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Sure. There's a good 30-45 minutes a day on the 680 CJOB Sports Show with Christian. Plus training camp hits in sports at 625, 725, 825, 925am and 325, 425 and 525 pm. And we'll have two hours pre-game Monday starting at 1:00pm. We've hit all those topics over the first 10 days. Since I've got some time sitting in Regina: 1) We've seen Shayne Gauthier + Kyrie Wilson / Kyrie + Brian Cole as the LB combos post-Bighill. John Petrishen + Tre Thomas has been another duo from the start. Anyone else isn't getting a ton of work. 2) Liam Dobson at left guard and Eric Lofton at right tackle every day so far. I think Ted Wyman was the first to touch on it on May 12. The only time it wasn't Dobson a LG was the last day because of injuries to Eli and injury/day off for Kolankowski. Dobson shifted to center for that one. 3) Michael Chris-Ike is slowly getting more action in a FB/TE roll after his late arrival. Gabe Wallace was getting first-team reps with the injuries to Neufeld and Eli. They are by far the closest to making an impact early in the season. Clercius is down around the 3rd group of receivers. Kalra is much closer than Vlahogiannis. And Leroux is 100% going back to school, so apart from 1 day where we talked about him, we'll catch up with him next year. Gassama and Hubert appear far down the pecking order. 4) 1st team has been Haba and Fox since day 1. 5) KJ Hill never seemed to get above the third group. And when he got hurt and wasn't going to recover in time, they released him. Had he appeared with the first team like a Ravi Alston, Ontaria Wilson or Myron Mitchell there would have been more talk about Hill. There were roughly 8 guys vying for return spots. They *might* be down to 4, but there are virtually no returns in camp. Without full-speed contact, they aren't worth much. Pre-season games are where we'll see who's who.

Walking home from the gym right now and I pass by this dad and his son waving the blue and gold flag on the bridge by jubilee. I LOVE seeing the younger generation getting invested. And I love this city. Go bombers baby

Booch, please consider this your notice that if you don’t start sending me these top secret reports, I will finally figure out how to ban someone after almost 11 years

This is boring

from my early take on what just seen...We will be better at QB2....Dline....Linebacker....Oline will be strong as ever....Receivers the same....running attack better....I think our defensive philosophy will be a much more aggressive attackig one than what Hall liked....I feel good from what I saw even from a pared down vanilla package....we put the right guys on the fielD on defense we are gonna have so many options and looks...it could be scary Wilson as QB 3 may be a nice guy to develop here....Love his body type for QB up here...coverage team scares me again...but maybe with more of the regulars in their role, and addition of guys like Moses...Gemmel..Pertrishen we may surprise

Who started the Grey Cup thread? Ban them!

It’s as basic of a defensive structure as the 1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1 learn football, buddy

Don’t forget the nice FG by the rookie Sergio Garcia.

They keep saying they can’t figure out Adams’ name as if it’s not in giant ******* letters on the back of his jersey

Well if nothing else at least today we saw a nice sack by Liam Dobson, a quick handoff to Jake Kelly and some tight coverage by Chris-Ike

Barriere is absolute derrière

Mine was the burp hiccup right before the last commercial break

Bombers that aren't playing in the first pre-season game: Zach Collaros 8 QB A Brady Oliveira 20 RB N Injured Veteran Dalton Schoen 83 WR A Nic Demski 10 WR N Injured Veteran Ronnie Blackmon 15 WR A Tyler Adams 74 WR A Keric Wheatfall 79 WR A Josh Johnson 84 WR A Isaiah Coulter 73 WR A Josh Vann 81 WR A Patrick Neufeld 53 OL N "retired" Tui Eli 65 OL N Jake Thomas 95 DT N Adam Bighill 4 LB A 6 game injury Kyrie Wilson 19 LB A Max Charbonneau 39 LB N Deatrick Nichols 1 DB A Brandon Alexander 37 DB A Jamal Parker 7 DB A 6 game injury Evan Holm 31 DB A Noah Hallett 23 DB N 6 game injury Patrick Rogers 3 DB A Michael Griffin 38 DB A

This game has shown me that I’ll never ever complain about Derek Taylor and Doug Brown ever.

Wilson looks like a QB...pocket poise...moves nice to get in a throwing position..

Liking how Wilson has settled in..throws a good ball

It's hard to beat a team where every player in camp had been exceptional..as per rider radio...we stood no chance lol

Ok...time for Wilson...kid don't have it today...why kill his confidence in a scrub game

WJ...with Garbutt and Haba...Lawson and Fox in the middle...backed by not sure yet as curious about a few others....Kyrie..Moses...Cole....Gemmel as a DI...I'd be okay with thatgroup gelling over the course of the season...be a fast aggressive defense....Dark Horse I wanna see still is D'Arbeau now Ford too made a good case to be the corner....defence may be really good thia yr if we roster appropriatly

Nice breakup by Bridges

He's a guy last yr from watching practice was out best overall end with his skill next to WJ..he gets off the ball so fast and his first moves are quick...but we had Jackson and Bennett so we good

Garbutt i never expected to say this but Schmekel has looked not bad

Ford..actually wraps guy up...Houston u watching?

Is this tryouts for announcers? God awful

DT for president!

Bombers more than held their own with Streveler just hitting stride before getting sat down. Starting D was fast and effective. The rest pretty meh with not a lot to go on due to very poor qb play. Sheahan’s normal punting was pretty good… too bad our ST coach was allowed to go rogue all last year. For all the talk about a renewed focus on discipline, Riders still look have have d-bag vibe to them.

Coverage team is in mid season form.

D-Line play - Fox and Garbutt showing more than enough. Check O-line play - when more of the starters were in they more than held their own. Check. Linebackers - Moses jumping off the page. Check Kick Returners - Chris Smith looks more than adequate. Cody Kase looked good too. Check Quarterbacks - Strevy can run an offense. Would love for him to have made some more intermediate throws. Mostly check

Miller should be fired...Jackson can now coach

Liam Dobson has changed positions and races

Now Liam Dobson playing DE

Is Barriere playing blindfolded

Did Ajou Ajou just win the Grey Cup?

And still have Eli

Team speed on defence seems way up. I know it’s only preseason but we got some fast looking newcomers showing the goods today.

Moses again knifes in there...he's Def a keeper

Granted its one half but based on what we've seen, I hope they keep some of the new blood around.

Not a single good rep from Barriere so far. Gross.

Working holiday Monday but CFL football makes it 1000% more tolerable

Ya, he got up clean after the catch and then had the ball stripped. Shouldve been Bombers ball.

NICE STOP

Habba blew it up with great push from the dl

These Rider announcers suck

as for todays game...Guys I focusing on wanna see get legit reps/opportunities are Garbutt..D'Abreau....Fox (obviously as he should never been on bench all yr) and Smith (whom is one the guys who I was most excited/surprised) we actually got up here He needs to be rostered as he offers us the most as a sub/returner/rotation guy....He will impress you all if he is allowed to showcase a lead back role today and get some return opps

Before DT mentioned it, can anybody recall reading Eli was hurt? I can't and this goes to what people have been saying about issues with media coverage.

Thanks @DTonOB

Yep, the Sports Show is worth a listen, most nights.

Who is doing this reporting? Boomer Esiason?

Likely yeah...sad that many no longer post here...or much...or just won't cause of the nozzles... Bauming does good stuff...and he has no real bias in my opinion...and guys will talk to him...some scribes not so much..and will only give the minimum Lol...whoever pm's with me...I respond to and converse with And be nice to know who is competing at what spot even...and if new guys are even getting a legit opportunity...it's not rocket science even from an untrained eye to see that

VAST majority of people don't care about the minutiae that most of us here care about. The fluff pieces draw the most clicks, otherwise they wouldn't be doing it that way. But obviously the best case scenario is a bit of both. Do some feature piece columns for people who just want that, and then have a bit of minutiae.... but it's also really hard when the team doesn't want you to have that information. Especially injury information. They won't give that out so there's not much to work with. Now, I don't really watch those Bonfire Sports things, but my UNDERSTANDING of it is that if you want more in depth information, Bauming is at least trying to give you that. A part of the problem is you have less reporters doing way more work now than they used to. Everyone is wearing 7 hats and covering several different beats from news to sports and everything in between. The days of a writer and then a camera man and then whoever else all going down to the stadium and their sole job is to cover the Bombers... are definitely over. The one guy who might be strictly responsible for Bombers coverage (and quite frankly he's done an okay job of coming on here and updating us) is Derek. And he's also updating his twitter with information from practice every day. Most other guys have to cover multiple things and the Bombers beat is just one small part of their job. Newsrooms getting gutted all over. I definitely feel for them.