Also from this weeks Flying Kiwis -
"Tommy Smith ended a frustrating season with Colorado as the club’s second top scorer. He was also awarded their best defender at the club’s prizegiving. Personally he didn’t do all that badly but it was a shocking campaign overall and if Anthony Hudson can’t up the results then he won’t last too long into 2019. But who cares about that right now? Here’s Tommy Smith chatting on BBC Radio Suffolk’s Life’s A Pitch podcast.
Smithy: “For me personally it’s been a great experience, a lot different to playing Championship football. Results didn’t go as planned but a great experience and hopefully next year we can build on that and be successful. It’s a great place, Denver itself as a city is fantastic. The climate’s great, we play through the summer so the weather’s always really nice and the mountains are only an hour away so my wife skis a little bit, she’s been up into the mountains a fair bit. We’ve had lots of visitors come over and they’ve said nothing but good things about the place, so we’re really lucky in that regard.”
As for the standard of the MLS these days, Smithy’s very well qualified to chat about that…
Smithy again: “It’s a lot better than I thought it was going to be, especially the attacking players. You get DPs, Designated Players, in the MLS where you can pay them any amount of money and that’s usually spent on attackers. So it’s been a tough job for me this year trying to cope with players like Zlatan, Rooney, Giovinco at Toronto, you’re coming up against high calibre players. And it’s only getting better, more and more players are going over there in their prime, there are a lot of good Central and South American players, as well as good American players that people don’t give due recognition to. I’m sure the league will grow and grow in years to come.”
Up Next: According to Smithy, it’s time for some time off, before visiting family in New Zealand at Christmas, then back to the States for preseason in late January"