Nope, that’s not a typo in the headline- it’s time for another update on ATD’s own Mark “Coco” Corcoran, midfielder for Ross County F.C. of the SFL First Division. The Staggies wrapped up their preseason schedule with a 2-1 loss to SPL side Kilmarnock F.C. on Saturday and our man in Dingwall (or at Rugby [...]
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Hot Coco, Anyone?
Posted in General, Homerism, Introductions, Matchday is for Homerism, News, Off and Running, Official Site Business, Ross County, Scottish Football League, Scottish Premier League on July 18, 2011 | 1 Comment »
BREAKING NEWS: Avoiding The Drop Signs First Player
Posted in Financials, General, Homerism, Introductions, News, Off the Pitch, Official Site Business, Ross County, Scottish Football League, Scottish Premier League, Transfers on July 5, 2011 | 15 Comments »
After several days of intense negotiations and at an expenditure of several hundreds of pounds, ATD F.C. has signed its first player- pacey midfielder Mark “Coco” Corcoran. For the duration of the 2011-2012 season Avoiding the Drop will be Corcoran’s “Matchday Programme Sponsor” as he competes for Ross County F.C. in the Scottish First Division. [...]
Don’t Forget the Droppies!!
Posted in Awards, Commentary, General, Introductions, Off the Pitch, Official Site Business, The Droppies, Wild Ass Guesses on May 31, 2011 | 7 Comments »
There was a lot of great discussion last week when the third annual Droppies were announced, but unfortunately all of the spirited back-and-forth only generated three actual submissions! So, this is a little reminder of the categories (after the jump) both old and new as well as an announcement that the deadline for submitting your [...]
Welcome to the new look of MLS- the rejects!
Posted in Choosing a new Team, Commentary, Football Shirts, General, Homerism, Introductions, MLS, Off the Pitch, Whimsy on May 23, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Last week you got to see my “winning” idea for transforming the name and look of the New England Revolution. This week I thought I’d give you a look at the ideas that didn’t make the cut. Some of them a pretty good and pretty well “fleshed-out,” others sounded good at first but lost some [...]
Welcome to the new look of MLS!
Posted in Choosing a new Team, Commentary, Football Shirts, General, Homerism, Introductions, MLS, Off the Pitch, Ross County, Whimsy on May 17, 2011 | 22 Comments »
If you’re a regular reader of Avoiding the Drop you may have notice a recurring theme in recent months, namely, that those of us here at the site- as well as those who leave comments- feel as though MLS has finally “turned the corner” and that it is well on its way to becoming the [...]
The Commenter Survey: The Results, Part One
Posted in Commentary, General, Homerism, Introductions, Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics, Off the Pitch, Official Site Business, Power Poll, The More You Know... on March 30, 2011 | 15 Comments »
Today we take a look at the first half of the results from our recent “Commenter Survey.” Part One will focus on who we are: age, location, occupation, educational background, etc.. I hope you will find the results of our first survey of our readers and commenters as interesting as I did and I encourage [...]
A Ross County Update: Sounds good to me!
Posted in Eredivisie, Europa League, Homerism, Introductions, Off the Pitch, Ross County, Scottish Football League, Scottish Premier League, The Scottish Cup on February 16, 2011 | 5 Comments »
You may have noticed that other than a bit of hand-wringing in my weekly match previews for Ross County I’ve remained more or less silent lately about the goings on in the People’s Republic of Dingwall, and with good reason- there hasn’t been much good news to report. Tomorrow that is going to change- sort [...]
Our First Reader/Commenters Survey
Posted in Commentary, English Premier League, Financials, First Timers, General, Guest Post, Homerism, Introductions, Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics, Mailbag, MLS, News, Off the Pitch, Official Site Business, Power Poll, Ross County, Scottish Football League, Television Rights, USMNT, Whimsy on February 10, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Believe it or not, Avoiding the Drop is about two weeks away from beginning its third year on the internet. That might not seem like much, but consider this: the average life expectancy for a blog/website is about a year. So, doing a a little quick math, we’re about a 157 years old in “human [...]
Coming out of the Closet with Fuse: Please welcome Jeff!!
Posted in Bundesliga, Commentary, English Premier League, First Timers, Football Shirts, General, Guest Post, Introductions, Scottish Premier League, The Championship, Whimsy on January 3, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Last week I put out the call for some commenter shirts that I could feature in the first 2011 installment of this long running (this is “episode” 35) series and, as usual, the ATD commenters came through. This week I’ll be featuring four shirts from the collection of commenter Jeff S. (jhawk90). As you will [...]
The 2011-2012 Ross County Kits- I was half right/wrong?!
Posted in Commentary, Football Shirts, Homerism, Introductions, News, Off the Pitch, Ross County, Scottish Football League, Whimsy, Wild Ass Guesses on June 29, 2011 | 7 Comments »
I apologize for the low quality of the picture, but when you’re hijacking somebody’s Twitter feed…
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