Strap yourselves in, this is a long one.
After giving everyone hope with inspiring performances that maybe could have spelt a second postseason run in as many years, the Whitecaps ended the season in the way many were expecting: underwhelming. I think the biggest crime about the performance on Sunday was the fact that they didn’t play awful, rather they just played passable. The lack of urgency and atmosphere of defeatism after conceding first is a symptom of a team that is missing a belief in themselves and the project around them. T
here’s much more to be said about the season as a whole, but we’ll keep the focus on the players that were on the field until the end, where I’ll give an overall review of the season.