Halford & Brough in the Morning - The Best of Halford and Brough 12/01/25

Episode Date: December 1, 2025

Mike & Jason look back at a busy weekend in sports, they discuss the Whitecaps going to the MLS Cup Final, plus they talk the 'Nucks losing a couple of games over the weekend with Canucks Central host Satiar Shah. This podcast is produced by Andy Cole and Greg Balloch. The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the hosts and guests and do not necessarily reflect the position of Rogers Media Inc. or any affiliate.

You're listening to the best of Halford and Brough. You're listening to Halford and Brough. They work it across the return pass. Kubas is in to the far post and they're in. Brian White with the finish. Browell, it's going to go down as he throws. It's intercepted. Coming back to the inside, four side, 50, down to the 40, B. Chase, 20, 10, it's Jones.

Poe-checked by Hughes, settles, drops it back. It's fanned on. Now, Kepa, right-side, scores. Good morning, Vancouver, 6 o'clock on a Monday. Happy Monday, everybody. It is Halford at his breath. It is Sportsnet 650. We are coming you live from the Kintech Studios and beautiful Fairview Slopes in Vancouver.

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Visit kintech.net. Happy December, Jason. Happy December, dogs. We are now one month away. Okay. One month away from the year being over and turning the calendar to 2026. We are also on the precipice of a big week. There is a Vancouver team in a championship final. Doesn't happen very often around here.

Guessless today. Let's get into that right away. Begins at 7 o'clock, Mike Tanier, our NFL insider from the two deep zone is going to join the program. Another wild Sunday in the NFL, including Seattle's shutout win over the Vikings. We'll talk to Mike about all that at 7 o'clock. 7.30 Bradley Wright Phillips is going to join the program. The white caps are on their way to the MLS Cup final against Inter Miami and Messi yet again for the third time this year. We'll talk to Bradley Wright Phillips, studio analyst for MLS season pass on Apple TV.

Look back on the San Diego game. look ahead to the Miami match on Saturday. That's at 7.30 at 8 o'clock, Satyar Shah is going to join the program. He, of course, Canucks Central host, also host of the pre and post game shows right here on SportsNet 650. Canucks played twice since we were last on air, losing to San Jose and L.A. One more stop on the road trip. That's Tuesday in Colorado.

We'll talk to Sad about all that at 8. Real quick, we have two giveaways today. One, we're giving away a $50 gift card to White Spot every single day this week. Be caller number five at 730. I will remind you prior to the contest beginning at 730. Phone number here is 604-280-60-650. We're also doing another giveaway from now until December 16th. Very cool initiative.

It's the 12 days of Christmas brought to you by Halford and Brough, Jason. Just us? We're not paying for this, are we? No, we're not. Oh, okay. The sponsors are paying for it. The dogs. It comes out of your salary.

It's coming right out of it. You won't even notice it. All those benefits the dogs didn't use it, the vet. We're turning that money. into gifts. Every day from now until December 16th, excluding the weekends. We've got some very cool stuff to give away tickets to sporting events,

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There's no boat. There's no box. I'll spoil that secret for you right away. But we do have some very cool stuff to give away. I will announce this later on on the show because we got time to get to. But lots of giveaways this week and the next. Working in reverse on that guest list,

8 o'clock Saty R. Shaw. 7.30, Bradley, Wright, Phillips, 7 o'clock Mike Tannier. That's what's happening on the program today. Greg, to tell everybody what happened. Hey, did you guys see the game last night? No. What happened? I missed all the action because I was.

We know how busy your life can be. What happened? You missed that? What happened is brought to you by the BC Construction Safety Alliance. Making safety simpler by giving construction companies to mess in tools, resources, and safety training. Visit them online at BCCSA.ca.ca. Should we begin with the Vancouver Whitecaps, bud? Of course we have to.

Unbelievable performance down in San Diego on Saturday night. Brian White scored twice in the first half. And Vancouver beat San Diego FC 3-1 to win the Western Conference. trophy for the first time, and as I noted on Twitter, yet another trophy that's eluded Thomas Mueller throughout his decorated career now hoisted. The white caps now head to Florida on Saturday

to take on Leonel Messi and Inter Miami for the MLS Cup. So when they write the story of these white caps 10 years later or 20 years later, they'll talk about that quarterfinal win at B.C. Place, and then they'll be like, and then they went down to San Diego, and then they won

and it'll be a footnote. It will. It'll be an absolute footnote. because that game did not have much drama, which is good for the White Caps, because they were never really in danger of losing that game, except, I guess, for the first, what, five or six minutes? Like, they went up early. They went up 1-0 in the 8th.

They added a second goal three minutes later. And while it wasn't exactly smooth sailing from there, far different way than a 2-0 lead played itself out against San Diego, obviously than it did against L-A-F-C. What were the parts of that weren't smooth? I thought after they went up 2-0 that San Diego pushed and there was about a 20-minute spell there where San Diego looked like

they were going to claw one back before. Yeah, that was it. You know, like I was watching that, I was like, I'm not worried at all. And I know that, and I was kind of like, well, they did go up 2-0 in the L-A-F-C game, but it just, it felt like no disrespect to San Diego.

They didn't have a song out there. You know, I wasn't, They had a couple good players, obviously, but I wasn't worried about the white caps blowing that lead. No, I wasn't even worried about it after Lozano scored to make it 3-1. Early in the second half, a lot of people around me were like, uh-oh, and I was like, but there's no sustained pressure here. It was about as thorough of victory as you can get in a match of that magnitude

against a team that was the number one seat overall in the Western Conference in San Diego and was playing at home to get punched in the mouth like they did, and for the white caps to do it so effectively, I think took all the wind out of their sales, took all the gas out of their tank, and now the white caps are going to the MLS Cup final. Okay, two things. I think one of the reasons why I wasn't worried

is it was a team from San Diego. And, I mean, Vancouver doesn't have the greatest record when it comes to winning championships as a city, but San Diego is a bigger loser city than we are. It's a beautiful city. It sure is. And Vancouver's a beautiful city. Maybe there's a correlation there.

Two loser sports cities, though. So you could tell even in the crowd in San Diego, there were probably people there. I was like, San Diego never wins anything, right? The other thing I want to mention, Thomas Mueller subbed off pretty early in that, and I know the white caps were looking good.

He didn't look right. So, as you mentioned, he was out of sorts. He was subbed off early in the second half, 60th minute of the match. So 15 minutes in the second match, he was subbed off. even though he said during the week that he was fit and healthy and ready to play

he acknowledged in the aftermath that he was managing a leg injury he actually shouted out the medical staff saying that they did a great job to get him in for tonight I did have a couple people point out to me that when Sons scored the 2-2 goal in the 90th plus four in the previous match at BC place a lot of people noticed that

Mueller was grabbing in his hamstring then and then he came out like almost immediately did he who took the who took the foul on that. It was him, right? No, it was Blackman. Oh, that was the one that got him red cardered, right? Okay, but they're, okay. Mulder was in the wall. Right. Yeah. And right after

it went in, you can see him grabbing in his hamstring and then was subbed off shortly thereafter because they were one extra time. Right. So there was some thinking that he had carried a hamstring injury from the LAFC match into this week. They got him up to speed. When they realized that they were kind of done and dusted, they had the match under control,

they got him out. He said he's very positive and optimistic. to be in shape and ready for the final in Miami on Saturday. Okay, and the white caps are going to need them because they're going up against a Miami team that we all knew was a good team, but the last time the white caps faced Miami, they won.