General Discussion on CMNT

[TGAA_Star]

17 hours ago, Sal333 said:

If you think we're going overboard with enthusiasm for this team, listen to this guy. He ain't Canadian. He's from St Vincent and lives in the states. I've been following him for a while and everything he claims he said about Canada he did say it.

 

Love my man Dominic Rich

[PastPros]

To the internet Gods... May I request a video featuring every Canadian goal in 2021.

Thanks in advance.

[Obinna]

19 hours ago, Sal333 said:

If you think we're going overboard with enthusiasm for this team, listen to this guy. He ain't Canadian. He's from St Vincent and lives in the states. I've been following him for a while and everything he claims he said about Canada he did say it.

 

Rich! Peeeaaaaaace. Squaaaaaaaad.

[Sal333]

41 minutes ago, PastPros said:

To the internet Gods... May I request a video featuring every Canadian goal in 2021.

Thanks in advance.

Won't it take a week to watch it? We've topped the board across the world in scoring

[PastPros]

Just now, Sal333 said:

Won't it take a week to watch it? We've topped the board across the world in scoring

Would that be a bad thing?

[RandomGuy]

40 minutes ago, PastPros said:

To the internet Gods... May I request a video featuring every Canadian goal in 2021.

Thanks in advance.

Who has that much free time to watch 80 some odd goals?!

I have that much time so if someone with computer skills can make this happen I am sure it will get many, many views. Only other question is where does it posted Youtube or Pronhub because let's be honest there are some pretty sexy goals scored this year😘

[Sal333]

Just now, RandomGuy said:

Who has that much free time to watch 80 some odd goals?!

I have that much time so if someone with computer skills can make this happen I am sure it will get many, many views. Only other question is where does it posted Youtube or Pronhub because let's be honest there are some pretty sexy goals scored this year😘

I think whoever edits such a video will run into copyright issues.

If we can clear the copyright problems and someone can point me to the videos of the individual goals I can assemble that video. I edit & shoot videos but I'm a lousy researcher hence I need someone to point me to the individual videos.

[theaub]

Someone did one through round 1 and its survived until now.

 

 

[EJsens1]

I was just commenting in the Adekugbe thread and it made me think of the players who 1 year ago weren’t really integral pieces where we thought “can’t lose this guy no matter what..”.  Maybe others did see it that way but I sure as hell didn’t.  I don’t watch a lot of MLS, so maybe I wasn’t in the loop.  Here’s the group of guys I think fall in this category, who emerged beyond I’d venture to say everyone’s expectations..

1) Buchanan..I think this is the most obvious one.  When I saw him playing in the Olympic qualifiers I saw some good potential, then in qualifiers too.  The gold cup was his coming out party and frankly, no David and Davies there was probably the best thing for his international career.  Gives us a balanced attack with speed/skill on both sides now. Sky is the limit here 

2) Eustaqiuo..same thing with him.  Slowly started to involve himself and by the last few qualifiers before the gold cup really emerged.  Again, at the gold cup was arguably our best player.  Sensational addition 

3) Johnston..the more he played, the more comfortable he looked out there.  Has really solidified his presence on the back line.  Europe potential?  Maybe.  Tough as nails.  Was nowhere in the mix like this 12 months ago

4) K Miller..his has been an interesting rise. There’s been a game or 2 since the spring where he’ll make a blunder or 2 and you think to yourself, come on buddy, but frankly, the last 2 windows he’s become a rock out there.  Huge improvement here.

5) Adekugbe..leaps into the snow aside, another player who was a decent guy off the bench to close out a game.  But the last 2 windows as well, he’s really gone to another level.  Indispensable IMO.

Obviously the Davies, Davids, Larin types were pretty established here.  Couple more honourable mentions go to Crepeau when he’s filled in and Laryea who while proven and in the CMNT mix, has really improved too.

Think back a year ago and those 5 guys weren’t anywhere in the mix like they are now from what I remember.  What a transformation 

[CanadaFan123]

18 minutes ago, EJsens1 said:

Obviously the Davies, Davids, Larin types were pretty established here.  Couple more honourable mentions go to Crepeau when he’s filled in and Laryea who while proven and in the CMNT mix, has really improved too.

Hard to believe but we need to remember Larin wasn’t established until this year.  Prior to this year he hadn’t scored a goal since 2018 (against Dominica no less). He hadn’t scored in 3 Gold Cups. He was even dropped from Canada in 2019. 
 

He completely turned it around with his play for Besiktas starting in summer 2020 and that has carried over to Canada.

[VinceA]

I'm Wikipedia hopping and I just came across Frank Jonke. I completely forgot that at one point in like 2013 we were so desperate for FWs we were calling up Frank freaking Jonke.

How far we've come.

[Stryker911]

On 11/8/2021 at 10:15 AM, Corazon said:

Final Statistics for Canadians in MLS 2021

Player	Team	Position	GP	GS	MP	G	A
Russell Teibert	Vancouver	CM	33	29	2421	1	2
Kamal Miller	Montreal	CB	27	26	2377	1	3
Richie Laryea	Toronto	RB	27	26	2294	3	1
Alistair Johnston	Nashville	RB	26	24	2144	1	1
Zach Brault-Guillard	Montreal	RB	30	23	2056	2	3
Mathieu Choiniere	Montreal	CM	26	24	1992	2	0
Mark Anthony Kaye	Colorado	CM	25	23	1862	1	3
Joel Waterman	Montreal	CB	22	21	1854	0	3
Tajon Buchanan	New England	RW	27	19	1749	8	5
Samuel Piette	Montreal	CM	25	19	1714	1	2
Jonathan Osorio	Toronto	CM	24	19	1653	4	2
Cristian Gutierrez	Vancouver	LB	19	17	1546	0	3
Raheem Edwards	Los Angeles	LW	27	15	1369	0	2
Tesho Akindele	Orlando	ST	32	15	1360	3	6
Michael Baldisimo	Vancouver	CM	21	12	1254	0	0
Zorhan Bassong	Montreal	LB	26	13	1248	0	1
Lucas Cavallini	Vancouver	ST	21	14	1229	3	1
Jay Chapman	Miami	CM	25	13	1185	0	2
Liam Fraser	Columbus (from Toronto)	CM	24	11	1166	0	0
Jacob Shaffelburg	Toronto	LW	20	11	995	3	3
Noble Okello	Toronto	CM	14	10	854	1	1
Tyler Pasher	Houston	ST	19	9	844	4	3
Ayo Akinola	Toronto	ST	11	8	649	3	0
Ralph Priso	Toronto	CM	11	7	575	1	2
Luke Singh	Toronto	CB	6	5	447	1	0
Jahkeele Marshall-Rutty	Toronto	CM	11	4	421	0	1
Ryan Raposo	Vancouver	CM	21	3	372	0	2
Ashtone Morgan	Salt Lake	LB	8	4	371	0	0
Patrick Metcalfe	Vancouver	CM	13	4	361	0	0
Clement Bayiha	Montreal	RB	10	2	281	0	0
Jayden Nelson	Toronto	RW	7	3	247	0	1
Tosaint Ricketts	Vancouver	ST	14	0	173	0	0
Derek Cornelious	Vancouver (to Panetolikos)	CB	5	1	144	0	0
Jordan Peruzza	Toronto	ST	5	0	137	1	0
Marcus Godinho	Vancouver	RB	4	1	114	0	0
Julian Dunn-Johnson	Toronto	CB	1	1	90	0	0
Kamron Habibullah	Vancouver	CM	3	0	34	0	0
Theo Bair	Vancouver	ST	4	0	27	0	0
Ballou Jean-Yves Tabla	Montreal	ST	2	0	19	0	0
Rida Zouhir	Montreal	CM	2	0	16	0	0
Damiano Pecile	Vancouver (to Venezia)	CM
Simon Colyn	Vancouver (to SPAL)	CM
Gianfranco Facchineri	Vancouver	CB
Matteo Campagna	Vancouver	CM
Rocco Romeo	Toronto (to Valour)	CB
Sean Rea	Montreal (to Valour FC)	CM
Tomas Giraldo	Montreal (to FC Edmonton)	CM
Karifa Yao	Montreal (to Cavalry FC)	CB
Keesean Ferdinand	Montreal (to Atletico Ottawa)	CB
Ismael Kone	Montreal	CM
Jean-Aniel Assi	Montreal	ST
Nathan-Dylan Saliba	Montreal	CM
Callum Montgomery	Minnesota (to San Diego)	CB
Player	Team	Position	GP	GS	MP	S	GA
Maxime Crepeau	Vancouver	GK	27	27	2430	96	31
James Pantemis	Montreal	GK	18	18	1620	56	27
Sebastian Breza	Montreal (from Bologna)	GK	8	8	720	21	8
Thomas Hasal	Vancouver	GK	7	7	630	20	14
Dayne St Clair	Minnesota	GK	4	4	360	11	10
Greg Ranjitsingh	Philadelphia	GK
Isaac Boehmer	Vancouver	GK
Jonathan Sirois	Montreal (to Valour FC)	GK

Just to add to this. Here is the breakdown since 2016. As well as the breakdown per MLS team. My numbers are slightly off from above, but fairly close.

[dyslexic nam]

^^^ pretty telling graph for anyone who doesn’t believe the Team America rhetoric.   

[Approve My Account Pls]

Out of curiousity, does anyone have a table like this for our national team? Would be nice to see players minutes % laid out in front of us as it pertains to possible transfers to Europe 

[Obinna]

 

[ted]

What a weasel and full of shit. The question was "Who is the best team in CONCACAF?" That means TODAY, in THIS MOMENT, and that would be the team that is #1 in the standings of WC Qualifying. The question was not who WILL BE the best team or who WAS the best team. The questions is not is Canada invincible (although they have been so far this round). 

[Bison44]

It disrespectful to the players.  Miles Robinson and Zimmerman are demi gods, but Johnston, Miller and Lareya are scrubs that are over acheiving??  Pepi and Weah are so hot, such good talents....but David and Buchanon are just well coached??  And Gomez is seemingly unaware that Larin is a very good striker..i guess he doesnt remember him from the MLS days??  These 2 goobers are the same kind of guys that just voted Pepi as young MLS player of the year.   

[dyslexic nam]

I have said it before and I will say it again - I would love it if the US continued to overestimate themselves and underestimate us.  It works great for us if they come into a game expecting us to roll over hoping for a belly rub.  Keep it up Team America.  What could go wrong…? 

[Stryker911]

1 hour ago, Approve My Account Pls said:

Out of curiousity, does anyone have a table like this for our national team? Would be nice to see players minutes % laid out in front of us as it pertains to possible transfers to Europe 

I actually started one this morning. Hope to complete late today.

[PopePouri]

It's hilarious.

They were playing Shaq Moore earlier this summer. A guy who isn't even starting for his 2nd division Spanish team. 

[Shway]

27 minutes ago, PopePouri said:

It's hilarious.

They were playing Shaq Moore earlier this summer. A guy who isn't even starting for his 2nd division Spanish team. 

Because the mighty Trinidad came knocking…🙄

[Jith12]

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Edited November 23, 2021 by Jith12

[dyslexic nam]

Edited for the cause.  

Edited November 23, 2021 by dyslexic nam

[RS]

9 hours ago, dyslexic nam said:

^^^ pretty telling graph for anyone who doesn’t believe the Team America rhetoric.   

TFC has been run by Bill Manning and a bunch of Americans for the entirety of that graph and their line was higher than Vancouver and Montreal at various points over the past six seasons (including being higher than both last year).

I know I’m shouting into the wind here, and I’m sure certain people will accuse me of coming to their defence, but the chart shows that TFC is no better or worse than the other two clubs in terms of Canadian content over the long run. 

The noticeable thing is that the other two clubs tend to give their non-Canadian minutes to foreigners whereas TFC gives theirs to Americans. That doesn’t bother me nearly as much as it does others on here, but it is what it is at this point.

[An Observer]

5 hours ago, RS said:

TFC has been run by Bill Manning and a bunch of Americans for the entirety of that graph and their line was higher than Vancouver and Montreal at various points over the past six seasons (including being higher than both last year).

I know I’m shouting into the wind here, and I’m sure certain people will accuse me of coming to their defence, but the chart shows that TFC is no better or worse than the other two clubs in terms of Canadian content over the long run. 

The noticeable thing is that the other two clubs tend to give their non-Canadian minutes to foreigners whereas TFC gives theirs to Americans. That doesn’t bother me nearly as much as it does others on here, but it is what it is at this point.

I would agree with that.  And the trend line has been up for all of them over the last few years.  And all of them (plus the line for all those in the US) set a record for minutes for Canadians this year.