Yes man. Totally get that this game is all imagination. Just sayin' my take above would've made an interesting TFC in 2007 if all pistons were firing instead of our team aquiring the same talent later.Originally Posted by TFC Tifoso
Yes man. Totally get that this game is all imagination. Just sayin' my take above would've made an interesting TFC in 2007 if all pistons were firing instead of our team aquiring the same talent later.
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Yeah but they also a product of the time. MLS reserves went the way of the dodo and it took us years here to fill the gap they could've fell into.
TFC Accies wouldn't have helped them but if the Toonies were around...who knows?
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I think people want to forget that we lost him.
it sure would've.....but then again who knows how the others would've paired up with a guy like Seba....
besides, we would only be able to play 2 at a time....unless we used Cantona's 1-1-8
And I can't remember who mentioned Conor Casey but damn. Looking back now is just hilarious.
He whines he wants to go home and we take Ryan O'Neill who doesn't play a game for us. Colorado get only 2 goals out of him, One less than Herculez Gomez who just comes back to MLS from the minors and only one more than Jacob Peterson. Not even mentioning their draft pick Nick Labrocca.
Oh what a funny game.
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Top avatar, that! Where does one acquire such swag?!
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Never forget, btw (how 'bout that assist from Raivs Hscabcdefghijklmnopqurstuvwxyz?):
If we're going by what the player meant to the club, it's got to be Tal Ben Haim—hands down!
http://www.torontofc.ca/post/2013/05...n-haim-toronto
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Tal Ben Hain!!! I completely forgot he was (on paper) a member of TFC.
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I've never heard a Preston North End supporter say anything good about his time there. I'm not trying to shit on the guy, I'm just saying he falls right into that Toronto 'no skill/high work rate' fandom that seems to span all sports. Fact is he scored a goal every 285 minutes throughout his career and was only fractionally better at TFC.
by "very poor teams" I meant during his time with TFC, not in general.....look, I'm not so delusional to believe he was a clone of van Basten, but to me its very lazy to lump him in the "no skill/high work rate" category.....he was a good player for a bad team, nothing more or less.....he'd have done much better on a team like we have now, and I don't know how anyone can exclude him from the top 10 that we've had here......if you're putting that list in order, where he falls is defintely up for debate (he'd fall somewhere between 4-6 for me)....but he's gotta be in there.....
C'monnnn top 10 players? He's barely a top 10 striker on this team.
1. Giovinco
2. De Rosario (because he was basically a striker for us)
3. Kouvermans
4. Defoe
5. Altidore
6. Johnson
7. Barrett
And now take your pick between Dichio, Earnshaw, Santos, Gilberto and Gordon
difference of opinion what else can I say.....I'd definitely rate him higher than your 5-7....based on stats alone though, you could make a case for Johnson.....Altidore's success in MLS to me has as much to do with the players he got to play with (JPA in NY and Seba here, arguably the best players in MLS for the times - which is why I make the case of being able to drop Dichio in today's team with Seba; 2007-08 Dichio would imo be AT LEAST as productive as Altidore).....and Barrett is just ugh, sure he scored some (not much of a better strike rate than Dichio), but missed way to many to be considered a "best of" here.....
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You had to be there...I'll always remember the blizzard of seat cushions onto the field!
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Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.
Pretty much my list as well.
I was there... first five seasons for every game barring one or two. I still don't see anything other than nostalgia.You had to be there...
hey Prof, it was awesome to meet you on megabus. It was hilarious how we run around buffalo looking for a bar even though our bus stopped there for only half an hour. Also, you gotta tell me how that vodka replaced by water ended up lol
Collin Samuel?
I'll get my pie.
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Could be nostalgia, could be emotion, could be the fact that, during a time when we had some really terrible players, DD seemed to give us someone to focus on. We knew he wasn't the most skillful. God knows he wasn't the fastest! But he never gave up and he wore his heart on his sleeve for the team.
Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.
Wow, it's scary how many awful players have come through this club! You'd be hard pressed to only come up with 10. Maxim Usanov, Gianluca Zavarise, Eddy Viator, Matt Stinson, Dasan Robinson, Paulo Nagamura (decent enough in MLS, but screw him since he didn't want to be here a la Casey, Mulrooney, etc.), Raivis Hscanovics...the names just go on and on.
Would be elated to see the club adopt this variant of the badge to mark 20/25 years; wouldn't know what to do with myself to find out my touch-ups have seen me forever stitched into the fabric of our beloved club.Great Minds think alike!
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Tom Anselmi bought a whole bunch of fans beers at the Skydome CCL game a few years back.
I refused to take one.
You the real MVP.
LOL
All I meant was that I despise the guy so much that I turned down a free beer from him.
Free beer is hard to refuse no?
MVP is a bit much.
MVP of what I might ask?
I thought I responded to this already. But I guess there was some glitch. But I have to say that I agree with this list completely. Stefan Frei is the only one that I may have taken out but I cannot say that you are wrong.
Dichio was a great target man for us, who scored some good goals. He created changes, he knocked the ball down, and spread it around nicely. He was not fast but he played his position very well. For a low skilled team he was a perfect CF, and even on the team today, him playing in front of Seba would produce allot of quality chances.
Hahahahahahahahhahaha. You would take "I cannot hit a barn even if I am standing two feet from it" Barret over Dichio, what were you smoking in the first 5 years of TFC???? You can argue the first five, but you are comparing a pure target man/CF with AM/SS types, in Giovinco, De Rosario and Defoe, Kouvermans, Altidore and Dichio are more of the same kind of 9 players. Kouvermans and Altidore were/are better finishers, but Dichio was better at getting to ball. holding it, passing it to runners, and with his head.
not necessarily......Altidore needs maybe another season to have a true sample size, but Dichio's strike rate (14 G for 31 SOG, 48%) was actually better than Koev's (17 G for 41 SOG, 41%)......I agree with you on the rest of Dichio's assets......admittedly I'm not one to look STRICTLY at numbers, but those are the stats.....imo both Koev and Dichio are definitely in our Top 10 up to now....
Based on performance for the club, I would replace Frings with Laba.
And this is coming from a Frings fan!
Where's Mariner?
Mariner was the symptom, those guys were the virus.
I'd argue that Mariner was worse than Mo and Cochrane. He left the club in such a mess after the 2012 season. His scouting, overpaid players and salary cap management bit us in the ass two years after he was gone.
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