I'm going to ban the next person that says "Argos" in this thread. Ban you for so long you'd wish I never banned you for so long.
ROFL - I make that face like 3 times a day reading Twitter.
I haven't seen anyone talk about modifying the CFL endzones.
i guess it is a concession they have to make to be shoe-horned into the National Soccer Stadium.
so does anyone know what will happen to the team dug outs? I know they were built to improve the view for those siting in the first few rows behind them. But i would assume it would be a hazard for pointy ball games.
we had some games with 20k in Toronto but we also had some games with as low as 10k. Overall tho, I don't see Montreal or Vancouver doing any better if they were to host all the Canada games. For them to fill the stadiums at about 20k a game you have to really play some games in Montreal, some in Vancouver and some in Toronto. If a city starts to host to many International games its hard to keep the demand high, it is hard to sell 20k tickets when you have small countries like El Salvador, Nicaragua or say Belize. countries like this don't have big following or appeal to the average fan. Montreal hosted a game I think like back in 2009 or something like that vs Honduras, and there was more Honduras fans then there was Canada fans. To be honest Montreal has not shown great records either attracting fans, in fact i think Toronto has done better. Vancouver played there first game in like 10 years at BC Place recently, and the crowd was still only around 20k. I think that to would drop off if they host to many games.
You need to sort of play across the country, keeps attendance higher I believe. You play 1 game in the summer at Toronto and you might get a decent crowd attend, now you play 3 Canada games in July and there might be lower attendance, you can't expect everyone to attend all 3 games.
Last edited by james; 11-21-2015 at 11:07 PM.
Absolutely. There have been too many games here and we've been tapped out financially. Add to that the total lack of cache to Belize or St. Vincent.
This is not to denigrate Vancouver who did a fantastic job but it's been a long, long time since they've had a MNT match so they were understandably hyped!
What I'm curious about is whether or not the players will want to play all of their games on plastic or does the attraction of a natural grass pitch win out?
Agreed, Montreal is not a good choice for ore than the occasional MNT match.
Feedback after the game was the stadium in Vancouver provides a competitive advantage:
1) they can open the roof and still have the cold come in which affects latin american clubs
2) the cdn players get a comfort level with the surface, where its totally new for visiting clubs
3) atmosphere is way better the way the sound echos off the roof even with 20k
time will tell if they can get 20k out for other clubs, but i think it will be a while before games come back here
Last edited by Qman; 11-22-2015 at 02:08 PM.
^^Speaking of how the sound echos off the roof. Anyone with updates on our roof? Driving by earlier this week the support structure was pretty impressive.
Dom
If they drop off it will be far worse than it was here. They'd have no excuse in this late a round in qualifying.
Even if there was a place, a fantastical place, in Canada that soldout over 20k be it friendly or first round qualifier, it would still have to keep proving itself game after game. It was a lovely dream to have the intention of a place so close to call "The National Stadium" but in such a large country with such scattered pop density I doubt we'll see a permanent home for this team.
I'm glad Vancouver came out the way they did. Mexico should be even bigger.
(Any pics anyone?)
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Yep, Not to get into the national team discussion but i don't really see anywhere in this country where a game vs Belize will draw much more than the 10-15000 we had here.
Vancouver did a very good job but it was also the 1st mens game they had in a long time so everyone traveled from the region, would that happen if they had 3 or 4 games in a year?
I fully expect the game next September against El Salvador to be back in Toronto and hopefully qualification for the Hex will be on the line (or locked up) and the building will be packed.
For now i just have to take some TFC money and put it aside for traveling to Vancouver in march.
There are 5 or 6 "poles" or what ever you call it that are now installed in between the east stands and the pitch. Anyone knows what they are? Temporary ones right?
EDIT: Beat me to it... ^
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There are pics floating around twitter right now of where the first few rows of the South End USED TO BE... it is now a giant trench in the ground.
Anyone know anything about this?
It's frustrating that MLSE is keeping SSH's in the dark about this.
Quick progress.
Gonna wait to see what its like once its finished before i start getting too excited.
They don't have to - they can use retractable seats like they have at the ACC that fold up and are rolled away into storage
You can see them here in this video
http://torontoist.com/2011/04/up_all...canada_centre/