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I have worked hard at supporting this team for over 10 years. That was a gutless performance. How can a Cdn team lose that badly and not even take a f*ing yellow card! I am done.

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I have worked hard at supporting this team for over 10 years. That was a gutless performance. How can a Cdn team lose that badly and not even take a f*ing yellow card! I am done.

I know how you feel, that was a shocking performance but if you bail on the team and the Voyageurs you are making the assumption that the new group of young guys will do the same and we don't know how they will be at this point!

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Canada is one of the hardest teams in the world to support. They have very little success, and you could say the lay Canadian doesn't care about the team, or thinks they "suck" and will refuse to support them.

But that is also what makes The Voyageurs some of the best footy fans in the world; because despite of all the hardship, they will be there behind Canada through thick and thin.

Let's not change that here folks. These ARE the trying times....

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Canada is one of the hardest teams in the world to support. They have very little success, and you could say the lay Canadian doesn't care about the team, or thinks they "suck" and will refuse to support them.

But that is also what makes The Voyageurs some of the best footy fans in the world; because despite of all the hardship, they will be there behind Canada through thick and thin.

Let's not change that here folks. These ARE the trying times....

This pretty much sums it up. I want to be done but I can't be because I'm proud to be Canadian and I love football. C'est la vie.

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I know how you feel, Ed. It was a long walk to the car after watching the gutless performance.

But in the end, regardless of disappointment, my Facebook status read: "My country, right or wrong."

Perhaps this would help. In 1981 we were also OH SO CLOSE to reach Espana 1982. My Argentinian-Canadian friends were all excited that Canada was very close to making the world stage, and this was my first time I got excited about Canadian chances but as you know Honduras and El Salvador (not Mexico or the US) were the lucky news. Despite being gutted and no one around me caring much (how different is it now?), we had to try again. The next cycle, we were in Mexico '86 when only ONE other CONCACAF team (other than the host) could make it.

It's okay to take a break from all this crap, but when it's the next WC cycle, we'd be there.

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Anytime youth comes into a losing sports team it at least gives us hope and I hope we have that to look forward to at least. Sorry to use a hockey analogy, but look at the Edmonton Oilers, they have been one of the worst managed teams in all of sports for half a decade and yet their fanbase is still hanging in there because they have youth and you can see the direction they're headed in. I believe the next chapter for Canada will be a rebuilding phase for the SMNT program and regardless of the result, those give you hope.

That said the NHL does reward futility with the best young talent and we won't necessarily be seeing the same level of talent but I think the basic principle of rebuilding the program is the same and will be interesting. In the next 4 years we'll be seeing the next Deguz, Dero, Hutch and McKennas come into the side as young players and I think it'll be an interesting time though not without growing pains.

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