[MLS3]

If a league were to start up, are it was going to have 32 teams, which 32 cities would you think would be the best to start teams out in...

Toronto
Ottawa
Montreal
Calgary
Victoria
Edmonton
Vancouver
Winnipeg
Regina
Augusta
Fredericton
Halifax
Charlottetown
St. Johns
Québec
Yellowknife
Churchill
Iqaluit
Mississauga
Whitehorse
Longueuil
Laval
London
Hamilton
Surrey
Brampton
Gatineau
Windsor
Saskatoon
Burnaby
Kitchener
Hopedale

Those are my 32...tell me which you would remove and which you would add...

[pmannion]

I think Iqualuit would be tough... but it might work. And I don't know about Churchill. St. John (NB), Corner Brook, NF, Mount Pearl, NF, Happy-Valley/Goose Bay (Lab), and down around Burin-St. Lawrence would all have sufficient fan interest to have a team; the problem would be money.

[Canadian_Supporter]

From that list we can narrow it down to 10 teams.

1. Toronto
2. Ottawa
3. Montreal
4. Winnipeg
5. Edmonton
6. Calgary
7. Vancouver
8. Quebec City?
9. Nova Scotia?
10. London or Hamilton?

Question, where is Hopedale, Canada????

[TopDogg]

Originally posted by MLS3
If a league were to start up, are it was going to have 32 teams, which 32 cities would you think would be the best to start teams out in...

Toronto
Ottawa
Montreal
Calgary
Victoria
Edmonton
Vancouver
Winnipeg
Regina
Augusta
Fredericton
Halifax
Charlottetown
St. Johns
Québec
Yellowknife
Churchill
Iqaluit
Mississauga
Whitehorse
Longueuil
Laval
London
Hamilton
Surrey
Brampton
Gatineau
Windsor
Saskatoon
Burnaby
Kitchener
Hopedale

Those are my 32...tell me which you would remove and which you would add...

You do realize that Iqaluit and Churchill are around the arctic circle, don't you?

And a lot of the cities you mentioned are suburbs of larger cities, such as Mississauga and Brampton, which are suburbs of Toronto. Mississauga is an oddity in that it is actually the sixth most populous city in Canada.

I, too, and curious about Hopedale. And isn't Augusta in Georgia?

[Canadian_Supporter]

This is a joke, the poster is just trying to be funny. Perhaps he is poking fun at the failed attempt for a pro league in Canada?

Hopedale is a town in Labrador.

[Krammerhead]

Yes, no doubt the person was taking the piss. However Canada deserves it by not having the brains or the balls to get it's own professional league started.

But if we were going to name 32 cities that could have a soccer team I'd have taken away many and added Abbotsford and Kelowna. Burnaby is a joke as that where the Whitecaps/86ers played when they had a team and is basically Vancouver anyway.

Surrey is interesting it will be larger than Vancouver soon (is it now?). All you'd have to worry about is getting home safely from that cesspool without a gan of teens swarming and attempting to murder you.

[pmannion]

I was in Hopedale once... It's a tiny Inuit community. Definitely not soccer team material. But I honestly do think that, after the interest at the Challenge Cup, that Newfoundland has enough interest for a soccer team at national level. The only problem would be getting money.

[MLS3]

Actually, there was no offence to your country meant...I was playing Ultimate Soccer Manager Last night and I was editing leagues to make em all North American leagues, but I've only does cities so far and I did US (where I'm from) and then I was going to do Canada and then Mexico and see where i can go from there...

And so i just did a google search on the top cities in Canada and it only gave me top 20 so i put those down and then i went to a canadian map and looked up other cities to "spread" the league around a little and put down cities i had heard of...

And that sucks you guys don't have a D1 league yet, we don't really either...hahah...I live in washington state so i'm closer to canada that I would be to going to an MLS game...

But ya, I'm still doing it, so if anyone could give a REAL top 32...32 that best would support soccer is i guess what i'm looking for...thanks

[Krammerhead]

Well I'd add Abbostford and Kelowna (or Okanagan).

Abbotsford will have a team in the PDL next season (they've had one before). They have a 4200 seat stadium. Okanagan/Kelowna have a team in the PCSL and they have had one in the PDL. They have a 5700 seat stadium. Prince George has a nice 3500 seat soccer stadium. All of these cities are in BC. I suppose you could leave Burnaby in, even though that is the home of the Vancouver Whitecaps.

Definately remove teams from Iqaliut, Yellowknife, Churchill, Augusta, Whitehorse, Gatineau and Hopedale.

[Canadian_Supporter]

Originally posted by MLS3
Actually, there was no offence to your country meant...I was playing Ultimate Soccer Manager Last night and I was editing leagues to make em all North American leagues,

I tried to play USM today, but it didn't work on my computer. I think I have to get windows 2000, is that correct? Oh well, it looked like a fun game...

You could add Kingston, Windsor, Kamaloops...