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Ambrosie said there’s a lot involved in moving forward.

“The important question we wanted to have answered here was if there was anything we might be missing?” he said. “If we’re going to talk to our fans about it as I’m planning to do in the weeks and months ahead, if we’re really planning to have a national conversation about our season, you have to know the logistical issues.

“This was an opportunity to talk to our general managers. And the nice thing to report is that there were no show-stoppers. There was no issue that came up that they didn’t see a solution to. I’m encouraged.

“Now we can go to our board of governors having had the conversation and inform them that it was positive. Having these conversations released some anxiety I’ve had about what might we be missing.

“There’s a carpenters axiom. Measure twice. Cut once. You don’t want to get all the way to the goal line and have somebody say: ‘Wait. Did you think about this?’ It kind of removed the concerns I had that we had not thought through the football issues.”

There were several concerns when it came to training camps.

Saskatchewan GM Chris Jones made the point that a lot of clubs, such as the Roughriders at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, use college dorms for training camp.

“We’d have to look at when we’d be able to get access in May. If they wouldn’t be available, we might have to use our own facility in Regina and put them in a hotel. That would cost more I would think. But how much I don’t know.