Match Report: RSL Runs Away; Timbers Promise To Be Back
There were countless storylines created at Jeld-Wen Field Saturday night. Real Salt Lake deservedly advanced to the MLS Cup Final. The Portland Timbers clattered out of the playoffs, getting beat...
View ArticleMatch Report: Timbers Rattled By Quakes’ Set Pieces
The Portland Timbers opened the Rose City Invitational on Sunday evening looking to put on a good performance and give their supporters a taste of the success to come in 2014. While in many respects...
View ArticleMatch Report: Timbers Lack Finishing Instinct to Conquer Caps
For the second time in a week, the Portland Timbers first team had control at the Rose City Invitational but failed to come away with the result. After jumping into the lead with an early goal, the...
View ArticleMatch Report: Same Problems, Improbable Savior
Sometimes preseason performance is indicative of early regular season performance. Just as the Timbers dominated the ball, controlled much of the game, and came away disappointed against San Jose and...
View ArticleMatch Report: Timbers Limp Out of the Gates and Into Another Draw
The wait for the Timbers to find their offensive mojo continues for another week. In a game of two distinct halves, the Timbers sleepwalked out of the gates in the first half to fall behind then...
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The Morrison Report: Absolutely Wrong Edition
Mark Geiger got the red card on Donovan Ricketts absolutely wrong.[1] The correct call was a yellow card on Deshorn Brown. After Dillon Powers played a 68th minute ball over the top in the direction...
View ArticleMatch Report: Timbers Can’t Catch a Break in Colorado
The last thing the Timbers needed on top of their tepid form was bad luck. While the Timbers were less than overwhelming on Saturday, bad luck is exactly what they got from the linesman’s flag, the...
View ArticleMatch Report: Timbers Play Little D in Big D
The Timbers offense is a mess. Sure, there is plenty of on-ball talent in the Timbers attack, but no amount of quality can compensate for an offense’s failure to function off the ball. Until...
View ArticleMatch Report: Timbers Catch Fire; Crash and Burn
Progress isn’t always a pretty process. And Saturday afternoon, the Timbers showed significant signs of progress before crashing to a disappointing 4-4 draw against the Seattle Sounders. Signs of hope...
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Match Report: Timbers Good, Rimando Great in Salt Lake
In many ways this one hurts the most. With seemingly every sign pointing toward a drubbing in Sandy, the Timbers put in their best performance of the season at the Rio Tinto Stadium on Saturday night,...
View ArticleMatch Report: Desperation Earns Timbers Desperately Needed Win
For fifteen minutes, the scene at Providence Park was unnervingly familiar on Saturday night. After a strong first half with extended periods of positive play, the Timbers took a 2-1 lead into the...
View ArticleThe Morrison Report: Value of Press Edition
The Portland Timbers didn’t do a whole lot right in the first half against New York on Saturday. Without their first choice central midfield, the Red Bulls repeatedly had their way in feeding the ball...
View ArticleThe Morrison Report: In a Nutshell Edition
Another day, another frustrating, ambivalent, and – no matter how much lipstick some put on it – disappointing result for the Portland Timbers. Caleb Porter was upbeat after the Timbers’ 2-2 draw with...
View ArticleThe Morrison Report: Home Run Edition
Throughout the Timbers’ frustrating start to 2014 a common refrain around Portland has been that the Timbers’ woes were, in large part, caused by a lost offseason. The signings, the conventional...
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The other, other side of the trip. Beyond the match day and police escorts.
I want to say thank you to Portland Timbers owner Merritt Paulson who extended an invitation for Shawn Levy and I to take part in this historic trip. It was an honor to not only represent the club and...
View ArticleThe Morrison Report: Timbers Find Rhythm in Vancouver
The scene was far from foreseeable six days earlier. Merritt Paulson bounding out of the locker room, his head bobbing to the beat of hip hop spilling through the open door. Alvas Powell testing the...
View ArticleThe Morrison Report: The Symbiosis of UrrAdi Edition
Caleb Porter just can’t get this one right. He starts Maxi Urruti against Seattle and Fanendo Adi registers a brace after coming on as a second half substitute. So naturally the skipper starts Adi...
View ArticleThe Morrison Report: Ants in the Pants Edition
They’re the two most bizarre trends of the season. The Portland Timbers have allowed 13 goals between the 16th and 30th minutes of matches and scored none. The next leakiest teams during that period?...
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Orlando City Visit
—By Jeremy Varo-Haub Usually a 4-1 loss puts me in a foul mood. No question, I had good reason to be upset. Despite matching Orlando 1 for 1 on shots taken, and despite winning the possession battle...
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2016 Cuppy del Norte at Providence Park
—by Matthew Lindley As the sun set on this year’s annual Timbers Army BBQ, a new tradition was brought to the pitch at Providence Park. The Championship of the GPSD’s TAFC League is a match for the...
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