Comments on: Portland Timbers Face Charleston Battery Thursday

By: PDXPompey

PDXPompey — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:00:08 +0000

“Future generations will talk about how they were there to watch the last Timbers team that failed to win the league.”

That’s why you’re the best Bob!

3-1 Timbers, 10,000 plus in the stands.

By: Lucas

Lucas — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:28:42 +0000

Really looking forward to winning the league tonight.

By: Klown

Klown — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:30:07 +0000

[sarcasm] Next season — more loans from MLS. (’Cause, you know, it worked out very nicely this season.) [/sarcasm]

By: Zaggy

Zaggy — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:16:48 +0000

Potl and drom plus higgins= slowest midfield in USL (minus guante, but i don’t think he could even make that up) Agree with Bob, Taka off the bench as a super sub is great, he makes those tired defenders a bit worried, but they can hack him down enough when he starts that he is a non-factor by about 10 minutes in. I would be very surprised if Gavin doesn’t start the line-up bob mentioned above, but saying that, I really really can’t wait for the next season to see if Olum can play forward and to get a left back that has the speed to hang with overlapping runners (Higgens is not that person)

By: Bob Kellett

Bob Kellett — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 04:26:52 +0000

Bagley has scored three goals as a Timber. Suzuki has one. If either comes back next season I’ll find a new hobby, like watching C-Span 24/7. I happen to prefer Bagley starting and Suzuki coming in later in the game rather than the other way around. It doesn’t matter who is up front if you have Poltl and Dombrowski on the field together. They have two assists combined this year.

By: elfurdeball

elfurdeball — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:53:05 +0000

Two years, two goals from Chris Bagley. Seriously, we should go back to the front line that started the season.
Harrison
Scot, Cam, Dunn, Leo
Guante, Tommy, Dom, Higgy
Suzuki, Brown

Let Tommy and Dom sit way back to help our shitty defense and let Higgy and Leo over lap on long runs. Brown should be playing as a forward. Period. Taka should have some fresh legs and he was making some great passes in the first 5 games. He is still more productive than Bags.

By: RC

RC — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:47:56 +0000

Ah, thank you good Scribe…was missing my Timbers news today until now.

This team just cannot make life easy on itself. Back when whoever came up with the magical “we need 9 pts.”, we all suspected that it would take W’s on Miami, Charls, Carolina. Yet if we pick up a couple ties (which this season has been “built on”) vs. Mont & Roch, heck, we give ourselves a little breathing room in case (gasp) we tie one of the last two. The tiemeisters failed at even that! This is really going to piss me off if we do beat Charls and then screw it all up by laying another road egg.

Oh well, guess I’ll look forward to cheap beer on a nice late summer eve if nothing else.