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Originally Posted by Drury18
Weird.
Either something else was going on with Ward, or he was made a scapegoat for bigger problems. I'm not sure which one sounds more plausible.
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You never fire a head coach this early into his first season unless there were reasons behind the scenes. We may never know what the real reason is but you can bet he didn't get fired solely on their record or attendance. Vancouver isn't really a great sports town and Canucks and Lions have also seen continuous drops in attendance as of late as well. There was a spike of interest last decade when the Canucks were cup contenders but for the most part it seems like the level of sports interest in Vancouver has settled back to its norm. Whitecaps in fact are the new "in" team if anything as they have probably surpassed the Lions in overall interest.