Is Brennan a serious candidate or was that someone's joke?
Is Brennan a serious candidate or was that someone's joke?
I think its a joke based off of his promotion to assitant coach.
Well Up and Away for Tommy boy (away from TFC I hope).
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^ Around TFC you never know...did you hear the one about Torsten Frings' season ending hip injury?
... or that Danny Dichio's too weak to travel by plane?Originally Posted by Canary10
How about DeRo not telling the club about Celtic?
.... and yes, the Jimmy B reference was a joke.
MLS is a tough, physical league, that emphasizes speed, and features plastic fields, grueling travel, extreme weather, and incompetent refs. - NK Toronto
Tell me about it. These guys stumbled into a hot market and did a good initial lunch, but they've shit the bed on just about everything else.like Tom knows how to do any of that?
As far as winning goes, they could not be more of a joke.
And Joao Plata is still with this team.
Glad it's a joke....just hope it's not on us all!!
Yikes. This is the Toronto Star's main headline (spelling mistake and all):
IN THE NEWS
This is the new man in charge if bringing a Stanley Cup to Toronto
(He's telling reporters how close TFC are to winning the Club World Cup).
"We were THIS CLOSE to winning a game this year!
So of course I'm the man for the job."
Last edited by Batman; 09-04-2012 at 02:45 PM.
ah damn. Canary.. we thought the exact same thing at the same time..
but you beat me to the punch.
It looks like he's more discussing his fishing trip and the "one that got away."
MLS is a tough, physical league, that emphasizes speed, and features plastic fields, grueling travel, extreme weather, and incompetent refs. - NK Toronto
or something else...
Maybe he's saying how long he wants Mariner's hair to get.
I think a caption contest is in order.
this is now a caption contest
"We were THIS CLOSE to winning a game this year!
So of course I'm the man for the job."
"I swear the turd I shat this morning was thiiiiis big!"
“Years have gone by and I’ve finally learned to accept myself for who I am: a beggar for good football.
I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead: ‘A pretty move, for the love of God.’
And when good football happens, I give thanks for the miracle and I don’t give a damn which team or country performs it.”
-Eduardo Galeano
Yikes. This is the Toronto Star's main headline (spelling mistake and all):
IN THE NEWS
This is the new man in charge if bringing a Stanley Cup to Toronto
(He's telling reporters how close TFC are to winning the Club World Cup).
So when Paul M said "minor tweeks", this is what he was talking about...
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Hmmm..........darn...........Mariner here until the middle of next season.
Maybe a playoff team in 2014, if we get lucky with the new President of TFC.
If its Cochrane who gets that position, we are talking a playoff team in 2017.
Pretty scary IF the board promotes the current TFC team.
So this is good news or bad news?
Both.
Good, he'll be too busy to meddle with TFC.
Bad, he'll probably mismanage everything at the executive level.
MLS is a tough, physical league, that emphasizes speed, and features plastic fields, grueling travel, extreme weather, and incompetent refs. - NK Toronto
Potentially could be good news.
Anselmi was COO before and that tag stays the same. That role typically would set budgets and oversee operational efficiencies within each of its business units. He performed this role for TFC, Leafs and Raptors.
However, my understanding is that he had no power into how the Leafs or Raptors were run as sports teams. When Richard Peddie stepped aside and created the President and GM role for Burke and Colangelo, he left a striaght line into the board. Burke took the budget and hired his own guys without Peddie/Anselmi's approval. He hires and fires his coaches. If he needs extra money he needs Board approval for it... not Anselmi's. Something John Ferguson Jr never had.
Given the title change from VP to President would seemingly indicate to me that all VPs are now reporting to him... NOT Burke and Colangelo. Guys like Ian Clarke and Robert Hunter. My guess is that he will oversee things like venues, tickets, partnerships, business development, broadcasting, live entertainment, etc. The sports teams themselves (except TFC at this stage) have their own Presidents. They will use MLSE infrastructure but again have autonomy over the sports decisions related to their teams (Drafts, trades, etc).
If TFC comes out and searches for their own President and this is the structure... this could be about as good as it gets.
Wanna bet Paul B gets promoted?
I view it as bad. People think he'll be more removed from TFC, but the problem is Tom will have responsibility for appointing someone to head up the TFC operation in his place. What is the one area where Tom has made the most damaging decisions over his time with TFC? Hiring. He has made decisions with respect to 7 coaches, whether those decisions were to hire, fire or extend, and I don't see too many good decisions in there. So there's nothing to make me feel good about him appointing his replacement.
C'mon now, everyone knows it has to be said:
This is how big my penis is! *
*A big lie, like everything else about Anselmi
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This may have been a factor for the way Burke always seems to act more like an owner than a GM, always worried about the "state of the league" more than the state of his team. In his case it doesn't seem to be a system that works. It may be different for Colangelo, I don't know.
The potential problem for TFC is that "the budget" isn't a single thing - there's the operating budget and then the DP signings which have so far needed board approval. Or not, it's hard to get a straight story out of these guys. But it is possible to see Anselmi handing over a budget to a president/GM but not including the DP money in it. Will TFC need to sell a certain amount of season tickets (or sell a player like Edu) in order to get approval for a DP signing?
But maybe the best thing to come out of this will be that TFC coaches won't have to make presentations to the board on game day, as Winter did. That really doesn't seem like something that should be in a coach's job description.
As for my opinion on Anselmi getting the top job:
FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! BULLSHIT! FUCK! FUCK!
But deep down, were we not surprised by this decision?Now say hello to the new men in charge of Toronto FC: Paul Bernie and Earl Cochrane!
Jesus Fucking Christ, but ML$E is a fucking retarded group of pigfuckers! A legacy and tradition of selfish incompetence continues!
How 'bout a new Scumbag Steve meme for the new asswipe president of ML$E?!!
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I think Burke's concern for the "state of the league" has more to do with Burke's ego, and his status as an "old guard insider", than any perceived role with the Maple Leafs. He has always enjoyed blathering on at length about his "guiding principles" and whatnot.
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This is how big the tube of lube we're gonna need when we announce this year's season seat holder packages.
"We were THIS CLOSE to winning a game this year!
So of course I'm the man for the job."
Now that we have a contest I'll stand by my original.
Tom Anselmi now on AM 590 Prime Time Sports discussing appointment.
Same statements
- winning cures most problems
In other words, fans only feel screwed because the teams are not winning. Nothing to do with price gouging, bullshit security, poor customer service, etc. As long as we win, we can continue to pretend these are not issues and ignore our customers.
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