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Hey, for all of you watching the Euros and Copa on TSN I found this incredible feature on my tv which totally enhances the viewing experience. It’s called a volume control, and if you turn it to ‘mute’ you don’t have to listen to those two moronic know-it-alls Kevin Kilnane and Stephen Caldwell. Totally worth the value of purchasing this feature for your TV.

Im looking for two tickets on March 23 in Frisco. I cant get the ticketing interface to successfully work on the Voyagers website. Anyone else experiencing this problem? Any tips?

Now that Canada is out I’ll return to my roots and cheer with bigoted enthusiasm for the true originator of football - Scotland! ... For those of you who may be somewhat confused by what that means, it means i’m supporting whoever is playing England. Allez les Bleus

Just put forth my application for TST4 Cat 1 - 1 ticket

A precedent case I can recall involved French Guyana playing an ineligible player (Florent Malouda) in the 2017 Gold Cup. Malouda previously had 80 caps with France and had been declared ineligible to play for French Guyana by FIFA. He played in a first round game for FG vs Honduras that ended in a 0-0 draw. The score was later changed to 3-0 in favour of Honduras. according to FIFA’s rules: “If a player takes part in an official match despite being ineligible, his team will be sanctioned by forfeiting the match (cf. ... A team sanctioned with a forfeit is considered to have lost the match by 3-0. 2. If the goal difference at the end of the match is greater than three, the result on the pitch is upheld.”

I wrote this (see above quote) back on page 11 prior to the window starting. 9 POINTS! That’s right - nine points baby! - YOU ARE CANADIAN, culturally descended from the same individuals who kicked ass at VImy Ridge, subdued the Mighty Soviet Union in ‘72, and brought home soccer gold in Japan just last summer. And yet we still have some of you pre-occupied by the possibility of not qualifying and writing long, drawn out essay-length posts on all the permutations of what its going to take to finish ahead of Panama. I feel like we need to lead some of you over to a mirror, take your pants down and prove (hopefully) there is a sac with a set of nuts hanging between your legs.... If you’re coming to Qatar with the rest of us I don’t want to hear any of this “God help us, we drew England or Germany” shit. We’re going into EVERY game with the intent of winning. Every game! THIS IS NOT YOUR DAD’S OR YOUR GRANDPA’S CMNT - ITS YOURS, ALL YOURS. ITS A NEW CANADA, AND ITS WORLD CLASS EXCELLENCE!!! GET USED TO IT!

We have four games left, 50% of which are against teams who are DONE! By comparison Panama have to play us, at USA and at Mexico. I think the appropriate descriptive word here is FINITO! Those Qatarian babes better be smokin hot cuz I'm bringing my thong and a bottle of maple syrup!

Just saying!!!!!! F@#king Eh boys!!! Let's start planning for Qatar right now! I'm soooooo in!

For me it'll be about 50 chicken wings, a few bags of Lays Ketchup chips, a couple of Mackintosh toffees, a box of Timbits, wash it down with 7-8 pints of craft beer and ensure I'm wearing an over-sized bib so I don't get anything on my Alphonzo Davies jersey!

I'm soooo fed up with this type of nervous-Nellie hypothetical bullshit! We have one game in the next 24 hours and we're focusing on winning! Only winning. We're good enough to expect victory every single time we take the field. That's how my mind works with this team - Win baby! Let go of your fears and join me! It really can't be much fun supporting a first place team and hoping for one win in three games, with two of the games being against the last place and second last place teams.

The anticipation is killing me! I'm already down in my man-cave getting my food and beer ready for the big match! Will flip between watching the first half of US/El Savador and Mexico/Jamaica. I've got the Ecuador/Brazil game on right now - damn it's a reminder of the volume and depth of drama that can occur in a soccer game. 19 minutes in and there has been a goal (by Brazil), 2 separate red cards, and now Ecuador is all over Brazil. Soccer really is a beautiful game! Omg - as I typed another Brazilian red card! Whatever happens tonight my heart is with our boys! We'll see this through and come out of it with a WC birth. Everybody enjoy this night - its nights like this we've been waiting for our whole lives!

I almost want to consider cheering for the US or England JUST SO I CAN BE WITH A CONFIDENT FAN BASE! NOT!!!!!!!!!! I'm Canadian through and through and the boys are going to weather this storm and come out on top. Perhaps not the 9 points we are normally capable of but we'll be fine. This moment in time is when last summer's Gold Cup experience serves us best going forward. Does anyone recall who we were missing in a Gold Cup that we played brilliantly at? MISSING: Davies, Borjan, David, Adekugbe, Hutchinson, Kennedy, Millar Ugbo hadn't joined yet, As the tourney progressed we lost Larin In a game against the US that we totally dominated in possession and shots, 14-6 (but lost 1-0). Eustaquio DID NOT DRESS! NEXT MAN UP!!! C'mon boys, get your heads out of the that hidden crevice referred to as your ass-hole - We've come this far and we're not yielding to fear now. The only thing I'm stressed about is this Covid ticket fiasco and the possibility of not landing a pair in Hamilton. Canada will be playing in Qatar! PS - We play the US and Panama still going forward. We're done with Mexico. Panama has to play the US, Mexico and Canada - That's what sucks for them -they have to play us AND Mexico. The US has to play Canada, Panama and Mexico

During the ocho, arguably our most decisive win was the BMO match against El Salvador. Granted the opponent held 59% of the possession, but we countered them beautifully, demonstrated far superior speed of play, and dominated the shots and scoring opportunities. That was the third game of the September window. You'll recall Davies had tweaked a hamstring or groin injury in Nashville vs the US and had already returned to Munich. Arguably our boys collective confidence hadn't even peaked yet in the first window. Furthermore, we didn't use Larin that game. Adekugbe and Kaye didn't start (the game was won before they entered play), and Kennedy was injured. And make use of every resource we have - if Arfield can help then damn it, use him! I understand some self-proclaimed experts on here have said he's a team-chemistry liability. If that's the case there is no one better to make an inclusion decision relating to Arfield than Herdman. And I trust he'll make the right decision. So .... we've met with adversity throughout this window and yet succeeded in our objectives. We've done it before and will do it again! We're a first place nation - let's keep this confidence high!

Most of you still don't realize just how good we really are. F*&k this psychological-inferiority discussion of 'I'd trade a loss in this game if we could get a win in this one' or 'Oh I'm nervous, the central American jungles have been historically unkind to us' .... Look down, make sure you've got a set. Ok, we good, they are still there? Damn right, now let's go out and take 3 from every opponent we ever face. Let our players cherish those moments in games when they see the first glimpses of failure register on our opponent's faces because they can't handle this 21st century version of Canadian soccer. And then put your foot to their throats and crush them. Ok, before I take too much flack I'm also a realist and know we are not going to take three points every single time we take the field. But we finally have a team good enough to take the approach I laid out above (every single time they take the field). As fans we need to start mirroring their expectations and expecting victories. 9 points next window!!!

I don't think ticket prices will be as outrageously high as some would have us believe. Its supply and demand and there will be a plethora of games to choose from (all in fairly close proximity). I recall in France 1998 - if you wanted to go to the France-Italy quarterfinal (which I bought a single ticket for it was an arm and a leg- lol $250 which was a lot back then. But the first round match between Japan and Jamaica you could almost negotiate your own price as it was a buyer's market). As much as we love Canada I don't think they are going to be a team that commands huge prices for tickets among scalpers, though perhaps a game vs England, Germany, Brazil, Qatar would be quite different. Obviously Qatar is a bit of a wild card compared to previous world cups as it is an entirely different country and culture, not used to 1 million plus visitors all at once. But make no mistake there will be hundreds of thousands of European fans entering Qatar who fully expect to do it on the cheap and also to drink copious amounts of alcohol all day every day. So I think for Canadians attempting to find some middle ground there will be pricing options.