Here’s the report from the final MLS game of the weekend.
Here’s are the MLS standings as the Sounders head off into a more-comfortable-than-might-have-been-expected bye week.
Update: And check the comments below for an update on the Timbers-Whitecaps USL playoff series.
Meantime, Timbers are 10 minutes from elimination in the USL playoffs. They’re down 2-3 at home v the Whitecaps, and 2-4 on aggregate.
Hard luck Portland.
*smirk*
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Hold on. Nimo scores for Portland in the 84th minute, it’s now 3-3 today and 3-4 Vancouver on aggregate.
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It’s all hands to the pumps for the Whitecaps. I can’t believe the league lets Timber Joey behind the goal with his chainsaw. Has anybody done a background check on that guy?
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And that’s the Tacoma Tide’s own Jon Billings doing the color commentary.
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Very entertaining finish. Portland desperate in the 87th min.
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And yeah, that chainsaw is very annoying. Please tell me that will be outlawed in the MLS.
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Timber Army braying like donkeys at a handball decision in the Vancouver penalty area — given against the Timbers.
They are so cute when they’re angry.
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Into the last of three added minutes… all out siege on the Vancouver goal
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It’s a final in Portland. Whitecaps go on to the USL final.
Timbers lose.
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Ya know, Portland will not be our true rival in 2011. They are only the annoying little brother. Vancouver will be a rivalry of equals…two cosmopolitan cities that know how to win.
Portland choked once again. How typical
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Interesting note: The USL final is now a two-leg affair starting in Vancouver. I think I like the one-game take all championship better
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This one’s for you Stumptown.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX7wtNOkuHo
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Nice. …
Cisco, I hear what you’re saying about Vancouver being all cosmopolitan and everything, and it will be a fun rivalry. Vancouver is in a foreign country, and generally those Canadians are so nice.
But it won’t measure up to the Seattle-Portland derby. That thing is gonna be tribal. Timbers Army is a worthy adversary.
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I guess if you think that the support group rivalry is more important than the game, then Portland is the rival- as for me, I’ll be paying more attention to the Whitecaps…
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Joepublic,
Not sure how long you’ve been around, but back in the NASL days, the Whitecap fans (and supporter groups such as they were) were not nice, they had that brit background so they knew how to chant, cheer and assemble in large numbers. They were brutal, and it was great.
Portland is sort of tribal, but I just think we’re more their rival than the other way around. The supporter groups can argue about the hate they have for Portland blah blah blah, but I think after a season or two of whitecap fans in our grills you’ll all come to appreciate the Vancouver rivalry more, in particular because they have a record of success much like the Sounders. A rivalry of equals.
Portland wants to be like us and it’s easy to bait them because they’re not Vancouver has no desire to be like us and look down in contempt at Seattle. THAT’S going to make it very entertaining.
Besides, what better way to drive Portland crazy than to act as if they don’t really matter. if we act as if Vancouver is more important, more worthy than Portland, it’s the ultimate putdown they have no defense against except winning games (and that’s just not going to happen)
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I moved up here in 1980 in time for the last season or two of the NASL Sounders; my allegiances were sworn back then to the San Jose Earthquakes, and then, for one awful season, the Oakland Stompers (featuring Shep Messing in goal).
But I remember many times when mobs of Gordys, Bretts and Waynes would get a weekend pass from the BC asylum and swarm into the Kingdome for a three-game Mariners v Blue Jays series, back when the Jays were a decent team. What a bunch of mooks.
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