Gareth Wheeler

came through under John who are better.

A lot of them are in their prime today.

So look, Jesse off the field, like people love him.

He's wrapped his arms around the program, the country.

And I think that that is his like kind of superpower right now, but he needs to show it off the field.

The thing is what, which makes this even more strange is that the financial commitment that's being made by people outside of the CSA is

So part of the white caps ownership groups, you have Montreal private donors that have allowed his contract to be signed and pay him a lot of money to do so.

Um, with that being the case, and I don't know what the breakdown of those numbers are, it kind of mitigates the risk for the CSA in case it does, it doesn't work.

Um, and they won't be left on the hook with just, um, an albatross of a salary for a head coach that isn't achieving.

Um,

That's the interesting thing to me because for all the budgetary issues, and that was made a big deal by people that were criticizing the CSA at that time, the biggest liability on their balance sheet was what they were paying Herdman and Priestman and the coaching staff.

So you take that off the balance sheet, it's going to look a whole lot better.

So I would have just loved to have seen it done after the World Cup when you get a better idea whether Jesse is capable of getting the most out of this team.

I think that although he presents really well, he's a great spokesman,

Just on the field, can you play and press ferociously over 90 minutes in difficult weather at tournaments like this?

Is this style of play made for international football?

I still have some real questions about that.

So, look, there's positives and negatives to the situation.

I think that you can make the case for either one.

I just would have preferred to see that contract done after the World Cup rather than before.