Its finally starting to sink in here in the Yay

By: Melissa | April 1st, 2008

How silly of me NOT to give a shout out to the LOLmls thread on bigsoccer. Game time is only a few days away and instead of feeling the usual forlorn, longing, sadness, dread, etc etc etc… Bay Area residents get to read sh*t like injury reports! It seems Corrales and Riley have little boo boos (Ramiro Corrales, R – Achilles strain; James Riley, L – ankle sprain) but luckily, they haven’t been ruled out for Thursday’s game. Rest up boys.

Frank Yallop recently sat down with Soccer 365 for an interview and offered little bit more insight into his plans for completing the roster. In a nutshell, the biggest missing piece of the puzzle is “a really good striker” and pre-season attempts to bring one over from a MLS club have proven unsuccessful. Also, he reveals he’s not against using the Designated Player slot but says: “if we can get a striker that is less expensive then fine.” So despite the season starting, the search continues meaning we may see a big trade during the first transfer window. Yallop explains:

There are no names at the moment as they are all under contract and we can get in a lot of trouble but we do have a list and we are working very hard to try and bring the right player over from Europe. So we will see what happens.

This looks like a very good plan, especially considering, besides Gavin Glinton, our forwards are a pretty raw bunch mostly overflowing with potential and not experience. And our Frank remains optimistic yet pragmatic about the season. He’s confident he’s got “a pretty good squad” but still believes “if we don’t get too many injuries” the team may make the playoffs. And this is Our Gang’s attitude going into the season and I think it may prove to be the biggest factor to their success.