While, over the last few months, I’ve been purely nonexistent on the blogging front (I’ll make up for it this next few weeks), don’t be fooled into thinking the life of a Sky Blue player has been following in those not-so active footsteps.  As a matter of fact - and not in unusual fashion- New Jersey Sky Blue FC has seen much change. We bid ado to an entire WPS franchise gone bankrupt, dealt with friends traded, done our best to make new players feel at home, swapped coaches, endured a 6-game non-winning spell and completely shifted (for the better) the attitudes of 22 players.

I suppose change is the nature of the start-up beast. Through all the change and surprise, one thing remains consistent: There’s nothing consistent ... Except that it’s consistently inconsistent. Now, I’m not one to set ablaze the fire of controversy. With that, you won’t find the new juicy gossip or my opinion on front office personnel and coaching changes (and you’d likely be disappointed by my lack of disdain anyway). I will tell you that, in some instances, change and inconsistency is very good.

The current shift in team dynamic has been a huge plus. For reasons that go beyond the explanation of a simple blog, we are undergoing a transformation from being eggshell-walking, paranoid and tentative individual talents into becoming a confident and unified group that no longer looks to satisfy the selfish needs of 22 different selves. The team that becomes the 2010 WPS champion must have more than just talent because, at this level, talent is a minimum standard for all teams. With that in mind, New Jersey seamlessly seems to have reevaluated its priorities in order to establish a newly and unconditionally defined “us” that embodies a selfless team-first take on all things soccer. With only four regular season games remaining, we’ll see if the attitude makeover continues to work for us.

I recognize that this seems almost a bit too serious of an entry for this website. So, in case I made it sound like our path to success is founded in an all-business-all-the-time attitude ... Who do you think I am? All work and no play makes New Jersey a very boring team. Simply because we’ve taken a serious look at our team concept doesn’t mean we’ve lost track of the obvious fact that fun is a necessary ingredient to achieving our goals. Feel free to click the Video of the Month (V.O.T.M.) section of this website to take a look at one of the ways we entertain ourselves. Because the truth is, when you face new coaches, new teammates and new attitudes, you have to find a way to keep it light-hearted.