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Close but no cigar, or so goes the expression goes, a term that can easily apply to this year’s edition of the three-win Argonauts who have two games remaining before the real off-season intrigue begins.

They’ve been close, but have failed far too often to close the deal, the latest example provided Friday night in Montreal when the host Als emerged with a 27-24 win.

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In sweeping the two-game season series versus Toronto, the Als won by making the big play in the game’s biggest moment on offence.

In each game, the outcome wasn’t decided until the final play, the first in Moncton when McLeod Bethel-Thompson’s intended pass to Armanti Edwards in the end zone fell incomplete.

Had he seen the field better, Bethel-Thompson would have noticed a wide open S.J. Green.

The ball to Edwards was slightly behind him.

The latest setback wasn’t decided until a last-play field goal attempt from 51 yards when Tyler Crapigna’s boot fell woefully short.