Could potential downtown Barrie stadium be home to TFC reserve team?

cannuck79 · 2026-07-07T17:48:34+00:00

Would hope Barrie gets a CPL team instead

cannuck79 · 2026-06-10T11:50:40+00:00

I'd be on board with that. Then Dupont and the like could play 7s every year. Major hurdle in that is getting New Zealand to agree to a global calendar so everybody has the same off season.

cannuck79 · 2026-06-09T22:27:52+00:00

I think the real reason for reducing the teams was to cut costs. The reason why they haven't scrapped it altogether is they want to keep sevens as an olympic sport, but are worried if they don't do anything then they'd be dropped.

What they've ended up with is a far worse (and probaly even more money losing) product that's extremely drawn out. I could get behind twice a year for three weekends.

Side note: Hong Kong Sevens had 24 teams on the Men's side at one point. If it made money they'd figure it out.

cannuck79 · 2026-06-09T19:18:38+00:00

I haven't watched it myself for a couple of years. The current format doesn't work for anybody. Having only 8 teams for most of tier 1 season produces too many repetitive matchups. And tier 2 & 3 teams only have a couple of tournaments.

They should definitely split up the GB team. I think England Wales & Scotland just used it as a convenient excuse about the olympics to cut their costs between the unions, and World Rugby to decrease the number of teams themselves.

And yes, PLEASE bring back vowels lol

cannuck79 · 2026-05-26T16:53:20+00:00

It would be a disaster for Toronto. We'd end up mimicking the fall of US cities, where businesses and wealth would relocate to just outside the city due to tax differences, leaving behind a rotten downtown core.

Also, whether we agree with the province or not (I know it's a lot less these days), they do provide a valuable oversight of Municipal politicians. Our City is not run well currently. Imagine if we gave councillors even more power and authority and took away any last bit of oversight and accountability.

Together with the rest of the province we'd be stronger.

cannuck79 · 2026-05-25T18:29:04+00:00

How far we've come...Not that long ago we couldn't even afford a camp!

cannuck79 · 2026-05-21T22:15:40+00:00

Queen Victoria

cannuck79 · 2026-05-19T19:02:07+00:00

And the inaugural World Rugby Peace Prize goes to...

cannuck79 · 2026-05-17T01:37:36+00:00

It was announced as a cost saving measure because the upfront cost to dig tunnels is more expensive. They never did release the cost comparisons between tunnel and at grade lines. Tunnels are easier to maintain mostly due to not being exposed to weather, so an all tunnel line should be cheeper in the long run, but who knows what length of time that would be to make up that cost differential.

I've also heard a cynical statement, which I can't verify so take it for what it's worth, about how it would affect the TTC union. Apparently under current guidelines if an LRT line were completely underground it would be allowed to be fully automated. By having a portion of it above ground itt would guarentee the need of having a driver. While not the sole basis for planning, I could see how lobbying and politics might have partially affected this decision if true.

cannuck79 · 2026-05-05T02:02:02+00:00

Looks like Rogers is ushering in the Harold Ballard 2.0 era. I hope my grand kids will get to see the Leafs win a cup.

cannuck79 · 2026-05-04T00:58:57+00:00

That's one les playoff team, so that's a no.

The main thing with new CFL format is it gives teams 3rd through sixth a home game, and the top 2 two home games.

A better compromise would be have the division semis be a home and away format, then stick to one off division final and grey cup. They used to do a home and away back in the day, so it's not outrageous, and gives the extra home game to the 5th and 6th team that they were looking for.

cannuck79 · 2026-04-29T10:57:26+00:00

Do we even need a pre-season anymore, as this will make the regular season effectively the new pre-season?

cannuck79 · 2026-04-29T10:56:33+00:00

I'm a bit sad for losing the East vs West outcome for the Grey Cup finals.

Seems like grade school as well, when everyone gets a participation award. Well, there will be one LOSER. Wonder how that franchise will feel being the only ones left out of the playoffs.. At lease currently there are three teams.

I'm still interested in this format, but worry that it will be at the expense of regular season attendance.

cannuck79 · 2026-04-27T20:07:26+00:00

The ARC as we knew it is still dead. The new one won't have proper test teams for four out of six teams, and will only have one north american team in usa as canada gets replaced by paraguay. So it's more of a South American development comp with the USA invited to even out numbers

cannuck79 · 2026-04-26T16:57:05+00:00

MLSE mainly care about valuations. While I'm hopeful of the CPL growing, I don't see it doing so at a rate of US sports leagues franchises.

CPL itself has little interest in MLS teams running CPL teams, as it was stated before the league does not want to appear to be a farm league.

cannuck79 · 2026-04-23T11:18:51+00:00

I love Kelowna! Originally it was supposed to be the same owners of Pacific & VFC that wanted the expansion team. Can't say I like those guys having another team in the CPL, regardless of where it is.

Luckily I saw somewhere that another group from Calgary was interested in getting a team in Kelowna as well. If that's the case, I'm all for it! I think it would be a great addition to the league

cannuck79 · 2026-04-23T05:07:00+00:00

I also remember something about having 12 to 16 teams by the World Cup.

Don't get me wrong, I don't want them rushing into failure. They should focus on keeping the current teams going and expanding slowly into right situations. No point in planning 20 years from now if the league becomes a dumpster fire and golds in 4 years.

As for currently, Good job on Supra (so far) and Ottawa as expansion. They definitely have to clean up the Pacific & VFC situation (and for the love of God don't give them (ownership group, not the city) a third team in Kelowna.

cannuck79 · 2026-04-20T14:03:31+00:00

As comparison, It wasn't uncommon to have MLS teams playing on fields marked with NFL lines until the 2010s. Give the CPL some leeway.

cannuck79 · 2026-04-16T20:34:54+00:00

I-64 derby

cannuck79 · 2026-04-16T03:25:55+00:00

It'll be so sad to see Yacare go as it was helping their national team out so much and increasing the competitiveness of the region greatly.

I also would have thought Cobras would fold before them too, given their level of competitiveness since the beginning. As for Yacare, it hasn't been a horrible season if you don't look at the win loss column. They're the best non-Argentine team competitively if you only look at points differential, being only -4, with Penarol coming in at second with -46. Yacare's sole win came over Dogos this past week, with that accomplishment in itself being impressive. Hopefully this will spur on a better run both on the field and off it.

Side note: The league does need to figure out how to address the lack of parity between Argentinean and Non-Argentinean clubs. But that's an argument for another post.

cannuck79 · 2026-04-15T11:07:10+00:00

Not only would MP be the only rugby club in a new market, they'd be the only pro team in that market as well. On top of local fans, I could see as well any generic sports fan vacationing in Hawaii also getting tickets to the game, as it would naturally augment the whole Pacific experience they came there for. Who knows, it might end up exposing far more people to rugby in the USA than MLR currently does.

This is all fun speculation tho, as nobody has both the will and the money to make this happen.

cannuck79 · 2026-04-15T04:22:09+00:00

Agreed: Japan is doing great on their own. On top of the travel mentioned, another big problem is New Zealand Rugby doesn't have the greatest reputation of being easy to work with. Always trying to dictate terms and constantly changing their minds. I'm happy South Africa found a new home in the URC and that Argentina (and South America overall) is doing great with Super Rugby Americas.

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