ktf Posted June 17, 2019 Share Posted June 17, 2019 One thing I will say about the Summer/Fall season, is that all the other teams will have reasons for optimism. Clearly Cavalry and Forge are a cut above the rest, but the gap is still not awful. The goal differential really shows that it has been tight. I think every team has a lot of what ifs so far, which could change the total view of their season. Thinking for PFC (I am sure fans of other teams can do the same), they really only lost won game handily, vs. Forge. Otherwise, a few more inches here and there, a made play or two, etc. this team could have 3-4 wins instead of one. Just to preemptively respond to the "this is how all sports are," I have played and coached many sports at pretty high levels, and I know that the team that deserves something, doesn't always get it, and everyone can look at missed opportunities. However, if I am a PFC player, coach, or fan (YA!) it is easy to see A LOT of missed opportunity this year. 2-1 loss vs Valour, Haber's double post, and a deflected late winner 0-0 FC Edmonton- Extended time up a man. 2-2 York- own goal and dicey penalty 2-1 HFX- Up early, few missed chances 1-0 York- Missed penalty, own goal, and great goal-tending by Ingham. These five games they earned 2 points, when it could easily be 8-9 and it would not have taken much change in tactics or game play. All the other teams can probably say similar things because of how close it is. Even Cavalry needed a FK that should have been stopped, and a 95 minute winner in games 2 and 3 to win. Unnamed Trialist, Copes and ted 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CDNFootballer Posted June 17, 2019 Share Posted June 17, 2019 On 6/16/2019 at 9:21 AM, narduch said: How about having the Spring Champion host a 1 game Final? It gives them months to prepare and sell tickets in preparation This was the way the NASL did the final, gave the club who won spring lots of lead time like you say to market the big match, sell tickets, bring in extra seating, etc. On a side note, a cool thing NASL did was pay for the head of each clubs supporters group to come to the Championship each year and take part in a supporters summit with the league to get suggestions and advance info on league news, new expansion clubs, and such. ted 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozzie_the_parrot Posted June 18, 2019 Share Posted June 18, 2019 (edited) https://www.bet365.com/#/AC/B1/C1/D13/E42178996/F2/ Edited June 18, 2019 by Ozzie_the_parrot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deschamp86 Posted June 18, 2019 Share Posted June 18, 2019 1 hour ago, Ozzie_the_parrot said: https://www.bet365.com/#/AC/B1/C1/D13/E42178996/F2/ I convinced my buddy to watch the Cavalry/Forge match with me last week. He made three bets on Bet365. Lost all three of them. He is not a fan of the CPL after that lol grande 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ansem Posted June 18, 2019 Share Posted June 18, 2019 The league might another annoying problem if this proves true CPL? WTF??? ted and BuzzAndSting 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Initial B Posted June 18, 2019 Share Posted June 18, 2019 That is... a very odd acronym for a league based in the States. I wonder if Commisso and Silva are trying to rebrand NASL and doing this as a big FU to the Faths. CPL better get their copyright lawyers warmed up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Impactsupporter Posted June 18, 2019 Share Posted June 18, 2019 18 minutes ago, Initial B said: That is... a very odd acronym for a league based in the States. I wonder if Commisso and Silva are trying to rebrand NASL and doing this as a big FU to the Faths. CPL better get their copyright lawyers warmed up. Just what the US needs, another national league when there is already NISA, USL, NPSL, UPSL, US Premiership, ASL. 😠Even more galling, to call it CPL 😫 ted 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gopherbashi Posted June 18, 2019 Share Posted June 18, 2019 (edited) I'm trying to figure out what the C could stand for. My first thought is "Central" but that doesn't make sense if they're based in New Jersey. Club? Championship? Continental? ...Confederate? 😬 Edited June 18, 2019 by Gopherbashi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ams1984 Posted June 18, 2019 Share Posted June 18, 2019 17 minutes ago, Gopherbashi said: I'm trying to figure out what the C could stand for. My first thought is "Central" but that doesn't make sense if they're based in New Jersey. Club? Championship? Continental? ...Confederate? 😬 Cosmic? Colorectal? Ha ha... who knows... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rintaran Posted June 18, 2019 Share Posted June 18, 2019 19 minutes ago, Gopherbashi said: I'm trying to figure out what the C could stand for. My first thought is "Central" but that doesn't make sense if they're based in New Jersey. Club? Championship? Continental? ...Confederate? 😬 Clearly, it's the "Cool Professional League". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
narduch Posted June 18, 2019 Share Posted June 18, 2019 I don't see the issue. That league looks to be a joke. Won't last more than 2 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dyslexic nam Posted June 18, 2019 Share Posted June 18, 2019 Given our collaboration on WC2026, this is the sort of thing that the CSA should take a stand on and lobby their US counterpart to step in. Withholding sanctioning barring a name change would be a fairly reasonable request, all things considered. Stanley, johnyb, CanSuffer and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozzie_the_parrot Posted June 18, 2019 Share Posted June 18, 2019 16 minutes ago, Lofty said: This looks like a very cynical "dirty business" tactic to undermine our CPL... Alternatively people in the United States don't usually pay all that much attention to what happens in Canada so there is probably no dark conspiracy and CPL isn't an acronym that is unique to Canadian soccer in the first place, which is why canpl.ca is used in the league's url. I'll be very surprised if this American "CPL" league ever kicks a ball in anger: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gopherbashi Posted June 18, 2019 Share Posted June 18, 2019 Does (our) CPL even hold a trademark to the acronym in the US? I'm not a copyright lawyer but I can see the case being tough to argue if we don't have any kind of presence or business dealings in the US. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ted Posted June 18, 2019 Share Posted June 18, 2019 This is another good reason to go with CanPL - as we were asked to do from the beginning. It sounds and looks far more distinctive than "CPL". CDNFootballer and Red and White 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unnamed Trialist Posted June 18, 2019 Share Posted June 18, 2019 Put CPL in a search engine. You do not get the Canadian one first, at the top. I say who the fck cares about the name, as mentioned here, they already have too many leagues. But for sure: cannot trust MLS, they are sneaky and not up front, or hardly ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CDNFootballer Posted June 18, 2019 Share Posted June 18, 2019 6 hours ago, Initial B said: That is... a very odd acronym for a league based in the States. I wonder if Commisso and Silva are trying to rebrand NASL and doing this as a big FU to the Faths. CPL better get their copyright lawyers warmed up. Not Da Silva, as his Miami FC has a week or so ago been accepted into NISA, a Pro league already sanctioned by USSF and starting in September this year. Those two have no reason to give an FU to the Faths, who were the longest and strongest supporter of NASL over the years. There was no bad blood between them. Could be the "NPSL Pro/Founders Cup group or some totally new group. The Founders cup teams have had a falling out with NPSL it seems, and they are trying to deal with the loss of the Miami FC and California United FC recently to NISA. In any event, it won't be a league that has Canadian clubs so really of no concern IMHO, CPL will stand for something else and be in another country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m-g-williams Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 1 hour ago, ted said: This is another good reason to go with CanPL - as we were asked to do from the beginning. It sounds and looks far more distinctive than "CPL". Eh. I'm stil very, very much against "CanPL", personally. No other Canadian league (CFL, CHL, etc.), organization (RCAF, RCN, RCMP, etc.), business (CBC, CTV, etc.) or group (CNIB, etc.) *ever* abbreviates "Canada"/"Canadian" to "Can". In my opinion, #CPLorbust. red card, Kent, Stanley and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonovision Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 1 hour ago, Unnamed Trialist said: Put CPL in a search engine. You do not get the Canadian one first, at the top. I say who the fck cares about the name, as mentioned here, they already have too many leagues. But for sure: cannot trust MLS, they are sneaky and not up front, or hardly ever. Google tailors search results based on a number of factors, including geography. For me, and I imagine most in Canada, "CPL" turns up the Canadian Premier League website as the first result. nfitz and yomurphy1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m-g-williams Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 7 minutes ago, Lofty said: CanPL sounds more like a slogan than a league. You #CanPL if you try! I will never use it. Dear . . . God. Now I can't ever unthink that. ^ This X 1000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackdude Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 3 hours ago, Unnamed Trialist said: Put CPL in a search engine. You do not get the Canadian one first, at the top. I say who the fck cares about the name, as mentioned here, they already have too many leagues. But for sure: cannot trust MLS, they are sneaky and not up front, or hardly ever. What is your first result? Because, I just looked at the first page and it's all about the Canadian one. nfitz 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gopherbashi Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 I believe Google algorithms are in part related to your own search history and your geographic location so it likely won't be the same for everyone. Kent 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozzie_the_parrot Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 (edited) On 6/17/2019 at 2:51 AM, Kwar said: I really hope they don't have a 2 game final. I still don't forgive the original CSL for going to that format! They only did that once in 1992 when the league had lost its TV contract with TSN and was very much in its death spiral. Hopefully it will be single game if they can get it onto mainstream cable in a reasonably prime time timeslot with the hosting team determined by who had the better record over the complete regular season. Edited June 19, 2019 by Ozzie_the_parrot Stanley 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unnamed Trialist Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 8 hours ago, Blackdude said: What is your first result? Because, I just looked at the first page and it's all about the Canadian one. I get Caribbean Premier League first, maybe because my IP is in Spain. In any case, it is not like there were not other CPLs around previously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ted Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 15 hours ago, m-g-williams said: Eh. I'm stil very, very much against "CanPL", personally. No other Canadian league (CFL, CHL, etc.), organization (RCAF, RCN, RCMP, etc.), business (CBC, CTV, etc.) or group (CNIB, etc.) *ever* abbreviates "Canada"/"Canadian" to "Can". In my opinion, #CPLorbust. That's the point. It is distinctive, reduces confusion and reinforces the national character of the league. #yesyouCanPL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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