MrsC

Halifax -Celtic Corner Winnipeg - The Kings Head Regina - The Lobby Calgary - The Rose & Crown If you know of any other viewing parties, post below and I'll add them to the list

I don't have a drivers license, but I could try double you on my bike 🤣

I know. It feels so decadent!

Nicolino's is not open on Sunday but the Kings Head (120 King Stret) has stepped up to show the game on Sunday (6:00 PM). If it's busy on Sunday, they'll put the game on upstairs for us.

So 4 games in, which new players is everyone liking so far? It looks like we might finally see Reyes tomorrow, so I'm looking forward to that, but there have been a few standouts already. Sirois is obviously incredible - I wish we didn't have to send him back after the season. Ulloa & Akio have shown some real sparks of potential. For me though, I'm really loving Andy Baquero. He was a big question mark for me coming in, because he hadn't played in a few years, & I wondered why an Ontario team didn't snap him up since he's been living in Toronto. But he looks like the real deal to me, and has been so important for us. I'm quite happy with that signing.

I know this isn't really the proper forum but since this is a Winnipeg focused thread I wanted to get this in front of as many eyes as possible (I also posted in the Men's National Team area). Nicolinos isn't normally open on Sundays, but Nick has agreed to open up tomorrow with a limited menu (pizza & salad), to show the Euro final and the Gold Cup match. He will be open from 1-8 pm. In theory those of us going to the Valour match could stop in afterward to watch the Euro final and stay on for the GC. We'd be arriving a bit late though, and I suspect tables might be hard to come by at that time. I'm probably going to go home after the Valour game and come back to Nicolinos around 4:30 or 5:00. The game will also be shown on the patio if the weather cooperates.

Nicolinos is opening up on tomorrow (July 11th) to show the Euro final and the Gold Cup match. They will be open from 1PM to 8PM and will offer a limited food menu, of Pizza and Salad. There will be a tv on the patio, as long as the weather cooperates. It would be nice to see some familiar faces and finally enjoy a Canada game with other people again!

I'd love to change the 'Topic' to Allstate instead of All-State but for the life of me, I can't remember how 😒

We'll have a Voyageurs booth at the Soccer Show. Come check the booth out if you have a chance on Sunday. We'll have some fun discussion topics throughout the day, so watch the Voyageurs social for topics and timing.

The membership sign-up was just added to the website, in advance of the membership launch. There will be social media posts regarding this very soon.

The whole OneSoccer thing is a bit of a confusing mess. I think the 'free' subscription that we got with the 2020 Season Tickets was supposed to be cancelled out completely when our 2020 season tickets were cancelled. The money on our account just became a credit for future seasons. I had a already activated my free code in February 2020 so I could watch Canada games, and was told that code would no longer be valid. I guess naively, I just assumed it was cancelled, and I purchased the collective membership so I could have access to the Island games. The Collective membership package stated that the OneSoccer subscription would only be valid until December 31, 2020. I was expecting to need to renew it in January, but my subscription stayed active and didn't expire until February 2021, exactly one year after I activated the free subscription that was supposed to have been cancelled last August. So it seems I probably could have kept watching the island games without buying the Collective. I don't think their systems are sophisticated enough to actually cancel out the free subscriptions after they were activated. The only people I know that had their 'free' OneSoccer subscriptions cancelled were people who told their clubs that the code was still active. To be honest I don't mind having bought the collective, because I wanted to support the league and Valour in 2020, but the OneSoccer part did leave a bad taste in my mouth. I didn't even mind having to pay more to watch the Island games, but the fact that they took away the monthly rate altogether and offered a 4 month price that cost the same as the previous annual cost felt shitty. I would have preferred if they charged a normal price for OneSoccer and asked us to donate or contribute directly to the running of the games if they needed that. I've since purchased a year subscription to OneSoccer because there were more Canada games I wanted to watch. If there is another version of the Collective this year, I probably won't purchase it unless the benefits include things of value other than OneSoccer.

I don't think anything has been confirmed yet (but I could be wrong). He lives in Winnipeg and is back now so hopefully he'll be back with Valour this season.

Here is a link to watch the video for anyone who missed it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP_L-VapwtE&ab_channel=TheVoyageursCanada