The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly — Toronto FC 2-3 FC Cincinnati
A beautiful night on the Lakeshore. A bit of (unexpected) fight from our beleaguered and besieged Reds, and we got to leave early and enjoy an empty TTC ride home because there was no way we were sticking around to watch WKRP FC celebrate the Shield in our house. (Special for Nick Hagglund though – Congrats!)
Yeah… about that…
THE GOOD
We fought back from 2-0 down? OK. Sounds neat… Two absolute gifts from the gods on howlers to come back from 2-0 down? Sure, never look a gift horse in the mouth… Oso brace? Absolutely… Nick Hagglund has won two Supporters’ Shields at BMO Field, which is pretty cool…
My Toronto Til I Die Co-Host finally saw why I like sitting a bit higher up in the south end:
THE BAD
Same ol, same ol’, really… Come back from 2-0 down but still lose the game? That’s just so Toronto…
Is Terry playing out the string or not?
THE UGLY
Yawn. How long have you got, and how much do you enjoy pain?
This isn’t a soccer team. This is a collection of misfits and outcasts. Nobody wants to be there and it shows. Not much to say beyond that unless we open the floodgates and like, a case of scotch.
This. This is really ugly. Look, by this point everyone on Planet Earth knows my feelings on the Whining Wingers (TM), but this, this ain’t it, sports fans:
Also, I’m team “Wasteman” forever, though he’s cleary saying “REspect”, or is he? LOL.
The good: I think Gavran can be a back up to Johnson moving forward, Osorio hopefully can regain his form from previous years as he seemed to be in the right place right time chipping in with some goals and of course berna was good, even though he lacked support on several occasions. Franklin’s work rate and commitment.
The bad: all of center backs that 3rd goal all 3 got beat the other goals one or all 3 of bradley rosted and mabika were out of position or just too slow. And yes as u mentioned on a previous post which I think mentioned in July this team hates each other and several times won’t support each other. Coello was bad again and it looks like Ibarra has been having alot of burgers lately as he looks like he put on 10 to 15 pounds since coming here.
The ugly: taking shots at insigne’s kids, this where we are at as a club sadly. As a whole the whole season is ugly.
I like Gavran. A lot. He’s miles better than TR and GR. Still needs work in terms of holding on to a ball but the basics are there. Oso’s dip I see as a consequence of where he plays on a broken team. He’s not as active as we expect, which, again, I see universally at this club. These guys hate each other. Herdman has his work cut out for him. Franklin in immense and while Coello has his off days, he’s still a rookie. I have faith.
As for the shenanigans with LI. The “fan” got what he deserved- a lifetime ban. I don’t care if he went out and took a shit on the pitch live on AppleTV (which is pretty close to reality lol). There’s no world where that kind of abuse (especially when children are around) is ok.
Who cares about Ibarra? He’s gone as soon as locker clear out day. Let the kid eat. Stop giving him any minutes.
The CB corps are woeful. Mabika is a disaster. Rosted only works as 1/2 of a good pairing. MB4 is not a CB.
100% facts
Can someone remind me why we got Ibarra again?
A guy who didn’t want to be here on a short-term loan until the end of the season with no option to buy. In a season that was already completely lost?
I am honestly curious if anyone can make this make sense to me without resorting to potential under-the-table/hidden arrangements or conspiracy theories.
The highest payroll is the leagues worst team. How does that happen. How can Bill Manning still have a job. Does mlse just not care?
Another ugly is the accountability on the mlse side not a peep to the fans they have been ripping off no plan of action and at the moment it looks like they are giving manning another shot like really what is this off season gonna look like with him and hernandez gonna be running things…on a side note I personally know an agent who has had several caps for Canada in the past (he no longer lives in Canada but his son is involved in our national youth team set up) he has told me no one has reached out to him in regards to trying to find any players and he is based in Eastern Europe currently. That’s another reason I have zero belief in any Americans running this club, I’m at a point of saying all Americans out. Why are we letting Americans ruin our club.