2019 Argos Schedule

[Will]

https://www.argonauts.ca/schedule/

Argos are off Week 1.

Home Opener is June 22, 2018 versus Hamilton.

Labour Day is back to 1 PM.

[lazycro]

As is tradition an Argos home game will be played not at home.

Edit:

Also, we pay same price for Season Tickets but yet only get 8 games instead of 9 this year? (Forget the "early bird" pricing)

[lazycro]

As is tradition an Argos home game will be played not at home.

Edit:

Also, we pay same price for Season Tickets but yet only get 8 games instead of 9 this year? (Forget the "early bird" pricing)

Argos got back to my comment on Instagram really fast, refunds being provided for that missed game at home

[Neely2005]

Preseason home game is 11AM on a Thursday?

[Ron]

Nice, two CNE games.

[Neely2005]

As is tradition an Argos home game will be played not at home.

Edit:

Also, we pay same price for Season Tickets but yet only get 8 games instead of 9 this year? (Forget the "early bird" pricing)

Why do we always have to be the team losing home games. Fort McMurray plus previous Touchdown Atlantic games. BS!

[Mightygoose]

Preseason home game is 11AM on a Thursday?

Perhaps that will be a school day game? It's the same time for the Marlies when they do them.

[Neely2005]

Nice, two CNE games.

Nope, August 25th is the Touchdown Atlantic game.

[Ron]

Nope, August 25th is the Touchdown Atlantic game.

Crap. Thanks.

[Downtownfan]

I suspect that the preseason game will be a school day event, which is why it is at 11. May be a very good turn out with lots of kids, likely the largest we have had I preseason at BMO.

[argotom]

If we have to lose a game, I love the idea of at least being played in Moncton and it is for a good league wide cause I guess.
I attended at the TD Atlantic a few years ago for a game involving the Argos.
The place was packed and the atmosphere was awesome.
I also hope the new owners do end up playing in Moncton for what now looks like 2 years before the Halifax stadium is ready.
A regional team, even though based in Halifax, needs the Atlantic provinces like the Saskatchewan example to be successful.

[Godfather]

While I agree the touchdown atlantic is a good idea, considering the hoped for Halifax expansion, it is unfair to Toronto fans (the best fans in the league and I am a ticat fan saying that) that they lose a home game (again!). The argos need as much exposure in TO as possible and losing a home game doesn't help with that. Other teams can lose a home game for a change.

[Joe Barnes]

While I agree the touchdown atlantic is a good idea, considering the hoped for Halifax expansion, it is unfair to Toronto fans (the best fans in the league and I am a ticat fan saying that) that they lose a home game (again!). The argos need as much exposure in TO as possible and losing a home game doesn't help with that. Other teams can lose a home game for a change.

Perhaps TFC wanted the stadium that weekend? This way, Argos look like nice guys by 'growing the league' and it is one less CFL game to worry about on the grass.

[Joe Barnes]

BTW, when I hit through the link to the schedule, provided here by Will, I can access tickets to all the road games but not Argo home games. I get a 'page not found' message from the Argo site. WTF?

[GregR]

The email clearly explained we will get a refund for that game in Moncton. I clicked on the PDF so I could print it out and they still have the 2018 schedule up. Confused me a little as none of the dates lined up for 2019.

[Argos1983]

Yikes -- not a spectacular schedule; only one afternoon game to take kids to (and it's the last one of the year (not during the summer), and when it might be meaningless) --- and the "make-up" for that is what? - a preseason game at 11:00AM on a weekday which is likely a write-off for most people who have jobs and who cannot take their kids out of school accordingly....(edited)......

No return match after Labour Day (always nice to build the "hate" for Hamilton in that second game 5-6 days later), no Als visit to Toronto this season which may have attracted a few people due to a certain QB who plays for Mtl (why not send an opponent like WPG to Moncton as they never draw well here - it's not like the people in Moncton care about the Als anymore than anyone else - send them a traditional East-West game), yet two visits from Ottawa in a 2 week span....

One game during the Ex and its on the opening night of the Ex, which means it will be a zoo down there trying to get down to the Ex that evening -- and again making it harder for a family who have jobs during the week to make a day of it at the Ex which is kind of the fun part of the Ex game....

I know this seems harsh but if we want to build the next generation of fans (which to me is the key!), having a few more games that are conducive to families attending is important (like Jr. Jays afternoons) --- I have made many suggestions about on the field after game promotions with kids getting to meet players, and catch a ball in the endzone after the game etc. -- doing that kind of stuff at 10:00pm-11:00pm is just not going to happen..... (when are other adults going to an after game meet and greet in Liberty Village - at 11pm?),

Maybe other like this schedule - but it's not great for extending interest to families in my opinion......

[mchesher03]

Think this schedule misses the mark in a few places where the 3018 schedule nailed it.

No afternoon Saturday home games until that last one. I like night games too but they involve the rushing home afterward part - e.g. gotta make that 1013 train or next thing I’m getting home at 1am. Anyhow, not the end of the world.

The CNE game is on a Friday night - miss the optics of a game while people wander around on a CNE weekend. That Sunday afternoon game vs the alouettes would’ve been ideal.

No labour day rematch.

I actually enjoy the heightened intensity of a few visiting fans, with that said I think having the one Ottawa home game on a Friday is a bit of a miss too.

That said, still not too bad - lots of Saturday games - still much better than other years gone by.

[paulwoods13]

Pros: Byes are reasonably spaced out (wks 1, 9 and 14). We get an extra week coming out of camp to prep and see our opponents on real film. We close the schedule with four games against eastern opponents. Only one trip out West after July 25. No 1 o'clock home games. Chamblin's return to Sask is early in the schedule.

Cons: Terribly difficult schedule out of the gate -- four of first six on the road, including three consecutive games in the West. The dreaded 10p game in B.C. Almost all home games are evening rather than 4 o'clock start. Two brutally short turnarounds: July 1>6, Sept. 2>7. The preseason game will be a zoo and probably won't be attended by many STHs.

All in all, tho, this is fine, especially when we think about where we were schedule-wise in the early part of this decade.

[Mightygoose]

It's the second best schedule during their short time in BMO. Will agree not many Saturday afternoon games is a setback in terms of trying to grow the family market, especially the CNE game. In 2015 there was a non-Saturday CNE game and it still drew well comparatively.


I don't mind having a home game out east, was expecting one to be in Mexico at one point, so it will save a bit of $$$. 4 games that I'll have to go after work but I can take a few of them off

[gilthethrill]

Having the schedule released in December 2 years in a row? Who could have imagined that? Remember the days of waiting until March because of the Dome?