Like Andrea, I too think that Toronto has hit a worse spot than Chivas USA's 2005 team. That team was awful but those players tried hard. They played hard. They had more than their share of bad luck and by the time Juan Pablo Garcia and Francisco Palencia arrived, it was waaaay too late. Hell, by the time June came around, it was too late to do anything.
But there seemed to be more optimism in Toronto than there was here with Chivas or even in Salt Lake that year. Toronto had a coach who many seemed high on, and they assembled a decent group of players to build around, like Edson Buddle, Alecko Eskandarian, Richard Mulrooney, Ronnie O'Brien, Jim Brennan, Conor Casey...
Well, Mulrooney and Casey are gone. O'Brien foolishly hurt himself and now Buddle and Eskandarian look like the hapless Martins-Torres-Taylor-Romo quartet from Chivas USA 2005.
I just hope the fan support is more like RSL than Chivas USA. RSL fans, for as crappy as that team still is, are loyal. So the answer to Are You Loyal? is a resounding YES. Hopefully the losing doesn't discourage Toronto fans.
The next three games don't look very encouraging either. Chicago, Houston, D.C.
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