Rick Dhaliwal

And frankly, if you go back, if you want to check the receipts, you can ask Halford when I was writing for the curtain blog.

I thought BC Place was a bad idea to pour all that money into that.

And it is proven to be a problem.

Now, I'm glad we have a big stadium in our city that can host things like the World Cup and the Grey Cup and concerts and all that sort of stuff.

But I said right from the beginning, this is a bad idea for the CFL and MLS.

Now, nobody listened to me at the time, and that's fine.

Nobody listens to me anyway.

But I mean, this thing you could have seen coming from a mile away.

And I think part of it also is on the Whitecaps who haven't adjusted to the business of the league, meaning they needed to get out there much earlier and be like, hey, should we deal with this revenue problem that we've got going?

Why has it all come to a head right now?

Why wasn't it dealt with?

Why couldn't they see where the league was going for years and years and to the point where they're like, we're losing $50 million a year.

Like, really?

Okay.

Well, that's a problem then.

Yeah, it is.

The drafting has been fine.

The actual drafting has been, for the most part, I think, fine.

They just don't have enough picks.

They don't give themselves room for error.