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You cannot stop us. We are the Rose City
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TOTW
What does it take to make the USL First Division Team of the Week? In the case of Portland Timbers midfielder Bryan Little, it took an excellent second half against the Puerto Rico Islanders followed by a pedestrian performance against Miami. For Timbers defender Cameron Knowles, it took his usual solid backline performance [...]
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Walking in a Timbers Wonderland
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No worries, mate
The Portland Timbers boss tells us all in the Trib to take a chill pill. Don’t worry about the lack of scoring. Don’t worry about those four consecutive draws. Everything is going to be fine. And considering Gavin Wilkinson’s record as a manager it is probably just fine for [...]
Category: Timbers Team NewsTaking a look at the Timbers’ tallies
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Seven-game Comparison
After re-examining the doom and gloom of my last post, I thought I’d take a deep breath and try to convince myself that despite the lack of scoring we have seen the past four games the sky is far from falling on the 2008 Portland Timbers. Consider this: through seven games in 2007 [...]
Category: Timbers Team NewsEnough with those scoreless draws, already
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How to explain it? Three nil-nil draws in the past four games. Even with inferior players up front in 2007 the Timbers weren’t shutout three times in four games. With the addition of Chris Brown and Takayuki Suzuki this wasn’t supposed to happen. If you look at the statistics, in the [...]
Category: Timbers Team NewsUSL First Division Week 6 Wrap
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Wednesday
Charleston Battery 1-0 Montreal Impact - Charleston picked up its third win in a row at home thanks to a goal by the absolutely on fire Randi Patterson in the 86th minute. Montreal finished its six-game road trip with two wins and four losses. Charleston’s defense has been impressively stingy this season, allowing [...]
Category: USL First DivisionMatch 7: Miami FC Blues 0-0 Portland Timbers
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Well crap, Word Press ate my post. If you didn’t catch it earlier, it was full of insightful and astute analysis, as well as lots of poor grammar and punctuation. My apologies for the technical glitch. I’ll see if there is some way to recover what I wrote.
Category: Match ReportsPortland Timbers face the Blues in Miami
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Less than 48 hours after coming away with draw in Puerto Rico, the Portland Timbers will be back at it in Miami where kick off against the Blues is set for 3pm Portland time. You can watch the game on USL Live or head on over to Beulahland (118 NE 28th) or Slabtown (1033 [...]
Category: Timbers Team NewsMatch 6: Puerto Rico Islanders 2-2 Portland Timbers
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The Bottom Line: The Portland Timbers came back from a two-goal deficit to pick up their first point in four tries in Puerto Rico in front of 6,922 at Juan Ramon Loubriel Stadium. The Islanders (1-3-1) struck first on a header from Sandy Gbandi in the 20th minute. Just five minutes later John [...]
Category: Match ReportsBring on the Islanders
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The Portland Timbers face the Puerto Rico Islanders the second time this season Friday evening in Bayamon. You’ll recall that the boys in green and white won the first encounter a month ago in Portland thanks to a 71st minute goal from Chris Brown. Puerto Rico played a man down the last 50 [...]
Category: Timbers Team NewsOh, the Places you’ll go
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I’m not sure if it was a wise business move or whether it has really helped the league, but I do know that when Puerto Rico was granted a USL First Division team the league became infinitely more awesome. When I talk to people who don’t know a thing about the Portland Timbers I [...]
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