May 12, 20169 yr Some perspective... 33 NI for 21 spots and maybe 3-4 PR (Cut in red, PR in blue, school in green) Starters Westerman, Shologan, Goossen, Chungh, Neufeld, Harris, Kohlert Possible/Rotational Starters Hurl, Bucknor, Waggoner, Jones, Thomas, JFG, Sherman Backups/ST Morgan, Richardson, Keeping, Richards, Briggs, Bastien, Cronk, Rempel, Lochard, Normand, Draft Picks/ST Couture, Rush, Gauthier, Corney, Butcher, Loffler, Inztandt, Renaud Kickers Pavlopolous Edited May 12, 20169 yr by Floyd
May 13, 20169 yr On 2016-05-12 at 8:19 AM, Mike said: My Canadians on the gameday roster: RB - Harris, Lochard FB - Normand OL - Goossen, Chungh, Neufeld, Keeping REC - Kohlert, Bastien, Feoli-Gudino, Richards DL - Shologan, Westerman, Thomas, Corney LB - Waggoner, Briggs, Hurl DB - Jones, Sherman, Loffler, Bucknor LS - Rempel I pretty much agree with you, other than these two changes. It's nice to see that a few respectable Canadian players might not be able to make our roster.
May 13, 20169 yr Check out Jesse Briggs' wiki page... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Briggs Edited May 13, 20169 yr by sweep the leg
May 13, 20169 yr 11 minutes ago, sweep the leg said: Check out Jesse Briggs' wiki page... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Briggs 18 games started (upback)
May 13, 20169 yr Someone has been editing it again this morning. The part about him miraculously nursing a bird back to health has been removed.
May 13, 20169 yr On 12/05/2016 at 8:19 AM, Mike said: My Canadians on the gameday roster: RB - Harris, Lochard FB - Normand OL - Goossen, Chungh, Neufeld, Keeping REC - Kohlert, Bastien, Feoli-Gudino DL - Shologan, Westerman, Thomas, Corney LB - Waggoner, Briggs, Hurl DB - Jones, Sherman, Loffler LS - Rempel You think Bastien beats out Richards? I hope not. Nothing against the guy, I just hope Richards improves enough to at least back up kohlert this year.
May 13, 20169 yr 43 minutes ago, sweep the leg said: Check out Jesse Briggs' wiki page... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Briggs This is brilliant... he must have some friends with a lot of time on their hands...
May 13, 20169 yr 56 minutes ago, Bigblue204 said: You think Bastien beats out Richards? I hope not. Nothing against the guy, I just hope Richards improves enough to at least back up kohlert this year. I don't think there's any chance Bastien beats Richards, but the question is whether Richards will be healthy enough to play.
May 13, 20169 yr KW was saying they will probably go with just 1 CDN starter at receiver (Kohlert) so... I'd imagine Richards does make the roster in some way, Not sure he will have to play that much, but... honestly when he did play a little bit last year, he looked semi decent. Young guy, needs some time, think he could turn in to a good receiver for sure in a year or 2...
May 13, 20169 yr If Richards is fully recovered from that injury, he could be a dark horse to win the NI Rec spot, but it's questionable just how healthy he is...
May 13, 20169 yr I'd only put Bucknor on the field if the opposition promises to keep one receiver outside the far hashmarks. I honestly don't see how he makes this team. Wonder if he even gets to training camp. If he's not starting there's not much cake to having him on the roster because there are loads of guys ahead of him special teams-wise.
May 13, 20169 yr Man our NI talent has gotten sooo much better. we could cut guys this TC that would have started for us 2-3 years ago.
May 13, 20169 yr Kohlert isn't even a safe bet to start or make the team imo, never mind Puke & Bucknor.
May 13, 20169 yr 27 minutes ago, pigseye said: Kohlert isn't even a safe bet to start or make the team imo, never mind Puke & Bucknor. Kohlert?? He is a lock. I will be shocked if he gets cut. Shocked I say.
May 13, 20169 yr 32 minutes ago, pigseye said: Kohlert isn't even a safe bet to start or make the team imo, never mind Puke & Bucknor. You want to get rid of our best NI receiver? Who do you start in that spot?
May 13, 20169 yr I can't speak for others who commented on it, but I'm just saying that *IF* Addison Richards is 100% healthy, he's got the POTENTIAL to have a big camp and move Kohlert outta that spot. Ton of *IF*'s but just sayin'.......
May 13, 20169 yr Kohlert aint going no where. Richards even healthy will still need a decent season of learning the ropes at full game speed as that hip injury really kept him out of the loop all year.. I don't expect much change in our receiver depth lineup to be honest (for canadians that is) JFG as backup with bastien or richards as depth would be how i would shake it down.. Bastien may be on the outside looking in at this point.
May 13, 20169 yr What I like about the our National situation is that we're not going to be looking in the pile of former could-have-beens to fill out the back end of the roster. As a matter of fact, we probably will be adding to it this year, and our middle range athletes will drop closer to the bottom. I'm not worried about our National starters anymore, I think they will be seeking out the better of a number of players..not just who is 'good enough' to don the pads. This is the way it should have been all along and thank goodness, we're getting back there.
May 14, 20169 yr Author Hmm JFG not on bombers roster list... prob just mistake. but not sure that Bastien or Richards don't replace him... I'd like to see him move to fullback, still big enough to block.
May 14, 20169 yr 1 hour ago, Floyd said: Hmm JFG not on bombers roster list... prob just mistake. but not sure that Bastien or Richards don't replace him... I'd like to see him move to fullback, still big enough to block. He's listed on the Bombers' roster.
May 14, 20169 yr I like JFG and think he makes it as a backup with Richards not fully recovered yet. Once Richards can play thinking he goes PR and the Riders pick him up and then he retires Edited May 14, 20169 yr by IC Khari
May 14, 20169 yr I don't know why everyone seems so high on Richards... Edited May 14, 20169 yr by James
May 14, 20169 yr 25 minutes ago, James said: I don't know why everyone seems so high on Richards... For me, it's not that I'm high on him, I just hope he steps it up this year and becomes a contributing member somehow. I believe he was a head of Bastien on the roster last year.
May 14, 20169 yr 11 minutes ago, Bigblue204 said: For me, it's not that I'm high on him, I just hope he steps it up this year and becomes a contributing member somehow. I believe he was a head of Bastien on the roster last year. I didn't see enough of Richards to have an opinion but I saw enough of Bastien to prefer the work of JFG.
May 14, 20169 yr Author 14 hours ago, Jacquie said: He's listed on the Bombers' roster. Ah, I had them sorted as Nationals/Ints... JFG appears to have had his citizenship revoked.
Some perspective... 33 NI for 21 spots and maybe 3-4 PR (Cut in red, PR in blue, school in green)
Starters
Westerman, Shologan, Goossen, Chungh, Neufeld, Harris, Kohlert
Possible/Rotational Starters
Hurl, Bucknor, Waggoner, Jones, Thomas, JFG, Sherman
Backups/ST
Morgan, Richardson, Keeping, Richards, Briggs, Bastien, Cronk, Rempel, Lochard, Normand,
Draft Picks/ST
Couture, Rush, Gauthier, Corney, Butcher, Loffler, Inztandt, Renaud
Kickers
Pavlopolous
Edited by Floyd