Guest Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 4 minutes ago, jpg75 said: A guy wouldn't wear a Canadian soccer jacket to a WCQ unless he was committed either, right? lol Please explain to me of your obvious logic towards why Arfield followed Canada. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpg75 Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 Just now, canta15 said: Please explain to me of your obvious logic towards why Arfield followed Canada. I don't know because i can't pretend to know what he's thinking. All i know is it's far from a 100% sign he's committed to playing for Canada. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 (edited) 6 minutes ago, jpg75 said: I don't know because i can't pretend to know what he's thinking. All i know is it's far from a 100% sign he's committed to playing for Canada. So you're insulting my opinion and yet you have know idea why he would follow Canada. Seems legit. Edited January 26, 2016 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olympique_de_Marseille Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 1 hour ago, canta15 said: I am 100% sure he will be on the squad (hopefully starting over Ricketts) in March. Something tells me your certainty is derived from the fact that you found all 7 Dragon Balls and your wish was for Arfield to play for the CanMNT! deschamp86 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keegan Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 (edited) 20 minutes ago, canta15 said: So you're insulting my opinion and yet you have know idea why he would follow Canada. Seems legit. I don't see him insulting your opinion. Anyone can follow anyone... Arfield could follow Barcelona, it doesn't mean he's going to sign for them. He could be baiting Scotland for all we know and I think more obviously he has an interest in our national team... following our CSA twitter page means nothing. Edited January 26, 2016 by Keegan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuzzAndSting Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 Arfield follows the Scottish FA on twitter so... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 (edited) 35 minutes ago, Keegan said: I don't see him insulting your opinion. Anyone can follow anyone... Arfield could follow Barcelona, it doesn't mean he's going to sign for them. He could be baiting Scotland for all we know and I think more obviously he has an interest in our national team... following our CSA twitter page means nothing. Sure anyone can follow anyone but why do it? What is so fascinating about our twitter account that a fence sitter has to follow it. I guess we will never know. We will just have to wait and see what happens in March but i think he will be playing for us and if you guys disagree so be it. Edited January 26, 2016 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuzzAndSting Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 Countdown to March 18. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullback Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 There is speculation that he's already filed his one-time switch and would make his improved form irrelevant as it would cap-tie him to us. Just speculation though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floortom Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 2 minutes ago, Fullback said: There is speculation that he's already filed his one-time switch and would make his improved form irrelevant as it would cap-tie him to us. Just speculation though Where is that speculation coming from? I haven't seen anyone say that he has filed the switch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamiltonfan Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 Mods please rename thread to "The Importance of Scott Arfield" mowe, Olympique_de_Marseille, jpg75 and 11 others 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 If he didn't have interest in playing he wouldn't follow us on Twitter. He also follows David Edgar on Twitter. I mentioned them both several months ago on Twitter saying arfield needs to play here and we're all behind him, Edgar favourited it. These are small things but not inconsequential. Edgar is at least in his ear. We're on his radar for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuzzAndSting Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 2 hours ago, Floortom said: Where is that speculation coming from? I haven't seen anyone say that he has filed the switch Marc Weber at The Province. Article here. He says pretty certainly that SA will be part of the March WCQ games, you wouldn't think he would be so certain if he didn't know if SA has filed his one time switch. He also said Vitoria would be joining the team, which has obviously turned out to be true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpg75 Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 3 hours ago, canta15 said: So you're insulting my opinion and yet you have know idea why he would follow Canada. Seems legit. There are many reasons he could be following. Just because he is does not mean it is 100% he's playing for us. He might, he might not. None of us know that yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youllneverwalkalone Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 10 hours ago, BuzzAndSting said: Marc Weber at The Province. Article here. He says pretty certainly that SA will be part of the March WCQ games, you wouldn't think he would be so certain if he didn't know if SA has filed his one time switch. He also said Vitoria would be joining the team, which has obviously turned out to be true. Although Weber's investigation seems limited to reading something on a message board and then putting it in the paper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuzzAndSting Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 1 hour ago, youllneverwalkalone said: Although Weber's investigation seems limited to reading something on a message board and then putting it in the paper. Are you generalizing or do you know specifically his source in this instance is from a message board? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Addona Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 Question for those who know more than myself: If SA had already filed his one time switch, tying him to us, then why wouldn't the CSA (or SA himself) come out and just announce that SA is playing for Canada ... would there be any reason to wait if the switch were 100% completed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazlo_80 Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 If I had to guess...and this is seriously just a guess. They'd probably want to wait to time it for a time that's more appropriate or could get more coverage of it. Generally speaking the average Canadian doesn't care about this sort of thing, but if you package the news as part of "hey we sold out BC place, oh and this awesome new player is coming to play for us!" you might get more bites from the press. Right now for example they're probably trying to get most of the attention on the Women's Olympic team so the Arfield news would probably get buried considering the women's team is more popular in this country. again, this is all a guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob.notenboom Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 1 hour ago, Addona said: Question for those who know more than myself: If SA had already filed his one time switch, tying him to us, then why wouldn't the CSA (or SA himself) come out and just announce that SA is playing for Canada ... would there be any reason to wait if the switch were 100% completed? I think in Aird's case they wanted to wait until he was called so they could promote it a bit. I understand he filed his papers months before he was called. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pint Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 yep just like the hoilett announcement came at a time that they could hype it and use it to help sell tickets for a game this could be done the same time. Hoilett likely decided he would represent us well before the day it was announced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Addona Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 (edited) 1 hour ago, pint said: Hoilett likely decided he would represent us well before the day it was announced. Ok, I do understand the marketing side ... good points by all, but in Hoilett's case, it was a little different (I think) because he wasn't tied to us until he stepped onto the field in an official match (perhaps I'm wrong about this, but I don't think so). Aird's situation is more like SA's, where he was tied before even playing in a match. Edited January 26, 2016 by Addona Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youllneverwalkalone Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 (edited) 5 hours ago, BuzzAndSting said: Are you generalizing or do you know specifically his source in this instance is from a message board? It's possible that he's spoken with someone at the CSA about Arfield's paperwork, but I'd say it's equally possible that he read something here or on the Southsiders that he's crafted into a tweet, blog, or "story." Edited January 26, 2016 by youllneverwalkalone seppling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unnamed Trialist Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 1 hour ago, Addona said: Question for those who know more than myself: If SA had already filed his one time switch, tying him to us, then why wouldn't the CSA (or SA himself) come out and just announce that SA is playing for Canada ... would there be any reason to wait if the switch were 100% completed? I say: one thing is for him to be eligible, another is for him to be called up by the coach. Any coach has to be sovereign to do what he wants and as he sees fit, always. No CSA announcement about eligibility can alter that, nor oblige Floro to call him in. Let the CSA know for sure Floro will call him in, then announce it in the leadup, as suggested here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazlo_80 Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 25 minutes ago, youllneverwalkalone said: It's possible that he's spoken with someone at the CSA about Arfield's paperwork, but I'd say it's equally possible that he read something here or on the Southsiders that he's crafted into a tweet, blog, or "story." Is this based on Weber not using credible sources in the past? I'm not all that familiar with him, but what you're suggesting is quite serious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yohan Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 There's still question of does Arfield have a Canadian passport yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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