This season feels different, doesn’t it? Going into the 2017 Major League Soccer season, many people - including most of us here at Brotherly Game - thought this was the year that the team would make the leap forward and become a semi-competitive team in the MLS Eastern Conference.
Even in a very (un)scientific poll, most of you (77%) thought this team would make the playoffs.
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The current reality is far more grim. The Union sit tied for 10th place in the East and are the sixth-worst team in the entire league.