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Bass is doing just fine, thank you, and seems to have a pretty high ceiling. A real good find.

Obviously you have never been employed by government. Starts from the top down. Frankly we ask for it by electing clowns who install their own clown shows into the civil service. Patronage hirings and appointments to senior level management and the ineptitude runs down hill. The only people who have a hot clue about what is going on in the civil service and should be the management, are most often not politically connected enough to advance their careers. Sad state of affairs. You don't have to look at the civil service for that. Almost any GM, administrator, supervisor or CEO will begin to fill vacancies with people who s/he knows and friends are high on the hire list. Crappy, but reality.

Hurl, Bass and Leggett would be a whole lot better with a Doug Brown-grade tackle in front of them.

Doesn't everybody's wife do that?

Nick, is that you? Are you accusing Moore of being a *****(cat)?

A pretty sad state of affairs in the CFL where there are two teams as bad as BC and Sask and we might still scrape into the playoffs.

Oh I have no doubts at all that he wants to.... When you look at the QB situations in BC and Montreal, and even the likelihood that Durant is done for, Glenn doesn't look so bad.

This thread stopped being productive long ago .

I would bet that if we hadn't scooped Nichols when we did (and for essentially nothing in return), he would be in either BC, Montreal or (shudder) Regina by now, and I am equally sure they would have paid more than we did. Nichols may not make us forget Willy, but this can be chalked up as "win" for Walters.

With Hurl seemingly getting better every game (and due in no small part to a better D-line), the pressure to sign Henoc is not as great as before. Its starting to look like we could live without him if we had to- and there is a real possibility we will lose out on him.

I expect a 6 and 12 season if Willy does not return but Nichols play well.

Would love to see Muamba back here but not at any price. There always to seems to be one or two CFL GM's who see this sort of thing as a pecker contest and get carried away.

Nichols brought a poise and confidence we haven't seen in a year, except for a couple of drives by Willy earlier this year. I do not see Nichols supplanting Willy, but its nice to see that behind what is still a dreadful O-line. Hurl and Leggett were good, and Bass just keeps getting better and better, the D-backs were solid for the most part, we had good (not great) pressure on Smith, but Chevon Walker was nowhere close to good. And our receivers stood out for a change- either Bellefeuille has had a deathbed repentance or Bohm and Marve are as dumb as a bag of hammers.

The difference in the game was that Nichols (and his receivers) got better as the game went on, and Smith & Co. did not. Startling that we pulled the game out in the seconf half. Not used to that. Not gonna save Bellefeuille, though.

Why's that? Cause he sucks? Surely to God, Chevon Walker can't be the best we can find.

Nichols was far and away the best QB we have put on the field since Willy went down, Too soon to anoint him, so lets see how he fares against the Larks, but we now have at least a flicker of hope.

The longer it takes, the better the chances Henoch will sign in Ontario- probably Toronto. Lets not cripple the team financially for one player when there are so many holes in our lineup.

In orbit! Sheesh! Next you'll be telling me the earth is round. Round? Is that what that nit wit explorer is saying? Something about a shadow on the moon. Pfft! Everyone knows it's a Nazi base. No, no, no. That base is in Antarctica and it is where JFK, Elvis and Michael Jackson are kept.

Walters has put the recruiting processes on a much better footing and has made several key acquisitions which ought to serve this club well in time to come. Admittedly, the Import talent needs some better bodies, but filling the pipeline will likely take another year. McManus and Goveia (sp?) need to up their game. I am willing to give Walters another year, but have given up on O'Shea.

Lawless called for a "dispassionate" assessment of Miller/Walters' performance. How can you get any more dispassionate than looking at the Bombers' win/loss record during their rule and then at the number of times the team has been blown out and lost at home? Number do not always tell the story, but here they do.

Maybe the CFL has to adopt the NFL rule about the QB having a two-count after he releases the ball. I don't like the NFL (boring and hyper-commercial) but they do have the occasional good idea.

Close loss? Maybe. But I have the same bad feeling I had when I predicted the loss last week. This team is spiraling out of control. It might come down to whether the players still think they have a chance to get into the playoffs or even win the Banjo Bowl, for that matter. The difference between winning and losing, especially against the Riders, often depends on confidence, and the Bombers have to be pretty fragile right now after all those lopsided losses and then getting blown out by an 0-9 team.

That's not entirely true. I do know how to count. And here I thought "countless" referred to a lack of low-level nobility.

Wow! Winnipeggers and Bomber fans in particular are an optimistic lot. On the flip side, should the Big Blue stink the joint out, there are going to be a lot of boos and epithets raining down on them. I see this game as the current edition of the Bombers' last chance to redeem themselves against a long-term rival. If the Bombers win, many will say that its just the pathetic Riders, so no big deal, but if the Bombers lose.... No pressure though.

Bruised ego, no doubt. They ought to call it the "paid spectator list".