TRM Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 6 hours ago, C2SKI said: Not that it's terribly important, but I don't think you can call either Aird or Smith rookies. They have ~200 professional games between them and have both represented their countries at senior level. While true most of Aird's time was when Rangers were financially relegated to 4th, 3rd, 2cd div in Scotland and Smith was in Costa Rica's domestic league. They have some experience but are still very young and mistake prone defensively. Not rookies then but definitely young and inexperienced in MLS. LA went after Marcel so hard I couldn't believe it because he just kept shutting them down (15 tackles and interceptions, 3rd best in the league this year). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obinna Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 7 hours ago, C2SKI said: Agreed, I thought Aird was quite effective in that role. He's really direct, and he plays with pace and tenacity. He was dangerous going forward and responsible defensively. Not that it's terribly important, but I don't think you can call either Aird or Smith rookies. They have ~200 professional games between them and have both represented their countries at senior level. Yeah, plus Smith is like 25. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRM Posted September 4, 2016 Share Posted September 4, 2016 Teibert and Aird go the full 90 with Davies coming in for 23 in our 0-1 loss to caffeine drink new jersey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRM Posted September 11, 2016 Share Posted September 11, 2016 Edgar goes the full 90 and Teibert goes 55 before he gets subbed due to injury. Hope it's not serious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masster Posted September 11, 2016 Share Posted September 11, 2016 2 hours ago, TRM said: Edgar goes the full 90 and Teibert goes 55 before he gets subbed due to injury. Hope it's not serious. The more I get the chance to watch Edgar closely now in MLS, the more I think he is not a top CB. Loses his man too often in the box. Any time the ball is coming in from the wing, he isn't tight enough on his mark. Just doesn't read the game well enough in my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gian-Luca Posted September 18, 2016 Author Share Posted September 18, 2016 Thought I recalled Ricketts limping off the field last week against Chicago but didn't hear about an official injury. However, sitting at BMO field I don't see him doing the warm ups. Looks like Hamilton will start up top alongside Altidore, with Babouli on the bench. Johnson and Osorio also to start, the other Canucks are still injured Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unnamed Trialist Posted September 18, 2016 Share Posted September 18, 2016 On 11/9/2016 at 6:43 AM, masster said: The more I get the chance to watch Edgar closely now in MLS, the more I think he is not a top CB. Loses his man too often in the box. Any time the ball is coming in from the wing, he isn't tight enough on his mark. Just doesn't read the game well enough in my opinion. Which is why it made all the more sense for Floro to play him in the midfield, wouldn't you say! Too bad these Floro touchées are going to go stale in about 3 weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gian-Luca Posted September 18, 2016 Author Share Posted September 18, 2016 Hamilton and Osorio play 90, Johnson 60 as TFC come back to draw NYRB 3-3. Osorio assisted on the first goal. Too bad Mo was not brought on to play right wing instead of Endoh who was ineffective in that role for about the 7th consecutive game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpg75 Posted September 19, 2016 Share Posted September 19, 2016 1 hour ago, Gian-Luca said: Hamilton and Osorio play 90, Johnson 60 as TFC come back to draw NYRB 3-3. Osorio assisted on the first goal. Too bad Mo was not brought on to play right wing instead of Endoh who was ineffective in that role for about the 7th consecutive game It was very telling that Bradley looked out wide to the right and then decided to play the ball inside to Altidore instead on the tying goal. After the goal Osorio moved out right. His team mates have caught on to that fact, too bad Vanney hasn't. Also Lovitz was a turnover machine on the left. I like 3 at the back, but we need better wingers than those two to play the system effectively. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_M Posted September 19, 2016 Share Posted September 19, 2016 Lovitz is a bad mls player. Three years on the team. Time to get rid of him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shamrock Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 On 19-9-2016 at 1:16 AM, Gian-Luca said: Too bad Mo was not brought on to play right wing instead of Endoh who was ineffective in that role for about the 7th consecutive game Endoh stays wide and doesn't loose possession. Babouli should try it sometimes... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRM Posted September 25, 2016 Share Posted September 25, 2016 Edgar & Davies go the full 90 in our 3-3 draw with Colorado. Davies is constantly going around people with the ball and wreaking havoc. Wow, just wow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gian-Luca Posted September 25, 2016 Author Share Posted September 25, 2016 Osorio goes 90 and pretty much set up game-tying goal all by himself in TFC's 1-1 draw against Philly. Which is good because he nearly set up Philly for 2-0 lead early in the 2nd half all by himself. Johnson and Hamilton also started, with Johnson subbed out after 58 minutes and Hamilton after about 76 minutes in favour of Babouli, who was a handful for Philly for the brief time he was out there and was unlucky to not have contributed to either the winning goal or (most likely) the winning PK. Unsurprisingly to me, he seemed to be a better fit to play alongside Altidore than Hamilton - the two, as yet, don't have much chemistry together, although that wasn't helped by Hamilton being told by Vanney to play out wide for some reason, leaving Altidore well covered by the Philly defenders as a result. He didn't get any chances to score until late when Babouli gave the defenders something else to worry about. Ironically, if Osorio hadn't set up Morrow for the goal when he did, we would have seen Endoh instead of Babouli as Vanney had him & Lovitz waiting on the sidelines to come on and had pulled the rest of the subs back to the bench. So as a TFC & Canadian fan I was grateful to see that goal for a couple of reasons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BearcatSA Posted September 25, 2016 Share Posted September 25, 2016 9 minutes ago, Gian-Luca said: Osorio goes 90 and pretty much set up game-tying goal all by himself in TFC's 1-1 draw against Philly. Which is good because he nearly set up Philly for 2-0 lead early in the 2nd half all by himself. He had a rough first half with those giveaways but redeemed himself with that great run and pass for the tying goal.  Johnson was quite poor, imo.  Babouli's strength (his direct style of play when on the ball) made some things happen during his appearance. Lots of needless giveaways in this match, with both teams.  C'est la vie in MLS, even with the supposed upper echelon types.  They're going to happen, but the better teams in this league seem to be able to minimize the damage.  The poor ones consistently punished with goals against.  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRM Posted October 3, 2016 Share Posted October 3, 2016 Davies and Edgar go the full 90 in our 1-2 loss to Seattle tonight. Davies was exceptional. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRM Posted October 17, 2016 Share Posted October 17, 2016 Aird goes the full 90 in our 0-0 draw with San Jose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRM Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 Aird goes the full 90 in our 4-1 beatdown of Portland. Levis comes on for the last 8 minutes and wow. I know it is an extremely small sample size but let's just say his play at the USL level was NOT his high water mark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stryker911 Posted October 27, 2016 Share Posted October 27, 2016 Here is a summary of every Canadian that at the very least made the bench in the MLS regular season this year. I included unused sub because not only would this list look pretty bleak, but it also is likely the next person up given an injury, suspension or two. In summary, there are quite a few players, but not many that are getting regular minutes. If the idea is to have a national team full of MLS starters there is still a long ways to go. Consider that 3060 is the maximum minutes for the season. Lets say 1500 is considered a regular. That would only put Larin, Akindele, Osorio, and Johnson as regulars. Forward         Player Team Age Starts Sub Appearance Unused Sub Minutes Goals Assits Cyle Larin Orlando 21 29 3  2503 14 3 Tesho Akindele Dallas 24 15 16  1514 6 4 Jordan Hamilton Toronto 20 11 3 4 911 3 1 Molham Babouli Toronto 23 6 10 11 647  2 Toisant Ricketts Toronto 29 4 7 1 399 3 1 Anthony Jackson-Hamel Montreal 23 1 6 2 171 1  Midfield         Player Team Age Starts Sub Appearance Unused Sub Minutes Goals Assits Jonathon Osorio Toronto 24 26 4  2440 2 5 Will Johnson Toronto 29 19 4 1 1660 2 5 Patrice Bernier Montreal 36 13 7 6 1185  1 Kyle Bekker Montreal 25 13 5 10 1139 1  Jay Chapman Toronto 22 9 9 5 780  2 Russell Teibert Vancouver 23 8 3 4 696   Alphonso Davies Vancouver 15 2 6  299   Kianz Froese Vancouver 20 1 4  150   David Choiniere Montreal 19 1  2 76   Marco Bustos Vancouver 20 1 2 2 63   Raheem Edwards Toronto 21  1  2   Jeremy Gagnon-Lapare Montreal 21   6 0   Ben Mckendry Vancouver 23   5 0   Defence         Player Team Age Starts Sub Appearance Unused Sub Minutes Goals Assits Fraser Aird Vancouver 21 16 2 5 1455   Wandrille Lefevre Montreal 27 12 1 13 1114   David Edgar Vancouver 29 8  3 720   Karl Oimette New York 24 6 1 2 583   Maxime Tissot Montreal 24 5 2 5 517   Marcel Dejong Vancouver 30 5 2 3 467   Ashton Morgan Toronto 25  7 6 157   Sam Adekugbe Vancouver 21 1 1 11 111   Brett Levis Vancouver 23  1 1 6   Goalie         Player Team Age Starts Sub Appearance Unused Sub Minutes Goals Assits Quillan Roberts Toronto 22   19 0   Maxime Crepeau Montreal 22   4 0           Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stryker911 Posted October 27, 2016 Share Posted October 27, 2016 In addition to my previous post this would be Canada's MLS team using a 4-4-2 based solely on minutes. As well as our team of only 23 and under. (used a 3-5-2 for the U23 since we only had 3 U23 defence play this year. Not actually using which wing/side, etc. By minutes    U23     Larin Akindele   Hamilton Larin Babouli Bernier Osorio Johnson Bekker Choiniere Chapman Froese Davies Oimette Lefevre Edgar Aird  Adekugbe Levis Aird  Roberts    Roberts         Hamilton    Jasckson-Hamel   Chapman    Bustos    Teibert    Edwards    Babouli    Gagnon-Lapare   Tissot    Mckendry    Dejong    Levis    Crepeau    Crepeau    Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gian-Luca Posted October 27, 2016 Author Share Posted October 27, 2016 Thanks for the summary. In terms of who is a regular, injuries as well as timing of when some of these players were acquired during the season would play into account (ie. its tough to argue that once TFC got Ricketts that he didn't become a regularly used player, or same with Edgar for Vancouver once he got into fitness). Most alarming/worrying stat for me is the zero minutes played by Canadian keepers in MLS (poor Quillan Rorberts leading the way with 19 unused sub appearances). By the way, I don't recall Chapman scoring for TFC but he did pick up a couple of assists Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stryker911 Posted October 27, 2016 Share Posted October 27, 2016 11 minutes ago, Gian-Luca said: Thanks for the summary. In terms of who is a regular, injuries as well as timing of when some of these players were acquired during the season would play into account (ie. its tough to argue that once TFC got Ricketts that he didn't become a regularly used player, or same with Edgar for Vancouver once he got into fitness). Most alarming/worrying stat for me is the zero minutes played by Canadian keepers in MLS (poor Quillan Rorberts leading the way with 19 unused sub appearances). By the way, I don't recall Chapman scoring for TFC but he did pick up a couple of assists The midfield stats got mixed up. Corrected it now. That was Bekker with the 1 goal. Chapman did have 2 assists though. Thought that would get too confusing organizing players that came mid-way through the season. Was cool having some veteran Canadians coming home to play. The entire back end looks pretty weak in the future. 2 of the 3 defence that did play combined for less than a game and a half. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gian-Luca Posted November 7, 2016 Author Share Posted November 7, 2016 Akindele with his third career playoff goal to give Dallas a chance of a comeback. 3-1 aggregate for Seattle going into the 2nd half Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonovision Posted December 16, 2016 Share Posted December 16, 2016 Over the course of the 2016 season, in all competitions, TFC had 20.5% of their minutes played by Canadians. The Whitecaps were not worst, at 15.5% and Montreal clocked in at 12.5%. On the NASL side, Ottawa were the leaders with 34.4% and Edmonton at 21.8%. http://oot-football.blogspot.ca/2016/12/canadian-content-in-2016-final-numbers.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRM Posted December 19, 2016 Share Posted December 19, 2016 On 2016-12-16 at 4:54 PM, jonovision said: Over the course of the 2016 season, in all competitions, TFC had 20.5% of their minutes played by Canadians. The Whitecaps were not worst, at 15.5% and Montreal clocked in at 12.5%. On the NASL side, Ottawa were the leaders with 34.4% and Edmonton at 21.8%. http://oot-football.blogspot.ca/2016/12/canadian-content-in-2016-final-numbers.html The reduced time for Patrice Bernier is showing. At 37 his playoff games were impressive but one has to wonder if we've seen the last of him in an Impact jersey? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackdude Posted December 19, 2016 Share Posted December 19, 2016 15 hours ago, TRM said: The reduced time for Patrice Bernier is showing. At 37 his playoff games were impressive but one has to wonder if we've seen the last of him in an Impact jersey? I don't think so. Bernier still wants to play 2 more years, but the Impact only want to give him one. The reason why negociations are taking so long is because they want to know how to give Bernier a job after his football playing career. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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