Winnipeg at Saskatchewan LDC - pregame discussion

[Blue In BC]

Beautiful day for a practice.

No Bighill or Bryant at practice today.
Schoen and Parker, doing stairs. Dalton walking well, and looks like he has some extra upper body muscle.
Fox and Wilson, both moving well but not practicing.
Lucky O, full practice.
Woli82, Full practice.
Lawson, moving much better not practicing.
Neufeld, with a knee brace. Took a couple of snaps and tried a blocking drill, but not ready.
Wallace, on crutches, but no knee brace.
Randolph in for Bryant
Nick Hallett, did not practice.
Feltmate, did not practice.
BO20 and KL89, showing no signs of injuries.
 

Thanks for the detailed info.  I wonder if we might see Woli back soon. Hallett and Feltmate might not be able to play this week.

That might explain the player added to the PR today. We were down healthy Canadians on the PR.

[Pigskin]

Thanks for the detailed info.  I wonder if we might see Woli back soon. Hallett and Feltmate might not be able to play this week.

That might explain the player added to the PR today. We were down healthy Canadians on the PR.

Didn't seem to be anything wrong with Nick. Vet maintenance day. 

[Blue In BC]

Didn't seem to be anything wrong with Nick. Vet maintenance day. 

I thought he might have been nicked since I saw Noah taking some defensive reps. If that's not the case great. Feltmate OTOH did come up limping and his status might be in question. It seemed to be an ankle injury which is what he had problems with early.

[Slingin Sammy]

Beautiful day for a practice.

No Bighill or Bryant at practice today.
Schoen and Parker, doing stairs. Dalton walking well, and looks like he has some extra upper body muscle.
Fox and Wilson, both moving well but not practicing.
Lucky O, full practice.
Woli82, Full practice.
Lawson, moving much better not practicing.
Neufeld, with a knee brace. Took a couple of snaps and tried a blocking drill, but not ready.
Wallace, on crutches, but no knee brace.
Randolph in for Bryant
Nick Hallett, did not practice.
Feltmate, did not practice.
BO20 and KL89, showing no signs of injuries.
 

I was at practise for a bit today as well. Woli practised with the 1st team; if he doesn't regress that's a good sign that he draws back in. 

On the 1st team OLine initial alignment had Randolph at LT and Eli at RG; but Vanterpol lined up at RG with Randolph at LT and Randolph at RG with Vanterpol at LT.  Pretty clear Oline alignment isn't set just yet.  Hoping Bryant is able to suit up.

MLB: Like last game it appears as though Gauthier will be the game day starter; but there are different personnel used to fill Biggies roles by Committee

KR/PR/Extra receiver: appears Lucky maintains this role

QB1: I thought Zach looked sharp.  He made some nice throws and spread the ball around to receivers not named Drew, Nic or Kenny.

[Blueforlife]

Party at the Kings Head!

[TecnoGenius]

Game is officially sold-out!

Pressure's on then!  Riders will not want to lay an egg.

[TecnoGenius]

I thought he might have been nicked since I saw Noah taking some defensive reps. If that's not the case great. Feltmate OTOH did come up limping and his status might be in question. It seemed to be an ankle injury which is what he had problems with early.

I didn't see Hallett get any booboos last game, and he was out signing autographs in the pen too.

[GOLDMEMBER]

Thanks for the detailed info.  I wonder if we might see Woli back soon. Hallett and Feltmate might not be able to play this week.

That might explain the player added to the PR today. We were down healthy Canadians on the PR.

MOS said yesterday in his presser Woli will be back.

[GOLDMEMBER]

Pressure's on then!  Riders will not want to lay an egg.

it is weird when they say that place "sells out" it still looks like their place is 10% empty seating.

[jayrock]

it is weird when they say that place "sells out" it still looks like their place is 10% empty seating.

It looks like that for any stadium that sells out, including Princess Auto. People up walking around, hanging out, in the washroom. Princess Auto Never looks sold out.

[GOLDMEMBER]

It looks like that for any stadium that sells out, including Princess Auto. People up walking around, hanging out, in the washroom. Princess Auto Never looks sold out.

not really. Maybe the Hammy game a bit but Banjo Bowl, no. Not even close to 10%. More like 5% at Hammy.

[blue_gold_84]

not really. Maybe the Hammy game a bit but Banjo Bowl, no. Not even close to 10%. More like 5% at Hammy.

Bottom line is we're the best (and loudest) fans.

[Waffler]

Some of the names escape me but many kickers were OL primarily that also were a teams FG kicker.

Yes. straight on kickers then. Don Jonas (QB) used to do ours. The first "soccer style" kickers allowed field goal attempts of 40 yards or so. Amazingly long at the time. Ted Gerela in BC was the first I believe. His brother Roy won super bowls with Pittsburgh. Our first was Walt McKee.

Sort of related to the single point debate last week, end zones were 25 yards deep then and kicker's range was much less. It was hard to get a single off a long miss then.

[Blue In BC]

Yes. straight on kickers then. Don Jonas (QB) used to do ours. The first "soccer style" kickers allowed field goal attempts of 40 yards or so. Amazingly long at the time. Ted Gerela in BC was the first I believe. His brother Roy won super bowls with Pittsburgh. Our first was Walt McKee.

Sort of related to the single point debate last week, end zones were 25 yards deep then and kicker's range was much less. It was hard to get a single off a long miss then.

Even then there was a strategy to punt for a single out the side of the end zone. It wasn't always in regard to a missed FG but yes that happened quite a bit.

Was that in 1972 where we tried to avoid the single on a missed FG and took a no yards penalty against the Riders. That resulted in losing the game when the next FG was successful.

[Throw Long Bannatyne]

Even then there was a strategy to punt for a single out the side of the end zone. It wasn't always in regard to a missed FG but yes that happened quite a bit.

Was that in 1972 where we tried to avoid the single on a missed FG and took a no yards penalty against the Riders. That resulted in losing the game when the next FG was successful.

I believe so, imagine having to be cognizant of no yards amidst the chaos of punts flying back and forth, I still don't think that's right.