On a side note - what’s going on with the forums?! I’m getting dead links to a different domain especially when using my phone....anyone else still getting things hit and miss with the forums since yesterday afternoon or so?!
On a side note - what’s going on with the forums?! I’m getting dead links to a different domain especially when using my phone....anyone else still getting things hit and miss with the forums since yesterday afternoon or so?!
I agree that the fix is in, lets not be a good polite Canadian fanbase from know on, let's go ballistic, litter the field, throw shit at the linesmen and refs, throw shit at the opposing teams and coaches, just venting, but if you are going to take a red card, break someone's legs doing it. The fuck with good sportsmanshipQuote:
Originally Posted by Oldtimer
If the team learned this as we are now then TFC should file a grievance with FIFA.Quote:
Originally Posted by benito
Under no circumstances should TFC have to worry about a player being suspended 10 additional days after the fact. The team fully prepared for Jozy to be in the lineup and now must scrap that plan.
MLS corruption at its best.
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Originally Posted by tfcfans
Yup, was getting a 404 error for 24 hours or so.
Absolutely ridiculous that this comes through right now, the MLS is a joke. This has been happening all season, Maxi Moralez kicks out at Osorio in the same game as Altidore - nothing. NOT EVEN a one game retroactive suspension for what should have been an easy red card.
Earlier this season, Giovinco gets a red for grabbing a guys face vs New England. At that time I was told that hand to the face = automatic red. Haven't seen anything to follow that as of late. Urruti did it to Hagglund in the dallas vs tfc game this year and nothing came of it.
Just now, Kemar Lawrence shoves Tinnerholm to the ground around neck level - yellow card. Mavinga on the other hand straight red vs Atlanta after being provoked.
On the note of this thread, I see TFC taking this one 2-1. Mavinga is back and he's the X Factor for this team.
You can go right when the CNE doors open at 10am or however early it is.
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Originally Posted by burlington Red
Calm down. Houston didn't agree to a re-schedule not the league, the league were all for it. Remember when TFC moved the DC game? Red Bulls moved their game with Houston, Houston weren't doing it twice. Which is absolutely their right.Quote:
Originally Posted by Oldtimer
And the league schedule was set well before the CCL draw was made.
With all of those cross continental flights in a very short time. Certainly no other MLS club has had to deal with this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Areathrasher
Anyway, I want our guys to win or go down fighting, no matter what the odds.
I'm flabbergasted. Is there any precedent for waiting 10 days to hand down additional punishment? I'd be okay if they declared Altidore suspended 2 games when they initially handed down their ruling. That would be fair. But to wait *that long* a period of time, with the club thinking everything was done? Something's fishy here...
I had this exact discussion earlier tonight. To me it reeks of the fix being in. The league I believe is terrified of us going on a late season run, winning MLS cup and fucking up their CCL allotments again. Since Atlanta joined the league, Garber & Co. have had a hard on for them. Mavinga 2 games for a one handed push (I wouldn't even call it a smack) and Almiron nothing for spitting on him. Martinez head butt ( on Jozy I think) and nothing but Jozy gets 2 games (and the 2nd being announced 10 days after the incident and 72 hours before our Derby match to completely screw with the game prep). They want Atlanta to break the points record and Martinez to demolish the scoring record.Quote:
Originally Posted by Oldtimer
It is a joke
The across continental flights thing happens the exact same every time we play Vancouver in the Voyageurs.
Flights are flights and we will always have at least 3 to the West coast.
As for the timing of the suspension, other players on other teams have had these second games provided late - the usual reason is an appeal of the extension fails.
I am OK with the suspension.
I am not OK with the scheduling thing. There is something unfair about the totality of it this year. It’s not 3 flights.
Have a guess at how many times Montreal has had to play a game in 4 nights or fewer after a 4+ hour flight.....
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What kind of “competitive balance” is that? We have played 11 games like that. After next week we will have played 13 games after 4+ hour flights within 3/4 nights of the previous game, within 5 months.
The particular combination of fixture congestion with transcon flying is lethal, insane. I will wager a pint that no other team in soccer history in any serious league has ever done that 13 times in 5 months.
The league owes some kind of duty to every team in CCL to look out for these kinds of things, and to any team that runs into something like this. Whether the league office intervene or don’t, when these kinds of things arise, they will be accused of interfering with competitive balance.
But by sitting on their hands, they have gotten this wrong, they have interfered just by doing nothing and letting it happen. They should have moved some games around. Last weeks game in SJ and next weeks game in Portland being Exhibit 1A and 1B - these are an effing travesty. Especially the Portland game. Jesus H Christ, to have to play home, away west coast, home, in 7 days, after all this, that could have been addressed. (In blaming the league, I am assuming Manning tried to address this with the league and failed, but if he didn’t, that is a problem also)
I missed this issue in April, when I was sanguine about the league making us throw the games to Colorado and Houston, but I am pissed about that now. We mostly come from the school that you have to fight through adversity. But this isn’t adversity, or bad luck, it could have and should have been addressed but wasn’t. This is an abdication by the league, malpractice. It has gone way, way too far. We have been cheated out of the opportunity of watching decent football. Our guys can barely get out of bed.
Yeah I agree. If this league is going to grow it’s fan base it needs to be more transparent. This kind of stuff matters to fans and it can’t be so as hoc. They should have the decision no later than two days after the game. It isn’t rocket science.Quote:
Originally Posted by Initial B
Did any beat reporter ask the club for an update along the way? It’s unbelievable how poor the coverage can be at times. We’re just left to wonder as fans what is happening.
Seba joking that even the plane was ill is a perfect example of gallows humour by a team that is dead tired. No way they can compete given this.Quote:
Originally Posted by ensco
This is probably the wrong place to post this (sorry), but according to this Oliver Platt tweet, Inebriatti are finished as an official supporters' group.
https://twitter.com/plattoli/status/1032616971689500673
A shame that the one's not involved have to pay the price for the actions of a few idiots. But as I said before, you hang around the barn long enough you come out smelling like shit.Quote:
Originally Posted by pfk
TFC can win this game even though Altidore is wrongfully suspended an additional game, and if VV is still injured, the boys have to grit it out, come on TFC beat the L'mpact
Injury update
same old same old
Check out this tweet at https://twitter.com/JohnMolinaro/status/1032675123831046144
There has to be an issue with the trainers and program these players are on. The amount of injuries does no make sense. They've all had plenty of time out to recover.Quote:
Originally Posted by OgtheDim
No, MLS added an extra game to his suspensionQuote:
Originally Posted by DeRo2015
GlenM
How is Mavinga injured again????
I think VV's knee is done. It's been an issue for the entire season.
Good thing the FO extended him and doubled his money!Quote:
Originally Posted by GhostKiller
Why are you wasting time here?Quote:
Originally Posted by portu
You can see the future, just go and pick the 6/49 numbers...
Obviously was a bit over the top... but I will always argue that doubling the money of a guy in his 30's when you have him on a bargain deal and supposedly just signed his long-term replacement is an idiotic piece of business.Quote:
Originally Posted by ensco
Molinaro confirming that TFC knew of the extra game suspension for Jozy last week.
They appealed and were denied. That is why its only being announced now.
I still don't understand why what he did warrants an extra game though.
They just extended him, I think. I don't think they doubled his comp.Quote:
Originally Posted by portu
https://www.prosoccerusa.com/mls/tor...laries-2018/It appears they did^^. I'm surprised too. Didn't catch that during the off-season.
He's 27 not in his 30's.... 3 years in his 20's is not a bad decision at face valueQuote:
Originally Posted by portu
31 years old..Quote:
Originally Posted by andyc
with a serious history of knee injuries...