Dominic Kinnear

Yes.

Just what I find to be a useful thought experiment is, uh, if, if, if Wiki, um, was not the coach and if you had Dom Kinnear as, uh, an interim coach, would the results be, uh, better, the same or worse? And I, when I think about it, I almost always come down with either the same or better.

And so-

That was, that is, that is-

Agree.

I mean, Dom is a...

Listen, this team is in desperate need of a leader and a motivator, and that is what Dom Kinnear is.

Yep.

Year one at PayPal Park, then Avaya Stadium.

Year one with Dom Kinnear.

The acquisition of Anibal Godoy really got them going in the late stages of the season, but they were not able to capitalize on it.

They were out of the playoffs when all was said and done.

I blame

Dom Kinnear.

He was on the field in Houston.

No, I think it started actually when they kind of hacked Andre a little bit and then it was players coming in to defend him a little bit.

They had 47 points.

Dom Kinnear had taken over as the head coach before the season began.

They had a midseason acquisition of Anibal Godoy.

It was the first year of Marvell Wynn with the team.

So that's the context of it.

So I just think like Dominic Kinnear is on the bench.

People have been saying it for a long time.

Maybe you just let him be the interim coach the rest of the year.

Now, is that going to happen to Sporting Kansas City if Rafa Wickie is no longer the coach? I seriously doubt it.

But there is something about a new coach bump, right? Maybe they do believe they're a bad team, and you've got to change that somehow.

I was talking to Thad, I believe, was saying how Dominic Kinnear has some good rapport with the players.

I think it was him that told me this.

I don't know what is different about it this year.

You know, maybe it was that, uh, you know, we had Dom Kinnear before, maybe that helped a little bit in his experience.

We, I believe, had heard from Pat Noonan and Sam Pryor that the club kind of had plans for away matches and how they went about it, and how they traveled and the schedule that they had, and this year it's just like, did they blow it all up or what's going on?

Yeah, that, that stat, you know, you, you had tweeted that out, um, you know, night of the Philly match and that just, that was incredible.

Let's do that.

I mean, do that, but you can let Dom Kinnear do this to the end of the season and still do that, right? Yeah.

Like, for real.

Honestly, like, I don't get it.

I don't understand it.

Like our friend Leanne said, like, the fact that we're pining for Dom Kinnear and that is, in and of itself, just absolutely mind-blowing.

It is, but from everything I understand, Dom Kinnear actually has relationships with these players.

I...