Saturday Morning Union Freekicks: More SuperDraft Recaps And Opinions, SuperDraft Grades

Good morning Union fans and other SB Nation goers who read the site.  May all your breakfasts be full of wonderful, beautiful math problems floating around in your head.

See what I did there?  I said "math problems."  Get it?  Math problems?  MacMath?  Hello?  Is this thing on?

Anyway here is your daily discussion thread as well as your place to lament how bad EA Sports made the Philadelphia Union are in FIFA 11.

Math problems…….oh, I kill me.

For The Future: Nowak Expects Picks To Have An Impact — Eventually [Charles Cuttone, Philly Soccer News] –  With the Union expected to announce the Mondragon signing next week, MacMath figures to be the goalkeeper of the future, not the present.

Union Could Face Another Controversy In Net [Jonathan Tannenwald, The Goalkeeper] – Interesting post from Tannenwald wondering why the Union need a potentially future great goalkeeper as their current 3rd goalkeeper as well as an assertion that their best pick of the day was actually the Farfan pick.

Union Take Goalkeeper MacMath With No. 5 Pick [Ryan Bright, CSNPhilly.com] – CSN Philly's recap of Thursday's SuperDraft.

MLS Comment:  The 2011 SuperDraft Grade Book [J.R. Eskilson – Goal.com] – Who was the only team that got an A?  Who nearly flunked?  And why were the Union only given a C?  Find out here.

2011 MLS SuperDraft Grades and Recap [Drew Epperley, WVHooligan.com] – One thing I love about sports is how two people can have completely differing opinions on the exact same subject.  Here is a perfect example of this as among other differences with the above Goal.com column, Epperley gives the Union SuperDraft a B+.

Dynamo Judged Biggest Winners Of 2011 [MLSSoccer.com] – Simon Borg and Jason Saghini give their opinion on who they think the biggest winners of the draft were.  None of them say the Union.

SuperDraft In Pictures [Philly Soccer Page] – The headline describes this one best.  The PSP photographer Nicolae Stoian was at the draft, took plenty of pictures, and now they are posted here.

Union Decline Option On Stahl [Ed Farnsworth, Philly Soccer Page] – The 17th overall pick in the 2010 MLS SuperDraft will not re-join the team this season.

Union Enjoy Another SuperDraft [JP Dellacamera, PhiladelphiaUnion.com] – The Philadelphia Union's PbP announcer gives his take on the Union's draft as well as what he thought were some of the day's biggest surprises.