Yeah Condra made me do a double take too. Still, with proper messaging, and a proper messenger, many of those tough decisions could still have been sold to us at least a little bit as a rational plan that fits our status as a small market, revenue-challenged team. And perhaps even helped increase ticket sales rather than sabotage them.
Melnyk is now giving the impression to me that he is going to live up to the statement he made when blackmailing the city for a casino that Ottawa fans are used to being a developing team for the rest of the league. That he will now adopt the Ottawa Roughriders budget philosophy, sell off any expensive assets to save money, go with youth and then sell them when they come up for a ufa contracts, become a cap floor team to make as much cash flow before moving into a new arena. If that is his plan, i expect the same success the Roughriders had. Good luck with that Eugene Glieberman. Hope you can show enough humility to listen to the pros in your PR firm and put out a better message and plan instead of thinking that because you are a sheltered billionaire, you know better than anyone about everything.
Melnyk is now giving the impression to me that he is going to live up to the statement he made when blackmailing the city for a casino that Ottawa fans are used to being a developing team for the rest of the league. That he will now adopt the Ottawa Roughriders budget philosophy, sell off any expensive assets to save money, go with youth and then sell them when they come up for a ufa contracts, become a cap floor team to make as much cash flow before moving into a new arena. If that is his plan, i expect the same success the Roughriders had. Good luck with that Eugene Glieberman. Hope you can show enough humility to listen to the pros in your PR firm and put out a better message and plan instead of thinking that because you are a sheltered billionaire, you know better than anyone about everything.