Enough of all the other shenanigans, lets get back to talking all the fantastic football yet to come this weekend, and get the pregame thread rolling....

 

1st quarter sealed our fate, Riders only scored 14 points in the rest of the game.  Different story next week hopefully all of the Riders injured players will be good to go. 

4 minutes ago, J5V said:

It's "their" for cripesake.

Sorry only had 1 backboard in my 1 room school, but thanks for the correction you get a gold star.

I am 2-12 at LDC so expectations are never high.  Can say it's not the worst LDC I have had to sit through.

30 minutes ago, Floyd said:

So much confusion.

Targeting Ed Gainey all game...  wtf?  There's mad science for you.

Starting two backs for 11 combined touches...

Sitting Poop and then playing Okpo at DT half the game

No Dressler on PR

Constantly lining Hurl up at the DL - closing a gap but leaving everything open up the middle

Starting Derek Jones at CB instead of Carmichael after Heath injury

 Outcoached at every level.  Embarassing.

Targeting Gainey all game was truly insane. What is Lapo thinking?

As much as I dislike Jones and all things Riders they have, in 2 years, assembled a team that was far superior to ours today. When is this organisation going to develop a killer instinct and get the very best players and coaches in here and build us a championship team? I am so sick and tired of watching our team get destroyed by the likes of a team like the Riders.

4 minutes ago, Jpan85 said:

I am 2-12 at LDC so expectations are never high.  Can say it's not the worst LDC I have had to sit through.

So it's YOUR fault!

12 minutes ago, Jpan85 said:

I am 2-12 at LDC so expectations are never high.  Can say it's not the worst LDC I have had to sit through.

Which is a sad state of affairs but very accurate. 

9 minutes ago, J5V said:

Targeting Gainey all game was truly insane. What is Lapo thinking?

As much as I dislike Jones and all things Riders they have, in 2 years, assembled a team that was far superior to ours today. When is this organisation going to develop a killer instinct and get the very best players and coaches in here and build us a championship team? I am so sick and tired of watching our team get destroyed by the likes of a team like the Riders.

In my opinion they will not do this because having an exciting O is enough to put butts in the seats and the $$$ is always the bottom line in Winnipeg. Winnipeg is a city that always settles for good over great because great costs too much... typical small market mentality...

Two wins over Montreal, and a win over Ottawa by a combined seven points. I'm sorry but our record GREATLY flatters us and it showed today. This is a  slightly above average football team. Nothing more.

1 minute ago, TheSource said:

In my opinion they will not do this because having an exciting O is enough to put butts in the seats and the $$$ is always the bottom line in Winnipeg. Winnipeg is a city that always settles for good over great because great costs too much... typical small market mentality...

Sadly, Riders have always had a higher regard for being world class. Just a difference between the two provinces I guess.

2 minutes ago, TheSource said:

Sadly, Riders have always had a higher regard for being world class. Just a difference between the two provinces I guess.

Knew it. Troll. Seriously had enough of you killing the chat. 

Edited September 4, 20178 yr by Goalie

This game was more anti-climactic than a cold shower and a picture of a naked Rosie O'Donnell.

4 minutes ago, tracker said:

This game was more anti-climactic than a cold shower and a picture of a naked Rosie O'Donnell.

Great. As if I didn't feel bad enough already.

I thought id post something irrelevant to the convo but decided nah.. So heres this. 

 

Bombers previous losses vs Stamps & BC it felt like we could've and maybe should've won those games.

But today Winnipeg just got outplayed and did not deserve to win. Sask might be a better team.  At least they were today.

We'll see which Bomber team shows up next week at home.

 

Said it in another thread... Bombers turn the ball over 5 times they lose... They did. 

25 minutes ago, TheSource said:

Sadly, Riders have always had a higher regard for being world class. Just a difference between the two provinces I guess.

World class when it comes to in-breeding maybe, that's about it.

26 minutes ago, tracker said:

This game was more anti-climactic than a cold shower and a picture of a naked Rosie O'Donnell.

no kidding. I've been anticipating this game for two days.

Total dud performance by the Bombers.

listening to Sask call in show now. happy times in sasquatchewan.

44 minutes ago, Mark F said:

no kidding. I've been anticipating this game for two days.

Total dud performance by the Bombers.

listening to Sask call in show now. happy times in sasquatchewan.

Why shouldn't they be? They just kicked our asses all over the field and had me thinking they were going to win 52-0 again in a game that is supposed to be one of our must-win games against our biggest rival. This was a colossal let down all around and maybe shows we aren't as good as some would have us believe.

Can someone tell me why we start games so poorly whenever we, as fans, get our hopes built up that we're going to see a good performance by our team? I only ask because it seems to happen to us a lot.

On the bright side, it could have been a lot worse. The Bombers never gave up at least.

Having said that though, it's too bad that the Bomber coaching staff can't get 100% out of these guys for 60 minutes, if they could, we'd be 10 - 0, but that's just what I'd expect from professionals.

I never expect a win on Labour Day but this was disappointing. Brutal first quarter and then a failure to make plays when it counted. Riders were better today.

1 hour ago, Mr. Perfect said:

Two wins over Montreal, and a win over Ottawa by a combined seven points. I'm sorry but our record GREATLY flatters us and it showed today. This is a  slightly above average football team. Nothing more.

Yup. I'd say we are better than last year but I would put $0 on our winning the cup this year.

Given that I've outlived my father by 19 years, I'm getting more than a bit worried about this.

2 minutes ago, Fred C Dobbs said:

Yup. I'd say we are better than last year but I would put $0 on our winning the cup this year.

Given that I've outlived my father by 19 years, I'm getting more than a bit worried about this.

I, too, am getting more than a little impatient. The score today flattered us and that isn't good. We were destroyed by a better team on offense, defense, and special teams. Can't think of a single positive to take away from this game.

4 minutes ago, J5V said:

I, too, am getting more than a little impatient. The score today flattered us and that isn't good. We were destroyed by a better team on offense, defense, and special teams. Can't think of a single positive to take away from this game.

I just feel bad for all the people in Regina.

Just now, Floyd said:

I just feel bad for all the people in Regina.

Yes, but that has nothing to do with football.

3 minutes ago, Floyd said:

I just feel bad for all the people in Regina.

Especially for the ones that have to stay.