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I love O'Shea. His players are going to go to absolute war for him. Tap the breaks. Similar things said about Burke before he became HC too.

Of course. What's Flory supposed to say ?

Penton is trying to claim NOBODY does it. HAM beat reporter has had interviews with assistants but not often.

I havent seen Gary Lawless whining about his access. Good, respected journalists dont need the Coach to go out of his way to come over and feed them info. A good journalist probably isnt all that concerned about "official" access because he's going to get the story he needs one way or another. Friesen is probably worried that if he cant get official scrums how will he get any info at all. But teams use reporters by dangling stories for them in return for love. If Bombers struggle and Lawless seems patient and understanding while the rest of football media is critical then you'll know Lawless is their man.

Whenever media, not just Friesen, perceives you're cutting off access you're going to get some push-back. Mindset of the media is they have a gawd-given right to know and to ask and genuinely believe are equal partners with the team's efforts to communicate with fans. The Don and Popp cut the MTL Gazette off once years ago. And their columnists and reporters threw a hissy far far more petty than this and went on a vendetta for months.

Panel needs new blood anyway. Stale.

For a columnist people refuse to read he has a lot of readers.

League has players on the ropes. Stop the fight.

Great site. Smart members. No drama. No circle jerks. No kool-aide drinking contests....

Bringing in a lot of import DBs to camp. Wouldnt surprise me in the least if they axed veteran Evan McCullough too...

Veteran salaries chopped by HAM. Burris, Hage, Stala, Jamal Johnson, Isaac, Shomari, Webb, Congi..

You'd hate it even more with a non competitive team in S. Ontario with shrinking attendence and shrinking S. Ontario TV ratings. Sure, that justifies everything. You're sounding like a Rider fan. It's reality. Do you really want boot strap teams in Ontario and low ratings and no fat TV contracts ?

You'd hate it even more with a non competitive team in S. Ontario with shrinking attendence and shrinking S. Ontario TV ratings.

Even a coaching change with a defenseive guru couldnt keep him in EDM.

How didnt MTL get him ? Guy was born there for bleep's sake.

You can have him. Total douchebag move he made on HAM. If they didn't know he was leaning heavily towards finishing up with the Bisons and trying the NFL, they were the only ones. So why did he "clarify" his position by saying the quad injury and NFL stuff wasnt true and expect me to be at camp and ready to play ? Then flip flopped again ? Here's a quote from Gill, "clarifying" It's been well known the last couple seasons that Gill was getting looked at by NFL teams and obviously as any football player would, he wants to pursue the NFL. Everyone says they'd be happy in the CFL, hell Duvernay-Tardif gave interviews saying he'd be fine playing in the CFL, but when the NFL calls they all head south. NFL aspirations dont make him a jerk. Saying to media he had a quad problem. Then saying it was wrong and blown out of porportion and expect me to be at camp then bailing and retreating under injury excuse , however, does.

You can have him. Total douchebag move he made on HAM. If they didn't know he was leaning heavily towards finishing up with the Bisons and trying the NFL, they were the only ones. So why did he "clarify" his position by saying the quad injury and NFL stuff wasnt true and expect me to be at camp and ready to play ? Then flip flopped again ?

You can have him. Total douchebag move he made on HAM.

Sounds like you dont like the cap system either. I don't like the system now, period. Braley's puppet Mark Cohon crying poor & then Hamilton signing a high profile player like Ted Laurent, no problem. The NHL was doing the same after the lockout as a few GMs went out & signed players to huge contracts with ridiculously long terms. Like the deal in Vancouver with Roberto Luongo & the Isles with Rick DiPietro, It made the NHL look like fools as fans knew they were played by Bettman. Just like fans are being played by Cohon now. Provide a quote where Cohon or young says they dont have any money to spend then I'll agree. Owners are saying the union's idea that it is prohibitive to teams like HAM to make a future profit. Big difference.

No way HAM throws away that kind of flexibility unless they were desperately worried about O-line, their only real question mark right now. WPG have anything to give up in that dept ?

Sounds like you dont like the cap system either.

Hard to guage Atkinson as he hasnt played yet. But they love Hazime and with good reason.

If it within the cap, who cares ? And some dont even care about blowing the cap if it means a title. Big signing. Defense was HAM's achilles heel last year and they've adressed that in spades.

"Tommy Douglas, **** Assman, Corner Gas and now this...."

Sunlight leaking thru the "united front" ?