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Razcle
12-22-2010, 09:57 PM
Surfing ESPN Soccernet I found this little Gem. It seems Rohan is still kicking in Toronto and still goofing off around the town. Any future in a Red's uniform for like 70K a year?

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/video?video=channels/339821/1114671&cc=5901

ArmenJBX
12-22-2010, 10:16 PM
I want him back

Yeoman
12-22-2010, 10:22 PM
bugger off! i'm getting him for london city!

colman1860
12-22-2010, 11:05 PM
yawn

Roogsy
12-22-2010, 11:05 PM
I love Rohan and his energy, but those were 3 minutes I wish I had back.

Kyle_121
12-23-2010, 12:10 AM
Rohan put 10x more time and effort into selling shirts and updating his twitter status than he did on the field.

If I never see him play again, it will be too soon.

Roogsy
12-23-2010, 12:16 AM
^ I never understood this position. Rohan never dogged it on the field, worked his butt off while here and yeah, promoted himself which nobody has proven affected his play on the pitch.

Considering the shit we've seen in the time since, I count Rohan as one the players we let go too easily. Especially since we have not had a true winger since.

razor787
12-23-2010, 01:09 AM
Agreed. Rohan LOVED this city, and still does. He would come back in a heartbeat if we offered him a contract. I think we should go for it. The kid was a good MLS calibre player, just needed better coaching. You dont stay in the Arsenal academy for as long as he did, without having some skill. All he needs is someone to give him directions to a better footballers brain.

Stryker
12-23-2010, 01:22 AM
Rollin with refusal.... to just go away.

Shakes McQueen
12-23-2010, 01:33 AM
^ I never understood this position. Rohan never dogged it on the field, worked his butt off while here and yeah, promoted himself which nobody has proven affected his play on the pitch.

Considering the shit we've seen in the time since, I count Rohan as one the players we let go too easily. Especially since we have not had a true winger since.

Not sure I agree that we let him go too easily, but I also agree that the hate for him is puzzling and ridiculous. He never did anything to give fans a reason for all of this hostility.

He seemed like a generally likeable guy with a fun personality, he loved Toronto, and he loved the fans here.

The idea seems to be that, unless he was lighting it up on the pitch, he should never have said a word, or done any publicity stuff, or smiled at all.

His inability to find solid work after his time in Toronto FC seems to me to be a pretty good indication of whether he would be worth bringing back, but I certainly don't hate the guy. And if he was brought back as a backup at a fraction of the money, I wouldn't be on the warpath about it.

- Scott

rocker
12-23-2010, 01:35 AM
Why was he playing in Hungary and Moldova? That's desperation.
If no team in any credible league wanted him, why should we?

TFCRegina
12-23-2010, 01:41 AM
^ I never understood this position. Rohan never dogged it on the field, worked his butt off while here and yeah, promoted himself which nobody has proven affected his play on the pitch.

Considering the shit we've seen in the time since, I count Rohan as one the players we let go too easily. Especially since we have not had a true winger since.

This. I didn't love Ricketts' quality but he never slacked off on the pitch during a match. And he has great love for TFC and Toronto itself.

razor787
12-23-2010, 01:48 AM
Ricketts was never a slacker. His problem was that he just doesnt have a brain for football. He was much like dero, just with less skill. Instead of passing the ball off, he would try playing around the guy. I believe I remember that he had pretty good crosses, and was pretty speedy.

Although while he was here, I trashed the hell out of him, I would welcome him back with open arms. Stick him on the bench as a substitute, and make him earn his way to the first team. At the very least, he is a great sub to have.

LesH
12-23-2010, 03:05 AM
Why was he playing in Hungary and Moldova? That's desperation.
If no team in any credible league wanted him, why should we?

Excuse me, but only playing in Moldova is desperation.
Hungary has a serious league!

Hustle
12-23-2010, 06:12 AM
Seriously, Kick that CV3po kid to the curb and give the job to Ricketts. The man would be good to have around BMO just for giggles and smirks.

TFC Bhoy
12-23-2010, 07:13 AM
i always like ricketts, while like many of you have said he never did anything too amazing on the field, his level of effort i don't think could be denied and add in his love for this city and club, especially when now a days a lot of people don't want to come to toronto. I have a lot of respect for him and would welcome him back in a second.
As others have said at the very least he would be a great sub

Azerban
12-23-2010, 07:31 AM
hey lets make a team consisting solely of lovable losers

we'll call it...toronto fc

Mikey
12-23-2010, 07:46 AM
hey lets make a team consisting solely of lovable losers

we'll call it...toronto fc

No...we should also have some burnt out, once quite average overseas players and maybe some local boys done good, who once played "aways" and can come back and recount their adventures in the dressing room....

Oldtimer
12-23-2010, 08:43 AM
Excuse me, but only playing in Moldova is desperation.
Hungary has a serious league!

+1

Hungary is on par with places like Norway and Denmark.

After a very difficult time in the 1990's, things are looking up.

Alixir
12-23-2010, 09:09 AM
I have a better question....why the fuck would he want to play for our shit team anyways?

Alixir
12-23-2010, 10:25 AM
Actually replace DeVos with Rohan...I would rather listen to him talk.

Beach_Red
12-23-2010, 10:37 AM
No...we should also have some burnt out, once quite average overseas players and maybe some local boys done good, who once played "aways" and can come back and recount their adventures in the dressing room....


And we'll make sure to have a coach with no control over that dressing room....

Darlofletch
12-23-2010, 10:42 AM
And we'll make sure to have a coach with no control over that dressing room....

hey! it's important that the players are smiley!

to get back to ricketts. IMO, he doesn't want to be a footballer, he wants to be a media star, being a professional footballer is his angle, his hook that he's hoping will get him in the door, and expand his brand and all that.

I've quite enjoyed his insights in sabotagetimes, but given his need to share things, I don't think I'd want him as a teammate.

mastermixer
12-23-2010, 10:52 AM
I want him back

For a guy that has Jacob Peterson as an avatar I can't take you seriously. :D

Yohan
12-23-2010, 11:04 AM
Ricketts was never a slacker. His problem was that he just doesnt have a brain for football. He was much like dero, just with less skill. Instead of passing the ball off, he would try playing around the guy. I believe I remember that he had pretty good crosses, and was pretty speedy.

Although while he was here, I trashed the hell out of him, I would welcome him back with open arms. Stick him on the bench as a substitute, and make him earn his way to the first team. At the very least, he is a great sub to have.
he had an okay cross, good dribbling and ability to beat a defender 1v1. but he didn't have much of a speed and the defender he just beat would come back. and he held on to the ball too long

he'd be ok as a back up, but a winger without much pace. eh.

Roogsy
12-23-2010, 11:10 AM
I am not saying Rohan was the best player in TFC history blah blah blah.

But at a reasonable price we wouldn't want him? Really? Considering what we just paid guys like Uselessanov let alone Mista?

Parkdale
12-23-2010, 11:17 AM
But at a reasonable price we wouldn't want him? Really? Considering what we just paid guys like Uselessanov let alone Mista?


because we shouldn't have ANYONE of that quality on our team.

Roogsy
12-23-2010, 11:34 AM
Rohan did score 6 goals for us. That is 5 more than Mista did and tied for 5th all-time on our team with Maurice Edu and Jeff Cunningham. That is also 2 more goals than our STRIKER Obrian White. He had a decent cross for MLS standards and gave good promotion for this budding team in it's initial years. I'd really like to see some evidence of Rohan not bringing quality, effort or dedication to this team and I'd like to see some real reasons people have for disliking him so much.

Most goals
League, CONCACAF Champions League (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CONCACAF_Champions_League) & Voyageurs Cup (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyageurs_Cup)
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Last Update: October 23, 2010.

It seems like soccer fans are not only demanding on the pitch but also have some weird sense of what they want their soccer players to behave like. Can't be arrogant like DeRo. Can't be fun and self-promoting like Rohan. For me, none of that is of any concern. Do they give effort and produce on the pitch? That is all that matters to me and yet nobody seems to want to pay attention to what matters. They're more concerned about the number of times the player finds himself on the Footy Show. The graph says it all. We'd rather put on a pedastal players that are average on the pitch because we like them (like Brennan and Gargan) than have players on the pitch that can actually help us win games. :rolleyes:

(Dammit, I'm using an older browser and the HTML paste is not working...anyways you get the point.)

rocker
12-23-2010, 12:08 PM
Excuse me, but only playing in Moldova is desperation.
Hungary has a serious league!

Hungary is a serious league? Ok, if so, Rohan Ricketts played 1 game in it. I also don't see anyone on the team he played for that I've heard of. That's not a good sign.

There's just no reason to go back to Ricketts. It's time to move on, and hopefully we can find players who are better than Rohan Ricketts, rather than clinging to the past.

Let me say that if "Player X", let's call him Joe Anybody, came along with Ricketts' spotty record, this board would erupt in criticism at the signing. "1 game in Hungary??? 4 games in Moldova??? Can't we do better??"

Parkdale
12-23-2010, 12:20 PM
It seems like soccer fans are not only demanding on the pitch but also have some weird sense of what they want their soccer players to behave like. Can't be arrogant like DeRo. Can't be fun and self-promoting like Rohan. For me, none of that is of any concern.


It's not just in soccer though. It's a very Canadian trait and applies to most major league sports. Canadians love a hard working everyman. They'd rather you were a 3rd stringer with a ton of heart (someone like Gargan or Tie Domi) instead of a natural talent with a cocky attitude.

I know it doesn't make sense, but Canadians would rather have a 'hero' with a good attitude over a 'winner' with a bad one.

Nuvinho
12-23-2010, 12:22 PM
It's not just in soccer though. It's a very Canadian trait and applies to most major league sports. Canadians love a hard working everyman. They'd rather you were a 3rd stringer with a ton of heart (someone like Gargan or Tie Domi) instead of a natural talent with a cocky attitude.

I know it doesn't make sense, but Canadians would rather have a 'hero' with a good attitude over a 'winner' with a bad one.

One person comes to mind, and he was shit.......JYD. Fans loved that guy, and he was crap!!

I agree with Roogsy.

zeelaw
12-23-2010, 12:28 PM
Ricketts is really getting tiring...

Saying that I like the suggestion of him over CV2

TFC1154ever
12-23-2010, 12:29 PM
I still remember this goal he scored.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9rhwRMDG6Q

Up there as best goal in tfc history. I went nuts.

Detroit_TFC
12-23-2010, 01:00 PM
With the inside dope he's written about teams and players recently (which has been well received by readers as best as I can tell), I doubt there's any 2nd or 3rd division teams who would even talk to him now. Not saying that is deserved but he's probably seen as risky.

TFCRegina
12-23-2010, 01:05 PM
No...we should also have some burnt out, once quite average overseas players and maybe some local boys done good, who once played "aways" and can come back and recount their adventures in the dressing room....

And a ginger scot to run the club.

Alixir
12-23-2010, 01:06 PM
he had better work ethic then 3/4 of our all time roster.

TFCRegina
12-23-2010, 01:08 PM
Rohan did score 6 goals for us. That is 5 more than Mista did and tied for 5th all-time on our team with Maurice Edu and Jeff Cunningham. That is also 2 more goals than our STRIKER Obrian White. He had a decent cross for MLS standards and gave good promotion for this budding team in it's initial years. I'd really like to see some evidence of Rohan not bringing quality, effort or dedication to this team and I'd like to see some real reasons people have for disliking him so much.

Most goals
League, CONCACAF Champions League (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CONCACAF_Champions_League) & Voyageurs Cup (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyageurs_Cup)
#http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.5/common/images/sort_none.gif (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_FC#)Namehttp://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.5/common/images/sort_none.gif (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_FC#)Careerhttp://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.5/common/images/sort_none.gif (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_FC#)Goalshttp://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.5/common/images/sort_none.gif (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_FC#)Appearanceshttp://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.5/common/images/sort_none.gif (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_FC#)1Dwayne De Rosario (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwayne_De_Rosario)2009–31732Chad Barrett (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad_Barrett)2008–21783Danny Dichio (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Dichio)2007–0914664Amado Guevara (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amado_Guevara)2008–0911535=Jeff Cunningham (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Cunningham)2007–086365=Maurice Edu (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Edu)2007–086415=Rohan Ricketts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohan_Ricketts)2008–096448Maicon Santos (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maicon_Santos)2010–5189=Nana Attakora (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nana_Attakora)2007–4629=Jim Brennan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Brennan)2007–104939=O'Brian White (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27Brian_White)2009–10445
Last Update: October 23, 2010.

It seems like soccer fans are not only demanding on the pitch but also have some weird sense of what they want their soccer players to behave like. Can't be arrogant like DeRo. Can't be fun and self-promoting like Rohan. For me, none of that is of any concern. Do they give effort and produce on the pitch? That is all that matters to me and yet nobody seems to want to pay attention to what matters. They're more concerned about the number of times the player finds himself on the Footy Show. The graph says it all. We'd rather put on a pedastal players that are average on the pitch because we like them (like Brennan and Gargan) than have players on the pitch that can actually help us win games. :rolleyes:

(Dammit, I'm using an older browser and the HTML paste is not working...anyways you get the point.)

It sounds like they want Rohan Ricketts to behave the white way, I mean the right way.

Canadian sports fans want droning, boring (read aloud as: hockey) players with no personality.

That's why nobody likes PK Subban, even though (and i don't even like the Canadiens) he's one of the more interesting players to play hockey.

-tNVwQUJoik

Globetrotter
12-23-2010, 01:32 PM
what's he still doing here? wasn't it 2 years ago that he played for us? why is he still allowed in this country?? (im born and raised here, no foreigner, and have no idea about landed immigrant, refugee, etc...)

TFCRegina
12-23-2010, 01:33 PM
what's he still doing here? wasn't it 2 years ago that he played for us? why is he still allowed in this country?? (im born and raised here, no foreigner, and have no idea about landed immigrant, refugee, etc...)

He loves Toronto. Simple as that.

Globetrotter
12-23-2010, 01:40 PM
^That's fine, but as far as I know, he's from England, and we'll assume he's not employed at the moment. How long can people legally stay in this country? Especially if he's since gone off and worked in another country.

maninb
12-23-2010, 01:48 PM
He's got an offer from a 2nd division German team I do believe.....one of the Munich clubs....That clip of Darren Pang making a racist Freudian slip is hilarious!!! Who would have thought that little dwarf was a bigot!

Roogsy
12-23-2010, 01:49 PM
^That's fine, but as far as I know, he's from England, and we'll assume he's not employed at the moment. How long can people legally stay in this country? Especially if he's since gone off and worked in another country.


Unless you're suggesting he is here illegally, wouldn't it make sense that he's simply applied to be here legally from any kind of visa available?

Roogsy
12-23-2010, 01:51 PM
It sounds like they want Rohan Ricketts to behave the white way, I mean the right way.

Canadian sports fans want droning, boring (read aloud as: hockey) players with no personality.

That's why nobody likes PK Subban, even though (and i don't even like the Canadiens) he's one of the more interesting players to play hockey.

-tNVwQUJoik

Wow...never seen that clip and that is incredibly offensive even if it was a slip.

This is why Canada will never win at anything other than hockey.

Whoop
12-23-2010, 02:11 PM
We had a debate about that in the hockey thread. The demographics, while still a white man's game, is changing as more and more minorities are playing the game. The deciding factor nowadays in hockey isn't skin colour but socioeconomic factors. It's not solely a white man's game it's a rich man's game.

As for personalities, you want team first guys as opposed to me first guys, but you can be a team guy, without being arrogant and cocky, and still have a personality. It's funny how back in the 70s Canadians derided the Soviets for being robotic and lifeless while cheering on a guy like Phil Esposito.

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Now Canadians love a drone like Sidney Crosby while deriding an outgoing, gregarious guy like Alexander Ovechkin.

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Personally I think it's Canadians going out of the way to be un-American IMO. I've seen it with guys like Pat Kane, Robbie Schremp versus god love him, a guy like Steve Stamkos.

Whoop
12-23-2010, 02:19 PM
Mind you I still think Ricketts goes overboard with the self promotion and that's what gets on people's nerve.

His Facebook and Twitter activity could show you that.

It's one thing to be a happy, go lucky guy than being in your face all the time.

J .
12-23-2010, 02:20 PM
Rohan did dog it, its been confirmed to me and I wouldnt have him back on my team.

Section 117
12-23-2010, 02:21 PM
IMO he was ok, but I can bet we can get better players then his quality on our team.

Brooker
12-23-2010, 02:38 PM
Rohan did score 6 goals for us. That is 5 more than Mista did and tied for 5th all-time on our team with Maurice Edu and Jeff Cunningham. That is also 2 more goals than our STRIKER Obrian White. He had a decent cross for MLS standards and gave good promotion for this budding team in it's initial years. I'd really like to see some evidence of Rohan not bringing quality, effort or dedication to this team and I'd like to see some real reasons people have for disliking him so much.

It seems like soccer fans are not only demanding on the pitch but also have some weird sense of what they want their soccer players to behave like. Can't be arrogant like DeRo. Can't be fun and self-promoting like Rohan. For me, none of that is of any concern. Do they give effort and produce on the pitch? That is all that matters to me and yet nobody seems to want to pay attention to what matters. They're more concerned about the number of times the player finds himself on the Footy Show. The graph says it all. We'd rather put on a pedastal players that are average on the pitch because we like them (like Brennan and Gargan) than have players on the pitch that can actually help us win games. :rolleyes:

(Dammit, I'm using an older browser and the HTML paste is not working...anyways you get the point.)

rofl Rohan Ricketts is better than average? did somebody whack you over the head with a frying pan and you've completely forgotten him disappearing for huge stretches? rohan was a nice guy and loves this city yeah, but he was never better than average.

Parkdale
12-23-2010, 02:41 PM
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I have that exact same microphone. that thing is a hammer. It's over 40 years old and indestructible.

Beach_Red
12-23-2010, 02:48 PM
We had a debate about that in the hockey thread. The demographics, while still a white man's game, is changing as more and more minorities are playing the game. The deciding factor nowadays in hockey isn't skin colour but socioeconomic factors. It's not solely a white man's game it's a rich man's game.

As for personalities, you want team first guys as opposed to me first guys, but you can be a team guy, without being arrogant and cocky, and still have a personality. It's funny how back in the 70s Canadians derided the Soviets for being robotic and lifeless while cheering on a guy like Phil Esposito.


Personally I think it's Canadians going out of the way to be un-American IMO. I've seen it with guys like Pat Kane, Robbie Schremp versus god love him, a guy like Steve Stamkos.

What's the "socio" part of the socioeconomics? Hockey may be changing, but it's happening slower than the MLS is gaining on the NHL in the US ;).

And Esposito wasn't universally cheered for his speech in Vancouve. A lot of newpaper articles were written criticizing him and the speech. Of course, it was an emotional time, falling behind in a series everyone predicted would go 8-0 for Canada, and people were blaming everyone and everything in sight. He gave that speech after the team got booed off the ice and the next day lots of people were saying his "emotionalism" was a big part of the problem and he should just shut up and play.

Things haven't really changed that much in the Canadian hockey world.

Parkdale
12-23-2010, 02:49 PM
rofl Rohan Ricketts is better than average? did somebody whack you over the head with a frying pan and you've completely forgotten him disappearing for huge stretches? rohan was a nice guy and loves this city yeah, but he was never better than average.


Our team has been well below average for 4 years now, so any player who can play a game or two BETTER than that will stand out. Look at Robert's first game! Look at the high hopes we had for Vitti and Mista. The problem is that the team has never really been better than a C+, so we're blown away by a B- effort.

Roogsy
12-23-2010, 02:50 PM
rofl Rohan Ricketts is better than average? did somebody whack you over the head with a frying pan and you've completely forgotten him disappearing for huge stretches? rohan was a nice guy and loves this city yeah, but he was never better than average.


I dunno what your definition of "better than average" would be so I can't really agree or disagree. In my opinion, he was indeed better than average as indicated by our better record, his production and his pedigree.

Would he dominate in MLS? No. But then again, you can't build a team that way anyways. Was he useful? I think so...and certainly more useful than most of the players brought in after him.

rocker
12-23-2010, 03:34 PM
Our team has been well below average for 4 years now, so any player who can play a game or two BETTER than that will stand out. Look at Robert's first game! Look at the high hopes we had for Vitti and Mista. The problem is that the team has never really been better than a C+, so we're blown away by a B- effort.

true... I watch other teams regularly and we've definitely seen a level of play much less than the average of the league. And our total points each season bears that out.

I remember Ricketts being a very frustrating player, in that sometimes he could do some good things (like that multi-goal game he had), but then he'd disappear for long stretches. We had a lot of players like that, and players were total shit, making Ricketts look better, but that doesn't mean I want the guy back.

And his career is pretty spotty, not just at TFC. When somebody jumps around from team to team and can't even catch on in Hungary or Moldova, it suggests to me something is wrong. It may be wikipedia scouting, but it says something.

Stryker
12-23-2010, 03:41 PM
Man people have short memories around here. Rohan could beat people off the dribble? Rohan was better than average? Are you crackers?
Rohan beat people off the dribble a couple times that resulted in goals and thats what you guys are remembering. The other 95% of the time he'd just get stripped of the ball. His passing was attrocious at the end. He couldn't even turn with the ball without stumbling.
And if he was better than MLS average, which he wasen't, why didn't any other team show the slightest bit of interest in him.

Picturesque memories that are purely fictional.

Alixir
12-23-2010, 03:44 PM
I remember Ricketts being a very frustrating player, in that sometimes he could do some good things (like that multi-goal game he had), but then he'd disappear for long stretches.
thats the nature of the game of football. Not every player on your team is going to bang in goals every single game on a consistant basis nor should someone like Ricketts be expected to. As a depth player coming off the bench I would take him back. Remember the major problem with this team is the revolving door that is our coaching staff. Under the right coach and direction Ricketts could be a player that brings more to the team then we witnessed in his stay with the club. We saw flashes of brilliance as well as bouts of mediocre play, but seriously mediorcrity has been the guise this club has been wearing for the last 5 years.

TFCRegina
12-23-2010, 03:46 PM
Man people have short memories around here. Rohan could beat people off the dribble? Rohan was better than average? Are you crackers?
Rohan beat people off the dribble a couple times that resulted in goals and thats what you guys are remembering. The other 95% of the time he'd just get stripped of the ball. His passing was attrocious at the end. He couldn't even turn with the ball without stumbling.
And if he was better than MLS average, which he wasen't, why didn't any other team show the slightest bit of interest in him.

Picturesque memories that are purely fictional.

So basically you're saying he's a Jacob Peterson who can score more goals. I'd gladly trade for that.

mastermixer
12-23-2010, 03:47 PM
true... I watch other teams regularly and we've definitely seen a level of play much less than the average of the league. And our total points each season bears that out.


The other fact is the only reason we have gotten as many points as we have the past few years has been home field advantage plain and simple. Our road record shows just how bad this team really has been.
Mediocrity must end now and it won't change with Ricketts on the field.

J .
12-23-2010, 03:51 PM
Rollin' with Ricketts? How about Romanticizing over Ricketts?

The guy was one of the long list of wingers who failed. He was subpar in MLS and a dog in practise. He was more out of shape in his second year than his first season.

Roogsy
12-23-2010, 03:56 PM
Rollin' with Ricketts? How about Romanticizing over Ricketts?

The guy was one of the long list of wingers who failed. He was subpar in MLS and a dog in practise. He was more out of shape in his second year than his first season.


Long list of wingers? Care to enlighten us with this list? And failed? How exactly did he fail? How how many 6 goal scorers in 14 months have we had in our illustrious history?

As for shape and doggin' in, that is a valid issue when considering playing pro soccer. I don't recall any particular evidence that he was in worse shape in his 2nd year than in his first. What I do remember is that he barely played at all in his 2nd season but somehow was to blame for our rough start that year and was shipped out halfway through the year. Considering our many rough patches since, to me it seems to point away from him as a single player responsible for our troubles but rather problems higher up.

J .
12-23-2010, 04:14 PM
Long list of wingers? Care to enlighten us with this list? And failed? How exactly did he fail? How how many 6 goal scorers in 14 months have we had in our illustrious history?

As for shape and doggin' in, that is a valid issue when considering playing pro soccer. I don't recall any particular evidence that he was in worse shape in his 2nd year than in his first. What I do remember is that he barely played at all in his 2nd season but somehow was to blame for our rough start that year and was shipped out halfway through the year. Considering our many rough patches since, to me it seems to point away from him as a single player responsible for our troubles but rather problems higher up.

He has flashes of brilliance yes, Im not doubting he scored 6 goals in 14 months. But for the majority of games he was a ghost.

As for his shape, Ive spoken with several people who were close to the situation and stated Ricketts was dogging it, was disinterested with hard training. Instead of improving he was out at clubs. He took his social life just as serious as his professional career and that put him at odds with staff and teamates.

Ossington Mental Youth
12-23-2010, 04:19 PM
yeah i always felt people were a little rough on him granted he choked more than a few times especially at what he was getting paid. that being said id take him for 70k and see if he can at least work off the bench.

ag futbol
12-23-2010, 09:42 PM
On the soccer pitch, I'm not sure what there's left to offer. Sure he could play in some capacity, but that guy should really be working in media. He looks to have quite a bit to offer in that area. Very entertaining guy would be a welcome change from the current lot of commentators we have who regularly put me into a comma **cough ** Dobson** cough**.

I don't understand how he doesn't have a job already.

Darlofletch
12-23-2010, 10:35 PM
I only just watched the video now. wow, that's terrible.

Hey Rohan, Cabbbie on the street called, he wants his schtick back.


but he does thank you for not borrowing his talent.

Corpand
12-24-2010, 12:15 AM
As Ive said before, Ricko is definitely weaving his way back to TFC. They definitely know his situation and availability. Heard he might be coming back about a month ago and posted the news here. Haven't heard anything since really but his family is also here, could be another reason to come back...

But you never know.

Bloody off-season.

TFCRegina
12-24-2010, 12:32 AM
As Ive said before, Ricko is definitely weaving his way back to TFC. They definitely know his situation and availability. Heard he might be coming back about a month ago and posted the news here. Haven't heard anything since really but his family is also here, could be another reason to come back...

But you never know.

Bloody off-season.

Again, for a cheap pick up, Ricketts would be a guy we could use off the bench for wing play. Although with our current winger situation, he'd be a starter...