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If they sign their new HC to a one year, dead duck, contract they can kiss any chance of retaining/ recruiting FA's or a QB this year. Might as well hang the forfeit sign on the window, refund the season ticket holders, and tell the league we'll be back in 2020. You don't throw the season away because you couldn't get permission to interview a guy.

They are the kings of wishful thinking. They honestly think that any incoming HC is going to sign a one year dead duck contract...that's sad.

About the only thing that Jones did very well was being a brilliant DC. He was an average HC, and below average GM. Without him their that defence falls to middle of the pack in the league. Without HUGE offensive improvement they are not a playoff team this year. They all know it too, Rider fans won't admit that they look to be basement dwellers if they don't hit a home run in HC and QB recruitment, but their angst over the whole Lapo things proves they are hiding a huge amount of worry over the coming season.

Have you ever listened to the Green Zone....remarkable how devoid of facts they are. It's why they are on a radio station in the butthole of Canada.

This is what happens when you get an owner of a forum like CRF who lets the tail wag the dog. His moderators, RS and VoR among others run that website and bully all others into submission. Toe the line of what they believe and you are OK, those who dissent from the fiction they create get banned. It's a travesty really. CRF is a good guy but he has completely lost sight of what and how his moderation itself behaves. Stronson makes up half of what he is saying, says he has a secret source, and anyone who questions it is banned. Too funny. For the life of me I can't understand why any level headed Rider fan would put up with that crap. I guess it's because it's the only Rider forum, so what choice do they got. One day someone will start a 2nd Rider forum and it won't be long before Stronson, BSD, VoR and the other football insider wannabees are posting by themselves at a near dead forum. I am sure CRF and those that control his forum will laugh when he reads this, as he is lurker on this forum, but I would recommend he talk to Colin Unger about how quickly an entrenched and busy fan forum can fall off the rails.

Your sources on this sound just as believable as Stronson's sources.....eerily similar actually. Maybe it is true.

And now you have given away where he can be found to the hitmen. Nice. Nate, if you are reading, stay in the basement of your bookstore for a couple of days.

You mean Canada's team is not allowed to do whatever it wants? How dare you.

But did you explain it to them using Sesame Street characters and crayon drawn charts and graphs. If not, the point was probably lost on most of them.

No soup for you. That line?

I too have gazed into my crystal ball regarding the Riders and it is bleak....very bleak.

I wish I knew how to do GIFs on here. Stronson reminds me of Cartman "Do not question my authoritah!"

Yea....Stronson has about as much inside information on the CFL as my poodle does.

That'll get you banned. Stronson was on an incredible run of his "inside sources" being completely out to lunch last year and he starter ban hammering anyone who brought it up.

They are still clinging to the notion that the Bombers are evil and that Lapo is a hostage. I love it. In a week or so they will hire a coach and throw Lapo to the wolves by telling everyone they dodged a bullet by not getting permission to hire Lapo so that they could hire (insert new HC name here).

If Riderfans want to be mad at someone they should be mad at Jones for leaving them high and dry, or Reynolds for negotiating such a stupid contract that allowed this to happen.....that doesn't fit the narrative of the moderation over there though. They've been selling Jones and Reynolds as the Riders saviors for so long now that this puts them in quite the bind. But like any experienced fan forum member they will instead create the Bomber bogeyman to distract the membership at large from realizing how grossly incorrect the Jonestown fan club really were.

Saying Lapo is very upset creates far more clicks than saying he was mildly disappointed. I don't believe that Farjan had any conversation with Lapo while he was in Kansas yesterday, and I believe whoever fed him this info, he took it and blew it up for reasons of readership.

Absolutely, but we are not paid to be accurate. He is. He has been uncharacteristically very inaccurate over the past couple months. I am wondering if he is getting big pressure to create click bait.

Staying in Winnipeg will take a ton of the sting away for Paul. At the end of the day he, and his family, LOVE Winnipeg. It has probably already blown over.

Screw Farhan, he still thinks there is a chance that Bighill will be a Lion this year. Sour grapes because we beat the Leos to the punch.

I am kinda scared. Stronson has it on good authority from his multitude of inside sources that Lapo is going to quit and take a year off, he is so mad. We all know that Stronson is not a fan forum member, he is a super secret CFL spy that knows everything going on behind the scenes of every club. I totally agree with your take. January 20 is way too late in the game for teams to be replacing coordinators without weakening themselves greatly. Not sure why the Rider fans feel the Bombers are obligated to let Lapo possibly go at this stage of the game. Just because Craig Reynolds was too stupid to put a drop dead date on Jones leaving doesn't mean we have to be equally as dumb.

Well done KW and Dayna Spiring. well done.

Wellington Altus is owned by the husband of our BOD vice chairperson Dayna Spiring....so not as off base as you are making it sound. But it ain't cheating so screw em all.

Toronto may be a joke attendance wise but the GTA provides very solid CFL viewership numbers to TSN and is a big reason the rest of the CFL has the TV deal it does. Don't be fooled by attendance. People like the Argos and watch them in Toronto, you just won't get them to go to a game because their game day experience has been complete garbage for a long time.

There is absolutely zero truth to the rumor that Bighill was at the Canucks game with Wally and Hervey. That would be tampering. Hervey and Wally are not idiots, they would not sit front row of a broadcasted Canucks game with a player that is under contract to another team. I can't believe any of you fell for what is quite obviously a troll job.