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I understand that this is the most tickets sold for a game at IGF this year! Way to go fans!!!

Moved some things around and now I'm going to the game! Usually only manage to get to a couple each year, (last year it was Hamilton & BC) so here's hoping for another good one. GO BLUE!

these ones?

There it is! In life consistency is important. Here's the thing. If a person in a community like this one develops a reputation, good or bad, it doesn't happen by accident.

The thing that really grinds my gears is when someone continually does this and then acts all surprised and hurt when they get the exact reaction that they are going for.

He was clearly the jewel of their O line, but no matter how good he gets he'll never be as famous as his great-grandpa Jack.

A. Harris, and it's a damned shame all you Bomber fans picking Messam...

Not clear what your obtuse little jab is supposed to mean, but ok, sure, I guess

Yes, Medlock was perfect in converts last year. Remind me again what the distance of a convert is?

So, you've never seen Medlock ever miss a field goal? And you know what, if they had simply set up for a field goal without trying to move the ball forward at all, and then he had missed, what do you think people would have said? It's easy to sit at your keyboard and draw up these scenarios. It's a little different when you actually have to do it for a paycheque. I'd suggest that there isn't a coach in the CFL who would have done things any differently that O'Shea did because there is a difference between kicking a 32 yard FG and a 42 yard FG, even for someone like Medlock, who's attempted 281 FG's in that CFL and missed 34 of them. That's 87.9%. Harris has 1033 rushing attempts. For him to fumble at the same rate that Medlock misses (87.9) he would have had to fumble about 125 times. I don't know for sure, but I'm thinking that statistically, it is more likely that Medlock misses a 42 yard FG than Harris fumbles. So if that's the case, O'Shea is playing the percentages, moving the ball forward until the risk/reward favours the FG. In my opinion, O'Shea played this one just about as well as one could.

Kudos to you for a Jimmy Durante reference!

When you can find a play that works 100% of the time, please let us know. It's called playing the percentages. It's what smart coaches do.

It's a turn of phrase. He's not actually suggesting that he needs the opinion of the reporter. Most native English speaking people would recognise that.

That final series seemed to unfold exactly how it should. Use Harris to move the ball downfield with a minimum of risk, and on the last carry, you could see that he just wanted to make sure he put the ball on the "right" side of the field for Medlock. It was pretty clear that they were doing what had to be done in order to set up the field goal. Nothing more, nothing less. You don't try for six when three (one actually) is all you need. That's the sort of showboating that ends up causing fumbles/interceptions and has fans screaming "What was he thinking?".

WPG Blue Bombers ✔@Wpg_BlueBombers Cal Murphy statue to be unveiled at Investors Group Field. 7:43 AM - 4 Jul 2017 ______________________________________________________________________________________________ Hopefully, it will look a whole lot better than Mosaic's "Escaping from Riderville".

First real football in 6 months. Why would this cause you concern considering it would be as close to a given as you can get?

This is what angry banjo strumming and jug blowing sounds like...

Alex, I'm going with "What is more points after four quarters?"

YES, my thoughts too! Edir forever!!!!

Now post the forty or fifty times you were wrong. You know, for context?

What some people here seem to be wrestling with is the fact that this was the FIRST regular season game of the year for the Bombers. Combine that with the fact that the other team already had a game under their belt and was playing at home meant that as much as I was wanting to see a Rider beatdown, it likely wasn't going to happen. We won anyway. Ya, we won ugly. Ya, we need to get better. But again, it was the first game of the year. You really don't need to have to be some sort of "deep thinker" or amazing football guru to recognise the obvious here.

So, to paraphrase your post: "If we win, it's because we were just lucky. If we lose it's because we suck, we've always sucked and we always will suck." Fortunately, I fall back to this quote: "my opinion isn't the one that matters." - TBURGESS

I'll say this for Nichols, I've checked back throughout Bomber history and we've never had a better record at this point of the season than we do right now... ever. Go Bombers!

aaaaaannnnndddd... he's back