Scott Palguta Memorial Depth Meter: OMG INJURIES AUGH

Welp, injuries are hitting hard at home here, which means it's probably high time we pulled out the ol' Scott Palguta Memorial Depth Meter again. For the uninitiated:

Six injuries may seem like a trifle, but those are all guys who, if Oscar Pareja was given the choice, would probably be in the preferred Starting XI. (Maybe not Pickens with the sudden emergence of Clint 'Stonewall' Irwin, but whatever.) I said before the season that we had some pretty solid depth, let's see how we're holding up.

Anyway, on to the actual meat of this:

I'll give it a two for now simply because someone needs to figure out what they're doing before the depth actually counts fully.

PALGUTA LEVEL – 2

MIDFIELD

PALGUTA LEVEL – 3

DEFENSE

With Diego Calderon being knocked out, we might as well be right where we were last year — a bunch of unproven guys with a bit of a shuffle everywhere else. Of course, the wingback play has gotten better because of the player swaps that were made, but it's still not looking good. Fortunately, I'm not counting Drew Moor out right now because he's technically not an injury and every single defender on the list right now is better than Palguta, so I'll still give them a two. We're one injury away from making it a three, but I don't have a 2.5 Palugta heads picture.

PALGUTA LEVEL – 2

GOALIE

I usually don't do one of these for goalie because, well, come on, but Clint Irwin has played so good that I feel the need to mention him for what will be the second of three accolades in this post. You go, man!

PALGUTA LEVEL – 0 because Clint Irwin is clownshoes in the best way

(Insert single Palguta head photoshopped to look nearly invisible here.)