I haven’t been impressed with them when I’ve seen them play but they seem safely in playoff range and only 4 points out of 4th in the west. Not a mess by our standards.Originally Posted by OgtheDim
I haven’t been impressed with them when I’ve seen them play but they seem safely in playoff range and only 4 points out of 4th in the west. Not a mess by our standards.
Yeh, you win 3 out of 5 and you are in the playoff area right now in this league. As the season progresses, you need longer win streaks to get in or stay there.
Austin was bad at first though - 2 W 5L 4D to start.
In a WTR interview Dunfield reference's Alex McKechnie of the Raptors. Wonder if it is a hint that he may have (more of) a role in any TFC 'Player Health and Performance' reset?
https://wakingthered.com/2023/06/28/...-story-in-mls/
Last edited by Mr. Inbetween; 06-29-2023 at 09:37 AM.
New kit for caribbean carnival game on July 8?
Last edited by rydermike; 06-29-2023 at 10:10 PM.
FWIW…
Could MLS clubs see some of this, increase in spend of a few hundred thousands of dollars each, this window?
Check out this tweet at [URL]https://twitter.com/EdwinGames4/status/1674097453073858562[/URL]
Last edited by Mr. Inbetween; 06-30-2023 at 12:28 PM.
FWIW follow-up…
Check out this tweet at [URL]https://twitter.com/MLS_Box2Box/status/1673811280979968000[/URL]
Check out this tweet at [URL]https://twitter.com/MLS_Box2Box/status/1673816755586859008[/URL]
FYI...
Check out this tweet at https://twitter.com/Eric_Giacometti/status/1675844840171671552
Well that I wasn't expecting. Cleaning house now?
i like eric a lot but the social media over last few years was quite mediocre.
need way more communication to the fanbase (not sure if that's his responsibility to choose what content gets produced).
If I had to guess, he had his fill of this shit show and was ready to move on. Can’t be fun running those accounts given the current environment around the team.
maybe the argo prez didnt like the egg timer emoji on sunday
This is stadium related -- Did anyone actually receive any form of notice about the stadium credit expiring?
I'm fighting with my rep now about it -- I received no email or no notice about it. He specified some dates the emails were sent - I dont have them - and I dont delete anything.
I received an email on June 21 from tfc about the credits expiring on June 30. That was the only email I received and was surprised by the immediacy of the expiry date.
Former TFC draftee Brandon Aubrey has signed a try-out deal as a kicker with the Dallas Cowboys. If he sticks, he'll partly have our terrible development pipeline to thank.
Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment, City of Toronto spar over unpaid BMO Field tax bills: Report
https://torontosun.com/news/local-ne...x-bills-report
Mavinga just scored the go ahead for LA against Phillly off a corner. Did he ever score for us off a corner?
LAG seemed to have turned it around.
Amazing what clearing out the rot from the very top of a club can do
WTF? First Giacometti, now JMO?
Check out this tweet at https://twitter.com/FootballSaves/status/1678124220126203904
Everyone seems to be bailing... not a good sign.
MLS is a tough, physical league, that emphasizes speed, and features plastic fields, grueling travel, extreme weather, and incompetent refs. - NK Toronto
A FWIW follow-up...
Check out this tweet at https://twitter.com/FootballSaves/status/1678577983538200577
Au contraire. It could easily mean the change we seek is closer than we realize.
Congrats to Justin also. Sounds like he is moving to a big interesting job.
“What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.”
When you think about it, allowing Hernandez to be appointed leaves * some* of the necessary infrastructure in place to fire Manning. It’s just the other org changes here that make me skeptical.
Good. Everyone should go. Full clean out is necessary. Even guys like Morrow who are good guys & are at no fault for any of our woes but are still part of that 2017 nostalgia would be better off away from our next evolution. The sooner that era is scrubbed from our team the better.
The headache for MLS? A North America first? USL takes a step towards PRO/REL consideration...
Check out this tweet at https://twitter.com/TheDPPod1/status/1678910407468097536
Or if it fails, and it might, proof that pro-rel isn't the be all, end all of football and player development.
It won't. Why would it fail? Every poll I've ever seen of U.S. soccer fans that takes "realism" out of the equation (or bitter defeatism depending on how you look at it) says the U.S. fanbase would prefer it. Fans in Europe aren't clamoring to get rid of it, or anywhere else. It adds meaning to otherwise meaningless seasons.
Additionally, the most popular football club in America right now is Wrexham. It's not because of Ryan Reynolds. It's because of Disney. It's because that show is the perfect underdog story, rags to riches.
There is no narrative Americans like more. Go on any soccer board discussing Wrexham; the Americans on it don't talk much about 'Rob and Ryan' the way the Welsh do; they talk about promotion.
The issue isn't whether it will work, to me. It's whether having none of the bigger cities and all of the clubs being lower budget will be good enough to sustain interest.
Personally, as over-valued as its franchises are relative to revenue, MLS could be quite vulnerable if USL decided to actually take them on. Everyone wants into the American market, but as the new Bournemouth owner showed, they won't always pay $500M plus to do it.
There is nothing legally to stop USL from expanding, bringing in big pockets and simply selling franchises in many of the same cities. Their big opposition will come from the U.S. Soccer Federation not wanting to have rival leagues; but there's nothing technically stopping it from happening.
Because sports is business & anybody who thinks pro/rel is good in other places is ignoring the pain that occurs for those who have the rel happen to the point where the team is no longer viable.
Watch your town's team die or almost die....it changes your mind about pro/rel.
Google the story about Mike Piazza ruining an Italian town.
People think this year is crap to watch & dispiriting?
Try watching your team slowly shrink & die.
No thank you - not interested in that at all.
Last edited by OgtheDim; 07-12-2023 at 05:55 PM.
Yeah, you say this on every discussion of promotion and relegation. I've never had it expressed to me by anyone living in the UK. Ever.
What you see as some nightmarish torment, most accept as the norm, and the annual race to survive or get promoted is what they have, because they can't outspend the top teams. It's what makes football exciting, the notion of taking a step up, and building on it.
And the reality is, most teams in that system don't "slowly shrink and die." Most teams outside of the biggest cities were never that large to begin with. Below the English Premier League, a majority of teams actually make money. And rarely do they ever cease to exist.
This notion of small-town clubs struggling is usually quite implicitly raised around clubs that are dying, but they have nearly always been unfortunate enough to be taken over by the unscrupulous. They're not being relegated out of existence.
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