footballfreak Posted June 2, 2023 Share Posted June 2, 2023 4 minutes ago, Big_M said: obviously on a guaranteed contract so sits until a team claims him off waivers...gets paid either way Exactly. I don’t know why people assume he’s washed and headed for CPL. He’s on 430K and took up an international spot. Minny is trying to bring in Pukki. At a lower price point or on a Canadian team, Doneil is still an MLS backup. From the Minnesota United subreddit:“He played for the twos up in Blaine about a month ago. If I recall he put in over half a game and looked extremely skilled compared to the other players and captained the squad.” ”It was a good signing with Dibassy injured and before Tapias was signed, but with the later playing great and the former about to come back, he is expendable. Shame he was injured and never got to win a spot” NVsoccer and Corazon 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canuckgbp Posted July 18, 2023 Share Posted July 18, 2023 (edited) Edited July 18, 2023 by canuckgbp WestHamCanadianinOxford, Corazon, aredding77 and 6 others 7 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordan Posted July 18, 2023 Share Posted July 18, 2023 Everyone’s shock when Forge have the cap space to do this narduch, johnyb, Shway and 2 others 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shway Posted July 18, 2023 Share Posted July 18, 2023 35 minutes ago, jordan said: Everyone’s shock when Forge have the cap space to do this Hey man if it means keeping good players in the league rather than going elsewhere... I'm for it. He ends up at York or Forge, and you just gotta accept the reality that "high profile" players won't want to end up in Winnipeg or Halifax - no disrespect. Unnamed Trialist 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RS Posted July 18, 2023 Share Posted July 18, 2023 Might be Halifax, actually. Corazon, Fresh Prince of MTL and jordan 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InglewoodJack Posted July 18, 2023 Share Posted July 18, 2023 24 minutes ago, Shway said: Hey man if it means keeping good players in the league rather than going elsewhere... I'm for it. He ends up at York or Forge, and you just gotta accept the reality that "high profile" players won't want to end up in Winnipeg or Halifax - no disrespect. Hey, Halifax isn’t the worst city in the world to spend a summer playing soccer in. If I had my pick on moving there or Hamilton, I mean… not that it doesn’t make sense for him to play somewhere around Toronto in any case, but I think Halifax has Hamilton beat in terms of living conditions. king1010 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpursFlu Posted July 18, 2023 Share Posted July 18, 2023 With the Concacaf Champions league carrot dangling as a pretty nice stimulus check there's a nice incentive for teams to take a run at it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corazon Posted July 18, 2023 Share Posted July 18, 2023 Halifax narduch 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shway Posted July 18, 2023 Share Posted July 18, 2023 8 minutes ago, InglewoodJack said: Hey, Halifax isn’t the worst city in the world to spend a summer playing soccer in. If I had my pick on moving there or Hamilton, I mean… not that it doesn’t make sense for him to play somewhere around Toronto in any case, but I think Halifax has Hamilton beat in terms of living conditions. I don't disagree with living in Hamilton Vs Halifax - respectfully. But for example, Ashtone lives in Toronto but plays in Hamilton. 1 hour commute drive to work and you're living like the average person in the GTA. So now you're talking about living in Toronto Vs Halifax. Great for the geriatrics, but for the millennials WITH money...I know what I'm picking. johnyb 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RS Posted July 18, 2023 Share Posted July 18, 2023 *Ahem* NVsoccer, Kadenge, aredding77 and 19 others 22 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dyslexic nam Posted July 18, 2023 Share Posted July 18, 2023 Very cool acquisition for HFX. And I know this isn’t the upwardly mobile move that we like to see but strengthening CPL can only help. Hope he manages to stay healthy and have a great season with HFX. johnyb, NVsoccer, Fresh Prince of MTL and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestHamCanadianinOxford Posted July 18, 2023 Share Posted July 18, 2023 Always wish him well. Hope he has a good run. costarg, Obinna and Club Linesman 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InglewoodJack Posted July 18, 2023 Share Posted July 18, 2023 23 minutes ago, Shway said: I don't disagree with living in Hamilton Vs Halifax - respectfully. But for example, Ashtone lives in Toronto but plays in Hamilton. 1 hour commute drive to work and you're living like the average person in the GTA. So now you're talking about living in Toronto Vs Halifax. Great for the geriatrics, but for the millennials WITH money...I know what I'm picking. Can you live comfortably in Toronto on a CPL salary? I mean, I assume Henry has some sort of property in the city being he's from there and has been a professional player for over a decade now. If I was from Toronto, I'd probably try my best to play in or around the city for those reasons though. I'm sure Forge and York players find a way. Now if I was Doneil Henry on the other hand... 21 minutes ago, RS said: *Ahem* Curious to see how he fares in CPL. Was a decent MLS player not a very long time ago, so I feel like his performance will be a good tell of how the CPL has developed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toontownman Posted July 18, 2023 Share Posted July 18, 2023 Wow wanderers. Please stay fit Doneill. Obinna 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Califax Posted July 18, 2023 Share Posted July 18, 2023 Who has the Hamilton bench celebration GIF handy? I can't find it., Shway 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
costarg Posted July 18, 2023 Share Posted July 18, 2023 So does this give Herdman the excuse to reinstate and play him again? #Brotherhood #Herdman #Favourites Obinna, Shway and DeRo_Is_King 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigandy Posted July 18, 2023 Share Posted July 18, 2023 24 minutes ago, costarg said: So does this give Herdman the excuse to reinstate and play him again? #Brotherhood #Herdman #Favourites I know youre having a bit of fun but I never understood the hate of the brotherhood. Whenever we dont like a player, we say hes only picked for the brotherhood. However, in almost all cirucmstances where a better player is clearly available, they are chosen. During qualifying who else would have replaced Henry? Henry has never gotten any special treatment. He performed his role to the standard we needed in WCQ (when we had no other options) and wasnt part of the WC squad. Is there a single call up that was undeserved? If so, when and who would be a better option? People hate on brym but he wasnt selected for the WC. However, in the GC JRR was put on before brym in the quarters. Does that not signal that Brym isnt getting special treatment. Fraser didnt make the GC squad until staq dropped out. He was pretty much our only player with the DM profile available to us to call up after staq. MAK has dropped out on the CMNT scene which again signals that the brotherhood isnt the be all end all. I mean, which players are supposed to be dropped and which players should replace them. Surely we arent advocating for akinola to replace brym. Shway, gator, Unnamed Trialist and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shway Posted July 18, 2023 Share Posted July 18, 2023 33 minutes ago, costarg said: So does this give Herdman the excuse to reinstate and play him again? #Brotherhood #Herdman #Favourites Was he at the Gold Cup? I'm surprised I missed his presence. Bigandy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoccMan Posted July 18, 2023 Share Posted July 18, 2023 38 minutes ago, costarg said: So does this give Herdman the excuse to reinstate and play him again? #Brotherhood #Herdman #Favourites No please ! DeRo_Is_King and costarg 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
costarg Posted July 18, 2023 Share Posted July 18, 2023 5 minutes ago, Bigandy said: Is there a single call up that was undeserved? If so, when and who would be a better option? Easy: Arfield and Choiniere in place of Wotherspoon and Fraser. 23 minutes ago, Bigandy said: I know youre having a bit of fun but I never understood the hate of the brotherhood. I don't hate the brotherhood. I just eye-roll at the silliness of the term and idea. And I dislike the predictability of the unmerited selections. CANMNT should be the best players at the best positions, not based on their Myers-Briggs assessment results. 6 minutes ago, Bigandy said: in the GC JRR was put on before brym in the quarters. Does that not signal that Brym isnt getting special treatment. You pick one game where Brym came on after JRR to make a point? Brym still played more than JRR in the tournament. Did Brym show us anything in those minutes or in any previous tournaments to convince us he belongs there? Is Ugbo who is sitting at home not a better choice than Brym? Califax 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
costarg Posted July 18, 2023 Share Posted July 18, 2023 28 minutes ago, Shway said: Was he at the Gold Cup? I'm surprised I missed his presence. No, since he hasn't played forever. Which is exactly my point, now that he might play in CPL, Herdman might have an excuse to select him again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grigorio Posted July 18, 2023 Share Posted July 18, 2023 Doubt we see MAK or Alistair pushing CPL as a minor league now that they've got the big man to answer to 🤣 Addona, Califax, johnyb and 9 others 6 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unnamed Trialist Posted July 18, 2023 Share Posted July 18, 2023 44 minutes ago, Shway said: I don't disagree with living in Hamilton Vs Halifax - respectfully. But for example, Ashtone lives in Toronto but plays in Hamilton. 1 hour commute drive to work and you're living like the average person in the GTA. So now you're talking about living in Toronto Vs Halifax. Great for the geriatrics, but for the millennials WITH money...I know what I'm picking. This is rich from the guy on the board with the most fear of travel posts, always wary of the unknown (scary Latin America!), touting parochial opinions and boasting his small town mindset. Then he insults Halifax as "geriatric". Why does it always have to be these guys representing the open minded cosmopolitan values of Toronto? Obinna 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Watchmen Posted July 18, 2023 Share Posted July 18, 2023 The thing about Henry is that he always makes the brutal mistakes at critical moments of big games. So Halifax won't have anything to worry about. 😉 Unnamed Trialist 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unnamed Trialist Posted July 18, 2023 Share Posted July 18, 2023 (edited) Back to Doneil. We thought Manjrekar James would boss at Forge, and he's solid but not a huge standout. He can err. I expect similar from Doneil (who should be better than James). We know he can be rash, so his partners at the back matter. He has leadership, which is good with Rampersad and now Morelli back. HFX from what I saw vs VFC is a spirited team, that could fit him well. I think the really important point is that CPL is not so huge a step down from MLS that an average MLS player will always and necessarily stand out. Edited July 18, 2023 by Unnamed Trialist youllneverwalkalone and Ruffian 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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