Woof! It didn't work! Wow! I am impressed by this server!

The word is something that goes bang.

I feel like being caught by my kindergartner trying to spell something to my wife. She spells very well. My kindergartner, I mean, although my wife is a good speller, too.

Ferry, need to update your profile, still lists you with Pats. Also, would be nice to be able to contact you with private message when we need to say something not appropriate for Chuwy's delicate ears.

jfl99:

You seem to take an interest in D. Schell. Also seems that you have had a history (or it seems your son has) playing against Dom.

I noticed that you mentioned in an earlier statement that Dom played Defender at the U. of Mobile. You also stated that Dom made the 1999 NAIA National Championship Tournament All-Tournament Team as a Defender. Don't really know what site you were looking at... but those facts simply aren't true.

http://www.naia.org/news/soc/msoc/1999/12/10/944860764844.html

In 1999, Dom led the NAIA in assists... as a Midfielder (right flank to be exact).

He was, however, never a selection to the 1999 NAIA National Championship Tournament All-Tournament Team...

http://www.naia.org/msoccer/championship/1999/results.html

Dom has NEVER been a Defender. Ever. He was in fact listed as a Defender during the 2000 Umbro-Select All-Star game; it was later corrected to midfielder in the coaches' scouting books. Game day programs did indeed have him listed as defender (only because they had already been sent to the press), but everything printed 2 weeks prior to the actual game had him listed as a midfielder. As a starter for the West squad in that game, he played Midfielder.

Dom later went on to be drafted by the Columbus Crew in the 2000 MLS Superdraft. He was again listed as a Defender upon being drafted (because all information is shared once a player is entered for the all-star game and the draft). All MLS, A-League coaches and player representatives (prior to the draft) were handed an updated scouting report of each draft candidate before entering the the draft room. Dom was listed as a midfielder in that scouting report. The Crew knew they were drafting an attacking midfielder... I made sure of that by asking Fitz personally once the draft was complete. Their plans, however were to make him a defensive MIDFIELDER. Of all the games Dom played in as a member of the Crew , with the exception of one, Dom played MIDFIELDER (sometimes defensive/sometimes attacking).

In Nashville, he started the season as a right flank midfielder, and was moved to center-mid a quarter of the way into the season. He remained at that position for the rest of the year.

The Pat's brought Dom in to be a Midfielder. As the pre-season progressed, and players did not, Dom was moved to Forward.

Was it the best move? Time will tell. Dom has been given a job to do, and whether or not it is his natural MIDFIELDER position, he will play where asked, when asked (even at times if that means Defender).

As I have explained to other people on this forum (those of whom have been most helpful to me - and you know who you are), I usually just sit back and read what you the fans have to say about players on their respective teams. On occasion, however, the truth is stretched or the facts reported by some fans are incorrect. If those same "incorrect" facts are directed toward my client(s), I feel that it is up to me to try and correct the issue before truth becomes fiction.

If you want stats on Dom, I can provide you with whatever you need. It would be the same information that I provide to each and every team (MLS, A-League, teams overseas) prior to the beginning of a season. It is my job; he pays me to do so.

my appologies on misinformation about Dominic but had picked it up somewhere in past, maybe a year or so ago. I figured it was off of NAIA but went back the other day, just to make double sure, and after a long time on their web site could never pull up the Tournament All-Team selections. Also, at Mobile site, nothing on past players or, for that matter, not much of anything about their past. However, I do know I saw this info somewhere, wrong as it may have been and, like I try to do all the time, tried to verify it and verified it from past info.

Some of these web sites make it very difficult to navigate and find info, NAIA is one of the worst and even admitted to me that one needed to know the "trick" to be able to access certain info.

I'm interested in Dominic for mainly one reason: he's an NAIA player who has made it into the pro ranks. I was not knocking Dominic but questioning a team that would use a player "out of position" which is never a real good thing for most players, making them very uncomfortable. If a team is playing a player out of position it usually means that they are lacking in that position and the answer, in most cases, isn't to fill in with a player from a different position who won't feel right there AND, at the same time, it weakens the team in that they've taken someone whom they hired to fill a spot (hopefully because they are/were good there) to fill another, thus leaving another hole in the lineup.

thanks for the corrected info.