The Toronto Argonauts will be monitoring the crowd flow at the gates prior to the home game against the Ottawa Redblacks on Sunday at 4 p.m. to ensure a bad situation doesn’t repeat itself.

“Our staff will be watching,” Argos executive chairman and CEO Chris Rudge said Thursday.

The Argos had more discussions Thursday with stadium officials to get assurances that steps are in place to prevent the long lineups and wait times that greeted fans at security checkpoints two weeks ago at the home opener.

“We have talked to the key people, and we did immediately after the game, so they’re very aware of the frustrations,” Rudge said. “We have every assurance that there will be extra security on board this time with specific training and there will be more gates open.”

In an email to the Star, Rogers Centre officials advised fans to arrive well in advance of the game Sunday and not to bring large bags into the stadium and be prepared to remove cell phones, keys and other heavy metal objects for inspection.

“We thank the fans in advance for their patience as everyone adapts to these new procedures,” the statement said.

Rudge called the problems at the home opener a “perfect storm” with a number of things coming together to create a “bad situation” over new security measures including metal detectors that were new to football crowds, but were put in place at the start of the 2015 baseball season.

“Our fans will have gone through this cycle once, so they’re aware that there’s a new world of security out there,” Rudge said. “I don’t anticipate any problems this Sunday, and I would be surprised if there are.”

Lori Bursey is not so sure and is taking a wait-and-see attitude.

Bursey said she was one of hundreds of Toronto Argonauts fans stuck in long security lineups two weeks ago, but her situation wasn’t as bad as some others.

Bursey, who is president of the Friends of the Argonauts fan club, finally got to her seat 40 minutes later as the national anthem was playing.

Some fans missed the opening quarter and there was a lot of frustration and grumbling, she said.

“I thought, my God, this is absolutely insane,” Bursey said, recalling seeing lineups at Gate 5 stretch past Ripley’s Aquarium.

“There was nobody screaming or swearing, so it wasn’t as bad as it could have been.”

The Argos heard from fans who said they experienced delays of more than an hour. An announced crowd of of 20,642 showed up to watch the Argos beat the Roughriders.

On Tuesday following the game, Rudge posted an open letter to “our valued fans,” saying that the situation was “unfair” to them.

He explained that Rogers Centre officials informed them that the average wait time at Gate 11 was about 20 minutes and even longer at Gate 5.

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What happened was “not acceptable,” Rudge said in his letter.

The problems included:

A six-minute postponement in opening the gates;

Bag inspections and searches that took too long;

Gates that were understaffed by the stadium;

A lack of experienced security staff and many staff who were in training.

The Argonauts share the Rogers Centre with the Blue Jays for one last season until the CFL club moves into BMO Field next season.

The Argos have had a disruptive start to their season, after being forced out of the Rogers Centre by the Pan Am Games. Now they are making contingency plans to move in October should the Blue Jays earn a post-season berth.

Bursey plans to arrive even earlier than 40 minutes prior to kickoff.

“It’s difficult enough for the Argos to build their attendance with everything else that goes on,” Bursey said.