The Beaver 2.0 Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 "How are you brother?" "I'm aight." Smiles. "Ready!" -- Nuf said: The lad starts versus Belgium. -- Anyone else getting a bit weirded out by the "brother" thing? I don't mean two black guys saying "brother", but the whole Brotherhood thing that is starting to feel eerily like some sort of Amway-selling cult. Maybe I should head over to 4chan and start posting about this shit under the alias "The Beav". The rise of Beav-Annon, just you watch. Alistair Johnston drinking the blood of newborns before every match, Cavallini and Oso doing some crazy South American voodoo, Steph leading the guys in the Blessing of the Stache...Crazy shit going on. Unnamed Trialist 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sal333 Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 2 minutes ago, The Beaver 2.0 said: "How are you brother?" "I'm aight." Smiles. "Ready!" -- Nuf said: The lad starts versus Belgium. -- Anyone else getting a bit weirded out by the "brother" thing? I don't mean two black guys saying "brother", but the whole Brotherhood thing that is starting to feel eerily like some sort of Amway-selling cult. Maybe I should head over to 4chan and start posting about this shit under the alias "The Beav". The rise of Beav-Annon, just you watch. Alistair Johnston drinking the blood of newborns before every match, Cavallini and Oso doing some crazy South American voodoo, Steph leading the guys in the Blessing of the Stache...Crazy shit going on. That post is just your unconscious refusing to believe the success this team has seen and will see in the next month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PegCityCam Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 Davies makes Canada cool 🤣 ...sorry for the repost from the general WC thread. Just thought this was worthy of multiple posts. Mattd97, Kadenge, jhoops__ and 4 others 3 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Beaver 2.0 Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 15 minutes ago, Sal333 said: That post is just your unconscious refusing to believe the success this team has seen and will see in the next month. Maybe. But how do you explain all the missing newborns?! Huh? Coincidence, or pure fact? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
narduch Posted November 19, 2022 Share Posted November 19, 2022 Gian-Luca 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floortom Posted November 19, 2022 Share Posted November 19, 2022 Today is exactly two weeks since his injury. If they’re going to ramp his training up it would be tomorrow. If he’s still just warming up on his own tomorrow I would say it’s probably unlikely that he’s in the lineup against Belgium. PegCityCam 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ally McCoist Posted November 19, 2022 Share Posted November 19, 2022 How have there been no comments in this thread for 8 hours? I'm so fucking devastated if true. I believe we are more likely to beat Belgium than Croatia. FUCK BAYERN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Club Linesman Posted November 19, 2022 Share Posted November 19, 2022 Hopefully this is chess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bertuzzi44 Posted November 19, 2022 Share Posted November 19, 2022 I get the feeling he isn't 100%, and probably won't be 100% for Belgium johnyb 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trc2014 Posted November 19, 2022 Share Posted November 19, 2022 7 minutes ago, Ally McCoist said: How have there been no comments in this thread for 8 hours? I'm so fucking devastated if true. I believe we are more likely to beat Belgium than Croatia. FUCK BAYERN. Serious click bait headline. There is nothing in that article beyond the brief statements JH gave to the press today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ally McCoist Posted November 19, 2022 Share Posted November 19, 2022 2 minutes ago, trc2014 said: Serious click bait headline. There is nothing in that article beyond the brief statements JH gave to the press today. We'll see. I know Kloke is a POS with his clickbait (I would never buy that shitty service anyway) but I'm not surprised if Davies is not 100%. reggietfc and grigorio 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reggietfc Posted November 19, 2022 Share Posted November 19, 2022 wheeler is the only one who really knows Kent and PegCityCam 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Beaver 2.0 Posted November 19, 2022 Share Posted November 19, 2022 I would imagine Davies would not be in full training today after flying in last night, but I'm no expert on the physio side of things. Would be gutted if he does not start vs. Belgium, but it'll be next man up no matter what. I also feel we've a better chance of nicking points off Belgium than Croatia. PegCityCam, Alex and cornerkick 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Beaver 2.0 Posted November 19, 2022 Share Posted November 19, 2022 Maybe we throw out a starting 11 vs Belgium that is not expected to play in the last two games, and give them the objective of injuring as many key Belgians as possible so that they lose their last two matches of the group. Play a 4-5-1, clog the middle, savage their ankles, and let's see if we can hold on for a nil-nil draw. I guess what I am really saying is that I am stressed to think we might not have Davies, Stache, and Borjan for our opener. dyslexic nam 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Addona Posted November 20, 2022 Share Posted November 20, 2022 5 hours ago, The Beaver 2.0 said: Maybe we throw out a starting 11 vs Belgium that is not expected to play in the last two games, and give them the objective of injuring as many key Belgians as possible so that they lose their last two matches of the group. Play a 4-5-1, clog the middle, savage their ankles, and let's see if we can hold on for a nil-nil draw. I guess what I am really saying is that I am stressed to think we might not have Davies, Stache, and Borjan for our opener. I honestly think we want Belgium to win their last 2 games though ... Kent 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floortom Posted November 20, 2022 Share Posted November 20, 2022 dyslexic nam, TOCanada115, Mattd97 and 11 others 13 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unnamed Trialist Posted November 20, 2022 Share Posted November 20, 2022 8 hours ago, Addona said: I honestly think we want Belgium to win their last 2 games though ... If we beat Belgium, we want them to draw their last two games, in first case scenario. In fact, the best scenario is that we win and all the other matches in the group are draws. I won't be putting money down on this scenario, but going into Morocco with a draw taking us through, best set-up we could imagine. An Observer, PegCityCam, narduch and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ally McCoist Posted November 20, 2022 Share Posted November 20, 2022 20 minutes ago, Floortom said: Joshua Kloke is an absolute idiot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unnamed Trialist Posted November 20, 2022 Share Posted November 20, 2022 (edited) 2 hours ago, Ally McCoist said: Joshua Kloke is an absolute idiot. It is just a small pie and our soccer journalism landscape is very barren. So you try to survive. Almost everyone is at the limit, trying to make a living being a soccer journo, so they are looking for these little desperate edges. Looking for an angle, trying to get an edge, get noticed by a producer [edit, or editor]. Then the producers will repeat this and get their guys to do odd things, for the same reasons (they get Andi Petrillo to be saucier and talk "cowgirl" for the CBC, Josh Deming's stuff for One Soccer is much worse because they force him to go useless speculation scenarios). Then the dynamics of social media seems to reward being unusual or having and angle, rather than rigour. Or better said: the panorama encourages a diversity of media personalities, and everyone invents their media type and plays it. It is all scripted, and if it not explicit, it's implicity. We're talking about media types in a sports chat: the serious analyst, the investigating exposé guy, the over-the-top former player, the hysteria of the play-by-play guy, the irascible coach or the sage coach, the young wide-eyed intern, throw in females for mostly sexist reasons. And then there are exceptions, thankfully. I've worked as a journalist, have done radio, tv, press liason, been a critic, co-written books, been a columnist, been a foreign correspondent for a NY magazine. And in three languages. Since my twenties. And I've had the odd chance to do soccer, but almost always I refuse, because I just want to be a fan, just a regular fan, and be myself, and not have to tailor anything to anyone. I can be self-interested and strategic and seek to manipulate reality in my professional life, soccer is one of those places where I can let my guard down. Edited November 20, 2022 by Unnamed Trialist h coach, narduch and Stryker911 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhoops__ Posted November 20, 2022 Share Posted November 20, 2022 15 hours ago, Ally McCoist said: We'll see. I know Kloke is a POS with his clickbait (I would never buy that shitty service anyway) but I'm not surprised if Davies is not 100%. The Athletic football coverage is really good. The scouting profiles are excellent imo. Mattd97, Ivan, Club Linesman and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ensco Posted November 20, 2022 Share Posted November 20, 2022 Any reason there is no Belgium game thread? Or am I somehow missing it jhoops__ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sal333 Posted November 20, 2022 Share Posted November 20, 2022 2 hours ago, Floortom said: "Says he is good to go for Belgium." When did Phonzie switch countries and why wasn't there a big fuss about it in the media? PegCityCam, Yoginess and Gian-Luca 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhoops__ Posted November 20, 2022 Share Posted November 20, 2022 1 minute ago, ensco said: Any reason there is no Belgium game thread? Or am I somehow missing it Yeah, let’s get it going Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivan Posted November 20, 2022 Share Posted November 20, 2022 Kloke is neither a clickbait POS nor an idiot. We have so few Canadian soccer journalists, we need to support the ones we have. Most are good, enjoyable to read or listen to (Kloke, Galindo, Molinaro, Platt, Jack, AGR, Davidson). All are big Canadian supporters doing the best they can in difficult media conditions. Even the more "over the top" guys like Wheeler and Nef are big supporters of our NT and Canadian game. Nothing against Duthie (I like the guy), but I feel bad for the long time soccer journos when a guy like Duthie flies over and gets this kind of scoop when the usual guys are fighting for scraps of info from Herdman. Felt the same during the "Big Bloody Deal" when known soccer-hater Simmons got the first questions to Defoe over all the guys covering the team for years. ghostknownunknown, Corazon, Mattd97 and 9 others 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhoops__ Posted November 20, 2022 Share Posted November 20, 2022 ^totally agree Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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