Quote: ThePrinter "Also another view is that it’s just posters who aren’t keen on Toronto finding any stick they can to beat them with and why they shouldn’t be in our structure.
I don’t know if Toronto/North America will work in the long term but it’s definitely worth trying to crack that market. If some genuine reasons why it can’t or doesn’t happen then fair enough, but a few daft players maybe not getting to play one fixture a year because of their own stupidity and their own clubs disorganisation definitely isn’t one of reasons.'"
Agreed; my take on the Toronto project is that if it's used as a jumping off point for a North American league, meaning that at some point they'll join that as founder members, with all the expertise and experience of playing in the ESL, then it will have been a success. One would hope that the links between the two organisations would remain strong, based on the springboard ESL provided - and that can only be good for the long term future of the game.
If that means some fairly minor administrative tasks for other clubs in the meantime, and the occasional missed game for some of our less savoury players, it seems a reasonable price to pay.