Author: Duncan Fletcher
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VMP Final Countdown: Number 11 – Josh Williams
Highest Ranking: 7 Lowest Ranking: 20 Average Ranking: 12.79 Duncan: 8 Was very underwhelmed when he signed, after all could a NYCFC reject really be any kind of improvement to even TFC’s weak defence? But hey, he was a right back and we certainly needed a right back, so why the hell not, worth a…
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VMP Final Countdown: Number 15 – Eriq Zavaleta
Highest Ranking: 10 Lowest Ranking: 27 Average Ranking: 15.11 Duncan. 15 Chivas were a raging success, what could be better than signing a bunch of their former players? Zavaleta was technically a Seattle player when he was signed, a second round pick going to the Sounders, but had been on loan with Chivas for the…
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VMP Final Countdown: Number19 – Ahmed Kantari
Highest Ranking 16 Lowest ranking 27 Average Ranking 20.68 Tony: 16. Remember when Tim Bezbatchenko bemoaned that TFCees of the past had a terrible habit of going out and buying old, expensive, somewhat broken British players when they needed to fill a need and that needed to change? Well, it’s obviously still ok as long as…
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VMP Final Countdown. Number 24 – Warren Creavalle
Highest Ranking: 17 Lowest Ranking: 27 Average Ranking: 21.42 Duncan: 17. 2015 really wasn’t fair to Warren Creavalle. He’s a decent MLS depth level player, ideally a midfielder, who’d had a reasonably steady couple of years at Houston under Dominic Kinnear, and he came into the season as first choice right back. Now he’s with Philadelphia…
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Episode 115 – 15/11/26 #HesNotARightBack
Once again Mark’s hamstring keeps him out of the lineup, but the other 3 soldier on without him and with it being the anniversary of Freddie Mercury’s death (shut up! it was when we recorded), there’s Queen songs and references sprinkled throughout like cocaine on a midget. They discuss Canada’s game against El Salvador, various…
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VMP Final Countdown: Number 26 – Bright Dike
Highest Ranking: 17 Lowest Ranking: 27 Average Ranking: 24.21 Duncan: 26. Ah Bright Dike. I was relatively happy that TFC brought him back, that he didn’t get taken in the expansion draft. Could be a good depth option behind Altidore, or maybe even he could play in the middle of a 4-3-3, bringing his own…
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El informe del sofa del Sur: El Salvador vs Canada
Well, we finally Fucked Honduras. That’s a start and a very satisfying one, but beyond any sense of mild vengeance, the important thing it gets us is 3 points. Mexico very much did their bit by beating both El Salvador on Friday and then Honduras earlier today, so as it stands Canada remain in a…
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It’s the (VMP) final countdown!
Well, with the foul taste from how the season ended mellowing somewhat, with the depressing and hopefully bluffing vote of confidence in Greg Vanney given, and with all the off season releasing drafting and signing only a few weeks away, we should probably get going on all that end of season post mortem stuff really shouldn’t…
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South Couch Report: Canada vs Honduras
Yes, it’s that time again. After 8-1, then a few welcome months off, a few years of friendlies, gold cups, pan am games, it’s time for serious world cup qualifiers again. And hey, we get to start off with Honduras! Delightful. Is there really any hope for Canada to make it out of this group…
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So then, about that whole playoffs thing.
It’s been a few days since TFC’s grand playoff adventure came crashing to such a miserable and predictable halt, this is clearly a bit late, but really it’s taken a while to rouse the energy needed to write this. The whole thing was just so dispiriting, it wasn’t ‘a hard fought game and well, one…