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    Default Match Day 15 - TFC @ New England Saturday June 3rd 730pm - Don't Look Back





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    I don't like to give points away but we have the luxury of being able to afford it.

    I am really worried about tired, older guys getting hurt, especially on the plastic. We have just earned/added two guaranteed-to-be-physically-brutal Montreal games to the schedule in June.

    Play the Ottawa leg one lineup ex Traintor, but pull Morrow. I would sit Morrow, Beitashour, Vazquez. Even if it means Endoh at fullback. (I have never been happier about the international call, would far rather that Bradley and Altidore play on grass elsewhere that day, as they will. Wish Morrow had also gotten called, as he should have been.)
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    Thanks for the music Og! I'll be listening to two of my favourite albums now that you reminded me...

    I agree, I'm expecting absolutely nothing from the NE game. The Revs are a hit-&-miss team, but have a very good home record (undefeated 4-0-2). With low expectations, perhaps some of the young TFC players can surprise us.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Auzzy View Post
    Thanks for the music Og! I'll be listening to two of my favourite albums now that you reminded me...

    I agree, I'm expecting absolutely nothing from the NE game. The Revs are a hit-&-miss team, but have a very good home record (undefeated 4-0-2). With low expectations, perhaps some of the young TFC players can surprise us.
    At least a draw just to keep the undefeated streak alive though.

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    I missed the beginning of the Ottawa game... Will Ricketts be out/injured for Saturday?

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    Screw the hoping for a draw and not expecting nothing from this game talk. We can beat the Revs. I expect us to be competitive and have a decent chance at winning. I refuse to lower my expectations of this current team.

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    seems like Big Ben and Jhams will get another shot to play

    Jhams hold up play is really improving. looks like hes been hitting the weights too

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    Quote Originally Posted by Joe Kool View Post
    Screw the hoping for a draw and not expecting nothing from this game talk. We can beat the Revs. I expect us to be competitive and have a decent chance at winning. I refuse to lower my expectations of this current team.
    Our B team can beat most MLS squads. The Revs are nothing special.
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    Way Seba was talking last night, he's playing for sure. I believe we are giving them a full strength squad, running the 3-5-2 right at their less then stellar FB's.

    Its an away game on turf, so anything could happen. But we go in as favourites.

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    Is the New England turf really that bad or is this a narrative we are all buying into? I mean, all turf is bad, but theirs can't be worse than anyone else's can it?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Canary10 View Post
    Is the New England turf really that bad or is this a narrative we are all buying into? I mean, all turf is bad, but theirs can't be worse than anyone else's can it?
    I'm not sure, it might just be post-Danny-K PTSD.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Canary10 View Post
    Is the New England turf really that bad or is this a narrative we are all buying into? I mean, all turf is bad, but theirs can't be worse than anyone else's can it?
    If I recall we lost Koevermens (career ending I think) and Altidore to long term injuries on this turf in the past so maybe just a bad taste in the mouth because of that. It hasn't been kind over the years but it is what it is and shouldn't be an excuse for anything. Turf fields are complained about by every MLS team that normally play on grass.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Joe Kool View Post
    If I recall we lost Koevermens (career ending I think) and Altidore to long term injuries on this turf in the past so maybe just a bad taste in the mouth because of that. It hasn't been kind over the years but it is what it is and shouldn't be an excuse for anything. Turf fields are complained about by every MLS team that normally play on grass.
    They should complain. Turf fields are harder on joints and tendons. I just can't imagine New England's is worse than anyone else's. They do have a professional football team playing on it too, and I can't see them being happy with crap turf.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Auzzy View Post
    I'm not sure, it might just be post-Danny-K PTSD.
    I tend to agree, I think it is the supporters that are more paranoid, we see many MLS teams playing on turf and their players aren't getting injured, I agree that the ball is more difficult to control and it rolls and bounces funny. Field a strong lineup and blow the doors off of New England.

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    It's got to be better than the Shite at the Olympic Stadium in Montreal.

    I honestly have no idea how the league approved that one...

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    Quote Originally Posted by woolly View Post
    It's got to be better than the Shite at the Olympic Stadium in Montreal.

    I honestly have no idea how the league approved that one...
    NE upgraded their field turf

    http://www.patriots.com/news/2017/05...ldturf-surface

    The upgraded installation of Gillette Stadium's synthetic turf surface is now complete and will make its debut when the New England Revolution host Real Salt Lake on Saturday, May 13. The new surface features FieldTurf's latest monofilament technology. FieldTurf has been the surface of choice at Gillette Stadium since transitioning from grass in 2006.

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    Quote Originally Posted by backbeat View Post
    NE upgraded their field turf

    http://www.patriots.com/news/2017/05...ldturf-surface

    The upgraded installation of Gillette Stadium's synthetic turf surface is now complete and will make its debut when the New England Revolution host Real Salt Lake on Saturday, May 13. The new surface features FieldTurf's latest monofilament technology. FieldTurf has been the surface of choice at Gillette Stadium since transitioning from grass in 2006.
    Thats what they said about the turf at BMO in year 1.

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    Well its good enough for Tom Brady.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Canary10 View Post
    They should complain. Turf fields are harder on joints and tendons. I just can't imagine New England's is worse than anyone else's. They do have a professional football team playing on it too, and I can't see them being happy with crap turf.
    They just replaced the turf at Gillette Stadium this month. It's not the same stuff that tore up DK's knee back then. I'm okay with our players playing on it because it's probably in its best condition it's ever going to be.
    https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/p...kiJ/story.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by woolly View Post
    Thats what they said about the turf at BMO in year 1.
    oh i hate field turf but at least they have a newer surface than the cement they had before so that may enter into the decision of who plays
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    bono
    zava moor mavinga
    beta oso cheyrou chaps edwards
    seba hamilton

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    Quote Originally Posted by Richard View Post
    Well its good enough for Tom Brady.
    http://nesn.com/2016/11/tom-brady-wo...natural-grass/
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    I say play the best squad... go for it


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    Quote Originally Posted by reggie View Post
    bono
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    beta oso cheyrou chaps edwards
    seba hamilton
    bono
    edwards zava moor mavinga
    cheyrou ​endoh
    cooper
    oso chaps
    hamilton
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    Quote Originally Posted by reggie View Post
    bono
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    seba hamilton
    fixed...

    bono
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    endoh oso cheyrou chaps edwards
    spencer hamilton
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    Ricketts likely out




    As for Spencer, the guy's a pylon. Bench only because we have no other forwards.

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    I really can't see where the goals are going to come from in this one.

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    We have two weeks off after this game. Nobody is going to get rested except the injured.

    And NER's defence is particularly cruddy.

    Goals will come from Seba, Hamilton, Vasquez, Morrow, Delgado et. al.

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    Quote Originally Posted by OgtheDim View Post
    We have two weeks off after this game. Nobody is going to get rested except the injured.

    And NER's defence is particularly cruddy.

    Goals will come from Seba, Hamilton, Vasquez, Morrow, Delgado et. al.
    I was just saying that because I said it before the last game and look what happened.

 

 

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