jaymmzzs Posted September 7, 2008 Share Posted September 7, 2008 Canada down 2-1 and still keeping most players back. Long balls , what is the point of long ball after long ball. Dale must go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul-toronto Posted September 7, 2008 Share Posted September 7, 2008 Just caught the last 20 min. Why was Gerba starting over Friend...heard that Friend was subbed in. One is in the first league in Germany and the other....... Dale did not start Brennan and Sutton in Toronto against Jamaica....on turf and in mid season form. yea...Dale should go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Ref Posted September 7, 2008 Share Posted September 7, 2008 I said it before and I say it again. For us to expect Mitchell to qualify us is just silly. The man proved to be incompetent with the U20 and now has proven once more to be incompetent with the senior team. Maybe he can coach a U14, but too could be a stretch. He has good players, he just has no clue how to play the game. Pathetic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SF Posted September 7, 2008 Share Posted September 7, 2008 My God, Canada is an easy team to play against. This game and last one. Lack of leadership, bite, mental strength, etc... Two blown leads at home? Good teams just don't do that. Way to easy to play against. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayorofeastyork Posted September 7, 2008 Share Posted September 7, 2008 fire dale now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul-toronto Posted September 7, 2008 Share Posted September 7, 2008 quote:Originally posted by mayorofeastyork fire dale now Takes too long to make that kind of decision; committee meetings. It is not over yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Time_for_2014 Posted September 7, 2008 Share Posted September 7, 2008 no...it's not over yet... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loud Mouth Soup Posted September 7, 2008 Share Posted September 7, 2008 Sad puts it mildly. Dale might has well have invited the Hondurans (and Jamaicans) in to the locker room for his tactics discussion (if he had any to begin with). 4-5-1 at home? 4-5-1 in defensive mode? What a waste of our attacking talent. Rob Friend is no out-and-out striker and to lob log balls to him at the center of the opposition box is just plain stupid. Same with Gerba, who is actually more of a striker. Little to no pressure down the wings, and poor crosses on the whole. Talented Canadian? don't worry-Dale will coach that right out of you! Hume was so poor I felt embarrassed for him. Stalteri got suckered on the second goal and really did not do himself any justice tonight. Why are we so afraid of offensive football? Why do we begin runs that stop at the half, allow the opposition to regroup defensively, then play kickball from side to side? No one appeared to want it. We were stripped of the ball too easily, jumped out of the way so the Hondurans could finish their tackles on us, and never seemed to look for the man unless it was a long ball, and even then were lucky to get it to him. The same old script is playing out for Canadian football, and I'm not really surprised anymore. Most talent in a Canadian team ever? Like I said, it seems Dale coached that right out of them. They disappeared in the mold that is poor Canadian football. I really don't know what to say anymore. I just don't see us at the World Cup again. Ever. Not unless something drastic changes. And this being Canadian football, I won't hold out hope that it will. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BearcatSA Posted September 7, 2008 Share Posted September 7, 2008 Definitely no wing play after Radz left the scene. Bernier doesn't provide any thrust on the right and Hume was a letdown tonight after his notable efforts off the bench in the second half of the Jamaica match. So we end up seeing all our defenders (maybe not Klukowski) taking turns directing (and failing to connect on) long aerial passes towards Gerba and then Friend. Poor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTL_4_LIFE Posted September 7, 2008 Share Posted September 7, 2008 I thought after doing the march and canada scoring the first goal, I thought we had this game in the bag. NOPE. F**K THE CSA. and Only in CANADA a coach doesn't get a goal in the U-20 world cup and moves up to the senior team. F**KEN idoits. Its good what he did for CANADA back in his time but its time to let him gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOcanadafan Posted September 7, 2008 Share Posted September 7, 2008 I was afraid the minute the schedule came out. The CSA has such little faith in the Canadian soccer fans that they put the games in the cities that will have the most away nation support so that they can sell more tickets. Why the hell did they play the Jamaica game in Toronto? Kudos to the Toronto faithful (especially Voyageurs and TFC supporter club leaders) who actually tried to take / share the ticket control and for making it feel like a home game. The CSA knew damn well the size of the Honduran community in Montreal. I don't blame the Montrealers too much... they don't have the size, overall passion (you have to admit the TFC phenomenon has helped) and organization of the TO fans yet(?) They should have got the Jamaica game, and TO the Honduras game. The Edmonton stadium is so big, it doesn't really matter - that one should be in Toronto as well. The CSA should bare the brunt of the responsibility for tonight's sad display. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snake Posted September 7, 2008 Share Posted September 7, 2008 will johnson and jaime peters should replace radz and bernier for the next match Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
de guzman_mtl Posted September 7, 2008 Share Posted September 7, 2008 the team just had no idea how to respond to honduras at the start of the second half. it was painful to watch. the point is, honduras adapted and did what they had to do to win, we did not prepare ourselves for the second half, and handed them the game. AWFUL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Natesta Posted September 7, 2008 Share Posted September 7, 2008 Why is Mckenna not playing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted September 7, 2008 Share Posted September 7, 2008 "honduras adapted and did what they had to do to win, we did not prepare ourselves for the second half" Mitchell ought to have spotted what was happening and adjusted team tactics accordingly. Instead he stood on the sidelines and looked worried. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
massimo Posted September 7, 2008 Share Posted September 7, 2008 quote:Originally posted by de guzman_mtl the team just had no idea how to respond to honduras at the start of the second half. it was painful to watch. the point is, honduras adapted and did what they had to do to win, we did not prepare ourselves for the second half, and handed them the game. AWFUL Exactly! They came out flat and deflatted when it should have been the opposite! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowlander Posted September 7, 2008 Share Posted September 7, 2008 One of the posts immediately following the match summed it up well, comparing our Gold Cup performance with last night - what a complete come down. Very few players if any were playing at the same level that they do with their club teams. Why the defensive formation? Why all the long balls? I wasn't sure if it was because of the pitch or because of agreed tactics, but the Hondurans did not seem to have to resort to this. We just floated a lot of (inaccurate) long passes, thus quickly giving up possession when we needed to keep it. Defensively there seemed to be a reluctance on our part to get in the way of their players when they were running with the ball - seemed to be constantly given an escort down to our 18 yard box, rather than really challenged. Again, perhaps this was tactical because you never know what call you will get (Bernier gets 2 yellows while the guy who hacked DG's legs out from under him didn't even get called for a foul). On the basis that we have regressed so far from the Gold Cup play alone, i would be inclined to ditch Dale Mitchell in favour of Stephen Hart (I say this because I hold no illusion that they will look for a good foreign coach). Hart may not be everyone's favourite, but he produced on th ebig stage and had Canada play the most attractive football i have ever seen it play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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