Pacific FC Launch / 2019 off season thread

[shamrock]

3 hours ago, ktf said:

I feel injuries/lack of them and how all these random L1O, VISL, etc. guys do filling the gaps between more established pros will ultimately decide the best teams, rather then the top guys. 

In a long season, this could very well be so. 

[masster]

They havent announced Gardner yet. Whether it is a USports development deal or a full contract, I dont see anyway he is not on the team.

[Blackjack15]

5 hours ago, masster said:

They havent announced Gardner yet. Whether it is a USports development deal or a full contract, I dont see anyway he is not on the team.

And Mamadi Camara? The NCAA D2 standout with Simon Fraser University who got himself noticed at the MLS Combine and drafted by SJ Earthquakes this year

[Ozzie_the_parrot]

http://northerntribune.ca/pacific-fc-vancouver-tss-rovers/

...The Vancouver Island club has just confirmed a behind-closed-doors preseason friendly against the Vancouver TSS Rovers, who finished fourth out of six spots in last season’s USL2 Northwest Division, above the Victoria Highlanders and Portland Timbers Under-23s. The game will take place on Monday, April 22, 2019...

[Ozzie_the_parrot]

https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/video?binId=1.1777488

Stadium won't be complete until Aug 24th.

Edited April 20, 2019 by Ozzie_the_parrot

[Unnamed Trialist]

3 hours ago, Ozzie_the_parrot said:

https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/video?binId=1.1777488

Stadium won't be complete until Aug 24th.

Well that is the sort of negative reporting that the mayor of Langford deserves, and the club. If you cannot control the media and the discourse, you are vulnerable to this sort of report. 

Now all fans will say: why go to a match in a stadium that is construction site?

And yes, another very Italian thing about that video: CTV is a like an even-worse version of a Berlusconi-type media, it is consistently bone-head and knee jerk.

Edited April 20, 2019 by Unnamed Trialist

[Aird25]

So we're a week away from a double header at Westhills and we have an incomplete roster, an incomplete stadium, no clue as to tactics or starting 11, and no stands for the supporters. Should I be worried?

[vancanman]

1 hour ago, Aird25 said:

So we're a week away from a double header at Westhills and we have an incomplete roster, an incomplete stadium, no clue as to tactics or starting 11, and no stands for the supporters. Should I be worried?

Frightening

[MM3/MM2/MM]

1 hour ago, Aird25 said:

So we're a week away from a double header at Westhills and we have an incomplete roster, an incomplete stadium, no clue as to tactics or starting 11, and no stands for the supporters. Should I be worried?

No, the universe is unfolding as it should.

[DrummingInMySleep]

I’m not sure they are reporting anything we didn’t know already. The concourse we were told weeks ago wasn’t going to be finished until mid-season and that the capacity will grow next year when they remove the hydro pole. I’m looking forward to watching the stadium, and indeed the club itself, grow rapidly in the next few years. 

[Ozzie_the_parrot]

https://canpl.ca/article/7000km-7-matches-lake-side-buoys-duo-taking-month-long-cross-canada-cpl-tour

[Unnamed Trialist]

In all seriousness, this is just the CTV level, if it is not a racoon, it is some dumb-ass story about someone burning voodoo dolls near a homeless camp. It just bothers me that Pacific does not have their press people on top of things.

If they have almost sold out the opener, then people are going, and they are going to seats or to stands. Obviously. Two weeks later there are rugby matches. The mock-ups of the stadium are done and the reporters saw them, for sure.

But that is not the kind of story they want to tell: your first top flight pro team comes to Victoria and they do this, which is simply the work of losers.

[Unnamed Trialist]

I wrote a letter to News Feedback editor Stuart Adamson (stuart.adamson@bellmedia.ca) because garbage like that has to be called out, however much the club was at fault for allowing it:

 

Dear Mr Adamson

 

As a longtime BCer from a family that has been here for 110 years, I expect a bit more from news reporting when it affects important events in BC history. 

 

The Pacific FC soccer team is the first pro franchise to ever land in Victoria, and deserves a bit more respect and honesty when reporting about it. 

 

That the stadium is going slowly is obvious; it is also obvious that your reporters have access to the models of the stadium, including the seating plan for the home opener next weekend. You also know it will be sold out or near to. All of this you ignore, in my view in a rather incompetent way, to conjure a story that paints a picture that suggests fans will be sitting amidst a construction site. That is a lie. The inference is false, and the intention is plain nasty.

 

The new CPL league, with 7 teams and the likelihood of more in future seasons, is a momentous effort for Canadian soccer and its fans. Excitement amongst the community is high, in Victoria as well as Halifax or Hamilton. The media deal is 200 million dollars over 10 years. Or is that the real reason you decided to do a muckracking piece on the club and its venue: that the CBC will be showing games?

 

If that is the case, you deserve to be called out for professional incompetence. Victoria and BC soccer deserves a bit better. We will be expecting a different tone next time you decide to do a story on Pacific FC.

 

Yours

[Ozzie_the_parrot]

36 minutes ago, Unnamed Trialist said:

...But that is not the kind of story they want to tell: your first top flight pro team comes to Victoria and they do this, which is simply the work of losers.

The Vistas in the original CSL were genuinely top flight rather than "1A". Beyond that think you are overreacting a bit. Any publicity on the stadium at this stage helps build awareness and it clearly isn't going to be finished for the home opener and that is newsworthy. Victoria got in as a last minute replacement for Surrey, so it probably shouldn't be surprising that the timeline on doing the stadium was going to be problematic.

[Unnamed Trialist]

55 minutes ago, Ozzie_the_parrot said:

The Vistas in the original CSL were genuinely top flight rather than "1A". Beyond that think you are overreacting a bit. Any publicity on the stadium at this stage helps build awareness and it clearly isn't going to be finished for the home opener and that is newsworthy. Victoria got in as a last minute replacement for Surrey, so it probably shouldn't be surprising that the timeline on doing the stadium was going to be problematic.

If you had a clue how the press works, especially the low-end, you'd understand. But you don't. They don't do a fair story, you have no obligation as a consumer of their news to be fair. that is puerile thinking. In fact, what they respond to is cheap rhetoric. So you give it to them. They are in adversarial mode, trying to create false narratives, and a factor in that is  they have no economic vested interest in the team. So you have to hit them, and then they respond. Because they are childish and respond to likewise.

Is it true you are just BBTB trolling, cause it sure sounds like it. 

 

[Big_M]

LOL its him alright. When you read a post and say to yourself I must have read this about 1000 times already you know it could only be him

[CDNFootballer]

Think too much is being made by some of the CTV story. Things will be ready for the opener and the full stadium expansion done by Aug 24th. They reported on whats happening, they're under no obligation to sugar coat things. The report isn't going to turn fans away from the club and may even peak some's interest on seeing how far the stadium will be improved during the season.

 

[Unnamed Trialist]

15 minutes ago, CDNFootballer said:

Think too much is being made by some of the CTV story. Things will be ready for the opener and the full stadium expansion done by Aug 24th. They reported on whats happening, they're under no obligation to sugar coat things. The report isn't going to turn fans away from the club and may even peak some's interest on seeing how far the stadium will be improved during the season.

For me it is good because obviously the club needs a big boot in the butt. You should always have a chance to test a stadium before an opener, and the players should definitely be on that pitch for a week. Otherwise, you are losing home field advantage, it is just as strange for the home side as the away. 

I think there is really no excuse, because the weather in Victoria is not going to be so different now than February, so they really had to be on a stricter schedule. Or have done what we see in other cities, which is put back home openers, be realistic.

That said, the CTV story is a bit perverse, like when they mock the PFC guy when he points to the empty space where the supporter groups will go, as if it was all a fiction.

Edited April 21, 2019 by Unnamed Trialist

[ted]

11 hours ago, Unnamed Trialist said:

Well that is the sort of negative reporting that the mayor of Langford deserves, and the club.

WTF are you talking about?!?! That report was far from "negative". It was very optimistic with a touch of tongue-in-cheek realism on where we are at.

The launch party today was fantastic BTW. Season ticket holders got their passes and jerseys. That part of town was full of people in purple jerseys and the day was glorious.

 

 

[Senorpopps]

[Ozzie_the_parrot]

 

[Ozzie_the_parrot]

https://www.sookenewsmirror.com/sports/pacific-fc-kickoff-party-scores-in-victoria-inner-harbour/

[Senorpopps]

His name is Stewie the Starfish

[Ozzie_the_parrot]

https://www.timescolonist.com/islander/pro-soccer-arrives-on-island-it-s-game-on-for-pacific-fc-1.23797550

[Ozzie_the_parrot]