MONTREAL

The Montreal Alouettes remember their 19-11 loss to the Bombers at Molson Stadium back in July, and they are vowing to get their revenge tomorrow afternoon.

“You never forget those,” Alouettes linebacker Kyries Hebert said this morning at Olympic Stadium. “It’s very important that you win games at home, and it’s very important you win division games, and they took two of those things away from us. It’s something that’s going to stick with you throughout the season.”

The Alouettes are 6-8 and can clinch a playoff berth with a victory over the Bombers, who are 2-12 and have lost four in a row. Winnipeg has to win its remaining four games and have Montreal lose its final four to get into the playoffs, which is unlikely to occur.

As a result, the only thing left for the Bombers to do is play for pride and for employment next season. That includes head coach Tim Burke, who this afternoon was asked once again about why he thinks he should stay on in 2014.

“I’d like to work with a team that has more of its pieces put together, and I think it would’ve been tough for anybody to handle what we’ve gone through,” he said. “The reason I would state my case would be because I believe the team has competed hard every week. We’ve put forth the energy necessary to be a competitive football team. Nobody’s ever given up. It’s just we’re not good enough.”

Burke understands the fan base would probably like to see a change, if for no other reason than the fact the Bombers are going to finish with one of the worst records in their 84-year history.

“That’s something that our board will have to consider, I’m sure, and Wade Miller, our CEO, would have to consider,” Burke said. “As far as window dressing things, they could do some things like that. Clean slate and all that kind of stuff. That’s up to them.”

Quarterback Max Hall, who will make his sixth start of the season for the Bombers, said everyone in Blue and Gold is playing hard, even though there were rumblings out of Calgary this week that not all of them were during last week’s 38-11 loss to the Stampeders.

“It depends on the guy and where he’s at,” Hall said. “Because we’re such a young team, guys are still fighting because they want a job here. I don’t think too many guys have checked out on the offensive side of the ball. We had a good week of practice, and I didn’t see any guys just checking out. I haven’t seen that.

“I expect us to go out and execute and play well. I don’t expect guys to go out there and just throw their hands up and give up. I’d be really disappointed if that happened.”