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bgnewf
04-28-2011, 08:15 PM
Come On MLS - Let TFC Fly!

http://viewfromthesouthstands.com/2011/04/let-tfc-fly/

TFC players & coaches stuck in Edmonton on Thursday due to MLS rules requiring clubs to only travel to away games on scheduled flights rather than chartered ones. Why this silly penny pinching hurts both the clubs and the product on the field.

Whoop
04-28-2011, 08:20 PM
Yeah, it doesn't look good for Saturday.

James17930
04-29-2011, 02:04 AM
?? Really? I thought they scrapped that rule and teams are allowed charters now.

Red CB Toronto
04-29-2011, 05:26 AM
?? Really? I thought they scrapped that rule and teams are allowed charters now.

LA got exempt from the rule after the first few flights following Becks arrival turned into a circus.

Shep
04-29-2011, 05:35 AM
Pure stupid. Especially given all the distance and traveling the clubs do.

ensco
04-29-2011, 06:22 AM
I don't get why the league has a say - they were coming from a CCL game.

Tickets for 22-25 guys flying from Edmonton to Seattle on commercial flights cost $300-400/person or $7,000-10,000.

A charter for 25 guys flying 1,000 miles probably costs $20-30K.

They should have chartered this one.

Hustle
04-29-2011, 07:16 AM
Gotta spend it to make it MLS. This is a horrible rule.

Nestease
04-29-2011, 07:37 AM
You can build a $20 million training facility but you can't fly with some extra leg room. Where do you draw the line?

TOBOR !
04-29-2011, 07:38 AM
I thought this would be about crap refereeing seen at BMO, streamers and flares.

After reading the blog entry I must admit I'm unaffected by this. Oh, the hardship.

Whenever I hear professional athletes piss and moan about something I think about what those that have travelled the road before them had to go through. Travelling across the country by bus. Making crap money. Holding down part time jobs.

Today's pros are coddled and this is just another story to illustrate it.

Someone around here once said it best : "suck it up, buttercup".

TorCanSoc
04-29-2011, 07:50 AM
I think its more about the unfair advantage deep pocketed owners have over small market teams. If some teams fly scheduled... and coach flights, while others are chartered and pretty much first class. It gives that team the advantage.... to that I say.... so what. Build a two-tier MLS, maybe we can have promotion/relegation... uh wait... for TFC that would be a bad thing.

Oldtimer
04-29-2011, 08:14 AM
A bit of a correction (at least this was the rule last year), clubs are allowed to charter a certain number (I think it's three) trips to MLS matches. Because it is strictly limited, you can only use it on the absolute most strategic times.

Parkdale
04-29-2011, 08:41 AM
I think the 'commercial travel only' rule made perfect sense from the start of the league until about 2008. Then it changed.

Sure you don't want one team to fly first class while another team flies coach, but that's not really the issue here. And if it's an NCC game.....

can the MLS tell the players that they have to fly coach to spring training?

LesH
04-30-2011, 05:42 PM
I totally hate MLS, they try hard by all means to keep this championship a Mickey Mouse league forever - beginning with the salary cap, and ending with such crap like this flight regulation. BS.

rocker
04-30-2011, 06:21 PM
the salary cap has nothing to do with making the league Mickey Mouse. The NFL has a cap and nobody says such things about it.

swan
04-30-2011, 06:50 PM
it's not a the salary cap per say i think they are good but it's the amount of the cap that makes it seem "mickey mouse"...

LesH
04-30-2011, 08:22 PM
it's not a the salary cap per say i think they are good but it's the amount of the cap that makes it seem "mickey mouse"...

Sure, that's what I wanted to say too, but I wasn't clear enough.