2016 MLS Schedule: Get Ready For The Excitement of Wednesdays & Sundays TFC Fans
Everyone ready to start booking those days off? A few surprises and maybe less than optimal dates – whee Wednesday and Sunday games – but we do get to finish the season at home which is always kind of cool. So here we go: TFC play their first eight games on the road, we knew this was going to happen as the 2nd stage of construction at BMO Field is ongoing – yay for a canopy? – but it’s always daunting...
VMP Final Countdown: Number 9 – Collen Warner
Highest Ranking: 6 Lowest ranking: 14 Average Ranking: 9.52 Kristin: 9. *Our ‘holding winger’ – quietly effective and under-utilized. Solid depth piece, TFC definitively won that trade. Sorry Issey, don’t mean to be inhumane.* Collen Warner surprised me this year; he’d impressed a few times in 2014 but this year I found myself missing him when he didn’t play. With the signing of Benoit Cheyrou it...
VMP Final Countdown: Number 12 – Ashtone Morgan
Highest Ranking: 6 Lowest Ranking: 25 Average Ranking: 12.79 Kristin: 10. *Nasty Left Back actually played! After being nailed to the bench the previous season, TFC’s defensive woes meant Morgan got to play. Saw some decent play – still has a future in the game.* I have a lot of time for Ashtone Morgan and I want nothing more than for him to do well. So to watch the roller coaster that has been his career with TFC the...
Sebastian Giovinco Wins MLS MVP: Seba Does The Treble!
Seba wins! Surprising no one it was announced this morning that Toronto FC DP Sebatian Giovinco was the MLS MVP for 2015: Other than potentially going to Kei Kamara there was no one else even close in this race. Seba led the league with 22 goals, and 16 assists, named to the best XI for the year, team of the week and player of the week multiple times and so on. There is no doubt that he had a remarkable season. No one expected him...
Ch-Ch-Changes! Toronto FC Release Konopka, Bendik, Jackson and Apparicio
And so it begins. After yesterday’s re-signing of Justin Morrow, Toronto FC wasted little time in releasing four players and exercising contract options to thirteen others. TFC made a somewhat surprising move in releasing both Chris Konopka and Joe Bendik – the two had shared starting duties this past season and it seemed likely that at least one would be retained if only as back-up to a presumptive new keeper. Most of...