Thank you to everyone who helped to make the first ever live Philadelphia soccer media community live chat a success. We had over 200 readers of the chat and had a ton of comments. 

We had some requests for links to the sites and people who participated in the chat as panelists. Here's the list:

ASN Philly (was unavailable but had signed on): ASN Union

Chris Vito: Delaware County Times (Delco Times) and the Brotherly Game

Dan Walsh: Philly Soccer Page

Dave Zeitlin: MLSsoccer.com and CSN Philly

Greg Orlandini: KYW Philly Soccer Show (Podcast)

Jesse Silverman (was unavailable but had signed on): The700Level.com

Jonathan Tannenwald: Philly.com sports and The Goalkeeper

Keith Hickey: Goal.com

Kerith Gabriel (was unavailable but had signed on): Philadelphia Daily News

Philly Union Talk (Conor O'Grady): Philly Union Talk

Scott Kessler (that's me!): The Brotherly Game

Shane Evans (was unavailable but had signed on): Goal.com

Union City Blue: Union City Blue

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Our panelists today will be discussing a couple of different topics involving the Philadelphia Union today. After we're done discussing each topic, the readers will be allowed to ask questions to the panelists of the chat today. We're hoping that you have questions to ask because the members of the chat are here to answer them.

Our chat participants are as follow: Dave Zeitlin (MLSsoccer.com and CSNPhilly.com), Kerith Gabriel (Philadelphia Daily News), Chris Vito (Delaware County Times and the Brotherly Game), Jonathan Tannenwald (Philly.com), Philly Soccer Page, the Brotherly Game (of course), Philly Soccer News, ASN Philly, Union City Blue, GOAL.com writers and Philly Union Talk. Though not participating directly, the 700 Level will be a part of the chat as well.

The Cover-It-Live browser is what you see above. That is where the chat will be held. A transcript will be put up on here within the hour after the chat is finished.

The Brotherly Game will be hosting a live chat amongst the Philadelphia Union media community tomorrow at 12 pm (noon). Cover-It-Live will be used as the chat method. You may have seen it used on The Goalkeeper; it allows authorized writers to show up as "bolded" and gives us the ability to moderate user created messages and questions. It is a wonderful way to include the fans (you, the readers) in our chat.

Everyone involved will have the opportunity to have a turn at each topic, get a little bit of banter going and then we will open up the floor to the readers at the end or at the end of the topic. I'll be moderating the chat to facilitate the flow of it. I may interject every now and then.

Participating media include: Dave Zeitlin (MLSsoccer.com and CSNPhilly.com), Kerith Gabriel (Philadelphia Daily News), Chris Vito (Delaware County Times and the Brotherly Game), Jonathan Tannenwald (Philly.com), Philly Soccer Page, the Brotherly Game (of course), Philly Soccer News, ASN Philly, Union City Blue, GOAL.com writers and Philly Union Talk. Though not participating directly, the 700 Level will be a part of the chat as well.

If you're new to the site, please don't hesitate to sign up for SB Nation and join the Brotherly Game.