May 7th, 2011. Aron Winter (who had never coached a professional game in his life before, by the way) gets 9 points from his first 9 MLS games, 2 points better than Nelsen in the same number of games. TFC suffered two 3-0 blowouts in that time. Winter used a squad he largely hand-picked himself. Did you also describe Winter and his plan as failures on that day?
Talk about rose-colored glasses. The Winter regime was doomed from Day 1. Winter had his plan, but so did Mariner, and Anselmi was just a bystander. End result? No plan, not one we could carry out with any success anyways. Just by calling it a plan, you give it too much credit.
This is the first time in the history of this club that everyone in it, from the President down to the players, believe in and are working towards the same thing, and you want to throw that away? Do you want to throw it away? Because I'm not sure what your post is suggesting. Should we fire Nelsen? Should we demand results now?
History shows it takes about a year and a half to make a competent MLS team from scratch. That's Payne's timeline, he's said it multiple times. He wants improvement this year, playoffs next year. That's the same amount of time Winter got. So you can call our rebuild so far a failure, just know it's completely meaningless to do so.
Also, unless I'm missing something Earnshaw is
on loan until July. And you can add Laba as a building block.