Looking a lot better then what so many of the naysayers had against him for the last few years.  

 

I was watching the last half with lots of fast forwarding... but was it not Etienne who completely knocked a Toronto guy out of the game because he ran over him.   I was under the impression that Jade is to small to play football.    

Maybe I'm wrong but I don't believe theres any ''back of the line'' type of deal. We didn't put a second rounder on Laurent.

no there is a back of the line rule. You sucessfully get a player you drop to the bottom of waiver priority. I don't think however that a lot of teams were bidding on laurent. The story was that the only team that really did a lot of legwork on him were the esks and that it was unlikely anyone but them would be taking him. Everyone else was focussed on Poblah

There is no back of the line. From the CFL by-laws:

The supplementary Draft shall follow the same order of selection as the regular Draft meeting. A member Club selecting a player must offer to forfeit a selection in the next regular Draft meeting. The next Club has the right to offer to forfeit a higher selection for that player, and so on until each Club has had an opportunity to bid for that player, with the rights to that player being awarded to the Club offering the highest ranking forfeiture. A player not selected in a supplementary Draft shall be declared a free agent.

If we had bid our second round pick for Laurent we would have gotten him.

Teams don't go to the back of the line because the picks happen simultaneously according to the bids. Meaning we didn't take Poblah before Edmonton took Laurent, the picks happened at the same time.

but that excerpt only deals with one player, says absolutely nothing about what happens after a player is selected by a team. 

However, LaPolice said he wasn’t counting on coming away with two players from Friday’s supplemental draft so it’s possible the Blue Bombers may be forced to choose between Laurent and Poblah.

 

 

Interesting comment from Lapo that seems to suggests getting both was a possibility.

 

http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/Winnipeg/2011/05/26/pf-18194341.html

 

 

This article actually confirms it assuming the Bombers had the first pick in the second round.

 

http://www.canadianfootballtalk.com/cfl-news/ted-laurent-nabbed-by-eskimos-in-second-round/?doing_wp_cron=1374810147.2083780765533447265625

Teams don't go to the back of the line because the picks happen simultaneously according to the bids. Meaning we didn't take Poblah before Edmonton took Laurent, the picks happened at the same time.

Not quite. Each player is auctioned off one at a time. Once Winnipeg used their waiver priority on Poblah, we went to #8 in the list.

I find it amazing how guys are justifying how Etienne was a good pick by throwing Poblah under the bus...

I find it amazing how guys are justifying how Etienne was a good pick by throwing Poblah under the bus...

Who's doing that? Poblah was a better pick at the time, but long term it looks like Etienne may be the better player. I'm happy to have both of them here.

I find it amazing how guys are justifying how Etienne was a good pick by throwing Poblah under the bus...

 

It's not that though. It's simply more pointing out that you can't judge draft picks until a few years have gone by. Etienne was sepen as a massive bust and terrible pick at the time meanwhile everyone and their dog agreed that if Poblah was eligible for the actual draft he likely would have been the #1 overall pick. Just goes to show that 

I find it amazing how guys are justifying how Etienne was a good pick by throwing Poblah under the bus...really just serves to back up the idea that pre-draft rankings aren't all they're cracked up to be since a couple years after being selected one guy is starting to show that he looks like he can be a solid contributer and one guy still has a hell of a lot to prove. 

I find it amazing how guys are justifying how Etienne was a good pick by throwing Poblah under the bus...

 

I love how you just pulled that assessment out of your ass.  None of us are doing that.

Hey guys what's Anthony Parker up to lately?

 

Who?

Who?

 

Exactly.

Hey guys what's Anthony Parker up to lately?

 

 

Now he's going to go off on us tonight.

So Jade Etienne is cut by his hometown....

 

Aaron Kelly is still with the club...

 

Kito Poblah is still with his club....

 

 

To steal Mike's image...