lazlo_80 Posted October 8, 2018 Share Posted October 8, 2018 17 hours ago, Blackdude said: He didn't come out of nowhere. We knew about him. He was the best player of our U17 2 years ago. But where was he before that? Nowhere! (spooky sound effects as everyone makes an exhaspirated gasp at the same time.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ams1984 Posted October 9, 2018 Share Posted October 9, 2018 I’m really optimistic about the CPL; some people may view their rumored budgets as too low, but I think (if true) they’re actually exactly what’s called for. The budgets will be sufficient to establish a ‘professional’ player base of Canadians with a sprinkling of gifted foreigners. The numbers are at the same time low enough to allow the league time to grow without the short term risk of going broke if the league takes a few years to get entrenched. All in all it sounds quite a reasonable balance that’s being struck. Winnipeg Fury and DrummingInMySleep 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackjack15 Posted October 9, 2018 Share Posted October 9, 2018 Bbeto 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackjack15 Posted October 9, 2018 Share Posted October 9, 2018 http://canpl.ca/video/state-of-the-league-clanachan-on-trialists-kit-partnership-with-macron-and-player-signings Have CPL clubs targeted a date to reveal their first player signings? Clanachan: “There’s been great anticipation by our supporters to find out who will be playing in the CPL next year, and I’d love to announce players right now, but the reality is that we’re still developing roster plans with the coaches that will start to become public within the next two weeks. “There’s a myriad of administrative work and confidential contract negotiations that are dictating our timing, but we’ll have some really exciting news in the next two weeks.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toontownman Posted October 9, 2018 Share Posted October 9, 2018 Wasn't expecting any roster announcements until after the tryouts had finished, so within the next two weeks is a bonus. I am actually surprised they wouldn't just wait and do it the week after the Vancouver trials. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BringBackTheBlizzard Posted October 9, 2018 Share Posted October 9, 2018 The 14 kit thing points to a seven team launch but guess we basically knew that already even if they were still talking up the possibility of teams from elsewhere last time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickC Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 Might those roster plans be specifics about number of Canadians on teams and starting lineups, details on the draft or first selection process including dates, etc? Rather than anything about individual player signings. From a timing perspective, this would make sense. BenFisk'sBiggestFan, Kent and Blackjack15 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1996 Posted October 15, 2018 Share Posted October 15, 2018 On 10/6/2018 at 7:52 PM, Macksam said: Not surprised at all and I just rolled my eyes at what Manning said. I can only assume they asked him about the price increase and he just goes on about making sure they don’t have a bad season again. This is a good reminder why I can’t stand that organization at all and haven’t been to a TFC game since 2013. Well you missed probably one of the greatest seasons ever then last season. Being born and raised in Toronto and following pro soccer with all the different pro soccer teams that Toronto has had since the early 1970’s , the 2017 season was one of the most satisfying for me after so many years of following pro soccer in Toronto , the only one that came close was watching the Toronto Metros Croatia win the Championship of the old NASL in 1976, but that final was in Seattle and I watched in on TV. However, being in at BMO last December and watching TFC gain revenge after losing to Seattle on penalties the previous year and winning it was quite an experience in front of a packed crowd at BMO. It made all my years supporting pro soccer in Toronto worth it, supporting the Metros, Metros Croatia, the Blizzard, the Rockets and the Lynx. Supporting a lot of these teams in stadiums with usually a few thousand people in attendance with hardly any media coverage of any kind, moreover having to deal with all the soccer haters everywhere. It’s a business and in the end MLSE is in it to make money and prices will rise, but as long as I can afford it I will buy my season tickets like I have since day one in 2007 and support a Toronto pro soccer team like I have since the early 1970’s because first and foremost I’m a soccer fan so why wouldn’t I go it’s the highest level league for now and probably in the foreseeable future and my city has a team in that league so I’m there , I hate it when they are crap like this season but last season let me tell you that was beautiful! zen and Gian-Luca 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheeta Posted October 15, 2018 Share Posted October 15, 2018 ^ ? Oh you sorry bastard. A taste of sugar after eating dirt for decades and there's no going back is that it? Fu'king football. Gets a hold of you and that is that. gator, Bbeto and Alex D 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ansem Posted October 16, 2018 Share Posted October 16, 2018 Blackjack15 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BringBackTheBlizzard Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 https://nationalpost.com/pmn/sports-pmn/canadian-premier-league-to-partner-with-u-sports-on-sharing-talent The Canadian Premier League is joining forces with U Sports to help funnel young talent to the fledgling men’s pro soccer league. Student-athletes will be able to play with a CPL club, while preserving their eligibility, in the spring and summer before returning to U Sports competition. The student will be paid for his efforts after signing a CPL-U Sports developmental contract... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ansem Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 (edited) Edited October 17, 2018 by Ansem Chad_Impact, Bbeto and Rintaran 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ray Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 30 minutes ago, BringBackTheBlizzard said: https://nationalpost.com/pmn/sports-pmn/canadian-premier-league-to-partner-with-u-sports-on-sharing-talent The Canadian Premier League is joining forces with U Sports to help funnel young talent to the fledgling men’s pro soccer league. Student-athletes will be able to play with a CPL club, while preserving their eligibility, in the spring and summer before returning to U Sports competition. The student will be paid for his efforts after signing a CPL-U Sports developmental contract... A sane approach to student athletes. Long overdue. Blackjack15, youllneverwalkalone, Greatest Cockney Rip Off and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shamrock Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 That is a major plus over US colleges and provides great oportunities for student athletes. Getting pro-experience and be able to et educated. Like ray said: long overdue. ray and BenFisk'sBiggestFan 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpursFlu Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 (edited) Unfortunately the best College soccer team at the moment is probably SFU. This will really hurt their recruitment in the future. Im also curious to know how this will affect PDL teams. CPL reserve squads? Edited October 17, 2018 by SpursFlu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yellowsweatygorilla Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 12 minutes ago, SpursFlu said: Unfortunately the best College soccer team at the moment is probably SFU. This will really hurt their recruitment in the future. Im also curious to know how this will affect PDL teams. CPL reserve squads? I always curious about this, any clue why SFU plays in NCAA instead of USports? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1996 Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 (edited) I hope that a university player will only be able to play with his university team once the CPL season is over, also hopefully he is able to stay with the CPL team until the CPL season is over and not leave his CPL team to join his university before the CPL season is over, that would not be a good look on the CPL if these university players are leaving their CPL teams before the CPL season is finished or if they are allowed to play both meaning play for their CPL team and also play for their university team at the same time , I don’t want to be seeing a university player for example play for his university team on Friday and then see him play on his CPL team on Saturday for example , that would look very bush league, let the CPL season finish first then allow the university players to join their university teams once the CPL season is over. Moreover, don’t kid yourself people hopefully the CPL also looks at the Canadian community colleges aswell , the Canadian community colleges are just as good and at times better than a lot of these university teams . Edited October 17, 2018 by 1996 Red and White and ktf 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpursFlu Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 4 minutes ago, yellowsweatygorilla said: I always curious about this, any clue why SFU plays in NCAA instead of USports? Because they think its better basically. Theyre on a 10 yr contract. It was terrible at first but has started to payoff it seems. They are div2 but all div2 teams can pick 1 men and womens program and enter div1. There has been some buzz around here that they might go Div1 hockey for both. I would prefer basketball. Theyre soccer team is ranked#1 in that country and crushing everyone this year. Theyve been to the final 4 a few times lately and usually consists of mostly former Whitecaps residency players Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deschamp86 Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 8 minutes ago, 1996 said: I hope that a university player will only be able to play with his university team once the CPL season is over, also hopefully he is able to stay with the CPL team until the CPL season is over and not leave his CPL team to join his university before the CPL season is over It says right in the article: Student-athletes who join a CPL club will be released to return to their U Sports team on Aug. 15. Once their U Sports team has wrapped up their season, the student-athlete may re-join the CPL side. LAK 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BringBackTheBlizzard Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 1 minute ago, 1996 said: I hope that a university player will only be able to play with his university team once the CPL season is over, ... That's the strange part of this because there is going to be a lot of overlap in the seasons which would make that close to impossible given the U-sports games run from late August to early November. Looks like a way to have some cheap roster content in a PDL sort of way basically and it might help to persuade universities to do more to accommodate soccer in their main stadium alongside Canadian football, if there was some level of roster overlap between the CanPL team and the U-Sports team. K/W and Quebec City are obvious target markets from that sort of standpoint. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yellowsweatygorilla Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 11 minutes ago, 1996 said: I hope that a university player will only be able to play with his university team once the CPL season is over, also hopefully he is able to stay with the CPL team until the CPL season is over and not leave his CPL team to join his university before the CPL season is over, that would not be a good look on the CPL if these university players are leaving their CPL teams before the CPL season is finished or if they are allowed to play both meaning play for their CPL team and also play for their university team at the same time , I don’t want to be seeing a university player for example play for his university team on Friday and then see him play on his CPL team on Saturday for example , that would look very bush league, let the CPL season finish first then allow the university players to join their university teams once the CPL season is over. Moreover, don’t kid yourself people hopefully the CPL also looks at the Canadian community colleges aswell , the Canadian community colleges are just as good and at times better than a lot of these university teams . The press release already states that players will lose their eligibility if they don't return for the USports season Aug 15 .. and that season ends rigth at the end of October (around the same time as CPL season end). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matty Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 34 minutes ago, deschamp86 said: It says right in the article: Student-athletes who join a CPL club will be released to return to their U Sports team on Aug. 15. Once their U Sports team has wrapped up their season, the student-athlete may re-join the CPL side. this actually has me curious about the pay of these players. it kind of has the look of a summer job so am curious if they'll be paid at a similar rate of other players or if there will be some kind of special deal regarding them and pay. no matter what big thumbs up. finally making serious use of one of our biggest player pools. Bbeto 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenFisk'sBiggestFan Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 Really good to see. What bugs me most about the NCAA is their eligibility; It is so easy to lose eligibility. I this this will really improve U-sports drawing power compared to NCAA. One of the big problems with the MLS B teams was the players having to give up NCAA eligibility to play. Now they can do both school and pro without that worry. It means more talented players will stick with their pro soccer dreams at age 18. At the same time, it is a win for CPL as they will get talented young players, likely for cheap. And they get to start relationships with the players to try and get them to sign full time if they are worth it. and most of all it is good for the player. Finally the player doesn’t have to chose between school or pro sports. They can do both, and if they are good enough for the CPL, they can go play full time. It doesn’t matter how old they are when they make the decision, could be 18 if they are good enough, also could be 23 after 4 years of U-sport. deschamp86, Red and White and Rintaran 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex D Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 Seems like this is a way to give u sports players a 3 month trial, if they make the cut they can sign and play out the year. If not, go back for another year of maturing. One thing is for sure, the quality of u sports soccer is going to sky rocket. toontownman, Blackjack15, LAK and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackjack15 Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 The top 20-30 players in the entire CIS (U Sports) Are worthy of a chance to play professional since they are the best of their category (College) But let’s not forget about the States, NCAA Division 1 players, how will the CPL go about clubs approaching them? Both are equally important Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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