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2 minutes ago, TOCanada115 said:

I don’t know how many times I need to watch him for Bayern, or the Canada.

At least once more, because much of what you said is wrong

Neto is out for the rest of the season with an injury, which could mean another shot for Theo to spend some time with the first team. Would be great if he could see a few minutes. 

It seems like it’s intentionally being kept quiet to avoid ire from other sectors about training as covid spikes 

1 minute ago, nolando said:

Don't forget that some players hate the idea of playing with their brothers. Just ask Jonathan de Guzman.

And he’s probably played with half of Pacific’s roster and coaches

11 hours ago, Cblake said:

Do you think there are Canadians in USL who were of no interest to CPL? For instances Dante Campbell who was on loan to Valour last year on loan from TFC II, re-sgined with TFC II rather than CPL. 

I don’t get it. Are you choosing this player as an example of someone that chose USL over CPL? I can’t say I know much about the guy but it looks like his loan ended after playing far fewer than half the available minutes for a poor Valour team

His other goal was a bullet header off a corner. 

That’s his 19th in all competitions this season, surpassing his goal scoring record set in his rookie season with Orlando

19 minutes ago, Shway said:

This is not true. For a long period of time, the whitecaps were the only province offering players pro opportunities.

A lot of guys from Ontario were travelling to the BC for this opportunity. (Kyle Porter, & Alex Sements (rip). 

I meant currently and in recent years though. Hamilton’s age group 

1 hour ago, Dominic94 said:

If he’s demolishing like this I don’t think they too.

Their academy centres are starting to churn out players left right and Center, will be interesting to see what they do. Let’s not forget they’ve cast a Canada wide net, so will they play the kids or keep playing these random players from wherever ?

This seems to be contradictory. If he keeps doing well they won’t sign him, because their academy is producing players? Amanda was one of those academy players, but he had to go elsewhere to take the next step. He’s not a random player for the caps 

1 hour ago, baulderdash77 said:

 

I think it’s probably pretty fair to say that Ontario develops a lot of high quality youth players - to the age of 16 or 17.  Then there remains this big problem of how to get them to pros.

There is a tremendous amount of talent coming up that either dies on the vine, goes to another country for development or gets caught in the TFC Academy quagmire.

 

From a westerners perspective, I’ve always thought that Ontario youth had more opportunities than anywhere else in the country. They have the most professional and semi-pro options, the best pathway to pro, the best scouting network, and their youth players often seem to be preferred when it comes to youth national team selection. I suppose you could argue there is more competition, but that’s also a positive imo. 

Whitecaps should sign him and loan him to Pacific or Edmonton for a season

Ahmed Alghamdi saw his first minutes with Al Ettifaq in the Saudi Professional League

51 minutes ago, Bison44 said:

If you are talking about the fans, I would say they are passionate, dedicated and opinionated.

I'm generally curious if this has been your experience, because I would say this describes a very select few of the fans I've met in stadiums in Canada over the years. Committed supporters aside, most just seem to be there to catch a game, but they know next to nothing about the players, teams or league. This holds true for MLS, NASL, USL, PDL, CPL, PCSL Varsity etc. I don't blame the fans. We give our players next to no recognition

Elva had a goal and an assist in a 2-2 tie against Bayern II. They remain locked in a tight promotion race 

CPL Division II is an oxymoron, but it's extremely representative of how discombobulated professional soccer has always been in this country

1 hour ago, El Hombre said:

I am impressed by Davies' vision.  He doesn't just lay off the easy pass.  He more often than not starts a movement with his passing.  Really impressive.

I think this is a part of his game that he's improved on from last year. He still defers to his winger or midfielders too often for me in the final third, but that's probably by design. We don't see that with Canada

52 minutes ago, Unnamed Trialist said:

Don't you think he was too conformist in the last 20, needing a goal? 

I get the sense he does not have that urgency, being a LB you have to be able to charge ahead to get numbers, and if it does not work, charge back. It's like it is not up to him, he just has his role and that is enough.

I definitely got the sense this was tactical. He had opportunities to overlap but he held his run. One of the few times he did push forward, Alaba ignored him and PSG went and scored on the counter.

50 minutes ago, ghostknownunknown said:

He had every right to be furious at Alaba after that third goal. He was WIDE OPEN down the left and instead Alaba played a hopeful ball into the box which lead to the counterattack and goal. 

Alaba ignores Davies in space far too often. 

It’s funny. Yesterday aside, I still don’t think he’s played his best football with Lille. In spite of that, he’s scoring goals, winning games and drawing interest from some of the best clubs in the world

It's been a great game so far. Wish there were fans in the stadium

@Ivan @toontownman it was very much meant as sarcasm for the reasons you mentioned, and the fact that it sounds like the two groups have already decided to go their separate ways

1 hour ago, toontownman said:

That would be interesting and encouraging, if not pretty unlikely. At best the pro team is 2 years away so setting up some opportunities for SK players that could form a foundation to supplement the CPL team would be great. 

I'm sure the two groups will work together with no egos getting in the way, for the betterment of soccer in this country,

4 hours ago, Norrin Radd said:

Isn't Davies suspended?

Right, I suppose he is. Still, they're important games in both title races with the top two teams facing off.

Critical games for Davies and David back to back this Saturday 

Fury fans have disagreed with me in the past about TMG, but I thought he was really solid for Pacific last season. I hadn't seen much of him before that, but I'd place him alongside some of the other CBs I've seen live like Didic, Montgomery, Norman Jr, and Waterman

Pantemis and Norman were massive contributors this tournament and both of them most recently played in CPL. Though they both have MLS connections as well. I was surprised Farsi and Abzi were used so sparingly, and I think Ongaro or Campbell should have been in that squad

10 minutes ago, Shway said:

lol you really called them CF.....that's marketing at its finest

Isn't that their name?