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    It's actually kind of sad watching what has happened to Bono over the past 2 months. We are all witnessing him self destruct with his professional career in all likelihood coming to end. By all accounts he is a nice guy and well liked by his team.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SirBobSaget View Post
    He could play someone else? Had no problem dumping other guys like Lawrence and Auro.
    Exactly this

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    Quote Originally Posted by TMAN80 View Post
    Bono has done something amazing and incredibly rare tonight for himself -

    unifying the opinion of every last person in this forum
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    Quote Originally Posted by NK Toronto View Post
    If he does get an offer from a lower European league it probably would be for less money. And yes we are getting a new home kit next year. The away kit will stay. Teams keep jerseys for 2 years.
    Maybe, maybe not?
    A lot of players have dreams to play in Europe/experience the lifestyle, so might be worth the paycut.
    The again, they'd be getting an international player who has a few years left. If they only expect 2-3 years, it's not a crazy idea.

    Means sale for the current one!
    Maybe they'll bring back the long sleeved? (one can dream!)
    Quote Originally Posted by NK Toronto View Post
    It's actually kind of sad watching what has happened to Bono over the past 2 months. We are all witnessing him self destruct with his professional career in all likelihood coming to end. By all accounts he is a nice guy and well liked by his team.
    They should get Herdman to talk to the guy. Look what he did for the CMNT with sport psychology.

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    Bob Bradley should be forced to choose either Player Management or Coach, after this year hes showing hes not good enough for both

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    I still think they thought a trade for one of Bono or Westberg was all but done & thus brought in Rajitsingh.

    If Conway is still around next season....

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    Quote Originally Posted by NK Toronto View Post
    It's actually kind of sad watching what has happened to Bono over the past 2 months. We are all witnessing him self destruct with his professional career in all likelihood coming to end. By all accounts he is a nice guy and well liked by his team.
    Good points. It is sad.

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    Read over all the comments hating on BB. I get it we all want to make the playoffs but this was a rebuild that was so overdue. I don’t believe that a Curtin or Nancy could walk in and just change this team into a playoff contender. At the end of the day they still have the same personnel who are the ones that control what happens on the field.

    I would like us to use more crosses into the box as an alternative to just having either Insigne or Berna cut in. Laryea has been far less effective on the offensive side the last number of games for instance and we need more of those crosses and runs.

    Bono’s definitely done at TFC at the end of this year. Wish he could’ve performed better but as BB said this last stretch has simply not been good enough. There will be another major overhaul this off-season, at least that’s what it looks like.

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    Quote Originally Posted by barticusz View Post
    Read over all the comments hating on BB. I get it we all want to make the playoffs but this was a rebuild that was so overdue. I don’t believe that a Curtin or Nancy could walk in and just change this team into a playoff contender. At the end of the day they still have the same personnel who are the ones that control what happens on the field.

    I would like us to use more crosses into the box as an alternative to just having either Insigne or Berna cut in. Laryea has been far less effective on the offensive side the last number of games for instance and we need more of those crosses and runs.

    Bono’s definitely done at TFC at the end of this year. Wish he could’ve performed better but as BB said this last stretch has simply not been good enough. There will be another major overhaul this off-season, at least that’s what it looks like.
    The entire team has been less effective w/o Osorio...

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    Quote Originally Posted by NK Toronto View Post
    It's actually kind of sad watching what has happened to Bono over the past 2 months. We are all witnessing him self destruct with his professional career in all likelihood coming to end. By all accounts he is a nice guy and well liked by his team.
    To be fair he was terrible since Spring 2018. Only difference now is that his shot stopping is now as bad as the rest of his game.

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    Yup, I think this is it for this season. Just hope we can get a good keeper and a cb for the next season. Another good cdm would be good as well, but I'm glad we'll start from day one with the Italians.

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    Quote Originally Posted by barticusz View Post
    Read over all the comments hating on BB. I get it we all want to make the playoffs but this was a rebuild that was so overdue. I don’t believe that a Curtin or Nancy could walk in and just change this team into a playoff contender. At the end of the day they still have the same personnel who are the ones that control what happens on the field.

    I would like us to use more crosses into the box as an alternative to just having either Insigne or Berna cut in. Laryea has been far less effective on the offensive side the last number of games for instance and we need more of those crosses and runs.

    Bono’s definitely done at TFC at the end of this year. Wish he could’ve performed better but as BB said this last stretch has simply not been good enough. There will be another major overhaul this off-season, at least that’s what it looks like.
    Don't think Curtin or Nancy would get rid of the only FBs(Auro and Lawrence) on the team. Just those 2 alone would have probably kept the team in a playoff spot. Instead BB was forcing players to play out of position instead of adapting to his players. Like right now, the team is probably better off with 2 up top to spread the D and give the wingers/FBs space. Instead he throws out Nelson to cover no man's land and provide no pressing pressure at all.

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    Insane to even suggest a coaching change and starting again.

    The reason Philly and mtl are good now is stability over a number of years, being able to build.

    If curtins first couple years happened here people would have been calling for his head.

    As it is we are probably halfway through a rebuild and gave the core of a very good team.

    They'll add a DP striker, goalkeeper, a couple CBs and midfield depth in the offseason and we'll be cooking.

    Trust the process.

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    Curtin is in his 8th full season, 9th overall...missed playoffs in 2-3 of those, has one supporters shield, never won mls cup or even got to the final and never won the open cup

    Nancy is in his second season and missed playoffs last year

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    Quote Originally Posted by Oldtimer View Post
    So many people here don't understand the type of coach that BB is. You can't judge him with a half rebuilt team. He's not a coach who gets the best with what he has. He plays a system and needs the players to make it happen.

    He's not my cup of tea, but calling on him to be fired now, especially as this season was actually lost even before the Italians joined us ridiculous.
    I think the fact that we are 4 Bono errors out of the playoffs proves this season was never truly lost.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Oldtimer View Post
    It's painful to read the discussions here sometimes. People who only have a few years experience with TFC and only know BB from his LA gig. I've followed MLS from before TFC (2005) and knew who BB was, as does anyone who has followed the league for years.
    The date people started posting is not the date they started following the league or the team.

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    A perfect night for a match… but man that was difficult to watch. The start was misleading though. We had a lousy midfield, a stone cold striker and a fantastically incompetent keeper. And that was before the problems at centre-half.

    Don’t think coaching would fix that. I’m going to wait to judge until Bradley sporting director has supplied Bradley manager with his players. Unless he doesn’t (which is possible). But Oso, Kaye and M. Bradley in the midfield are a prerequisite to doing well. I don’t see B. Bradley’s teams doing much in the end without an adequate midfield.

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    Quote Originally Posted by los sonadores View Post
    A perfect night for a match… but man that was difficult to watch. The start was misleading though. We had a lousy midfield, a stone cold striker and a fantastically incompetent keeper. And that was before the problems at centre-half.

    Don’t think coaching would fix that. I’m going to wait to judge until Bradley sporting director has supplied Bradley manager with his players. Unless he doesn’t (which is possible). But Oso, Kaye and M. Bradley in the midfield are a prerequisite to doing well. I don’t see B. Bradley’s teams doing much in the end without an adequate midfield.
    I understand he's missing players, but his lack of adapting to his players and the flow of the game is so bad. He needs to stop forcing players to play a style they can't or out of position. His player selection is questionable too with Nelson and Bono.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bhandsome90 View Post
    I understand he's missing players, but his lack of adapting to his players and the flow of the game is so bad. He needs to stop forcing players to play a style they can't or out of position. His player selection is questionable too with Nelson and Bono.
    No one in that lineup was playing out of position. For the second match in a row our midfield had nowhere near enough quality. Don’t think there were other midfield options. Looked like it was stretching it to play MAK even as much as 45.

    Okay, maybe I was wrong - Bono was playing out of position. His position should be in the stands, preferably behind a pillar.

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    Quote Originally Posted by los sonadores View Post
    No one in that lineup was playing out of position. For the second match in a row our midfield had nowhere near enough quality. Don’t think there were other midfield options. Looked like it was stretching it to play MAK even as much as 45.

    Okay, maybe I was wrong - Bono was playing out of position. His position should be in the stands, preferably behind a pillar.
    Nelson isn't a central mid. He's a winger. He should absolutely not see the pitch right now. He keeps staying in no man's land and not pressing anyone letting teams get by him too easily.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bhandsome90 View Post
    Like right now, the team is probably better off with 2 up top to spread the D and give the wingers/FBs space. Instead he throws out Nelson to cover no man's land and provide no pressing pressure at all.
    Agree, I thought I am the only one who was thinking of this. But I doubt BB will do this, he will never change his 4-3-3 formation no matter what the result is.

    I don’t like how he’s so inflexible with his tactics and formations. He is literally just copy and pasting his player selections and subs every single game. Other coaches are reading BB’s game plans like a book now.

    Also in regards to Nelson’s poor defensive pressure….on Montreal’s 2nd goal, TFC managed to clear the ball upfield from a corner. Nelson was next to Johnston upfield, but Johnston reacted first to the clearance while Nelson started jogging back 1 second after Johnston started running for the loose ball. I am not even going to start talking about his lack of defensive positioning and awareness every game at midfield because he’s being played out of position.


    Some questions needs to be asked.

    - why is Bono still in goal after the NE game?
    - why is akinola still starting over JJ? That left foot miss when we were still at 2-2, JJ would’ve scored that.
    - when we’re 2-0 up, why didn’t BB tell okello to support MB more defensively, since he’s being a pylon anyway might as well do it at the back; and switch Insigne to CM and Nelson to LW?
    - why sub off Crisito if he’s not going to use this opportunity to play 3-4-3, we were already down 2-4? If JJ started, Ayo could’ve been our 2nd striker if we switched to a 3-5-2. (Not like BB will switch formations but I think it would’ve been more ideal)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Amir. View Post
    Curtin is in his 8th full season, 9th overall...missed playoffs in 2-3 of those, has one supporters shield, never won mls cup or even got to the final and never won the open cup

    Nancy is in his second season and missed playoffs last year

    Both don't have the highest payroll in the league. And we are missing the playoffs now the third time in 5 years. Are people willing to give him another year to miss another one?
    We threw away the playoffs at the start getting rid of Lawrence and Auro and literally playing kids who never played defender, and lots of points lost as a result. Bob's idiotic decision to dump them without replacements. His arrogance to think it would work. We then dropped more points letting go of Poz before a replacement was found. Not ony did it hurt us, he recharged Miami and also helped beat us in a 6 pointer. He also continues to stubbornly and arrognantly keep putting Bono back in the net, blunder after howler. These goals given up are completely inexcusable. Directly cost us at least 10 points just in recent games...and if you include that New England at home and Miami were 6 pointers, its even worse.


    Put it this way also, if Nancy coaches us last night with our players, and BB Montreal with theirs, we win. Tactically BB is clueless. Inflexible, can't adapt in game. Game after game gets outcoached. And stubbornly thinks going with the same players like Akinola, Nelson, Thompson/Okello and Bono will magically work finally. It won't. Ever.


    PS what exactly does the keeper coach Conway do? Surely he has to be fired, because whatever he is doing is the definition of an incompetent "coach". Fire his .ass this morning. Enough.
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    Quote Originally Posted by bhandsome90 View Post
    Nelson isn't a central mid. He's a winger. He should absolutely not see the pitch right now. He keeps staying in no man's land and not pressing anyone letting teams get by him too easily.
    I’m going to disagree with you here. He’s played better as a midfielder shuttling the ball and popping up between the lines than he has as a winger. I think that’s actually where his future will be as a player.

    The issue is, he’s too inexperienced to be anchored next to Okello and a past prime Bradley. At the very least, you play one of Okello or Nelson, you’d never play both. But it’s inexcusable that we don’t have a cheap, experienced midfielder on the roster right now. It’s been incredibly obvious we’ve needed one all season.

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    Bono is done.

    I'm not going to pass judgement on Bradley Sr. until he has a full season under his belt with an adequate goalkeeper in place.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ag futbol View Post
    I’m going to disagree with you here. He’s played better as a midfielder shuttling the ball and popping up between the lines than he has as a winger. I think that’s actually where his future will be as a player.

    The issue is, he’s too inexperienced to be anchored next to Okello and a past prime Bradley. At the very least, you play one of Okello or Nelson, you’d never play both. But it’s inexcusable that we don’t have a cheap, experienced midfielder on the roster right now. It’s been incredibly obvious we’ve needed one all season.
    Bob truly committed to his vision and a group of guys, the young players, Bono, and gambled the season on it. He lost the gamble because, I think, the league tipped forward this year. There have always been teams that “successfully” did what TFC did - numerous versions of Dallas come to mind. But you can’t do it anymore. Everybody has proven talent, depth and youth now. One of the three ain’t enough.
    “What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.”

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    Quote Originally Posted by ensco View Post
    Bob truly committed to his vision and a group of guys, the young players, Bono, and gambled the season on it. He lost the gamble because, I think, the league tipped forward this year. There have always been teams that “successfully” did what TFC did - numerous versions of Dallas come to mind. But you can’t do it anymore. Everybody has proven talent, depth and youth now. One of the three ain’t enough.
    Yeah. I question the readiness of our youth players though.

    I look at what other teams have on offer and their academy players look more polished and ready to play on day 1 than ours do. That’s not to say there aren’t mistakes across the board but our guys look seriously naive and unprepared.

    Why hasn’t someone told Nelson you can’t jog on defence? I’d give him the ultimatum to fix it or sit. Not a talent thing, just awareness or effort.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ag futbol View Post
    I’m going to disagree with you here. He’s played better as a midfielder shuttling the ball and popping up between the lines than he has as a winger. I think that’s actually where his future will be as a player.

    The issue is, he’s too inexperienced to be anchored next to Okello and a past prime Bradley. At the very least, you play one of Okello or Nelson, you’d never play both. But it’s inexcusable that we don’t have a cheap, experienced midfielder on the roster right now. It’s been incredibly obvious we’ve needed one all season.
    Well said. Its that arrogance of BB again to try and shoehorn players into spots that won't work. Or put a bunch on at the same time, its not going to work.

    Last game, Nelson/Bradley/Thompson in midfield with Akinola striker.

    Last night, Nelson/Bradley/Okello with Akinola striker.

    And quite predictably we get absolutely run over in the midfield again. Sliced and diced easily. And can't get control up top. There most certainly is not a worse starting midfield 3 than those guys in all of mls. Other teams have injuries, players out, rested etc and will never have as bad a midfield trio as that.

    And then it all falls apart forcing Berna and Fede to try and have to beat 3 guys surrounding them time after time.

    Am still wondering what exactly is BB's plan if Mike were to get hurt? We never try anyone in that spot.

    The Italians and Layrea are quality pieces. Oso is okay. Kaye the jury is out, I get he was rusty, but man, that header miss from cross put on a platter by Fede was brutal...missed the net by about 10 yards...so we have 6 quality pieces on a roster of what 22? Imagine Fede or Insigne get hurt though...

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    Quote Originally Posted by ag futbol View Post
    I’m going to disagree with you here. He’s played better as a midfielder shuttling the ball and popping up between the lines than he has as a winger. I think that’s actually where his future will be as a player.

    The issue is, he’s too inexperienced to be anchored next to Okello and a past prime Bradley. At the very least, you play one of Okello or Nelson, you’d never play both. But it’s inexcusable that we don’t have a cheap, experienced midfielder on the roster right now. It’s been incredibly obvious we’ve needed one all season.
    Agree

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    One area that needs a makeover is scouting, which is abysmal. Signing Italian NT players on DP contracts is a no Brainer. What TFC hasn't been able to do in recent years is sign quality foreign players on relatively inexpensive contracts I.e. Victor Vasquez.

    There are MLS quality players in Central and Eastern Europe playing on relatively low contracts that TFC should pursue. Portland's keeper Ivacic is only on $248K per season, less than half Bono's salary. Petrovic from NER, who stoned TFC twice, is only on $225K. Instead we sign garbage like Erickson Gallardo. Which scout recommended that signing? Did anyone from TFC ever even watch him play?

    What has hurt TFC more than anything else is our inability to round out our roster with starting quality players on relatively low contracts.
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    Quote Originally Posted by NK Toronto View Post
    One area that needs a makeover is scouting, which is abysmal. Signing Italian NT players on DP contracts is a no Brainer. What TFC hasn't been able to do in recent years is sign quality foreign players on relatively inexpensive contracts I.e. Victor Vasquez.

    There are MLS quality players in Central and Eastern Europe playing on relatively low contracts that TFC should pursue. Portland's keeper Ivacic is only on $248K per season, less than half Bono's salary. Petrovic from NER, who stoned TFC twice, is only on $225K. Instead we sign garbage like Erickson Gallardo. Which scout recommended that signing? Did anyone from TFC ever even watch him play?

    What has hurt TFC more than anything else is our inability to round out our roster with starting quality players on relatively low contracts.
    Spot on brate. Central and Eastern Europe is loaded with players who could come here at a fraction of the cost and are much better, and are hungry.

    For keeper comparisons, Bono is on over $525k US...which is over $650K CDN. Great for him at least. For us, not so much.....
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    Whoever signed Bono to a 5 year contract should be exiled to Columbus.

 

 

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