DR. CFL

The only way you get anyone worth their salt to take the GM job in Winnipeg is A) you throw a tonne of cash at them AND B ) give them term.  Nobody in their right mind is going to uproot their lives and come here given the mess this team is in unless you make it worth their while.  Serious candidates will simply laugh at a "prove it" deal.

Not even Walters would sign a one year contract.  No GM would.

Since when are Kyle Walters and Wade Miller buddies?

I'm not going to bust Mack's chops for losing Labatte. I will hold him accountable for not doing a damn thing to effectively address the Oline, Labatte or no Labatte

And iso, all things considered includes monetary offers.
And if Mack offered more money......only leaves the inevitable conclusion that Taman matches the offer, hence all things considered.
 
I think you're trying too hard not to believe something that is just a simple action of going home

That's the only argument you have??? You have no other comeback. Nice discussion on your part. The only comeback you have is I'm negative. Well, wash, rinse, repeat. Boo freaking hoo. Well, hit the ignore button then. Since all you want to do is get insulting because you've got nothing else to say well ... Can't help it if you make stupid comments.

You keep harping about giving Walters a break. Have you not clued into the fact that's all the Bombers do but give their buddies a break by hiring them? Why do you think we keep losing? Because we hire inexperienced people into key coaching & management positions who think they know what they are doing but don't. And because they come cheap. Or are a friend of someone on the team like a coach or Board member so they get hired.
Our track record is hiring the friend of so & so. And the result is hiring inexperienced peopleis they come  in on the cheap coming in & are expensive on the way out as we are paying them to sit around teiddling their thumbs after they're fired. Mike Kelly was buds with Lyle Bauer. Joe Mack was friends with Joe Pop & Paul  Robson & look what happened? The hiring process was all about who you knew & not what you knew.
Most fans don't want Walters as our GM because he is inexperienced. Not because they don't like him or don't think he has a future with the team. They want someone with a winning track record at the helm for a change because the Bombers have shown in the past, rookies in that position don't work. Yeah, 5-10 years when Walters has the proper experience working under someone who  knows how to win. Not apprenticed for 6 months by Joe Mack. There's been personnel guys & assistant GMs in this league who have worked under people for a lot longer with success than 5-10 years.

It's interesting how people will finally speak up within after the Boss gets fired and the internal dirty laundry is hung on the line. By then it is too late.

Because Dan West has no idea how to take an angle and it makes him useless as a safety

I'm annoyed that with our lack of Canadian defensive back depth we didn't get Ryan Hinds.  He didn't pan out as a starting corner for Hamilton but guaranteed he would be better depth than Dan West at safety and would have pushed Cauchy as well.

Way too many Board members just as there are too many Senators in Ottawa.

Private ownership is tough with the debt.  But if the debt could be re-assigned to the Stadium itself, maybe it works.  Sell the team for X amount of dollars, debt free and lease IFG for $1 with the caveat, the debt must be serviced at X amount per year.
 
A CFL team can generate some money and be a good business.  Just a matter of finding someone who really wants it and would do a great job. *cough* True North *cough*

Stupid management & coaching brought this team to this point. The fans kept up their end of the bargain but the morons running this team didn't. This team is bleeding because of their utter stupidity. Too much of rewarding buddies & friends with jobs they didn't deserve. Not enough of hiring the most qualified people to build a winning team. Think it's gonna change? I am hopeful that things do but I just don't think things will. I predict that certain people in the organization will get "their  guys" in place like it's always been done even though better candidates much more qualified will be on the outside looking in... And nothing will change.

Ohhhh you so funnnyyyyyy.... I was wondering where you got your PhD, doctor, but now I realize it was clown college.

If we cut Palardy for McKnight and Sandra I'm going to lose it.

Our team has absolutely no business even getting a fart-sniff of the playoffs. 
 
Dysfunctional from the top to the bottom -- focus this year should be taking the time to get rid of the dead wood and figure out a solid plan for next year.

Just to add to the last point.....  I'm beginning to think Elliott and his red zone interceptions may have been a product of him making audibles on the field and over ruling Crowton/LaPolices very conservative play calls and rather then dumping the ball on poorly executed screen passes... he tossed them in the end zone in hopes that his receivers would make a play on the ball.  
 
I do remember reading about him yelling at Crowton because in that close BC game when they were marching down the field ,  on 2nd and 9 they wanted yet another screen pass (which had not worked all season long) and to set up a field goal rather then going for the first down.     
 
It would make sense since they fired him for "not listening" and it was very bizarre that most of his picks came with deep balls to the end zone.     I'm thinking that on those plays he went to the guy that he wasn't suppose to and that is why the coaches got mad at him.
 
Just a random conspiracy theory that's in my head. 

This love affair with LaPo is getting tiresome.  There was a reason he was run out of town when he was the Bombers OC back in 2003.    And we brought him back in in 2010 for some strange reason only to can him 2 years later.   Lapo's record while he was HC was 16-28.   Not exactly great numbers.   LaPo isn't coming back. IMO he was a terrible HC.
 
I think Burke is in way over his head.   Put him back to Defensive HC, and find an HC who knows the CFL to run the Bombers.  The coaching carousel has to stop if we are to have any consistency going forward.

Successful as in not finishing projects, getting paid off to get out of the picture and leaving the taxpayers on the hook?  Name one successful Creswin (or more commonly 352833 MB Ltd.) development.  There isn't one.  It's a shell company.

I think the better point of that article and the article in the Sun on the weekend was the fact that the current governing process of the WFC is significantly flawed and needs to be dismantled.

Once again, I don't doubt Asper's business acumen or that he's a nice person. I don't want an irrational fanboi meddling in day-to-day WBB affairs, simple as that.

You're missing the point.  No member of the board of directors should be meddling in day-to-day football or even business operations.  Asper has shown in the past that he oversteps his boundaries as a board member and this report pretty much confirms that he has not learned his lesson.
 
His role in the construction of the stadium is irrelevant.  He is not the owner.  He is not the CEO.  He should not be involved in the day to day operation of the club.

We can get mad at the source all we want or agrue the specifics but no denying their is serious dysfuntion going on. 

Because Pedersen is from Regina people want to simply dismiss what he has said? I am not sure that is a good reason. Like Madani and Lawless these guys all have sources in and around the CFL. It is a small league and the interconnections between teams are significant. Perhaps there is more fact than fiction in what he says.

Lapo was a micromanager who coached the team too passively. Not a fan of that combination.