HAM @ CAL 2024 PBP Thread

Hamilton Tiger-Cats
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I guess we can finally say that “official” football is back, now that the regular season has commenced.

There has been an inordinate amount of personnel - both players and coaches/front office - since last season, and there are some very visible differences - mostly doing with WR height.

My major concern for this game is starting a pair of American rookie Tackles, because OF COURSE both our veteran starters are on the 6-game.

This is BLM’s first visit to McMahon as a dressed opposing player, so there’s bound to be some emotion involved with this.

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I’m interested in seeing if they are going to incorporate a tight end as a receiver on offence like they talked about during training camp. Global player Jevoni Robinson is dressed for that position but it will be interesting to see how much they use him as a receiver.

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Probably as much as they used Jake Burt .

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I was thinking more in the line of another Lawrie Skolrood. :grinning:

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Big bad Lawrie , our replacement for Tony Gabriel . :grin: he even took TG’s number when he got to town .

Bonus points if you can name the other players in this pic circa 1976 .

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I am not optimistic about tonight. We have inexperienced Linebackers, our best DB is out, and so are our two starting tackles.
Luckily we are probably playing a team that has just as many question marks.
If our revamped D-Line can get 4 man pressure then we might have a chance.
I have grown accustomed to slow starts so I am just preparing myself.

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Well lets see: #23 Angelo Santucci,#77 Lawrie Skolrood, #58 Ed Chalupka, #50 Henry Waszczuk, #63 Nick Bastaja and #54 Bart Evans

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Wouldn’t be a Ti-Cat season if we didn’t lose the opener . It’s almost like a tradition , in fact we have won exactly 4 season openers since the 2001 season. Yep a sparkling 4 - 19 record while opening up the season over the years , crazy as that sounds .

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Bingo !!! Congrats you got them all . :+1: :beers:

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This game could be brutal to watch. Fully expecting to start out the season with a loss, hope I am wrong.

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Worse than I would have guessed! Calgary is always a tough place to play. The team under Coach O was never, in my view, well prepared at the beginning of the season. I’m hoping for a different look with Milanovich.

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Peg had only lost three games at home in the last 40.

and they got smoked last night.

Let’s go Cats!

(nervous excitement over here :wink: )

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The Bomber OLine was a sieve last night . Collaros was running for his life .

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Obvious Shawn Lemon bet on the Als last night…

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I think we are going to win this one.
But the season I have doubts.
I think Bo at best will last 6 games
Before he goes down. With him we
Will win 4 of our next 6 games. With
Powell who is only average we will
Win 6 of our remaining 12 games.
It will be a 10/18 season. Just good
Enough to fight for third place against a western cross over team.
And that game we lose.
That’s my best senario Sorry I hope
I’m wrong.

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i’m just gonna come out and say it.

if bo cannot and does not perform tonight, back in Calgary, with everything on the line, no excuses.

as an athlete he will want to give it 110% tonight.

we’ll see what it is 110% of.

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Who did TG get #77 from?

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Last time it was used was 1967, and worn by Prince Hal

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Gabriel stole it from Allen Aldridge but he wore #77 in honour of Hal Patterson one of his childhood favourite players.

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Aldridge wore #78 according to the archives, not 77.

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