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Thomas theme song:

Taylor Elgersma. "Someone? Anyone? Please... show me the money. A dream is such a terrible thing to waste."

Is this the first step in Paladeau selling the team? Or just cutting costs? https://montrealgazette.com/sports/football/montreal-alouettes/alouettes-disband-dance-team-will-instead-use-carabins-cheerleaders

Randy Ambrosie championed it. Now, the league is too cheap to get rid of it.

What is the point of this?

I'll be with my with my wife but I'd like to do that. We can talk about it as the time gets closer. From what I understand, Doman & the City of Kelowna are getting together for the addition of 15-17000 temporary seats. Apparently, where we're siting the seats don't exist yet. To me, there's more money in kelowna than halifax so maybe this is a test, who knows? Although giving STH's in Calgary & Vancouver first dibs isn't much of a test.

Got two tickets to Touchdown Kelowna on June 27th which is my birthday. A friend of mine is a Stamps STH & since he was going with his 2 young sons, he got two tickets for my wife & I. That should be a fun weekend. We haven't been to Kelowna since 2017 when my son was an Asst Coach with the Okanagan Sun. Be interesting to attend one of these CFL niche games. More power to Lions owner Amar Doman for trying to grow the game in BC. Unlike that trash ownership in Toronto who do virtually nothing for the Argos in Southern Ontario.

Clercius is playing out of position. slow but big bodied receiver should be playing at slot. Move one of the faster slots outside or sign a free agent wideout.

There's a rookie scale & then there's the CFL. It's ridiculously small. No incentive to sign. You also don't knpow how players will play when they're 5 year vets, either.

Stay outta my kitchen!!!

Teams should be free to spend the cap whatever way they want. It's their cap. Just like Rourke will be making $800000 in 2028. How long till he hits a million? Bc can do what they want. We should be able to pay as we want. Rookie or veterans.

Something. Anything. For crissakes. These pandemic financial decisions should have ebbn gone 3 years ago. Sure, let's pay some random Canadian Guard $300000 a year who no one ever heard of. Yet, we can't offer Elgersma the money to make him want to sign here. The stupidity at the league level continues. Well done, Johnson & the Board of Dinosaurs.

An Ambrosie clone at HO told him no. So he listened.

Even Rourke came to his senses. There's a lot of things I hoped Johnson would have fixed when he got in. Ruke changes weren't one of them. But the rookie cap & the coaches/admin cap were the two biggies for me. Some league suits hired by his predecessor convinced him standing pat was one of them.

Which is why THERE ARE TIMES (not always) when I wish the ratio would be gone so guys like Stanley Bryant can be at the top of the pay scale. I've seen enough shitty Canadian OL who'll never, ever be close to even thinking about being great except in their own minds... get totally overpaid. Think of the pylons we had playing for us on the OL in the early 2010's. We tried to build an All Canadian OL & after 3 years Walters & Osh were no closer to fininshing what they started.

He's a southern Ontario boy so I'm sure he'd sign with Hamilton or Toronto. We may have to trade his rights. Hopefully not & he comes to his senses.

Careful, I said the same thing a few weeks ago & got piled on for criticizing someone chasing his dreams.

He sure sounds frustrated with Elgersma's American agent. You sure get the impression Elgersma doesn't want to play in Winnipeg. Ever.

If we're sellers, it'll mean a shitty season next year as no way we're ever in the market for an impact free agent. I'd sure like to see how a more aggressive GM would handle things but we'll never know. With Chevy he has a #jobforlife because of his bestie Chipman.

Our Jets season just keeps getting better & better. At least the rest of the team save for Hellebuyck will be healed up & well rested.

Mauldin signed a UFL contract yesterday. He's out of the CFL now. Wasted his best years playing for a crap organization when he coukd have been winning Grey Cup championships elsewhere.. Gittens??

I'd think that Canadians at Guard would be paid more than an American at LT. Stanley Bryant has never made $300000 a year like Woodmansey in Edmonton & he is the greatest LT the CFL has ever seen. And, where did he end up? Guard.

Neufeld was a veteran with many years of starts behind him so I'm sure while the transition was still difficult for him, he had that experience to fall back on. He's not a rookie out of U Sport or a kid with a couple of years experience & he struggled as a right tackle at time as wel. The young guys playing in U Sport don't play tackle in the CFL after they're drafted very much.

No CFL head coach dares put a Canadian Tackle on the left side of the OL. They aren't strong enough, quick enough or have the technique down to stop a fast American DE. They can't function on an island where'd they'd be out there. They only can play the interior of the OL. Overpaid to say the least.

Pisses me off that teams continue to pay Canadian OL this much money. Some fatty comes out of Canadian college unable to block at the CFL level & they still get paid or have long careers when they suck year in & year out. Guys like david Foucault come to mind. Koala as well. Finally they begin to figure things out at age 28. That's why I believe their salaries would go way down if there was no ratio. It's artificially inflated because of it.