Davey Boy 2.0

i care about you sean [color:#cccccc]platonically

yup proof's in the pudding in terms of where dubya's priorities lie.

...and not in a good way

My curiosity finally got the better of me the other day and I picked up a 2 litre [color:#cccccc]plastic bottle of Wells ale. browny goodness but you want to finish the bottle as it goes flat fairly easily. has a dryness to it, almost to the point of making you thirstier good but not great

ollie's really feeling the love for 'his team' i will allow a change of allegiance, mon ami. praps we should do a poll

3 hours! dude, you're going to get stuck in traffic and miss part of the show

lotsa vodka coolers at that one i'll bet

sounds impartial :swigs last dredges of boozy coffee:: hahaha, dibs on Spite and Envy as a bandname, praps we could do millie vanillie covers or something

#312 Songs about forgetting things. 1. Glass Tiger - Don't Forget Me (When I'm Gone) 2. Bob Dylan - I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know 3. Simple Minds - Don't You Forget About Me 4. Peter Gabriel - I Don't Remember 5. Matthew Sweet - I Almost Forgot 6. Wilco - Forget The Flowers 7. The Crucifucks - Where Oh Where? 8. Elvis - I Forgot to Remember to Forget 9. 10. 11. 12.

you're all nerotic

state dependant learning

i just went out @ lunch and picked up a mickey, tough smell to mask though when yer pouring it "Does someone have really bad cologne on?!?" "I think it was the electrician"

happy birthday Myrna you rock p.s.- my folks had a great time at lunch last saturday....

^ this is why the Sun is entertaining

sure

I know she's too 'shy' to ask so maybe you could send some of those to LJFH while you're at it, Gr8FuL. Preferably before your concussion clears up.

it was just a matter of time before the "have we met" line came out in this thread

I seem to recall that Tasha posted a borscht recipe a while back BAM!

good microbrews there as well and thank you Ms_Kaaskop, i'll take that as a compliment

Canada's soccer community isn't waiting for the CSA to heal itself. Sometimes, a revolution doesn't look like much. You don't need tanks and barricades, smoke in the streets, screaming in the night. This one started with a few hundred fans in matching black t-shirts singing one brief "Sack the CSA" song behind the south goal of BMO Field during the Canada-Costa Rica match. Next thing you know, three smiling gents from different parts of the country shake hands in a private box and take in a Toronto FC game. Soon after that, a sheaf of legal papers is filed in an Ontario court - and a large banquet hall in the city's northwest suburbs gets booked for a little Tuesday night get-together. Not overtly threatening, by present global standards. But none of it is good news for the reeling, embattled, leaderless Canadian Soccer Association. The power vacuum left by the resignation of president Colin Linford and the rejection of formerly incoming CEO Richard Nykamp continues to hamper the governing body of Canadian soccer. And into the void is stepping - well, just about everybody! The three gents in the private box were high-ranking representatives of Toronto FC, the Montreal Impact and Vancouver Whitecaps. Canada's three professional men's soccer teams then issued a polite, respectful - and utterly earth-shattering - press release. They announced a commitment to work together to foster and supervise elite player development across the country. That, of course, is supposed to be the CSA's job. But Canada's odd that way. In most other nations, the pro clubs run player development. Canada's been a long-standing exception, largely because our top-level teams were too small - both in size and number - to be able to bankroll such an ambitious task. No longer. TFC is owned by Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment, a huge and highly profitable sports conglomerate. The Whitecaps are the proud plaything of West Coast billionaire Greg Kerfoot, and Impact owner Joey Saputo is a prominent Montreal businessman, currently engaged in common-ground discussions with the Montreal Canadiens and Liverpool FC. These people have resources - and a vested interest in developing elite soccer talent. Canada might easily have three teams in MLS within five years. Where are all the required Canadian players going to come from? It's good business for the teams to get cracking on that problem - right now. This is deeply significant. Even if the CSA were to recover from its present swoon, the structure of its board - dominated by provincial and territorial representatives with their own local agendas - is poorly suited to the task Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver are demanding. And the CSA will never have the financial resources of MLSE, Kerfoot and Saputo. The CSA - in one of its most vital responsibilities - may be about to be replaced. Cut to the courts, and the filing of a $1.75-million breach-of-contract lawsuit against the CSA by a very annoyed Fred Nykamp. I'm not a legal expert by any means, but the guy's got a heck of a case. Linford recruited him out of a secure, comfortable job running Basketball Canada. They agreed to a deal, and Nykamp was publicly introduced as the CSA's new chief executive. And then the board hemmed, and then the board hawed, and then the board said "no." Linford resigned in protest. Nykamp, suddenly and through no fault of his own, was out of work in both basketball and soccer. Whatever amount Nykamp wins here will be a large chunk of change Canadian soccer won't get - as many as 1.75 million more reasons why the CSA needs a quick and drastic overhaul. Which brings us to the banquet hall. This coming Tuesday, a large and concerned cross-section of soccer fans, officials and media types will get together to go over everything - from every angle - and draw up a new structure for the governance of Canadian soccer. A new national body will be proposed, with better, more effective placements for everybody within the revised structure. This meeting won't have any actual authority. But it will generate new ideas, get some media coverage, and get everybody talking about the same things. Up until now, we've all agreed things are broken. Here and now begins the tricky job of actually putting things back together again. If provincial reps shouldn't have such an iron-clad say over Canada's national soccer teams, what power should they have? And how do we get it to them? How many actual answers emerge that night doesn't really matter. The point is - on all fronts - concerned people are taking action. Nobody, outside of the CSA board members, seems content to let the CSA heal itself. At the risk of speaking for an entire huge and diverse community - we just can't wait that long. We're past the t-shirt stage now. The money men are moving in at the top, and the grassroots is surging at the bottom. A year from now, there may be no reason left for the CSA to actually exist. Which might not - if everyone ends up better placed to do a better job - inconvenience anyone. It's not a crazy dream anymore. Real change is happening. Onward! Ben Knight writes about soccer and lacrosse regularly on Sportsnet.ca.

exactly! skinalicious

yup sidebar- on their breakfast menu they have breakkie poutine- homefries, hollandaise and your choice of bacon, ham or sausage (i'd imagine there's cheese in there as well).