Go! ‘Necks! Go!

Getting back into the thick of things, Roughneck GM Kurt Silcott has made another trade, this time sending rookie Ryan Marshall to Portland for veteran Ted Dowling. Some of you may remember Dowling from the 2004 campaign where with 45 goals and 33 assists he helped us win the Champions Cup.

This trade is as usual pending NLL approval but neither team seems to consider that a problem. There was an addition condition to the trade according to Silcott. It would seem that lately Dowling has been having a little health trouble. The condition of the trade Silcott refers to would give Calgary a 2nd round draft pick from Portland in the event that Dowling is unable to play. The GM is “confident that Ted will be abel to come in and play for us.”
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Well, it took some fancy code wrangling and time but GoNecksGo.com now has a league standings page. There you’ll be able to find all of the stat goodies like wins, losses, games behind, win percentage, as well as home and away records.

Setting this up for you was a pretty good learning experience. I had always wondered how leagues calculated how many games behind each team out of first place were. After a little investigation — and some help from a few kind souls in the forums — I found out.
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Any Roughnecks fan that reads the Calgary Sun or knows someone that does will have heard by now that Jesse Phillips is considering retirement. The article, written by Ty Pilson, was in today’s Calgary Sun and posted on their website.

Phillips, who’s been having trouble with his right knee since before the season began, will be making his final decision in the next week or so. Since Phillips didn’t play the summer season in 2005 this injury is definitely not something to be taken lightly.
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This feature has been in the planning stages for a while. When I noticed that people searching Google for team schedules were finding my site — which didn’t have team schedules — I thought it would be best to give them what they were looking for.

In case you haven’t noticed just yet, there is a new link in the navigation bar called “Schedule”. This will take you directly to the schedule page — obviously enough — that lists all the remaining games in the season.
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Now that we’ve got some content going here at GoNecksGo.com I thought it would be a great time to see if we could generate a little link love with some of the big boys in the lacrosse web.

My first stop of course, was the Outsider’s Guide. They have quite an extensive list of links to all types of websites associated with and reporting on lacrosse. Editor-in-chief R.A. Philly was very quick to respond to my email asking to be included in that list. I would like to thank R.A. for adding GoNecksGo.com to the Outsider’s Guide.

This morning it has come to my attention that in the last few days Jesse “James” Phillips has, once again, been placed on the injured reserve list. At the time of this posting there has been no official statement on the Calgary Roughnecks website.

Phillips was one the injured reserve list at the start of the season only to be taken off for the last few games. It was said that he had been placed on the IR for bumps and bruises. Jesse is a tough defender and while the original assessment of “bumps and bruises” may have been true at the time, it would certainly seem that is not the case now.

I wish Jesse a speedy recovery and look forward to seeing him bash some heads when the doctors give him the green light to start playing again.

While I’ve been deeply immersed in the online world and blogs I’m sure that most of you have not. Since that is the case I thought now would be a good time to explain one of the features of gonecksgo.com, namely “feeds”.

First of all, the term “feed” is becoming more and more prevalent and seems to be replacing the less user-friendly terms “RSS”, “XML”, and “Atom” in the blogging community. Feed simply refers to the syndication of that particular websites content. As an aside, RSS stands for Really Simply Syndication but merely seeing the acronym is quite confusing unless you know the meaning behind it.
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