Rich

Working on it I'm close. The Twitter feed will be back soon.

Upper right, hover over Activity. You can view preset filters including Unread Content or customize your own filters. There is also an Unread Content link right under the header at the top of each page. On mobile, click the menu at the very top..

This should be more flexible now in terms of turning notifications off / on.

The ads support the site. Covers the hosting, software expenses (this includes the extra costs for the chat room), some prizes and even allows us to donate a pair of season tickets to Big Brothers & Sisters. Happy to say I just renewed those, so next year will be the 3rd straight year we support them.

I saw the movie Friday night so it was all good. Ill take a look on the email settings.

Well I just had to remove the recent posts feed that I had up because your Star Wars spoiler post was showing up front and centre. I was going to take it away once I got Twitter working anyway.

The Twitter feed will be coming back, but I haven't put it in yet. Going to be fine tuning and tweaking over the next couple of days. Ill be be working the widgets (including the Twitter feed next). Just noticed the ad banner is really bad on mobile right now as well So I need to look at that too

Doesn't look like it. This is typically restricted to moderators so that the flow of a thread isn't upset / changed after the fact.

Thanks. Still experimenting with this theme and may try a few others. It is quite customizable with colours and banner graphics. Will definitely do something different / add / change the banner at the top, even if it is just sizing things properly.

Welcome to the Upgraded Morning Big Blue! The software that runs the site had a major re-write that was released earlier this year. They basically rewrote everything from the ground up and I was waiting for the off season to upgrade. This also means that old themes and plugins will no longer work with the new software. Look for the looks and feel of the site to change as well as some new plugins to be added over the next little while. For those of you that changed your display name from your login name, your display name is now used to login (or the email you registered with). Display names can still be changed. Here are a few new features you might find interesting / useful: Use the @ sign in a post to reference a specific member (typing @ and start typing their name and a filtered list will display. In posts, these look like this: @Mike Check out the new profiles and timelines and activity streams as well as the ability to follow specific members. Customize the streams to see posts and information how you want Quote partial text - highlight text in any post and a popup will show up to allow you to quote it Hover on a thread link and the first and last post will be displayed New editor and the ability to drag and drop media Send messages to other members now without leaving a screen in the forum Look for more additions over the next little while as I start adding other enhancements in. As always, let me know if you are having any problems.

It will definitely be interesting to see what happens here. I agree Thorpe shouldn't be allowed out of his contract But he is now clearly disillusioned with Montreal. Does Popp want a DC whose heart isn't in it. What kind of friction would there now be between the two of them if he goes back to Montreal.

Why?

If they are looking for someone to give some energy and play on the 4th line, wonder if Lipon gets his shot.

Actually MPI holds a rather large investment portfolio... I believe it is around $2.5 Billion. Part of their strategic focus

We had a decent PK last year (81.8% vs 77.3% this year, ranked 13th vs 25th) . Same coaches. I think we miss Frolik more then we'd like to admit.

Rich, if that is the case, that may say something very serious about the organization as a whole. It's one thing for an employee to make a mistake, even a seemingly dumb one, it happens. Good organizations will try and make people feel that mistakes can happen, but when they do, it needs to get reported and corrected. Essentially, that making a mistake is not the end of the world. But it is entirely a different story when an employee makes a mistake and then believes that the best course of action is to quietly fix it, not tell anyone and hope that everything will just work itself out.It will be interesting to see how this all plays out. Serious about the organization or one specific employee? As I said it is possible a single employee fixed it and didn't even think of the ramifications. Either way, pure speculation on my part. I've worked with many different organizations over the years and it still surprises me how little employees know how their specific job fits into the larger picture or how their mistakes may impact something else. I find it hard to believe the organization messed this up on purpose or purposefully tried to mislead the public, especially when they announced the pot had gone unclaimed. The likely answer is someone put it up, noticed it was wrong and fixed it. And they would have no clue if someone had phoned to inquire. Thank God in the end it just all worked out and hopefully it has been a lesson for their internal controls on this.

Another (likely in my opinion) possibility is that whoever messed up on the website fixed it and never escalated the fact to anyone else as they didn't want to get in trouble or didn't realize the full impact of what it might have meant.

Lets not forget this paragraph from Campbell's article: If this was their starting point, don't think this was the expectation of what their agents thought the final number would be. However it is interesting that this info was leaked. Have to think negotiations have hit an impasse.

Trades don't typically happen until closer to the trade deadline because the buyers are typically cap or close to the cap teams, and the later in the season you can wait the less remaining salary they have to fit under the cap. Buff's cap hit is $5.2, Ladd is $4.4M. 30 games in, that is 37% of the season so 63% of their salaries left. $3.3M for Buff and $2.8M for Ladd. Now go here http://stats.nhlnumbers.com/teams?year=2016 sort by cap space and see how many contenders can actually afford these guys right now. Not many who you would consider sure fire contenders right now. They won't be traded till later in the season until their remaining cap hit goes down or some bubble teams decide they are in a position to make a push. At the trade deadline, there are about 20 games left or 24% of the salary. That is $1.25M for Buff and $1.1M for Ladd. Of course you can always retain some salary but what you get now won't be the teams "best offer". Especially once the deadline heats up and you pit two buyers against one another. I would wait unless it is an offer you can't pass up.

Hellebuyck starts

He has a signed contract with the Jets. He will be with the Jets or Moose next year.

Colts are first in their division at 17 - 10 - 0 Windsor is first in their division at 16-9-4 Just sounds like they were each looking for a different piece on their team.

There was an interesting article (don't know if anyone has linked it here) that talked about the need to implement an "administrative cap" .. thought it was on point. I'll see if I can dig it up .. edit: here it is - http://3downnation.com/2015/12/08/its-time-again-for-a-cfl-spending-cap-it-saved-the-riders-once/ This reminds me of the days when Edmonton could 'buy' their way into the Grey Cup. The Bombers had some good teams back then, but not the same purse strings. Result? 5 Grey Cups in a row for Edmonton.Another result? The SMS. Saskatchewan probably threw a few TD passes with these hires, and everybody is stunned...and jealous. But could any other team have afforded these moves? I highly doubt it. Good or bad, it's moving forward... From 1973 the Eskimos went to the Grey Cup in nine out of ten years. Over half of that time playing out of Clarke Stadium. They then moved into the CFL's third largest stadium (Commonwealth) that had approximately 42,300 seats, with about 39,500 being sideline seats. The 70's were a good time to build a team as there was no free agency. If you found good players you basically got to keep them. If other teams, notably the BC Lions, were not good at evaluating talent you could pick up their castoffs (i.e. Tom Wilkinson, Bob Howes) or make trades for guys like Larry Highbaugh. 1972 was a great year for the Eskimos to pick up cast-offs since being the worst team in 1971 meant they got first crack at cuts. I also recall the Eskimos had a scout, Frankie Morris, evaluating Canadian talent. His wikipedia page states that he was a member of seven Grey Cup teams as a part of management (for people outside Edmonton, that means Grey Cup winning teams). He died in 2009 at 85 so it is fairly likely he wasn't involved with the Eskimos for the '05, '03 and '93 Cups. Safe to say 1975 was his first Grey Cup as a scout. Winnipeg stadium was as big as Clarke Stadium. I'm not sure other teams were scouting like the Eskimos back then. He was scouting before the Eskimos could possibly have any advantage over the other teams. When the Eskimos wanted Tommy Scott from the Bombers they couldn't wait until the end of the year for him to be a free agent and outbid the Bombers. They had to trade for him. How did that trade work out for the Bombers? I would say pretty well. Can you name any players the Eskimos got from other teams because that other team couldn't afford them? What can you point to to say the Eskimos bought that team? When did the SMS start? I've seen people say they bought Grey Cups but no one every seems to provide evidence. Your opinion doesn't surprise me because it is a common conscience clearing opinion most Eskimo fans have. There was no cap so they were free to spend as much as they wanted. They were destroying the league to a point where we almost didn't have one. The eskimoes are in unchartered waters this year however, as their roster will get raided at free agency. Back in the good old days before the pesky salary cap the esks could win year after year and not lose a single player because they could continue to pay them more than anyone else could. Now that the sms is in place, teams that win the cup commonly have a moderate turnover of their roster because free agents want more money to stay. That's why its harder to string cup wins together and sustain success in the modern CFL. Calgary being the benchmark recently for sustained success has relied heavily on great scouting to keep things going. I also think that is why the Edmonton media is sour about the Jones situation, they thought the glory years were back. Any city, including Regina, who won a championship only to have its entire coaching staff pilfered by another team a few weeks after that championship win would be sour. Not criticizing Regina for doing it. Just saying if the shoe was on the other foot, what would the fans and media in Regina be saying right now? I don't think it has anything to do with people thinking the glory years were back.

Yeah that doesn't happen in any other city.