Concacaf Nations League Match #2: Honduras v Canada - Monday, 13 June, 7 pm PT / 10 pm ET - San Pedro Sula

[El Hombre]

Good luck to Belgium, Croatia and Morocco getting any kind of intel on how we play after those two games.

[Vasi]

Does this mean Alister is suspended for the first WC match? 

Or are all cards cleared for the WC. I forgot the rules. 

Edited June 14, 2022 by Vasi

[The Beaver 2.0]

1 minute ago, El Hombre said:

Good luck to Belgium, Croatia and Morocco getting any kind of intel on how we play after those two games.

Oooh, more of Herdman's 5-dimensional chess. Me likes.

[Shway]

1 minute ago, Ally McCoist said:

Can we start building a soccer field in Nunavut so that it can be done by March 2023? Just pitching an idea here...

Two teams had to play on the same pitch.
We struggled to adjust.

The reffing is the only thing I can complain about. 

[Shway]

1 minute ago, Vasi said:

Does this mean Alister is suspended for the first WC match? 

Or are all cards cleared for the WC. I forgot the rules. 

Suspended for the March games. Or the friendlies we play….hopefully.

[The Beaver 2.0]

Just now, Shway said:

Two teams had to play on the same pitch.
We struggled to adjust.

The reffing is the only thing I can complain about. 

I agree.  having said that, the ref made a poor choice the moment he refused to call the game because of the rain.

[El Hombre]

1 minute ago, Ally McCoist said:

Can we start building a soccer field in Nunavut so that it can be done by March 2023? Just pitching an idea here...

I'd prefer we build one in Sudbury, but one like the conference league pitches where it's all just standing room only.

Then we advertise that it'll be nickel beer night.  5,000 farmers lubed up on pops would be an intimidating atmosphere.

[kacbru]

1 minute ago, El Hombre said:

5,000 farmers lubed up on pops would be an intimidating atmosphere.

Is this part of the OneSoccer after dark?

[Ally McCoist]

Anyone have any clips of the fights at the end? Or just a compilation of the general shenanigans of this game lmao

[king1010]

3 minutes ago, Shway said:

Two teams had to play on the same pitch.
We struggled to adjust.

The reffing is the only thing I can complain about. 

Im still going to complain about the pitch. Adjustment or not the game shouldnt be played on that crap. 
 

basically leaves the game to chance and lucky bounces (or puddles)

[The Beaver 2.0]

Might seem banal to say, but an experience like this will only serve to strengthen the bonds these lads have formed. 

And also: fuck Honduras.

[toontownman]

Just disappointed we didn't send on agent Cavallini. 

[gator]

1 minute ago, Shway said:

Two teams had to play on the same pitch.
We struggled to adjust.

The reffing is the only thing I can complain about. 

Besides the horrendous ref that was the biggest problem with our play, there seemed to be no plan B to counter the waterlogged pitch and the Honduran direct play!

[Shway]

2 minutes ago, king1010 said:

Im still going to complain about the pitch. Adjustment or not the game shouldnt be played on that crap. 
 

basically leaves the game to chance and lucky bounces (or puddles)

I agree. It shouldn’t of been played.
But we could’ve protested before it was played. I hope it was, as there was a warmup before the game started so they should’ve seen this before.

Edited June 14, 2022 by Shway

[Gian-Luca]

6 minutes ago, El Hombre said:

Good luck to Belgium, Croatia and Morocco getting any kind of intel on how we play after those two games.

As funny as this is, it's about the only realistic positive that we can take from this match. That and maybe a better idea of the kind of runs that Ugbo likes to make. Oh, and possibly that those three teams will feel better about the fact that they don't play in Concacaf.

 

[apbsmith]

4 minutes ago, El Hombre said:

I'd prefer we build one in Sudbury, but one like the conference league pitches where it's all just standing room only.

Then we advertise that it'll be nickel beer night.  5,000 farmers lubed up on pops would be an intimidating atmosphere.

You almost nailed it, add another 5000 miners.

[king1010]

1 minute ago, Shway said:

I agree. It shouldn’t of been played.
But we could’ve protested before it was played. I hope it was, as there was a warmup before the game started.

No way ref was going to call off the game. He was all jazzed up for the thousands of hondurans who came to see him perform

[The Beaver 2.0]

Anybody else struggling to get the image of 5000 lubed-up farmers out of there head? 

[toontownman]

At least we won't have to worry about referee's like this at the world cup...

... oh, he was chosen to referee in Qatar. 

[Gian-Luca]

3 minutes ago, king1010 said:

Im still going to complain about the pitch. Adjustment or not the game shouldnt be played on that crap. 
 

basically leaves the game to chance and lucky bounces (or puddles)

When you see defenders slipping in puddles on the pitch leading to goals (which ended up being the difference in the game), there's no way anyone can possibly argue that the game should have been played on that pitch. It was a farce, with the Ref doing his best to equal it in that regard.

[Pottsy3]

No one told Phonzie to stop dribbling or playing long balls along the ground. I’m sure the rain and snow games have prepared us for the dry Qatar heat…

 

all that aside, what a shitshow. It started with refs fist bumping/high fiving Hondurans, then multitudes of pitch invaders because whats security, and then a power tripping official shoving Borjan.
 

I just hope the red card gets repealed and the boys get a flight home tonight before a riot breaks out in San Pedro Sula.

[Gian-Luca]

1 minute ago, toontownman said:

At least we won't have to worry about referee's like this at the world cup...

... oh, he was chosen to referee in Qatar. 

As scary as that is that he was considered adequate to send to the WC, there's no way we will get a Concacaf ref for any of our matches.

[Ally McCoist]

Also... fuck those streakers. I don't trust the security in these sketchy ass third world countries.

[Shway]

Just now, Ally McCoist said:

Also... fuck those streakers. I don't trust the security in these sketchy ass third world countries.

They didn’t do anything to the players, but waste time.

England wouldn’t be considered sketchy, and pitch invaders were fighting players. Just a thought. 

[The Beaver 2.0]

2 minutes ago, Ally McCoist said:

Also... fuck those streakers. I don't trust the security in these sketchy ass third world countries.

Hey, Vancouver is not Third World.