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Winners = Winnipeg and Ottawa (both improved areas of need ) bombers got the best OL and DL available. They also improved cdn depth slightly by signing Nield (more than slightly) and grabbed a realiable veteran cornerback. The only question mark with the bombers Is backup qb but options appear limited. Bombers signed all their important free agents and every one is well minus Kyrie Wilson but if the worst move is signing Kyrie who is a solid veteran leader to a 1 year deal. Then yeah bombers are winners Losers = Hamilton and Saskatchewan ( they lost the most players) maybe Toronto also as losing RD and McManiss is 2 huge losses. The rest id keep in the neutral to stayed the same category.

Our Man Tait's latest 1st and 10 column gave the impression that the Bombers are unlikely to approach any of the veteran back ups that are out there. Likely to let all of the recent signings duke it out in camp and see who emerges. The only issue I see with that is, there are only so many reps, so how can you really tell who's standing out?

I think we definitely won the early going in FA.....The one spot that has great implications going forward is at qb......Maybe one of the recent pivot signings, surprises the hell out of us in tc ...Other than that, Elgersma might show up and prove he's the second coming of Rourke or better...A lot of question marks for sure ....however our early signings certainly must have caught the eye few potential qbs. who see us as definite contenders....Will we see a resurgence comparable to the New England Pats????...contender to pretender and back to relevance....Time will tell but so far I like what I'm seeing

That blue dot thing does the trick. I'll be using that.

Did Edmonton announce it or did the league? Nothing on the L's website about it so maybe the league put it out there for clarity since rights transfers are rare. Edit - just saw Hervey's statement. Said it was an attempt to do right by the player and other clubs and let them get going on things without needlessly holding up the process. The website is not completely up to date. They signed a 6'6 DL named Michael Fletcher the other day but he's not listed so there's definitely people missing. He was signed before Ceresna was made official yet he's on there so it's a bit random.

This maybe should be in the Grim Reaper thread but since it's CFL related, I thought I'd post it here. Former CFL player Barry Wilburn died yesterday in Memphis in a house fire. Wilburn was 62 years of age. Wilburn played for 3 CFL teams during his time in canada. The Saskatchewan Roughriders, BC Lions & Winnipeg Blue Bombers (in 1999). He also played for Washington & the Philadelphia Eagles. What a horrible way to go. Condolences to his family, friends & former teammtes.

I know you mentioned Ottawa but didn't really get into details... they had a really nice FA period adding Allen, Reavis, Eberhardt... but their biggest addition was getting Dinwiddie

Didn't he already sign in Hamilton right after his Toronto release

I've upgraded the board to the next major version. This is a significant upgrade from Version 4 to Version 5. I've been putting this off for almost a year as I didn't want to do it mid-season. Now with activities for next season starting, I wanted to get the upgrade in before next season activities start so any bugs can get worked out. Why the upgrade.... This gets us on the most current version, which is important for security updates and new functionality. They have been doing security patches for the old version, but that won't last forever, and this also lets me upgrade some of the software that the board runs on to a current version. Like everything else, the people who make the board software are really trying to push everyone to their cloud, as that gives them higher recurring revenue. But their hosting costs do not make sense for the size of the forum (it would 2x to 4x the cost I pay now depending on what plan we went to). Good news for now is they've committed to version 5 of the software to be self hosted. That should hopefully buy 5 - 10 years before they go to version 6. Please be patient There is going to be some tweaks and changes you'll notice over time, feel free to post in here anything that seems off or not right, there are still some tweaks that need to make to settings and the theme. Some changes you may notice They completely changed how tagging works. Now admins / mods can maintain a list of tags, members can't create new ones. This was done to better categorize and search content. All existing tags have been converted, but let me know if you want new tags created. Support for Web Apps on your phone Complete theme overhaul. A new theming system means I've had to rebuild the theme. It is close to what we used to have, but there will be some discrepancies. There are still some more tweaks and updates I want to make to it. There is a completely revamped post editor. It does seem to be easier to use and more powerful. A lot of other behind the scenes updates and changes to things we don't use that often.

I just assumed everyone knew about that. It's the only way to go... Thankful for it!

I remember attending a Jets 1.0 home game against the Habs and I was running late and as I entered the arena outside of ice site, the crowd erupted so i thought alright Jets scored but nope as i entered my entrance to my seats 1-0 Habs.

Mine was a huge Maple Leafs fan. He had buddies that he'd phone with after checking scores in the paper - similar to this forum, actually. It would've been in the 30s, 40s & 50s.

Maybe but sounded like Kyle didn’t wanna go any higher. But I’m never going back the past is in the past.

And I say hey what a wonderful kind of day we can learn to laugh and play and get along with each other.

I see. I’ll take a look. An alternative is clicking the blue dot for a thread that has unread posts. It will take you directly to your first unread post. I use this all the time, I only see the first post on new threads.

I think most GMs would honour any contracts offered. I don't think any team would mess with the system they have to screw it up. Look at last year when they announced the salary cap kncrease right about now. A week after the window opened. No teams wanted to offer more to nab a player from another team or put in a different offer to keep or sign a free agent. Example: Kenny Lawler. The Bombers could have offered more but said no after he & the Ti Cats agreed to terms.

There were in fact...follies.

It's as simple as doing right by a player so that he can sign and get his signing bonus sooner. 💯. It was a classy move by Hervey so that Ceresna can finalize his contract without waiting. Also there is roster limits in the offseason of 85 players. Its possible that Hervey has a bunch of recruits to sign and needed to open a roster spot. It really isn't a mystery why he would release Ceresna if you look at possible factors for doing so.

It was a strange announcement. Nobody has ever done that before. Are they going to do that with every free agent they lose? What about the Argos & Ti Cats & the players they lost? That would be a lot of announcements per team. Our team last year? Some new CFL media protocol? It was just weird.

WTF is Hervey doing? There's something you hear every day.

HEY THIS IS FUN I LOVE ALLCAPS!!!

Some more Sheed highlights because that guy was one of my favorites. very first TD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Lw9Ne1e2DM. <--- Yoshi and him rolling around the endzone like Anakin and Padme. Totally forgot that Tyler Crapigna was ever a bomber. falling bomb TD strike: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37gks3BTxf0 <--- check out the dope adjustment to the ball, which is slightly off target. the famous superman pylon dive TD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v49p6Z26jSE <--- freaking love the blocking on this play. BOLO tenaciously erases his man! (am I doing something wrong or does the new board version not support youtube thumbnails?)

Ya generally speaking I like using the app over the browser...

Ads are disabled on mobile. Google is so aggressive in how they want to display ads, if I let them do what they wanted, there would be interstitial ads between every post. Its not really an app. Web Apps are still the website, you can just add the site as if it was an app on your phone. It is purely a convenience thing, if you don't want to use the browser with all the other sites and tabs you have going on in there, you can have a dedicated window for it on your phone. If you prefer to use it though the browser, continue to do that. You don't go through an app store or anything like that. If your phone supports it, there should be a header when you visit on your phone asking if you want to "install" it, then the website will be an icon you can access directly on your phone.

There is an app?

From this day forth, everytime I read your comments- you will be voiced by Andy Bernard in my head.

Thanks for all your work keeping this board running!

I hate change. This is going to take me like a year to get used to.

Google tailors the ads to your search history!

I’m 93% sure @Noeller is Jake Thomas.