Comments on: Options, there are but a few http://timbers.theoffside.com/team-news/options-there-are-but-a-few.html News from Portland Timbers USL team Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:26:12 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Mike http://timbers.theoffside.com/team-news/options-there-are-but-a-few.html#comment-1169 Mike Sun, 13 Jul 2008 11:28:31 +0000 http://timbers.theoffside.com/team-news/options-there-are-but-a-few.html#comment-1169 Chris Brown's probably the only guy on the roster who can fill that central attacking midfielder role that Gregor played last year. What's clear to me is that either Jamil Walker or Benjamin Totori need to be on the field at all times, because we need a pacey player up front to stretch opposing defenses. A frontline pairing of Suzuki/Bagley will never accomplish much. Chris Brown’s probably the only guy on the roster who can fill that central attacking midfielder role that Gregor played last year.

What’s clear to me is that either Jamil Walker or Benjamin Totori need to be on the field at all times, because we need a pacey player up front to stretch opposing defenses. A frontline pairing of Suzuki/Bagley will never accomplish much.

]]> By: Allison Andrews http://timbers.theoffside.com/team-news/options-there-are-but-a-few.html#comment-1168 Allison Andrews Sun, 13 Jul 2008 08:29:46 +0000 http://timbers.theoffside.com/team-news/options-there-are-but-a-few.html#comment-1168 I think the team has alot of talent, but if you watch when the Timbers take the ball into the attacking third, they usually stop playing like a team and looking for a spectacular individual effort to produce a goal. There is a lack of a playmaker to make things happen, something that Andrew Gregor did last year. Gregor played this season like he was disinterested, and it showed. I think Brown can be that player, but he needs to be played more in the center to make that happen, and needs to have forwards in front of him who don't superglue the ball to their feet every time they touch it. On the positive side, the league is wide open this year with nobody looking like favorites, and nobody looking like they are out of it. But somebody has to step up to carry the team on their shoulders and be the guy who everyone plays off, and so far, we haven't seen it. I think the team has alot of talent, but if you watch when the Timbers take the ball into the attacking third, they usually stop playing like a team and looking for a spectacular individual effort to produce a goal. There is a lack of a playmaker to make things happen, something that Andrew Gregor did last year.

Gregor played this season like he was disinterested, and it showed. I think Brown can be that player, but he needs to be played more in the center to make that happen, and needs to have forwards in front of him who don’t superglue the ball to their feet every time they touch it.

On the positive side, the league is wide open this year with nobody looking like favorites, and nobody looking like they are out of it. But somebody has to step up to carry the team on their shoulders and be the guy who everyone plays off, and so far, we haven’t seen it.

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