CFL 2023 Regular Season Thread - GO STAMPS!

[transplant99]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1716173499562426490

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by transplant99

You sound sad.....i dont get it.

I don't get how you can draw that conclusion from my post.

[dash_pinched]

I think just a little over 24,000 in the seats with the Riders still having a shot at the playoffs and playing the best team in the league (record wise) speaks volumes. No way they can return with the two Craigs (Reynolds and Dickenson). Might as well totally clean house and give Jeremy O'Day his pink slip as well.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1716126418575188442

[redmile04]

Originally Posted by PegCityFlamesFan

Yeah thats an awful take.

I dont think so, posted had good points. Forget the grey cup.. 6-12 and making the playoffs is fairly embarrassing for the sport.

[darockwilder]

I remember not so long ago Rider fans taking big dumps on Calgary attendance (which isn't good either) with comments like "a lot of fans dressed like seats", "if the seats weren't red we'd really see how bad the attendance is" or if Saskatchewan was in town "It's like 2/3 green in the stands!!". I didn't notice a massive Rider contingent at the game a couple of weeks ago, certainly not like prior to 2020.

Not good for either team really.

[dash_pinched]

Originally Posted by darockwilder

I remember not so long ago Rider fans taking big dumps on Calgary attendance (which isn't good either) with comments like "a lot of fans dressed like seats", "if the seats weren't red we'd really see how bad the attendance is" or if Saskatchewan was in town "It's like 2/3 green in the stands!!". I didn't notice a massive Rider contingent at the game a couple of weeks ago, certainly not like prior to 2020.

Not good for either team really.

I think I heard a stat on a recent broadcast that over the last two seasons, the Riders have a record of 1-13 in September and October. Yeesh.

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by dash_pinched

I think just a little over 24,000 in the seats with the Riders still having a shot at the playoffs and playing the best team in the league (record wise) speaks volumes. No way they can return with the two Craigs (Reynolds and Dickenson). Might as well totally clean house and give Jeremy O'Day his pink slip as well.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1716126418575188442

Flagship franchise lol. Today that's the Bombers and before them it was the Stampeders for a decade. Riders fans can come out of the woodwork for a decade and declare themselves the flagship franchise of the CFL but flagship franchises are the ones that win consistently.

I wonder if they fire Craig this week or next?

[STAMPEDRED]

Originally Posted by dash_pinched

I think just a little over 24,000 in the seats with the Riders still having a shot at the playoffs and playing the best team in the league (record wise) speaks volumes. No way they can return with the two Craigs (Reynolds and Dickenson). Might as well totally clean house and give Jeremy O'Day his pink slip as well.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1716126418575188442

And here in lies the truth of these ‘new, fancy stadiums’ arguments. People proclaim McMahon is a dump, which I agree, yet sask has this beautiful facility and people still don't show unless the team is doing well. Goes to show the new building aura only has so much pull. And it’s immensely better than what they had before yet unless the field entertainment and performance is there, the draw to go to the new building is short lived.

[darockwilder]

Originally Posted by dash_pinched

I think I heard a stat on a recent broadcast that over the last two seasons, the Riders have a record of 1-13 in September and October. Yeesh.

I just looked and I think it's actually worse, 1-14. The only win they had in all those games was a 32-30 OT win against Winnipeg at the Labour day game, and they followed that up with a 51-6 loss in the Banjo Bowl. So I guess I can see why attendance is dwindling.

[dash_pinched]

Originally Posted by darockwilder

I just looked and I think it's actually worse, 1-14. The only win they had in all those games was a 32-30 OT win against Winnipeg at the Labour day game, and they followed that up with a 51-6 loss in the Banjo Bowl. So I guess I can see why attendance is dwindling.

Yeah, I think that stat I heard was just prior to Saturday's game against the Argos. Thanks for confirming, 1-14 will certainly have a drag on attendance.

[transplant99]

Last 2 seasons in Sept. and Oct.

2022 season: Week 13 Sun Sep 4 2022 at Ssk Winnipeg 20, Saskatchewan 18
2022 season: Week 14 Sat Sep 10 2022 at Wpg Winnipeg 54, Saskatchewan 20
2022 season: Week 15 Fri Sep 16 2022 at Ssk Edmonton 26, Saskatchewan 24
2022 season: Week 17 Fri Sep 30 2022 at Wpg Winnipeg 31, Saskatchewan 13
2023 season: Week 13 Sun Sep 3 2023 at Ssk Saskatchewan 32, Winnipeg 30
2023 season: Week 14 Sat Sep 9 2023 at Wpg Winnipeg 51, Saskatchewan 6
2023 season: Week 15 Fri Sep 15 2023 at Ssk Edmonton 36, Saskatchewan 27
2023 season: Week 16 Fri Sep 22 2023 at Ott Ottawa 36, Saskatchewan 28
2023 season: Week 17 Fri Sep 29 2023 at BC British Columbia33 Saskatchewan 26


Primary team Saskatchewan: 1-8
Points for Saskatchewan: 194
Points against Saskatchewan: 317


2022 season: Week 18 Fri Oct 7 2022 at Ham Hamilton 18, Saskatchewan 14
2022 season: Week 20 Sat Oct 22 2022 at Ssk Calgary 32, Saskatchewan 21
2022 season: Week 21 Sat Oct 29 2022 at Cgy Calgary 36, Saskatchewan 10
2023 season: Week 18 Sat Oct 7 2023 at Ssk Hamilton 38, Saskatchewan 13
2023 season: Week 19 Fri Oct 13 2023 at Cgy Calgary 26, Saskatchewan 19
2023 season: Week 20 Sat Oct 21 2023 at Ssk Toronto 29, Saskatchewan 26


Primary team Saskatchewan: 0-6
Points for Saskatchewan: 103
Points against Saskatchewan: 179


Combined 1-14
Points for 297
Points against 496

[Drake]

Saskatchewan expected to announce later today Craig Dickenson will not return next season.

https://twitter.com/TSNDaveNaylor/st...7Ctwgr%5Etweet

EDIT: Jeremy O’Day has been renewed. Incompetence at its finest. Lmao

[transplant99]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1716502459688911088


lol

[dash_pinched]

I know it's very early to be already looking at 2024, but Shawn Bane is a free agent and if the Riders don't sign him prior to free agency, the Stamps should bring him back to Calgary. He had 93 receptions for 1104 yards and 4 TDs with predominately Mason Fine and Jake Dolegala tossing him the ball.

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by dash_pinched

I know it's very early to be already looking at 2024, but Shawn Bane is a free agent and if the Riders don't sign him prior to free agency, the Stamps should bring him back to Calgary. He had 93 receptions for 1104 yards and 4 TDs with predominately Mason Fine and Jake Dolegala tossing him the ball.

They shouldn't have let him go in the first place. That said a new QB needs to be Dave's biggest priority this offseason.

[dirk diggler]

When has the Roughriders been a marquee or flagship franchise? before or after fans dumping manure on players lawns?

[Plett25]

Originally Posted by dirk diggler

When has the Roughriders been a marquee or flagship franchise? before or after fans dumping manure on players lawns?

Flagship franchise?
Never.

Self-proclaimed flagship franchise?
Always? Since 2003?

[Erick Estrada]

Edmonton, Calgary, Montreal, Toronto (Flutie years), and now Winnipeg come to mind in regards for flagship franchises going back 40 years. Regina has never, ever been in that conversation.

[dash_pinched]

After all the booing that Henry received every time he played at Mosaic Stadium, this would be hilarious if it came to pass.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1716844170382299466

[Paulie Walnuts]

I always thought the Stamps being the flagship franchise of the CFL.

Riders lol