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Toronto FC head coach Greg Vanney has not had much to smile about over the past month or so. His club has plummeted in the standings and his players have dropped like flies due to injuries.

But Wednesday finally brought a glimpse of light at the end of the tunnel, with a near full house on the field for training. While the likes of Jozy Altidore, Drew Moor, Chris Mavinga and Ashtone Morgan won’t be back anytime soon, some semblance of a normal lineup is taking shape.

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“Having 20, 21 guys out in training is a wonderful sight right now,” Vanney said.

“It gets some key players back into the mix for us. We have more availability and in terms of how we re-integrate guys back in, those are decisions we’re going to have to make over the next two games and then once we get to the international break we’ll have a little more time to actually work through some of those details.”

The biggest goal at the moment is getting Michael Bradley back to his crucial spot in the midfield and away from his desperation fill-in role at centre back. An absurd run of injuries in the middle of the defence forced Vanney to shift Bradley back there and while his effort can’t be faulted, it was asking a ton of the veteran and there have been some mixed results. Losing Moor and Mavinga, in particular, has really stung.