If TFC make the playoffs, next years ticket prices will sky rocket. Mark my words
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If TFC make the playoffs, next years ticket prices will sky rocket. Mark my words
Ticket prices for renewals are going to go up from the bargain basement prices no matter what happens.Quote:
Originally Posted by Whoop
If things go so poorly that there is a need to freeze ticket prices again, ticket prices will be the least of their concerns.
If the Argos are coming to BMO, this is a better option for the playing surface:
http://blog.chron.com/ultimatetexans...liant-stadium/
MLSE can afford it.
errr why would they want to go back to that shit?
lol astro-turf. lets just paint some concrete
while waiting for this watching tfc at the skydome !Quote:
Originally Posted by prizby
People shouldn't be so quick to praise this. Do you really see sliding stands, hybrid grass, the removal and repainting of lines and adverts every other week and the increased use of the pitch to all get solved perfectly? I guess it's a good deal if you are the Argos. Just seems like a step back for football in this city but every will go along with it because we have all been bought off with shinny new signings.
Was just looking for some footage of stadiums that share and so far i found this. Huddersfield Town and Huddersfield Giants share John Smith's Stadium. I checked the schedules of both team and found a Rugby game that took place July 21st,2013 and then a Huddersfield Town game on July 24th,2013
Huddersfield Giants Game July 21st,2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkX7KGj1L6w
Huddersfield Town Game July 24th,2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXcXINmeOZM
I know the HTAFC video could be a bit better but looking at the pitch it doesn't look that bad. Is it what we could expect from the Argos and TFC playing on the same pitch I don't know but i feel it should hold up. I also will be looking for more examples to see if i can find better or worse pitch situations.
Here is the issue, neither game was played in the rain.Quote:
Originally Posted by Banjax
What happens if TFC plays in the Rain on Saturday, CFL a Thursday, and TFC on the Saturday again. If it rains during the first TFC and then the CFL game what does the Pitch look like.
I agree, it's really amazing what can be clouded by a free shirt and a couple of beers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Greatest Ripoff
TFC wouldn't, just the Argos. It's actually an interesting way to look at it - temporary turf on top of grass, rather than the other way around.Quote:
Originally Posted by GabrielHurl
Many BPL teams play very often at. This time of year. Between league games, FA Cup, and European competition, there will be times when the field will be used every week, sometimes with only a three days between games. This is also the time of year where the grass is dormant, there is no sunlight, and the rain is plentiful.
And yet, watching the game from Anfield the other night, the pitch appeared to be in pretty good condition. The same goes for other surfaces around England and across northern Europe at this time of year.
So I think there is some evidence to back up Tim L.'s claim that this surface will work.
Thats the main thing i'm trying to find right nowQuote:
Originally Posted by Kaz
Enjoyed the interview, but I thought it was a bit disingenuous of TL to suggest that football played regularly on the pitch wouldn't be as adverse as rugby played on it would be.
You know it does it does rain in England.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kaz
Rugby isn't as bad to the pitch as handegg is between the hash marks. All the action is in the middle of the pitch it's different pressure on the surface compared to Rugby.Quote:
Originally Posted by Red CB Toronto
Yes it does, but I have not seen an example of this Hybrid turf in a situation were you get Lake Ontario style rains twice with a grid iron game being played.Quote:
Originally Posted by PopePouri
Sadly, whatever we think or want at this point doesn't matter much. It seems like its going to be a done deal one way or another so lets just hope they don't hold back and spend whatever it takes to make it the best possible for us.
I find this all very sad. Maybe it'll be OK, none of us really can say, but god this multi-purpose "it'll be perfect for every sport" prattle is exactly what Chuck Magwood said in every press conference about Skydome.
I see the beautiful soccer only stadiums in NY, Chicago, KC, Montreal, LA, so many others, all with roofs ... why can't that be us? Why do we have to choose between a half assed meccano set facsimile of a stadium, and a multi-sport frankenstein building.
What? Is this some sort of stereotype? It's been pretty sunny this week in London and by February you start to see spring weather. And when it does rain it is more of a light drizzle. The rain rarely comes down as hard at it does in Toronto.Quote:
Originally Posted by Huyton
Once this this is done there is no going back. This the time to ask the questions and push back if you don't like what you hear and see.
That's because the plan is to do BMO piecemeal. I'm a bit skeptical but that is the plan.Quote:
Originally Posted by jimiv
Nope...not a stereotype. In years past, English pitches would have been a mud bath by now, with the penalty area chewed up badly. The new hybrid fields allow games to take place where before they'd have been playing on mud and sand.Quote:
Originally Posted by Greatest Ripoff
England is far enough north that the Sun doesnt get very high in the sky...setting shortly after 4pm in December, as well. Large portions of the field will be in permanent shade due to the high stands and roof lines.
The UK Met Office figures show this *winter has already seen eight inches of rain in England, and is on track to be the wettest winter since records were kept. The average for December to February is nine inches.
Probably a lot of those have rugby matches that would do a bigger number on the pitch than CFL.Quote:
Originally Posted by rocktml
I picture TL going through some sort of drive through when you say that.Quote:
Originally Posted by OgtheDim
"Hi I'd like one order of your southside expansion please"
"Would you like a roof with that"
"Yes, yes i would."
Just got home from the Raptors game. Was lucky enough to have UNREAL seats. Dunno if this has been mentioned yet but at the game were all the GM's. And Tim B was sitting next to Tim Leiweke and talking the whole game (Nonis was just on his phone, Tannenbaum was glad handing. Ujiri was in the tunnel like normal).
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.n...08407348_n.jpg
Maybe there really is something too Tim L being a big soccer guy. Traditionally the GM of the Leafs would get that prime seat and be talking the ear off the president of MLSE
He is a soccer guy, no maybe about it.
His first job was as an assistant GM for an indoor soccer team in St.Louis
I think what really needs to be answered is.. Will players sign here knowing that we have a hybrid pitch.. Seeing as it is almost everywhere in England, I don't think this will detract from us getting players that we want.
Will they be able to keep pointyball lines from fucking up the visual experience? Will they be able to guarantee the pitch quality holds up? Will they be able to guarantee short turnarounds won't lead to the stands being a hundred yards from the field?
People who say this is okay keep quoting Seattle and Houston. But those pitches look like shit, with yellowed-out football lines clearly visible. This is a terrible idea until they decisively prove otherwise.
None of those buildings are soccer-only, but point taken.Quote:
Originally Posted by ensco
This whole thing stinks.
And it's funny that the supporter groups have said nothing official yet.
I hope the official policy of NO Argos hasn't changed.
You will see the lines. ( there is no solution. You will see them)
it not the playing of football on the field that destroys the pitch. It's all the players walking and standing on the sidelines that destroys one side on the pitch.
MLSE is pulling the wool over everyone's eyes. It's not worth destroying the soccer experience for 6-7 extra dates.
they can make money refurbishing the stadium without the Argos.