Trade Vancouver for Ottawa imo. IMFC-TFC-Ottawa rivalries would be fun.

First road win of the year.
First ever win in Vancouver.
And just the second win in the last three months.

Woo 7th place. Watch out sporks.

Whitecaps have the 2 longest goal droughts in MLS this season

and have gone from one of the very best defensive teams in the league to one of the very worst

is that bad?

oh, and all of this

kill me

Could be worse. Could be a Seattle fan. Plus a winnable champions league group!

Philly scores 80 seconds into the match lol

Seattle will pass us, and SKC will win the group

don't you ****in' dare try to make me feel better about this ****show

should have been a penalty for drogba

typical MLS ref

Don't worry, still hope for the DRAW

not anymore

Where did Sean Davis come from?

Good luck getting your starting place back, Dax.

the guy who was at Southampton?

edit: nope, that's Steven Davis

Revs suck lol.

Was that a pk? Stadium went nuts

Revs 0-4 Union

LOL!

Eagerly awaiting Bobbo TR

Sorry folks didnt realize ya'll wanted one. Ill type one up in a bit

Hmm you may be right about Seattle. This Lodeiro fellow looks useful.

Barnetta was never an 8. Bedoya in one game looks like he will be a decent nogs replacement.

loltidore is playing like a man possessed all of a sudden

Yeah, I was gonna say. Jozy looked incredible last night.

Now keep those hammies loose and let's see this form for a continued stretch.

My trip report:

So I decide on Friday to go to the Saturday Revs game because my gf's parents are friends with season ticket holders, they got really good tickets, and then they couldn't go to the game. Fair enough, I've been to about 2 games/year for the duration of my fandom (4 years now? 5?) but this year I haven't watched a single game. Partly because I got rid of cable last year so it's a pain in the ass to follow as casually, and partly because I've been sick (various maladies, some covered in the FAQ) / moving / busy with other things.

We actually get to Gillette early which is unusual for me. It looks like it may rain so I bring an umbrella. 2 people tell us, while we are on our way, that my gf's purse will get turned away. U wot m8? Sure enough, there is blatant sexism and women with purses bigger than a wallet are not allowed in with the bag. So-called clear bag rule. Well then, we have to walk all the way back to the car, and they say I can't bring my umbrella in. So instead of being there early and for the anthem and so forth, we waste 10 minutes going back and forth, and of course...

We miss the first goal finding our seats. Motherfcker. I am used to the supporters section, as it is a little bit more fun, but - not to call out MLS fans or fans in general here or whatever - but the cheering is super lameO. In England there are at least personalized cheers with witty banter or whatnot. Here it's literally "REV O LU TION" on end for like 30 mins. Anyway, these seats are as good as they come:



2nd row, nearly exactly 50 Yard line. Jay Heaps is 10 meters from me.

Anyway, I'm relieved that I recognize 10 of our 11 players, so the team has not really changed at all from 2 years ago. My friend Dave, GKA on the boards (almost never posts) did inform me on the drive in about our new Jamaican international.

Diego Fagundez has the work ethic of... Well, just picture the lowest work ethic you can and that's him. He was a little bitch all game (got subbed out in the 2nd half) and his body language is terrible. Has no fight in him. Kelyn Rowe is basically the exact opposite, and nearly got into 3 fights along the side bc of some rough Philly shoving into the "boards". (Why the **** are they so close to the sideline... Utter disgrace we play on a football field)

Can't say too much about the individual players. Just seemed like the Revs had a bad game, but I can't even compare them to anything this year since I don't know. All I know is we have a mediocre point record and are on the fringe of the playoffs.

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Fast forward to halftime. It's still 1-0, we have a bunch of yellow cards, and although we are leading in corners and shots, Philly just seems like the better time and are deserving to be up 1-0. We go to get hotdogs and a pretzel, and wow, we got the dogs, and the buns were soaked and soggy. We told them this and basically went through like 5 until we finally got non soggy buns. The pretzel was brutal too. So, major THUMBS DOWN for the food at Gillette. In the past I've had good experiences with the food there, for whatever it's worth.

My girlfriend makes a cool observation that is worth sharing:





Jay Heaps has terrible shoe game. It appears as though he's wearing platform sneakers. The Philly manager - I had to google him, Jim Curtin - is wearing fancy nice shoes. So it's no surprise we lost.

~~

2nd half we play uninspired soccer. Heaps loses his voice yelling at the refs. Lee Nguyen is taken off.

About the only bright spot really is about 15 minutes to go the entire stadium is cheering for Charlie Davies. CHAR LEEEEE DAAAA VIIIIES.

The Unions last sub is spent on the cancer-free individual, place goes nuts for him, and the fans are somewhat happy that at least he's healthy. He proceeds to **** up his first touch and also deflect his own teammates shot for us, so I guess soccer-wise we didn't really lose much trading him.

We leave at the 89 min mark, when it was 3-0. I only learned that it ended 4-0 on this very board apparently, as we were trying to get to my car. I got stuck in the parking lot for like 20 minutes anyway, we drive home (it had finally started pouring, at least we didn't get wet on the field) argue a little bit then make up and all in all we will remember this game for Charlie Davies, the shoe competition, soggy dogs, and sexist policy about women's purses.

Haha, that's a fantastically Bobbo TR.

Thanks for writing that up

Kenwyne GOATs just put Central FC up 2-1 over SKC.

So excited for 2017

Surprised not to see Roy Lassiter on that list. I don't know if he was actually good or not but remember him bossing it for the Mutiny when I was a little kit and MLS was the only thing close to club soccer available in this country.

Impact results are pretty surprising with and without DrogbAIDS.

At home with Drogba: 2-2-3, 1.1 points per match
At home sans Drogba: 4-0-0, 3.0 ppm

On road with Drogba: 0-1-4, 0.8 ppm
On road sans Drogba: 2-3-2, 1.0 ppm

He's been a huge cheap shot artist lately and probably deserved 2-3 red cards over the past 6 matches.

Can't say I'll be that upset when he's gone.

They'll never bench the cash cow, but Impact would likely be better rolling with Mancosu.

so apparently schweini said he's done playing european club soccer after man united.

MLS? Atlanta perhaps?