@PentonKirk: The #Bombers are out of the Henoc Muamba sweepstakes, according to a source. #CFL

@garylawless: Hearing Henoc Muamba is close to signing with CFL team. Deal is north of 500 k for remainder of this season plus two more. Told #bombers out

Unfortunate for us, but hardly surprising at the same time. We have bigger issues to take care of.

Edmonton just keeps improving their team while we ...

We don't need star players anyways. Not the Bomber way.

Can't compete when family is involved. If anything tho this confirms it wasn't Joe mack who signed Cauchy Muamba... it was Henoc Muamba

Maybe I'm in the minority here but I'm not too torn up about this. Our MLB spot is low on the list of problems this team has. Hurl has done well, and now with Wild they still have the ability to play in 34 fronts. It have been awesome to have him back, he's a great player for sure, but now we can spend that money elsewhere.

Maybe that's one of Henoc's condition... sign my brothers and I'll sign with you.

Guess the sack leader isn't a star. Wasn't this kind of obvious when we signed Ian Wild tho

Sucks for us. $2oo k or so is fine for an impact NI.

maybe it has something to do with our current status than money.

Guess the sack leader isn't a star. Wasn't this kind of obvious when we signed Ian Wild tho

Didn't realize it was an either/or situation. But I guess it was.

Bombers, would you like the more talented Canadian or the less talented American? Oh we'll choose the American of course.

Can't compete when family is involved. If anything tho this confirms it wasn't Joe mack who signed Cauchy Muamba... it was Henoc Muamba

 

If anything this shows that Mack signing Cauchy was a smart move... a ploy to try and keep Henoc here...

 

 

Guess the sack leader isn't a star. Wasn't this kind of obvious when we signed Ian Wild tho

Didn't realize it was an either/or situation. But I guess it was.

Bombers, would you like the more talented Canadian or the less talented American? Oh we'll choose the American of course.

 

 

I wouldn't say Muamba is better than Wild... talent-wise, they're pretty close... but Henoc's citizenship makes him infinitely more valuable...

I think it's more a case of them viewing Henoc as a luxury at this point.

 

Unbeknownst to a lot of us, Sam Hurl has actually become a pretty good MLB. He plays well within our system and probably doesn't get enough credit. For us to add Henoc was something we could do, but I'm sure we probably capped out our budget at some point.

 

I wanted Henoc back but hey, I'll still gladly take Ian Wild, Khalil Bass, Chris Randle and Sam Hurl.

 

Also - I wonder how much having Waggoner in the system played a part in their decision.

I wonder how much of a chance the Bombers even had.  

 

Edmonton has a championship calibre defence and a chance to make some noise in the playoffs and playoff money.  Plus he gets to play with his brother again.

 

We are likely not going to make the playoffs ... again.   Even if the offers are the same dollar wise, why would he choose here.

 

And for all the reasons stated above, is it worth coming back with more than what Edmonton offered.

Edmonton just keeps improving their team while we ...

Signed Ian Wild!

Lb is arguably our strongest positional group. I'd much rather stick with the lb crew we have and throw all of that money at one of the bigshot OL who are currently out of work. Landing one of those guys, particularly Heenan, would be a much better use of our sms money imo.
 

I must say that i was in the camp that thought Hurl had no idea what he was doing at the beginning of the season but just like the defense has improved so has Hurl. I'm not going to say that Hurl is better than Muamba but Hurl is a Bomber and Muamba at this point is not. 

I will hate to see Henoc in another team's colors but so be it. I agree that Hurl has been improving at MLB. Although a failure by Walters imo, I am not too upset about this. As long as the Bombers are spending to the cap, I can understand the reasoning for not making Henoc a fair offer and withholding money for someone else. If this is a case of Henoc being a luxury spend so be it...so long as that same money is used on needs....and we have a lot of them. If we can't win the Muamba sweepstakes I expect Walters to be actively pursuing someone else with that money....and I mean NOW.

Takes two sides to sign a contract, if he doesn't want to sign here then so be it. Life moves on and it's not like we're weak at linebacker. Would have been nice to add a star NI, but oh well. 

He better sign a guy like Heenan or Jones now.

way off topic.... but I've heard Harris isn't happy in BC, and I believe he's a free agent this off season.  Maybe Walters is saving some $ to sign him?  There's a ratio buster on the side of the ball the Bombers need!

 

Not trying to start a rumour, but a buddy of mine from Vancouver has told me Harris hasn't been happy with his diminished role there!

I've liked Hurl from day one and I wouldn't want him to be released in favour of Muamba but I guess it's just confusing for me when I look at Hamilton and Ottawa stockpiling 7-8 high end Canadian defensive linemen but for some reason we don't have room for 2 good Canadian linebackers.

Takes two sides to sign a contract, if he doesn't want to sign here then so be it. Life moves on and it's not like we're weak at linebacker. Would have been nice to add a star NI, but oh well. 

 

But that's my question: Does he not want to sign here, or are the Bombers not willing to pay him?  If it's the latter then they are making a huge mistake.  If it's the former, then I completely agree with you.

My only wish is he goes to the East.

That ungrateful....he promised to come back....after all the support we gave that guy....and he has the gall to take the puppy...."but I wanna play with my brother". He makes me SICK!

I okay with this. I like direction of where our defence is going and we can field a much better player at the position that Muamba would have taken with an American and pay half that amount.

Sure he is good, but as a ratio buster there on defence..meh....

 

That money could be better spent in a position that would produce more substantial amounts of benefit....0-line...big play receiver and or as a big splash for the biggest free agent pool in the pond next year. 

 

I agree too...Harris won't be re-upping this season with B.C and I bet we can land him in free agency here for next season. Having him and Marshall together "all" the time would be crazy good. Both are excellent receivers and a defence would have a hard time keying on either one for the run, or the outlet/flats in passing. Either one could be in the back field at any given time and other in that Drury type role.

 

A muamba won't put us over the edge as legit, would be nice but with a competent offence and another force on the D-line this defence can win games. We need a legit playmaker on offence or another bigtime o-line beast more than Muamba