What is your Montreal plan? With the game moving up to 3pm it might be realistic to just drive back to Toronto right after the game.Originally Posted by Pint
What is your Montreal plan? With the game moving up to 3pm it might be realistic to just drive back to Toronto right after the game.
I hate moving day. They better be providing pizza and beer.
Could drive or day of flights are $190. I think I have leafs opening night tickets the night before so not sure if I'll go anyway.
I'll most likely consider car pooling or mega busing. I'll let you know if you wanna car pool
Funny thing is...everybody knows moving day in Montreal is July 1st.
FWIW
Forbes MLS valuations
http://www.forbes.com/sites/chrissmi.../#611e490d2386
That's quite the operating loss we're dealing with. I wonder how much the extra capacity will help... plus the fact that the team is competitive and doing a better job filling seats.
I wonder if if this is a pure apples to apples comparison? Do the teams have any latitude as to what makes up those lines, and do the TFC numbers account for FX?
Garber interview at halftime in Montreal says Canadian focus not on a 4th team.
Given the money and offers and the like down in the States, this makes some sense
Check out this tweet at https://twitter.com/TotalMLS/status/773682905595904000
Last edited by OgtheDim; 09-07-2016 at 07:51 PM.
No way Ottawa market is worth US $200 million, so no one is going to shell out for an expansion franchise there, and other cities like Edmonton would be even more of a stretch.
Want to make the teams more relevant nationally? Give them more "national competition." Not that I'd advocate a 4th Canadian team from a business sense, but Garber is trotting out some bullshit there.
Check out this tweet at https://twitter.com/kbaxter11/status/773930648125878273
The US MLS media is going to go ga ga over this but
its playoff rush time
its in the West so it doesn't affect us
I don't really care about former USMNT players
he's gone away before and came back
he's hardly in his prime
Its all just so .....meh.....for me.
This is Bruce Arena trying to catch lighting in a bottle to get a championship before he retires. It doesn't look like Bruce wants to stay around much longer.
Agreed. I live in Ottawa and there is no way they get a MLS club now. They had a chance back in 2012 with the Sens owner Melnyk out in Kanata, but that died once Lansdowne was approved.
ASA put out their playoff odds recently, here it is: http://www.americansocceranalysis.co...off-odds-2016/
Well Ottawa council voted on basically wanting a CFL team by approving the renovations of Lansdowne Park if I recall correctly , thus killing Melynk's Kanata soccer stadium, Ottawa could have had an MLS franchise fora fraction of what it cost today, the CFL team seems to be packing them in, but then again it's not that hard getting what 22000 a game for what 9 or 10 dates a year opposed to 22000 for about 19 home dates a year with an MLS team, glad I don't live in Ottawa being a soccer fan I would now know that an MLS team in Ottawa is not going to happen probably never, so that would be tough to accept. I know there is an NASL team in Ottawa but it's not the same, I'm willing to believe if Ottawa had gotten an MLS franchise it would have been a success at the gate , it's too bad as a soccer fan that city council went with the CFl.
is this for real?
http://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2016/0...igns-la-galaxy
LD out of retirement for a post season run
Apparently yes. However, it's not like he's coming back as a starter, he's just going to be in reserve for minutes at a time. No way he's anywhere near full fitness. He just wants to help out his old club over their injury bug.
Zardes is out for the season so he'll be getting big minutes for sure. They're desperate to stay competitive and rumour has it he's getting $140k for the remainder of the season. Pretty shocking stuff.
I'll laugh if he goes out and injures himself before he's not match fit.
Tenerio's views on TFC changed due to that game on the weekend.
http://www.fourfourtwo.com/us/featur...utm_m_medium=t
TFC has 4 players on the 24 Under 24 shortlist: Chapman, Delgado, Endoh, and Hamilton. The list will start being revealed next week.
http://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2016/0...-full-coverage
https://www.theguardian.com/football...rican-citizens
Victor M getting on MLS's case about Canadian domestic status in MLS
“Years have gone by and I’ve finally learned to accept myself for who I am: a beggar for good football.
I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead: ‘A pretty move, for the love of God.’
And when good football happens, I give thanks for the miracle and I don’t give a damn which team or country performs it.”
-Eduardo Galeano
The American are so full of shit, if Canada can treat US players as domestic then the US can treat Canadians as such.
I think the best way to go about it is to make all CONCACAF players domestic, and international actually means coming from another FIFA region.
I'm glad The Guardian picked the story, it seems to have quite a few comments as well.
Last edited by Richard; 09-13-2016 at 09:41 AM.
NHL, NBA, MLB, USL etc don't have restrictions... why is MLS unique?
USSF want to develop the national team, cant do that if you let everyone in. The other sports league don't have that goal in mind when they are already the top or near the top of their sport.
NHL, NBA, MLB doesn't have a foreign player quota.
USL does its own thing for a long time and no one has challenged their roster rules.
“Years have gone by and I’ve finally learned to accept myself for who I am: a beggar for good football.
I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead: ‘A pretty move, for the love of God.’
And when good football happens, I give thanks for the miracle and I don’t give a damn which team or country performs it.”
-Eduardo Galeano
about time
He can bloviate all he wants, but he's in a weak position. The CSA needs MLS more than it needs the CSA. Pull the three Canadian clubs from the league and they have 3 American clubs waiting to replace them. Watch the interest in the ex-MLS clubs plummet and the other teams in the new Canadian league give up on ever competing for the table since they can't match their expenditure. Watch MLSE drop TFC like a hot potato when revenue drops well below expenditures, selling the franchise to relocate south of the border. It would be a disaster for Canadian soccer. We just have to take our lumps for another 20 years until a Canadian league becomes viable.
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