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4 hours ago, BigBlue said:
thank you
Like why not just be honest & say you want Walters & O'Shea gone instead of hiding how you feel with some fantasy trade that will never happen? Then, on top of things you start telling us why it should happen. All you guys that want O'Shea gone should just give it up already. He's coming back.
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1 hour ago, Brandon Blue&Gold said:
Which is good for our manufacturing and exports sectors.
You mean Southern Ontario. Or Bombarier in Montreal. Where all the votes are. It doesn't help anyone else. Everything costs more. At the same time bring in policies to kill the oil industry out west with all the jobs that go with it as the Liberals don't need the west to gain power. Typically Canadian, instead of becoming competitive on the world stage the maufacturing sector relies on government subsidies or policies like a low dollar to keep them competitive when they can't do it on their own. Manufacturing is shrinking anyway as companies become more global like the auto industry. Jobs are leaving for Asia & Mexico.
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4 hours ago, Noeller said:
Look at the number of cups they've got to show from the last 20 years and how many times they've been in playoffs....
What about us?
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14 hours ago, Brandon Blue&Gold said:
One simplistic way to look at it... you like being able to afford a flat screen tv, a smartphone, a good car for under 25 grand, and doing all your shopping at Walmart on the cheap? If your answer is yes then yay international trade agreements.
Maybe you should add that the lonnie's value to the American Dollar which has been under par mostly since the deal was signed.
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That made no sense. Having a hard time wrapping myself around that ending with Goldberg. A guy who was UFC Heavyweight champ just loses like that? So much for Paul Heyman's Beast Incarnate. It's like they're killing him off. Man, do the fans hate Roman Reigns. He's bringing Rollins down with him.
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On 4/6/2016 at 0:08 AM, The Unknown Poster said:
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He'll be 29 when his contract is up. Dave Dickenson was roughly the same age when he went down but there's a lot of great young guns coming out of the NCAA so it's tough for a "rookie" at that age to make it. For 2 seasons, Dickenson bounced around before deciding to come back as he could see the writing on the wall.
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2 hours ago, tracker said:
I suspect that many of us had hit the "mute" button for most of the telecast.
Black has to go. He just has to go.
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3 hours ago, tracker said:
To me it looked like Reilly was banged up- at the end of the game he was rubbing his left shoulder after every play. Might have made a difference in the game.
Maas needs to learn humility. He has a huge chip on his shoulder.
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Kinda nice to see Maas & his team go down today in the snow.
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17 hours ago, Rich said:
The length of the commitment was based on where your seats were located. Only the prime locations were 5 years.
I do know that for ticket group I am in (our seats are upper deck centre ice), the renewal came last year or the year before.
I believe the majority of renewals have already come and people either renewed or people from the waiting list stepped in.
I think the biggest reason for the Jets selling out like they have was the scarcity of tickets from their initial return and groups splitting season tickets.
No way I'm making the time and financial commitment to go to all home games. But with groups of people splitting the tickets, which to my knowledge wasn't as prevalent or never happened in Jets 1.0, it is more affordable for people and those people end up going to more games than if they were buying single seats.
Remember Jet Packs? I think you could buy 10 & 15 games when the Jets 1.0 played out of the Winnipeg Arena. They weren't season tickets but it guaranteed your seat for those games. Don't know if it included the playoffs. Anyone remember? No need for that this time round.
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Women's hockey is a tough sell. Canadians only care during the Olympics as it means we'll win a gold or silver.
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Even if 6,000 people are added on to the old season ticket base of about 8,000 the team is in better shape than it was in the 90's with the new building as it sells out at 15,000. Team merchandising ,marketing & tv deals are astronomical compared to what it was when Jets 1.0 were here. More sources of revenue than before.
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Here are some stats.. Winnipeg's population has grown by 100,000 since 1996. That's quite significant as it's almost the City of Regina.
http://www.winnipeg.ca/cao/pdfs/population.pdf
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They're sure getting hammered just a couple of hundred miles east in NW Ontario like Dryden & Sioux Lookout. Thirty to 40 cms of snow have fallen. Winter is there to stay.
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19 minutes ago, J5V said:
Scott Milanovich is an experienced, Grey Cup winning head coach and former QB. He and Mike are human and have made mistakes. Yet, if I could swap them straight up, right now, I'd do it in a heartbeat and I believe my team would be better off for it. I'd love to fleece Toronto one more time.
Coaches are always smart when they have talent. When they don't their IQ seems to go down 20 points or however IQ is measured. Milanovich looked like a loser this year with the talent he had to work with. Looking frustrated & confused as to why things didn't work out on the field. Plus, he's the guy who thinks Drew Willy will become an elite CFL qb.
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7 minutes ago, J5V said:
This is a discussion forum and with the presser today one of the topics discussed was the future of Mike O'Shea. Isn't that what we do here, discuss? Why does it make you and some others so uncomfortable?
I must have missed the memo on unbridled devotion to all things Mike O'Shea.
I was angry with the FG call as I believe it wasn't the right one. Some people agree & some don't saying that was the only call he could have made. I think had we gone on 3rd & 4 & made it we'd have won that game. That's my opinion for what it's worth. What's done is done. However you don't pile on him or fire him for that unless he had a long list of gaffes that cost us wins. He won 5 more games this year than in 2015 & we got into the semi final. You reward success. You don't punish it. He'll be back if he wants to be back. It'll be his choice.
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Does anyone really know if NAFTA & these other international trade deals have made our lives better or worse? I just see jobs going to Mexico or China & the Phiullipines. Meanwhile you can't ship beer from one province to another among other things. I wish we'd take care of our own country first before trying to be wunderkinds on the world stage all the time & have everybody like us.
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5 hours ago, J5V said:
Does anyone know why O'Shea refused to say whether or not he was coming back? Has he been offered a job elsewhere? All Walters would say was that he wouldn't tell you guys (the media) either.
If O'Shea leaves then Walters will deal with it. Why worry about it? Mike is an adult & he can come & go as he chooses as his contract is expiring in the next few weeks. We know the Bombers want him back so it's not something the Bombers have done to slight him. If he chooses to go elsewhere it's his choice. I fail to see the angst you show about trying to somehow read between some blurred lines. I assume that if The Coach does leave then you'll be very happy. Then you look at a guy like Lawless. He hasn't tweeted a single thing that O'Shea is rumoured to be looking elsewhere or that a team wants him. He'd have heard something. I'd be absolutely shocked if he didn't come back.
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5 hours ago, bearpants said:
This is just wrong... first of all, our LBers are pretty much the perfect size for each position they play: Wild 6'0 210, Bass 6'1 225, Leggett 6'0 200... but more importantly, size is irrelevant (obviously to an extent, you can't be 5'7 175 and play MLB)... Bass and Wild weren't missing tackles b/c they're too small, they were missing tackles b/c they were positionally unsound and had sloppy execution...
He's not the best in the league... but to answer your question.... yes, I have absolute faith he can lead us to a Grey Cup...
I'd rate Nichols with Tom Burgess or even Sean Salisbury. I think he's better than the other 2 though. Nichols excels as a game manager. He prevents turnovers & picks other than the last regular season game where he threw 3 but that was just him having a bad game. All qbs have games like that. If we develop a dominant defense to help him we can win. That's the key to this team. It's our defense. It has to be better. It's dragging the team down. Changes have to be made. Perhaps starting at DC. We'll see. I just hope Mike O'Shea sees that.
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On 11/14/2016 at 7:08 AM, Mike said:
Heaven forbid I suggest we cut ties with Wild around these parts.
I'm a big Ian Wild guy, but his "heart and soul" doesn't make up for the fact that he whiffed second level tackles in the back half of this season like he had contract incentives for doing so. I don't know if it was injury and maybe it was, but I have no doubt that Burnett outplayed Wild down the stretch.
I believe Wild's play was injury related. He'll come back next year & hopefully stay healthy & will have a much better season. Wild's a very good player.
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There are lots of leaders in the Stamps dressing room. Carter will know his place if he acts the way he did in Montreal. They won't pay him top dollar like other teams would as Hufnagel doesn't spend wildly on free agents. Besides, they have some young dynamic receivers now that I don't think the Stamps really need Duron Carter.