Travel for January 30 Canada match

[Pottsy3]

1 hour ago, gator said:

There is lots of parking on side streets, people's lawns (for a fee) and The Touchdown Pub for free!

can confirm, have never paid parking for a Forge match. Avondale St has always done me well.

[zeelaw]

3 minutes ago, Pottsy3 said:

can confirm, have never paid parking for a Forge match. Avondale St has always done me well.

Barton St. had free parking last Sunday for the Forge v. York playoff game. Good luck finding parking for CMNT there though.

[gator]

2 minutes ago, zeelaw said:

Barton St. had free parking last Sunday for the Forge v. York playoff game. Good luck finding parking for CMNT there though.

You should have come by and said hello, you know we are always at the top of 112!

[Joe MacCarthy]

36 minutes ago, Joe MacCarthy said:

THF Stadium Info/Directions/Parking

Maybe this is slightly better for parking.  Click on the graphic or here

[Shway]

42 minutes ago, grigorio said:

now where all the burly mean angry steel workin mofos at to round out the V's section cause I've seen Forge fans and they ain't it 👀

LMAO dissing.  I went to the Forge v Edmonton game so I saw the passionate vocal group of people. 
Funny thing is they were chanting "nobody wants to live in Edmonton", to the response of some Edmontonians...."And nobody wants to live in Hamilton!" 

The banter was more entertaining than the game. 
 

Edited November 24, 2021 by Shway

[EJsens1]

Crushing to Herdman?  I don’t really understand his point here.  Further north is a bit of stretch here too.  

[CanadaFan123]

2 minutes ago, EJsens1 said:

Crushing to Herdman?  I don’t really understand his point here.  Further north is a bit of stretch here too.  

My only guess is he's assuming that we're hoping to have some sort of advantage from the cold. Odd take.

It's January in Canada - there was only one feasible option where it wouldn't be freezing.

[Ruffian]

4 minutes ago, CanadaFan123 said:

My only guess is he's assuming that we're hoping to have some sort of advantage from the cold. Odd take.

It's January in Canada - there was only one feasible option where it wouldn't be freezing.

I think it is a joke.

[Shway]

So the USMNT will play 3 consecutive games in possible freezing temperatures, all in different locations....
This can't be good for their players. I suspect injuries.

[JamboAl]

In a way, I'm glad we only have one home game in January.  

[Yoginess]

12 minutes ago, Shway said:

So the USMNT will play 3 consecutive games in possible freezing temperatures, all in different locations....
This can't be good for their players. I suspect injuries.

I think this is going to be a huge edge for them. Even possibly against us. 

EDIT: Now that the US has committed out east because we dropped the Hamilton rumours...  time to pull the ol' switcharoo and bring it out West so they have to fly across country.

Edited November 24, 2021 by Yoginess
Hopefullness

[theaub]

2 minutes ago, Yoginess said:

I think this is going to be a huge edge for them. Even possibly against us. 

EDIT: Now that the US has committed out east because we dropped the Hamilton rumours...  time to pull the ol' switcharoo and bring it out West so they have to fly across country.

How is playing three games in awful weather an advantage?

And I guess while I'm at it why would be destroy our travel schedule to provide a minor inconvience to a team below us in the table?

Edited November 24, 2021 by theaub

[Yoginess]

1 minute ago, theaub said:

How is playing three games in awful weather an advantage?

And I guess while I'm at it why would be destroy our travel schedule to provide a minor inconvience to a team below us in the table?

Acclimatizing to the weather. I think this was a huge edge advantage for us against Mexico (granted I think most of that was getting used to the pitch). 

It adds a couple hours to our flight time but it would actually be a significant travel difference for the US (not saying we should do it, them the facts)

Anyone who believes we shouldn't be wary of Mexico or the US because they are "below us in the table" need to stop drinking the cool aid. Both of those squads are extremely strong soccer nations and while we might have more points and got some really great recent results, we need to earn our spot at the big boy table first. 

[Free kick]

1 hour ago, theaub said:

The US is playing near Hamilton for the same reason we're playing in Hamilton...reduce travel.  If they could teleport to Florida or Texas they would play there 100%.

I think there will be a sizeable American contingent in Hamilton.

The Americans will do everything the can to avoid playing in cities with large large Latin American populations.  That's why the never play in Texas and Florida or LA.   

[theaub]

3 minutes ago, Yoginess said:

Acclimatizing to the weather. I think this was a huge edge advantage for us against Mexico (granted I think most of that was getting used to the pitch). 

It adds a couple hours to our flight time but it would actually be a significant travel difference for the US (not saying we should do it, them the facts)

Anyone who believes we shouldn't be wary of Mexico or the US because they are "below us in the table" need to stop drinking the cool aid. Both of those squads are extremely strong soccer nations and while we might have more points and got some really great recent results, we need to earn our spot at the big boy table first. 

Who said we shouldn't be wary of them?  That doesn't mean that we torpedo our meticulosuly strategized travel plans to inconvience them. 

[Yoginess]

1 minute ago, theaub said:

Who said we shouldn't be wary of them?  That doesn't mean that we torpedo our meticulosuly strategized travel plans to inconvience them. 

Not sure why it's torpedoing for us and an inconvenience (or incovience as you put it) for them. It's okay, we don't have to agree.  

[ShralpShralpShral]

7 minutes ago, Yoginess said:

Anyone who believes we shouldn't be wary of Mexico or the US because they are "below us in the table" need to stop drinking the cool aid. Both of those squads are extremely strong soccer nations and while we might have more points and got some really great recent results, we need to earn our spot at the big boy table first. 

I'm not wary of Mexico because we played our games against them already.  We got four points they got one.

[CanadaFan123]

Given the capacity and current status of the team I'd expect these Hamilton prices to be at least triple of what we paid in Edmonton. 

[RS]

5 minutes ago, ShralpShralpShral said:

I'm not wary of Mexico because we played our games against them already.  We got four points they got one.

Yeah I'm not sure why Canada needs to be wary of a team it no longer has to face.

[Approve My Account Pls]

53 minutes ago, EJsens1 said:

Crushing to Herdman?  I don’t really understand his point here.  Further north is a bit of stretch here too.  

Man we are in the Americans heads rent free. Every time I open twitter its another American "Soccer Expert" complaining about Canadians or Canadian fans. Fantastic stuff

[Ruud]

1 hour ago, Obinna said:

BMO vs THF....6 in one, half-dozen in the other :)

Either way, we're going to get travelling fans from the states.  

 

Not many in these temps.  Hardcore sams army types maybe.  Vancouver would have been a major US influx from Seattle 

[Markoaleks]

Prediction 

V’s seats 30

lower bowl 50

upper bowl 40 

club seats 60

 

[JamboAl]

10 minutes ago, Markoaleks said:

Prediction 

V’s seats 30

lower bowl 50

upper bowl 40 

club seats 60

 

My prediction is about 20% higher or more than what you've written down.

[N1ckbr0wn]

Thinking about flying out east for the game… does it logistically make sense to stay in Toronto and commute into Hamilton for the game? Thinking of coming for the weekend.

[Markoaleks]

4 minutes ago, JamboAl said:

My prediction is about 20% higher or more than what you've written down.

Would still be a bargain at 20% more than my swag and good for the gate revenue for the team as well