Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for September 13, 2016

And as the season goes on, you will become utterly irrelevant.

As the season goes on we will need a side distraction to make this story arc interesting, so let’s introduce that through a couple of “Meanwhile” third panels by the end of the week.

Did I miss something? Is she injured? Why did she check in with the trainer?

In all reality , and as the season goes on I expect your teamates to hate you you will be more miserable than Barry Bader ever was, is that brutally honest enough for you ? Yes, thanks Coach Dawes but we’re still shower buddies right .

Walk with me to the gridiron. Where we can be honest with some brutality. Let’s clean up this messy conversation with a trip, er, tour of the shower facilities.

Kudos to Coach Dawes, who in just today’s strip, has done more coaching than Gil and Kaz have all year.

Unfortunately, Heather, as the season goes on we see your role as more of a shelf stocker for replacing books in the Little Boo Lending Libraries around town.

“…and as the season goes on, you’ll probably start riding the bench while I give underclassmen playing time to prep for next year.”

From the look of Coach Dawes’s right hand in P1, she must have been handling fireworks with Jason Pierre Paul.

P3, As the season goes on, I’m going to need to send you to S Mart more and more often for bread and milk.

Since her future on the soccer team will be mediocre at beast, she should look for something else at which to excel. I believe Milford is in need a new industrial solvents salesperson.

“The only way you can stay relevant in this story is to finally admit you were the driver of the pick-up that killed Boo.”

P-1: Fire Walk with MeP-2: You misspelled Roll (as in:)P-3: As the season goes on, you may want some private sessions (see P-2).

OK, she’s not a leader. How many leaders does the team need and do they need a middle of the pack player to be the Alpha? She’s a starter on a Varsity team. I knew an awful lot of second stringers that would have loved that distinction.

Not that I would ever criticize the art work but at first look I thought that was some kind of design on that bag instead of soccer balls inside a mesh bag. I thought Coach Dawes was already out of Milford.

“Walk with me.” How many times have I heard that on TV or in a movie (and now in a comic)? Maybe 472 times? How many times have I heard someone say that in real life? A ballpark estimate would be 0. And speaking of estimates, I estimate your day will be 42.6% better if you read today’s Mopped Up Thorp.

And as the season goes on, you will play so little, that you might as well go get a job at Swifti-Mart…..

@Ellisburkes: Asia might have guest, that was so bad I didn’t know if I should Boo or Cheer. I’ve had enough Boo; yeah for those awful puns.

Wait a minute! You have to ask the coach to be honest? Good for a winning program ; bad for a strip dealing in teen angst. Soccer Wives matter.