Sea-to-Sea Podcast: The Above & Beyond Brigade

Even if the level is lower, scoring a hat trick and regularly having multiple goal games is still a pretty clear signal that he is ready for the next level.  

Game is at 7pm AT (6pm ET, 3pm PT) on One Soccer. This is CS Saint-Laurent's first time in the tournament. The winner of this match will face TFC in the quarter finals.

Game is at 7pm PT (10 pm ET) on One Soccer. TSS Rovers have replaced Victoria Highlanders due to the Highlanders pulling out of L1BC. The 2 clubs met in last year's tournament in the quarter finals, Pacific won 2-0. The winner of this game will face Ateltico Ottawa or Valour in the quarter finals.

Game is at 7pm ET (4pm PT) on One Soccer (alternate feed). Forge defeated York 3-0 in the league on April 21 at York Lions Stadium. The winner of this match will face CF Montreal in the quarter finals.

Game is at 7pm ET (6pm CT, 4pm PT) on One Soccer (main feed). Valour have 6 wins, 3 draws and 4 losses all time against Ottawa. The winner of this match will play Pacific or TSS Rovers in the quarter finals.  

Is there an actual example of someone trying to do this? Or are you editorializing as usual?

They never really wanted to be in Greater Victoria and only went there at the very last minute after Langford's former mayor Stew Young offered to build them a stadium (which has subsequently stalled only half built after a change of mayor and local council). SixFive Sports's team was accepted into CSA membership under the name "Port City" and my understanding is that they had hoped to be able to play in Surrey initially next to the Skytrain at the site currently used as the BC Lions' training facility with a large stadium subsequently being built for them by the City of Surrey. Worth bearing in mind also that the CFL were expected to have a tenth franchise in Halifax playing in a 20,000 seat stadium by now when the Wanderers were added and CanPL have not accepted temporary bleachers in a public park as the stadium solution in any other market despite the fact that doing things that way in Halifax provided them with their biggest success story. The CSB investors also only allowed York 9/United to use York Lions stadium because there was a plan in place for a 12,000 seat soccer specific stadium to be built by Greenpark Homes in York Region that the Baldassarra family understandably later got cold feet about when York 9 drew much smaller crowds than anticipated in 2019. A group in Kitchener/Waterloo wanted in at launch but were not allowed to use Wilfred Laurier's U-sports stadium for CanPL because it wasn't viewed as being suitable because it lacked 8000 seats in an expandable format. I think they were completely delusional if they seriously expected that MLSE, Greg Kerfoot and the Saputos were going to be strong armed into a Canadian domestic league format but many of the other things they have done also appear highly delusional to me and it's the only way I can see that several of their other actions and collectively dropping $125 million on this whole escapade would actually make some sort of sense. The massively escalated franchise values that the three MLS franchises have enjoyed over the last 15 years or so no doubt made a lot of people elsewhere in Canada's sports entertainment industry very jealous and wanting a piece of that action. 

Not sure if been mentioned in this thread but Marsch on the verge of being named new Korea manager

Not sure. But the current one isn't 

In other possible Ike Ubgo news, his contract is still with Troyes, and after relegating last season, they are in relegation out of 2nd tier with a few games left. So that would suggest they'd loan him again, they can't pay for him in 2nd or third tier France. I imagine that if Wednesday are saved they'll ask for him back. The case of Troyes, a City Group team, proves it is not just automatic you'll do well because you have that money behind you. Girona looks like they'll be in Champions League in a tiny stadium, another City Group team, and with Troyes players like Savinho, and Troyes has been a mess.