We made the final 2 years in a row. Instead of eating into this season, we played meaningful CCL games.
At some point it was going to catch up to us.
We used argue that 1 friendly a summer was too much of a strain on our team.
After the past 2 years it sucks to miss the playoffs. But I'm more worried that key parts of that run will start to be lost.
Hopefully TFC continues to add new pieces and be a perennial contender, rather than take the approach of knocking it all down and starting over.