(All credit to Red4ever for the title and the pic)
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Have at it People
Match Day 30 - This game is a socialist utopia Reds vs Union Sat Sept 24 5 pm
(All credit to Red4ever for the title and the pic)
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Have at it People
Aww *blush*
The best strategy:
WIN WIN WIN WIN WIN
MLS is a tough, physical league, that emphasizes speed, and features plastic fields, grueling travel, extreme weather, and incompetent refs. - NK Toronto
I think if we score some goals while shutting them out, we have a good chance at winning. Hopefully Vanney has the same strategy.Originally Posted by Oldtimer
If we win this game we're pretty much guaranteed a top 4 seed and hence a home playoff game. We would be on 50 points, which none of the teams below the line can reach, nor can the Revs. That only leaves one team to beat, and Philly would have 3 games left, giving them a max of 50, and they'd need to overturn a current -10 goal difference.
I'd love a 1-0 shutout here. Just a solid defensive performance to get the D's minds back on track and feeling confident. I mean, I'll take any number of goals but more than anything I want good defense in preparation for the playoffs.
Our defence needs to rebound after that shite display. Irwin in for Bono and Hagglund in for Zavaletta.
Nah, leave Zavaleta in. He's shown that he's good enough, he just had a really bad game yesterday. Also, not Vanney's style to bury a young guy after one error (he could've done that to Bono after the San Jose debacle).
Zavaleta had one bad game. He's shown this season to be a superior player to Hagglund. It would be worse to drop him now and have him lose form and confidence right before the playoffs than to let him work through it and rebound.
Hagglund is better in the air and being physical with a big body like Drogba. Zavaleta better with the ball at his feet and I think a bit more mobile. Horses for courses.
Strategy:
Endut!
Hoch Hech!
Rumours of Maurice Edu coming back for this game, either as a DM or a CB (they have issues there).
OF COURSE. For THIS game.
FORMER FULL TIME KOOL-AID DRINKER
Time to clinch a playoff spot for the 2nd time in a few days.
If the "TFC curse" is in full effect he'll score a goal, too.
MLS is a tough, physical league, that emphasizes speed, and features plastic fields, grueling travel, extreme weather, and incompetent refs. - NK Toronto
Probably. Still waiting for Creavalle to pot on for Philly on us.
Edu will not be match fit and haven't played a game in ages. I think he can be exploited
“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
was disappointed with the NYRB fan turnout, looking at the scarcity of tickets for this I'm hopeful for a bigger, louder atmosphere. these guys deserve a full house for 90.
We are going to keep on playing the schedule until the league gets their numbers in order....Time to clinch a playoff spot for the 2nd time in a few days.
Can we do the Edu song? Just because?
“What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.”
gio back for this?
According to Vanney its only a matter of how many minutes he gets.
I assume Simonin won't be back up to the senior team this year...
He played 90 mins. the other night, apparently.
I agree 100%. We need our backline feeling strong and confident for the playoff push.
They need to be giving out free shit for people to show up early. I'm not sure why people show up late so routinely - it's not like it's a 5 hour event. Football games are short compared to other local sports. Having said all of this, Toronto is notorious for late showing crowds. Part of the reason is shitty transit. I live at Yonge/Eg and it takes about 90 minutes for me to get to the ground using TTC + some walking. That seems like a lot - midtown to downtown west.
I live at Queen/Parliament, take the King streetcar over and sometimes it can take as long as it would take me to walk if the traffic in the core is particularly bad.
With that said, I just make sure that I always head out with plenty of time. The constant lateness of people amazes me.
Queen and Carlaw for me. It's regularly an hour plus to get to BMO on the streetcar. Extremely annoying.
Worst thing about living on the east side!
The Dufferin bus route was a gong show last weekend. They had to detour back to Lansdowne and Dundas and then realized it's closed too and basically just piled up the buses there and told people sorry and we had to get out. I was at Dufferin station nearly 1.5 hours before kick off and I was still late. Seems to be one of the popular TTC routes down there so I'm sure many people were in a similar situation as me.
More than part of the reason, it's nearly the whole reason.
I used to live there so I know your struggle, it's a fucking chore to get a couple KM in Toronto if it's not right on the subway line. With streetcars down it's terrible to get there.
The main sign, cause it's something across ALL our city's teams, is everyone shows up late and leaves early, regardless of the match. Just to beat traffic. It's such a problem that people don't care they paid XXX dollars to be there, they'd rather not suffer in our terrible traffic system.
I'm always there on time. I live like a 5 minute walk from the stadium though
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