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Even if you lose Fleury in expansion, it means you are keeping everyone else on the roster.
Would you give up a 2nd right now if it means we don't lose anyone else in the expansion draft?

I'd love to see us sign TJ Jones. Born in Winnipeg when his Dad, Andre, was a defensive end for the Bombers he starred at Notre Dame and has been been with the Detroit Lions for the past 3 years.

Note a transaction but nice to know.
 

I'll see your Heath and raise you a Rubley

Also interesting... NFL Prospect rankings.
http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/prospectrankings
Justin Senior - 220
Eli Ankou - 807
Geoff Gray - 769 (45th at OG)
Antony Auclair - 552

Cut in the Provincial budget. Civil unrest, brother vs brother, sister vs sister, father vs son (I might have already said that with brother vs brother?), tooth vs tooth.
Or possibly, Orridge's last act as commish?

Cannibalism run amuck, nobody left except the toothiest.

Yeah and he  has only won a couple of cups.....if it's what have you done for me lately how do you justify resigning Maurice?

Both you and WBBFanWest have some good points. Im just glad it's not the Blue Bombers that are in this situation.?

Really the media telling the Eskies fans they will be better off hmmm. Wonder if Simmons would put his job on the line with that statement? Talk is cheap from the media would rather hear from some actual football people what they think of firing a GM 2 months before your season starts..?

Big blow back on Eskfans and I don't blame them. Like Hervey or not he was a good GM built a very competitive  team. The BOD over their reminds me of our dark days past here. Fire a GM because the attendance is down with a good team? Yeah that makes sense...?

I really liked Coehoorn's closing interview the Edmonton Sun had.  I had no idea he was a Christian. That's awesome to see someone in the public eye give credit where credit is due. (to God)  I applaud him for speaking what he believes. 
My wife and I went to the Calgary Stampeders Faith and Football dinner last season, it was a great event.  (yeah we rocked our Bomber jerseys!....but we had to sit with a couple Rider fans of course haha)  There is a strong Christian faith element in Football and the Stamps have a large contingent.  Some attendees/speakers were Drew Tate, Mitchell Gale, Marquay McDaniel, Anthony Parker and a bunch of others.  Probably almost 20.

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We will see how it looks for Rhodes and the BOD if Edm stumbles this year...any way you shake it firing your GM 2 months from the start of the season and just before the draft is idiotic....they knew what Hervey was long before this.

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Let's be clear, this move was strictly all about Rhodes' ego and the negotiations to extend Ed's contract which were initiated by the organization.

- Ed was looking to be paid market rate for GMs in the league, which is a reasonable ask, given his success and how he handled the staff exodus last season. Rhodes took issue with that since it would mean Ed would be making more than Rhodes, a point he raised with Ed.
- Ed was looking for a bump up in title to President of Football Operations. That didn't sit well with Rhodes.
- Rhodes didn't like the fact that Terry Jones was publically calling Rhodes weak by stating that football ops was running the show in Edmonton and across the league.

In the meantime, attendance continues to drop under Rhodes' leadership on the business side. This coming from a guy who brought you the concert series with Vanilla Ice as a way to increase attendance. To blame that on Ed when he is putting a winning product on the field is an attempt to pass the buck.

All the rest of the excuses Rhodes is trying to peddle is just an attempt to backfill. Why entering into negotiations to extend if you have been looking to replace him since January? A total contradiction.

wow thats soo awful. 

Here's a piece of garbage on West division needs in the draft. Dude thinks the Bombers will be looking to draft a QB to replace Nichols...
 
https://www.getmoresports.com/cfl-draft-biggest-needs-west-division-teams/

That's exactly what I was saying. Richards has been unlucky for sure and lousy when he's been given chances.

As someone who does not have time check the board multiple times per day or even per week, I appreciate the dedicated threads for cfl news.   It's hard to catch up in a single thread starting a few days back.  And personally I like the feeling that the board is busier even if it's not really.   And it no where close to how many threads a nasty fellow would start in a day or perhaps an hour in a years gone by.  

This is great. I'm excited for next year. Who needs the playoffs when you can rattle off five straight wins once you're eliminated.  Maybe next year we'll win six in a row once we're eliminated. 

Yea this is the off-season we are getting way too much to handle football wise? anyway mods move it before anyone else is caused any pain.☺

Thorburn and Stuart have to be show-cased so Chevy has off-season trade bait.

Yes, I heard all about it shortly after I made my post.
As long as Thornurn continues to play.... That is what's most important.

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