sleeping is overrated at a time like this and you need to get back on GTA time. ;)
welcome back.
What an historic season for the Reds. Here's a chance to complete what no team has EVER done before in the history of the MLS ...
https://www.torontofc.ca/post/2017/1...e-part-process
Based on this article, and I haven't looked back at the history, is Toronto the first team ever to be in this position? Meaning having won 2 trophies and then at minimum appearing in the finals for the 3rd?
Seattle and Dallas both had domestic and supporters - but never made the MLS Cup finals.
LA won the shield and MLS Cup, but didn't advance to the domestic cup finals.
I haven't looked up what has happened outside of that. I'm guessing if anyone has been in that position, it was pre 2004?
If Toronto wins the MLSL Cup they will have completed the first Treble (Shield, Cup & Domestic Cup) ever. Other teams have won 2, never the third.
This game is all I've been able to think about for the week.
4:30pm kickoff tomorrow can't come soon enough!
I may or may not be an employee of Budweiser's major Canadian competition but even if I was ... I hope to hell someone around here has the pull with TFC to get this played repeatedly on the big screen inside the stadium in the lead up to the game to get the crowd's voices warmed up ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnqbEKK6TCc
and I'm wishing ... for a Red Christmas by the way :)
I will gladly offer my services. :drinking:
TTC Closure
https://ttc.ca/Service_Advisories/Su...o_Lawrence.jsp
St Clair to Lawrence (Yonge aka Line 1)
Sometimes we muddle, sometimes we smoke the opposition. But you know what we do every time?
Win.
Never tried them, but I just saw these as I walked past them in Dollarama for $2.50 .
http://i68.tinypic.com/el7bpu.jpg
Well that was a completely unproductive week at work! Probably the earliest I've left for the airport. Feels different from last year. I really believe we got this one.
Not bad but they don't last all that long.
I use these from Costco. Last long enough.
https://i.imgur.com/7gAPxFMl.jpg
Had lunch at Joe's today. Apparently the league went around and did up the doors to the bars in the hood. Not sure how I feel about the one logo on our home's entrance. Anyone dare to cover it up LOL
https://scontent.fyyz1-1.fna.fbcdn.n...7f&oe=5A9480E4
The British Army's Royal Tank Regiment has a motto that has stuck with me over the years after reading about it - I think it sums up our collective TFC journey pretty well - and if things go well tomorrow It'll be even more appropriate:
'...Through The Mud & Blood To The Green Fields Beyond...'
"We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in the box, we shall fight in midfield and in set pieces, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our net, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the sidelines, we shall fight on the down the wings, we shall fight in close and in the open field, we shall fight in the stands;
we shall never surrender"
Guess there's only one thing left for the Reds to do ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-hDl6OALv4
Brian Schmetzer comes at us hard, to see if they can break through in the first 15-20. Our past 4 games dictates that they try and carve us open. If they see that we have strong lines or that they can't keep possession, then they switch to cat and mouse and hope for a break along the flanks. It's going to be a cagey affair in the first 20, until we settle and see where we can capitalize. The limes look dangerous on paper but I think that they are more uncertain than they let on.
I wouldn't be surprised if Greg changed things up a little to throw them off in terms of line up or tactics.
I'm stealing my own quote from a year ago...
"Twas the night before MLS Cup
And all through the city
Not a TFC supporter was stirring
As Aron Winter might say, ah 'tis pity..."
Scarves and tifos were hung by the door
And plenty of beer money, for Joe's before
As we prepare for one more sleep before the big day arrives, I am reminded of a more simple, innocent time, man do I miss this view even though our home down by the lake really is quiet beautiful.
https://scontent.fyyz1-1.fna.fbcdn.n...b3&oe=5A90F929