Supporters' Shield

It seemed like it couldn't get much worse, but it got worse to a point where there were two trophy lifts at their stadium this week.

Forge FC celebrating the Canadian Championship and Nashville SC celebrating the Supporters' Shield and Montreal having to see two opponents lift trophies this week.

It's about as bad as it can get for CF Montreal right now, Brendan.

Yeah, honestly, I mean, barring relocation, which the Twitter sphere and it seems like all the message boards in the chatter has been about how relocation for CF Montreal is closer than ever.

Big matchup at the Castle.

A chance for you to see the Supporter Shield leaders and winners.

Supporters shield winners, not just leaders.

They're both, though, really.

You walk empty handed.

In our case, after this is our 12th season, and we are seeing Nashville and FC Cincinnati before us winning the Supporter Shield, and all signs point at the fact that we're going to have a Vancouver-Nashville rivalry.

Final for the MLS Cup.

You know, if those guys win it, either one of those teams, teams that were at the bottom of the table, one of them that joined after us, then again, I pose the stupid question that I always do.

What we were in at the beginning of the season and they brought in the right guy, um, you know, quickly brought in the right pieces in the off season.

And now look at them.

They've already won the supporter shield with three weeks remaining.

And the Wilfs were minority owners of Nashville, reminding everybody.

No, listen.

You know, I guess if I go by odds and you go by history of MLS throughout the years of what the Supporters' Shield winner has done, I would have to put money on that they probably won't make it.

Somewhere down the road, there's going to be a hiccup.

I know.

It's hard to say.

Listen, they're playing some good football right now.

But if you go by history, how many Supporters' Shield winners have won MLS Cup? You know what I mean? And it's the percentages.

A lot.

And that's currently 20-16 since that's been implemented, which is a strange tiebreaker for a series that's played every four years or so.

I know it's not supporter shield or what have you, but Dallas can put just another little notch on the belt.

It's just a little bit more of that confidence builder as you head towards the playoffs.

I'm interested to see, is there a physical Pioneer Cup? Because I was looking into it, and there's some stories floating around Reddit that maybe there once was that is no longer in its original form.

Does that mean that we're destined to play Chicago Fire in the MLS Cup for the

Brimstone Cup? That would be a hextuple of trophies?

I mean, it'd be everything but Supporter Shield.

So that would be, I mean, a pretty monumental season.

And again, I think this just proves to what I was talking about earlier with the 22 under 22, Kevin Sullivan being the number one choice and a game like this, it absolutely shows you how vital Kevin is to the Philadelphia union.

We'll see if he's available on Wednesday against Nashville, who just won the Supporter Shield over everybody else in MLS, but they get a 2-1 victory over CF Montreal, and They're going to be riding on a high.

I know they're also chasing history too, trying to get the most points in MLS with three games remaining.

They're at 70 points right now.

I would imagine that Anello probably plays a factor into the game on Wednesday against against Nashville.

And this is a Nashville team that's a lot better, obviously.

Won the Supporter Shield a lot better than New England.

I think they're a lot better organized defensively.

And we cannot ask Lionel Messi those questions.

We cannot ask him, when the team lost to Atlanta in the first round, of the playoffs that year that they won the Supporters' Shield his first year.

Why? Why did that happen? What do you think happened? Why did Tata Martino leave all of a sudden? Why did Javier Mascherano also leave all of a sudden? Why did two coaches back to back who are from Argentina, why did they leave for very, you know, abruptly for personal reasons? You would want to ask the captain of the team his reaction to those decisions of two coaches that had connections with him.

Why would they leave abruptly? We would want to ask him that question.

And good for them.

And there's still a good chance that depending on how St. Louis finishes in the Supporter Shield standings, if they can make their way into the top four for that, and or if one of the other teams in the top four wins MLS Cup, Crew actually, it goes to the runner-up if St. Louis is able to qualify for Champions League through another inroad.

So there's still a non-zero chance that they make Champions League, and there's a non-zero through the US Open Cup, and there's a non-zero chance they make it through the MLS Cup presented by Audi.

Way to get that now that they've sponsored you, Bart.