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Timbers Grab Bag 06.30.08
By: Bob Kellett |
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Portland Timbers through 16 games…
2008: 5-5-6, 21pts, 14GF, 14GA
2007: 11-2-3, 36pts, 24GF, 10GA
2006: 5-6-5, 20pts, 16GF, 19GA
2005: 5-7-4, 19pts, 20GF, 30GA
2004: 10-6-0, 30pts, 35GF, 21GA
2003: 8-8-0, 24pts, 19GF, 19GA
2002: 5-8-3, 18pts, 17GF, 21GA
2001: 8-6-2, 26pts, 21GF, 20GA
Category: Timbers Team NewsTimbers pick up a split on the road
By: Bob Kellett | 2 Comments
Raise your hand if you thought the Portland Timbers season was pretty much over after Friday’s 1-0 loss against the Carolina RailHawks. Both my hands are raised. I’m typing this with my nose.
After a long break the Timbers pretty much played like they did during the first half of the season: they sucked. [...]
Category: Match ReportsUp Next: Carolina and Atlanta
By: Bob Kellett | 3 Comments
Those 12 days off sure were fun but now it is time to get back to business. The Portland Timbers face the Carolina RailHawks Friday evening (Fox Soccer Channel) and the Atlanta Silverbacks on Saturday (USL Live). This is one of those bad-feeling-in-my-stomach trips that long-time Timbers supporters know all too well. [...]
Category: Timbers Team NewsThe Latest on MLS to Portland
By: Bob Kellett | 9 Comments
It seems like just about every week a little more information is released regarding Merritt Paulson’s efforts to bring a Major League Soccer expansion franchise to Portland, which from my vantage point tells me this is all part of a calculated plan leading up to the unveiling of Paulson’s plan later this summer. Today [...]
Category: Portland MLS ExpansionWe’re going to win the exhibition league (and probably nothing else)
By: Bob Kellett | 2 Comments
Getting a little too friendly
Because playing them once at home on July 3 is not enough, the Portland Timbers will face Monarcas Morelia again on July 6. A big yawn followed by a scratch of the head, especially when you find out that the game will be played at Memorial Stadium in Seattle. [...]
Category: Timbers Team News
Tags: Atlanta Silverbacks, Carolina RailHawks, Monarcas Morelia, Portland Timbers, Timbers Team NewsTimbers Grab Bag 06.25.08
By: Bob Kellett | 2 Comments
Two more games…
…and then Ray Burse is gone.
When Timber Joey talks…
… you shall listen
Pump, you up
Can’t wait to see the rest.
An El Matador Sighting
Byron Alvarez is on Mexico’s Futbol Rapido National Team, whatever the heck that is.
Since I’ll be away in meetings most of today…
Take a look through the archives. #1 still concerns me. [...]
Category: Timbers Team NewsNew Keepers, New Injuries, New Suspensions, New Questions
By: Bob Kellett | 9 Comments
The long extended break the Portland Timbers are on was supposed to give the players time to heal their wounds and their manager time to come up with some answers to the team’s first half of the season mediocrity. It doesn’t look like that is turning out to be the case. The Trib [...]
Category: Timbers Team NewsAu Revoir, Portland Timbers-Lyon Friendly
By: Bob Kellett | 10 Comments
A bunch of good folks from the Timbers Army met with the front office of the Portland Timbers today and the legendary Bickle has provided those of us who weren’t in attendance with the headlines. Let’s go through them one-by-one.
Category: Timbers Team NewsTwo weeks off, two games in two nights, too many games
By: Bob Kellett | 1 Comment
After playing a whirlwind schedule that featured 14 league games, a US Open Cup match and an exhibition over the period of 47 days, the Portland Timbers are now easing into the lightest portion of their 2008 USL First Division schedule where they are set to play six league games over the course of the [...]
Category: Timbers Team NewsA New Central Midfielder for the Portland Timbers?
By: Bob Kellett | 8 Comments
Say hello to our new central midfielder (maybe):
Mark Briggs, who joined with the Riddle-coached Outrage on May 22, is the first to move directly from Kalamazoo’s upstart PDL club to the professional ranks.
He’s set to fly out to Portland, Ore., this Sunday, where, as long as both sides fancy each other, he’ll begin play with [...]
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