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    Rocket Robin got a reaction from toontownman in York 9 2019 launch/offseason thread   
    I'll should be able to post something tomorrow about tonight's pub night in Unionville.  Almost 35 minutes of sound files with head coach Brennan, assistant coach Isacco, president Ganzhorn, and players Morey Doner, Steven Furlano, and Manny Aparicio.  All unrushed and Kurt Larson free!  Then I have a 5 minute interview with Furlano.  
    News is tomorrow they will announce who the AS Blainville player is.  Also Brennan said there are three imports signed now.  From Sweden and Japan we already know but a Colombian he didn't name.    
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    Rocket Robin got a reaction from hamiltonfan in CanPL Opening Game - Group Tickets and Post Game Party   
    I forgot to cross post from the York 9 forum but the number of fans expected to take advantage of the bus ride & ticket offer to Hamilton has swelled from 1000 two weeks ago to 1200 to 1500. 
    Also added at last night's pub night by their marketing man Ben Z is an offer for non-SSH fans for return bus ride plus ticket all for $50.00.               SSH get it all for FREE.   
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    Rocket Robin got a reaction from MtlMario in York 9 2019 launch/offseason thread   
    Details of the February 13th York 9 FC pub night in Richmond Hill.  
    I've got over 30 minutes of sound files.   
    MC Kurt Larson onstage talks to head coach Jim Brennan, players Joseph Di Chiara and Daniel Gogarty, and team president Preben Ganzhorn.  I then have a short interview with Gogarty.  
    http://www.rocketrobinsoccerintoronto.com/reports19/19york058.htm
     
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    Rocket Robin got a reaction from MtlMario in CanPL Opening Game - Group Tickets and Post Game Party   
    I forgot to cross post from the York 9 forum but the number of fans expected to take advantage of the bus ride & ticket offer to Hamilton has swelled from 1000 two weeks ago to 1200 to 1500. 
    Also added at last night's pub night by their marketing man Ben Z is an offer for non-SSH fans for return bus ride plus ticket all for $50.00.               SSH get it all for FREE.   
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    Rocket Robin got a reaction from CDNFootballer in York 9 2019 launch/offseason thread   
    Details of the February 13th York 9 FC pub night in Richmond Hill.  
    I've got over 30 minutes of sound files.   
    MC Kurt Larson onstage talks to head coach Jim Brennan, players Joseph Di Chiara and Daniel Gogarty, and team president Preben Ganzhorn.  I then have a short interview with Gogarty.  
    http://www.rocketrobinsoccerintoronto.com/reports19/19york058.htm
     
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    Rocket Robin got a reaction from maccaliam in CanPL Opening Game - Group Tickets and Post Game Party   
    I forgot to cross post from the York 9 forum but the number of fans expected to take advantage of the bus ride & ticket offer to Hamilton has swelled from 1000 two weeks ago to 1200 to 1500. 
    Also added at last night's pub night by their marketing man Ben Z is an offer for non-SSH fans for return bus ride plus ticket all for $50.00.               SSH get it all for FREE.   
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    Rocket Robin got a reaction from deschamp86 in York 9 2019 launch/offseason thread   
    Details of the February 13th York 9 FC pub night in Richmond Hill.  
    I've got over 30 minutes of sound files.   
    MC Kurt Larson onstage talks to head coach Jim Brennan, players Joseph Di Chiara and Daniel Gogarty, and team president Preben Ganzhorn.  I then have a short interview with Gogarty.  
    http://www.rocketrobinsoccerintoronto.com/reports19/19york058.htm
     
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    Rocket Robin got a reaction from socceronly in CanPL Opening Game - Group Tickets and Post Game Party   
    I forgot to cross post from the York 9 forum but the number of fans expected to take advantage of the bus ride & ticket offer to Hamilton has swelled from 1000 two weeks ago to 1200 to 1500. 
    Also added at last night's pub night by their marketing man Ben Z is an offer for non-SSH fans for return bus ride plus ticket all for $50.00.               SSH get it all for FREE.   
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    Rocket Robin reacted to Keegan in York 9 2019 launch/offseason thread   
    He was officially announced as a signing by his national team coach on Twitter, that’s probably why. 
    York up to 16 players but only 2 internationals.. the team looks solid they’ll be able to put out a USL level squad as of today but I’m hoping they add a few more players that are at the next level.  Thinking Edgar, Gasparotto, Pasher, Cebara as examples.
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    Rocket Robin reacted to Gian-Luca in CPL General   
    From a meritocracy point of view in terms of how well teams have done in the competition, yes I agree. Since the start of the "Champions League" era, only Mexican teams have won the competition but more Canadian teams have made the finals that American teams (despite their being 4 times as many US teams in the competition each year) have. Even reaching the semi-final stage, US teams have done it five times while Canadian teams have done it four times despite being outnumbered 4 to 1 by our neighbours to the south.
    But then Concacaf teams doing better than African and Asian teams at the past few World Cup hasn't really helped us get more World Cup spots, so merit doesn't always have the effect it should. I can understand the argument that having 2 spots with only 4 professional teams (with all due respect to League 1 & AS Blainville) would be seen as somewhat egregious in another perspective.
    But once we get to 11 teams (and hopefully counting), that argument flies out the window IMO and some sort of berth (even if its via a play-off) to get into the Concacaf League shouldn't be hard for the CSA to lobby for. In the town hall I attended last year the CSA guys seemed pretty confident about their chances of a 2nd spot of some kind once the CPL was up and running (that was before the league was officially launched with an actual start date and there were only 2 clubs). So I think after the league starts to play some actual games, we might get word of a 2nd spot via that Concacaf league. Right now the spots in that league are:
    2 clubs from Costa Rica
    2 clubs from El Salvador
    2 clubs from Guatemala
    2 clubs from Honduras
    2 clubs from Nicaragua
    2 clubs from Panama
    1 club from Belize
    2 clubs from the Caribbean Club Championship (runner-up, third place)
    1 club from Caribbean Club Championship Tier 1/2 playoff
    Canada have the same number of spots in Concacaf club play as Belize and fewer than Nicaragua is going to look egregiously unjust once the CPL starts playing games, IMO (unless the league pulls a CPSL and folds in the middle of the first season, but while I may not share the "We're going to be bigger than MLS" cockiness coming out of some quarters, I also don't think the league will fail like the CPSL did. Hopefully it will also last longer (and by that I mean last indefinitely) than the CSL did.
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    Rocket Robin got a reaction from gator in CPL TV Contract   
    I felt they took some shots at the CPL despite really wanting it to succeed...'we're not naysayers'. 
    SC said he wished they played their inaugural game away from the GTA like in Halifax in their stadium in front of '3 or 4 thousand fans'.   He earlier said about Hamilton they won't get anywhere near 24K and will need camera angles that don't make it look empty.  (implying the emptiness would be at that opening game).  
    SC said he was shocked that (CPL) wouldn't have their own spot like Thursday night or Sunday.  (Thursday night?  Now on that night even I'd say it would look like an empty stadium.  I drove to an L1O playoff game in Oakville (only 2/3s of the way to Hamilton) and it took me two hours to make an early weeknight game from a northern suburb in Toronto fighting rush hour traffic.  
    All this mentioned between 29 to 35 minute mark of their 90+ minute podcast.  They did call for our feedback 'especially from fans not from our listening area'.     
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    Rocket Robin got a reaction from matty in York 9 2019 launch/offseason thread   
    From what I heard at the York 9 pub night, we SSH will get round trip bus transportation from the new team sponsor 'The TOK Group', a ticket to the game, and "our own section".*
    *I suspect away from other groups so it wouldn't surprise me if they even open one section in the upper deck even if it is for only that one game all season.  
      
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    Rocket Robin got a reaction from nfitz in CPL TV Contract   
    Also, what do fans in London England do? They have Tottenham, Chelsea, Arsenal, Watford, West Ham, Crystal Palace, and Fulham all playing within hours and they can't all be out of town on the same weekend right? Maybe like them it's time to make a choice!

    If the CPL really has a rumoured deal with TSN then CPL game at 1pm leading into 3pm TFC game then maybe Vancouver will turn into an overlong day of TV for most fans without moving off their couch.
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    Rocket Robin got a reaction from Gopherbashi in York 9 2019 launch/offseason thread   
    CPL Second weekend would be May 3-5th.  
    TFC plays in Orlando Saturday the 4th at 4:00pm.  
    I expect York 9 will get their first home game that weekend. 
    From Thursday pub night with the team I heard their preference is Saturday afternoons but I wonder if they will play a different day or a night game to ensure TV coverage (if any) and the TFC fans watching TSN at home or bars.    
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    Rocket Robin reacted to rob.notenboom in York 9 2019 launch/offseason thread   
    Or much more likely, they don’t anticipate every one of their season ticket holders to make the trip. 
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    Rocket Robin got a reaction from CDNFootballer in CPL TV Contract   
    their timetable is next week the home games of each team will be announced. 
    Then (how soon is then?...sorry Smiths fans ) the full schedule will be announced.     The words of Kurt Larson at last night's York 9 pub night.  
     
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    Rocket Robin got a reaction from Ruffian in CPL TV Contract   
    Also, what do fans in London England do? They have Tottenham, Chelsea, Arsenal, Watford, West Ham, Crystal Palace, and Fulham all playing within hours and they can't all be out of town on the same weekend right? Maybe like them it's time to make a choice!

    If the CPL really has a rumoured deal with TSN then CPL game at 1pm leading into 3pm TFC game then maybe Vancouver will turn into an overlong day of TV for most fans without moving off their couch.
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    Rocket Robin got a reaction from Gopherbashi in CPL TV Contract   
    At the pub night for York 9 last night, one of the team staff said there would be times that would be games the same day as TFC (although they would try to avoid them) and they would try to have them hours apart.  Once he mentioned the new Pioneer Village subway stop which is only the length of the football stadium from Alumni Field, that means that it's one subway line ride downtown and then a streetcar-right-of-way right to BMO Field so two hours between an end of game and start of another!   
    Also remember that TTC allows free parking in their subway lots on weekends.  I used that to benefit last year to pull off a TFC III at Downsview (then parked at Wilson station) and rode to BMO Field to watch a TFC/TFC II doubleheader last summer.   
    The York staffer last night said they are aiming for a preference of Saturday afternoon games.  
     
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    Rocket Robin got a reaction from red card in CPL TV Contract   
    Also, what do fans in London England do? They have Tottenham, Chelsea, Arsenal, Watford, West Ham, Crystal Palace, and Fulham all playing within hours and they can't all be out of town on the same weekend right? Maybe like them it's time to make a choice!

    If the CPL really has a rumoured deal with TSN then CPL game at 1pm leading into 3pm TFC game then maybe Vancouver will turn into an overlong day of TV for most fans without moving off their couch.
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    Rocket Robin got a reaction from ray in CPL TV Contract   
    their timetable is next week the home games of each team will be announced. 
    Then (how soon is then?...sorry Smiths fans ) the full schedule will be announced.     The words of Kurt Larson at last night's York 9 pub night.  
     
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    Rocket Robin got a reaction from m-g-williams in CPL TV Contract   
    their timetable is next week the home games of each team will be announced. 
    Then (how soon is then?...sorry Smiths fans ) the full schedule will be announced.     The words of Kurt Larson at last night's York 9 pub night.  
     
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    Rocket Robin got a reaction from MtlMario in York 9 2019 launch/offseason thread   
    So here's my summary of the York 9 Meet & Greet held at Shoeless Joe's in Woodbridge.
    I've got the sound files of the whole presentation..
    http://www.rocketrobinsoccerintoronto.com/reports19/19york050.htm
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    Rocket Robin got a reaction from maccaliam in York 9 2019 launch/offseason thread   
    Yeah The TOK Group was announced as a sponsor of the team. They are a transportation company and will provide coaches (ie buses) to get us to the game. In theory we will be in the stadium by 11:30am. The (20+) buses will be scattered around the York 9 area for pick ups. I put together this info at the put night at Shoeless Joe's in Woodbridge.
    (the pub night on Monday was cancelled because of the weather so this was the first).
    I don't know what next week's surprise will be if every pub event will be breaking news.
    Ooh 6 second mark of that video I've got my hand up wearing a plaid shirt!   
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    Rocket Robin got a reaction from m-g-williams in York 9 2019 launch/offseason thread   
    Yeah The TOK Group was announced as a sponsor of the team. They are a transportation company and will provide coaches (ie buses) to get us to the game. In theory we will be in the stadium by 11:30am. The (20+) buses will be scattered around the York 9 area for pick ups. I put together this info at the put night at Shoeless Joe's in Woodbridge.
    (the pub night on Monday was cancelled because of the weather so this was the first).
    I don't know what next week's surprise will be if every pub event will be breaking news.
    Ooh 6 second mark of that video I've got my hand up wearing a plaid shirt!   
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    Rocket Robin got a reaction from Shortdutchcanuck in York 9 2019 launch/offseason thread   
    Yeah The TOK Group was announced as a sponsor of the team. They are a transportation company and will provide coaches (ie buses) to get us to the game. In theory we will be in the stadium by 11:30am. The (20+) buses will be scattered around the York 9 area for pick ups. I put together this info at the put night at Shoeless Joe's in Woodbridge.
    (the pub night on Monday was cancelled because of the weather so this was the first).
    I don't know what next week's surprise will be if every pub event will be breaking news.
    Ooh 6 second mark of that video I've got my hand up wearing a plaid shirt!   
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