Wednesday, July 18, 2012

CFL Game Day: Winnipeg at Toronto (July 18 2012)

Winnipeg's season of woe continues on into week number four as the Blue Bombers, yet to record a win will travel to Toronto to take on the Toronto Argonauts, the Bombers most likely to be without the services of Buck Pierce who was injured last week, his back up Alex Brink also was knocked out of that game, but it seems that he's destined to be the starter tonight.

Winnipeg's troubles are starting to resonate across the city, with much discussion on the post game call in shows and other sports venues in the city as to what changes need to take place to salvage the season, this after but three weeks.

To give you an idea as to how the locals are feeling these days, radio station CJOB recently held an on air contest where the winner could pick up tickets to see Journey or seats to the Bombers home opener, it would seem that the fires still burn for Journey, maybe not so much for the Blue this season.

Such is the fate of a team that suffers losses out of the gate.

Then again, they do still have a sizable fan base fully engaged (slightly enraged at the moment) with the team, the Argos are still trying to rebuild their fan base and they will take another step towards that goal with their home date tonight.

Ricky Ray who has been passed the torch of Argo quarterbacks, is beginning to come into his own in Double Blue, his statistics have been rather impressive his receiving corps becoming more familiar and comfortable with his leadership skills on the field.

In fact, the Argos have been rather successful both on offence and defence, despite their record, it's been the special teams where they've been getting killed at untimely moments. For a review check out the Gibson's Player of the Week awards for week three and watch the Ti Cats Chris Williams run, run and run some more, obliterating the Argos special teams schemes with each gallop.

Should the Argos wish to make some noise in the run up to the 100th Grey Cup in their stadium, they will want to solve their Special Teams problems quickly, it's one thing to ask Ricky Ray to lead comebacks, it's another thing to hand over the points to the opposition without much of a contest.

Game Time 7:30 PM (4:30 PT) Rogers Centre (TSN)


Winnipeg 22 at Toronto 25 (22,485)

Pre Game

CFL Video Preview

Globe and Mail-- Argos wary of struggling Blue Bombers
National Post-- Frustrated Bombers quarterback Buck Pierce lands back on injury list
Toronto Star-- Toronto Argonauts vs Winnipeg Blue Bombers: Five key questions
Toronto Sun-- Argos game vs. Bombers is 'huge'
Winnipeg Free Press- New top banana auditions tonight
Winnipeg Sun-- Poor O line play pulling bombers down

Team Backgrounders

Toronto Argonauts
Winnipeg Blue Bombers


Post Game

CFL.ca -- Game Recap
CFL.ca -- Video Highlights

Globe and Mail-- Ray's three TD passes rally Argos past injury plagued Blue Bomber
National Post-- Argos' late rally seals win over Blue Bombers
Toronto Star-- Argos beat Blue Bombers 25-22 in come from behind nail-biter
Toronto Sun-- Argos barely get by Bombers
Winnipeg Free Press-- Everything goes wrong as Bombers fall to Argos
Winnipeg Sun-- LaPolice says Brink starts at QB next week for Bombers

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