What's your opinion of successful season?

[BBRT]

All a failure unless we win the grey cup.

sort of agree - but sitting here in Calgary sure makes anything the Bombers accomplish all good stuff. I have two season tickets (Super Reds) here in Calgary and really wonder why???

[Blueforlife]

There's nothing successful about this season so far. We took a lot of steps back in many ways, so losing before we get to the Grey Cup would make this year an abject failure.

The bar is high, but making the Grey Cup for 5 straight years but losing three straight would also leave a sour taste in our mouths.

Win it all, guys.

Yeah I hate finishing 1st, clawing back from the dead and being the hottest club to end the season, having numerous new faces emerge as very good players, over coming key injuries, yup no success this year.   

Yup we need playoff success but I believe you are really understating the success we found after falling on our face.  Challenges builds character and I believe our path to the playoffs has strengthened our resolve.

Thanks for the responses everyone nice to see the diversity in the answers.

[GOLDMEMBER]

sort of agree - but sitting here in Calgary sure makes anything the Bombers accomplish all good stuff. I have two season tickets (Super Reds) here in Calgary and really wonder why???

understood but a good CFL team must cash in while you are up!

[TecnoGenius]

If your not winning the grey cup the season is a failure

If you peruse other team forums, you'll come across the odd post that casually mentions how the Bombers aren't as "dominant" as they've been since 2019.  And we get similar chatter here.

For 5 years or so we were like TOR was in '23 and MTL was this year: just couldn't be beat unless it was some weird unlucky trap game.

And it's true: they are right.  We struggled and stunk and clawed our way this season to get where we are.  Nothing was easy.  Every point was a struggle.  Most games came down to the last 3 mins.  No part of our team is dominant.  Every unit has problems.  Some units suck.

Injuries have killed us this season (and still are).  Our desired starter plans have been thrown off since week 1.  Still missing some key guys even now.

So we should be realistic.  I think we should be very happy with making it to the cup because we are now the massive underdog against any MTL or TOR GC matchup.  It will take both our best game PLUS massive luck to win it all against those balanced and well-built, well-coached teams.

Don't get me wrong, I think we can win the GC, just as TOR & MTL beat us when they were the massive underdogs.  But don't put all of your hopes and dreams into that cup, because odds say we won't get it.

I think what the team has done with what they have and iffy pre-season SMS choices and iffy coaching choices is simply astounding.  Winning the W?  Get outta here!  Insane.  They were given lemons and made lemonade, with extra organic cane sugar.  I'm proud of the whole team and club.  Losing in BC on Nov 17 won't change that.