Good thing it didn't rain!Originally Posted by Fort York Redcoat
Good thing it didn't rain!
Orlando fans are douchebags. Just my two cents.
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Rugby doesn't chew up the grass as much as NFL and CFL Football does. Rugby also doen't have as much lines nor is the lines as big and fat as CFL markings are, however some pro Rugby fields have some big advertisements on the field, not sure if BMO field did tho. CFL even has advertisements on the field tho to.
Adverts will be CG from what I understand. It's just the faint lines that we'll be contending with.
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The pitch did look a bit rough on TV on Wednesday.
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Who the fuck even watches CFL and the terrible 3 down game???
Ah North America always finding good reasons on how to alienate people and ensure they don't watch your bellow average version of what they call MLS football....
i have an idea lets switch our grass to a hybrid turf so a couple people can watch a crappy CFL game...I just cant see the appeal that the CFL has....pretty much ensures that there is almost no running game.....add to that that only NFL rejects play in the CFL and you have another league similar to MLS.
This is not the point of this thread. It's not the CFL or Argos that are the concern. It's the fact they will be tearing up our natural grass next year. MLSE has agreed to this step backwards so they have to find a way to win our trust in the pitch quality.
How popular the other game is is of no concern.
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My first thoughts when I saw the pitch, I fear the pitch next year will be absolute crap.
Looked good to me considering the various uses it has been under.
Of note:
Argos home opener tomorrow night. There will be people comparing attendances. As this is their opener and they are playing the Riders, who usually bring at least 5K to a game, this is an apples to oranges comparison.
But not compared to, say, the pitch after no rugby tournament, right?
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In Canada, probably more people than watch soccer. But there's a whole thread about that, so probably you can go best that dead horse over there.
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Two dead horses actually. CFL popularity and my crusade against MLS Playoffs in favour of a table Champion
Ah, Pookie, imagine if we started to dig up all the dead horses in TFC history, my friend
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Is it really relevant. As this form has pointed out over and over, the reason why they are coming over next year is because their fanbase is boycotting the Skydome because its a dump, they hate Rogers with a passion for giving them unmanagable schedule, and they can watch the game for free at home.
Two dead horses actually. CFL popularity and my crusade against MLS Playoffs in favour of a table Champion
bam bam bam ... supporters shield should be the real champions ... MLS cup is a joke
sorry, wrong thread
Last edited by Qman; 08-08-2015 at 12:44 AM.
Just a quick thing about what the Argos are used to and why BMO for them is their next saviour.
This is the attendance of one of the best teams in the East on a great sunny day with no Jays, no TFC, no Leafs, no Raptors. Admittedly, its against Ottawa, never a big draw.
Check out this tweet at https://twitter.com/NeilMDavidson/status/635551971127263232
I can see the section I used to sit in 10 years ago and there are maybe 15 people - used to be half full and that was during the worst days of Sherwood Schwartz.
Note how everybody is in the cheap seats. Looks like our games actually...except way worse.
Looks like TFC yesterday
Check out this tweet at https://twitter.com/EmptySeatsPics/status/635183893403070465
Last edited by troy1982; 08-23-2015 at 04:14 PM.
because pictures taken at kick-off for TFC games always represent the actual attendance!
and all in all it was probably 22k-24k by the 70th minute.
Pass the bong.
The attendance and pricing games are worse than ever, and that is saying something.
I went online to buy tickets yesterday. Lots on ticketmaster in every higher price section. Ticketmaster don't show that much avail in the upper deck of the east side, but I sat up there, there are vast swaths of empty seats up there. Nobody can say with a straight face that those thousands of seats are no shows.
Interestingly, there wasn't much here on ticket trader (Kaka, nice weather etc), there clearly was last minute demand to see the game.
I bought my seats on stubhub. Seats that were retailing for $74 plus service charge on ticketmaster, I got for about $52 each, all in. Not all that much available there either, though.
I was in 210 at kickoff and it was deserted. There were maybe 50 people in the whole section.
In that pic it looks like the east side is 80% empty. I got curious, I counted a section across the way in the western stand at halftime to get a sense - it was half full. Overall, south end was full, rest was half full. I'd make it 17,000 by halftime, there were lots of stragglers.
They announced 26K I think. Pretty funny.
They are making it up. All of it. I suspect the team hold a lot of inventory back. I mean a lot.
Last edited by ensco; 08-23-2015 at 04:44 PM.
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Troy, you've got an alert on when somebody posts in this thread, don't you.
My point is the Argos are in BAD shape attendance wise and that's why they badly want into BMO.
I seriously doubt the Argos are going to get 26K today.
BTW, that's Neil Davidson with the tweet, Canadian Press journalist. He's not some twitter account scanning for pics just to show empty seats (wow, now that's a life).
And, no, you can not compare TFC first kick attendance during the Ex with 2/3 of the Gardiner lanes closed to the Argo attendance today. The only thing getting in the way of a perfect opportunity for the Argos today was the opponent. And they failed.
So....next season. Put up or shut up for Argo fans. Cause, if the Argos ruin that grass for the sake of attendance like that (although really, its a TV driven league so they might as well make the seats cheap cheap cheap, like $60 a game for a SS on the 55, which is probably what the pointy heads at Bell will be suggesting).
the rest was not half full. That picture is taken at kick off, which is not at all indicative of how many people actually went to the game. My section on the west side was about 90% full.
Tell you what though ensco, it feels fuller then last season. Maybe that's just the upper East being there but there are WAY more people around me then last season.
Actually, I got physical anecdotal proof of that.
That pic above is over my section - I'm in behind one of those people. Last season, there was nobody behind me and nobody to the sides of me for 4-7 seats. This season, there are actually people showing up each game. Maybe somebody showed up at minute 20 last season...maybe. This season - I'm in the stadium within 10 minutes of opening and there are people sitting down before I get there.
Giovinco? Maybe. But the west feels fuller then last year.
Announce crowd is 14,748, but watching the game on TV, it sounds like few thousand at best based on atmosphere (it's so quiet in Rogers Centre).
Even with small crowd, at least make some noise to cheer on your team. Argo fans are pathetic bunch!
my wife counted 63 people in our entire section
12,000 tops ... i don't get MLSE just making up numbers
That's a very amusing estimate.
Attendance is announced on tickets sold, not scanned.
How many people you figure went to the ex and didn't even bother going into the game?
Now that being said, I wonder if tickets that are sold to outlets count as sold?
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I was at the Argos home opener a few weeks back and it looked like Argos fan were trying to copy TFC's support with a mini supporters section. Will be interesting to see what happens next year. Will they try to have a section in the south end? Are Argos fans capable of such organization? All in all, the grass issue aside, I think its sort of a tribute to the TFC atmosphere and support that the 100-yr-old Argonauts need to move to BMO, the house that TFC built, to stay viable. That's my positive spin on this situation.
Phil, there aren't 8000 or 10000 people who just ate their tickets Saturday.
"Outlets" aren't paying for tickets they don't sell
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