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Let the new guy come in and get a couple games to decide who is staying and who is leaving. What's interesting about the timing is that it would strongly suggest they have his replacement ready or had to let him go because Popp was going to start unloading assets prior to the deadline in an effort to keep his job.

Just ribbing you BBRT. You are far more complimentary about the Stamps than the Bombers this year, despite the two teams showing some real similarities so I bug you when you compliment them but criticize us.

Don't feel bad, most Stamp fans are casual fans.

I have said it before, and I will say it again, our team game and strategy is tailor made for winning in cold weather. We run the rock like no one else, and defend the run better than anyone. When that thermometer goes down that's the two things you need to do the best. We could not win another game this year and I would still like our chances in the playoffs providing it is cold.

I would agree with you, however, Strev is also an OSH guy and I think that is the direction we will go.

I think most knew it, but we were able to get away with it so no one took it as a big deal. Now, Montreal and Hammy have given the blueprint to the entire league on how to slice and dice our D if Hecht is our S. Therefore, he needs to go to the bench.

Our biggest flaw fatale right now is not our defence. Yes, we got exposed for a couple games but realistically I believe we have the personnel to correct that before the playoffs. However, we are dead in the water if Streveler can't show an ability to stretch the field on offence. He's been figured out and teams are no longer respecting our passing attack and are shutting down what is a pretty one dimensional offence right now. We can't win the Grey Cup on Strev's legs.

That is pretty much the bottom line. Hecht is not physically gifted enough when he gets it right and he sure has heck does not have the physical capability to get back in a play where he screws up. We got away with it a lot earlier in the year because teams feared our pass rush and weren't going long on us. Now they max protect and go long knowing there is no safety help to be had.

...and because you have a long and illustrious history of criticizing all things Bombers. The point he was trying to make is that when all you do is criticize the Bombers for thousands of posts, even your best arguments are met with skepticisim or even dismissed because you have shown very little balance in your approach.

Supply/demand. I completely agree that time is running out on these guys if we don't win a cup. I personally don't want a management/coaching team that can't deliver a cup after 5 years. However, that being said a clear and obvious upgrade has to be available. Change for the sake of change is stupid.

I have a cousin who got caught with 5oz of cocaine and 20k cash. He got 2 years house arrest.

No doubt about that. 100k for an entire career will take shrewd financial management just to have a good retirement.

Hefney played at a time when almost no DBs made a 100k a year. I doubt he even made 100k a year at any point.

There is nothing smoke an mirrors about our club this year. We have a well earned 9-4 record despite not having our starting QB for the past month.

For sure. We don't have a long play clock to be audibling constantly.

Matt Nichols audibles on occasion, but I have not seen Streveler do so.

No kidding. Some of these comments are just bizarre. It was a terrible half of football to be sure but seasons are 18 games, not 2 Q of football. We are in first place in a very talented West division. Some people are acting like we are 0-13.

Wins create buy in. Comparing the Daley era to now is a massive over reach. First place teams don't check out like you are suggesting. I mean seriously, one loss and you think we may be at the point of the coaches losing the room? C'mon man....these are professionals, they are not fickle like fans are. I can guarantee you that even a team as talented as ours would be in last place right now if the players didn't have a ton of faith in their coaches. One loss does not erase that good will and faith.

Our sun will have burnt out long before that.

I agree. This Jeckyll and Hyde routine needs to end. You can't convince me that suddenly Montreal became the better team in the 2nd half. Our guys pooped the bed and it's not the first time they've done it this year.

Why would Hydro need fibre optics. MTS just used the hydro right of ways.

Riderfans are tripping over themselves to gain distance from RP, their once vaunted hero who told it like it is. Hilarious.

I agree. Hydro will be a money loser for the next couple decades. Unlike MTS that saw vast reductions in rates when privatized, the only way a buyer gets value for Manitoba Hydro now is with massive rate hikes because of the massive incompetence in cost overruns of construction of the Wuskwatum and Keeyask dams and BiPole 111..

No doubt....and the tech was so bad we were on party lines for gosh sakes. MTS could not compete with the private sector. Simple as that. It was a mercy kill.

Agreed.