Today's News,Friday,Jan.07

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Mornin'



New Management Team Announced


Introducing Aron Winter


Meet Paul Mariner


Bob de Klerk On Board


Toronto FC names new coach, management team


De Rosario will report to TFC training camp


Aron Winter expands on his ambitious plans for Toronto FC


New Toronto FC coach looks to striker-heavy style this season


Dobson on TFC: TFC's formidable troika


TFC insist De Rosario will be back with club


TFC names Aron Winter new coach


TFC expects DeRo back for training


TFC goes Dutch


De Rosario's intent to bolt FC is clear


Toronto FC: No problem with De Rosario training in Scotland


Winter's day brings a new TFC




SUNSHINE

[James17930]

So much news -- looks like something important happened yesterday

[Nerepis]

I think they made a major announcement.

[lips]

Mornin'

[London]

wow , the headline is Most TFC stories EVER.

let's see who will be the first player brought in, that should set the tone

[[NBF]]

Richard Starnes (Ottawa Citizen)

I can't stand it when people call the team "the F-cee". At the bottom of the article it says he's the soccer writer of the ottawa citizen, I think he just did his homework by reading the blogs and regurgitating what everyone else has posted.

[[NBF]]

On paper, I think our best starting lineup looks like this: 4-3-3.

-----------------------Frei------------------------
Gargan-----Attakora----------Cann----------Sturgis
--------------------------------------------------
-------Peterson-----DeGuzman-----LaBrocca-------
--------------------------------------------------
Santos-------------------------------------Barrett
--------------------------------------------------
---------------------DeRosario--------------------


Opening day, I hope some changes have been made and some of these people are not left off the roster but maybe downgraded to support the best quality team.

Underlined = are the starters
* = are the players that are capable of playing the position despite some weaknesses(such as being weak physically, or very average skill-wise, or inconsistent).
Quality = Is what I expect the new players brought in by Winter to be and the level of talent brough to the position.
Depth = Serviceable players

-----------------------Frei-------------------------
---------------------Conway-----------------------
----------------------------------------------------
Attakora-----Quality---------Quality--------Quality
*Henry-------Gomez-----------Cann----------Depth
----------------------------------------------------
--------Quality-----DeGuzman-----*LaBrocca-------
--------Gargan-------Depth---------Sturgis--------
--------------------------------------------------
*Santos-------------------------------------Quality
Peterson------------------------------------*Lindsay
--------------------------------------------------
---------------------DeRosario--------------------
---------------------*Barrett----------------------

[Nuvinho]

On paper, I think our best starting lineup looks like this: 4-3-3.

-----------------------Frei------------------------
Gargan-----Attakora----------Cann----------Sturgis
--------------------------------------------------
-------Peterson-----DeGuzman-----LaBrocca-------
--------------------------------------------------
Santos-------------------------------------Barrett
--------------------------------------------------
---------------------DeRosario--------------------


Opening day, I hope some changes have been made and some of these people are not left off the roster but maybe downgraded to support the best quality team.

Underlined = are the starters
* = are the players that are capable of playing the position despite not being great.

-----------------------Frei-------------------------
---------------------Conway-----------------------
----------------------------------------------------
Attakora-----Quality---------Quality--------Quality
*Henry-------Gomez-----------Cann----------Depth
----------------------------------------------------
--------Quality-----DeGuzman-----*LaBrocca-------
--------Gargan-------Depth---------Sturgis--------
--------------------------------------------------
*Santos-------------------------------------Quality
Peterson------------------------------------*Lindsay
--------------------------------------------------
---------------------DeRosario--------------------
----------------------Barrett----------------------

I started a thread on formation, you can post and discuss this there. I think we need to at least 2 more strikers to use the 4-3-3, the strikers we have I don't see doing well. (maybe Santos and DeRo)

[Chevy]

Who is this "Quality" guy you speak of?

[Nuvinho]

Who is this "Quality" guy you speak of?

He seems to have alot of brothers.

[scooter]

mornin d

[Darlofletch]

Who is this "Quality" guy you speak of?

He seems to have alot of brothers.

It's like that Gatorade guy that played for motagua.

[Oldtimer]

Aron Winter's appointment made a number of Dutch news sources. Here's four of them:

http://www.voetbalprimeur.nl/site/ni...ub_Winter.html

http://www.soccernews.nl/news/110675...bij_FC_Toronto

http://www.parool.nl/parool/nl/11/SP...t-Winter.dhtml

http://www.goal.com/nl/news/1068/noo...bij-fc-toronto

In English Google Translation:

http://translate.google.ca/translate...ub_Winter.html

(this one also states that Andrew Ornoch has decided to move to TFC due to home-sickness).

http://translate.google.ca/translate...bij_FC_Toronto

http://translate.google.ca/translate...t-Winter.dhtml

http://translate.google.ca/translate...bij-fc-toronto

[[NBF]]

He seems to have alot of brothers.

hahahahaha, hopefully all orange and preferably of the "non-pylon" community in Toronto or Scarborough.

[ag futbol]

Don't sleep on Starnes he's actually quite good normally.

Anything worth while in these articles or is it just regurgitation from yesterday ?

[Carts]

He seems to have alot of brothers.

This "Quality" kid has almost as many brothers as "Future Considerations", that guy is always getting traded...

[Parkdale]

sometimes.... I agree with Cathal:

It’s great that Toronto FC has found some new coaching blood. Hurrah. Skip the self-congratulation, find some players, then start winning. That’s the only story anybody wants to hear.

[Whoop]

Richard Starnes (Ottawa Citizen)

I can't stand it when people call the team "the F-cee". At the bottom of the article it says he's the soccer writer of the ottawa citizen, I think he just did his homework by reading the blogs and regurgitating what everyone else has posted.

Reporters don't come up with the headlines.

Editors do.

[Ossington Mental Youth]

still hate cathal and he was bashing the new management before they were even officially signed, i have no doubt we will have new players soon enough.
looking forward to Ornach signing

[Huyton]

Any news on whether Winter or Mariner have spoken toDeRo and DeGuzman?

[Parkdale]

still hate cathal and he was bashing the new management before they were even officially signed, i have no doubt we will have new players soon enough.
looking forward to Ornach signing

his point still stands though, and it's not about not having players yet - it's about TFc making news that isn't really important - the only news that matters is when TFC wins a game. Staffing isn't the story. Even signings aren't the story. Winning is the only report that matters.

[Cashcleaner]

still hate cathal and he was bashing the new management before they were even officially signed, i have no doubt we will have new players soon enough.
looking forward to Ornach signing

Yeah I don't get it either. Most of his readers will undoubtedly acknowledge that we are in desperate need of more players before the season starts, but I can't think of anyone who hasn't seen the Winter/Mariner news as anything but good. I mean, this has been a big week for TFC, so let's not start getting negative just because that's what we're used to.

[Parkdale]

I mean, this has been a big week for TFC, so let's not start getting negative just because that's what we're used to.

agreed, but until the team is winning games, people will be (justifiably) skeptical.

[Ossington Mental Youth]

its slow building blocks, cant win games until we have players,cant bring in players until you have management

Got management, now we can work on the players, dudes ignoring all of htis in his article for the sake of complaining as he always does

[BeerBaron95]

Roogs, stop creepin viejo! lol

[TFCRegina]

Richard Starnes (Ottawa Citizen)

I can't stand it when people call the team "the F-cee". At the bottom of the article it says he's the soccer writer of the ottawa citizen, I think he just did his homework by reading the blogs and regurgitating what everyone else has posted.

Not only that, it's a fairly garbage article that takes the word of Scottish tabloids as fact.

[Mark in Ottawa]

Richard Starnes (Ottawa Citizen)

I can't stand it when people call the team "the F-cee". At the bottom of the article it says he's the soccer writer of the ottawa citizen, I think he just did his homework by reading the blogs and regurgitating what everyone else has posted.

Not quite. He mentions something about Dero being the only player "with any soccer class" at TFC. He forgot to mention his lack of class with some of the weird antics on and off the field (Cheque signing fiasco etc...).

[scooter]

Yeah I don't get it either. Most of his readers will undoubtedly acknowledge that we are in desperate need of more players before the season starts, but I can't think of anyone who hasn't seen the Winter/Mariner news as anything but good. I mean, this has been a big week for TFC, so let's not start getting negative just because that's what we're used to.

agreed

[scooter]

Not quite. He mentions something about Dero being the only player "with any soccer class" at TFC. He forgot to mention his lack of class with some of the weird antics on and off the field (Cheque signing fiasco etc...).

cannot believe that but even more annoying is that tfc more specifically mariner looks like its forgive and forget and still talking like dero is going to be our team captain wtf is with that

welcome to toronto paul be prepared to take some crit on this

[Technorgasm]

Dero IS our captain and best player.

its time WE realize that he is a great talent and other clubs want him.
stop the crying and support the bloomin squad.

cant wait for game day.