It's that time again. Here are the last polls for reference:

http://forums.redpatchboys.ca/showth...or-TFC-in-2016
http://forums.redpatchboys.ca/showth...or-TFC-in-2015
http://forums.redpatchboys.ca/showth...or-TFC-in-2014
http://forums.redpatchboys.ca/showth...or-TFC-in-2013

I was feeling pretty good about this year until that Chicago pre-season game. I still feel that TFC is one of the strongest teams in the East, but I also feel that their backline is still prone to laspes that leads to goals. I'm worried that at the halfway point teams will have figured out how to deal with TFC's 3-5-2 and Vanney will scramble around trying to find an alternate formation that will optimise the pieces they have to use. I'm also not sold on Vazquez as the key to our AM woes.

I think they can win 2 of the first three on the road and put together a solid run through the spring. But then I think they'll slump a bit in July and August with a slate of western teams they'll be playing and international call-ups they'll be missing. I think we can get about 13 points of the western teams and 45 points of the eastern teams for a total of 58 points and conference champions. Watch this will be the year my expectations are too high.