Bad News from Riderville...

[Vern Halen]

Flick hurt

Slotback D.J. Flick, who led the Riders with 10 touchdown catches this season, left Friday's practice with an injury and didn't return.

"I don't know what it is,'' said head coach Kent Austin, who had to dash away afterwards to catch the CFL team's charter flight to Vancouver.

Flick's status doesn't have to be decided until one hour before kickoff of Sunday's West semifinal against the B.C. Lions. If Flick can't play, a likely scenario shifts Yo Murphy to slotback and Kahlil Hill replaces Murphy at wideout.

--Darrell Davis

http://communities.canada.com/reginalea ... fault.aspx

[Noodles]

that sucks.

[No Ordinary Joe]

Ouch. You guys are starting to suffer what we did earlier in the year.

[Zarquon]

I thought you said this was bad news.

Seriously though that would be a huge blow to the Riders.

[Lion Guy]

Ouch. You guys are starting to suffer what we did earlier in the year.

...and Rider fans were very quick to point out that injuries are part of the game are not excuses. Riders will line up 12 guys, so will we.

The best team will win.

[No Ordinary Joe]

Cates, Dominguez, Szarka, Flick. Wow. :no:

[Vern Halen]

Ouch. You guys are starting to suffer what we did earlier in the year.

...and Rider fans were very quick to point out that injuries are part of the game are not excuses. Riders will line up 12 guys, so will we.

The best team will win.

True dat. Man, are the Riders snake-bit with $!@%%*&* injuries at the wrong time of year. :x :x :x

[Vern Halen]

Cates, Dominguez, Szarka, Flick. Wow. :no:

Szark will probably play...listed as day-to-day right now.

[leeinq]

Ouch. You guys are starting to suffer what we did earlier in the year.

Starting???? Not sure what the stats are now, but mid season the Riders had the highest number of game days lost to injuries in the league and that was before MD the leagues leading receiver at the time was hurt, before Cates was out, before Szarka, etc, etc

But as others have said, we will have 12 players on the field, and that is what matters.

[Disturber]

Flick will probably play

[Rammer]

Ouch. You guys are starting to suffer what we did earlier in the year.

Starting???? Not sure what the stats are now, but mid season the Riders had the highest number of game days lost to injuries in the league and that was before MD the leagues leading receiver at the time was hurt, before Cates was out, before Szarka, etc, etc

But as others have said, we will have 12 players on the field, and that is what matters.

Were all the players injured or just used for depth, seems plausible that the Riders used teh IR as a ploy to retain a few TC players for further evaluation. Besides most of the injured were not starters.

[leeinq]

Ouch. You guys are starting to suffer what we did earlier in the year.

Starting???? Not sure what the stats are now, but mid season the Riders had the highest number of game days lost to injuries in the league and that was before MD the leagues leading receiver at the time was hurt, before Cates was out, before Szarka, etc, etc

But as others have said, we will have 12 players on the field, and that is what matters.

Were all the players injured or just used for depth, seems plausible that the Riders used teh IR as a ploy to retain a few TC players for further evaluation. Besides most of the injured were not starters.

I have no doubt that the IR has been used to stash people, but at the time I was talking about, the 17 were legitimate. Now later in the season, Tate ( a QB prospect) and a few others would fall in the stash category.

[leeinq]

Ouch. You guys are starting to suffer what we did earlier in the year.

Starting???? Not sure what the stats are now, but mid season the Riders had the highest number of game days lost to injuries in the league and that was before MD the leagues leading receiver at the time was hurt, before Cates was out, before Szarka, etc, etc

But as others have said, we will have 12 players on the field, and that is what matters.

Were all the players injured or just used for depth, seems plausible that the Riders used teh IR as a ploy to retain a few TC players for further evaluation. Besides most of the injured were not starters.

Well not really, Eddie Davis, Murphy , Makowsky, Stancil, Adams, Frenette (long snapper), Jurineak, Cherniawski (key special teams) and Mullinder. The others I will give you.

[120dB]

don't be fooled; this could be a trick to get the Lions to take the Riders less seriously. Austin has some cards in his back pocket he hasn't used yet. Beware

[Yank In BC]

don't be fooled; this could be a trick to get the Lions to take the Riders less seriously. Austin has some cards in his back pocket he hasn't used yet. Beware

Yea I agree, Kent gave a poster on RF a call and said go over and put up a silly post on lionbackers and maybe Wally will read it and believe it.