Comments for The Maple Leaf Forever

Comment on You Say Goodbye, I Say Hello by Doogie2K

Doogie2K — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 06:19:19 +0000

Sellout.

Comment on Professionals vs. Amateurs: More Equal Than it Sounds by Chris

Chris — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:10:02 +0000

Thanks for a great report on the game in Victoria. Also, thanks for the good comments on Paul Hamilton.
This is a player who is very experienced, not in the pro sense of the word, but if you look at his CIS – Canadian University, record you will understand his value to a team and to the game he loves. His University career, after several conference awards, culminated in being the National CIS MVP for Men’s Soccer last year. In fact, when Paul played in the CIS Nationals the first time, there was a Voyager blog started about him and some interesting things were said about him then, have alook ata it and enjoy.
Thanks again.

Comment on Professionals vs. Amateurs: More Equal Than it Sounds by Lord Bob

Lord Bob — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 20:18:43 +0000

It’s obviously a hard sell for Edmonton to get casuals through the door anyway, judging by their attendance issues.

Really, they might be better off papering the house a bit. Maybe not with your example, but I’m reminded of what happened at the U-19 Women’s World Cup all those years ago: if you were an Edmonton-area metro youth player, you could get a free tournament pass to as many games as you like. And then your parents paid to get in.

Comment on Professionals vs. Amateurs: More Equal Than it Sounds by Duane Rollins

Duane Rollins — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:54:38 +0000

Edmonton has set prices at what it expects to next year. If they set them lower, it would be a hard sell to get casuals through the door once they bumped them up.

It’s better to have 9,000 fully paid in the stands than 15,000 that are there because they got a ticket for a loonie with the purchase of a large Blizzard at Dairy Queen, IMO

Comment on A Team By Any Other Name Would Play As Shit by Stephen

Stephen — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:59:01 +0000

“Serious LB, are you trying to tell us that Kansas City FC or Sporting Kansas would somehow be worse than Kansas City WIZARDS??! ”

Yup. Sporting Kansas is just ludicrously awful; I’d be fine with Kansas City SC, since trying to tie the name “football” to the soccer team IN FREAKING KANSAS CITY OF ALL PLACES – you know, the town with the most devoted NFL fans in the league outside Green Bay – is just feeding the inferiority complex not only towards Europe, but towards other sports.

They’re the Wizards. Nothing weird about that name.

(If you want to change it – Kansas City Bullets.)

Comment on A Team By Any Other Name Would Play As Shit by Tuscan

Tuscan — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 01:24:12 +0000

After this many years, I don’t see them actually dropping the name Wizards. They’ll have some contest where fans can rename them if they really want to (albeit only taken partially into consideration once the actual process starts) and in the end everyone will vote for Wizards anyway because they have some sort of Mickey Mouse affection for the godawful name.

Serious LB, are you trying to tell us that Kansas City FC or Sporting Kansas would somehow be worse than Kansas City WIZARDS??! Give your feckin head a shake, or I will if you make it to the Peru match…

Comment on A Team By Any Other Name Would Play As Shit by chrsfrsn

chrsfrsn — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:30:57 +0000

Borussia Mochenkansascity, YES! But seriously though, why not just name the team Kansas city. I mean, yeah, there’s some teams that have a moniker, like United, but that’s just to tell them apart from City. The reality is that most football or soccer teams are just named after where they are.

Comment on A Team By Any Other Name Would Play As Shit by Lord Bob

Lord Bob — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:41:34 +0000

Soccer fans are different from hockey fans, who are different from football fans, who are different from baseball fans. That’s not a “Europe v. North America” thing, that’s a different sports thing.

I’m not denying that picking and choosing things the Europeans do right is a good idea. But what we have right now isn’t adaptation, it’s a raging inferiority complex that will motivate people to think we’re inferior.

Comment on A Team By Any Other Name Would Play As Shit by Tyler

Tyler — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:34:31 +0000

In fairness, North American naming conventions are terrible. We used to have a similar system to what went on in Europe – the Canadiens take their name from their official name, Club de Hockey Canadien. A lot of old baseball teams, their names came about organically, rather than through some process whereby the team was given a name. I kind of like the European and English system.

As far as the culture of the games itself goes, shouldn’t you object to anything other than sitting passively while music blares, stirring ourselves only for goals? That’s how we do it in North America. The Euro traditions and such will be brought to the game and, in time, adapted by the Canadian fans who are present. I can’t see how it’s a bad thing or how it would make guys reject playing here. I’ve been to the last three TFC games and I enjoy the atmosphere. Who gives a shit whether it’s Toronto FC or Toronto SC?

Comment on It’s Losing to a Minnow from Central America Night Again! by Lord Bob

Lord Bob — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:23:14 +0000

For a good argument on whether non-southern Ontario douches like myself ought to support Toronto continentally, see a lovely Voyageurs thread from last year at http://www.cansoc.org/showthread.php?37893-Reed-says-Canadians-should-support-TFC (it relates to a CBC article by Nigel Reed, but the ensuing discussion is interesting).

The club is indeed C.D. Motagua, not C.F. The Maple Leaf Forever regrets the error.

Compared to Toronto, though, they ought to be at least as beatable as Puerto Rico was. The Maple Leaf Forever regrets nothing on that front.