Kiwi Players Elsewhere

Finn Surman (Portland Timbers | USA)

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over 1 year ago
coochiee
Will be some nerves for young Finn. Sounders play at Lumen Field (as do the Seattle Seahawks in the NFL). Capacity 72,000!

Also the Sounders are Portland's big rivalry match so it should be the most hostile atmosphere possible to experience as a Timbers player
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over 1 year ago
A nice crucial challenge from Surman to deny a good shot on goal
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Finishes a 1-1 draw. Timbers get a 68th min equaliser, and Sounders down to 10 men a min later.

The point I think allows Portland to go 8th on GD from Vancouver (who lost today).
So Timbers to host Whitecaps midweek in 8th v 9th wildcard game.
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over 1 year ago
Good to see Surman get a full 90 minutes. I see his stats say he had 84.2% pass completion - he completes 48 passes which was the most for Portland.

MLS website still says Vancouver in 8th and Portland 9th, but the Whitecaps announced before today that their stadium would be unavailable to host the Play-In match so either way Portland get to host it
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over 1 year ago
Any local fan feedback?


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over 1 year ago · edited over 1 year ago · History
Half a Pint
A nice crucial challenge from Surman to deny a good shot on goal

Not sure if these are visible in NZ, but the challenge is the first bit of the highlights.
Looks like, yeh, he could have done better for the goal. (That said the way they were defending that corner confused me.) But he also got a good block in late on with the scores 1-1.


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over 1 year ago
martinb
Any local fan feedback?


Decent praise from the gaffer.

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over 1 year ago
coochiee
Finishes a 1-1 draw. Timbers get a 68th min equaliser, and Sounders down to 10 men a min later.

The point I think allows Portland to go 8th on GD from Vancouver (who lost today).
So Timbers to host Whitecaps midweek in 8th v 9th wildcard game.

A little bit of pressure off in that Whitecaps couldn't have hosted the play-in game even if they had finished ahead, which meant hosting rights would have been ceded to the opposition. They had a pre-scheduled event at BC Place which meant it wasn't available for the Whitecaps - one of the downsides of sharing a stadium with many other events.
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over 1 year ago
Pretty decent comment from timbers fans if you type "surman" into twitter
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over 1 year ago
carlind
coochiee
Finishes a 1-1 draw. Timbers get a 68th min equaliser, and Sounders down to 10 men a min later.

The point I think allows Portland to go 8th on GD from Vancouver (who lost today).
So Timbers to host Whitecaps midweek in 8th v 9th wildcard game.

A little bit of pressure off in that Whitecaps couldn't have hosted the play-in game even if they had finished ahead, which meant hosting rights would have been ceded to the opposition. They had a pre-scheduled event at BC Place which meant it wasn't available for the Whitecaps - one of the downsides of sharing a stadium with many other events.

This likely influenced Neville’s thinking in giving Surman a start or not
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over 1 year ago · edited over 1 year ago · History
Crowd 36,000 in Seattle.

If Portland beat Vancouver in the 8th v 9th wildcard game, they will play Western Conference winners LAFC over 3 rounds in the next playoff phase. LAFC's owner last week bought into Auckland FC.

https://www.mlssoccer.com/video/highlights-seattle-sounders-fc-vs-portland-timbers-october-19-2024



The 3 North Pacific Coast MLS teams actually play for their own little trophy (Cascadia Cup) over the season. Vancouver, Seattle & Portland. After yesterday's draw Timbers become this season's Cascadia Cup winners on countback.

https://www.timbers.com/news/recap-portland-timbers-win-cascadia-cup-with-1-1-draw-against-seattle-sounders-fc
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over 1 year ago
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over 1 year ago
Yipe Surman back to the pine as Portland host Vancouver, wild card playoff.

Župarić and the Peruvian Araujo, the starting CBs for the Timbers.
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over 1 year ago
Feeling Surman may be getting a chance in this team soon with Vancouver currently 4-0 up after 54 mins!


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over 1 year ago · edited over 1 year ago · History
Make that 5-0 at 60 mins! 

Absolute shellacking at home. Scottish internationals Armstrong (1) & Gauld (3) with 4 goals between them for Vancouver.

Season over for Portland, but yeah Surman must be in the running to be a starting CB in 2025, based on this result.

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over 1 year ago
One of the CBs Župarić actually got dragged at HT (0-3), one of 3 changes made at the break by Neville.

But Canadian international Kamal Miller came on, ahead of Surman.

I guess we will get some news Feb-March next year in pre season, where Finn S likely is in the CB rankings at the Timbers.

At least he will get some AWs matches in Novemeber.
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over 1 year ago
On at the 83min, commentators gave him a big wrap, they mentioned Neville suggested that he is the best CB on the roaster and will play a big part of next year.
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over 1 year ago · edited over 1 year ago · History
Finished a 5-0 drubbing. Timbers fans wouldn't have liked that 

Surman actually came on at 83 mins. Presumably Miller moved to full back where he often plays.
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over 1 year ago
Finn got himself a decent pay raise with his move
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over 1 year ago · edited over 1 year ago · History
All a bit relative though, the US is pretty expensive (including tips) to eat out etc.
Will feel less so yes, when you are earning actual green backs, and presumably they set him up with accommodation and a car.

Tuiloma still on good coin (about $NZD800K) for getting splinters.
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over 1 year ago
RR
Finn got himself a decent pay raise with his move

Thanks for doing my work for me RR. I'm getting lazy. 😅

If I've worked out the taxes right as well he's still taking home circa $130-140k in the hand. That's more than enough to get by over there quite comfortably. Beautiful part of the country too.
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over 1 year ago
Espanol classes para Finn.
Perhaps Boxy can be his professor in the next AWs camp. He's been playing with Latinos for years now in the MLS.

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over 1 year ago
Good signs for Surman. I think him & Miller are the only CBs on that list.
The way Neville was speaking at season end he'll likely be at worst 3rd choice CB, and maybe even starting next MLS season. Bit of cleanout at Portland perhaps.
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over 1 year ago
coochiee
Good signs for Surman. I think him & Miller are the only CBs on that list.
The way Neville was speaking at season end he'll likely be at worst 3rd choice CB, and maybe even starting next MLS season. Bit of cleanout at Portland perhaps.

Makes sense if they paid a fee to land him.

Noticed that a couple of the Aussie lads in Girdwood-Reich and Bovalina were both listed as unprotected by their respective club sides. Not that it came to much in the end in that Expansion draft.
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about 1 year ago
Portland in the middle of pre-season two games that I’ve seen on there FB page in some invitational, no surman in either game but can’t see anywhere saying he’s injured
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about 1 year ago
“The folks in Portland love Surman, a full New Zealand international who’ll be on the field in next summer’s World Cup. He arrived in the middle of last year and was slowly integrated into the team. He didn’t make an appearance until Decision Day, when he started and went 90 minutes in the Timbers’ 1-1 draw vs. the Sounders. Then he grabbed some bench in the Wild Card game against Vancouver and had a front-row seat for his side’s 5-0 humiliation.

Beware of correlation vs. causation and all of that, but, y’know. 5-0. I’m not sure he’s in line to start from first kick this year, but it’s hard to imagine bringing back the exact same group that shipped 56 regular-season goals last year, and then lost that nickel at home in the playoffs. Changes will eventually be made.”
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about 1 year ago · edited about 1 year ago · History
Boxall on Surman. 'He's a unit..."
Both Minny & Timbers at the Coachella Valley Invitational pe season tourney in California.

MLS kicks off next weekend.

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about 1 year ago
coochiee
Boxall on Surman. 'He's a unit..."
Both Minny & Timbers at the Coachella Valley Invitational pe season tourney in California.

MLS kicks off next weekend.

 I always love when the Kiwi accent gets subtitled
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about 1 year ago
dunnix
coochiee
Boxall on Surman. 'He's a unit..."
Both Minny & Timbers at the Coachella Valley Invitational pe season tourney in California.

MLS kicks off next weekend.

 I always love when the Kiwi accent gets subtitled

Yanks do it for everyone. Explains a lot.
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about 1 year ago · edited about 1 year ago · History
Surman on at the 61 minute mark in a 2-0 loss, unfortunately 2nd goal was his fault, missed a tackle and that player then passed for a 1-2 Surman didn’t keep up with him and he scored.

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about 1 year ago
Not a good start to the season for Portland - Down to 10 after 10 minutes, and now 2-0 down just after the half hour mark. 

They're getting pummeled. Looking like a very long day at the office for Surman and co.
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