Forge's Board E5: Spring Season Roundup

I think the experience that we have to worry about is what Herdman had learned with the women, man management in tournament play over a short period.  Some criticize his tactics but isn't that really done by committee with the HC being the final arbiter.  And wasn't the Spanish guy in charge of X and Os (dunno, just asking)

Santi Gimenez is being linked to Milan

That's a good point but also I see this being the last time we pick a foreign manager for awhile.  It's highly unlikely nor should we get into a salary war for a coach>500k.  Realistically we can't compete nor should we. We have to get to the point where we have enough quality homegrown coaches to do the job, not necessarily because they are Canadian but because we are able to do so. Biello has international experience at the highest NT level, maybe it's time to get some others there as well.  Even if they are guest coaches or observers or advisors to the assistants get a couple of these CPL or U20 NT guys to the WC.  Hell, it's at home, it can't be rocket surgery.  This is a once in a lifetime opportunity, there is no guarantee for the WC after the upcoming one, we need to start building braintrust at the highest level right now.

If Fonesca went to Milan and took David with him (I have seen it somewhere), that would not be an unwelcome turn of events. 

Thing is, we'll probably go with Larin, David and one more as a pure striker. So it's either Bair, Ugbo, then there's Oluwaseyi if he's hot in MLS, there could always be another face brought in. For me it is a bit of a casting over the next 5 weeks in their respective leagues.  I don't think we'll take 4 pure strikers because we can get goals from wingers, Davies, Tajon, Millar, who we won't leave off. But since Biello played 3 together last match, if he's our coach I could imagine going with 4 strikers. 

faria back for valour but mourdoukoutas williams polisi still out and looks like alarcon also while ohin could start on the bench metusala back but ampomah and cisse still unable to play

And I think, honestly, if it is actually that deeply personally for you, it explains the seemingly willful ignorance or misunderstanding of the changes in football that have taken place over, not only the last 12 years, but also almost the last 40.  To have that deep a conviction, when you haven't paid attention to the actual football for at least 11 years is really wild to me.  So again, watch his games or watch him explain what works or watch other people explain what doesn't.  Or don't. We don't get anything out of this. But don't expect people to put any stock in an opinion that is based on an understanding that you have said is so far out of date.    And I will add, it's kind of fun to be right, but it's way more fun for your team to do well.  So I would happily not get Jesse Marsch and love for us to do amazingly well with another coach.  Never has it crossed my mind, that we do badly, so I could be right, or weirdly that someone I don't know on the internet could be wrong. Cheers. Learned some things. 

TFC are never really going to live down how bad they are at youth development 

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