Fan 590 reporting rumor that Portland will be announced tomorrow as 18th MLS franchise.
sorry mods if this is elsewhere
Fan 590 reporting rumor that Portland will be announced tomorrow as 18th MLS franchise.
sorry mods if this is elsewhere
nope it is only posted on gotfc forum
......this is great newsOriginally Posted by Crowley
Last edited by JDG; 03-19-2009 at 08:54 PM.
8 in the east
10 in the west.
i'm confused.
Conferance balance is not an issue. MLS will choose new teams based on their interests, and they'll shuffle things to fit.
Houston, Dallas are east enough, etc.
That's all I'll say about that.
ya MLS shifts stuff around every year. Remember that even now we don't have a balanced schedule... and before TFC they had 32 game schedules.
they'll figure something out... given that Garber said he'd like 2 more teams in 2012, that's only 1 season with the imbalance between divisions.
I can't see any more West expansion anyways. All potential future markets are in the East.
LOL "Portland Announced Tomorrow"
any grammar Nazis around?
yea its official Garber said it on the ESPN interview, thats hes going to Portland to announce the 18th MLS team, hes like i cant say anything more then that....
seems there's something at, its just protected right now
http://www.portlandmls2011.com/
whereas combo's for ottawa and st. louis theortical website are non-existent
that interview on ESPN was hilarious... all that "wink wink, nudge nudge" stuff... portland is in.. he just wants to save the official "Portland will be the 18th MLS team" statement for his press conference today.
I guess that vote they had last week was a very certain thing for him to come out and announce it, even though I thought they tok 15 million off the gov deal. Perhaps Garber gave Portland the same $5mil discount Vancouver got, and Paulson came up with the 10 mil. anyone know the details?
I get a gut feeling that since the MLS has gone to a three conference format before - instead of an 8-10 set-up they will go to a 6-6-6 setup with the following:
West: Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, Chivas USA, Los Angeles and San Jose
Central: Colorado, Real Salt Lake, Dallas, Houston, Chicago and Kansas City
East: Toronto, New York, New England, Columbus, DC United and Philadelphia
Don't even begin to ask me how the schedule for this one would be set up!!