Rocket Robin Posted March 31, 2019 Share Posted March 31, 2019 (edited) Looks like Toronto Arrows of Major League Rugby will play the eight home fixtures at York Alumni Field. They were on an eight game road trip and their first home game will be on April 7th. Read that in the Toronto Star today. Good news for York 9 FC in that Arrows can paint the field however they want as soccer will be at York Lions Stadium across the campus. Ahh the Toronto Star! That news was squeezed into a one paragraph blip on their sports scoreboard page. The Toronto Rock lacrosse game was squeezed into another one paragraph story. That's the amount of coverage unfortunately I expect on York 9 FC this season. All sports scores have to be squeezed onto one page. There's only enough room for the MLS Eastern Standings! TFC had their second long story in two days but they were both CP articles by Neil Davidson. The Star reporter Laura Armstrong has taken over Blue Jays coverage and has not been replaced. She still files the odd TFC story. 'No sign of blister problems' screamed the headline completing the two page article on the Blue Jays game. Edited March 31, 2019 by Rocket Robin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1996 Posted March 31, 2019 Share Posted March 31, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, Rocket Robin said: Looks like Toronto Arrows of Major League Rugby will play the eight home fixtures at York Alumni Field. They were on an eight game road trip and their first home game will be on April 7th. Read that in the Toronto Star today. Good news for York 9 FC in that Arrows can paint the field however they want as soccer will be at York Lions Stadium across the campus. Ahh the Toronto Star! That news was squeezed into a one paragraph blip on their sports scoreboard page. The Toronto Rock lacrosse game was squeezed into another one paragraph story. That's the amount of coverage unfortunately I expect on York 9 FC this season. All sports scores have to be squeezed onto one page. There's only enough room for the MLS Eastern Standings! TFC had their second long story in two days but they were both CP articles by Neil Davidson. The Star reporter Laura Armstrong has taken over Blue Jays coverage and has not been replaced. She still files the odd TFC story. 'No sign of blister problems' screamed the headline completing the two page article on the Blue Jays game. Yup just keep this in mind when we think soccer has finally made it in terms of the mainstream media . TFC which has now been around over 12 years still at times faces an uphill battle for coverage in the mainstream media . Therefore, when it comes to CPL I don’t see much coverage happening in Toronto’s mainstream media expecially when even TFC is sometimes ignored. However, saying all that the Toronto Sun has more or less always given TFC decent coverage and this year it seems they have even stepped it up, they have longtime writer and not really a soccer guy Steve Buffery almost doing a column or more a day and I must admit his articles are actually pretty good. I actually sent him an email telling him his coverage of TFC was greatly appreciated , and he got back to me to thank me for the email. Anyways, with so many other ways to take in coverage in today’s world thankfully soccer in general and the CPL too doesn’t solely have to rely on mainstream media like in days gone by. Edited March 31, 2019 by 1996 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ansem Posted March 31, 2019 Share Posted March 31, 2019 KW519 and StillOnFire 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BringBackTheBlizzard Posted March 31, 2019 Share Posted March 31, 2019 Bear in mind that tomorrow is April 1st. LatinInuk, BenFisk'sBiggestFan and RS 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenFisk'sBiggestFan Posted March 31, 2019 Share Posted March 31, 2019 1 hour ago, BringBackTheBlizzard said: Bear in mind that tomorrow is April 1st. Good catch. I would have totally fallen for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matty Posted March 31, 2019 Share Posted March 31, 2019 2 hours ago, Ansem said: o'dea? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ams1984 Posted March 31, 2019 Share Posted March 31, 2019 23 minutes ago, matty said: o'dea? That would be cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Club Linesman Posted April 1, 2019 Share Posted April 1, 2019 Messi? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senorpopps Posted April 1, 2019 Share Posted April 1, 2019 Ian Hume? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackdude Posted April 1, 2019 Share Posted April 1, 2019 Junior Kingue would be funny if it's intended to be done tomorrow. Dominic94, deschamp86, toontownman and 2 others 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toontownman Posted April 1, 2019 Share Posted April 1, 2019 Announce Forlan and Meneses... see how quick Rob Gayle picks up the phone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeelaw Posted April 1, 2019 Share Posted April 1, 2019 Ten bucks says it's nothing player related. NEW SPONSORSHIP DEAL! I hope it's jerseys no? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LatinInuk Posted April 1, 2019 Share Posted April 1, 2019 6 hours ago, toontownman said: Announce Forlan and Meneses... see how quick Rob Gayle picks up the phone! God, I hope it's Forlan. I don't care if he's not at the races anymore (Hong Kong was proof). I would love to see Diego play for us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LatinInuk Posted April 1, 2019 Share Posted April 1, 2019 4 minutes ago, zeelaw1555362314 said: Ten bucks says it's nothing player related. NEW SPONSORSHIP DEAL! I hope it's jerseys no? I think this is it personally. The Ontario teams will surely be the first to unveil their kits given the inaugural match. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dominic94 Posted April 1, 2019 Share Posted April 1, 2019 9 hours ago, Blackdude said: Junior Kingue would be funny if it's intended to be done tomorrow. Has to be him, world class talent. Young Junior Kingue has been compared to some of the best young talent in the world. #JuniorKingue shows poise and confidence beyond his years, and isn’t afraid to run at defenders. He (#JuniorKingue) will be one of the best young players in the CPL. #JuniorKingue #CanPL #KingueWatch StillOnFire and BuzzAndSting 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Toronto Ruffrider Posted April 1, 2019 Share Posted April 1, 2019 ^It's only funny when the news is pretend scary hahaha. If York 9 was playing today in particular, I actually wouldn't mind seeing 30 minutes of Jimmy just for a laugh. Nice jersey in the younger photo - I wouldn't mind Scoring one of those classic kits. ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dyslexic nam Posted April 1, 2019 Share Posted April 1, 2019 17 minutes ago, deschamp86 said: Maybe I am just getting cranky in my advancing years, but April Fools is one of those traditions I wish would just die. deschamp86 and MM3/MM2/MM 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ansem Posted April 1, 2019 Share Posted April 1, 2019 I was far from being amused. We've been starved for news for months... not amused one bit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LatinInuk Posted April 1, 2019 Share Posted April 1, 2019 It would have been decently funny if they had not said that today there would be a big announcement. zeelaw and deschamp86 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macksam Posted April 1, 2019 Share Posted April 1, 2019 Maybe the major announcement is still to come. ? Bbeto 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LatinInuk Posted April 1, 2019 Share Posted April 1, 2019 5 minutes ago, Macksam said: Maybe the major announcement is still to come. ? I was thinking the same, and am hopeful. If not though, that's an awful attempt from the club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deschamp86 Posted April 1, 2019 Share Posted April 1, 2019 What if the joke is in the joke? With Brennan, this could be fully legit lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LatinInuk Posted April 1, 2019 Share Posted April 1, 2019 I think the CM of the twitter page needs to take april fools classes. zeelaw 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matty Posted April 1, 2019 Share Posted April 1, 2019 surprised some people aren't like "haha they got us. what a brilliant marketing move" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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