2026 Cavalry FC and CPL thread

[agulati]

How does one get their hands on Blizzard tickets? Would be cool to have potentially 2 MLS teams coming to the city (albeit likely their B squads)

[shermanator]

Originally Posted by agulati

How does one get their hands on Blizzard tickets? Would be cool to have potentially 2 MLS teams coming to the city (albeit likely their B squads)

The first round is one leg and will be in Montreal.

[M*A*S*H 4077]

I think that’s a dream matchup for the Blizzard. They’re not going anywhere so might as well play Montreal!

It’s also the spot I wanted for Cavalry. And after a year break they’re back to playing Pacific in Can Champ. As God intended. Last year the chumps bombed out hard so they should have all the motivation needed to go to Victoria.

Dream draw for Forge…

[mac_82]

It's still my dream to see Toronto FC play here. One day...

[MegaErtz]

Forgive my ignorance, but how did Calgary Blizzard SC qualify for this?

[shermanator]

Blizzard won League1 Alberta.

[M*A*S*H 4077]

Onesoccer interview with Nate Ingham.



Apparently he is BFF's with Camargo

[Swift]

That's an amazing draw for Blizzard. They'll get hammered of course but it'll be so much fun for them to play in that stadium in Montreal.

[M*A*S*H 4077]

So uhh Shermanator. what's happening on the ol' Reddit?

In league news, Canadian Premier League has asked to help trial the daylight offside rule. Don't think I've seen it reported on by any Canadian media yet

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/a...s/cpv7dr41yndo

The Canadian Premier League is set to trial Arsene Wenger's "daylight" offside rule.

It was presented to the International Football Association Board (Ifab) at its annual business meeting on Tuesday.

It will now go forward to the annual general meeting in Cardiff on 28 February. If approved, the trial will begin when the Canadian Premier League kicks off in April.

And, we're getting new balls:

https://www.canpl.ca/news/csb-announ...der-of-the-cpl

Canadian Soccer Business (CSB) today announced a new multi-year partnership with Voit, a global sports brand with more than a century of innovation in the game, as the Official Match Ball Provider of the Canadian Premier League (CPL).

[TheIronMaiden]

for people like me who don't know "there must be clear daylight between attacker and defender for an offside offence to occur."

[Mccree]

Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden

for people like me who don't know "there must be clear daylight between attacker and defender for an offside offence to occur."

Currently if ANY part of the body that can legally score a goal is closer to the the goal line then the second last opponent is considered to be in an offside position.

The trial is now saying that the attacker must be fully clear of the defender, ie daylight between the attacker and the defender. Just changes the point at which the attacker is considered to be offside.

[Jimmy Stang]

So would that mean we're getting a basic form of VAR also? The whole daylight offside thing came about because of frustrations with pixel counting and declaring someone offside because their big toe was a pixel ahead.

In real time, things are less precise and I'm not sure that "daylight" is needed - it is already a bit fuzzier in real life. And I would argue that measuring the gap is probably more difficult to a human than measuring the alignment of bodies.

[Bill Bumface]

Originally Posted by Jimmy Stang

So would that mean we're getting a basic form of VAR also?

I doubt it. That's bloody expensive. The IFAB will want these rules tested in VAR and non-VAR environments before full adoption into the Laws of the Game I'm sure.