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Not a bad weekend for the Timbers
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The Portland Timbers began the Labor Day weekend in eighth place in the USL First Division table. They are now tied for ninth place. Nevertheless it was a pretty darned good weekend for the idle Timbers.
Atlanta, a team that is stalled on 32 points, lost its fifth straight game, falling at home to [...]
Category: USL First Division
Not Much Happening News
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Roster Freeze: The USL First Division roster freeze has come and gone without the Portland Timbers making any last minute changes. It is up to Steve Reese, Troy Ready, et al to make the promised land of the playoffs on their own. One deadline day move worth nothing did take place. The [...]
Category: USL First DivisionThe playoff scenarios will make your head hurt
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The original schedule had the Portland Timbers facing the Montreal Impact on Wednesday, August 27. That game has been pushed back until Monday, September 8 because of the Impact’s participation in the Concacaf Champions League. As a result, the Timbers have a couple of weeks to prepare for their upcoming 8-day stretch when [...]
Category: Timbers Team NewsTimbers lose in Vancouver. Again. Playoff chances fading
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The Vancouver Whitecaps can’t move out of Swangard Stadium soon enough as far as the Portland Timbers are concerned. The Timbers continued their amazing string of futility at the stadium in Burnaby, BC on Friday, losing 2-1 to the Whitecaps. That’s 13 losses in 16 games there. Bobby Howe, Chris Agnello, Gavin [...]
Category: Timbers Team NewsBrad Knigton Recalled by New England; Scot Thompson doubtful
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The starting keeper is back in Boston. The starting right back may be watching this one from home in Portland while on newborn duty.
It’s your turn to be a hero, Chase Harrison.
Category: Timbers Team NewsPortland Timbers face the Vancouver Whitecaps
By: Bob Kellett | 4 Comments
There have been times in previous seasons when I thought the Portland Timbers would travel to Vancouver to play the Whitecaps and they would come home with three points. I don’t have this feeling heading into Friday’s game. Consider me 100% jaded. Watching your team lose 12 out of 15 at Swangard [...]
Category: Timbers Team NewsMartin Nash on Portland; Bryan Little on Next Season
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Vancouver Whitecaps midfielder Martin Nash, brother of NBA player and aspiring MLS owner Steve Nash, weighs in on the MLS expansion efforts in Vancouver and Portland:
“Portland’s got great support,” he says. “I think both teams have good solid franchises in this league, and that proves to the MLS that they’re sustainable. If they don’t both [...]
Timbers Grab Bag 08.20.08
By: Bob Kellett | 12 Comments
BJ, One T on TOTW
Bryan Jordan and Scot Thompson were named to the prestigious USL First Division Team of the Week this week for their efforts in the Timbers’ 2-1 victory over Montreal on Saturday. It is the third week in a row that Jordan has received the honor, which I believe entitles him [...]
Category: Timbers Team NewsPast Performance not a true indicator of Future Peformance
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A date to remember
May 23, 2004. For the first and only time the Portland Timbers won a regular season game against the Vancouver Whitecaps at Swangard Stadium. After former University of Portland forward David Xausa put Vancouver up 1-0, Alan Gordon scored a brace and Hugo Alcaraz-Cuellar netted a goal to lift the [...]
Category: Timbers Team NewsSix, Six, Six
By: Bob Kellett | 2 Comments
The Portland Timbers have six games remaining in their 2008 schedule. Six games between now and September 20. That doesn’t sound so bad, especially by USL-1 standards. Dig a little deeper and you’ll see that after Friday’s game in Vancouver they have two weeks off before hosting Miami on September 4. [...]
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