LOLCANADA!!!

ok, using my ONE TIME ever and channeling my Swedish powers to bring us back here in the 2nd half!

oops, must have mentally ONE TIME'd the wrong team

game destined to finish 8-0 now...

and seriously, wtf is Forrest going on about wrt this bright future ahead!?

players in the system who should be around for the 2018 campaign:

GK - Milan Borjan
DF - André Hainault
DF - Marcel de Jong
DF - David Edgar
DF - Ashtone Morgan
DF - Dejan Jaković
DF - Adam Straith
DF - Doneil Henry
DF - Russell Teibert
DF - Nana Attakora
MF - Will Johnson
MF - Nikolas Ledgerwood
MF - Pedro Pacheco
FW - Iain Hume
FW - Tosaint Ricketts
FW - Simeon Jackson
FW - Lucas Cavallini

that's our future?! there is no [censored] hope!!!

Lolllllll

FREE ALI GERBA!!!!!

so... that went well.

No, never ever

Good effort, just didn't get the bounces out there today

http://www.tsn.ca/blogs/jason_de_vos/?id=431623

2018
2022?
2026?

actually i think our best hope is that we joint-host when it rotates back to NA in '26 or '30, and we snag a spot that way, lulz.

big friendly coming up against Jamaica in Toronto on September 9th!

LOL!

this is the team's home debut under Floro, so come on, can we find a way to muster up a win, please? Jamaica, can you just let us have this? this is way past embarrassing.

so first let's talk about who is missing:

so the Calgary-born Akindele was picked 6th in the 2014 Draft, and has bolted out of the gate with 7 goals in his first 14 starts as a rookie, good stuff. he's eligible to play for Nigeria, but that's fairly unlikely to ever happen. the bigger problem for us is that he's apparently close to becoming eligible to play for USA, so the danger is him going FULL TEAL on us. he sounds like a nice player to have in the mix going forward, for now i'll stay optimistic that he's willing to play for us.

http://www.mlssoccer.com/news/articl...-friendly-vs-j

supposedly some of these guys are playing well with their club teams, hopefully that's true.

not even gonna try to predict a lineup or formation.

thanks, we needed that

- Borjan was decent, don't know about MOTM though. hard one to pick though.
- not a fan of Hainault, Henry was pretty good playing out of position at RB, Edgar was good going foward but made a couple mistakes, same with De Jong. the defensive line got exposed a bunch, needs to be better going forward.
- de Guzman was ok, Hutchinson is our best player and hardly put a foot wrong, Bernier was also just alright. Edwini-Bonsu was nice and lively, as opposed to Nakajima-Farran who most decidedly was not. still haven't seen any evidence that Bekker is very good, but we don't really have many long-term options at this points, so beggars can't be choosers i guess. Osorio and Larin are other young hopes.
- Ricketts worked hard and did well with what he had to work with, so it was nice to see get rewarded by that gift of a goal. wanted to see Haber as i heard he had a good start to the season.

might be better to switch Henry and Edgar, allows the former to play his natural position, and the latter to get forward more. need to find better players than JdG & Bernier probably, and definitely INF. i guess Teibert is in Floro's doghouse for some reason, and that's why he wasn't called up this time around, but he could possibly be an instant improvement on the wing. or Hoilett of course, if he ever decides to play for us.

oh right, we have Will Johnson when he's not too busy in Portland. if Josh Simpson could regain his fitness and form after some nasty injuries he'd help a lot as well. and where's Kevin McKenna? don't see any indication that he's retired internationally or anything, he'd could solidify things as well. also i assume that Lars Hirschfeld is still in the picture and our #1 in net when we next have competitive matches. and Tesho Akindele could be a help if we could get him signed as well, might be the kind of goal producer we need.






could be worse i guess.
i'm more hopeful than i was yesterday anyway.

bump https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGqt...s&spfreload=10

Dwayne De Rosario retired..

GOAT? He might be, but he's among the best!

Oh cool. Never knew this thread existed.
I was at that Honduras game. We were the better team for the first 5 minutes ....

Yes, DeRo is GOAT.

http://www.mlssoccer.com/news/articl...y-whole-life-i



TEEESSSHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

23yo and 11 MLS goals to his name, Cyle Larin is 20yo and already has 5 goals in his first 11 MLS games ... WE MIGHT ACTUALLY HAVE SOME KIND OF FUTURE HERE BOYS

Atiba still has a few good years left, Will Johnson is returning from injury, some of the other MLS guys are showing improvement, defense is still a worry with McKenna retired and Henry injured, but let's do this thing! 2018 World Cup qualifying starts tomorrow against mighty Dominica.

also provisional roster for the Gold Cup next month:

looking over some of the old posts itt, and...

...oh man



bench: Bunbury, etc



if only we didn't lose 8-1 to Honduras
or if only we didn't hit the bar thrice and took the home leg against them
or if only these guys played for us from the jump and we got better results throughout

*sigh*

oh well, we're on to Dominica

TEEESSSHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

weird lineup, especially with old de Guzman where he is, whatever for this match i guess

free stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKRjrCrPIBM

Allez les Rouges

2nd international goal for Larin

good start

Ricketts looking good too, assist on the goal, nice run that followed

PK won by Larin, Teibert takes it

2-0!

oh yeah, forgot we could have had Begovic in net too

then throw Steven Vitoria in the other whoever spot (with Edgar moving to fullback probably), and hey we got a team!

looooooooool

GK Borjan charges out and slaps a chip away like 5 yards outside the box, straight red ldo

back from the game. good times. would've been nice to see a bigger crowd

nice!

how many would you estimate?
thoughts on the match/team?