Hammer9001
Registered User
Same day as a TFC game is a silly plan.
Aww come on, TFC is scheduled to crap the bed this season after losing Seba and starting off with a 0-4 loss. Run your own race, you can't simply cater to TFC's schedule.
And it's awful to go watch soccer in Ottawa for that very reason. Ugly and dangerous artifical field + stands very far.
Ottawa have small crowds and we will see for Hamilton and Winnipeg, Winnipeg especially with the stadium in the middle of nowhere and the stands even further away, basically you can't get any worst stadiums that those for soccer.
If they want to have succes, small 5k 10k stadiums for soccer only and real grass is the way to go.
And ticketmaster means very high fees for no good reason.
To the first point, I disagree. The only thing awful about Ottawa is that they can't pack both sides of the stands due to the quality of play/marketing, that's the real issue. You can reach out a touch a player from the stands in Ottawa.
Second, modern turf performs just as well as poorly maintained grass which is what every CanPL team will suffer from given the climate and the fact some stadiums double as CFL stadiums. Even BMO struggles to keep their grass pristine and they have the top of the line equipment, dedicated groundskeepers and spend millions a year on it. If it's good enough for the Whitecaps, good enough for some Scottish Premier League teams it's good enough for Canadian teams.
The third point about size I agree with, but there's no real option for that in those three markets without building a new, which kinda defeats what their CFL owners are trying to do, which is leverage their existing stadiums more.
The fourth, I neither agree nor disagree. Having a solid ticket distributor is a good thing to have, the downside is I heard a rumor they are going entirely to mobile tickets, which I am not a fan of.