Oakenshield Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 Dangit, I didn't read the title well enough before clicking and voted Hargreaves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrennanFan Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 5 hours ago, jpg75 said: Begovic i'm least pissed. He moved to Germany first and then arrived in Edmonton at age 11 before leaving for England at 16. The urban myth is that Bosnian mafia visited his parents to coerce him to play. This one was first reported without a source, bc the source was (supposedly) Hart. I asked CSA brass about this once directly, a few years ago, they didn't comment directly, but said something like they have difficulties from all sides. It could also be something Begovic made up to justify himself to the CSA, he was making all sorts of gutless statements in the media at the time so it wouldn't surprise me. But we've had tons of problems with defectors and never a story like this, so there's something to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kungfucious Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 3 hours ago, Oakenshield said: Dangit, I didn't read the title well enough before clicking and voted Hargreaves. nope, too late! u clicked OH, no takey backies! or should i say dOH?! just a few more to make sure we safe ahead of that other guy in this pool... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dyslexic nam Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 I picked Mannus, mainly because I have never heard of him. Hard to be too pissed off at him, but I am trying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keegan Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 Brett hull or Neil young Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpg75 Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 11 minutes ago, Keegan said: Brett hull or Neil young Brett Hull. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rheo Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 Coming soon to a thread near you, which five year old with dual eligibility are you most fearful of not playing for Canada Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brethers8 Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 12 minutes ago, Rheo said: Coming soon to a thread near you, which five year old with dual eligibility are you most fearful of not playing for Canada DeRo's son AINEC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe MacCarthy Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 Although, I didn't like the way he jerked us around before choosing I had no problem with JDG 2. He spent much of his formative years in Holland and he actually became a citizen which is what I think you should have to do before playing for an NT. It is well documented that I wasn't a hypocrite on this issue because I thought it was ridiculous that Bircham was allowed to play for us. But the Ho is in a league of his own when it comes to scorn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeelaw Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 No one for Emery Welshman? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuzzAndSting Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 29 minutes ago, zeelaw1555362314 said: No one for Emery Welshman? DON'T EVER MENTION THAT TRAITORS NAME AROUND HERE! JK, best of luck to Welshman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Califax Posted July 23, 2017 Share Posted July 23, 2017 OH had the biggest impact. Teal, Asmir and JDG2 all lied through the media. They all suck. Leroux is the worst. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matty Posted July 24, 2017 Author Share Posted July 24, 2017 3 hours ago, Califax said: Leroux is the worst. 100% agree with this statement Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bertuzzi44 Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 On 7/20/2017 at 5:40 AM, Brethers8 said: DeRo's son AINEC Atiba's kid! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brethers8 Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 11 hours ago, Bertuzzi44 said: Atiba's kid! I'm more concerned DeRo's kids would team up with Emery Welshman Sidebar - do you think his kids do the cheque signature celebration when they want their pocket money? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe MacCarthy Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 On 2017-07-21 at 7:52 PM, dsqpr said: Now, are you booing that traitor Scotty Arfield?! He shouldn't be allowed to play for us either. In the old days of Canada Cup hockey if you wanted to play for another country you had to become a citizen, simple as that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackdude Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 1 hour ago, Joe MacCarthy said: He shouldn't be allowed to play for us either. In the old days of Canada Cup hockey if you wanted to play for another country you had to become a citizen, simple as that. I don't think that is a compelling argument since Arfield does have Canadian citizenship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe MacCarthy Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 I guess I knew that (through his father?) but I sit corrected. I am by no means an authority on citizenship obviously, so I gather citizenship is citizenship and that he has the same rights as the rest of Canadians do. He could come here and draw EI and be entitled to healthcare immediately without hassle? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruffian Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 6 minutes ago, Joe MacCarthy said: He could come here and draw EI and be entitled to healthcare immediately without hassle? In Ontario he would have to reside here for 6 months to get health insurance and I think for EI he would need to have worked a certain amount of hours. If he could prove a disability, he could probably collect disability payments, but I think he has other goals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 Mannus shouldn't be on that list. I don't have a problem with De Guzman, though he should have been more forthright about his intentions. While he should have played for us, I have a spot for Thunder Dan from the old days of the Vees board version 1.0. You get to go to the World Cup vs not even being number one with Canada? I can get it. Begovic's switch was a bit jerky - particularly after being the first Canadian soccer player to have his own commercial, and a Canada-based one to boot! But mafia problems or not, to his credit we had time to cap him and we didn't. We kept playing Lars. That was our mess up. Bunbury made a youthful mistake in declaring his loyalty to the problem at the u20/23 level. Had he not, I'd understand his switch. That guy barely lived here. Hargreaves? Now that guy is a phoney-accented, generation-killing, three-timing douchebag. He set the the expectation and mired us for years. His name should still be blocked out like a swear word by this board. "Owen Lee"? Well, thanks for writing back but I burned your autograph. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Bob Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 12 minutes ago, Marc said: Begovic's switch was a bit jerky - particularly after being the first Canadian soccer player to have his own commercial, and a Canada-based one to boot! But mafia problems or not, to his credit we had time to cap him and we didn't. We kept playing Lars. That was our mess up. At the time Begovic was cap-tied to us; there was no reason for us to put him in that game beyond "let's throw this meaningless World Cup qualifier and play the kids." Then FIFA changed the rules and Begovic started telling lies about why he wasn't answering the phone before he got his Bosnian paperwork. The idea that Dale Mitchell and the CSA complacently assumed Begovic would never go back to Bosnia even though he wasn't captied is Fake News. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe MacCarthy Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 58 minutes ago, Marc said: Hargreaves? Now that guy is a phoney-accented, generation-killing, three-timing douchebag. He set the the expectation and mired us for years. His name should still be blocked out like a swear word by this board. I'm probably the only guy on this board who liked Stephen Harper but when he had his picture taken with the Ho, I gagged and wondered what ahole advised him to do that because had he have known the story, i doubt if Harper would have done it. I don't think there was any political hay to be gained from it unless it was just stated as a Canadian playing for ManU, I can't recall without looking it up. Maybe it was him playing for England, if it was I'll puke again. I'm still waiting for the guy smart enough to realize if he becomes famous enough to be Canada's soccer poster boy the marketing opportunities that might exist for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 4 hours ago, Benjamin Massey said: At the time Begovic was cap-tied to us; there was no reason for us to put him in that game beyond "let's throw this meaningless World Cup qualifier and play the kids." Then FIFA changed the rules and Begovic started telling lies about why he wasn't answering the phone before he got his Bosnian paperwork. The idea that Dale Mitchell and the CSA complacently assumed Begovic would never go back to Bosnia even though he wasn't captied is Fake News. You're trying to tell me that we couldn't have given him a game at the start of the cycle against St. Vincent or the end against Jamaica? Please. That last game Begovic was sat there on the bench, alongside leading lights like Andrew Ornoch and Chris WIlliams, watching, of all people, Kevin Harmse and Adrian Cann take the pitch. Heck, that game featured Charles Gbeke. On the pitch. Yup. Canada played Charles Gbeke that night. Yes, the FIFA rule switch messed us, but Begovic was the future and Hirschfeld/Onstad (plus Sutton) were the past. We failed to play an upandcoming keeper with Premier League training and first team starts in the UK at a time when we would give anyone a start, FT pro contract optional. I'm a Lars fan, but over that period he had played a handful of club games over two years in Romania and a grand total of nein in the German second tier. Onstad flubbed it, again, versus Jamaica and wouldn't play another official game for us. People called Mitchell out on it at the time, and it proved to be prescient. It was an error in judgment by one of our worst coaches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Bob Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 4 hours ago, Marc said: People called Mitchell out on it at the time, and it proved to be prescient. It was an error in judgment by one of our worst coaches. It was the classic demonstration of Mitchell's greatest weakness as a coach: he was unlucky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gigi riva Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 We are finally moving ahead not backwards So I could care less about the defectors Fuck them all and lets move forward instead going back e Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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