Wednesday, October 6 - RedBlacks @ Argos 6:30pm - Stands will be packed for this one. 

Saturday October 9 - Stamps @ Riders 6pm

Monday October 11 - RedBlacks (again) @ Montreal 12pm

Monday October 11 - Argos (again) @ Hamilton 3pm - Hamilton gets a few more days to prepare. 

All times central.

23 hours ago, Nolby said:

So we are essentially 4 wins now ahead of Sask,I could probably do it but does anyone know the math for us to clinch the west?

So we have 16 points now. Calgary and BC can tie us in points and be ahead of us in the standings provided they win the season series. Saskatchewan and every Eastern team needs to get to 17 points minimum to pass us. Edmonton and Ottawa already cannot pass us based on the tiebreaking rules. So, although they have not mathematically clinched a crossover playoff spot yet, for the Bombers to miss the playoffs ALL of the the following needs to happen:

- Bombers lose every game from here on out, including to Calgary by 3 or more points and to BC by 22 or more points. 

- Edmonton loses every game from here on out

- Ottawa loses every game from here on out

- Other than games involving Winnipeg, Edmonton, or Ottawa, the remaining 6 teams must all get exactly these records in games against each other for all of them to finish ahead of Winnipeg:

Sask: 1-1-1

Cal: 2-1

BC: 2-2

Tor: 1-2-1

Ham: 2-1-1

Mtl: 0-1-1

The odds of all of that happening are so small that I cannot compute it  To simplify things, no matter what else happens, if the Bombers win one more game they clinch a West playoff spot. Win 2 and they clinch a home playoff date. If one of those two wins is against BC, or even if they lose to BC by 20 points or less but still win 2 games, they will finish number 1 in the West. So they can clinch top spot in the West within 2 weeks.

 

So further to the woes of the Argos and their pitiful attendance, here is an article on the problems getting to BMO Field. 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/3downnation.com/2021/10/08/getting-to-bmo-field-in-toronto-is-a-terrible-experience/amp/

And my brother in Toronto sent me this column from a local writer there this morning:

A friend of mine decided a few months back that he wanted to buy season tickets for the Argos. I know that’s rather unusual these days — but so was his journey in trying to purchase the most available sporting ticket in Toronto.

He called the Argos and was put on hold. After 45 minutes or so of waiting, he hung up. He called again, this time to Maple Leafs Sports and Entertainment, the Argos owner, and the result wasn’t much different. More time on hold.

I told him to try emailing the sales reps and gave him two names of those who have sold me tickets in the past. He emailed and at first without response. A few days later, he heard from an Argo rep. It took numerous phone calls and emails and communications still for the sale to eventually occur — my buddy bought Argo season tickets.

Through almost no help of the Argos, which by itself is rather remarkable considering how desperate the Argos should be to sell tickets to anyone still interested in going to their games. 

And just last week, another person I know wanted to buy four additional tickets for their game Wednesday night against Ottawa. He is a season ticket holder but wanted to bring others along with him for the experience.

He phoned the Argos and phoned the Argos again. They never called back. He never got to speak to a person. He gave up rather than buying the additional tickets.

The first-place Argos had a record small crowd of 6,788 for their game against the Redblacks. Interest may be at an all-time low. But an inability to treat willing customers properly or at all — at this time in their history, really at any time, is simply inexcusable.

1 hour ago, TrueBlue4ever said:

So further to the woes of the Argos and their pitiful attendance, here is an article on the problems getting to BMO Field. 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/3downnation.com/2021/10/08/getting-to-bmo-field-in-toronto-is-a-terrible-experience/amp/

And my brother in Toronto sent me this column from a local writer there this morning:

A friend of mine decided a few months back that he wanted to buy season tickets for the Argos. I know that’s rather unusual these days — but so was his journey in trying to purchase the most available sporting ticket in Toronto.

He called the Argos and was put on hold. After 45 minutes or so of waiting, he hung up. He called again, this time to Maple Leafs Sports and Entertainment, the Argos owner, and the result wasn’t much different. More time on hold.

I told him to try emailing the sales reps and gave him two names of those who have sold me tickets in the past. He emailed and at first without response. A few days later, he heard from an Argo rep. It took numerous phone calls and emails and communications still for the sale to eventually occur — my buddy bought Argo season tickets.

Through almost no help of the Argos, which by itself is rather remarkable considering how desperate the Argos should be to sell tickets to anyone still interested in going to their games. 

And just last week, another person I know wanted to buy four additional tickets for their game Wednesday night against Ottawa. He is a season ticket holder but wanted to bring others along with him for the experience.

He phoned the Argos and phoned the Argos again. They never called back. He never got to speak to a person. He gave up rather than buying the additional tickets.

The first-place Argos had a record small crowd of 6,788 for their game against the Redblacks. Interest may be at an all-time low. But an inability to treat willing customers properly or at all — at this time in their history, really at any time, is simply inexcusable.

Ryan Ballantine is an unabashed Stamps fan. He apparently didn't plan the best route to BMO Field from his hotel. He's being roasted by Argo supporters. He'll rarely write a positive article about other teams. He did no research on this. He makes himself out to be a sportswriter but he's not. That is why I seldom read 3 Down Nation anymore. It's become a Fan Boyz  website. 

“It’s frustrating. We wanted to win two out of three and if we win two out of three we put Calgary on the outside looking in. Now it’s the opposite, they’re right there on our tail now and it’s going to make every game that much more important coming down the stretch,” head coach Craig Dickenson said after Rene Paredes hit a walk-off field goal to hand the Stamps the season series."

Saskatchewan not living the "1-0 this week" life. Looked ahead and expected a loss

They say it but we live it. 

54 minutes ago, Geebrr said:

We wanted to win two out of three 

Did CD really say this? Who goes into games with the mentality that it is okay, and totally expected, to lose games? Play to win them all or get out.

Edited October 11, 20214 yr by Blue_Dragoon

Holy crap is Ottawa bad.

Soft OL and soft D. 

How many sack the Als will get today?

This RedBlacks team makes me pine for the Tim Burke-led 2013 Bombers. Yikes. 5 plays from scrimmage and 3 sacks given up.

Now we have to watch Duane Forde eat an entire turkey single-handed while Montreal keeps this beat down going. Lol

 

Fire up the Geoff Gray for Ward runours (I don't really want to lose Gray)

15 minutes ago, Blue_Dragoon said:

Did CD really say this? Who goes into games with the mentality that it is okay, and totally expected, to lose games? Play to win them all or get out.

Definitely quoted as saying it :

https://3downnation.com/2021/10/11/we-havent-gotten-much-better-frustrated-riders-eye-tight-playoff-race/

If the Bombers were able to pry Ward out of Ottawa that would definitely be the final piece of the puzzle.

I can't imagine having to cheer for a team with a QB with only 2 games of CFL experience.  Hard to believe we weren't much better off than Ottawa only 5 or 6 years ago.

Montreal only up 7 after 1Q

Edit: 7-3 now

Edited October 11, 20214 yr by Geebrr

Stanback & Artis-Payne will be a deadly RB combo for Als comes playoff time.

Edited October 11, 20214 yr by M.O.A.B.

Nice pick by the RB.

VA just throwing passes that never should be thrown.

Eyeballs a WR standing still with a DB coming downhill.

Great catch by the DB, never should have been thrown

Montreal is not a good team. Not sure anyone in the east is particularly good. Definitely cheering for the RBs to overcome this mess anyhow... 

This game is going to come down to who doesn't want it least...

 

Abdul Kanneh with a big hit.

Edited October 11, 20214 yr by Geebrr

Idiot Rod Black going insane over a camera man catching the ball, then interrupts Forde twice with stupid comments. You can tell Forde just wants to throttle him.

close captioning said there was a bit of a "scrofula"

so much better than rod.

So with Monday being a holiday, do Redblacks players get paid 1.5x their normal wage?

If that is the case, and the Bombers only earned 1x on Friday that is almost criminal

Montreal is insufferable 

Nick Usher clotheslines Evans...no call

This game is more like a pillow fight than a competitive football game.  Fighting to stay awake or even interested. I feel for the fans who paid to see this.

VA just cannot read defences or go through progressions.

He had a guy wide open on the sidelines that would have walked into the endzone.

Edited October 11, 20214 yr by Geebrr

Lots of tempers flaring on the part of the Als even though the ref made the correct non-call on that run by VAJ.

Caleb Evans > VA

Great play call, Turner stumbled and killed the play.