Today’s Bomber Report

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This article was published 15/09/2009 (5859 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.

WE ARE FAMILY

Late Sunday afternoon, with most of the players and media already out of the locker-room, linebacker Ike Charlton made the long walk from his stall to the messy and stinking zone inhabited by the Bombers’ offensive linemen.

Charlton approached centre Obby Khan and offered his fist for a bump.

"We good?" asked Charlton.

"Oh, yeah. We’ll stick together," replied Khan.

"That’s right. We’ll hang. We’ll hang together," enforced Charlton.

With that, the two men went their separate ways but a quiet pact had been made — We won’t quit if you don’t quit.

The locker-room is made up of many factions, offence and defence, married guys and single guys and veterans and rookies. Charlton and Khan represent a mix of those groups and their little meeting goes a long way in representing the state of this team’s togetherness.

At 3-7 and on the heels of an embarrassing 55-10 loss at home, Charlton says the hairline fractures will not turn into full-blown breaks.

"We won’t lose this locker-room. We lost it last year. I know we won a bunch of games going down the stretch but we really weren’t together. We’re together," said Charlton. "And we’ll stay together."

WHAT THE POETS ARE SAYING

If you expect a player to come right out and say the coaches are cracked, well, don’t hold your breath. But these Bombers are whispering about the offensive schemes being set forth by the coaching staff.

The Bombers play a two-back, four-receiver offence most of the time and it has had little success this season. A number of players have told us recently the offence is antiquated and doesn’t work against the defensive schemes that teams are employing these days.

Coach Mike Kelly, who gets asked about changing the offence on a seemingly weekly basis, will not even entertain questions on the subject, simply saying "Next question," when the topic is raised.