Winnipeg Football Club Posts $12.1 Million Operating Profit

[Tecno]

Absolutely makes sense and back to a normal year with no late increase to the SMS. What I'd really like to know is how much of the 2025 SMS left was used as early money to reduce 2026 SMS hit on those players.

The $400k question, eh?  I'm pretty sure that, unlike "who went over SMS and by how much", we'll never know the answer to your question.  That info simply isn't made public, except in bits and pieces doused in speculation.

[Throw Long Bannatyne]

As they should be.  Anything else is asinine.  And I don't even think you need a legit reason to 6G.  Stubbed toe.  6G.  Stashing the plyaer.  6G.  "They won't agree to it!", pffft: they get 100% full pay on 6G and are safe from cutting.  What more do they want?  If they didn't want to be stashed they should have played better.

Can't stash uninjured players on the 6 game IR, the CFLPA won't have it and neither will the insurance industry who picks up a lot of the tab.  A couple of decades ago the CFL got their hands slapped for doing this.

[Blue In BC]

The $400k question, eh?  I'm pretty sure that, unlike "who went over SMS and by how much", we'll never know the answer to your question.  That info simply isn't made public, except in bits and pieces doused in speculation.

Probably but in recent years we're seeing other transparency. Neg list for example.

I'd settle for players salaries to be made public and how much is allocated to current year.

[Tecno]

Can't stash uninjured players on the 6 game IR, the CFLPA won't have it and neither will the insurance industry who picks up a lot of the tab.  A couple of decades ago the CFL got their hands slapped for doing this.

Still happens, surely.  Allowed or not.  You just take an iffy or nebulous injury (especially "head", and maybe "thigh") and push it as long as you want.

As for insurance, this is the first I've heard that there's insurance against players going 6G!  Where are you getting that from?  My impression was it was just normal team salary money.  The only difference is it's SMS free (if following the rules, 6 games, etc).