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Not even to mention the guy hasn't done bupkus in two years on the field either.

The players simply can't afford a work stoppage and their union doesn't have buckets of cash. The players will get whatever morsels the league will give them and then sign on the dotted line. I am yet to see, in 40 years of following, the CFLPA dig in its heels on anything. Closest we came to a work stoppage was when the owners threatened to lock the players out over the guaranteed revenue sharing. Took all of a week for the CFLPA to give it up.

I think you are overestimating the amount of time this will take.

Depends whether you're asking someone from Inwood or Chatfield.

Ambrosie spotted heading just West of Arborg. Going to form an alliance with the Morweena Mennonite Football League. Might offer up the next jersey contract to the ladies to sweeten the pot. Fabric Barn get ready.....

Yup. Even last year when Popp went out and got him, Trestman refused to play him. When a coach would rather lose his job than to put a player in that might help, you know he's cancerous.

You must have been gone a long time I guess.

Nichols is infinitely better than anything you guys have rolled out at QB over the last 5 years. Adequate would be a huge improvement for you guys right now, and it doesn't appear to be a level you are going to attain any time soon. Last place with a bullet next year. What QB in their right mind is going to go to a team that has lost all it's best players, it's COTY, and has by far the worst offensive system in the league. You should be hoping and praying that JOD can land a QB at least as good as Nichols this year, because if I were a betting man, I would say that it doesn't appear he will. Maybe a reclamation project like Jennings, or re-signing the Faberge melon of Zach...that's about the best you can hope for until McAdoo is gone.

Riverton...affectionately known by Interlakers as "Happy Town".

Don't you dare say that to a Melsted.

Depends who you ask I suppose. Ask someone from Gimli what Riverton is all about. lol

It's a real paradise alright. lol

If you're from Riverton in the past 60 years it would be tough not to know a Melsted.

You must have been gone a long time then.

I grew up camping at Watchorn Bay every summer.

Well that grouse looks like they took the Lundar goose and splattered white paint on it's belly. Maybe Eriksdale can go to Poplarfield and steal their King Buck and offer some definition in statues between Lundar and Ashern. That way when you fall asleep in Lundar and wake up half way to Ashern you will know the difference between the two pretty much identical towns by which side of the Buck you are on..

Those aren't ducks those are the Melsted brothers.

I thought they were the same place?

Were you humming The Deliverance theme when typing that? Should have been. Ashern....it's where Saskatchewan people go on vacation.

He better be, because he may be the GM most behind the 8 ball this offseason.

Imo, the best course of action for the Riders would be to secure a starting QB and build around that. It would be a disaster for this coming year for sure, but in this league you gotta have a QB. They don't have a Chris Jones defence to rely on, although Riderfans would have you believe their defence won't miss a beat, and really there isn't a ton of talent on that team that hasn't already walked away. Might as well throw some serious dollars at a QB and begin a rebuild. The Riders don't believe they need one, but they really do. Chris Jones was a fantastic HC, but terrible GM. He got more out of that group than anyone could have expected. If they don't get a QB they are a 6 win team this year and will be until they find one. Get one this year and start rebuilding around him and their might be hope for next year.

I think Hodge's "sources" are sitting back having a good chuckle over how gullible he is right now. No safety in our league past or present is worth 200k per. It's just an unrealistic number and to me sounds completely fabricated. Let's not forget that this is the same guy whose 'sources" told him we were going to fire Richie Hall last offseason, that we would not re-sign Stanley Bryant, that we were hot and heavy after Bakari Grant and JC Sherritt last year, among other whoppers. He is a high school teacher in Neepawa with a blog and a penchant for making stuff up. Nothing more.

Hodge talks out his butt most of the time when it comes to FA.

Not banned that I am aware of?

No...it was not just like that. I disagree with your banning over there, but you didn't help yourself out either.