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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. 🤷

Me and my girl friend went to go pick up our season tickets today, really fun event at the stadium, I bit the bullet and bought a chris streveler jersey. It was the first jersey I purchased since I got a Charles Robert’s one for Christmas when I was 10 years old lol! I was torn on who to get, but I figured no matter what Streveler’s cult hero status as a Bomber will never fade so it was a safe bet.

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!!

Thank you for this scoop

Lawler is taking a pay cut even if he puts up 2000 yards this year that window for 300k receivers is closed

babe wake up, new forum tagline just dropped

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. 😂

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.

Lord Keric of Wheatfall

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.

we will have CJOB feed for this weekends game tho on the live stream so thats bonus...no need to sync up

I can’t see Lawler and Schoen ever leaving now. The one year deal with Schoen was to try and sign them both together next year. Schoen gets a slight bump, Lawler takes a haircut and it all works out the same

Albert Johnson was no slouch either...and put up solid reciever numbers one yr as well I recall

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.

Last year we had the most trouble protecting Collaros, and under thrown deep balls are a classic sign of the pocket being pushed back onto the qb. When you throw deep against a straight pressure or are hit when throwing the ball tends to sail. That’s why we saw soo many pics going back to the early mafia days we had soo many dominant import pocket pushing nose tackles.

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.

Thanks I hate them

Those guys and I think Devin Adams are the ones I’m most excited to see. Wondering if Sy Barnett shows anything as a late camp add who didn’t play game 1 also.

Here I’ll help with morale. We’re the Blue Bombers. Imagine being any other team. Yuck.

It was but to be fair in the playoffs he was playing with a bunch of receivers that couldn't move.

Summer is coming...

and the guy who can collapse the centre. Our Defense worked like our O did at it's best. It started and ended with us winning the battle in the trench and punishing the other team. Leaving them broken and beaten by the start of the 4th. We gave up on that with the DL for some reason. We gotta get back to it, and I think we have all the versatility and roster flexibility plus the guys to do it.

Like I said before...I take requests....and do have time to spare this week Like I said since last yr...Save for WJ that I always thought Garbutt brought the best overall skill set at end....man I just hate that Jackson waste all yr as he would have been so much further along if he had 12..16 games already under his belt...Haba too

This is just inventing problems. You get people in seats for game 1 and then maybe they come back because they enjoyed themselves.

Bombers 18-0 Everyone else 0-18

Lil shocked as well....but also means I think Garbutt is in drivers set for the other end with WJ and Haba...whih I like a lot, and will get more playtime Friday

My B'day gift.

Good little synopsis on where we're at through two weeks... Thanks, as always, to Our Man Tait....

Are they though? It was 3-0 bombers when the 2nd string guys started getting subbed out. Riders 2nd and 3rd stringers better than the Bombers 3rd and 4th stringers? Sure.

I think Lawler is going to have a monster year if he and Zach stay healthy....

Obviously based on more than just the games. Obviously rivers is more impressive in these practices nobody on here attends.

both divisions are wide open this year, imo. Especially the east.

Not shocked....He showed...again in that pre-season game he can run around....but if needed to move a offence up and down a field...he just doesnt have it

Didn’t lawler put up like 1000 yards in half the games? Playing half the games as the next guy. That’s pretty good.