Rob Clark "Vancouver and Montreal will probably be back in USL next year"

Amateurish Rochester Rhinos owner Rob Clark commenting on the USL/TOA debacle on the Soccer Sam radio show, declares that it is probable Vancouver and Montreal will be back in USL-1 in 2010.

He also mentions that if Montreal and Vancouver don't come back, he will start a ''petition'' to not have any exhibition matches with the TOA league. Strong words from Mr. big time sports team owner himself, who we all remember could not even handle proper security for 30 travelling away fans during a Rhinos-Impact game in late May, resulting in a scuffle between fans at the end of the game.

His whole solution to that problem was to call Joey Saputo to bitch and moan and suggest that supporters (and in the case of the Stampede I use this word loosely) from both sides be banned from going to the other team's stadium. All this instead of providing proper security as is done in stadiums all over the world. Whatever, keep up with the music being played during the course of play, great soccer atmosphere you have going on down there Rob!

Anyways, getting back to next season it is starting to seem more and more probable that the so-called TOA league will not get off the ground, especially with news coming out this morning that the Minnesota Thunder, one of the teams heavily involved in the TOA, have just released all their players as they have not been payed for some time. Brian Quarstad of Inside Minnesota Soccer reports on this here.

The Impact have got to get out of this bush-league situation ASAP as they have simply outgrown the league. Bring on MLS, fast...