Bombers To Hire Former Riders Scout

[Noeller]

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Look for #Bombers to add Winnipeg native & #CFL vet & fmr #Riders personnel director Craig Smith to scouting staff in the next few days.

[rebusrankin]

Why?

[Floyd]

If he's an extra set of eyes, I guess that's fine...  but not my first choice... 

I guess he found Durant... and Macho Harris...

[Jpan85]

Drew Morris got a job with the New York Jets

[Fred C Dobbs]

Here's why:

 

[Noeller]

Just now, Jpan85 said:

Drew Morris got a job with the New York Jets

This...it's a replacement for Morris.

[rebusrankin]

Fair enough. Guess what I should have said was that I like the experience but given the performances of the Riders lately and the TiCats in 2005-2007, I'm a little leary. Oh course, somebody is going to post a huge list of his finds and make me look like a fool.

[iso_55]

39 minutes ago, Noeller said:

This...it's a replacement for Morris.

Yes, not an addition.

[do or die]

Still waiting on this list.....

[ALuCsRED]

Taman trades away a lot of draft picks, making the scouting staff irrelevant.  Hard to judge a scout under Taman.

[Floyd]

Ah, blame Taman... right.

Probably not much change... We already have Smith's recruits - Hurl, Bastien, Cronk, Neufeld

Lets sign Haidara and K-Groh

[ALuCsRED]

6 hours ago, Floyd said:

Ah, blame Taman... right.

Probably not much change... We already have Smith's recruits - Hurl, Bastien, Cronk, Neufeld

Lets sign Haidara and K-Groh

Who were our National scouts when Taman was our GM?  How many 1st round picks did we have?

 

[Floyd]

Labatte is the only 1st rounder I can think of...

Anyway, the guys been around, there's a lot more behind the scenes than we know - I'll give him a chance now that I'm seeing past the green...

 

[Mike]

Not entirely sure how our old national scout (which people seem to be confusing as scouting for "national" players) got a promotion to the NFL but hey, I'm not about to jump on the new guy quite yet.

Seems like yet again, we've scouted a pretty poor crop of players so maybe some new blood is necessary.

[17to85]

54 minutes ago, Mike said:

Not entirely sure how our old national scout (which people seem to be confusing as scouting for "national" players) got a promotion to the NFL but hey, I'm not about to jump on the new guy quite yet.

Seems like yet again, we've scouted a pretty poor crop of players so maybe some new blood is necessary.

probably got a job the same way everyone ultimately gets new jobs, lots and lots of ass kissing and networking. 

[Floyd]

Ah, he's in charge of everything...   weird, he has all this CIS experience it seems - just figured he was Cdn scouting

Good news is we'll be getting a bunch of guys from the NY Jets camp every year now...

[Blueandgold]

This hire doesn't inspire me with a ton of confidence.

[mbrg]

8 hours ago, Mike said:

Not entirely sure how our old national scout (which people seem to be confusing as scouting for "national" players)

It seemed like an appropriate assumption.  Outside of sifting thru other team's rosters there wouldn't seem to be anything else to scout nationally.

[DR. CFL]

We seem to continue to hire more staff, AGMs, scouting, admin and coaches and we are now all anxiously awaiting the fruits of their labours.

[iso_55]

3 minutes ago, DR. CFL said:

We seem to continue to hire more staff, AGMs, scouting, admin and coaches and we are now all anxiously awaiting the fruits of their labours.

We do need to spend but maybe the guys they have just aren't good enough.