I'm going to tell you an interesting story.
I have been going to tfc games for 4 years now and win or lose in the go train tunnel everyone is chanting tfc tfc. Everybody loves this team, I couldn't explain the feeling to non soccer fans.
Well anyways last night a guy behind me does a chant tfc tfc and nobody says tfc tfc it's all quiet except for one guy.
He yells sucks.
In other words it went tfc tfc sucks.
The guy with the tfc chant immediately stopped and never said tfc tfc again.
So sad what has become of this once great team in just two years
Last edited by stevep; 08-11-2019 at 04:30 PM.
Good thing you weren't here in 2010-2012. You would have seen much, much worse than one guy saying "TFC sucks." This is an article about a protest that we RPB organized in 2011. The team was sucking, meanwhile MLSE was rapidly jacking up prices for the Supporters.
https://thefanmagazine.wordpress.com...ccer-fans/amp/
In 2012 with the failure of the Aron Winter experiment (during which the team started 0-9 on the season, which gave it the worst record in the world), the team had to slash season tickets to keep everyone from bailing.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.the...rticle4621019/
Even so many people bailed. We had a meltdown on this board. Many people quit to "never follow TFC again" (a lot of those came back in 2016). People wore paper bags over their heads to protest the terrible team and an ownership that was incompetent and didn't seem to care.
Then something almost miraculous happened. MLSE's new majority owners Bell & Rogers hired Tim Leiweke to run the company, and he made turning around TFC his top priority, (followed by the Raptors). He cleaned out most of the FO and appointed people who turned the team around, and convinced the board to spend big on 3 very expensive DPs. The rest is history. A lot of new fans came on board. The treble. Seeing Seba play. Those of us who stuck with the team were rewarded with the best season in MLS history, one which we will never forget.
Hahah. It's been a lot worse. A couple wins can fix that. We're battling for a playoff spot. What happened long before was far worse.
Sound like Johnny-Come-Lately fans who expect 2016/17 days.
It won't. And even if it did, tough it out. Just need to predrink more.
I didn’t say it was beyond the realm of reason, just that it wasn’t going to happen.
I’ve said that Bradley’s contract is excessive and that a DP DM is rarely going to be a constructive use of resources in MLS right now.
That said:
1. Why do you think Bradley makes a lot of money? Would he make that much playing in Europe last year?
2. Willian would be available on a free. Salary demands increase.
3. No one comes to MLS for less money.
4. Willian would be the most expensive player in MLS, probably, and these are not the signings TFC is looking for in the future, per the FO.
5. Willian could probably still play in Europe if he wanted to, but Brazilian NT members also carry clout in other leagues, which is why China offers them crazy salaries. If Brazilian mercenaries saw MLS as a league of choice, there’d be loads of them here. There aren’t.
In any case, I wouldn’t want Nani here. How an evaluation of Nani turned into wouldn’t you rather have Nani than Bradley and then into wouldn’t you rather have Willian than Bradley is confusing.
who is a tfc reporter is kind of irrelevant. The point is Vanney had a 7 minute press conference after the game and in that 7 minutes some reporters whoever they were did not ask him why he did not start the two new tam guys.
you would think that would be the most obvious question to ask the guy.
heck that question was on this message board at the beginning of the game and it is all over twitter.
if you thought last year was a bizzaro season, this season is just as bizzaro
Who is a TFC reporter is actually the only thing relevant to what you’re asking.
It’s been discussed numerous times on this board — the number of knowledgeable, independent reporters is dwindling down to basically nothing, and the reporters whose paycheques come from Bell and Rogers aren’t going to rock the boat and play hardball.
By the way, referee needed to stop the game when Laryea was on the floor with a dislocated shoulder. And the physics should have just come on. That’s incredibly painful. Incredibly. He has guts. You could see that it was still out when he came to the sidelines.
I thought we deserved better to be honest. Jozy and Poz both missed golden opportunities they normally convert.
I just don’t think we have a player outside of Poz that can deliver that quality final pass in the opponents final 1/3 (maybe Osorio). Shaff has been found out, and heavily one footed. Endoh, Bradley, Delgado don’t have it either (on very rare occasion they have). Altidore does, but is playing as a lone striker. For me, the season hinges on if Gallardo or Benezet can be that threat, because are so heavy reliant on Pozuelo
But we will only play them in the CCL, so we win a trophy and go to champions league. I have to admit, I have been pretty patient until now. Losing to Houston and drawing to Orlando is just amateur hour. Hate to say it Vanney and the players need to start playing scared.
Agreed re: Shaffelburg. Now that said, this kid is very young and if the coaching staff has their wits about them, should be able to find ways for him to improve his game.
I’m the meantime he’s still an ideal late game sub. That pace will be near impossible to neutralize with tired legs.
Shaff has not been “found out”. He is 19! He is still learning.
I've noticed something a little different about how teams have handled him the last 2 MLS games when Shaff makes a run, they put 1 guy on him and then stand 2 guys covering the near post cross - he doesn't get it past them. When Morrow is going down there or Laryea on the other side, they tend to put 1 covering the near post cross and have the other guy covering late runners.
Agreed “found out” is a tad harsh. Now that said, we see guys hit the league all the time red-hot only for their performances to level off once other teams have enough tape on how they play.
I’m sure he can adapt but it’s obvious we shouldn’t straight away expect what we saw in his first few games. Expectations need to be tempered a tad.
I didn’t know where to put this, but whoever’s idea it was to put Legend TFC before the lineups this season before the game is a genius. Great song, fires up the crowd, and gets everyone loud before the match.
I wish they would stop telling us what to do - sing along with the anthem, raise our scarf, I’ll say the first name and you say the last - we did all that, and more, ourselves. That’s what made it great. It’s not the ACC where they need instructions about when to cheer. It’s TFC
This 100% pisses me off. We did all those things without prompting and now TFC are taking it on as if it was their idea and now that they announce all that it looks like the only reason we do it is because we are told to. Totally ruins the positive vibe for me and almost makes me want to stop doing it. Wish the front office would just piss off and let everything happen naturally. We are not sheep.