Personally my favourite is Portland's away jersey. That's the jersey TFC should haveOriginally Posted by sky
Personally my favourite is Portland's away jersey. That's the jersey TFC should have
Totally agree. The light shade of blue looks like what happens when you wash a white shirt with a new pair of jeans. It's a really horrible colour.
LA are very difficult to score on. For a team that can't score through the run of play, that'll be a challenge.
Being scored on by a 10 man Chivas makes me think this might not be the case.
that was a fluke. you can be sure Bruce Arena will fix that sort of lapse from happening again
“Years have gone by and I’ve finally learned to accept myself for who I am: a beggar for good football.
I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead: ‘A pretty move, for the love of God.’
And when good football happens, I give thanks for the miracle and I don’t give a damn which team or country performs it.”
-Eduardo Galeano
Yeah I'm a bit worried that this game will be some sort of backlash because of their last result.
The good news is that I think they will be taking their frustrations out on Colorado this weekend. Also, they play Monterrey 4 days after they play us, so this might be a pretty good time to face them.
--------Bendik
Ecks--Califf--O'Dea--Russell
----Cesar----Dunfield
Bostock----------Ephraim
---------Silva
-------Earnshaw
Here's a question - do you go with Bendik who's been pretty solid in goal, or do you give Frei his first home appearance in a year?
You go with a goalkeeper with hot hand. Frei has to earn his starting job back somehow.
you have to give Frei his chance. Frei is the starting GK. As solid as Bendik has been, he knew that he came into the team as a back up. If Frei loses form, or more likely injured again, Bendik will get his chance again
“Years have gone by and I’ve finally learned to accept myself for who I am: a beggar for good football.
I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead: ‘A pretty move, for the love of God.’
And when good football happens, I give thanks for the miracle and I don’t give a damn which team or country performs it.”
-Eduardo Galeano
-----------------Frei-----------------
Eckersley----Califf----O'Dea----Morgan
Bostock----Cesar---Dunfield----Ephraim
----------------Silva------------------
--------------Earnshaw---------------
I'm going to refrain from posting my line up until next week, with likely new signings coming in. But I like this line up, except I'd sit Morgan and add Russell
“Years have gone by and I’ve finally learned to accept myself for who I am: a beggar for good football.
I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead: ‘A pretty move, for the love of God.’
And when good football happens, I give thanks for the miracle and I don’t give a damn which team or country performs it.”
-Eduardo Galeano
Is it time to start worrying if BMO will be ready?
I thought I'd give Morgan one more shot to redeem himself before nailing him to the bench for a couple of games.
-----------------Frei-----------------
-Eckersley----Califf----O'Dea----Russell
---------------Cesar------------------
---Bostock------Silva-------Ephraim---
---------Urruti------------------------
--------------Earnshaw---------------
Subs; Bendik, Morgan, Bekker, Osorio, Gale, Lambe.
Last edited by Ultra & Proud; 03-20-2013 at 01:59 PM.
Why? I'd rather give him a kick in the ass sooner than laterI thought I'd give Morgan one more shot to redeem himself before nailing him to the bench for a couple of games.
and we'll have to see how tired he will be after flying in from Qatar. how well he does for MNT should be taken into account
“Years have gone by and I’ve finally learned to accept myself for who I am: a beggar for good football.
I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead: ‘A pretty move, for the love of God.’
And when good football happens, I give thanks for the miracle and I don’t give a damn which team or country performs it.”
-Eduardo Galeano
This is sweet!
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Yes, I was just thinking how much I'd like that to be our actual lineup.
Probably be watching from the bench so how well he did shouldn't factor in.
Nelsen has already hinted that Bendik will likely get the start (citing the tiny amount of minutes Frei has played over the past year).
Perhaps, I just feel it would be a nice gesture to give Frei his first start in over a year at our "real" home opener. But Bendik or Frei, I'm not really bothered.
Wonder if anybody else realizes that Stefan Frei is at 96 Appearances in all competitions 4 more and he's the first to 100 for us. Glad de Guzman didn't get that title. Personally I never liked him here, cunt never went in for a tackle. "WIN THE BALL!" anyways, I think he's do for some recognition at 100.
TFC will win this game. I love when we play US sides, I hate them all.
I hate everyone but us
yup.
Ideally I'd give Frei a reserve game first, and if he does well start him in the next MLS match, but of course the crappy MLS reserve league only starts April 6th, same day as our match against Dallas, so Frei would have to miss two games before playing. As a fan I'd like to see Frei get a chance and won't be upset if he does, but as a coach I'd probably go with what's been working, and Bendik's been mistake-free so far.
IIRC Frei already played a reserve match against some lower division side
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I am.
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Not sure how confident I am about the match against LA. Yeah, we'll be at home (our proper home, that is), but they're on an unbeaten streak right now ever since the start of the preseason - including CCL matches. In the league, they've racked up 5 goals and only conceded 1. I agree that their upcoming match against Colorado won't be a good test of their strength, but I fully expect them to put up a fight on the 30th.
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