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We have the best team.
We are in first place, and it's about getting the right work in, staying sharp, but not getting too high or too low.
This is a pretty meaningless game, and so is most every other game from here on in. I don't really care whether we are 1st of 4th in the east. It truly doesn't matter.
Seems that most of the comments in the last couple of game threads are agitated. I guess people are all excited about Supporters Shield, which I am not. I don't want to burn out chasing a meaningless trophy. I am also extremely bored with picking on reserves, which has become the house sport here.
A great opportunity to kick back and enjoy our elite team, who will get their fair share down the stretch.
Last edited by ensco; 07-24-2017 at 06:47 AM.
"There are some people who might have better technique than me, and some may be fitter than me, but the main thing is tactics. With most players, tactics are missing. You can divide tactics into insight, trust, and daring." - Johan Cruyff
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Sure. I have always believed that.
My issue is with the negativity that seems to be going with this "chase". Did Cooper make a bad pass? Awful. Did Spencer miss an open net? yes.
This ragtag bunch got more than decent results the last six weeks, inclusing a stretch where we had 6 games in 12 days, or whatever that was.
How much did I see people celebrating the amazing sequence leading up to Morgan's goal? Not much.
I am probably going to have to stop coming into the game threads during and after, for a while anyway.
Anyway, to each his own, as you say.
Last edited by ensco; 07-24-2017 at 07:29 AM.
"There are some people who might have better technique than me, and some may be fitter than me, but the main thing is tactics. With most players, tactics are missing. You can divide tactics into insight, trust, and daring." - Johan Cruyff
+1
For me its all about MLS Cup and our eventual CCL run. Supporters shield and such whatever. This team has fought through so many injuries, call ups and a jam packed schedule to be top of the league. Vanney and Bez are legit and rarely have our scouting let us down. Big crowds at BMO. I couldn't be happier with this season so far.
On Giovinco... his numbers are still impressive tho the bar for him is and should be MVP. Without a MVP Giovinco we are still top of the league. Hopefully he can finish the season of strong and be ready for our playoff push. If he needs more rest then rest him. Supporters shield is nice but MLS Cup is sweeter.
We won the trillium cup. the rest is bloody gravy.
Road Games:
2013 - Montréal , 2014 - Orlando (Disney Classic), Montréal
2015 - Columbus, New England, Montréal
2016 - NYCFC (Leg 2 Conference Semis), Montréal (Leg 1 Conference Final)
2017 - Ottawa (Leg 1 Canadian Championship Semi), DCU, Red Bulls (Leg 1 Conference Final), Columbus (Leg 2 Conference Final)
2019 - Montréal, NYCFC (Eastern Conference Semi @ Citi Field), Seattle (MLS Cup Final)
Vanney should rest everyone. Play the youth/reserves lads from now until October lol.
Well I mean 1 or 2 more wins and we should be comfortable point's wise to get into the playoffs.
I'm with FYR on this one though. I get what ensco is saying about burnout before playoffs, and I know the league isn't the same now as it was then, but damn it why can't we do a 2011 Galaxy? Is it greedy? Sure. But I feel like this team has the talent to do some things we haven't seen in this league in a while.
TFC management changes: "like adding a new fish to your aquarium of failure." - Shakes
Pfft to your Supporters Shield and MLS Cup, some of us are just sitting around waiting patiently for the CCL to begin
"There are some people who might have better technique than me, and some may be fitter than me, but the main thing is tactics. With most players, tactics are missing. You can divide tactics into insight, trust, and daring." - Johan Cruyff
The biggest concern to me is not bench players, it's still Giovinco. He still doesn't look like the Giovinco of the past two years, as much as we were hoping that brace a few games ago was going to ignite him. He was pretty much invisible Saturday. That first touch where he's gone before the defender even knows what happened has deserted him. Luckily we have other players stepping in and making up his goals but we'd be basically unplayable if he was his old self. I really want to see him rip through NYCFC like he did a few times last year.
TFC management changes: "like adding a new fish to your aquarium of failure." - Shakes
I'm not going to dismiss the value of wining the Supporters shield entirely as it does take a very good team and depth to win it. However, its significance is made entirely meaningless with an unbalanced schedule and the erratic nature of MLS game scheduling.
Maybe winning it once would nice, just so we could say that we collected one of the trophies available.
I would still rank the CCL trophy as first priority to win and then the MLS playoffs.
1st place = home field throughout, no? I'll take that, another cup final at home.
I agree with Eastend. 1st place will guarantee us home field advantage throughout the playoffs and another cup final at BMO should we get that far.
With the playoff format the way it is, it's all about hitting form at the right time. I don't feel we should be letting off the gas to just coast in to the playoffs. We need to keep up the momentum so we are hitting top form down the stretch and in to the playoffs.
If our side wins the Shield, the road to the MLS Cup goes through BMO Field.
Any team in Major League Soccer think they can stop a deep, healthy, and highly motivated Toronto FC in the Fortress come November and into December?
I don't think so.
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the Supporters Shield is important to me because I want to sit in BMO field, -6 degrees c, and watch live as TFC lifts the MLS cup - pure bliss
but CCL would be ultra-bliss...
I would like to win the Shield just to keep the possibility of being the first team complete the treble alive, but that in my opinion is not the main goal. What I want is to be the last team standing come mid December. I'd love nothing more than to do it again at BMO. I think with our depth and Vanneys ability to meld line ups and manage games, player burnt can be avoided. We have a team here that is very very good and the time to capitalize is now.
Good arguments to the 'Pro' Supporter's Shield Camp, more so than the 'Anti' Supporter's Shield Camp
Thrash NYFC on Sunday
I also want TFC to win the Shield in able to have Home field during playoffs
I see everyone's point... I think that Vanney should rotate the players to keep everyone sharp and trying make sure that the top guys ie Seba, Altidore, Vasquez and Bradley are healthy and firing on all cylinders come playoff time and hopefully have home field advantage throughout the playoffs
That being said, I hope TFC has a few statement games against teams right behind us..
How nice is this that we are discussing the validity of chasing the supporters shield
I also think I've heard a couple of times that this squad expects that whichever TFC team is out there that they will to win... every single game. The coachng staff may decide to rest people in certain situations where the next game is more of a priority but whichever squad goes out there, they expect to win.
Very different mentality then what we have seen here before.