Captain Shamrock
Well-Known Member
There's lot of heresay going on in here! From what I know and I'm going with the BC women, is that there wasn't enough rooms for all the provinces at one hotel. The host hotel is The Fairmont NFLD, us, Alberta and Sask are having to stay down the street at the Courtyard Marriot. The rooms cost $185.00 a night and we are there for 8 nights, 9 days. We talked about going to Holiday inn for $99 a night and were told by CSA that we would be kicked out of the tournament if we did not stay where we are told to. I agree with Regs and Dude as you both bring up good points. Dude as for the women, I can tell you none of them are business owners and quite a few are young and still live at home with their parents. Some of the big bread winners on the team are high school teachers. All BC soccer has paid for is 18 return air fares to NFLD and rumour has it that Charlie wants to take our team out for a dinner this friday! Dude on your points about having since May to raise $$ you are right. With Surrey going for the 5th straight year it does start to get tiresome going to the same friends and family trying to get people to part with their money. It may sound lame, but I'm just telling you from experience. My buddies get tired of me saying hey do you want to buy this pool, or meat draw or box of cookies to help support. Let's be honest I'm at the age were lot's of my friends are also trying to raise money for their kid's involved in sports so there is lot's of competition. Anyways that's my 2 cents!
You should be sending that 2 cents Gorge's way to make sure they can go