Thank God that absolute travesty of a season is over... time to drop an atomic bomb on management - adult and youth - and start over...
Interesting to see what the caps do in the off season to try to get the fans back in seats.
They lots thousands of fans and regulars this season. Another off season half team over haul?
Again, hard to create a fan base when the team flips over every year with no true big name talent to watch. You guys think the ownership will make a true splash? Or more of the same?
Koffie one was difficult because he wanted to try Europe so they dealt him before he left to try get something for him. The fact that you couldn't replace him is the real problem.
Anyway like Dude I have completely checked out on the Caps but unlike Dude I wasn't a cheap cnut and I was a season ticket holder for seven years so they notice I'm gone.
We also have a joke of a pitch.
I agree with most of this, except I have a good feeling about Do Santos. I think he needs to be sole survivor and shape the club in his image.
For the youth...I like Craig and Scott a lot. Craig was a good academy coach for my son before he left the game, and Scott was really good for the Surrey United Girl's program I was a part of. I know he id smart because he's a full supporter of Ice Cream Psychology. That being said, too many very negative occurrences have happened under Craig's watch. If a culture change has to occur at the top, the sense of entitlement that has been pervasive in the club at the youth level needs to stop right fcuking now. These kids need to understand what a privileged it is to be selected, and that the real hard work starts the minute they put on the colors. Not sure that is the atmosphere in the clubhouse.
It's not about the individual people. Bart's been gone for a while now. Craig's been in for a while. People come and go. The results never change and they graduate exactly zero talent to help the first team. There's something structurally wrong there, and hopefully whoever they hires as a sporting director takes a good hard look at that as well as the first team itself...
I'm about three years out of all things BCSPL now, incidentally, so my opinions are becoming stale-dated... whether that makes them more or less persuasive I don't know...
Bair's touch isn't good enough, I'm sorry...
I can tell you that when I was at MUFC, we had some friendlies against the at age development teams. They were better, and who knows if we were getting anything like their starting 11, but they weren't worlds better. Certainly the days of "oh our u14 team needs to play your u17 team for it to be a fair fight" are long passed.
They used to get solid results in development league play, which you would think would be an apples to apples comparison against the other MLS franchises... or, are they playing for wins and the other clubs playing to develop players?
You'd have to really take a close look at their operation to be able to offer a fair critique of it, so I hesitate to say more than "maybe this maybe that"... but the proof is in the pudding - they're a small budget franchise that absolutely has to rely on their academy to be competitive, and it's been a 99.5 % dud (I'll give them 0.5 percent for the 2 seconds Davies spent with the Whitecaps on his way through)...