Distractions and Dropped Points: CanPL Potato Cup Week Three
Jimmy Brennan recreates another iconic moment in Toronto sports, Forge skirt the U21 quota, and more from Week Three at the CanPL Potato Cup.
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Falling Into Place: CanPL Potato Cup Week 2
It’s CanPL. Cavalry and Forge are good, and the rest of the teams are fighting for the two spots left over. With varying degrees of success, mind.
More of the same, please: Potato Cup Week 1
If you missed a game in CanPL this weekend, it probably ended 2 – 2. If you want more detail than that, read on.
What Have I Missed?: The February Offseason Update
Mostly, I try to sleep through February. But this is a brave new world: soccer in Canada. Transfer drama! (At least, transfer drama if you count Marco Bustos to Pacific, which I do.)
Midwinter Off-season Update
Right. I’ve been off for a while, and so was the Canadian Premier League for most of the first part of January 2020. Some relatively minor stuff happened before Christmas, but it wasn’t until this week things started moving.
Bent, Ruby, and more from the 2019 USPORTs draft
The inaugural CanPL/USPORTs draft presented a completely clean slate. Draftees were actually the first players formally affiliated with the new clubs, and many went on to have a lot of success. That, in turn, increased both expectation and attention for the 2019 draft.
Expect more Wanderers FC departures
Halifax Wanderers have released most of the club’s 2019 players, but expect to re-sign some in the coming weeks, subject to the cap and the team’s recruitment plans.
AUS Week 8: Centre-backs Optional
Usually I write obituaries for the teams that are out, but the playoff race this year was a non-event so let’s not bother rehashing all of that and cut straight to the games that matter.
AUS Week 6 & 7: The Lost Games Edition
I don’t want to say I forgot about AUS exactly–there were some games in there, I’m pretty sure–but there’s not exactly much of a playoff […]
Game States: AUS Week Six
One of the more interesting tools to help analyze games is the game state: how does a match pan out when the score is 2 – 1? 3 – 0? On the road? At home?