Comments for Canary in the Coal Mine: The Cervi Affair at http://www.section8chicago.com/jm3 , comment 1 to 3 out of 3 comments http://www.section8chicago.com/jm3 Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:09:40 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.section8chicago.com/jm3/content/view/128/1/#comment-10 It's great to see such insightful straight talk about what it can mean to wear the Red. It's not always about the green (though with Senor White you can understand how his motives may have been more pecuniary). It would have been nice to watch Cervi's development, too. Were there any post mortems from the front office on what happened? I miss Peter Wilt more every season. The women's team is lucky to have him. - Steve Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:32:55 +0100 http://www.section8chicago.com/jm3/content/view/128/1/#comment-8 I fear you may be right, combined with the public insistence of our club president in each of those situations that he was confident a deal would be done; all to fall apart in some degree. Guppy has indicated again and again that the goal of the club this season is to win the Shield and automatically qualify for continental competition. It's the right goal, and admirable; but in addition to having serious doubts the current squad can accomplish that feat his job is to protect the long-term integrity and identity of the club. These five incidents together put a serious chink in that; and it is right to question the direction of our current leadership. - JL Murtaugh Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:40:24 +0100 http://www.section8chicago.com/jm3/content/view/128/1/#comment-6 "...this club could end up as just another MLS team." That is a huge fear of mine. This offseason I was remembering Eric Wynalda and how he entered the Soccer Hall of Fame as a Fire player even though he only played a year for this organization. This offseason I started to fear that we had lost that edge we once had. Not just that we lost it, which was obvious. But that there was no effort being made to get it back. That's simply not acceptable. - Ben Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:18:35 +0100