Steven Caldwell

We know the guys that are not 100% fit that are definitely going to be in but I think when you start to get up to 7, 8, 9 players that are huge doubts through injury then you start to worry and if the worst happens then you are pretty decimated and you don't have the selection that you would need.

through a tournament like this with the games coming in reasonably quick succession so I think there's a couple of guys that will be a little bit nervous I'm thinking someone like Jacob Schaffelberg who is probably on the border and maybe missing out because of his injury and because of the fact that left midfield position is particularly stacked and Jesse Masters has a number of options there that

he might just miss out.

And then someone like Zorhan Basong or Ralph Preso, who can play and add some cover in the back line, might just sneak in as kind of 25, 26 players on the roster.

Yeah, I think it means he needs to have cover on that left side, you know, especially in that full-back position where his understudy, he's been his understudy in the last year and a bit with the Canadian Men's National Team, is Richie Larea.

He's also got his injury problems and he's a little bit more behind than I expected him to be, Brian.

He's still struggling a bit to train fully.

So then...

you say, well, who has that cover?

There's some talk of Segur going and playing on the left, or even Alistair Johnson, he's done that before, so one of the two right full-backs could go over there, but I don't think you want to go into a World Cup campaign with two guys who are really doubtful through injury, so you probably want to bring in

And this is why I'm starting to think that Basong, who is not in the greatest of seasons, being injured himself actually earlier in the season, is playing with Sporting Kansas City and MLS, might just sneak in because he is an out-and-out left back.

He's someone that can play in that area, in that position.

So, I mean, Davies will be there.

We know that.

If Davies can play five minutes in the last group stage game, he will be in that squad.

He'll be an option.

But we're just hopeful that he can play more games.

minutes earlier than maybe what was anticipated when he first re-injured the hamstring in the Champions League match.

you know the larger scheme of things and and maybe going deeper into the tournament well i don't think canada can afford to be that sort of arrogant or confident whatever you want to call it i think they need to worry about like the first game and then take that in the second game the third game obviously kind of never had a point at world cup even though we're optimistic that they can go far and that they can get to knock out stage game and then

who knows where that ends up we saw that two years ago didn't we with Copa America where it went so much better than maybe we expected but I think realistically two goals one of them being an own goal in World Cup play and zero points means that you've got to focus on the here and now and so I think that first game is your focus I think getting through the group and getting out of the group is the focus but it depends on what kind of player you are if you're