kelownabomberfan

Yeah but are you going to hire a new head coach based on an ultimatum that he keeps the current ST Coordinator? If the new head coach is his brother, then he should be ok with it.

oh the relief I feel reading Buck Pierce jokes and it not being also a joke on the Bombers for a change....

People had input .. whether or not it was listened to is another matter entirely. I questioned why we didn't draft any o-linemen this year. I was told there weren't any worth drafting.

If they can get Dickenson out of Calgary, I'd have Burke's office packed up while he was on the sidelines of the November 2nd game and have everything waiting by his car in the parking lot. I'd give Dickenson a blank cheque and ask him to write in whatever number it took to get him here. LOL. Yeah in the CFL you can do that all right....Dickenson would write in a number, then Walters and Miller would look at it, say "We'll be right back" and you'd hear a door slam followed by squealing tire sounds al a the Simpsons.

Shannon Boatman looking in great shape. Things that would be more effective at tackle than Shannon Boatman:

Does that not mean that we have to start him this week then?

If he signs Brink next week after Buck gets hurt in the Rider game, then I would officially call the men in white to take Wally away to a padded cell somewhere.

I just can't see that happening, unless we play that soft zone defence where everyone is open all of the time, and Buck is given 5 steamboats to throw. Then it could happen.

Big spender there Iso!

If they can get Dickenson out of Calgary, I'd have Burke's office packed up while he was on the sidelines of the November 2nd game and have everything waiting by his car in the parking lot.

http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=432105

So then find someone else to play the position - a healthy Boatman isn't exactly shooting out the lights either.

The Reinders family is loaded - they run the giant engineering firm "Maple Reinders". I know a guy here in Kelowna who works for them, who told me that Joel's dad is one of the main guys there. Maybe he'll just settle for a desk job working for dad in Toronto paying him three times what he'd make as an OL in the CFL. http://www.maple.ca/

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I will laugh if Buck takes the field next week for BC and does his deer in headlights impression.

LOL at 17to85 still sticking to his guns re Elliott. LOL at people saying that Reilly wasn't a gamble. He was a gamble. All QB's with his level of experience are a gamble. That's life in the CFL. Good for Edmonton it worked out for them. I think for two years, Wally should be hired by the CFL with a sole mission to seed at least two good QB's on each team. Since he is apparently the only one who knows how to find good QB's in this league, it's high time that for the betterment of the league, he find the talent necessary. Especially for Winnipeg. We've suffered long enough. I do agree with 17 on one point - Reilly probably would have crapped the bed in Winnipeg, with our garbage O-line and brain-dead playbook. He definitely made the better choice going to Edmonton.

ha ha well I don't recall saying that Reilly sucked, but I did point out reality, and that was that the sample size on Reilly was incredibly small, and that making him the starter before training camp was a huge gamble. It has paid off now as Reilly has performed, despite playing behind the second crappiest o-line in the league and taking a pounding that no regular human being would have survived. So congrats on the call that Reilly was going to be awesome. I guess some of us just want to wait and see before we proclaim him the next Tom Clements. Now we have seen, and we believe. I just want to know how much longer Reilly is going to make it this year. He took yet another vicious pounding yesterday.

Drew Willy has looked good. I would want more than just him for Muamba though. Not sure what else, but I don't feel Willy is proven yet and so would want to see something or someone else tacked on to the deal.

yeah it was 2006. I can't remember what the Bombers were wearing that night, just that it was obvious from the get go that Kevie G. wasn't going to try very hard and just wanted to get the game over with as fast as possible to get back into the locker room. I also remember Scott Coe dancing all night as he was going off the field because it was such an easy game for him. One game I was at in the 1990's it was really hot and the Bombers had some kid named Jason Djacovic(?) on their special teams. I watched as he just fainted from heat exhaustion on the sidelines. That was kind of freaky. I believe it was in the Kerwin Bell days.

I can't believe that we are considering Adarius Bowman "dangerous" after how badly he **** the bed in this town. The guy couldn't catch a cold. What is it about Edmonton - they take our trash and turn it into gold.

yeah I've been to more Bomber ****-kickings at McMahon then I care to remember. Still can't forget the night I had to sit through a snow storm in mid September. Man I hate Calgary weather...

I disagree. The level of play is highest in the PFC. (Prairie Football Conference) The PFC, where the Rifles play, has proven to be the strongest division in the CJFL. The PFC champion won the national championship 7 of the past 10 years, and 15 of the last 20. The level of play is much stronger in the PFC than in the BCFC as demonstrated by playoff wins over the short, medium and long term. Furthermore, Winnipeg should have an advantage in that CJFL players can practice with CFL clubs, so the proximity is there. It's tougher in BC, where for example, it is a long road from the Okanagan Sun to Vancouver. The only advantage that the BCFC has is that their costs are lower, due primarily lower travel costs. Against that the Lions financially support all 6 junior team, while the Bombers only fund 1. (Primarily through a portion of 50/50 revenue) The advantage is the rights to 6 rosters worth of players compared to 1. BCs whole development system is more advanced than ours, even though their high school league plays American rules. BC and Saskatchewan produce far more CIS players than they should, Manitoba produces far less, although we are getting better. BCs junior league also has a following. They have a lot more money and a lot to offer their players in terms of scholarships and job placements depending on what players want and need. Good luck finding a dozen people who aren't related to Rifles players who care or attend their games. There's also some interest in Edmonton and the Saskatoon Hilltops. Everywhere else they play in front of crowds you could count by hand before the first series is over. The Quebec league is getting better too, and some interest in the Montreal suburbs. Gone to quite a few tailgates here in Kelowna for Sun games. One time we even deep-fried a turkey in the parking lot!

yeah that makes sense. Definitely more interest for Western opponents than Eastern.