Quote Originally Posted by ag futbol View Post
They’ve been so bad for so long it’s basically treated as an inevitability. Sad but there was little going into this qualifying round suggesting we’d be competitive.

Player development in this country has been extremely awful for about a decade. We’ve been getting comparably worse vs. some other nations in CONCACAF.

Until that gets fixed it’s hard to get excited.
Player development has gone through more change in the last decade than ever before. That's not awful. We needed change. The results aren't good enough but to stop at development = awful is tuning out.

We HAVE got worse vs other nations in CONCACAF. We also have had more announcements over the last years unveiling talent that have declared for Canada. That is a good thing.

Again, admittedly. not good enough. Those announcements were for players that waited to declare and hoped their careers or form would benefit more than the teams. It's still better than no declarations though.

I don't disagree with your excitement level but I'm more in line with Richard.