Canuck_4_Life

Considering what the fanbase for the Sounders is like, they could probably sell out CenturyLink Field in football configuration.

The Whitecaps have limited capacity within the lower bowl to approx 21K. True capacity of the lower bowl is over 25K, as witnessed by the CONCACAF Final played at BC Place earlier this year. Do I think that they should open up all seats in the lower bowl? Yes.

It's a pre-season tournament. I'm not risking Plata and others for a pre-season tournament

I think Rennie said that he'd probably use one or two of his forwards in a midfield role, with the slight implication that we could see Harris and Le Toux as attacking midfielders. I'd stick with a 4-4-2 and go diamond in the middle, similar to what the Canadian women did. Have Le Toux at the top of the diamond. I think people are blowing Le Toux's initial reaction on twitter out of proportion. I would think it's a shock to be traded, regardless of what sport you play, especially if you weren't expecting it.....

No. My interpretation of your evidence indicates that Hamhuis' point of contact is above the knees whereas Marchand went for the knees of Salo. That couple of inches is the difference between a clean hipcheck and clipping. Not to mention, Lucic was skating forward through the neutral zone, should've expected a hit. Salo was cruising backwards, and Marchand eliminated him. To further dissect the Hamhuis hipcheck, yeah, it can be argued that his arm was around Lucic's knees, you don't flip someone the size of Lucic with just your arms especially when you're facing him to start.....

They've been around for 12 years. Timbers Army, in their current form, have been around since 2002, and ECS has only been around for 6 years. I'm not attacking them or anything, it's hard to believe that being the oldest of the Cascadia supporters clubs, they're also the smallest, by no small margin either.

I don't know if you can force people to join, especially when out of the Cascadia teams, you're the smallest by a wide margin. The cost to join the Southsiders is $30 in person/$32 online, same as to join ECS (Emerald City Supporters) and it's $25 to join the Timbers Army. By their own admission on their own website, the biggest criticism of the Soutsiders was/is a lack of leadership/organization. Not exactly gonna help your own cause there. Perhaps I'm mistaken, but I don't think the Southsiders have a capo. I've seen some youtube videos of ECS with one, and I'm sure the Timbers Army has one as well.

You actually interpreted it wrong, or I wasn't clear enough. Jarju is probably trying to become familiar with the MLS game. I highly doubt that the Leagues he was in before are as physical as MLS is. Not to mention, the difference in pace and overall skill. It took Hassli about 6 matches to figure everything out, and he was playing full time too, you know, when he wasn't being red-carded and subsequently suspended. Not to mention, Hassli also has about 5 years on Jarju. LA is playing for now. It would appear that the Whitecaps are building for the future. Is the money they're spending on Jarju a little excessive right now? Yeah, considering how little he's playing.

We're talking about someone who was playing in Belgium. Consider this, the champions of Belgium go into the 3rd qualifying round - champions route of the Champions League while the runners up go into the 3rd qualifying round - league finish. Not exactly Ligue 1 or the English Premier League.

2010 Champions League Group Stage: GROUP A: Bayern Munich Villarreal Manchester City Napoli GROUP B Inter Milan CSKA Moscow Lille Trabzonspor GROUP C Manchester United Benfica Basle Otelul Galati GROUP D Real Madrid Lyon Ajax Dinamo Zagreb GROUP E Chelsea Valencia Bayer Leverkusen Genk GROUP F Arsenal Marseille Olympiakos Borussia Dortmund GROUP G Porto Shakhtar Donetsk Zenit St Petersburg APOEL GROUP H Barcelona AC Milan BATE Viktoria Plzen Man City got screwed while United gets off pretty easy. Barca and Milan grouped together but they should go through rather easily, paired with Euro doormats.

Where exactly would you find the money to throw at Keane. The LA Galaxy are owned by AEG, whom also own the Kings and their farm team, the Lakers, Sparks, the Staples Center, O2 Arena in London and the Manchester Evening News Arena. Did I also mention they own 50% of the MLS Houston Dynamo? The price tag to get Keane to MLS: 3.5 million. No way in hell Kerfoot and crew were gonna shell out that sort of money just to get Keane. Never mind, whatever absurd contract he's making. Because of who's funding the LA Galaxy, I would've tried to work out a deal for Juan Pablo Angel.

I think that's exactly it. It's not like he's sitting around scratching himself. His current team, the Carolina Railhawks have a 12pt lead on the Puerto Rico Islanders and are well positioned heading into the post-season with about 10 games to go.

According to the information I received at today's open house, lower bowl capacity at BC Place will be around 23K. I'm not sure they'd open up the upper level, unless they were guaranteed at least 30K a night.

I heard Donovan is out, however, the LA Galaxy website has him as "Questionable" Angel is listed as Questionable as well.

I don't know how many major European teams TFC has hosted at BMO Field, but I suspect, with the Jays and Argos as the main occupants of Rogers Center, dates are hard to come by.