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https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4360/...084b130f_b.jpg Ok so.. with the Rider win over the Bombers in Labour day Classic in Regina yesterday & half way through the season, there seems to be a really huge disparity between the West and the Eastern divisions. Can anything be done for rest of the season to make it a little less embarrassing for the Eastern teams & help increase the sparse attendance in the East, could some trades help or raising the player salary ceiling to entice more imports into the East? |
I think you're getting a little off topic so I'll attempt to reel it back in.
As a fan of the CMNT for the past 40 some years where I have had a problem was with Toronto being gifted NT games and them not being spread out (like the women) to build a cross country base. And the only reason for that lately was because only Toronto and Montreal have turf fields. But since BC Place has held WCQ on artificial turf the argument to play in Toronto exclusively really doesn't hold water anymore. Also, with the largest potential audience to draw from (by far) I am wondering where the drop off is from a good TFC average crowd this year (27k) to 21k with an opponent whose fans normally show up in droves in Toronto. Who didn't show up might be a good question to ask and place to start? As for CFL small crowds in the east I would hardly call Ottawa and Hamilton having attendance either sold out or near capacity, sparse. Montreal is at the break even point but should be doing better and Toronto, who knows? I see good diversity in Toronto crowds which is a good sign, just not enough of them. I don't know if heavy targeting to the millennials there is a good strategy or not. I'm hearing they are having some success with affordable family ticket pricing. |
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The women should of held their ground to not play on the turf surface but they caved. CSA didn't want sod as they were cheap, it all came down to cost and nothing else. Women should of held firm and told the CSA to stick it. The courts said there words but the men simply would not play on turf under no circumstances for such a high level of soccer competition. The men , won't budge on the turf issue. Lots of top international players who are based in the bigger leagues in Europe with insurance fine print which blocks them from playing on artificial surfaces. I dont view this as some Toronto focused thing - not many options for grass soccer facilities that would have the amenities to host international teams in Canada. |
It's funny that Vancouver is the only major city in the country that you could grow grass year round.
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Toronto has the premiere soccer specific facility in the country.
Toronto hosts the majority of friendlies. Seems pretty straightforward to me. Friendlies, like competitive matches, are moved around the country when the desire is there from CSA. CMNT did play Mexico at BC Place not too long ago, and their last few friendlies have alternated host cities between Toronto and elsewhere. It's not as if matches are exclusively played in Toronto by any means. |
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Why would we replace all those surfaces and replace them back again for the small amount of money to be gained from a WWC, that is ludicrous. They can afford to do it for the men because of the vast amounts of money involved. You never seem to hear much squawking about AT when a team wins and conversely we didn't hear any at all about the Vancouver WCQ games. There might have been one very small comment IIRC. Most of the players prefer to play in Toronto because it is turf and many of the players are from there and Toronto is a travel hub. Otherwise, concerning the CMNT, there hasn't been much bitching. |
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The CMNT has rarely ever played in the month of March in Canada, and when the CWNT had an Olympic qualifying tournament set for January 2012 those matches were played at BC Place, as well. The only other CWNT friendly matches played out of summer months were in March 2006, played in Victoria and Vancouver. Past non-Summer CWNT Friendlies: February 2017 - BC Place October 2014 - BC Place October 2014 - Commonwealth November 2013 - BC Place November 2013 - Commonwealth Lately the CWNT have been playing more outside of the West Coast, but their fall/winter/spring matches are almost exclusively in Vancouver. The CMNT typically follows this as well. |
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Years ago I had posted articles from FIFA encouraging the use and betterment of artificial turf to grow the game in places where maintaining turf surfaces would be cost prohibitive and difficult. |
Edmonton at Calgary
Attendance 33,731 Capacity 95% |
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I wish you knew something about a new stadium that I don't :) |
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But it won't happen as long as U of C owns the property. |
Tor at Ham
Attendance: 23,926 (until the rain came) 98% Capacity Crowd (or what was left) eventually went home happy (and wet) |
Aug 28-Sept 4, 2017
TORONTO/BOSTON..........AUG 28-AUG 30...MLB.......ROGERS...........TORONTO.......35,999 (107,997 Total) CALGARY/EDMONTON.........SEPT 4.............CFL........MCMAHON........CALGARY........33,731 SASKATCHEWAN/WINNIPEG...SEPT 3..........CFL........MOSAIC............REGINA..........33,350 HAMILTON/TORONTO.......SEPT 4...............CFL........TIM HORTONS...HAMILTON.......23,926 CANADA/JAMAICA...........SEPT 2................FRND......BMO................TORONTO........21,724 MONTREAL/CHICAGO......SEPT 2................MLS........SAPUTO...........MONTREAL.......19,619 MONTREAL/OTTAWA.......AUG 31................CFL........MOLSON..........MONTREAL.......18,325 TORONTO/WHITEHAVEN..SEPT 2................RFL........LAMPORT..........TORONTO.........6,134 OTTAWA/SAINT LOUIS....SEPT 3................USL........TD PLACE...........OTTAWA..........4,059 Notes:
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Tickets distributed =/= attendance. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DI66wCrXcAE2wQ5.jpg https://twitter.com/MikeCupido/statu...65911647203328 Quote:
But sure, believe that there were only 374 empty seats... and that the Ti-Cats aren't using tickets distributed to hide their lower-than-advertised attendance for the last couple seasons. |
This guy has done more to market the league in two months than his predecessor did during his entire tenure. Seriously thinking this guy could become more popular than Cohon. The CFL, the only league where the commissioner gets cheered.
Here, Commish Ambrosie delivers pizza to the media hacks during the Hamilton rain delay. https://i.imgur.com/tVqrZGD.jpg |
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Berkie the anti CFL/Canada troll wants us to believe by his using the term distributed tickets that they are comps and giveaways. Except he doesn't clue into the fact that the lesser capacity doesn't allow them to do that like in the past at IW where they had less scarcity and a lot more seats to fill. With ticket scarcity they don't have to give comps and giveaways like in the past and they certainly won't make much money at that capacity by doing so. Do I think those were tickets sold and not scanned attendance, of course. People didn't want to get rained on and stayed away but are you really trying to make us believe they've had attendance problems the last few seasons instead of a few blips on the radar the last few games of a winless season, c'mon Berkie you can troll better than that. |
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