[VMSL 2007/08] Divisional Setup

[Regs]

Looks like things are on the move in the VMSL for the upcoming season - the divisional setups are posted on the Excellent site, not sure how complete but here they are:

Premier A
AFC
ClanBus
Delta Metro Blaze
Inter
Sapp
Firemen
Trollups

Premier B
Croats
Indo
MetroFord
Norvan
Sporting
Slurrey United
Westside A

Div 1
Bingers
Capitals A
Hell Hath No Fury A
Cliff Ave
Club I
Fiji
Polonia
Peg
Primo
Idiots
Romania
Royal United
Sarajevo
SWE
Sikh Temple
Hurricanes
Lobbans
Olympics
Wickham
Westside Rino

Div 2 'A'
Aryana
Bombastic
Bosna
C-Lects FC (WTF?)
Cliff Ave
GN Sporting
Kosova
Muckerlomas
PCOV
Signmaster

Div 2 'B'
B United
Madame Cleo's
DP Rangers
Hellas No Fury Also
Alemania
NK Hrvat
PCOV Europa
PG Rangers
Shaheen
Unicorns!
WV Royals

Div 2 'C'
City FC Rangers
Semen United
Socceroos
Green Devils
Norvan JBs
Squamish
UBC Metrosexuals
Westside Knights
Yaletown FC

Div 3
Dexterity FC (WTF?)
IFC Z-something
Maplewood United
NS Reds
NorWest United
Sweaty FC
Vancouver Stars

 

[BlazeArmy]

Sweet. Road Trip to Squamish.



Hope they like Ladner at 9pm on a Friday Night

They don't look very complete as none of the groups has changed much since last year and there is a group of 11 and 1one of 9 in Div 2.

 

[bonefish]

I wouldn't think those are accurate for Div2 as the usual dispersement of teams in 3rd-5th is not reflected.

 

[bandcamp]

Nice to see Point Grey Rangers back after a couple of years missing.

 

[aekara]

The Div 2 grouping error (with the 10, 9, 11 teams) has now been corrected, and the dispersement of teams in 3rd-5th has been reflected.

 

[Fileh]

Hello,

What is the correct Div 2 drawing. By this, it seems like we are sticking with the groups as last year and the only change are the new teams.

 

[aekara]

Maybe there are enough new teams so it's not necessary to mix the groups too much?

Any predictions for Div 2?

 

[bluemammoth]

Nice to see Point Grey Rangers back after a couple of years missing.

Are these guys the old 'Belmont'?

'Point Grey Rangers' became 'Douglas Park Rangers'
'PG United' became 'Unicorns'

WTF are these guys?

 

[Fiji]

where on the excellent website is the divisional setup???

 

[BlazeArmy]

Vmsl Directory Sort Of Gives It Away

 

[reportz]

I don't know if anybody has noticed but Div 1 is now split into two sides, and I'm guessing that the winners will be playing a showdown some time in the spring..... Div A looks weaker, Peg and Royal aka Akal..... contenders in red..

DIVISION 1 'A':
• Burnaby Canadians ‘A’ –
• Burnaby Fury 'A' –
• Pegasus FC 'A' –
• Primo FC –
• Romania FC 'A' --
• Royal United --
• Serbian White Eagles –
• Sikh Temple –
• Wickham FC 'A' –
• Westside FC Rino ‘A’ –

DIVISION 1 'B':
• Binger’s Army SC –
• Cliff Avenue United –
• Club Ireland 'A' –
• Fiji FC – IFC Polonia –
• Richmond United ‘A’ –
• Sarajevo FC –
• Sporting Punjab Hurricanes 'A'
• Vancouver Lobbans
• Vancouver Olympics

 

[Regs]

Be interesting for Peg this year... they did so well last without a coach really (I think) and now that Reedy is at the helm they are going straight to hell

 

[SofaKingGood]

I don't know if anybody has noticed but Div 1 is now split into two sides, and I'm guessing that the winners will be playing a showdown some time in the spring..... Div A looks weaker, Peg and Royal aka Akal..... contenders in red..

any idea on why there is 2 sides? I thought that virtually all Div.1 teams voted on having one side with the top team moving up. I wonder if any teams would have not voted that way if they knew there would be two different sides with group winners playing each other to determine who moves up. I personally think the best thing the VMSL was going to do in years was to have 1 side which would have made every game a play-off game and lots of good derbys with promotion going down to the last week or so with a few teams in the hunt. But I guess the 2 play-off winners will be decided in and around Oct/Nov as usual.

 

[dezza]

I don't know if anybody has noticed but Div 1 is now split into two sides, and I'm guessing that the winners will be playing a showdown some time in the spring..... Div A looks weaker, Peg and Royal aka Akal..... contenders in red..

DIVISION 1 'A':
• Burnaby Canadians ‘A’ –
• Burnaby Fury 'A' –
• Pegasus FC 'A' –
• Primo FC –
• Romania FC 'A' --
• Royal United --
• Serbian White Eagles –
• Sikh Temple –
• Wickham FC 'A' –
• Westside FC Rino ‘A’ –

DIVISION 1 'B':
• Binger’s Army SC –
• Cliff Avenue United –
• Club Ireland 'A' –
• Fiji FC – IFC Polonia –
• Richmond United ‘A’ –
• Sarajevo FC –
• Sporting Punjab Hurricanes 'A'
• Vancouver Lobbans
• Vancouver Olympics

Cliff as a contender to win the division? They had to play a relegation playoff last year.... Do you know something about their off-season that the rest of us don't?

 

[dezza]

any idea on why there is 2 sides? I thought that virtually all Div.1 teams voted on having one side with the top team moving up. I wonder if any teams would have not voted that way if they knew there would be two different sides with group winners playing each other to determine who moves up. I personally think the best thing the VMSL was going to do in years was to have 1 side which would have made every game a play-off game and lots of good derbys with promotion going down to the last week or so with a few teams in the hunt. But I guess the 2 play-off winners will be decided in and around Oct/Nov as usual.

Wazzi requested we go back to 2 separate divs to ease scheduling. The Div 1 teams got to vote on it.

 

[reportz]

Cliff as a contender to win the division? They had to play a relegation playoff last year.... Do you know something about their off-season that the rest of us don't?

I'm just going off of what I herd their team will look like......... could have some members for the Burnaby Royals, team that won a Nationals at the youth level, and a few college players..... and supposedly have a new coach.. but you do have a point..... those were just my picks, come back next April and we'll see how I did....

My final prediction is : Hurricanes vs Peg in the Final..... (remember these are preseason picks)

 

[sixfyv]

cliff ave were much better than their record... they had 3 points deducted for use of an ineligible player. not a team to be taken lightly.

watch out for serbia in side A... dark horse pick.

 

[evergreen]

It's a good thing the special committee realigned the VMSL, recognizing that Div 2 teams going up to Div 1 are always just being bumped back down to Div 2 after getting their ass whipped everygame in Div1. Oh wait, Punjab Hurricanes are leading Div 1 for 2 straight years , Binger's Army seem quite happy in Div 1. New Div 1 teams Primo, Polonia, and Romania, Burnaby Fury are all in the upper half of Div 1.

 

[BlazeArmy]

It's a good thing the special committee realigned the VMSL, recognizing that Div 2 teams going up to Div 1 are always just being bumped back down to Div 2 after getting their ass whipped everygame in Div1. Oh wait, Punjab Hurricanes are leading Div 1 for 2 straight years , Binger's Army seem quite happy in Div 1. New Div 1 teams Primo, Polonia, and Romania, Burnaby Fury are all in the upper half of Div 1.

It had absolutely nothing to do with the div 2 teams going up.
it was all about the Premier division and everything else was a trickle down effect. Div 1 will be a lot stronger next year. 4 teams getting relegated and only 2 div 2 teams getting promoted.

 

[evergreen]

The Div 2 thing was part of the explanation I received from a committee member and the meetings. Also, when I looked at the standings of the Premier Division from last year, my recollection is that all teams were competetive, going by the goals against and for; maybe one team was a bit skewed but not that bad. I think the whole thing was pointless and waste of time.