No, I do not support mid-season friendlies. I have season tickets and the front office offered to give us (season ticket holders) free tickets to this game (in a way) by allowing us to exchange our Canadian championship final tickets (Toronto got eliminated in the semifinal) with a ticket for this game. I did not bite though, instead I'm going to get the cash value of that ticket back, which is actually almost 50% of the value of the Man City game ticket.. I could have easily made the exchange and sold the Man City ticket for profit, but meh..
But yeah, I'm not sure if you watched the game or not, but if you looked at the southern stand (on the right on TV, behind the net), it was completely quiet. No flags, no singing, no chants.. That section is usually filled with loud supporters who sing the entire game. None of them support mid-season friendlies, so that's why the atmosphere in the stadium was so quiet.
I sit in a different section, because from the south you don't really get a great vantage point of the game.. and I love analyzing player movements, positioning, and tactics, and such. But I wouldn't have gone to this game no matter what. It's an insult to our players. They have a game on saturday to play (that I am going to!), there is no need to play a mid season friendly. It can just lead to injuries and players getting tired for no reason.
They're only doing this for $$$ related reasons..
Having said that, if they were playing Chelsea, I would have went. I have never seen Chelsea play in person. So I am against mid-season friendlies, because it negatively impacts our season, but if it was Chelsea I'd cave in and go, just to get a chance to see both of my favourite teams play head to head.
I watched the Man City game on TV mind you, and was surprised.. mainly because TFC started a bunch of TFC II (our farm team) players, and Man City fielded a very strong side and didn't really bring in much youth until the last 20 minutes of the game. Meanwhile TFC subbed off our best player (Giovinco) 25 minutes in or something similar. Good on the coach for doing that.
Either way, it was really good to see our youngsters play in such a composed way against a top Premier League side. I didn't expect it, I would have predicted 4-0 for City, even if TFC fielded the strongest side possible. Jordan Hamilton, who hasn't even started for us yet (I don't think) and has been playing with the farm team (and on loan in Portugal for a while) should have had at least one goal. His movement off the ball was great, but the first touch and final touch let him down a couple times. Too bad we didn't score, but overall I think we looked very good against a top side. Losing 1-0 to City isn't so bad considering a lot of our guys were teenagers and City were fielding such a strong side - Most of our players likely came out of this with their heads held high - probably did a lot of the youngsters a lot of good to see that they can actually compete (to a degree) against such good opposition.