I am heading to the stadium, overdue, but mostly cause I want to see what a good MLS team looks like.. Man how the times have changed when the TFC supporters first seasons were in the dumps and confused fans... now look at them... Boy have the tables turned...
My honey got out of town on Saturday to visit a friend in Portugal, which was brilliant on her part as she didn't have to deal with my mood after the Minnesota match. She returns this Saturday; I'll be missing the match to pick her up from BWI. I'll be happy she's back, so I'll probably try and avoid hearing about the carnage that evening.
Planning to just go and watch from the champions club. More interested in watching this one tactically than being in the 130s
Doesn't that mean getting there really early and hanging out at the gate to be the first to run through when it opens? Seriously, I have had the impression that all the spaces in the CC where one can sit and watch the match get snapped up within seconds of the gates opening. Not true?
Of all the times I've been there I've never been there early enough to get one of the seats you can see the game from.
Given the first couple of posts in this thread, I'd like to remind everyone that Toronto has a fantastic history involving dead raccoons.
Oh damn. Maybe I'll re-evaluate. The only time I've actually been up there for part of the game (and for the same reason as I want to go up Saturday) was the second half of the 0-3 loss to Dallas last season. Went up at halftime due to not wanting to deal with the SGs and was able to snag 2 seats. Thanks for the heads ups
Ugh ... why do these games keep coming one after the other? I miss the old days when we'd skip an entire weekend for ASG. Also, **** Toronto. I'm still pissed about that goal De Guzman scored during a substitution and the idiot ref that let it stand. I also vaguely remember Hamid nearly murdering a Toronto player coming out of the box full speed. May have been the same game. One of the most deserved red cards in United history.
Back in the -olden-days, when I was young(er), when United was around the top-part of the standings and teams like Toronto were bottom-dwelling laughing-stocks (ah, the good ol' days) - we would have called this a classic trap-game. In that spirit, though all kinds of ********ed-up upside-down, I predict: DCU 3 TOR 1 To keep myself amused and a few of you annoyed, I think i put a dash every-where I possibly could-have and then added a few extra
Goff reports that Ian Harkes is out 3-4 weeks with an ankle injury, Vincent is done, and Nyarko is questionable, so we are liable to see a lot more of Neagle (for Nyarko?) and, perhaps, DeLeon for Harkes. I would rather roll the dice and see what Buscher can do, perhaps as a sub.
7-1 Toronto. We take a quick 1-nil lead and then fall apart. prediction #2 They run out of beer by the 20th minute after we give up goal number 3.
Prediction? By the 20th minute, the state of the match will be such that silly and/or pissed off chants will have begun. Somewhere around the 35th minute, a bucket will get passed around all the supporters sections to collect money for flying a plane with a banner around the stadium. During halftime, the folks with the bucket will realize that the rules of the DC Flight Restricted Zone would prevent any such banner flight. Since there'll be no way to know who to return the money to, the money will be used to buy as much beer as possible, which will then be passed out into the crowd in the loud side 100s. Around the 55th minute, for the first time in the match, DC United will threaten to score -- but will fail to do so. Numerous people will toss their beer anyway, just out of nostalgia for better times. Somewhere around the 62nd minute, an injury stoppage will occur when Marcelo "accidentally" steps on a Toronto player's ankle, receiving only a yellow card when a red would have been warranted. During the stoppage, Bill Hamid will take the time to walk over to the bench and put in a request for a trade, release, or transfer. In the 82nd minute, with DC down five goals, the Barra will try a last ditch maneuver, collectively mooning Sebastian Giovinco. His eyes will explode at the terrible sight, as well as those of three other Toronto players including their keeper. This will leave only seven players on the pitch for Toronto, the minimum required for play. Toronto will have used all their subs, so they will be stuck with seven players for the remainder of play, with one outfield player required to don a keeper's jersey. DC United will also lose two players, permanently blinded by glimpsing something more horrific than a gorgon's visage. However, DC United will still have all its substitutions remaining, as no solid argument could be made prior to that point that anyone on DC's bench would improve what was happening on the pitch. This will give DC United a whopping four man advantage, and a non-keeper as Toronto's keeper, for the remaining eight minutes plus stoppage -- an enormous advantage they will immediately press. In the 91st minute, DC United's four-man advantage will produce a goal, as a long ball sent into the box, where the keeper alone awaited it, takes a funny hop over a bump in the turf from a burial site for a dead raccoon, skips over the keeper and into the goal. There will be no beer to throw in the air. Buoyed by their success, DC United spends the rest of stoppage repeatedly launching long balls into the Toronto box, hoping to hit the raccoon grave and repeat their previous goal. No second goal comes. Final score: 5-1. After the match, Lindsay Simpson will provide commentary to the local TV broadcast on how there were several positives and signs of improvement and things the team can build on going forward, paying particular attention to the home field advantage provided by the irregular turf.