Bison44 Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 3 hours ago, toontownman said: His name will be in the discussion no doubt. He has missed lots of camps to silly reasons out of his control rather than not getting calls. That said when he was called he wasnt really used. I'd add Gutierrez to the LB list if he features for the caps. He will get minutes one way or another. Big year for a few Camadian players in the MLS to stake claims. Especially the younger players. Lots out there now that could come into national team thinking if they get opportunities and seize them. It would be nice to see a couple defenders have break outs years like Miller, Lareya and lesser extent Didic, Zator, Waterman did. Alistar Johnson, Montgomery, Comsia, Yao, Laurent, Kennedy etc, step up and make Herdman call you. toontownman, CANMNT_SUPERFAN and TFC2017 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 Playing asia wouldn’t be that bad either. If you believe in stats though, we CONCACAF hasn’t faces South America since 2010. So that match would be coming up soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Addona Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 17 hours ago, toontownman said: His name will be in the discussion no doubt. He has missed lots of camps to silly reasons out of his control rather than not getting calls. That said when he was called he wasnt really used. I'd add Gutierrez to the LB list if he features for the caps. He will get minutes one way or another. Big year for a few Camadian players in the MLS to stake claims. Especially the younger players. Lots out there now that could come into national team thinking if they get opportunities and seize them. I hate to say this, but maybe Davies at LB isn't such a bad thing given his role with BM as of late ... ::ducks:: TFC2017, baulderdash77 and toontownman 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baulderdash77 Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 (edited) 47 minutes ago, Addona said: I hate to say this, but maybe Davies at LB isn't such a bad thing given his role with BM as of late ... ::ducks:: If people are completely honest with themselves- the gain in LB quality by having Davies move there is much greater than the loss of LW quality by having Hoilett start there instead of Davies. With Davies at LB we are probably the 3rd or 4th strongest team in CONCACAF (I think). With him at LW, Adekugbe at LB and Hoilett on the bench we are probably 4th or 5th best team in CONCACAF. In terms of maximizing the team he should be our LB I think. edit- What I’m getting at is were much stronger having Hoilett on the pitch than we are with having Adekugbe starting. Edited January 19, 2020 by baulderdash77 Club Linesman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yomurphy1 Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 1 hour ago, baulderdash77 said: If people are completely honest with themselves- the gain in LB quality by having Davies move there is much greater than the loss of LW quality by having Hoilett start there instead of Davies. With Davies at LB we are probably the 3rd or 4th strongest team in CONCACAF (I think). With him at LW, Adekugbe at LB and Hoilett on the bench we are probably 4th or 5th best team in CONCACAF. In terms of maximizing the team he should be our LB I think. edit- What I’m getting at is were much stronger having Hoilett on the pitch than we are with having Adekugbe starting. Nope. Davies keeps other teams honest with his speed. He's a better defensively at LW for Canada than LB because he's expected to provide offensive for Canada in a way he's not required to do for Bayern. When's he's playing LB for Canada he gets forward and gets caught too many times because of it. I'd love to a strong enough team that we could play Davies at LB but that's not the case. Hoilett is going have to come off the bench or play on the right side. Shortdutchcanuck, king1010, Kent and 2 others 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivan Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 1 hour ago, yomurphy1 said: Nope. Davies keeps other teams honest with his speed. He's a better defensively at LW for Canada than LB because he's expected to provide offensive for Canada in a way he's not required to do for Bayern. When's he's playing LB for Canada he gets forward and gets caught too many times because of it. I'd love to a strong enough team that we could play Davies at LB but that's not the case. Hoilett is going have to come off the bench or play on the right side. Agree with this post 100 %. I was at the game vs. the US in Toronto where Davies played up front. He was dominant against one of the strongest teams in our region. Nowhere near as dominant when he is playing LB. h coach, BearcatSA, Shortdutchcanuck and 3 others 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olympique_de_Marseille Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 On 1/14/2020 at 1:27 PM, Olympique_de_Marseille said: I'm pretty sure that selling tickets is a BIG no-no! http://canadasoccer.com/files/2018_19_LOTG_English.pdf On 1/14/2020 at 4:43 PM, SkuseisLoose said: Where in here is the selling tickets bit. @Obinna , @Kyle_The_Hill , @SkuseisLoose and everybody else, my sincere apologies! Either I read that somewhere else and can't find the link again, or Duane Rollins said it on twitter and I was reading an official document to find another thing and quickly copy-pasted that link. In any case, there doesn't seem to be any rules regarding training matches that I can find. Apologies to all. It was not my intent to mislead anybody. http://twitter.com/LaSelecta_SLV/status/1219078083606667265 It is annoying that El Salvador lost this "training match" to Iceland, but won't lose any ranking points. Obinna 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daryn27 Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 Is it a training match everywhere I look it says it’s a international friendly? I’ve checked over 10 different sites they all say the same? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle_The_Hill Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 Did they really have to include training match in every tweet? TFC2017, dyslexic nam and MtlMario 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olympique_de_Marseille Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 On 1/16/2020 at 10:06 AM, Kyle_The_Hill said: We're 14 points back with 2 official windows (March and June), plus an out of window (May), plus another potential out of window (July)... Does anybody know exactly how many points we have and El Salvador has? If not, then we must assume the worst http://www.fifa.com/fifa-world-ranking/ranking-table/men/#CONCACAF El Savador 1346.49 (rounded to 1346) Canada 1330.51 (rounded to 1331) Up to (roughly) 16 points behind at max, then we gained roughly 0.36 points this month so we need to gain 15.62 points over El Savador to be safe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TFC2017 Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 9 hours ago, Kyle_The_Hill said: Did they really have to include training match in every tweet? Those assholes are toying with us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle_The_Hill Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 9 hours ago, Olympique_de_Marseille said: Does anybody know exactly how many points we have and El Salvador has? If not, then we must assume the worst http://www.fifa.com/fifa-world-ranking/ranking-table/men/#CONCACAF El Savador 1346.49 (rounded to 1346) Canada 1330.51 (rounded to 1331) Up to (roughly) 16 points behind at max, then we gained roughly 0.36 points this month so we need to gain 15.62 points over El Savador to be safe. Nah its 14. Olympique_de_Marseille, johnyb and apbsmith 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daryn27 Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 Everywhere I’ve checked it’s an official friendly so if that’s true where do we sit in regards to points back from El Salvador now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obinna Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 @Daryn27 probably inches us within another 1.5-2 points of El Salvador. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle_The_Hill Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 12 minutes ago, Daryn27 said: Everywhere I’ve checked it’s an official friendly so if that’s true where do we sit in regards to points back from El Salvador now? We get to debate until February 20th if it was an official friendly or not lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olympique_de_Marseille Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 10 hours ago, Kyle_The_Hill said: Nah its 14. From the El Salvador perspective: http://diario1.com/zona-deportiva/2020/01/la-selecta-se-juega-el-partido-mas-dificil-en-el-escritorio/ Kyle_The_Hill 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirBobsaget Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 How can you choose to reclassify a friendly as a training match days before though? That doesn't seem fair. Should be whatever was scheduled as, training match or friendly stays. Way too easy to game point this way. Oh we have injuries and cant field our best A team Training Match! Oh Concacaf is stupid and is now gifting us the Hex Training Matc If the request was actually denied. its more likely Iceland wanted to keep it as an offial Friendly and not that FIFA denied the request. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apbsmith Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 Will be funny when we make the Hex, and El Salvador cry foul to CONCACAF/Fifa saying the Iceland friendly was suppose to be a "training match". Obinna and TFC2017 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olympique_de_Marseille Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 So it looks like now they still want to play a friendly in March vs a top 50 side? Costa Rica , Switzerland, or most likely Greece. http://www.laprensagrafica.com/deportes/Carrillo-En-marzo-tenemos-que-jugar-contra-selecciones-del-puesto-6-al-50-en-el-ranking-FIFA-20200121-0667.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoginess Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 It actually makes me so happy they included "training match" in every tweet. Like they thought if they said it enough, it would become true. TFC2017, apbsmith, Olympique_de_Marseille and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obinna Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 Do we have an official word yet on whether the points were counted for their loss? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanadianSoccerFan Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 I informed my Tinder match that it would just be a training date and therefore it would not count. My fixture calendar cleared up real quick. Corazon, CANMNT_SUPERFAN, dyslexic nam and 5 others 1 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackdude Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 29 minutes ago, Obinna said: Do we have an official word yet on whether the points were counted for their loss? Probably not until February 20. Obinna 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle_The_Hill Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 (edited) 10 hours ago, Olympique_de_Marseille said: So it looks like now they still want to play a friendly in March vs a top 50 side? Costa Rica , Switzerland, or most likely Greece. http://www.laprensagrafica.com/deportes/Carrillo-En-marzo-tenemos-que-jugar-contra-selecciones-del-puesto-6-al-50-en-el-ranking-FIFA-20200121-0667.html "Everything is to play outside the country". I do understand why some people on here on skeptical but its hard to not get excited about the possibility of these matches taking place for FIFA points in either a neutral or away country. Edited January 22, 2020 by Kyle_The_Hill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackdude Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 If I was Herdman, I'd try to schedule Honduras and Costa Rica in March. Might as well try to go to the Hex swinging. I think El Salvador will play friendlies in the next 2 windows against average teams, so I think we'll need something like 20 points Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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