Monday, April 30, 2012

Already?


So that's just about it.
A loss over the weekend essentially cemented it for TFC, no playoffs yet again.
Yup, that's right, and it's only April.

Ok, I'll be fair. Let's say it's May.

Now this is assuming that TFC doesn't go on to play at a supporter's shield winning pace, collecting points in every game and most of which must be wins.
So where do we go from here? To me, there is only 1 way to go; Let's win the Canadian Championship. Please, let's win it.
PLEASE!

We have Montreal first, let's hope the boys can turn it around against our French expansion rivals because if we don't. Well, it's going to be a long, long summer.

Friday, April 20, 2012

TFC Tomorrow

Tomorrow is a big game for TFC. Chicago is in town and it's time to finally win a league game. At this point, TFC sits 0-5 and at the bottom of the league in a year where they were expected to trend up and push for a playoff spot.
A loss to expansion side Montreal being the absolute low (in my opinion) so far. Last week TFC took their chances many times, and probably were genuinely unlucky, but at some point you need to finish.
Tomorrow, Torsten Frings makes his return, but Nick Soolsma is out. Danny Kovermans is a question mark, he's not feeling well but the question is "Can he play? Is it just a cold (or something to that effect) or a real injury?". Adrian Cann returned last week after missing the entire season last year, a much welcomed return.
Regardless of who is in the lineup, it's as simple as this. A win is needed. 3 points are crucial.

Monday, April 2, 2012

Wrestlemania 28

Another Wrestlemania came and went last night. I wanted to chime in on each match on the card, how I felt going in and how I felt coming out. Let's just call it #maniathought to follow up my hash tag from Twitter last night.

Daniel Bryan (World Heavyweight Champion) vs Sheamus:
I was actually expecting Sheamus to win going in to this match, not that I liked that. I thought that this had potential to be a "sleeper" match. 18 seconds later all I could say was "what the fuck?!". I've since heard that Bryan is sick so that might have been the reason for this. Either way, really disappointing.

Randy Orton vs Kane:
This was easily the "we don't know what to do with these 2 wrestlers so stick them in a match." match. That essentially sums it up. Kane won and I suspect that's only because everyone assumed Orton was going to win. Whatever.

Cody Rhodes (Intercontinental Champion) vs Big Show:
This seemed all along like it was a match that Big Show was going to win. The buildup was all about Big Show never having won a Wrestlemania match. Then, he won. Loosing streak over. No surprise. I assume he'll drop the title soon. Nothing special.

Beth Phoenix (Diva's Champion) and Eve vs Kelly Kelly and Maria Menounos (Host of TV's "Extra"):
Well, this is was this year's "celebrity in the ring" match. The buildup was alright at best. The segment where Beth and Eve invaded Extra's interview with Kelly Kelly and called out Kelly Kelly and Maria was fun, otherwise I didn't really care about this. I figured either Beth would destroy Maria Menounos or Maria would win, and guess what? Maria won. No big deal.

At this point the 1st hour of Wrestlemania was over and 4 matches were left to fill the final 2 hours. I found that very weird at the time, but we had a couple unexpected turns.

Triple H vs Undertaker with special guest ref Shawn Michaels in a Hell in a Cell:
The build for this match was mostly, in my opinion, about Shawn and HHH. They talked about how 'Taker can't be stopped, ect. It made me think that Micheals was going to screw over HHH in this match. It did not come to be, so my prediction for booking next year's match a year in advance was wrong. All in all, the match was better than I expected. They worked hard and the story told was amazing! Cudos to Shawn Michaels for helping it get over with his facials/actions/funny comments. As expected, 'Taker went 20-0 and keeps the streak alive. I think that this match was the highlight of Wrestlemania. Really good job by Micheals.

Team Johnny: David Otunga (Captain), Mark Henry, Dolph Ziggler, Jack Swagger, The Miz and, Drew McIntyre with Brie Bella, Vicky Guerrero and, Brie Bella vs Team Teddy: Santino Marella (Captain), R-Truth, Kofi Kingston, Zack Ryder, The Great Khali and, Booker T with Eve, Hornswaggle, Nikki Bella, Aksana and, Teddy Long:
Honestly, this turned out to be the replacement for the yearly Money in the Bank match and frankly the build just didn't captivate me at all. I was mad that Santino and Ziggler were put in this match when they each deserved a single's match. Santino is the US champion he should be defending his belt! Ziggler has put in so many good matches and is so entertaining, he deserved a match that he should have won, not to be stuck in the middle of a massive tag match.
Anyhow, we ended up with 2 really cool spots.The first one saw Dolph Ziggler take a monkey flip and he did a 360 and landed on his face! Just an insane bump.
Later on Kofi, Zack Ryder and R-Truth went over the top rope at the same time and landed on Mark Henry, Swagger, Drew Mcintyre and David Otunga. Hornswaggle was also in that mess as Mark Henry had tossed him aside just before the top rope spot. The Bellas and Vicky and Aksana got into a cat fight and were out of the picture and it was mass carnage outside the ring at this point.
The match ended with Ryder getting sacked by Eve and The Miz gave him the Skull Crushing Finale and the pin. WAY over-booked, and besides the 2 spots I just wasn't happy with this match.

As team Johnny celebrated John Laurinaitis said something about Punk looking angry and if he lost his temper during the match then he'd loose the belt by DQ. I really didn't understand it. I think the idea was supposed to be if Punk manages to get disqualified the title would change hands. As opposed to the usual rules in which the championship can not switch hands on a disqualification.

CM Punk (WWE Champion) vs Chris Jericho:
Going into this match they touched on personal issues in each other's lives. I thought it was really cool of them to trust each other going down that road without crossing the line. Obviously there was quite a bit of a stretch at times but it was still really cool. I expected the match of the night here, but it took some time to get going. I think it gained steam and it turned out to be pretty good, but it was still a slight let down. CM Punk retained via tap out using the anaconda vise.

Brodus Clay came out to his music in order to do a little funkasaurus dance. Of course he didn't have a match. He ended up telling everyone to call their mommas and had "his momma" come out and dance. Then all sorts of mommas (called the bridge club) came out and danced.

The rock show happened next. Some group called MGK played Cena out, then Flo Rida played 2 songs before the Rock came out to his own music.

John Cena vs The Rock:
Well, after all the build up. The fruity pebbles jokes, the rock concert, the survivor series and, all the hype it was finally here. All in all, it was an alright match. Rock looked like he was gasping for air and there were a ton of rest holds! Rock got the pin fall in a match that was alright and, that at was that. Wrestlemania was over for another year.