So yeah, I know we missed the rankings last week, since we were too busy with other stuff. Turns out tracking the international break and following MLS combined with our personal travel just means we fell behind here. However, our voters were rocking and rolling this week, so we were able to get out our…
Author: Travis McTravelFace
Travis McTravelface is the False Nine’s road correspondent. He pretty much lives on the road collecting way too many airline and hotel points supporting the Verde in todas partes.
Week 3 MLS Power Rankings
Well this past week’s MLS play was only mildly absurd by league standards. We didn’t have Miami beating Charlotte with only 10 men for a half and no Messi or Chicago scoring 3 goals after the 80th minute (and saving a PK in that stretch) to win the Brimstone Cup up in Frisco, but it…
The False Nine Power Rankings (1.0 in Week 2)
Well, since we are two weeks into the new MLS season, a number of us gathered around the compound and started looking at the Power Rankings from MLS, ESPN, Backheeled, and other sources. And while many of the people are doing amazing work over there, some of their analysis is just lazy. To be fair,…
The Alignments of the West
Lawful Good: Vancouver Neutral Good: Real Salt Lake Chaotic Good: San Jose Lawful Neutral: Colorado True Neutral: Seattle Chaotic Neutral: Minnesota Lawful Evil: LA Galaxy Neutral Evil: LAFC Chaotic Evil: St. Louis CITY We were watching Sunday night’s primetime match between the LA Galaxy and the San Jose Earthquakes at the compound. First off, Don…
How to make a Bad Situation Worse: The Austin FC II Open Cup Ticketing Mess
After the 2023 season, our expectations for 2024 Austin FC were pretty low. We just finished a miserable season, and Rodo made it pretty clear that the rebuild of the first team was going to take multiple transfer windows. Maybe come close to a play-in game in the West, get smashed in Leagues Cup, somehow…
Real Schedule Preview
The holiday season is often about celebrating love. With Don Garber showing us some rare love by releasing a schedule before Christmas, our hearts were temporarily warmed. Then, we quickly realized that we didn’t get the gift of matches at a random baseball stadium in New York, a weekend by the lake against a clueless…
The Comprehensive Guide to MLS Stadiums and Support
After having had a chance to visit CITYPark for last weekend’s match, I wanted to share a long overdue piece ranking the league’s stadiums and fan support in it. Unlike some of the other pieces here, I tried to write it from a more neutral perspective rather than a super biased Verde faithful. Tier 1:…
Leagues Cup Intro
Congrats! We have survived the first half plus of the MLS Season in 5th place in the West after this bizarre first two/thirds of the season. If you had told me, we would be in 5th back in February with the string of injuries we have dealt with, I doubt I would have believed you….
Ranking the Austin FC Road Wins
Since we are in the middle of an epic North American road trip from the swamps of South Florida where we only managed a draw to the prairies of Minnesota to the shadows of the whitecaps in British Columbia, I decided to look back on all 12 Austin FC road wins in the club’s history…
#WolffIn: A Rebuttal
My esteemed colleague, Uncle Tony P, wrote a piece yesterday arguing that the underlying data suggests that Josh Wolff should be sacked. Maybe because I am a patient man who is so used to dealing with travel delays that it’s second nature, but the piece struck me as a bit hurried. Look, no one is…