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fdasilva
11-30-2010, 10:44 AM
http://www.mlse.com/news/peddie113010.aspx

What could this mean for TFC?

Roogsy
11-30-2010, 10:47 AM
http://www.mlse.com/news/peddie113010.aspx

What could this mean for TFC?


What it means for MLSE is that none of it's franchises will have any success at least for another year. :D

Darlofletch
11-30-2010, 11:04 AM
Paulbeirne (http://twitter.com/Paulbeirne)

It will be a long bittersweet good bye - Richard Peddie is the man with the vision, including what Soccer could be in Canada. 15 minutes ago (http://twitter.com/Paulbeirne/status/9633832516980736) via web

and

Paulbeirne (http://twitter.com/Paulbeirne)

Say what you will, RP is a great leader and I'm extremely proud to have worked for and with him. 13 minutes ago (http://twitter.com/Paulbeirne/status/9634299175243776) via web

wow, that's really depressing, don't be looking for any changes to how mlse and tfc work anytime soon.

boban
11-30-2010, 11:05 AM
http://www.mlse.com/news/peddie113010.aspx

What could this mean for TFC?
Nothing. Business as usual.


What it means for MLSE is that none of it's franchises will have any success at least for another year. :D
Success will continue to evade them, regardless of the person they find to be the new CEO.
Peddie is just a cog in the wheel.
Any real change will only come when they sell.

boban
11-30-2010, 11:07 AM
Paulbeirne (http://twitter.com/Paulbeirne)

It will be a long bittersweet good bye - Richard Peddie is the man with the vision, including what Soccer could be in Canada. 15 minutes ago (http://twitter.com/Paulbeirne/status/9633832516980736) via web

What an insulting comment to people who actually know something abut the game and its roots and history in this country.

Alixir
11-30-2010, 11:11 AM
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Shoppers at a food court in welland ON, rejoice after hearing of Peddies retirement announcement.

TFCRegina
11-30-2010, 11:18 AM
Not soon enough.

Menelaos
11-30-2010, 11:20 AM
File this under "who cares"

Alixir
11-30-2010, 11:28 AM
File this under "who cares"this is the biggest news to come out of Toronto in the last decade!!!

tfcmanu
11-30-2010, 11:29 AM
YEAH!

boban
11-30-2010, 11:30 AM
this is the biggest news to come out of Toronto in the last decade!!!
How?

tfcleeds
11-30-2010, 11:34 AM
What an insulting comment to people who actually know something abut the game and its roots and history in this country.

Exactly...I'm surprised if Peddie even knows what a soccer ball looks like.

This is old news - the reports that Peddie wasn't much longer for MLSE came out a few weeks ago, and we all knew it was simply a matter of him stepping down.

Pachuco
11-30-2010, 11:40 AM
Good riddance!

prizby
11-30-2010, 11:43 AM
I have heard it suggested that TA will be/is being possibly molded into a succession for CEO

rocker
11-30-2010, 11:44 AM
where's that clip of him mouthing the words to Cliff Fletcher's press conference speech?

tfcleeds
11-30-2010, 11:46 AM
I have heard it suggested that TA will be/is being possibly molded into a succession for CEO

Oh yay :rolleyes:. Makes sense though.

JonO
11-30-2010, 11:52 AM
Shoppers at a food court in welland ON, rejoice after hearing of Peddies retirement announcement.
Haha - dero t-shirt at 0:12

Roogsy
11-30-2010, 11:58 AM
What an insulting comment to people who actually know something abut the game and its roots and history in this country.


As someone who has played soccer in Canada his whole life and lived and breathed the game...I'd have to agree with you. While Paul may now be a "connected" man among soccer circles because of his position with the team, it is still very apparent that he lacks soccer knowledge in general, including about soccer in Canada.

ensco
11-30-2010, 12:43 PM
Wow. That is huge. MLSE did not have to do that.

Press releasing that, for a private company, that is really unusual. Even public companies mostly don't handle CEO succession this way.

That release is designed to make Peddie totally ineffective, a lame duck.

Roogsy
11-30-2010, 12:54 PM
That release is designed to make Peddie totally ineffective, a lame duck.

This is my feeling as well. This makes the "retirement" irreversible. It also points to me that it likely was not completely voluntary.

ManUtd4ever
11-30-2010, 12:59 PM
What it means for MLSE is that none of it's franchises will have any success at least for another year. :D

Exactly. 2011 isn't soon enough...

menefreghista
11-30-2010, 12:59 PM
Wow. That is huge. MLSE did not have to do that.

Press releasing that, for a private company, that is really unusual. Even public companies mostly don't handle CEO succession this way.

That release is designed to make Peddie totally ineffective, a lame duck.

I think part of this is appeasement of the fans. Generally, the fans of all of MLSE's teams hate him.

At a time where the Raptors stink and Burke's vision is being questioned this gives fans some faint hope that things will change at the very top.

The shitty thing is how long we have to wait.

rdroze
11-30-2010, 01:49 PM
I understand and share the disappointment in the performance of MLSE's teams as much as anyone, but is there nothing positive to say about Peddie from Toronto FC fans? In the early days of TFC, Peddie was the one in the media pushing the vision for a Canadian MLS team and improvement of the entire Canadian soccer infrastructure. I have no special knowledge of or connection to the inner workings of MLSE, but I wonder if Toronto FC would even exist today were it not for Richard Peddie.

Beach_Red
11-30-2010, 02:27 PM
I understand and share the disappointment in the performance of MLSE's teams as much as anyone, but is there nothing positive to say about Peddie from Toronto FC fans? In the early days of TFC, Peddie was the one in the media pushing the vision for a Canadian MLS team and improvement of the entire Canadian soccer infrastructure. I have no special knowledge of or connection to the inner workings of MLSE, but I wonder if Toronto FC would even exist today were it not for Richard Peddie.


This is the second time the word "vision" has been used in this sceneraio and it's lame. What other "vision" could there have possibly been for an MLS team in Toronto?

What we've seen with TFC are the most straightforward, obvious decisions that anyone would have made. Oh, and a few blunders. But no leadership.

Alixir
11-30-2010, 02:38 PM
Haha - dero t-shirt at 0:12
nice eh.

ensco
11-30-2010, 03:02 PM
I understand and share the disappointment in the performance of MLSE's teams as much as anyone, but is there nothing positive to say about Peddie from Toronto FC fans? In the early days of TFC, Peddie was the one in the media pushing the vision for a Canadian MLS team and improvement of the entire Canadian soccer infrastructure. I have no special knowledge of or connection to the inner workings of MLSE, but I wonder if Toronto FC would even exist today were it not for Richard Peddie.

While a small part of this is true, mostly....it isn't. Peddie was the rooster crowing about the dawn.

The people responsible for TFC are Joe Volpe and David Miller, who managed the process that got government to pay 85% of the cost of BMO. MLSE played a part because they took a sliver of risk, but that's it.

TOBOR !
11-30-2010, 03:13 PM
Paulbeirne (http://twitter.com/Paulbeirne)
Richard Peddie is the man with the vision, including what Soccer could be in Canada.

Here's hoping it never comes to that.

stugautz
11-30-2010, 03:19 PM
Paulbeirne (http://twitter.com/Paulbeirne)

It will be a long bittersweet good bye - Richard Peddie is the man with the vision, including what Soccer could be in Canada. 15 minutes ago (http://twitter.com/Paulbeirne/status/9633832516980736) via web

and

Paulbeirne (http://twitter.com/Paulbeirne)

Say what you will, RP is a great leader and I'm extremely proud to have worked for and with him. 13 minutes ago (http://twitter.com/Paulbeirne/status/9634299175243776) via web

wow, that's really depressing, don't be looking for any changes to how mlse and tfc work anytime soon.

I'll say Peddie is a loser because he couldn't win a championship. No arguing with that. A loser that knew how to make a dollar, but still a loser. What's the on field record of his teams while he was in charge?

greatwhitenorf
11-30-2010, 10:25 PM
[quote=Darlofletch;1175135]Paulbeirne (http://twitter.com/Paulbeirne)

It will be a long bittersweet good bye - Richard Peddie is the man with the vision, including what Soccer Profits could be in Canada.[quote]

Fixed.

One chat over lunch with Daniel Levy in the Tottenham Hotspur directors' lounge and he had delusions of adequacy.

rocker
11-30-2010, 10:29 PM
While a small part of this is true, mostly....it isn't. Peddie was the rooster crowing about the dawn.

The people responsible for TFC are Joe Volpe and David Miller, who managed the process that got government to pay 85% of the cost of BMO. MLSE played a part because they took a sliver of risk, but that's it.

I hate to praise Peddie for anything, but what's your evidence for the statement that Volpe and Miller had such an important role?

I have never read an article that described how the process went down.

I'd trust Paul Beirne would know. However I'd like to hear details myself.

king dave
11-30-2010, 11:24 PM
Okay. Just a few more fucking douches and the reno can proceed.
KD.

Oldtimer
12-01-2010, 08:26 AM
While a small part of this is true, mostly....it isn't. Peddie was the rooster crowing about the dawn.

The people responsible for TFC are Joe Volpe and David Miller, who managed the process that got government to pay 85% of the cost of BMO. MLSE played a part because they took a sliver of risk, but that's it.

ML$E took over the construction management and got the building done on budget and in time. When have you seen government do that? That was a real contribution.

ensco
12-01-2010, 09:18 AM
ML$E took over the construction management and got the building done on budget and in time. When have you seen government do that? That was a real contribution.

Actually, this part of the story has always bugged me. You or I could have done that, given the sums involved.

Why did it cost $50 million+ to build a high school stadium out of meccano pieces?

rocker
12-01-2010, 09:23 AM
Why did it cost $50 million+ to build a high school stadium out of meccano pieces?

the price for BMO seems about right when you look at the other stadiums being built around the league.

most them are 100+ million stadiums. RB and the new KC stadium are around 200 million each.

menefreghista
12-01-2010, 09:44 AM
Actually, this part of the story has always bugged me. You or I could have done that, given the sums involved.

Why did it cost $50 million+ to build a high school stadium out of meccano pieces?

This is a good point. Look how little the Impact spent on Saputo stadium. That place is built with similar qualities and it only cost about $15 million.

Beach_Red
12-01-2010, 09:45 AM
the price for BMO seems about right when you look at the other stadiums being built around the league.

most them are 100+ million stadiums. RB and the new KC stadium are around 200 million each.


But they're all part of bigger real estate deals.

The poiont here is that, as always in Canada (since the railroad), the project ha to start with government money. We can either admire our private sector for taking so few risks on its own or be upset with it for controlling so much of our public spending. But the big business private sector in Canada never initiates anything with its own money.

boban
12-01-2010, 10:07 AM
ML$E took over the construction management and got the building done on budget and in time. When have you seen government do that? That was a real contribution.
Actually PCL did that.

boban
12-01-2010, 10:10 AM
the price for BMO seems about right when you look at the other stadiums being built around the league.

most them are 100+ million stadiums. RB and the new KC stadium are around 200 million each.
RB was that much because of construction delays delays to redoing that plans time and time again and the contaminated soils later found on site.
I am sure that was about 1/4 of the budget.
KC is under $150 but includes way more development of the land around it (services, etc).