WPG. Own thread coming soon.

CAL . How much do you tinker if at all? But somethin aint right here

EDM. Lots of room for improvement.  Reilly another year older

SSK. Canadas team has lots of FAs, Carter leaving. Huge question marks at QB

BC. Lots of smoke but less flame than grease fire in MTL. Whole new coaching staff at least

TOR. Turning point to build on or just a nice story like OTT last year?

HAM. Soap opera . Key FAs looming. Collaros. Manziel thing.

OTT.  Trending down

MTL. Grease fire until further notice.

2 hours ago, Bigblue204 said:

Calling it now. Kuale is the starting MLB for riders this year.

They deserve each other.

3 hours ago, Bigblue204 said:

Calling it now. Kuale is the starting MLB for riders this year.

Man, I would love to see the Riders platoon Kuale and Hurl at MLB.

Kuale?!?! What... this guy wasn't available?

9 minutes ago, Jimmy Pop said:

Kuale?!?! What... this guy wasn't available?

His name is  Charles Chulada... 

His name is  Charles Chulada... 

His name is  Charles Chulada... 

His name is  Charles Chulada... 

His name is  Charles Chulada... 

His name is  Charles Chulada... 

 

 

He plays a mean Sax too...

 

Edited April 23, 20187 yr by wanna-b-fanboy

CFLAA @CFL_Alumni

Pierre Lavertu has announced his retirement from the CFL. He played his entire CFL career with the Calgary Stampeders. It was a pleasure to watch you play. All the best!
Article by http://Stampeders.com  Staff
Photo courtesy of... https://www.cflaa.ca/lavertu-announces-retirement/ …

 

Good Canadian player, gone too soon.

8 hours ago, Bigblue204 said:

Calling it now. Kuale is the starting MLB for riders this year.

Wtf....... hes going to be 35 at the start of the season. I sure hope he is their starter lmao

2 hours ago, Bomber_fanaddict said:

Wtf....... hes going to be 35 at the start of the season. I sure hope he is their starter lmao

Works for me. Looking forward to it with great anticipation.

In case anyone thinks he even has a chance of coming back... Kuale was injured early and forced to the sidelines. Not many injured 34yo free agents getting camp invites these days.

3 hours ago, wanna-b-fanboy said:

He plays a mean Sax too...

As in "ill tempered and disagreeable" ?

I agree!

although he might be better than this guy 

 

Edited April 23, 20187 yr by Mark F

3 hours ago, Throw Long Bannatyne said:

CFLAA @CFL_Alumni

Pierre Lavertu has announced his retirement from the CFL. He played his entire CFL career with the Calgary Stampeders. It was a pleasure to watch you play. All the best!
Article by http://Stampeders.com  Staff
Photo courtesy of... https://www.cflaa.ca/lavertu-announces-retirement/ …

 

Good Canadian player, gone too soon.

I remember being disappointed we got Goosen instead of Lavertu. Thing worked out well for the bombers there. 

By multiple they mean 22 signings. They’ve also released Peter Dyakowski, Jeff Hecht and 2 others.

 

A Calgary reporter was saying GC in Calgary in 2019 when he was here for CFL week so this could be that announcement.

Edited April 24, 20187 yr by Jacquie

Odd moves by the Riders...especially a weak team in regards to Canadian depth...but I guess thats what you get when you spend like a fool on free agents...you gotta purge elsewhere...so bye bye veteran Canadian salaries on guys who would/should have been your starters....and dumping Meridith as well just another example of Jone's poor drafting hurting them ...thats what you get when you pick a lineman who hadn't played football in a few years and dropped 60-70 pounds of his playing weight and tried coming back.

Man their o-line is gonna be scary...and not scary in the good sense...Bond and Labatte...then what..Clarke..St John...Bladek..Coleman...and..????.....yikes!

34 minutes ago, Booch said:

Odd moves by the Riders...especially a weak team in regards to Canadian depth...but I guess thats what you get when you spend like a fool on free agents...you gotta purge elsewhere...so bye bye veteran Canadian salaries on guys who would/should have been your starters....and dumping Meridith as well just another example of Jone's poor drafting hurting them ...thats what you get when you pick a lineman who hadn't played football in a few years and dropped 60-70 pounds of his playing weight and tried coming back.

Man their o-line is gonna be scary...and not scary in the good sense...Bond and Labatte...then what..Clarke..St John...Bladek..Coleman...and..????.....yikes!

Collaros need to practice how to fall on the turf safely.

or take a pounding...then hit the turf

God am I happy I don't have enough free time to spend reading Riderfans.com anymore

I don't see on what planet they think they're going to field a contending team this year. Will they be better? Probably. On paper, they have a ton of solid players. And I'm not going to say they can't be a winner just because they have Sam Hurl starting - we did, and we went 12-6.

But contender? With that OL? Who is playing tackle?

No thanks.

21 minutes ago, Mike said:

God am I happy I don't have enough free time to spend reading Riderfans.com anymore

I don't see on what planet they think they're going to field a contending team this year. Will they be better? Probably. On paper, they have a ton of solid players. And I'm not going to say they can't be a winner just because they have Sam Hurl starting - we did, and we went 12-6.

But contender? With that OL? Who is playing tackle?

No thanks.

It's a good thing that they have a mobile QB....

They are going to live and die with that Defense. I wouldn't expect their O to win many games. Still interested in how they end up using Hurl.

1 hour ago, Mike said:

God am I happy I don't have enough free time to spend reading Riderfans.com anymore

I don't see on what planet they think they're going to field a contending team this year. Will they be better? Probably. On paper, they have a ton of solid players. And I'm not going to say they can't be a winner just because they have Sam Hurl starting - we did, and we went 12-6.

But contender? With that OL? Who is playing tackle?

No thanks.

Maybe they’ll move Duron to OT position on top of playing WR and DB. 

Yeah that 0-line is going to be god awful...and no depth whatsoever...If they are pinning hopes on Bladek and St John as being full-time starters they are delusional. One injury on that O-line and they are screwed. 

I don't see the defense being dominant either as some like to think..Linebacking crew looks very iffy...and their D-backs are mid tier at best...The d-line is decent...but zero depth behind any of them, and i bet they get wore down in games...not to mention back half of the season....yup...just don't see the idea of them contending for 1st in the west

2 hours ago, Brandon said:

It's a good thing that they have a mobile QB....

Average mobility even before the injury. When he came back he looked leery and frustrated over lqck of protection. When he gets flust3red he he forces passes and picks result. Has a temper too. It could get ugly at times. 

On 2018-04-23 at 9:08 AM, Dr. Blue said:

 

 

first thing I did when I saw this... check the date to see if it was sent on Apr 1...

19 hours ago, Throw Long Bannatyne said:

CFLAA @CFL_Alumni

Pierre Lavertu has announced his retirement from the CFL. He played his entire CFL career with the Calgary Stampeders. It was a pleasure to watch you play. All the best!
Article by http://Stampeders.com  Staff
Photo courtesy of... https://www.cflaa.ca/lavertu-announces-retirement/ …

 

Good Canadian player, gone too soon.

Good for him, getting out before his health took a bigger hit... unfortunate for him that he had to give up on the game because of head injuries...

4 hours ago, Brandon said:

It's a good thing that they have a mobile QB....

...with an epic case of the yips.

3 hours ago, Zontar said:

Average mobility even before the injury. When he came back he looked leery and frustrated over lqck of protection. When he gets flust3red he he forces passes and picks result. Has a temper too. It could get ugly at times. 

Don't worry, Carter will keep everyone level-headed. He's matured with all his legal troubles. 

https://www.cfl.ca/2018/04/24/dyakowski-hecht-among-4-riders-cuts/

Riders cut 4 players including Hecht and Dyakowski.  At the right price I could see both players providing benefit to Winnipeg. Since we  lost out on Muamba and Westerman we need all the depth we can get at our Canadian starting positions. Nuefeld is not somebody you can pencil in for 18 games without getting injured. So assuming that Chung and Goosen will be healthy we are likely still looking at starting Couture for a period of time with completely unproven depth behind him. Would love to see Dyakowski brought in to compete against Nuefeld. He played 18 games last season and has been pretty durable. Would also be interested in have Hecht backup Taylor Loffler at safety.  Thoughts?