I don’t expect we will see him for another month or two. Once the coaches are ready to give up one the season he will get his shot. Frustrating in a way because it will be to late if it works out.

I am unhappy that he hasn’t made the bench yet, its not like our second string is brimming with talent.

When do you think that Sunil Chhetri will be given an oppurtunity to come on the bench or maybe play in the starting line up?

How many more days or months we need to wait to see him play?

I never like being a Monday morning quarterback (sorry for the American football reference), but I have to say I always liked Gomez. I thought he had hustle. He just had an off year in 2009.

As for Cristman, he didn’t have a huge impact in K.C., but I’m not sure how much people should fault him for that. It was really his first year back from a lengthy injury.

In both cases, it seems like one off year meant their curtain call with the Wizards. It makes me wonder why players like Arnaud and Wolff are still here. Arnaud has been touted at the beginning of the last two seasons as our big hope, but hasn’t produced like it. Wolff had the most goals last year, but for a team with the third lowest point total in the league, that’s not brag-worthy.

I’ll shut my yap now. I really appreciate blogs like this, DownTheByline.com, and BackPost.net. It’s refreshing to see intelligent, honest commentary from Wizards’ supporters as opposed to the lack of coverage from most news outlets or the overly-biased, uneducated opinions I find on soccer forums.

“That being said, you know the there is something wrong and that the Wizards’ are in trouble when every blog and comment I read is in agreement about the teams deficiencies and woes. Something has to change.”

I think what is sad is that I do not think most of the bloggers want to actually write this stuff, we are fans – we want to promote the team and say happy things. We have chatted about the suffering Wizards casually on and off for weeks but somehow this week seemed to be the straw that broke us.

I know Mike over at downthebyline.com – which I assume you also have read, I can’t imagine he could have been anymore let down after the game than he was.

@Roger – Gomez is a bummer isn’t it? Funny thing is when he left I thought “good riddance” myself. Its one of those hindsight is 20/20 situations we can all kick ourselves about but I am not sure anybody really saw his season in Mexico coming. One thing for sure — Vermes has blown up the team, he owns this mess right now. All of it. Talent eval … Chhetri has worked out awesomely. Kostrov … waived. Escobar … complete shit.

By the way, let’s not forget that Mr. Vermes is who kept Josh Wolff and got rid of Hercules Gomez (top scorer in the Mexican League) and Adam Cristman (a 25 yr old striker with 2 goals and 1 assist for a dismal DC team vs Wolff’s 1 and 1 in twice as much time (900+ min vs 450+min)). I’m not saying they would have done better with us but it comes to show that the man CANNOT evaluate talent.

Secondly, I think you were spot on with almost (if not) all of your comments. This team needs to make some tough cuts, shore up the defense (above all else), and get people forward/scoring on runs. It seems similar with the USMNT. We’ll get someone booking up the wing and when they go to cross it in, we have two guys in the box surrounded by six defenders, and our next closest player is at midfield – and that’s not even on a counterattack.

I mentioned to a friend that the Wizards’ need to sell/trade some combination of two or more of the following: Arnaud, Wolff, Conrad, and Jewsbury. I think these are decent enough players. Hell, I like Jewsbury and Conrad. However, I would argue that, logically, if you make changes and it doesn’t fix the problem, then you didn’t make the right changes. We’ve repositioned or replaced almost everyone else on the team except these four. Sometimes you have to make decisions you don’t like.

I’ve noticed with football (soccer), 100 different people will have 100 different opinions about a league, a team, or a player. Getting a common consensus is like trying to trying to get a loan from a leprechaun or go snogging with sasquatch: it ain’t going to happen. That being said, you know the there is something wrong and that the Wizards’ are in trouble when every blog and comment I read is in agreement about the teams deficiencies and woes. Something has to change.