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Cheers folks. Euro interested in CFL and was interested in following the Alouettes since I follow Montreal in hockey.

What's the story on the team? Any slogans or things to pick up? How hopeful do you feel for this season?

Let's get some stakes in the game.
I have been musing on learning a bit of tourist French for years. Going to pull the trigger and do it if Montreal wins.

What are you going to do?

Cheers everybody.

I'm a European that follow Canadian sports and usually default to Vancouver.

PWHL is what got me into hockey and I watched the Victoire in season 2 as I wanted to follow a Canadian team and my partner has family ties to Quebec.

Season 3 I watched pretty much any game involving one of the Canadian squads, but I was set to support Vancouver. With new sports leagues (or new leagues I start to follow) I usually wait and see if there is a moment where I realise I am emotionally invested in a team.
And while I am not ashamed of having cheered for the Goldeneyes, I realised that Montreal is the hockey team that really made me fall in love.

So yeah, I needed to figure it out for myhself but I am locked in now. Whether the team wins the cup or come in last next year, I'm in.

Everyone has 4 or 5 games on the books now (regular season).

How do you feel about how your team is doing versus your pre-season expectations? Any big surprises from new signings? Dashed hopes?

Cheers, Euro here who follows Canadian sports. I watched a handful of random CFL matches last year but this year I am planning to watch throughout the season.

What are the traditional team rivalries? I assume Alouettes v Argonauts due to Montreal Toronto rivalry? Stampedes v Elks due to being from the same province?

Anything else someone ought to know?

In every league I watch, I end up having at least one team I dislike, either due to playstyle, ownership, philosophy or who knows what. Maybe they were dicks that one time in a game, you know how it goes.

NSL is all love though. I don't love each team the same, but I can find things to enjoy about all of them and as a result, this is probably the league where I am the most likely to just tune into a random game.

(Now with the caveat that I am not Canadian, so the city rivalries are not meaningful to me, I understand that f.x. Toronto and Montreal have rivalries for example)

PWHL is in a unique position where many fans would not have had teams in years 1 and 2. For folks who live in or near Vancouver, Seattle or now Detroit, who had teams you followed before you got your team, did you switch with the announcement?
Stay because once a fan always a fan?
Support both?

Something else entirely?

Share your stories below 😄

Cheers, long time reader, first time writer.
I'm not in the UK but have followed Wolves for some time. Actually, basically since I was a kid reading about football in the newspapers and thinking "Wolverhampton Wanderers" sounded like something out of Lord of the Rings.
After being out of sports for some time, I got back into it and with that watching Wolves throughout the O'Neill era and to now. Got a scarf and a jacket and everything.

However, I ended up getting a friend of mine into it as well after telling them about the miniscule odds of Wolves staying up, back when people were calculating that it was a 0.whatever % chance. He started listening to the Wolves commentary broadcast each game from their website so that's been our weekend ritual and even though we are down now, he's bought in now.

So hey, all things that end also begin again right?

It didn't go as hoped, but I think we all knew deep down it was going to be difficult the first year.

What is everyones high points from the season? What do you think the team can build from?

As a bonus, what was your favourite game of the season?