Canada Expansion (Montreal/Vancouver) Superthread

Yet the team is only succeeding thanks to it's contingent of foreign players. The team won't have the Canadian talent to take them over the top. The reason for that is the lack of a domestic league.

Players aren't going to be uprooted from their communities just to play on an MLS team with no hope of advancement. The salaries aren't good enough either to lure them away from their own communities. Communities where their presence in building the sport would be far more useful than dropping them onto an MLS team.

 

As mentioned above it's a university stadium for university sports only with the exception being the CFL football team. It also has permanent gridiron lines and advertisements painted on the pitch, as you can see in the photos.

The impact prefer to play on real grass with soccer markings only. Plus playing out of a stadium where you can squeeze in 11,000 for games creates a demand for tickets. They wouldn't have that same demand playing out of a 20,000 seat stadium.

Plus the stadium they presently play in is rent free.

 

Re: MLS NW again up for grabs

CSL might work if you tied teams to mls.Example have the TFC send thier 2nd tier players to the Lynx and so on.

CSL was killed because Dale Barnes was an Idiot.MOst of the high level soccer in Ontario was rivalries like Toronto Italia, First Portuguses,Serbian WHite eagales,croatia Ukrania and a few more. In the early seventies these team consistently outdrew the NASL metros.
Dale (i have no vision) Barnes would not let the teams into the CLS because of the ethnic ties. Lost chance set game back 50 years

 

Very true Krammer, you have to create an 'event', where people are concerned if they can even get tix.

Gavin, what you fail to grasp is that no domestic league Canada could ever support would have no possibility of paying anyone anything near to what they would need to make them stay.

You are right when talking about a Thunder Bay Chill situation, but the fact of the matter is Montreal and Vancouver do not consider themselves minor league towns. They both have the groundwork for an MLS team. Its whether or not the MLS can con someone into paying the expansion fee in those cities.

Anyone who thinks a Canadian city not named Toronto, Montreal or Vancouver could ever support, let alone be awarded an MLS team is just deluding themselves.

 

The final capacity numbers are in on Saputo stadium. It will seat 12,531. They still intend on creating an event in their new stadium.

 

When Toronto FC's exclusivity runs out at the beginning of 2010, some other owner should try and land a second franchise in Toronto. We're all talking about Vancouver and Montreal but the GTA can probably support two more teams.

 

Lets all come back to this post in a couple of years when the new stadium and new team hysteria die down in Toronto.

 

imo i think the mls should only concentrate on the U.S. and only the U.S. for the next 20 years then maybe canada and mexico.....never

 

MAN!!!!! ARE YOU SERIOUS!!!!!thats 5 seconds of my life ill never get back

 

Don't get jealous. Toronto isn't going to die down. This support is only a fraction of what is to come.

 

You must be a little kid, and a couple of years seems forever to you. Like I said, lets wait a couple of years and then talk.

 

Vancouver, not Montreal, was specifically mentioned in LA/Toronto game tonight as possible for MLS expansion.

 

On ESPN2 both Montreal and Vancouver were mentioned as possible future expansion teams.

 

slowly slowly put down the pipe.

 

hmm if that is true than I just missed that.

 

Says the person who is so dead set on seeing Toronto's support die off.

 

Sounds to me like they are saying whenever Montreal and Vancouver get their SSS's built there will be a spot for them in MLS.

There was an RDS article awhile ago and it definatelty sounds like Saputo Stadium is now going to be closer to 18K, which will suffice. Vancouver's downtown stadium is already scheduled to have around 19K capacity, so it's just a matter of that one getting the money and getting built.

I predict Montreal for 2012 and Vancouver by 2016.


And two more GTA franchises?

Lets get ourselves a second NHL team first, then we'll think about that.

 

We could sell out five NHL teams in Toronto and the surrounding GTA. You could have two more teams downtown that would sell out, a team in Brampton, and a team in Mississauga. No doubt in my mind. Hell, I think Brampton could support an MLS team as well.

 

Not dead set on it, just being realistic. Seen it happen before.

You Torontonians really need to stop being so defensive.

 

And you wonder why the rest of Canada aren't fans of the Toronto area.

I'm a Toronto FC fan who lives in Montreal and find it great the support they are getting. I have to admit I was a little worried, but the fans have responded and will continue to. But, you're being a little dilusional about what kind of support ANY area can give.

 

I'm from Clear Water, Britsh Columbia. However, I have lived most of my life in Brampton.

Also, I find your assumptions a little unrealisitc.

 

Alright, maybe not five NHL teams but definately four.