The support on the southwest corner appeared to be done when I was in stadium Friday night.
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The support on the southwest corner appeared to be done when I was in stadium Friday night.
Really , this IS the main problem , not a single 'olive' branch . Everything is now take and accept . And by the way we're raising your prices . In a nutshell Toronto 's saving grace is its wonderful population making up its supporters . Every damn structure is a fooking compromise . ( to bring in a few more $$$ ) . Not one damn sports specific facility . Yet we are a paying / profit realizing market . As some have mentioned , we should be happy with this . Not bloody likely . Tired of accountants ruining this wonderful city . That stadium is outdated before it even gets started . And I might add , it is and will be added to continuously trying to cover up its vacumn environment . Another sky dome in the making . And watch when the Argos finally get dumped for their small crowds after the initial surge , we'll be left with what ? The old CNE emptiness with another coat . First class city second class designs , accepted by apologists .
Just noticed and its not like i care all that much but when the other thing plays at bmo how will people in 115 get to their seats? i guess they will have to walk to the upper part then down to their red seat?
I am not saying they don't spend money...its how they spend the money. My comment was about how the rain falls. In my opinion MLSE can spend millions on new players and "renovating the stadium", but then don't think about things like how the rain falls. Its one band-aid fix after another when it comes to this stadium.
so with the first few rows of south end gone...are they replacing that with some sort of removable seats? are the seats going to to fold up for Argos games and replaced for TFC games? anyone have word on that?
I don't think the seats are gone permenantly. They'll probably end up being retractable. I have seats in row 1 and row 2, and was able to renew without any sort of notice.
If you renewed online, you may have had to click an "i accept construction may eff up my seats" button.
Also, apparently, there is wording in some other document related to your season tix in the clubs favour that they can move you because of something like construction.
I'd suggest calling your rep to get their take on this.
As for retractable front rows, i was certain that telescopic was coming. But others, paying more attention than I am, say that's off the table. (I believe Pint from KitN said that)
this is what the old Metrodome in Minnesota used to do when the twins played, they'd pull up these seats they used for the vikings.
http://www.realclearsports.com/blog/...e%20baggie.jpg
last i had heard (2+ months ago now) is that they are removable. They won't be randomly moving the front portion of 2 large SG's as well as basically all of the other 3 SG's without notice, i will give them that much credit.
Guys they asked us what we thought of retactable but the big man didn't like the idea (prolly money again) but the seats will be there. They will most likely be temp seats.
Hoooray.
I don't have any idea specifically what they're doing, but I could easily see one of 2 "solutions" done.
1) put in retractable seats and a % of those affected will bitch
2) remove those seats and add the same number of rows at the back and "adjust" row numbers so that row 1 seats will still be in row 1. 99.9% of all people will be affected and will bitch.
both suck but to be honest, it feels like voting in Canada....you pick the least shit option.
looks like they had about 12 rows of seats folded up in this photo. This stadium Looks pretty bad in this picture, awful set-up. But in our case it would only be 5 rows, much smaller, and would actually only effect the Argos game, not TFC (if that's the route they are going with). Also easy to cover with tarp and advertising for the Argos. They can use it to make up for the adds they usually put on the field (Toronto said they will not use adds on the field at BMO field).
we have concessions behind those seats, not sure it would fit (to retract )
Well with the North Stand gone, we could be expecting something more like San Jose Avaya Stadium. Are stadium is different, but 3 stand horse shoe shape, and maybe a bar or something in the North Stand like Avaya Stadium has is what we might end up with.
http://pogmogoal.com/wp-content/uploads/DSC_1294.jpg
http://stmedia.startribune.com/image...9015912765.jpg
http://league-mp7static.mlsdigital.net/mp6/IMG_1310.JPG
http://www.mobilesportsreport.com/wp...3.47.27-PM.png
http://ww2.hdnux.com/photos/34/73/01.../7/920x920.jpg
looks like there will be a nort american Pro Rugby league starting up
how long before MLSE throws on a team at BMO too.
pro rugby + argos at UofT makes even more sense now. I would love to catch a few game there
a bit exaggeration on that.
the Exhibition looked like this:
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4068/...cd8b75d799.jpg
http://mopupduty.com/wp-content/uplo...on-stadium.jpg
BMO field went from this
http://nukesoccer.com/wp-content/upl...nerpregame.jpg
to this
http://storage.ottawasun.com/v1/dyna...y=80&size=650x
to maybe something like this minus the North Stand:
http://www.ctvnews.ca/polopoly_fs/1...._960/image.jpg
the stadium could of been better. Would of been good if we had a full North Stand and it could of been ours only, would of been great, and great for our Nation Soccer games as well. But lets be honest the stadium wouldn't of been renovated probably had they not planned for Argos, Grey Cups and NHL winter classics. BMO field was flimsy as hell before and looked more like a high school stadium, now there has been huge development under neath the stands. I am really worried about the grass, and confused what the hell is going on with the south stand. But if the grass holds up ( if it doesn't then that is a whole new story) and the other 3 stands stay how they are and the South Stand replaces those seats, plus a roof, overall the stadium will be good. And I would say better then playing in Vancouver, New York City, Seattle, New England or DC united (stadiums to big for MLS as all these stadiums can fit 50,000 or more, and New England is the worst of the worst in MLS with grid iron marks on the field every year come fall and empty seats everywhere, followed by New York City and the weird baseball shape) and better then playing in Columbus, Chicago, Philadelphia, Colorado or FC Dallas as those stadiums are pretty open, just a little bit better then we had in 2007, and they seem to be all built in the suburbs. BMO renovations will look better then those stadiums. I would of liked a stadium like NYRB or Houston Dynamo Stadium but hey it didn't happen.
Canadian teams will be joining the league in 2017. I'd say a team in Toronto is a cert but not sure it'll be at BMO, probably too expensive to run a new team out of there.
More interesting is that the league will be single entity stlye and Canadians on American teams will be classed as domestic, shocker :lol:
So, are there crews down there?
U of T? No space, Goldring centre now exists.
MLS sized stadiums would make the most sense coming out of the gate for Pro Rugby. Will be ineresting to see how progresses.
http://www.planetrugby.com/news/usa-...-rugby-league/