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denime
12-19-2009, 08:00 AM
Mornin'


Toronto Returns To Charleston (http://toronto.fc.mlsnet.com/news/team_news.jsp?ymd=20091218&content_id=7827904&vkey=news_t280&fext=.jsp&team=t280)


Jackson named Canada's best (http://www.thestar.com/sports/soccer/article/740912--jackson-named-canada-s-best)



SUNSHINE (http://www.torontosun.com/sunshinegirl/)

scooter
12-19-2009, 08:13 AM
mornin d

I_AM_CANADIAN
12-19-2009, 09:08 AM
Sorry... did they say "pleasant" reminder?

darb
12-19-2009, 09:33 AM
BMO field now on google maps:
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=h&ll=43.63328,-79.418042&spn=0.005793,0.013937&z=17

Auzzy
12-19-2009, 01:55 PM
BMO field now on google maps:
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=h&ll=43.63328,-79.418042&spn=0.005793,0.013937&z=17


Woohoo! Gotta talk to Google about photo-shopping that red a bit, looks too washed out... Is that during the Ex? I can't see the Ferris wheel though, must be during setup or takedown.

Kaz
12-19-2009, 02:44 PM
BMO field now on google maps:
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=h&ll=43.63328,-79.418042&spn=0.005793,0.013937&z=17
My Goodness the Turf looks so horrible in the picture... didn't look great from the stands by that point, but you really see the cruddiness of it in that image.

Toronto Ruffrider
12-19-2009, 03:10 PM
My Good the Turf looks so horrible in the picture... didn't look great from the stands by that point, but you really see the cruddiness of it in that image.

FWIW, it doesn't look quite as bad as the turf at Saputo Stadium:

http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=saputo+stadium,+montreal,+quebec&sll=49.891235,-97.15369&sspn=18.033439,36.826172&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Saputo+Stadium&ll=45.562997,-73.552673&spn=0.001194,0.002248&t=h&z=18

Kaz
12-20-2009, 04:42 PM
FWIW, it doesn't look quite as bad as the turf at Saputo Stadium:

http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=saputo+stadium,+montreal,+quebec&sll=49.891235,-97.15369&sspn=18.033439,36.826172&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Saputo+Stadium&ll=45.562997,-73.552673&spn=0.001194,0.002248&t=h&z=18

True but I think that is debris on the pitch... as Saputo is real grass. ;)

I_AM_CANADIAN
12-20-2009, 04:44 PM
You should have seen the state of the pitch when Canada played Honduras in WCQ at Saputo last year... Real grass does not necessarily a great pitch make.

Toronto Ruffrider
12-20-2009, 04:53 PM
You should have seen the state of the pitch when Canada played Honduras in WCQ at Saputo last year... Real grass does not necessarily a great pitch make.

That pitch was brutal, and every bit as bad as it looks in the Google Maps photo. I am not an advocate of field turf at all, but there's no doubt that the Saputo Stadium pitch looks pretty bad from orbit.

Toronto Ruffrider
12-20-2009, 05:02 PM
True but I think that is debris on the pitch... as Saputo is real grass. ;)

You could be right - grass, even the cheap stuff, never gets torn up.;)

Kaz
12-20-2009, 05:38 PM
You could be right - grass, even the cheap stuff, never gets torn up.;)
generally not in pooka dot patterns of near perfect circles. :P
the Goal Boxes though the center of the field is really thin though.