kelownabomberfan

and how did that work out for us?

Really like his ST play... basically, an upgrade over West. here's another upgrade over West...

That field should have been built three or more years ago. So sad it was held up by a bunch of idiot goofballs. Some people just need to get a life.

And don't complain when Bilikudi and Muamba come back to Canada this year either. Then we go from suck to blow on the ratio.

who's the other one? And if Messam is one of the "best" NI's to come available then the problem is really with the depth of NI talent in this league, as he ain't no great shakes.

Does Popp only scout the progeny of famous NFL receivers? If JR jr makes the team then that's two NFL legends with sons on the Als. A few years ago they had Walter Payton's kid at running back. Does Randy Moss or Michael Irvin have any kids? Marvin Harrison? Come on down to Montreal for a try out!

I hope he names his first kid "Craphonso"...

now imagine the yards he'd get if he had people blocking on top of that!

I like how he has an "L" tattoo on his left arm and an "R" tattoo on his right arm.

"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries." -Winston Churchill

Jesse Lumsden come on down! If we are going to look at washed up NI RB's, why stop at Messam? I know Jesse took a bad knock on the head when he was tobogganing in Sochi but that shouldn't be an issue.

I haven't given up hope yet. You can bet that Walters and crew are keeping a constant vigil on what cuts are made on other teams' rosters on the "national" side (sorry, just can't get used to that phrase, it's too dumb). We'll see what shakes out in the next two weeks.

As a guy who has two parents who are teachers, I won't belittle the hard work of dedicated teachers. They deserve to be paid well, they are sculpting the young minds that will one day be taking care of us old guys. Right now, per stats I read, Canadian teachers are the second highest paid in the world. And I am ok with that. What I'm not ok with is teachers striking and using kids as pawns. They argue it's the government that is doing that, but I think both are to blame. Making kids stay home instead of being in school is a tremendously selfish act that I find reprehensible.

I like this one better: Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. Winston Churchill With all due respect to Mr. Churchill, presenting either / or scenarios helps no one. I disagree. I think it's a brilliant insight into the philosophy of socialism. True socialists aren't happy until everyone is suffering, and suffering equally. Look at Venezuela. Total basketcase of an economy, all due to socialism killing off all economic incentive to succeed, and also chasing away any and all capital necessary to create a vibrant economy. Kind of like BC in the 1990's.

I sense a repeat of the Paredes fiasco. We keep an average bum and cut a guy who goes on to kick 80% for some other team for the next 12 years. Sigh. I really was hoping we'd keep Maher. He had such an awesome kicking motion and such good distance and accuracy. Not a fan of this move.

I agree with this. As the horrid NDP found out here in BC, you can only go so far campaigning on a "look how bad that guy is" vibe, without supplying any reasons why you'd be any better. The NDP also made some insanely stupid moves during the election too. The leader here, Adrian Dix, decided half way through the campaign that he was going to cancel a multi-billion dollar pipeline project, sight unseen, and that was enough to make everyone realize that while the BC Liberals were old and stale and ridden with scandals, they were still better than the job-killing tax and spend radical leftist bonehead NDP. Thank goodness for that. The headline summed it up "Dix sunk by flaccid campaign". Hee hee... Pallister has to start being positive and talking about all of the things he's going to do if elected, not just focus on how bad the other guy is. People usually prefer the devil they know, unless convinced that you are a better option.

I like this one better: Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. Winston Churchill

He's going to need it as the stumble-bum paramedics couldn't even lift him into the ambulance properly. I don't know what was harder to watch, the replay of his ankle snapping or the Keystone Kops routine trying to load him into the ambulance.

You have to understand the context though. The judge didn't rule that the government's negotiation tactics were unconstitutional, they ruled that the government stripping out of the clause that the BCTF gets to negotiate class size and composition was unconstitutional. I am not going to say the BC government is perfect here or totally in the right, but the BCTF never should have been given the right to bargain class size and composition. It's not the union's right to determine their work environment, that's the employer's right. The BCTF were given this gift by a bought and paid for pro-union NDP government in a closed-door meeting back in the late 1990's. It's morally reprehensible that this happened. And so the BC Liberals, when they took over in a landslide, just said that they refused to honour such a terrible piece of garbage legislation. If the NDP had allowed teachers the right to beat kids with tire irons, and the Liberals said "no" we are not allowing this anymore, a judge could still say that it is "unconstitutional" to strip out this right from agreements, but it doesn't mean that the public isn't in full support of taking away that right, and that it is morally improper that they had it in the first place. The BC government can't just reverse this putrid legislation as it was theoretically "bargained for", even though it was actually handed over on a silver platter in fact. And so they just refuse to honour it, and the BCTF keeps running off to judges who they know will rule in their favour. You can't totally say that the BCTF has been "yanked around", their salary demands, which everyone knows is the real issue, even though the BCTF keeps saying their strike is "for the kids", are completely insane and over the top, and way in excess of what other unions have asked for and received. If the teachers would move a bit on their salary demands, there might be room to move on class size and composition. I don't see anything happening until the fall, and this school year essentially just ending early, as all of my nieces and nephews have cleaned out their desks already and have been told by their teachers to enjoy the summer. The teachers here aren't even getting much support from their local fellow unionists. One CUPE guy, who of course had to remain anonymous, had this to say:

cutting his hair made him mortal....

Andre the Giant (beat Nate to it) could have been good if he had stayed healthy. 2011 our O-Line wasn't too bad, especially with Labatte in there. We just needed a center.

So he had to play tackle and guard at the same time.

If Neufeld can hold his own at RT then this could be a good thing. Dan Knapp seems to have won the RG position purely because of his physical awesomeness? And because he's such an upgrade over Morley? Not sure why else we'd start an import at that position in the future, unless we have that kind of roster flexibility. Physical awesomeness? HAIR AWESOMENESS!!!

I had similar thoughts as well. Goosen did not look out of place.

I haven't been blown away by Volny and his fumblitis never seems to get cured. I hope Walters is actively searching for an NI running back.