Joel Waterman

You also saw that he can be he's not physically gifted enough to keep up with the top forwards in this league.

And that was an issue in 2025 before Mbekezele and Bokazi came in, when you had Jack Elliott and Joel Waterman, who they got rid of in part because of some of these issues.

They can't keep up with some of the more talented, more athletically gifted forwards in the league.

And that's my concern at this point, right? Depending on how you want to play, right? I agree with you if you're talking a very possession-based attack.

You're just going to have to buy him out or eat some of that contract on the buyout.

Like it, there's, you have tied yourself down, I think more so than when he came in.

And we saw that with having to move off Joel Waterman, who would have been great to have when you have two healthy center backs four weeks later.

Like, Let's move on, though.

So this is big for some Canadian players here because, of course, James Pantemis is their goalkeeper.

Kamal and Kamal Dini, I should say, my center back and my number four, started alongside Joel Waterman in this one, and they looked very good together.

Joel Waterman looked really class.

making a good few big uh defensive uh plays made about say i saw the stat line of like six clearances one interception or something like that great performance there uh and of course the their last minute win keeps their playoff hopes alive but not in their hands but at least they can for the remainder of this season do what they can do you know to try and get those spots for our three canadian teams i'm gonna keep this brief because none of them had a great weekend Nashville clinched the supporter shield versus Montreal in Montreal so not a good week for Montreal but a great week for teams visiting Montreal who wanted to win a trophy but yeah Montreal I just feel for these fans man like they the stadium looked half empty and I can't even blame them like you just can't blame them the product on the field isn't great.

Now there's reports, take it with a grain of salt, but there are reports saying that Alexis Sanchez may not want to come back to save Montreal for next season.

And I think he's really improved in that realm.

I thought Joel Waterman and Kamal Miller were really good together.

Christopher Valdo was way more selfless in this game.

I don't know if he had more trust in his teammates to contribute in this game than he had in recent weeks, but he was holding up the ball well and getting teammates involved.

And

if Miller and Waterman in the current state...

If there's a

bad turnover and those guys get their positioning one iota wrong and somebody is kind of cherry picking on us because they're a devastating downhill attacker like Andre Luiz, we are toast.

We didn't even not bat down the hatches, okay? Jimmer Forey has been, in many cases, not too surprisingly, our best defender over this stretch.

It's not too surprisingly because Kamal Miller's not that good.

Joel Waterman's playing on the wrong side.

And Ronald Hernandez is our third right back who's being given another chance at MLS life, okay? So, like, however...

And then we've had other Canadian talent that have played at Montreal.

Joel Waterman became a Canadian men's national team regular with, say, Montreal.

Alistair Johnston before his move to Celtic.

was with CF Montreal.

Presuming he's going to play off the left, I suppose it's another...

It's another tough matchup for Ronald Hernandez and presumably Joel Waterman on that side because they had Georgie Minungu for a bit in that game against Colorado, who is another player that maybe the end product isn't always there, but they're an absolute tornado at having to deal with them as a winger.

So yeah, it'll be another tough task for those two.

I've always been an Alonso Maximon fan.

Backline sort of picks itself.

It's Jimmer Forey.

It's Joel Waterman and Kamal Miller.

If Finn Sermon is not able to go, if Finn Sermon is, it'll be Finn Sermon in there, likely for Waterman on the right side of defense.