One hour til the game... Discuss amongst yourselves here during the game. Starting lineups coming... Go Crew!
Starting: Gruenbaum, Miranda, Gehrig, Marshall, Francis, Gaven, Urso, Mirosevic, Anor, Vargas, Renteria Bench: Hesmer, Williams, Schoenfield, Vukovic, Grossman, Tchani, Findlay TFC Starting: Kocic, Eckersley, Harden, Emory, Morgan, Johnson, Dunfield, De Guzman, Soolsman, Koeversmans, Plata Bench: Who cares
O'Rourke is hurt? Bummer. I see Duka didn't make the bench, so they're being good and cautious with him. I'm a little surprised Toronto is playing so many folks who started Wednesday. I thought Silva would get in there.
I'm wondering what happened to O'Rourke, too. The Crew tweeted a pic of him at BMO just a few minutes before the lineup was announced:
Just turned on 610 and heard the end of the interview with Warzycha. They didn't mention anything about why O'Rourke was out (though I may have missed that earlier). Did hear that Duka (I think thats who they were talking about) may play in the reserve match vs Toronto later on.
Not sure why DOR is out but Gehrig is scary back there. TFC did convert to grass last season. DOR is injury-prone so nothing would surprise me at this point- just happy we got two straight games out of him!
Sika just said on 610 broadcast that he is "waiting to hear" about DOR. MLS Live website seems to be freaking out with the pre-game roll. Its giving green screens and errors. Hopefully they sort it out before kickoff.
MLS live feed just snapped over to TSN feed from Toronto. Boo. Guess I'll be listening to 610 through the match. Video feed is scrappy and stuttering still.
Okay, FSOhio is a huge improvement over ONN; no one would dispute that. But they really need to quit this "Soccer Night in Ohio" crap. The game's at 2 in the afternoon, people! ------RM
Man, I'd much prefer Williams at CB to Gehrig. Josh at least has given us some decent performances back there in CCL/USOC matches in the past. We're down to CB #5 on the depth chart with James, Mendes, and Danny all out. And yes, BMO has had grass for a number of years.
Man, though we have most of our top line players (sans Duka and the CB slot) we are really missing a LOT of depth guys. For my money, we are missing 7 who would probably be in the 18: Duka, James, O'Rourke, Mendes, Balchan, Speas, Heinemann.