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Thanks for finding and reposting that. Always interesting to look back and see how the thinking moves over time…

I agree with how you see it.

Journalism is not accepting the source or spokesperson that is “easy” to speak to, or the one that you are offered.

Fine, Larry rarely talks. But that doesn’t permit asking Manning about Manning....

Why is Molinaro asking Manning about Manning? That is not journalism, go find Larry or an MLSE Board member. Or say they wouldn’t comment.

This business of asking guys to mark their own homework...

The more I think about this, the more I wonder if there was some kind of showdown behind the scenes. Maybe Bob demanded something, a vote of confidence, more control. Maybe Manning was totally...

That's possible. I'd call it 25% likely.

Another 25% scenario is that they know they are going to fire him, haven't told him, but are getting him to do the cleanup first.

Third 25% scenario:...

Let's face facts: Manning should not have been allowed to make this call.

The sign of a healthy decision making process would have been letting Manning go, and letting his successor decide the...

Hey - do we get Whoop back now?

The Star published a piece overnight by a freelancer (someone named Joe Callaghan) that absolutely tees off on MLSE over what is happening at TFC…
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General comment. I also feel there is too much anger, and have backed away from the board a bit. I am not here to spend a lot of negative energy.

They absolutely suck right now. It is injuries and...

What Manning thinks about how he is doing is kind of irrelevant, no? (You kind of make this point in your second sentence, I see that.)

We went through a lot of this with Teachers and Peddie. The...

The unsaid dirty secret of professional sports

The issue, as always with these fundamental team direction things, is above Manning.

Can Bogers be anything but dysfunctional at the Board level?

There is a fair bit of smoke around the idea...

I have to say, the only way you get real change is by voting with your feet. I was a day one SSH, 4 good seats, and I walked away after 2012. As thousands did at that time. Leiweke was hired soon...

I don't really think Manning is in "charge" anymore. Not in the true meaning of the word.

^I think 98% of pro athletes know how to get along. Their livelihoods depend on it.

It's the stars, former stars, highly paid or formerly highly paid, that have their FU money, that cause...

Sure, but the thing is, Manning owns the outcomes, whether he hires someone to do them for him or not. The head sets the strategy, participates and approves the decisions, gets the applause, and...

^^^Yeah agfutbol, mightydm also made a similar point a few days ago. Seems like a very good theory to me.

Hi Larry.

Some people here (well, me, anyway) think it’s time for Bill Manning to just 100% stuck to the business/admin side of TFC, and the Argos or whatever else you want him to do. That is a...

^You beat me to it (some of it anyway....)

^^My favourite type of post: a credibly explained, highly speculative theory about what happened!

I think it’s more like Armas said: “Look at Bayern, look at Chelsea, look at Juve, this is the future” and sold that to these guys.

They said “yup” but the correct response of course was: “Look...

I just finished Simon Kuper's new book on Barcelona, and it has a passage that I thought must describe the thought process of Manning/Curtis in hiring Armas, and the serious error they made in trying...

I find it utterly bizarre that Manning highlights the absence of Piatti.

Yup, TFC fans, midfield is where the problem is.

I also find this kind of suit-trick thing deeply annoying. In...

Anybody promoting Herdman needs to spend 5 minutes on the Voyageurs forums (now hosted by Canadian Soccer News). Herdman was and really still is a hugely controversial choice for the CMNT job. He...

If only we had a cheap depth LB somewhere in the organization….

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