2020 TFC looking really good.
Not been OK with that ref for about a year now. Too slow & overturns in VAR too much.
Fraser had a good game. I'd like to see him beside Bradley in a 4-2-3-1 and see what happens.
I've seen more than one poster give credence to the Audi Index now. WHAT. THE. FUCK.
It's a crock of statistical homeopathy.
TFC's head of analytics called it marketing bullshit FFS
Are you implying FIFA ratings aren’t accurate either?
I can assure you this forum has had this conversation before and the result was that any and all rating systems, no matter how inaccurate or made up, are indeed accurate because: “looks about right, I guess!”
Audi Index is just the default Opta stats pushed through some arcane nonsensical conversion so they can put another ad in there somewhere.
westberg has good distribution it’s a teal asset.
Offence moved the ball in and tried things more. Almost like they listened to Vanneyrthis week. I put that down to Fraser and no Auro.
Wheeler speculating this week that the team needs to upgrade RB.
I think we see a trade out & 2 more brought in beyond Gonzalez.
Couldn't stay but the crowd for the Raptors post game was cool.
Lots of people chilling on a nice night, buying drinks and enjoying the BBall.
Toronto at its best, I'd say.
God that fucking ref, I don't know if I ever screamed & swore so much.
TFC mostly OK considering the lineup & and absences. However: how about shoot the fucking ball a few more times?! Pozuleo and Fraser both have a decent long shots, but they (and others) spent too much time passing & dribbling along the top of the box. Just take a long shot every now and then, to mix it up! Too many times we're trying to thread the needle inside the penalty box.
It was fun watching the Raptors there. BMO Field made it into the TV broadcast a couple of times.
Watched the final goal.
Great work by Chapman to earn the throw in.
Great work by Telfer to fight for the ball.
Lovely pass by Pozuelo to set him free.
Hamilton makes the run.
2020 looking really good.
Those were soft penalties. I'm okay if the league wants to start calling stuff like that but it needs to be consistent.
I think back to a few plays we experienced in the last few games. Maybe most notably Laryea charging towards goal against SJ and getting taken down by the opposing fullback. That was wayyy more of a penalty than either of the calls blown against us today. Nobody called for a VAR review on that play and it was far more of a "clear and obvious error".
Vanney put it very well in the post game interview ie "It wasn't even a foul. if you are going to call that (Moor) then you are going to have to call hands on in the box all game. my frustration was that that didnt happen" and then goes on to quote penalties that we could have had recently with Jozy (and for me Boyd on multiple occasions).
They were incredibly soft and the ref was letting a lot of stuff go earlier in the game. It was an incredibly inept display of refereeing, even if every league has bad refs.
The first pen probably wasn’t, except Moor touched him near his face, likely unintentionally. The second pen was soft as well, but I guess you could admit it was. It was the calling back minutes after that was completely idiotic. If VAR is going to be used appropriately, it needs to work much faster than that, or at least whistle down the play while you decide.
There was a weak shoulder-to-shoulder yellow, and Boyd angrily judo flipping the guy hanging off his back all game like a cape wasn’t a yellow.
We had guys going down in the box too. If you’re going to give soft pens for dives, you have to give yellows for simulation if that’s what’s happening. Also, Laryea diving pretending he got smacked in the face was Osorio levels of shameful diving. The guy didn’t even touch him.
The handball in the box looked like his arm came down on it in real time, but on the replay it looked like it bounced off his elbow. Regardless, if the pen on Sissoko during the CL final was the “new way” of calling handballs in the box, then this was certainly a pen too. It’s a stupid way of calling pens for handballs that neglects intention, but if that’s they way it’s going then refs need to be cognizant and call it all the time.
It was 2 points we should have had despite not playing like superstars. A game ruined by poor refereeing and pens/non-called pens is always among the worst.
I was very impressed with Telfers interview. Hope he gets a chance. Vanney calling him “athletic” is a bit of a kiss of death but we could use “athletic”
It’s too bad he has to go back to York9 for the rest of the season. I have been screaming all season long hes the speed on the wing we need. He played really well in preseason I think lead the team in goals and then they loan him out with no wingers on the team? Made no sense at all.
The personnel moves have been strange ever since Beita and Edwards were let go. Good for them for fighting for Poz, and DeLeon is useful, but it’s been an odd 18 months for sure, letting players go like Telfer and Hasler who can play important roles and not replacing them. Maybe Gonzalez will work out - it gives me hope that the USMNT still rates him - and the trend will start to turn around. Buts it’s been quite a puzzling 18 months.
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Fraser is still on the team Hes a huge part of the future.
Auro has been an ok pickup.
Westburg has been better than I thought
Ciman is playing well now
Letting Hagglund go and basically getting Omar for him was a great deal
Laryea was a good bargain pickup
Pozuelo obviously has been good
The problem has been they let Janson go and didn’t replace him.
Having only watched the highlights... what the f%&k. You cannot use VAR to reverse 50/50 calls.
Glad to see Hamilton scoring.
Looking forward to returning to full TFC engagement once load management ends.
"There are some people who might have better technique than me, and some may be fitter than me, but the main thing is tactics. With most players, tactics are missing. You can divide tactics into insight, trust, and daring." - Johan Cruyff
The 2nd VAR review was nuts. Ref was staring at the screen right in front of the south end for a very long time. So that means it's obviously not "clear and obvious," and since the foul wasn't whistled initially, you can't call it. Plus a KC player got really close to the screen while the ref was viewing it, and should have seen a yellow.
My absolute favourite part of the night: watching a bunch of the TFC players' kids, playing footy together on the big pitch throughout most of the basketball game. There was always something fun to watch during time outs and commercials.
Auro is actually incredibly weak in the position we hired him for and one of the reasons our defense has issues. He’s also frequently injured.
We didn’t “basically get” Omar because of the Hagglund trade. I don’t know why people keep repeating this. He’s on a TAM salary and we got him for the same reason we have Bradley and Jozy; just because a team has allocation spots doesn’t need mean a player is automatically required to go to the team with the spot, and all MLS rules are subject to being completely bypassed whenever they head office feels like it.
We didn’t let Janson go. His salary and transfer fee at the time would have made it impossible to fit him into the team. They also were evidently trying to replace him, including trying to bring him back. They just didn’t succeed.
The rest is fine.
We got Hagglund for the number one spot in the allocation order and a whack of Garber bucks. Those were used to acquire Gonzalez (sure they could have been used to acquire someone else, but they weren't).
The link is pretty obvious actually.
Bradley bypassing the allocation order (iirc Jozy actually came through correctly) is a scandal of sorts, but has not much to do with this. That just goes in the bucket of various (mostltly Galaxy related) MLS office offences. They are really pretty rare.
"There are some people who might have better technique than me, and some may be fitter than me, but the main thing is tactics. With most players, tactics are missing. You can divide tactics into insight, trust, and daring." - Johan Cruyff