Joshua Kloke

Hasn't seamlessly fit into the national team.

But I think he... And Jason Russell-Rowe, to me, is another player we should mention.

Like, how many players does Canada have who...

have been playing regularly in the second half of the season in a top five league.

He's been doing that in France.

He scored for Canada against Guatemala in January.

You have options, right?

And I just think you can't go into the World Cup with injuries already lingering over this team with just four forwards.

I'm sure some listeners disagree.

I don't know where you guys are at, but that's the concern for me.

Well, I think it's telling to me that, you know, a starter in all three of Canada's World Cup games in 2022 was not even invited to training camp, right, in Kamal Miller.

And that, to me, just kind of symbolizes –

the depth in the player pool and it's interesting this was you go back to to to start of 2025 that was jesse marsh's goal was widen the player pool you're deep in the player pool and make sure that like come this point you're not kind of saying well i don't know how i feel about this guy you you can't say that about any guy in the roster right now

But you're right, there were players up and down in 2022, Lucas Cavallini, David Witherspoon, that you really went, okay, I don't know if I can trust this player in the moment.

And the results were the results.

Canada were ahead of schedule in 2022.

Fantastic story.

But they were very much, again, as much as they're going to say otherwise,

There was a big vibe of like, whoa, we're here.

And like their eyes were wide, wide open.