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You are right...it is their fault...just not directly but fault is fault. If they wanna host these things get some people.

Any game in late November is going to be a last week sell out. People wanna know the weather.

Vancouver is indeed a pretty pricy Grey Cup. but the services and events were top notch and the experience enjoyable. Not cheap though at all. WIth Vancouver you know that it will be expensive and you expect it. Regina was just as expensive and the experience was a complete calamity. It's hard to enjoy things when you have to leave early to get a cab, or be prepared to spend 2 hours waiting for one and to eat....just go for breakfast and then start lining up for lunch, then from there line up for supper. It's not Regina's fault per se, it's just too small. '

I agree. Only problem is that they announced that the media and HCs had votes so tough to backtrack after that. Could have said that the fan votes were weighted more heavily than they were supposed to be....our bad.

For sure. I suspect that the first list was simply the fan votes and they forgot to add the media and HC votes.

It's not just hotel and game tickets that are the problem with the GC experience in Regina. The city is too small, and lacks the infrastructure for such an event. Waiting in line for an hour to get into a decent restaurant, getting a cab....forget about it, getting gouged basically every place you go...guaranteed. Regina doesn't get many major events and when it does it sure puts it's collective hands out to pillage every poor tourist that travels there. I went in 2013 and swore I would never do it again. Just a miserable experience from start to finish. This is back when I used to attend every Grey Cup, now I don't do it anymore, and Regina was the catalyst for that change and it's too bad because I have attended a few LDCs and it is not the same at all.

There is very little doubt about that.

That can't be right. I was told over there that they are the most loyal, educated, and diehard fan base in the league that every other CFL franchise envies because no matter what they sell out every game. That is what makes them Canada's flagship sports team apparently. Wow....I am shocked by this. lmao So no punishment at all then? They do that anyway just takes till mid 1st Q.

He wouldn't have hit the field either way. Mulumba was a starter for most of his career there. Not just rostered but actually playing a lot, He wasn't a PR guy, but I think the OP was speaking in general terms not specifically about Mulumba.

Maybe...but if that's the mindset why wait and flush another season down the toilet, Take your football ops lumps for the season but get the ball rolling with the next guys. I guess it depends how much they are paying O'Daisy and Dickie though....knowing the RIders their salaries might be out of whack thus further handcuffing them.

The list is a **** show really. Rose, Grant, Rutledge are all pretty iffy picks in comparison to other players in the division. Calgary getting no love on the OL is criminal. However, Riderfans are bent out of shape over Sankey being snubbed and I don't think that is accurate. Biggie didn't have his best season for sure, but what he enables our defence to do and how his presence limits offences in what they can do is overlooked a lot. That being said he probably wasn't all star material this year but he's definitely not as controversial a pick as many on the list. Some of them for sure. Harris being selected is an absolute joke until you look around at the competition and realize no RB had more than a handful of decent games in the East. That being said, I still would have picked someone else in the East.

If he was with the Riders that would have been his season total. Wouldn't have been his fault...but just saying.

In Regina if you want any kind of media access to the team you better be sunshine and lollipops on every decision they make, so I can kind of understand them kissing butt. The franchise won't have it any other way. However, John Hodge also thinks this is the correct decision....makes me wonder what he is on.

When your team runs like a Swiss watch in every aspect both on and off the field you deserve the nod. When your team stands in the parking lot looking to jump the opposition as they leave like a bunch of hood rats....not so much. It was those same veterans that were causing some of the problems. After years of futility they just didn't know how to handle the success they had that season. It went to their heads and they ran with it.

Yes, it appears you are correct. Games spent on the 53 are pensionable games even if you are inactive.

No doubt about that. Not the same at all, but I see no chance for BC to win with Vernon Adams.

Mauldin was a beast for Ottawa this year, and deserves MODP imo.

Rourke will be in the NFL in about 3 months. Me neither, not sure Campbell is of the same opinion though.

Maggie the Monkey would be happy to spin the wheel and guide their franchise. Couldn't be worse.

They cannot ask Rourke to run the ball, that's for sure. However, they might try him for a few series and alternate with VA and hope someone catches fire. Farhan and Arash wish they were having Rourke's baby.

Absolutely not an ideal situation to platoon unless you have a guy with a unique skillset like Strev brought to the table. However, I am not sure that Rourke's foot lasts a full game if they don't, and VA isn't good enough to advance his team. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

I think they are thinking they better keep their offence on the field. All I know is that Biggie has never failed to rise to the occasion before when we needed a game of good run stopping.

Streveler platooned in that game and had a total of 11 snaps behind centre. Not sure even Strev could have lasted if he was the starter and took every offensive snap. In fact, I would have bet heavily against it happening and that is probably the main reason we went out and got ZC. However, if BC were to platoon Rourke and VA maybe that could be effective if done right.

The 2001 Bombers didn't show up for the game, that won't happen with this crew.

Yea...I think it was Joe Mack's buddy Dom Capers that signed Mulumba and led him to believe he was TCF and would be available to the Bombers. Even still we did have a chance to sign him in 2018. Mulumba wanted to play, wanted to come to the CFL, but Walters was restrained by SMS and lowballed him and couldn't offer him the one year deal he wanted (no option year at that time). His agent then went goofy nuts and crapped all over the CFL and demanded a trade, and I would assume no other team would touch him with a 10 foot pole after realizing his agent was goofy nuts and was demanding big salary if he was to sign for more than a year.