Wayne Frederick

And, and I think you, you kind of saw that.

Um, as, as per, as per the short sheet, full disclosure, uh, that was Wayne Frederick who was sent off.

Again, full disclosure, uh, Wayne Frederick's father is, is my best friend.

Mm.

[laughs]

And, and, and I, I will say I absolutely love what Wayne Frederick Jr. has brought to this team in terms of quality and in terms of fight.

And while you don't want to see it kind of, um, express itself in that way, in a red card later on, for too long we've missed some bite, at least in the midfield.

Yeah.

But to give up two goals away from home against Galaxy, who are basically another Colorado, it's not great for them.

I, I really like, uh, like Wayne, Wayne Frederick has been really good for them.

They were missing Georgie Manu, who again, uh, they were missing Syed Abu, Abu Farki.

Um, I really like Morgan Whitaker.

So, uh, Giorgi was called up.

Uh, Wayne Frederick was called up.

Uh, Sayid was called up.

Um, I know we referenced him earlier.

Uh, he, he has done that in the past, so it was kind of his goal celebration.

I'm gonna say choose a different one next time, Sayid.

Um, Wayne Frederick, uh, who's out with Trinidad and Tobago, uh, he actually got a goal today as well, so two Rapids internationals getting goals in their international duty, uh, which is a good sign.

Um, and then like I mentioned, Giorgi's out with Burkina Faso as well.

Uh, for Colorado, three big names.

Georgie Monougu, um, Wayne Frederick, who has been a stalwart for them-

Yep

... across multiple positions.

They're playing some friendlies.

And then Wayne Frederick is with Trinidad and Tobago.

I can't remember offhand if they've got friendlies or maybe a CONCACAF Nations League game, maybe some combination of those.

All three of those players have already joined their team and are going to be unavailable for this Saturday.

That's going to be a fun reunion.

but it kind of goes to your point, right? Like that's one of those teams that, um, like you said, if you're a regular in MLS and you can start or at least get, you know, in the rotation where you're starting some, maybe not all games, you can get into that team.

Um, I, I mean, everything you said for, for Wayne Frederick and especially Georgie Manungu, um, I hope the same is true for Dante Sealy and he can get things going and kind of put this, uh, sort of bad stint with Colorado to rest.

Um, So, yeah, I'm excited for the guys, especially for Sayadaw Bufarki, because he mentioned in his first kind of availability slash postgame, I'm blanking on the term, mix zone.

Wayne Frederick pulls it down off his thigh, dribbles into the attacking half, knocks it back in for Whitaker.

Whitaker's got some space to his left.

Christian Roldan kicks him down from behind.

Looking

for Whittaker.

Frederick finds him.

Whittaker, top of the 18, into the box, steps to his right, shoots.

It's saved into your post, but good effort.

It was just odd because it was, it was a really proper advantage too.

And I think, I forget who it was who got the, maybe it was a Wayne Frederick or somebody had gotten the ball to, uh gotten a foul but was able to break through and get that to to Whitaker I think on the outside I was like there we go I mean Whitaker is essentially you know 1v1 um you know with an opportunity to go to goal and they pull it back and this is like right a half too right where it would have been perfect for us to tie it up right as we go into the into the locker room and he didn't what And so that was frustrating, you know, in those moments.

But, you know, I look back at the at the refereeing.

Yeah, it's frustrating, but that's frustrating.

And I'm hoping to see more from him.

I saw a positive play from Donovan Phillips.

Wayne Frederick had really positive play I thought even though it wasn't you know he was playing you know in midfield and did what he needed to do I did see some positives there I know you I know you gave him the oar for the man of the match for the team which you know, I think, you know, was deserved, um, to a degree.

Um, so yeah, those are my positives.

Reggie Cannon picked himself up a yellow card, meaning he's going to miss this next game.

Wayne Frederick, bro, I want to talk about Wayne Frederick.

Had an excellent couple of runs with the ball there through midfield, dribble and pass on defenders.

Getting better, Crash.

Wayne Frederick is getting better game by game, homie.

I could see why he's nailed down that spot there for Matt Wells, dude.

Like, I know... another one of these players that i kind of hold high expectations i don't know why i hold high expectations bro but like you know i'm not i'm not like uh i'm just an armchair pundit when it comes to it bro but i i like i look at these players and i see the quality i see the potential and i'm like dude yeah like i i have those high expectations for a player like wayne frederick and he's really growing into that role bro wax lyrical on wayne frederick bro

Yeah, no, I think Wayne's interesting, right? This season is definitely his breakout season.