The end of the labor dispute with the Canadian Football League (CFL) opens the door to the continuation of training camps at the Ambrosie circuit. Montreal Alouettes players once again set foot on the field of Diablos stadium in Cégep de Trois-Rivières on Thursday afternoon.
An interim agreement was reached Wednesday night between the CFL Players Association and the league. It must always be affirmed, most likely over the weekend, said Montreal Alouettes president Mario Cecchini. The players, however, agreed to put on their cleats to officially start their camp.
They jumped on the field at the stroke of 2 pm Needs to make changes to the training schedule, as the first preseason game against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, scheduled for May 28, come faster. The revised training camp schedule includes two exercises a day on Friday and Saturday.
We lost time, so the coaches were reviewing the schedule, except for one thing that wouldn’t change was that almost every day we would have practices that were open to the public.continued the president of Alouettes, in an interview on the show Always in the morning.
The Ottawa Redblacks also announced that their training camp will continue Thursday afternoon at TD Place.
On May 15, the Alouettes players went to the field of Cégep de Trois-Rivières to conduct an informal practice, after the Players ’Association and the CFL disagreed on the terms of a new collective agreement.
Some other teams chose to cancel their practices due to a labor dispute.
The interim agreement ended the second strike in Canadian Football League history, one that took place in 1974.
Source: Radio-Canada