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View Poll Results: Should Don Cherry have been fired?
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Yes
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11-11-2019, 01:17 PM
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#341
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Vancouver :(
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Had his chance to apologize and stood his ground... that was the tipping point. Don't let the door hit you on the way out, Don!
Signed - An immigrant, who wears a poppy and respects everyone in this great nation.
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11-11-2019, 01:18 PM
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#342
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 81MC
The CBC knows damn well what this day means to the man... Anyone remember the election coverage on CBC
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CBC has approximately 0% to do with this decision
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11-11-2019, 01:18 PM
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#343
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Calgary
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There. Now go buy a poppy and relish in a old man's demise.
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11-11-2019, 01:18 PM
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#344
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: St. George's, Grenada
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Given the stories from the summer I think Rogers was looking to get rid of him anyway. They were really pressuring him to retire.
This is just a convenient excuse for them
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11-11-2019, 01:19 PM
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#345
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Franchise Player
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Ya their presser makes it seem like the decision was mutual. CBC in-house counsel at their finest.
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11-11-2019, 01:19 PM
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#346
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Our Jessica Fletcher
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Don’s time was up 10-12 years ago. It’s unfortunate it had to be a firing, and he hadn’t just retired a few years ago instead.
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11-11-2019, 01:19 PM
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#347
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Referee
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: In your enterprise AI
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Not bad Canada, Don Cherry is now #7 worldwide trend on the Tweety
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You’re just old hate balls.
--Funniest mod complaint in CP history.
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11-11-2019, 01:21 PM
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#348
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Scoring Winger
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What a way to go. Seems fitting.
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11-11-2019, 01:22 PM
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#349
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: Holland
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Anytime I've watched him, I secretly hope in the back of my mind that he doesn't do anything stupid or cringe. Yet every time it was almost physically painful to watch.
Growing up he was amazing. Now? tbch. AWFUL. Best of luck to Don Cherry, but regardless of the reasoning, he should be gone.
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11-11-2019, 01:23 PM
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#350
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Manhattanboy
Ya their presser makes it seem like the decision was mutual. CBC in-house counsel at their finest.
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I blame CTV myself, pretty brutal for CTV to fire Don Cherry.
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11-11-2019, 01:23 PM
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#351
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Craig McTavish' Merkin
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I'm not sure if firing him was the way to go, but it's possible Cherry left them no choice. Either way, they probably should have waited at least a day.
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11-11-2019, 01:23 PM
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#352
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: St. George's, Grenada
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Aarongavey
I blame CTV myself, pretty brutal for CTV to fire Don Cherry.
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It was probably Trudeau's idea
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11-11-2019, 01:25 PM
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#353
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Aarongavey
I blame CTV myself, pretty brutal for CTV to fire Don Cherry.
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Correction Rogers-Sportsnet. But you bet CBC was consulted and had a say in the decision to fire Cherry.
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11-11-2019, 01:25 PM
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#354
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Craig McTavish' Merkin
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Quote:
Originally Posted by btimbit
It was probably Trudeau's idea
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Old Pierre spoke from the grave.
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11-11-2019, 01:26 PM
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#355
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Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Springbank
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
Screw him to make himself a victim on top of all this. As if getting fired on Remembrance Day means more to him because he’s such an ardent supporter of the troops.
How about the fact his comments were especially hurtful due to the sacrifices immigrants have made in war fighting for Canada and how they feel getting blasted by a cultural icon on HNIC? Or any armed forces, past or present, for that matter having their day of remembrance overshadowed by this fossil.
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Yeah, if it was me, I’d have waited to avoid the distraction. But it’s not Don Cherry Day, it’s Remembrance Day. I guess they wanted to pull the bandaid quickly.
I tend to agree this was perhaps in the works anyway - his voice is gone, his takes are now unintelligible and they run the risk of this type of thing every time.
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11-11-2019, 01:29 PM
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#356
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First Line Centre
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Manhattanboy
Correction Rogers-Sportsnet. But you bet CBC was consulted and had a say in the decision to fire Cherry.
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...and Trudeau, you bet he had a say as well.
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11-11-2019, 01:30 PM
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#357
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Franchise Player
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They should have waited until tomorrow. Totally inappropriate on Remembrance Day.
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11-11-2019, 01:31 PM
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#358
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Franchise Player
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I honestly can’t stomach the hypocrisy that has invaded Canada.
Let’s look at two quick highlights of 2019:
- Black face Trudeau gets elected
- Woman-beating Chris Brown’s new album becomes #1 on the charts, again.
Don Cherry says “you people” during one of his incoherent ramblings without make up on, or without raising a hand to a woman - and the whole nation piles on and destroys a Canadian icon and turns him into an absolute villain.
I won’t stand by Don Cherry on what he said, but I think it’s a damn rotten shame that people no longer seem to believe in anything. Their focus is sporadic and self serving. Perhaps it has always been that way, but the way people pick and choose what to support...it’s as incoherent and inconsistent as even the craziest of Don Cherry rants.
Damn shame things have played out this way.
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11-11-2019, 01:31 PM
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#359
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Crash and Bang Winger
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Manhattanboy
Correction Rogers-Sportsnet. But you bet CBC was consulted and had a say in the decision to fire Cherry.
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Why would they be? CBC doesn't even get any ad revenue from HNIC anymore. It's entirely a Rogers product
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11-11-2019, 01:32 PM
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#360
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Franchise Player
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Have no problem with them doing this on remembrance day. I highly doubt Don was going to appologize. He should have been canned years ago.
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