Brandon Blue&Gold

which is the crux of the issue, we didn't bring in any good candidates in camp. You know who else beat out all those guys? Old man Romby Bryant who beat them without having to even be in training camp. 

This may force the locals to combine-pool in order to get to games.

They are going to have to expand that parking lot around the stadium dramatically as it seems to me that there is only room for around 1,000 combines with the current configuration, at least 3,000 too small.

As a proud Brandonite and diehard Bomber fan, I'm sure you'll understand why I take issue with the above statement.  Just because it's the "Winnipeg Blue Bombers" doesn't mean there aren't Bomber fans outside the Perimeter Hwy in Manitoba.  You wanna slag the Riders and Saskatchewan, have at it.  Leave my city out of it.

I've heard Brandon get trash talked by Sask folk plenty of times too.  Mainly due to the constant whuppings the Wheat Kings hand out to your WHL teams. 

There's people on here obsessed with the Riders?  You realize you're a rider fan with over 500 posts on a Bomber board, right?

Everyone sends their first round picks to Winnipeg, we send them stale Twizzlers.

Do we really need to be attacking the Rider fans in every single thread? Quite honestly that's more annoying than the presence of the few Rider fans we have here.

Sunseri vs Calgary and Edmonton x5?
 
I have a feeling BC isn't going to have a tough time catching and passing the Riders.  BC shouldn't have too much trouble winning at least 3 of their remaining games, probably should win 4.  Saskatchewan would have to win 2-3 games to match them.
 
We have to win 3 more games than the Riders in the final 3rd to pass them in the standings.  Not very likely IMO.

It's WPG vs B.C. for 4th.
 
Such is life we finish 5th and out of the playoffs BUT we would be in 1st place in the East and THEN we'll see where those separate division lovers are.

Who cares about Saskatchewan.
 
Let's worry about ourselves and if we take care of business, we'll beat out whoever it happens to be.

why worry about the Riders? Beat the Lions when they come to winnipeg and try and make up that other game on them somewhere and you're set. 

I really don't think our depth is appalling at all. My problem with it is that it is lackluster in spots where there's just no excuse.
 
To be relying on guys like Kuale and Romby is atrocious.

They're not because they have less experience and the coaches don't just blindly assign guys to #2 and #3 positions. Sunseri is the back up because they've determined he is the 2nd best guy on the roster so what that means, is that if they start yanking him to put another guy in you've entered full on desperation mode. No team has some hidden gem at 3rd or 4th string that is going to come out of nowhere to wow people. You're too young to remember but when Ricky Ray came out of nowhere, he was the talk of the CFL based on preseason and was #2 coming out of camp and when he got in in place of Jason Maas he was instantly a smash hit. None of the Rider qbs showed anything like that, don't expect them to come in and suddenly be better. There is a reason that quarterback is the hardest position for teams to find a player at. It takes a very special situation for it to work. Most people felt the Riders did have a good situation for a player to succeed in because they have a good D and a good OL, but as we saw with Sunseri young players can often get hesitant if things start to go badly or the other defense makes them uncomfortable and things can quickly spiral out of control. Trust me on this one, again you're too young to remember the Riders having to do this but when you keep throwing qb after qb in looking for the instant fix you wind up ruining any potential your qbs might have. 

Thanks for directing this back to football discussion - what the forum is for.
 
Chamblin left the door open for Doege to see the field in his scrum today, so I am under the impression that they will either have a couple packages ready for him, or else he will get some time if Sunseri struggles. Price I think is just a little too green to play just yet. I'd be giving him atleast 2 or 3 more weeks before even considering it.

No need to apologize to me.  I can't change what your experience was like living in Brandon, but if your only criteria for judging your time here is Houstons, how late restaurants are open and the BU Bobcats I would say you missed out a little while you were here.  But to each their own.  
 
I lived in Winnipeg for 12 years and enjoyed my time there for the most part, mainly because of the friends I made and the experiences I had there, not because of the Forks or the Goldeyes or the dance bars or the Ballet.  Hell if I have the urge for RWB or the WSO I'm only 2 hours away.  Simple fact is Brandon is around 50,000 people, Winnipeg is 700,000.  The main difference is variety or more of the same things. Winnipeg may have 50 chinese restaurants, Brandon might have 5.  All that means is I have a few less takeout menus to sort through, still get a damn good meal.  And I will put Little Italy pizza up against any pizza joint in Winnipeg!
 
People from Toronto or Vancouver say the same things about Winnipeg that you say about Brandon or Regina.  You happen to be in a bigger city than me.  Is there more to do in Winnipeg than Brandon?  For the most part yes.  That doesn't make Winnipeg better, just bigger.
 
My rambling aside, I think the main reason I took issue with your post is that being a Bomber fan in Brandon isn't easy.  There are more Rider fans here than Bombers fans, and it's not like they're all ex-pats from the Rectangle.  A lot of them choose green because they hate Winnipeg and its perceived arrogance to the rest of the province. Cheering for the Riders becomes easy for them.  It's a normal reaction I know, hating the big guy on the block (much like most of Ontario hating Toronto).  But there is a lot of Blue and Gold here too, and we don't need Winnipeggers bashing us.  We get enough of that from our Rider neighbours.  You used to live here so I figure you would appreciate that point of view.
 
And a so so whl team?  Brandon's only missed the playoffs twice in the past 20 odd years.  The Bombers and Jets wish they were as so so. 

As a proud Brandonite and diehard Bomber fan, I'm sure you'll understand why I take issue with the above statement.  Just because it's the "Winnipeg Blue Bombers" doesn't mean there aren't Bomber fans outside the Perimeter Hwy in Manitoba.  You wanna slag the Riders and Saskatchewan, have at it.  Leave my city out of it.

As a proud Brandonite and diehard Bomber fan, I'm sure you'll understand why I take issue with the above statement.  Just because it's the "Winnipeg Blue Bombers" doesn't mean there aren't Bomber fans outside the Perimeter Hwy in Manitoba.  You wanna slag the Riders and Saskatchewan, have at it.  Leave my city out of it.

As a proud Brandonite and diehard Bomber fan, I'm sure you'll understand why I take issue with the above statement.  Just because it's the "Winnipeg Blue Bombers" doesn't mean there aren't Bomber fans outside the Perimeter Hwy in Manitoba.  You wanna slag the Riders and Saskatchewan, have at it.  Leave my city out of it.

I had to go out to Brandon for a few years for school and initially I wasn't happy about it at all, but I ended up having a good time. I Liked the old Railway era downtown area, found a few decent breakfast places, and the Crystal Hotel bar was my favorite (it is a dive, but that's usually what I'm after). The people were pretty friendly and the hunting was pretty good. Houston's was unbearable though, I'll give you that.

I will agree having Kuale out in the second didn't make much of a difference and Kromah could have been more effective.  Our defense is a "bend but don't break" D which is what it did up until around mid 4th quarter.  Then what happened is what happens every time you have the Bend don't Break D paired with an ineffective offense, the D is exhausted, beaten up and finally breaks. The Etch D needs a good offense to be effective, without it we get what happened last night.  Very frustrating, especially when you watch Bighill, Elimimian and that B.C D do their thing.  Made me jealous.

I thought you guys were letting Willy go anyways because you had Tino.
 
That's more or less what you said the other day.
 

and really, the vast majority of the lions running game happened in what i'd call garbage time, It was at the end when the game was very obviously over. The bombers D just said screw it and really, i couldn't blame them. They were on the field so much the second half that it had to start wearing on them, valiant effort by the D tonight, the O though looked good when Willy was in, but the second he got hurt, it was lights out for sure. 
 
Lions put up some running numbers for sure but most of that was in the last 3 or 4 minutes of the game... When the game was over. The game was actually over when Willy got hurt, but... reality is they had chances to score points in the third and even in to the 4th, d kept stepping up at times and giving the O chances to put points up, the O failed though. 3 first downs the entire second half? Yeah, thats the real problem. But to be somewhat expected when your starting QB goes down in a game and your backup has thrown 1 pass all season and that was in game 1. 

Bend don't break defense approaches only work with an offense that can score 30 points+. It's caught up to us the last five games.

He didn't get help from his receivers because he couldn't get the ball to his receivers.