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Barry get better as it goes on and it's solid entertainment. An excellent show with excellent acting and a lot of plot twists. I look forward to season 7 as well. Righteous Gemstones has some hilarious moments at times. A must watch if you like Danny McBride. Never had a chance to watch Ted Lasso because I refuse to support Apple in any way, shape, or form. Wish there was another way. Someday I'll probably view it for sure.

40000 acre farm is an extremely large farm. You won't see too many of them. However, small family farms went the way of the dodo bird decades ago. Large scale corporate farming is the norm, has been since the 80s. When I was young we ran a modest size grain/cattle farm. In order to afford the machinery which is in the millions now you gotta run land, and you have to run numbers in livestock. We had to upscale from a modest 100 head of cattle, to 500 and abandon most of grain operations because our equipment was old an unreliable and new tractors/combines etc were going to add close to million in overhead in the near future. Luckily, crown leases for pasture land were abundant at the time and we were able to upscale or else we would have had to sell to one of the large scale farms that were beginning to devour land at the time.

I'm not ready to anoint Holm as the next Nichols, but I'm not ready to write him off based on his play last year either. Kid was a rookie and got torched like a rookie. If he worked his arse off all offseason and came into camp way more prepared and it's showing now then great. However, I will leave room for the possibility that he's a practice all star. This could go either way still. At any rate, the praise his high for him and hopefully he can reach his full potential on game day.

Easy. It has not been putrid. C'mon.

Roster size comes into play for sure. Also, these are human beings and who knows maybe this guy has a big bill coming in and his PR money ain't going to cover it and his team mates approach the coach saying get him a game cheque he really needs it. We don't know. So many reasons why MOS might make a curious move and without all the info all we get to do is a black and white evaluation and nothing is ever black and white. Yea...sure. It's not his strongest point. However, talk earlier in this thread by some was that he was so bad at it that Bomber fans were on the verge of turning on him. That's overstating it dramatically.

Ok fair enough. Just making a point that there are more factors to roster management than meets the eye of the fans. Sure MOS has also made some head scratching moves as well, but a lot of what we consider to be crazy is not viewed through a wider lens.

I don't give a crap how good your locker room is policed, if there is no incentive for hard work you will lose guys and culture along with it. Yes, guys in our locker room are busting their ass, and yes our team leaders keep their feet on the gas pedal but at the end of the day if you reward a player, just once, for having a week where he didn't give it 100 then you will begin the process of losing your room. Culture matters. The Bomber locker room is better than any at self motivating but they are not infallible. That is when the roster management is another tool to use.

There are guys who go above and beyond the norm even at the pro level and rostering a guy for a game that does so is not going to break a locker room. Ever. Unless you have a locker room of selfish players. I shouldn't say not ready for the game, just not the first guy off the bench. Is it so crazy that we dressed him but he wasn't our first pick to go in just because he an IMP label?

Is it wasting a roster spot if he busted his nut all year and was being rewarded with a game cheque. Obviously he was not ready for any reps yet, but it's quite possible that his receiver group might even have went to MOS and told him you gotta get that guy on the roster for a game. He's busting his nuts for us.

If he does it is because McCrae jumped off the page with his effort all week. MOS gives snaps to guys that we shake our head at, but I guarantee the players understand it. They know this guy is getting rewarded for working his arse off, and trust me when MOS does something like that the next week 5 more guys bust their ass harder to try earn those reps too. With the starters, that can come down to the looks and playcalls they love coming their way. Biggie busts a nut all week, give him a couple blitzes to show appreciation for that effort, Bailey is an unsung hero for 4 games give him a game where 5 balls come his way. Locker rooms aren't easy to manage and when guys think their work is being ignored they can check out on you. Just ask Kongbo.

What's so baffling about it. Getting the guy a couple game checks because he probably worked his arse off. You and I both know that roster management is a tool, one of the best tools, to help develop culture. Guys who are FIFO, and work hard, occasionally get rewarded by seeing the field or the roster when guys on the outside like us don't understand it because we are not viewing it through the wide angle lens that MOS has to do. If you ask guys to commit, and work their arse off, and don't at least occasionally offer reward for it then you get a culture like the BC Lions where guys start dogging it. THIS is what Kongbo was talking about. He was, or felt he was, working the hardest and was not given the opportunity for more reps even. On a MOS team you work your tail off and even if you are not number one on the depth chart he will try work you in for your effort. For the fans it's black and white, player X is better than player Y, but we don't get to see that player X might have been half assing it while player Y went above and beyond. These are factors in a coaches roster management decision and when you value effort and reward it the culture becomes a good one by default. It permeates through the dressing room.

The only shame belongs at the feet of Justin Trudeau for his corruption, and Wab Kinew for beating a woman. Do that....and everything said about you is fair game.

You doubt MOS, who regularly educates the refs on the rules, will learn the rule? MOS not only learned the rule, he has probably put in countless hours of thought into it. MOS not knowing the rules is about the last thing I would have expected anyone to say, if there is one thing besides winning that MOS has demonstrated it is that he has encyclopaedic understanding of the rule book. I am pretty shocked at everyone turning on MOS for not doing something, that he literally has had no opportunity to do yet. If you guys think that MOS hasn't looked at this rule, studied it, looked at every conceivable way it can be implemented to our advantage, and then won't do it and will play Maruo instead that's just crazy. The guy wants to win, and this is an opportunity to have another very good player on the field you normally couldn't have. He will use it. Geez Louise.

Great than I have more reason than ever to hate the Liberals because they screwed my people more than any other political party out there,

Well that's up to them right. I mean if they do it wrong, they are only hurting themselves. The province doesn't refund you for liquor that was stolen in your property. You pay your tab to the MLCC or BDL based on what you order, not based on what you sell unless something stale dates, or you have breakage off the truck. As for people thinking they would get held up more.....nope, not in my experience anyway. I had vendors that were held up before and they weren't running away with or targeting beer/coolers. It was cigarettes and whatever cash was in the till. If you already sell cigarettes they are far more likely to get you robbed than liquor. You keep your liquor behind the counter on display and your odds of theft do not increase that much. Manitoba liquor stores ran into problems with theft because they were overcrowding their stores during peak times with not much to speak of in the way of security and making customer access to grab and run way too easy.

The only time liquor theft is a problem is when it is accessible to the public on the shelf. I have had beer/cooler vendors for decades in this province. I have owned beer store versions of beer vendors and the kind where the clerk goes into the cooler and gets you what you want. Wanna guess which one had pretty much zero theft? It is nonsense to suggest that liquor sales automatically equate to liquor theft. It's simply not true, it just has to be done right. The beer store vendors do dramatically higher sales, and see a lot more impulse buy of secondary product and that leads to higher profits overall but the old style beer vendors offer cost certainty to those who would sell liquor in high crime areas.

It is just bad timing is what I chalk it up to. The federal strike kind of threw a wrench into his VISA application just after he would have filed it and it's just one of those unforeseeable circumstances that happen in life.

Bombers knew he had charges pending. Bombers knew it might affect his work VISA. What they couldn't do is apply for a work visa sooner than what they did or make Canada Border Services go any faster processing it before he signed a contract with them. That could not happen until the 3rd week of February at the earliest. He plead out his case in the first week in April. We are talking at most a week that could have been saved. Also, let's not forget the backlog created by the Federal employee strike that most definitely delayed his VISA application.

They know better but have collectively chosen to ignore it...AS A TEAM. Solidarity in that locker room. Tight knit. No outsider is going to tell them about the culture they have cultivated.

Don't you ever get tired of being a closet Lions fan? It's PRIDE month, as good a time as any to come out of the closet. You might find that it liberates you and it sure as hell would explain most of your contrarian logic to the rest of us. Yea. He might have been able to take care of the DUI charge...who knows? However, he could not apply for a new work visa until he had a new contract. That COULD NOT happen much earlier than it did, nor can anyone control how fast his VISA app would be processed, The argument that this could have all been sorted out earlier is complete fiction as first comes the new contract, then comes the VISA app, then comes the processing time, then comes the decision to grant the VISA. All in that order. Realistically, the DUI charge being settled earlier would not have helped at all.

Probably not a coincidence at all. But why that matters is beyond me. At the end of the day the immigration hiccup just happened last week. Whether he was convicted in November or April is of little consequence to that.

The DUI was the story when it happened two years ago and was extensively written about then. Lawler did not receive a free pass from anyone on that. Now he is unable to play because of an IMMIGRATION ISSUE stemming from his conviction. It's that simple really. It's only you that wants to speak about the DUI again. To the rest of us, it's old news.

My brother was caught with impaired a few years back and his suspension was immediate. My sister in law is a crown attorney and they are so far behind they have begun dismissing cases outright to clear the backload because if they don't people will walk due to the failure to provide justice in a timely manner. A lot of people on summary charges are getting free walks right now if they take the time to plead not guilty. Crowns and courts don't have the time to deal with it. If you get a traffic ticket right now plead not guilty, good chance they will drop the charges.

Please report it. Also, report all the exact same ads targeting the PCs put out by all the unions. They, too, are absolutely garbage and should be illegal as well.

They may have a great locker room there but a collective laziness that no one in that locker room seems to think is a problem. When a new guy comes in and challenges that it disturbs them. That about sums it up imo.