Expansion Success
Does anyone have the stats on the success of expansion clubs?
This was Real Salt Lake's 5th season in the league. After never making the playoffs, they made it to the semi final last season and this season they are champions.
Everyone knows the great success that Seattle enjoyed this year.
How about the others?
Based on Salt Lake's success, it gives hope for a TFC turnaround in year 4.
Chicago won it in its 1st year in the league I think.
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Chivas finished 3rd overall in thier 2nd year
and 1rst overall in thier 3nd year
houston Dynamo finished 2nd and won the cup in thier first year...but that may not count in this thread since they were a relocated team
in a perfect world anyone who mentions this little factoid in any context would be bathed in fireOriginally Posted by Nuvinho
Spoiler Alert!
I'm currently on vacation in the past (time-travel vacationing is all the rage in the 2040's) and can tell you that Toronto win the league in year's 5-8, making them the first team to three-peat in the MLS and creating literally hundred's of news headlines abusing this horrible pun.
That's all I can say, my vacation is coming to an end in approximately 14 seconds. I have to get back to the present now, Canada are playing Ireland in the final match of the World Cup of Robot Laserball and I don't want to be late for the humming of the national theme-tunes. The robot overlords get very abusive if SSH's show up late and I could lose my food priviledges for up to a space-week.
Oh, if we're going to count Chicago in the league's 2nd year we might as well count that one, too.
Columbus also had some terrible years before winning the Cup.
This is why I mentioned that Toronto needs to make the playoffs next year. If we don't, we will be a poor example of an expansion side for sure.
Only the new San Jose team seems to be struggling just as much. And even then, they are a revival of a team that has already won the MLS Cup twice so I am not sure we can count them. That whole Houston thing is a bit of a wrench in the analysis.
Still...we aren't impressive by any means.
I'm looking forward to seeing how Philly runs things. Have they signed anyone yet?
Did San Jose not win there very first year in League ??? the first time around ?
LOL! Lord help us if Philly makes it into the playoffs in 2010 and we don't.
With Grass next year we can't lose
That's the whole point though, isn't it? ANy team can go from last to first in the space of a season (or in the case of the shite bulls, second to last - hahaha). Equality is KING in MLS. There is ALWAYS hope of a turnaround the following season.
Even for teams owned by MLSE...
We are the Angry Mob, we read the papers every day
We like who we like, we hate who we hate
But we're also easily swayed
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