep #5 now.

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