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I adopted the blue poodle persona to raise awareness of the plight of blue poodles.

Wolitarsky and Petermann could each be Clermont 2.0 - REALLY like both of these guys

How many TD's they got?

The curse of the family member joining a bomber board continues....

How much the Riders paying Collaros and what was that based on, his ancient history? At least Nichols put up good numbers over the last two years and generated winning seasons.

Lapo will be. Also better work on fixing the OL, get some depth. Can't survive with Couture and Neufeld at RT.

They've been lively since 15:00 1st Q.

Clearly Lapo doesn't have anything installed for Streveler. This is Streveler running his shitty Nichols gameplan, with a QB draw thrown in.

Bombers are playing a great game. Nichols singlehandedly has handed them 17 points.

Just win, baby.

Banjo Bowl #15 · 2018 Game #58 · Saskatchewan at Winnipeg: 􏰀 The Bombers and Riders have played back-to-back weeks in each of the last 14 years around Labour Day (13 sellouts). The second half of which has come to be known as the Banjo Bowl in which Winnipeg leads 8 wins to 6. Since 2004 in this back-to-back LD set, the count favours Saskatchewan 6-2: SSK sweeps: 6 ('05, '08, '09, '11, '12, '14) WPG sweeps: 2 ('04, '16) Splits: 6 The Bombers have won 3 in a row and 4 of the last 5 Banjo Bowl games. Matt Nichols will be starting his 4th straight Banjo Bowl for the Bombers and he comes in with a 4-4 mark as a starter in 2018. Zach Collaros will be starting in the Banjo Bowl for the first time BANJO BOWL OBSERVATIONS: - Banjo Bowl Walk Off Wins: 2012 Sandro DeAngelis FG (40 yds); 2008 Luca Congi FG (29 yds) - The team that has scored first in the Banjo Bowl has won 10 times out of 14 (71%) - The Bombers have won the last three Banjo Bowl games by a combined 87 to 45 score and trailed by no more than 7 points. - The largest comeback to win in the Banjo Bowl was the Riders in 2005 when overcame an 11-point deficit (down 15-4) to win - There have been just two comebacks to win from double-digit deficits both by Saskatchewan (2005: from -11, 2011: from -10) - Passing yards record: Michael Bishop for Saskatchewan 370 yards in the 2008 edition CFL Game #58 Team Notes – Saskatchewan at Winnipeg: - No 300+'s: Zach Collaros and Matt Nichols are the only QBs among those with at least 5 starts that have yet to record a 300-yard passing game in 2018. Collaros' last 300+ was on Jul 15/17 and he has gone 12 starts with a single-game high of 282 yards. Nichols' last 300+ game was on Sep 22/17 and he has gone 13 games in a row without going over 300. - Bombers INTs: Over their first 7 games Winnipeg defenders made 11 interceptions which led to 33 Blue Bomber points off these Turnovers. Since then over the last 4 games, they have just one INT and zero points. - CFL record for Medlock: Since the 2015 move of the 1-point convert kick out to 32 yards, the league-wide % made since then has tracked as follows prior to 2018: 2015: 85% 2016: 91% 2017: 91%. In 2018, CFL kickers are a remarkable 94% and none better than Justin Medlock. He is a perfect 35-of-35 in 2018 and has now made a record 44 in a row (last miss Sep 30/17). - Mike Miller: Ranks #4 in the CFL in 2018 with 11 Special Teams Tackles and is just one short of the 150 mark for his career - a level reached by only 12 players all-time. Miller is the current Active leader at 149 just ahead of Kyries Hebert (145) and the only other active player with 100+ Rolly Lumbala (102). Miller is now #13 all-time tied with Shawn Gallant and 4 back of Dan Rashovich at #12 (153). - Bombers in 2nd-&-long: Over the last 3 games, Winnipeg's 2nd down conversion rate has dipped to just 46% after being at 53% through Game #8. One of the reasons is likely the fact that of their 70 second down situations, only 8 have been in 2nd-&-3 yards or less - they have had almost 90% of their 2nd down chances in 2-&-4+ in those 3 games (62 out of 70). - Matt Nichols: Comes into this game with a streak of 3 consecutive losses as a starter. That matches his longest-ever run (Sep 20/15 to Oct 3/15). He has never before lost 4 straight starts in his career. Nichols has started head-to-head against Zach Collaros 3 times now and is 1-2 in those games (Aug 21/15, Aug 12/17 & Sep 2/18). - Chris Randle 100: Reaches CFL regular season game #100 for his career this week and that has included 96 starts. - Two Rider players with a Punt Return Touchdown: Last week Kyren Moore returned a punt for a TD joining Rider teammate Christion Jones. The last time that Saskatchewan had two players return a punt for a touchdown in the same season was 1997 (Terryl Ulmer, Rod Harris). - Avoiding 4 losses in a row: The Bombers have not lost 4 games in a row in the same season since mid-2015, a span of 55 games. - Riders Sacks Allowed: Saskatchewan allowed 9 Sacks in their first 4 games. Since then in 6 games they have yielded just 4 including only one last week at home to Winnipeg.

Gonna be a wet game tnite. I feel like rainy/wet turf game favors us.

I’m not sure why we don’t give a guy like Simonise a shot at starting. I honestly believe that sometimes being a Canadian hurts players in terms on getting an opportunity. I honestly believe that Simonise at wide out and Wolitarsky in the slot would be better than Washington/Thompkins.

I just hope the fans are fair to Nichols today. We don’t need the boo birds to start chirping if he struggles at the beginning of the game. It won’t do anything to help his game. He needs our support because it sounds like they’ll be a large contingent of rider fans at the game. Who I assume will not be kind to him.

It's just part of the same old "I'm going to **** on the current bombers organization for the past 30 years" bs. Anyone who thinks this way is a) not seeing reality. And b) misrepresenting the success the bombers have had over that course, yes yes yes. I know. No GC which is the only thing that matters. But it hasnt been 30 years of 2-16 teams.

Darian Durant appreciation day at the stadium today! Any Rider fan seen wearing a #4 jersey is going to be asked to buy me a beer, and send him the bill!

Wanna-b-fanboy, just having a little fun at your expense. I can assure you no one wants to see the Bombers win more than I. It just seems the season is slipping away.... They have to win Saturday.

They almost need to force teams to dress a backup centre. This is crazy. That's also a spear right to the chin that wasn't called.

Same **** different day for Skunk.

Hes a fn rookie in the CFL who is 1 and 2 as a starter.. I like the guy.. Nice upside but FFS some of you are seriously reaching at times here.

Willy was considered to be in the same Tier as Collaros... Or close to it. Bombers had to pay Willy cuz there was no other option.. People aka players didnt want to come here cuz it was a huge Gong show.. Now the only Gong show is a few posters on this site.. Trying so hard to make it in to one again.

QFT Although no one on the team would want to say so, this is a must-win game. It is also a character defining moment for the 2018 edition of the Bombers. Lose this, and they will end up in last place this year, or very close to it. I would not put money on them beating Montreal if they do not win this one.

That's a long way down.

You guys seriously need to win a game.

Memorable comments but can’t quote exactly...... Well now I’m convinced!

FFS guys, enjoy the game without shitting on the Bombers, wtf is wrong with you guys. I think they would welcome you two with open arms on rf... you two should give it a go.... Ffs...

Yeah, they sure did.

Chip Cox called. He wants to play for Ottawa.

sure have been a lot of low grade games this season, and not so good quarterback play.

Lulay . Is. Warrior.

Stupid that they'd have to waste a challenge on that. Really need to fix the challenges, if teams win they keep their challenge.

The refs should be disciplined.

So we can slag each other mercilessly and use expletives?

Thanks for the acknowledgment Speedy.. it’s all good. Looks like the mods have the night off 😃 I’ve been trying to include game day notes, but...

If 70k to Durant has you in trouble, you have bigger issues to look at. 70k is a bit above league minimum.

Are you his PR guy?

Westwood started here in 91-92ish..I remember that us as players used to work out at a place called Arizona Fitness..and totally recal a weird skinny guy with long hair come one day with I think Waalby or Dave Black...and he had "Kicker" engraved into his weight lifting belt...we were like "who the eff is this?" Lol

Considering Bighill and Bowman both turned down higher offers to come here I’m going to say no. Of course, this team looked significantly better in the offseason than it does now.

Nothing Ridiculous about it. Once management clues in to his actual skill set, he will be looking at a paycut or a road map. There isn't a team in the league that would give him 450k. Trade value??? ya every team wants a 450k backup

No. Nice try though. I do however know who you are talking about, so there is that...

Lol. So you picked him to be a bigger troll? What im reading here is you put way 2 much time and thought in to a message board pic. Nobody GAFs about your pic.. Ppl wont disagree with you cuz username and pic.. They will disagree with you because you come across as a know it all condescending *******.

Ross's stat line with us was 1 game played with 1 attempted pass that was incomplete.... oh did I mention it was on a botched FG attempt? In a game we ended up losing by 3 points? Yeah... good riddance.

BUT..... we're all here because we cheer for the team that gave Drew Willy starters money..... so..... haha

You're adopting the persona of Mike Kelly to protest? Wouldn't be my first choice to combat bullying and pervasive comments but to each their own. Just out of curiosity why not use your own persona?

“Because our coach is an idiot.“ Eternal Optimist (poster - previous post) It’s funny you should say that. After the practice today, in the post practice question period, Coach O’Shea said “I guess you can call me an Eternal Optimist”.. 😀

👨‍🚒👩‍🚒 👨‍⚕️👩‍⚕️ Need these for the burn.

Ah so we're giving up on Lafrance because he's had one fumble in three years ha Makes sense.

Wanna-be troll.