Sorry, a dentist appointment and work kept me from getting to this until now

Kildare County drops out of the listings for now, we'll see if they return.

Queen of the South - Off while early round FA Cup games were played.

Blackburn Rovers - The Rovers started the week by losing by one goal at Portsmouth in league action, then lost by tow goals on the road at ManU in the Carling Cup Quarterfinals. Click to continue reading...

I've just been informed by the Rapids PR department that Chris Sharpe was re-signed as a MLS pool keeper. He will train with the Rapids if not needed by another team, but he will be available to all 15 MLS teams if they need an emergency keeper. Click to continue reading...

MLS just announced the opening games for every team.

• March 21st, 8:30pm Mountain, Colorado @ Chivas USA - Fox Soccer Channel
• March 28th, 7:30pm Mountain, Kansas City @ Colorado

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According to Chris Sharpe's blog on Tribal Football he's signed a 1-year contract with the Colorado Rapids. Sharpe trained with the Rapids during the 2008 season while serving as a MLS pool keeper.

• MLS Pool keepers are goalkeepers that are signed by the league but don't belong to any team.

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Soccer by Ives is reporting that Mike Petke was taken by RBNY in the waiver draft and that he was the only player picked in the draft. Still waiting on the full list of players that the Colorado Rapids waived, but Petke becomes the team's first departure of the offseason.

The Rocky Mountain News reports on the Petke move and also than Tim Ward has been waived. Click to continue reading...

An inside source just informed me that no Rapids were taken in the expansion draft. Click to continue reading...

Queen of the South - The Doonhamers hosted Clyde at Palmerston Park on Saturday. QoS was on a run of 1 win int he last 5, since the last free weekend, and really needed to turn it around. There was plenty of action but little scoring in the first half. Both teams had their chances, but the post denied Queens and a handball waved off a Clyde goal just before halftime. Click to continue reading...

Here's the list of players the Rapids did not protect for Wednesday's expansion draft. The Rapids can lose 1 player in the draft.:

Burciaga, Jose
Burpo, Preston
Cooke, Terry
Dalby, Greg
DiRaimondo, John
Erpen, Facundo
Grazier, Brian
Harvey, Jordan
Hughes, Justin
Keel, Stephen
Kimura, Kosuke
McManus, Tom
Petke, Mike
Sarkodie, Kwame
Ward, Tim
Zambrano, Cesar

No surprise on Burciaga, Burpo, Dalby, DiRaimondo, Erpen, Grazier, Hughes, Petke, Sarkodie, Ward, or Zambrano. Click to continue reading...

MLS is holding the expansion draft for the Sounders on Wednesday. The rules are:

• Each team can protect 11 players
• Above those 11 players all Generation Adidas players are protected
• Each team must protect at least 3 internationals, assuming they have 3 on the roster
• Seattle gets 10 picks and can take no more than 1 player per team

Prior to Toronto's expansion draft the general rule was that you could leave unprotected any position the expansion team had already filled, as they wouldn't want to waste their picks on redundant players.

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Last night Major League Soccer announced the 2009 competition changes. Here's a quick summary and what I think of the changes.

The Reserve Division will be eliminated due to a lack of return on investment

Should have seen this one coming since they reduced the schedule this past season to only be intra-conference. Click to continue reading...

The second leg of Kildare County's promotion/relegation playoff against Mervue just ended, and not in the Thoroughbred's favor. On Tuesday they played to a 2-2 draw at Mervue and the expectation was that Kildare would have the advantage playing the second leg at home needing only a win to survive. Well things didn't turn out that way as County crashed to a 3-0 defeat and a home in the 'A' Championship next season. Click to continue reading...

Completely unsurprising news out of Steven Goff.

No surprise: Colorado is trying to move Christian Gomez and dump his 2009 guaranteed contract of around $400,000. Gomez barely played the final few months of the season under then-interim coach Gary Smith, who clearly doesn't think much of the 2006 MVP.

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For clarification's sake, the opions I express in this post (or any post for that metter) are mine and do not represent Class VI or any of the other supporter's groups.

I don't talk a whole lot about the supporter's groups here at View From the Couch. It's mainly because I like to talk about what happens "between the lines" and the supporter's groups don't fit into that. Click to continue reading...

Queen of the South - My team travelled to Dundee on Saturday hoping for a change of pace after two straight defeats. The first half saw plenty of action, with both sides having chances they should have converted and Dundee even hitting the crossbar at one point. Despite the aggressive play the teams went into the locker rooms scoreless. Click to continue reading...

Before USA-Guatemala on Wednesday General Manager Jeff Plush will have an open meeting with Supporters at 5pm. It will be 30 minutes in length and the primary focus is on the idea that the Section 100 Supporters Groups (Centennial Firm and NCC) move to the North Grandstands. RSVP with Marcus Myrick at mmyrick@dsgpark. Click to continue reading...