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  3. First post 'expectations in '17'

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    21 hours ago, Brandon said:

     

    I thought that I had read that the city is bringing in 10 000 refugees from Africa every year which wouldn't bring much money and I am to assume that they have no interest in the CFL.  

    Just doing the old eye check from going around town I assume the population growth is mostly  folks from Philippines,  India and Africa.   And based on my experiences of going to the games.... they don't seem to like going to the CFL games.  

    Now if we immigrated a bunch of folks from Russia and change the Rum hut to a Vodka hut... I would think they would see a massive increase in ticket sales :)  

    Plenty of Russian Mennonites moving into the Bible Belt - big families too - may not even need a vodka hut...

  5. Bombers at Lions WSF GDT

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    11 hours ago, tracker said:

    How dare you inject reality into this!! The bottom line: coaches are hired and paid to make the right decisions. O'Shea made the decision which failed and cost the team the game and the season. Richie is responsible for the mistakes of his charges, and so is O'Shea.

    And we don't get to have nice things 

  7. Donald Trump

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    1 hour ago, tacklewasher said:

    The problem is more of the blame being placed. Whether it is 60 million people who are terrible, or (as Samantha Bee on Full Frontal explains it) all white men at fault, it does seem that the left are not yet willing to take a good hard look at why they lost, who voted against them and what they are going to need to do to address it in 4 years. Right now the left are acting like children after a spanking. Either they grow up and look at reality or it will be 8 years of Trump.

    Sort of like what the Canadian Conservatives need to be doing right now (and, from the looks of the leadership contenders, failing at).

    It's idiotic to demonize your opponent at this point in time. It will continue to drive moderates away. And this goes both ways.

    Good post. Canadian Conservatives are doomed for a while. They have leadership candidates who want to reopen the abortion debate - somehow they missed 2016 memo - it must have stayed on Harper's desk

  14. East Semi

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    I think Hamilton has a good chance of beating Edmonton. Edmonton was not able to get consistent pressure on Collaros during the regular season and Hammy has not been turning the ball over of late. With Hamilton mostly healthy, this could be an offensive shootout. 

  16. Coach of the year finalists

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    On November 11, 2016 at 0:26 AM, Goalie said:

    1 division 

    Calgary BC get byes 

    Winnipeg vs Hamilton in Winnipeg. 

    Edmonton vs Ottawa in Edmonton 

    Or 

    Calgary vs Hamilton 

    BC vs Ottawa .

    Winnipeg vs Edmonton 

    It just makes more sense 

    Please explain how option 2 would work in the second round of the playoffs...

  18. Donald Trump

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    I am NOT a Trump supporter, but I love seeing the media and the polls proven so horribly wrong. If you look all the way down to the basic reason why Trump won, there are two possibilities:


    1. They are incompetent and did not factor in all the variables

    2. They wanted Clinton to win and tried to manipulate voters by posting inaccurate results

    Quite frankly, they got what they deserved - both scenarios leave them with egg on their face. The voters of America sent them a strong message. Perhaps this can be a small start towards unbiased reporting, if such a thing is even possible anymore.

  21. The Inside Track

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    5 hours ago, gcn11 said:

    If Sinopoli was open every play he would have had a career day and so would Hank. Suggesting that he could have set some offensive records but chose not to is just ridiculous, and I can't believe you believed that pile of manure. Especially when he's trying to make a statement for continued employment next year.

    Oh sure, he would tell me that in order to get employed again next year. Nothing was said about offensive records, other than by yourself.  He meant that Sinopoli was generally open as an outlet option, nothing more than that.

  23. The Inside Track

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    13 minutes ago, Noeller said:

    Did he teach you all about taking credit for all good things, but throwing everyone else under the bus when bad things happen to you? That's about the only thing I'd trust his advice on...

    Lol. He actually explained to Chris Williams why he didn't throw to him on a certain route. 'Brad was open, it was a safe throw to move the chains.' 

  25. The Inside Track

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    Believe it or not, I flew to Ottawa this morning and was seated next to Henry Burris:

    Dude is ridiculously into NFL & fantasy football.  His kids play hockey (thank you Canada)

    A few tidbits he dropped about the game and other things:

    1. Sinopoli was open behind our SAM LB almost every play. He said he could have thrown there more often but 'the defense had this one, it didn't even matter.'

    2. Thinks the Bombers are a good team that had an off game. 'We cashed in on that and locked up first place, yes sir.'

    3. He was talking about buying $60 shots of whiskey the night before. One of the coaches walks by and says 'thanks for the scotch. Hank replies 'any time.'

    4. He likes to shoot the breeze with his OL - until two of them managed to move up to first class seats. Pretty big dudes to be seated in economy.

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