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Out of Office
By: Bob Kellett |
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The Portland Timbers Offside is suspending operations for two weeks for routine honeymooning maintenance. Please check back on August 11 for more grammatically incorrect musings about how a team that can’t win or score at home is still going to win the league.
Be well, friends.
Category: Timbers Team News
Tags: Bring Back Chugger!, Honeymoon, Not going to think about Gavin Wilkinson for two weeks, Timbers Team News, Vacation TimeMatch 20: Portland Timbers 0-0 Carolina RailHawks
By: Bob Kellett | 6 Comments
Bottom Line: For the seventh straight regular season game, the Portland Timbers were unable to come away with maximum points at home. The Timbers played the Carolina RailHawks to a 0-0 draw in front of 8,257 at PGE Park. Portland were forced to play a man down for much of the match [...]
Category: Match ReportsMLS to Portland Fan Website Launched
By: Bob Kellett | 14 Comments
Here’s the press release:
PORTLAND, July 24th 2008 – On the eve of the 2008 Major League Soccer Allstar Game, a loosely assembled group of Portland residents, writers and sports fans today launched MLStoPDX.com, a grassroots-oriented website designed as a resource to educate, discuss and influence plans to bring Major League Soccer to Portland Oregon.
Yesterday, [...]
Category: Portland MLS ExpansionPortland Timbers face the Carolina RailHawks
By: Bob Kellett | 6 Comments
USL First Division action returns to PGE Park on Thursday evening when the Portland Timbers attempt to do something they haven’t done since April 26: win a league game at home. This effort will have to be made without the services of defender Tim Karalexis and forward Benjamin Totori. They are both out [...]
Category: Timbers Team NewsTimbers can’t win games, but winning awards is no problem
By: Bob Kellett | 4 Comments
The power of the Internets
The results are in and Takayuki Suzuki has left Brandon Roy and the other Portland athletes in his dust. From Willamette Week’s pointless, and now entirely comical, Best of Portland edition:
BEST ATHLETE
Takayuki Suzuki (Portland Timbers) Meet the Timbers’ new forward. The 32-year-old Japanese footballer played eight seasons in his home [...]
Category: Timbers Team NewsByron Alvarez back with the Portland Timbers
By: Bob Kellett | 4 Comments
That exhibition game against Tigres was a tryout after all and Byron Alvarez evidently passed the test. The Portland Timbers announced Tuesday that they have signed the club’s all-time leading goal scorer for the final 11 games of the 2008 season. The irony being that Alvarez is being brought in to help save [...]
Category: Player NewsPortland Timbers Odds and Ends
By: Bob Kellett | 4 Comments
Number of games the Timbers were shutout in a season
2006 – 13
2008 – 9*
2007 – 9
2003 – 8
*11 games still left in the season
The more things change, the more they stay the same
There have been many frustrations watching the 2008 Portland Timbers slog their way through games, but perhaps the most frustrating to me is [...]
Category: Timbers Team NewsMonday Musings
By: Bob Kellett | 7 Comments
Brother, spare a defender?
With Tim Karalexis likely gone for the season and Justin Thompson likely out of Thursday’s game with a card accumulation suspension and Cameron Knowles/Scot Thompson playing massive minutes, I can’t help but think Gavin Wilkinson will be on the phone today trying to secure a defender on loan from an MLS club. [...]
Category: Timbers Team NewsThe Great Leap Backward
By: Bob Kellett | 6 Comments
Are the Portland Timbers any better than they were at the end of the Chris Agnello era in 2006? Forget the ownership situation. Yes, it is better. Forget the fan base. Yes, it is bigger. Forget last season. Let’s focus on the current product on the pitch. In [...]
Match 19: Charleston Battery 2-0 Portland Timbers
By: Bob Kellett | 4 Comments
After a weekend in which the Timbers played two games and forced their opposition into exactly two saves (two saves in 180 minutes!), I am too depressed to even write about this one. I’ll let the others fill in the ugly details.
“We were very solid defensively,” said Battery coach Mike Anhauser. “They were lumping [...]
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