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This article was published 08/09/2009 (5924 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.

Ouch update

DB Brady Browne, a bolt of energy on the Bombers special teams, may be lost for a while after suffering what is believed to be ligament damage in his right elbow.

Labour Day nightmare

The Bombers have lost five consecutive Labour Day Classics. Their last win in Regina came on Sept. 5, 2004 in a 17-4 decision.

Quotable

“It’s disappointing, man. It’s too many Labour Days out here with the same s — bus trip home and that feeling of unsatisfied performances. It’s just very disappointing.”

— Bombers defensive tackle Doug Brown.

THE COIN-TOSS FIASCO:

THE Bombers were angry with referee Glen Johnson after what they say was confusion with the coin toss. Just to recap, the Bombers lost the toss and when the Riders opted to defer to the second half to have a gusting wind in the fourth quarter, Winnipeg ended up kicking off AND having their winds at their back (you want one or the other, not both). The Bombers insist they asked to go into the wind so they could have the wind in the second, but after discussing the mix-up were rebuffed.

“I’m not going to talk about the officials in the league,” said head coach Mike Kelly. “We’ll just leave it at ‘semantics’ and leave it at that.”

Asked if there was a mix-up, he said: “Se-man-tics. Yes. Next question.”

“When I sent (captain) Jeremy O’Day out there, I wanted him to get the wind in the long (second and fourth) quarters (when the clock stops more often),” Roughriders head coach Ken Miller told the Regina Leader-Post. “When he came back, he was pretty happy.”

THE GOAL-LINE FIASCO:

WINNIPEG blew a chance to change the momentum on the final play of the first half when Fred Reid was hammered for a loss with the Bombers at the Riders’ one-yard line. Instead of entering the break down 18-11, the score remained at 18-4.

“You’re the leading rushing team in the league, you’ve got the leading running back in the league… you run your best back through your best hole and the guard gets beat and you don’t get in,” said Kelly. “It came down to that. I truly believed that from a yard-and-a-half away we could bang it in there and we didn’t do it.”

Reid, who rushed for a club record 260 yards against B.C., was held to just 41 versus the Riders.

“We spent a lot time working on schemes to stop him,” Rider D-lineman Luc Mullinder told the Leader-Post. “It was a product of (defensive co-ordinator) Gary Etcheverry’s scheme. There really wasn’t anywhere for him to go in terms of holes. We cancelled those out and our guys in the middle did a great job.”