This club is lucky to be holding my funds from last year's seasons seats, or I would not be renewing them next season. And I've had mine since 2007.
This club is lucky to be holding my funds from last year's seasons seats, or I would not be renewing them next season. And I've had mine since 2007.
We were just as horrid against Montreal and Vancouver at the beginning of the season. Two teams in the same boat as us and at the beginning of the year. So, it not like things were fine and the wheels started to fall off. I have no idea how we managed to beat Leon
The sports are not comparable in the slightest.Originally Posted by Smokecell
I'm not buying the Covid excuse either, but I also wont discount the away from home affect.
I don’t believe I compared the sports at all. The point is there are athletes living out of suitcases with every excuse to mail it in, who are still performing. I get the difficulty and I want the boys home with their families, but this is by no means a scapegoat for Armas.
It looks like our next chance at winning a game will be July 24th. That's when TFC plays Chicago. If we are winless after the Chicago game, then Armas' coaching position should be completely untenable.
Had not thought of this comparison but it is spot on.
Yes, but our government happens to be correct. I know Ford exaggerates the risk of cross border travel, (and totally failed to address covid where it has been rampant) but we do need to. be cautious and Trudeau has it about right - Look what is happening TODAY in Australia
We were probably still playing the Vanney way when we beat Lyon as it was so early in the season and the short preseason due to the outbreak.
FAIR
Thing is, we didn't play the Vanney way for the first few games & were showing signs of doing good at the press & playing the youths.
That went out the window about 6 games ago.
Finland also had a spike from fans who went to Russia for a game. 2000 fans went. They have identified 120 cases from that trip so far. 6%
Benching Jozy is like the Leafs benching Mitch Marner because he was poor in the playoffs. If the Leafs think Marner doesn't have it for a playoff team, do you thin they will yell that to the world of hockey or try to quietly figure out a way to move on? I don't care what he said to the coach, a one game suspension would hav =e been enough to say "No, I am the boss". Sending him to train on his own made it far less likely for the club to be able to move him.
We stopped playing the press, imho because we were falling like flies with injuries and couldn't maintain the intensity required on the defensive third. It was optimistic but unsustainable... the injuries were unprecedented. Perhaps Armas misjudged his training tactics, perhaps not but we won't know because they don't talk about the hard things... just we are trying harder, Jozy is an internal matter, we gave ourselves an extension etc.
The whole thing can be summed up to bad management. This concept of not talking and/or over controlling the message is so American (no offence to our American friends). And the PR has been soft, I felt bad for MB to even have to produce that tweet. He should never doubt the supporters, nor should the club. We aren't (or at least I am not) mad at the players, I support them 100%. The players shouldn't doubt that unless they stop trying.
Management doesn't realize a great deal of us left our money in, to show support. I don't know who came up with the phrase in the boards but it is time to "put on your big kid pants" and deal with a ship that is a mess and I no longer think its not just Armas , it Ali as well.
To be honest, it is more like banishing Dave Keon, a club legend, captain and someone who was instrumental in winning a cup. Maybe Marner one day but I get your point...
Better analogy. And didn't they do that?
That’s my real question mark in all this.
We had a youthful approach in the CCL. A bunch of young guys who appeared to have buy in. They weren’t perfect but it was exciting at times and worth watching, for sure. They are young and not burdened by being away from home the same way the vets are.
A lot of people, myself included, gave it a thumbs up. We might have been a bubble playoff team, not a dominant year or competing for a shield, but at least building towards something. Heck, we could have dumped some of our vets and used the flexibility to address the worst areas of our roster.
But, at the first sign of trouble, we lost our lunch and changed our approach. And he’s been rolling the dice with different tactics every game since hoping for something to stick. But the reality is: nothing will stick if the manager doesn’t have the fortitude to stick to some sort of plan at least part of the time.
Youth? Vets? 4-3-3? 3-5-2? Press? No press? Partial press? Guys out of position? Guys in position? He’s tinkering with so many variables there’s never enough consistency to build the chemistry required to win games.
Keon banished the Leafs. He was mistreated by Ballard and wouldn’t go near the team for 40 years.
"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
You bet he did, thanks for beating me to it...
You are, of course, correct.
My vote for quote of the year.
I got up this morning and thought that I’d at least get to enjoy watching The Netherlands play, especially after last nights debacle. So much for that...
Check out this tweet at https://twitter.com/plattoli/status/1408979710701342726
I guess you could draw the conclusion the half time talk was sub optimal.
That's just bleak.
^ That's flatlining. Armas' coaching career is dead, he just doesn't know it yet.
They're obviously leaning on the "living on the road is hard" narrative with members of the media. But keep in mind that at the start of the season, all we heard was "they have their families with them this time, it's way better, there's a real team spirit" etc etc.
No excuses. Unless things are going bad.
"Victory needs no explanations." -- Gyula Groscics
If there's a lot of "explanations" it's because things are rapidly going downhill.
MLS is a tough, physical league, that emphasizes speed, and features plastic fields, grueling travel, extreme weather, and incompetent refs. - NK Toronto
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