Stumptown Footy, a Portland Timbers community

One thing that's become very clear this week: our head coaching role is highly desirable. We will get this one right.

Kris Boyd's visa was finally approved. He should arrive in Portland this weekend. #rctid #goals

re: our annouce tom:...GW after this guy for 2 yrs. Olave has long been a favorite of mine and this guy has potential to be as effective

Preseason tourney @ JWF. 2 MLS sides plus us and AIK (Swedish 1st division). for STHs all games count as exhib.game A. Details today #RCTID

Young DP player signed soon. world-class potential..big addition for us and league. turning 20 soon. no announce until ITC approved #RCTID

They left [Merritt Paulson] and his front-office executives sitting in folding chairs on the third floor of the stadium. Paulson headed to his seat before kick, but on the way, said: "I'll tell you what, when those (expletive) come to our place they're going to be sitting in the stands."

The renovation of PGE Park is expected to be finished for the home opener. Capacity was supposed to be 20,000, but Paulson said changes such as individual and group seating will likely lower capacity to 19,000.

"It's just the seat count and the way everything is working out, such as the number of areas that are group seating areas," Paulson said. "We don't know the exact number yet, but we'll have the ability to add a couple of thousand seats."