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I don’t think anyone’s complaining necessarily I think we’re just running out of things to talk about. let’s go back to talking about how negative TBURGESS is all the time for four pages of this thread

Dear JCon , We dropped the ball: the new Ring of Honour and Grey Cup tributes at the 200 level were misaligned, obstructing your view. No excuses – we're on it. Immediate action is underway to lower these signs and restore your clear sightlines. However, the clock is against us and the fix won't be completed for the upcoming June 6th game. Your game day experience is our top priority. To thank you for your patience while we correct this issue and acknowledging that your sightlines will have been impacted for the preseason game and the home opener, we are providing you with an account credit that is equal to the full value of your tickets for this Thursday’s game. If your account is paid in full for this season, you can use this credit for future ticket purchases, your 2025 membership renewal, or the 2025 Grey Cup. This credit will be applied to your account by June 15th. Thank you for your understanding and patience as we hustle to make things right. Go Bombers, Wade Miller President and CEO Winnipeg Football Club I'm satisfied with this. Best resolution. The Bombers are undefeated with their customer service.

I mean … I genuinely don’t really know what people are upset about. We got what we all asked for, didn’t we? Bridges, Bonds, Ayers, Adams, Woods, Wilson and Mitchell. 7 new guys on the roster, we didn’t keep McGhee, we found a new linebacker, the roster seems set up to have a strong rotation on the DL. Ayers over Gemmel or Moses doesn’t wow me, but it’s not enough to get me upset either. I liked Ayers, I like that we get younger there and that we kept Gemmel on the PR too. Bridges and Bonds are two names I’m super happy to see kept in the secondary. We spent all camp talking about how nobody seems to have a clear idea of who should win the WR5 spot and now we’re mad about who won it? In fairness to both Pokey and Mitchell, they had to work with mostly chicken **** in the preseason so how fair is it to judge? We all wanted Adams kept and they didn’t mess that up at all. Overall, I’m happy with how this ended up.

Here's a cut at Week 1 roster (Need 6 Canadians on O every snap, 1 Canadian on D every snap): QB- Collaros, Streveler, Wilson RB- OLIVIERA, AUGUSTINE, ROSERY, Smith* REC- WOLITARSKY, DEMSKI, Lawler, Schoen, Johnson CLERCIUS OL- KOLANKOWSKI, DOBSON, NEUFELD, Bryant, Lofton WALLACE DE- Jefferson, Haba/Garbutt (whoever is healthy) Upshaw*, HEBERT DT- Fox, Adams THOMAS, SCHMEKEL SAM- Cole MAC- Gemmel WIL- Wilson Petrishen*, KRAMDI, GAUTHIER, CADWALLADER, Karamoko (G) CB- Ford, Fuller FORD HB- Holm (could shift to corner), Nichols S- HALLETT, KELLY K- Castillo* P- Sheahan (G) LS- BENSON Practice Roster: Thomas (LB), CHRIS-IKE (RB), Weitz (G), Bridges (DB), Coleman (OT), Barnett (Rec), MURPHY (REC), VLAHOGIANNIS (OL), Ivy (OL), Norman (DB/LB), SAMSON (DL), CHARBONNEAU (LB) IR: Bighill, Alexander, Haba/Garbutt, LAWSON, ELI

60 minutes before gametime. Sitting in the empty stands, soaking it in... First home game (covid/health stuff) in a very long time... GO BLUE!!

This is from Ed Tait's recent interview with Jordan Younger, quoting Younger... "He (Younger) also offered this, when it was suggested the promotion helped keep him in Winnipeg rather than leave for another organization: “I love being a Winnipeg Blue Bomber. I’m really close with Mike O’Shea. I would have been very happy staying here anyway. Moving up that coaching ladder is the optimal goal, but I’ve been around for a little while and Winnipeg is a special place. “There’s some things you can’t put a dollar sign on and being in Winnipeg is one of them.”"

Mitchell didn't return a single punt in two preseason games and won the job. Scared as **** for miscues on special teams.

Tui Eli is also practicing.

man I want to see the Bombers crush the Al's right into the ground next week. Payback time!

Woods, Adams and Fox all made the team

Mcghee was awful. Both games. He can not earn a spot over some of the other guys.

Just finished fleeing the stadium, with about a thousand of my fellow attendees..... A punt return and and run from the punter, pretty well covered it. D-Line the highlight tonight......we seem to have enough pieces, for a good rotation...... Mix of good and bad in the back 7..... McGee got caught looking into the backfield....got toasted....then got a bit tentative..... Offense.......offensive. Blocking bad. Receivers looked like chickens running around. You can put "Wilson with a 4 yd in route" .......on his headstone. ....that is when he wasn't throwing it to nowhere in particular...... Why is last years punter.....still the punter? Chris Smith has a spot for now, as returner.. Buck is in love with that Jet Sweep. Next step - make it work. I waited years for this? Did they not understand I was watching? Well, one can only laugh....or cry. Had to make a choice. OK Laughing for getting excited about a Rosery 4 yard run.. Laughing while watching "Quarter Highlight packages" on the Jumbo.... Laughing while watching the Blue take a time out 17 seconds before the 3 minute warning Laughing about the official head count of 24,297

I thought it improved tremendously once I muted it. 😂

Just cleaned up some unnecessary walls of text.

I also think we’re signing Bennett

That is the practice roster you quoted. Don't under.any circumstance ever quote ChatGPT for facts.

Rosery makes no sense to me. We are short Canadians. We start a Canadian at tailback. We want to start 2 Canadian receivers. Augustine is 30. Rosery showed really well too.

Rosery too. Our Canadian depth is the shits right now. If an OL gets hurt the replacement will be an American. Yet we send a guy like Rosery packing who can play special teams and back up two spots on offense.

Preseason is over. That means it is time to kickoff the yearly Pick 'Ems contest. How do they work? Each week you pick the winners for all CFL games. You get one point for every correct pick. Whoever has the most points at the end of the year wins a $50 gift certificate at the Bomber store. Picks will be done through the polling system. Polls close at game start of the first game of the week. I will accept picks for games that have not started yet through PMs if you are late getting them in. Week 1 kicks off Thursday with last years Grey Cup rematch . Picks need to be in by 8PM Thursday, June 8th.

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They'll have fun either way. Took my 5 yr old to fan fest and she loved it. Pretty sure she thinks when my wife and I go to a game we just run around on inflateable obstacle courses for 3 hours.

7 or 8 guys rotating through the DL. That's what worked in 2019 and 2021. Lack of that hurt the past 2 seasons. Just wear down the opposing team.

Here’s my email from true North. Dear MR J **** you. sincerely mark Chipmam.

They refuse to.... that name is already spoken for in these parts.

First kick-off- fumble recovery, Touchdown First kick return - double reverse, Touchdown. First offensive series, 85 yard pass and catch, Touchdown First defensive series - pick six, Touchdown First reality check of the season - after each one of these predictions don't happen. Go Bombers.

shows where the culture and the direction the team as a whole wanted to go starts right at the top....not several rungs down

I knew Wade and the rest of them lurked here! How else would he know to address the email to "JCon"? 😂

He's in shape and a beast...he doesn't have game wind yet....he basically jumped in with a few practices under his belt and still dominated...just wait till game 2 and three onward

Glad Adams made the AR

Looks like Bridges and Terrell Bonds made the team, as did Michael Ayers Myron Mitchell won the fifth receiver job, it looks like Chris Smith cut, Moses and Petrishen cut is wild

The sad thing to me is a lot of the guys showing really well for us have entirely no shot to make the team. Like WIL backer. We have a 31 year old there who's had major injuries and hasn't played preseason. We have guys making plays at all levels of the field from that spot and they have no chance to make the team. To me that's a spot I don't spend money on and I let guys like this compete, bring in fresh guys who are all over the field every couple years into that spot.

I think Bighill will be really easy to move on from and honestly will probably be a matter of the defensive coaches being less comfortable using him. Like last season it was pretty clear he was 4 yards away from the guy he needed to be 2 yards away from on pass plays and he was always tipping his blitzes because he couldn't get to the gap fast enough off the ball. When that gets even a slight bit worse he will be unplayable. The guys on the line are a little tougher. Like Hardrick last season. You could still see the little spark on runs but his pass pro was awful...but the spark was there and he'd truck guys if he moved his feet. I worry a lot about Jefferson without Jeffcoat....and our overall pass rush. To me Jefferson has basically lost all burst off the line the past couple years. He wants to stand up, look around and decide if he can chase someone. He's long so he can be disruptive in that way but if I'm an OT he's a pretty easy night these days. Not sure he'll be too active if the guy on the other side isn't in the backfield all night.

The decision making from our staff just continues to be baffling. We are on pace to finish training camp without our starting week 1 offence having ever worked together even once. I don’t know if it’s ignorance or arrogance or what, but it’s frustrating

I saw Kyle Walters at my son's school track meet today near the stadium. Judging strictly by what he was focusing on, he values small frames and 3" verticals.

No we don't!

Booch is now a suspect....

The prospect of our cover team against Grant is terrifying.

Its about getting more people in seats to come see the music act, and hoping a percentage of them will enjoy the football and game enough to come back for more. You complain about the CFL and TSN not doing enough to attract new fans and grow the game. Here is BC trying something to grow their fan base and bring in people who wouldn't normally come to a football game, but that apparently is also problematic. 🤷

Yup we've been to the GC last four years in a row. Haters extremely tired of us. Everyone outside of our community is hoping for a different result. I get it, I know this aint going to last but sure am going to enjoy everything in the moment. 5 GC appearances in a row has a nice ring to it. Three Grey Cup wins in five consecutive GC appearances has a better ring to it.

Did you just make that up

Hands down better unless biggie is 100% honestly we are much better with gauthier at mac and the imp dts than any of the imp lbers and jake playing a lot of snaps.

All the backers showed well imo. I think the reason Ayer’s made the cut over the rest is he looked good on teams too. I’m sure more moves are coming to set up the week 1 roster. Not excited about our kr situation. The biggest cut I don’t like is rosery. Couple others really don’t make sense either.

Last thing...if they nationalized Jefferson they could get another 22 snaps out of the DI's on D. Will be incredibly stupid if they don't.

I think Wilson sticks around as 3rd QB. Not really sure what else they would do at this point.

This is just the cherry on top of the let’s make training camp as pointless as possible sundae Before you all jump all over me, yeah there are guys to be excited about but this is two years in a row now we’ve just completely misused our preseason

From the 2 games so far..I'd run Fox and Adam's in tandem...no need to start a Nat there

Dane Evans still wakes up at night in a cold sweat thinking about what that 2019 defense and what they did to him.

Thank you for this scoop