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Very looking forward to: -seeing our rookies on O-Line get some action -our new D-Line and D-backfield and how Burke deploys them -the fourway battle for the starting tailback spot -seeing if Trevor Harris is the entrenched Ray-understudy -and, oh yeah, Fooking Football is back!

Just curious, but why does the pilot in your avy have such a big head? the U2 flew much higher than previous spy planes. what they had Powers wear was kinda NASA like.

This game, BC vs. Edmonton, Saskatchewan vs. Ottawa, Winnipeg vs. Calgary, Ottawa vs. Montreal, and Calgary vs. BC are on TV. Montreal vs. Hamilton, and Saskatchewan vs. Edmonton are not on TV. pretty sure our game at Varsity isn't televised either.

i don't mind spelling REDBLACKS in all capital letters, i just do it differently.

the ratification bribe...er bonus, is what got this done.

On the contrary, Terry, i think that Osh's quote in the article displays a keen awareness of how the press in Winnipeg works.

too much upward salary movement in too short a period of time in the Players' offer. salary is a business expense to owners and the PA doesn't seem to understand that businesses can't have a fixed expense rise so sharply. if Flory can somehow get a strike vote done (even if it's a soft one), then the PA may yet do a little better than the League's "final, best offer" and the PA executive can save face. if they can't get a strike vote ratified, i see the League's offer getting accepted (although maybe for a shortened term). still laughing over Butler's tweet: "Where do I get a Cohon jersey"

he's coaching at Argo TC.

um... that's not how time works. seems like since we make fun of Flory's releases (rightly so) we ought to hold the league to the same standard. I think it was rejected by the PA in the morning so they sent it directly to the players after that in the afternoon. Either that or they built a flux capacitor and managed to harness 1.21 gigawatts.

anyone else find the wording of Cohon's release confusing? um... that's not how time works. seems like since we make fun of Flory's releases (rightly so) we ought to hold the league to the same standard.

1 year since the "google chrome" thread and then the "important announcement" which lead to a wielding of the mass-banhammer... good times... good memories...

i'm pro union... but i'm very anti public sector union.

FWIW, at the end of the season, Cohon said that 7 teams made money.

Guys make $45,000 a year & you want to break them? That's utterly ridiculous. Why not just find another league to follow? If Cohon's figures are in fact true in his release, the league average is just shy of $93,000. That's plenty. yeah... but there's an Apex Fallacy at work here... for every Ray, Burris, Lulay or Durant making $350k or more, that means there's likely 8 or more guys making the minimum so you can afford them.

this is good progress, imo. the deal is there to be had for the players if they're willing to step off of revenue sharing as their hill-to-die-on. that's the move here: ok League, we the players will reluctantly agree to accept a deal without revenue sharing provided you amend your deal to the following amounts... -the proposed SMS cap raise is 12% (not 9%) and it raises $60k/year (not $50k), -increase the minimum salary immediately to $55k (not $50k) which will be $60k at the end of the deal (not$55k). -raising the practice roster weekly pay from $750 to $900 once both sides agree that the amount is going up, the rest is just haggling. the owners made a reasonable offer that is just this side of generous... it's up to the players to get some extra value in the offer and get it signed.

it took less than a few months to turn this into one of the best online communities in all of the CFL's fandom. remarkable stuff. atta'boy's to the MBB team and all contributing members.

wouldn't shock me actually. would depend on Burke's views on him. he'd be behind other NIs Black and Gabriel but at a reduced contract (which he could afford to accept since this is where his family lives) he might be a good depth guy and a further incentive for his brother to sign here after he's done with Indy/NFL.

and i think that denying a kid the occasional pogo or jos louis is verging on child abuse.

my bad.

yes

as far as i know, they don't have then east of Manitoba... watching an Als/Cats game when the in-game winner is from Red Deer for the 200th time is maddening.

upgraded my Commodore 64 to an Amiga 500. get on my level. but srsly, this regional crap has to stop. TSN Go blocking out certain providers/ Safeway being the game contest sponsor/ Regina hosting a GC... this smalltime BS has to stop. it hurts the league.

could give him number 37?

if nothing else, it'll be nice to see DEs rushing the QB again... i like Jones, but his unorthodox-i'm-so-innovative ways were head scratchers at times. we still have Owens on our ST, and Milanovich runs a very tight ship so i'm not concerned over Daley's hire (puzzling though it was). uh, thanks... i think... it was more to do with my supreme faith in Osh. the man is a winner. and even if you guys get taken to the woodshed a time or two, don't lose heart because MO'S is taking the loss >9000 times worse than you are and will never be afraid to change things to try and find a better way forward. i think Burke is a top DC too and he and Milanovich had some very good times together before but like i said, it isn't just that our D is being reshaped but that it is also being rebuilt (again). losing guys like Mitchell, Ball and Watkins after a year previous losing guys like Armstead, McCulloch, Horne, Caroll... i just start getting an anxiety that we're asking Barks to reach into his bag of tricks too many times.