Jake Gleeson (GK Coach | Saint Mary's College)

Anyone watching this?

Gleeson starting. Jeld-Wen Field looking fantastic, Timbers Army in good form. Hoping for a Portland goal so y'all can see one of the best traditions in football.

Serious rain.

Jake will think he's back at Endeavour then.

Great crowd, great atmos, loving this. ESPN, I love you..when you show decent sports.

That disallowed goal is possibly the worst sporting call in the history of organised sports.

Good take by the kid. 

This is a great game.  Real good promotion of MLS which a lot of people give far less credit than it deserves.

What's this tradition?

Having a lumberjack (Timber Joey - Portland's second, the first being Timber Jim) cut off from a wooden log for every goal scored. With a chainsaw. While on the pitch in front of the Timbers Army. The slice being awarded to the goalscorer post match:



Very unique, very Portland, very very awesome.

Dude, it's awesome. A huge beardy bloke saws off a slab of wood from a log with a f**k off big chainsaw.

That's an awesome tradition!

Cool - I'm all for big f**k-off chainsaws.

Wonder what the players do with the logs they get after the game.

I think the big fella was handing them out to people in the crowd. Would be a cool souvenir imo.

Jacob beaten by an OG from the edge of the box

Grr, beaten by a long looping shot

Gleeson very unlucky not to get enough on the 2nd to put it over the bar. Piss poor marking in the box from his defenders. Striker had WAY to much time.

4-2

All over

Gleeson got the save of them game. Also good to see a NZ flag flying in the crowd!

That was a rather good game! MLS is still low down on my sport watching priorities though,but may watch more of Portland and gleeson if get the chance.

Unlucky to concede the first goal, own goal and all.  Should have done better with second but defence were slack for it.  Great game.  Great atmosphere.  Would have loved to be there.

Video of the chainsawing!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-GmHcmdYBo

I'm not 100% sure on how the whole thing works, but the Timbers twitter feed haved reported that the goalscorers collected their slices from Timber Joey after their victory lap. So I'm guessing the crowd gave them back. Either way, awesome tradition, awesome football club.

For those in Wellington/Kapiti, Jacob is on Newstalk ZB tomorrow morning @ 8.25am.

They really do love Jake and Wilkinson over there in Portland and after watching the first home game (finally!) It is good to know they are basking in a fantastic fellowship that is the Timbers Army.

Each slab represents a goal by a timbers player and the keeper is awarded a slab for a shutout. It's strange, as the game is in play you can hear (even over the crowd) a chainsaw going off and the timbers army are yelling ecstatically at the log... there is something very American about the whole thing.

Wow, gotta say, very impressed and thoroughly enjoyed getting to see the game, Timbers Army were rocking, it felt like a Champions League final when the teams walked out onto the field at the start.
Looked like an awful call to deny the cooper goal from the corner.
Pretty impressed by gleeson, really good decision making under the high ball, knowing when to catch and when to punch, and 1 save where he got down to his left very sharply for a big lad, unlucky with both goals, kinda feel like he could have got more on the second but oh well, no biggy.
good sh*t, i rate it

Portland is really buzzing from this game.  Like turning up to a party....

On-air chat with Jake on Saturday....about 24 minutes in...

http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/thisweek/hourrecswn/Sat,%20Apr%2016%2008.00%20TRN-NEWSTALK-ZB-WGN.asf

Was gonna make Portland my second team but then I found out you have to pay $25 US a year to be a member... Made me realise how wicked Yellow Fever is!

http://www.seeon.tv/view/980/

Portland vs dallas live stream, about 25 mins in, portland already up 1-0. Wicked atmosphere again.

You gotta wait for the crappy ads to finish before the stream starts.Azevo2011-04-18 10:34:06

Thanks for the stream, should be working but taking a look. Portlnd now 2 nil up.

Make that 3 nil after 55 mins

all falling apart atm..

Well timbers won 3-2, wasn't looking good towards the end of the game. At least it's a win though!

Watching that on ESPN totally changed my opinion of MLS football. What an awesome atmosphere. The crowd packed into a intimate stadium were going off the whole game. Best vibe at a match I have seen since seeing Marseille play at the velodrome.(and ever Nix game) 

For the zillionth time, we do. NHS and Waikato Stadium.

I have been watching MLS for about 4 years now and I definitely think it is underrated, of course it it is not as great as some leagues in Europe, but it is definitely one of the better leagues to watch outside of Europe.

I believe NZ players looking at the MLS as a stepping stone into Europe would be pretty wise. Instead of just trying their luck strait off in Europe.Azevo2011-04-18 14:59:07