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^That is a ton of interesting stuff there, thanks. It makes sense.

I am more amazed that he is still there, than I was before, having read that. I mean, this is the biography of an otherwise...

Thanks for the love, back at you… I am no defender of his..

Manning would be hardly the first guy to try to take public credit for things his superiors actually are responsible for. That kind of...

I really don't think it's Manning, and the evidence is ... that he is still there! Manning isn't getting evaluated by the MLSE bosses on the Italian signings, because he didn't do them.

I have...

Hernandez is probably going to make all his mistakes here then go on to become a serious success somewhere else. We are paying his tuition. It's the way to bet it anyway.

I am going to say it's coming never.

Supporters cannot be monitored/supervised carefully enough, and the minority of idiots who want to do something idiotic have more freedom to do so. MLSE will...

This could be true, I see your point ... they are a LOOOOOONG way aways from MLS mattering in the gambling world .... doesn't make me feel any differently about it.

^There have always been people who don't like day games, or who don't like weeknight games, or who don't like games on summer weekends. You can’t make everyone happy.

There will of course be a...

By the way, this is turning me into a 7 minute game watcher (which is what I have done more often than not on Sunday morning, because I can). Is 7 minutes engagement instead of 120 minutes engagement...

Either (i) you are right, they don't know - plausible, I really hope you are right, because this can be addressed in a spirit of goodwill, or (ii) Apple know - but don't want to contaminate the...

Picking this up ... Joseph, no worries, I think we have all learned who the generally "reasonable" posters are, and heartfelt shouting from rooftops, when it is heartfelt, is always good! We...

Only time I watched Vancouver this year was against Tigres, and they looked very impressive (the scoreline of that tie flattered Tigres, Vancouver could have won that)

So yeah, we could be in a...

^Good post. I will take some of this on when I have some time, one or two things I disagree strongly about. But this is coherent generally.

OK so I am going to try to continue this here.



Re "wrecking" MLS, fine, I am guilty of hyperbole. But you tell me the word to use when (i) a third to half the games in the schedule are played...

I don't think most people realize just how rich the data set you get about the customer is in streaming, as compared to TV, and how that changes everything. It is mindboggling.

With streaming,...

But that is totally different. That is experimentation with a fraction of the schedule. Who could object? Could there be a role for some kind of appointment schedule? I thinking maybe yes. But as a...

Every sport except the NFL operates on the concept that appointment viewing doesn’t work. The NFL itself is continually adding non Sunday afternoon games. Older people here grew up with the Leafs...

Having just speed watched the game…

How many times did we get exposed on the counter? 10? Our mids (Coello, Longstaff) really did not have a good day…

O'Neill may be a warrior and all that, but...

^I have mostly been OK with the wonky rules. I think they need to start peeling them off one by one over the next few years, and yeah, the intraleague transfer thing is a bit of an embarassing joke....

Insigne news: I have been the biggest Herdman backer, and still am… but his playing Insigne last weekend was a catastrophic and predictable mistake.

Given Insigne's history, and the investment in...

I haven’t gotten past Pulido scoring that floater in the CCL final first leg in 2018, the one that Bono was never the same after. In the end, it cost us that championship.

Has Pulido been at BMO...

If that holds, maybe I would play Fede. I sit Insigne no matter what.

Respect to those attending/watching, I am off to the Canada thread until tomorrow morning...

That CMNT v Jamaica game was not the coldest BMO game I have been at.

Disagree about the MLS Cup. The coldest was MLS Cup 2016, that was minus 12 and the wind was really blowing. The next coldest...

But do you want our DPs to play? It'll be minus 8 with the wind chill, the refs are amateurs, Atlanta will mark them with scrubs who will scythe them like lumberjacks… someone is getting hurt with...

Game day :canada:

(I will watch the TFC highlights tomorrow morning.)

Ugbo -

Not 100% sure of his relationship with Herdman. He was supposedly grumpy about never seeing the pitch in Qatar. He had been promised something as part of committing to Canada. (So went the...