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The Winnipeg Free Press Online Edition

“DAVID Asper will host a fan forum at the MTS Centre tonight to update the public on his $120-million plan to build a new stadium for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

At the event — which he has titled Getting it Done — Asper will answer questions about the future ownership model and the design of the new stadium.”

I expect this should help. Politicians have been quite cool so far, as they are coached to do, when spending public money on stadiums is brought up. But show them some substantial public and media support for what is happening and they get a bit more courage.

Asper has a great reputation as a get it done kind of guy and he bleeds Bomber blue. The stakes are huge for Asper. Get public support and then political money for the stadium and he get’s control of the team. That’s the ultimate fan fantasy trip. I might suggest the carrot of another Grey Cup here as soon as the new stadium is done.

So as a p.r. advisor, this is just what we is needed right now, I say. Get the media and public behind the project and start building that “let’s get that stadium built soon steamroller”. The timing is right. The team’s season, which started with Grey Cup hopes, may go on a bit fo life support if they can’t muster a strong performance in Toronto this Saturday.

Here’s a link to David Asper’s stadium proposal site.

Blueandgold.ca

I’ll add my voice, we need to keep moving this forward. Fast forward that is. This province and this city needs to keep moving forward.

You can fill out his fan survey at the Blue and Gold site and get your thoughts to all the decision makers that need a little more courage right now.

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The Blue Bombers go head-to-head with the Argonauts on Saturday the 27 at Toronto. Matt Dunigan, former Bomber and Argo and now TSN analyst, said on TSN on a clip aired this past Saturday that he felt that the Argos had the best of the match-up. He gave the Argo the edge on defence and on special teams and the Bombers the edge on offence. Statistically you have to agree with Dunigan. The intangibles of course are who will come up with a game exceeding recent performances. The Bombers will need their “A game” for all 3 phases…which is not something we’ve seen for a while.

The prize is enormous. A home playoff date for the Eastern Finals with an excellent shot at the Grey Cup as a result. If that doesn’t motivate the team and coaches or we don’t play our best, then it’s time to make more changes.

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