Welcome to the Scuff's podcast. I'm Adam Bells in Georgia. With try to qualify for the 2022 World Cup. We're going to talk about the

roster which will be released in the next couple days. Greg how you doing?

Bells I'm I barely recovered from the last window some of the players who played in the

last window are not yet recovered from the last window some of the players who played in the last window are not yet recovered from the last

window it's all it's happening fast it is happening fast I love it but no I just love it period

same that's where I'm at too. So we face Jamaica in Austin, Panama in Panama City and then Costa Rica in Columbus between October 7

and October 13th.

I'm hoping to get John Arnold on the Horn again for another opposition research episode,

but until then let's just focus on the U.S. roster.

Who do we expect to see? who would we like to see.

This is maybe one of the easier windows in the whole campaign, at least on paper, right?

Yeah, and again, not to be underestimated is the two home games versus two away games.

I believe that basically cuts out a full day of travel within the window, so, you know, on a what 10 day window that's you get a 10% extra

boost yeah no seriously I mean it's a big deal not to have to take make two trips to Central America.

Just one. You got any high-level thoughts?

Yeah, so what I'm gonna do here because again it can be as everyone kind of knows who listens to these and sees you know

rosters projected everywhere in a month in the days leading up to a release I can

get a little tedious just listing name so I'm gonna the angle I'm taking

here is to be sort of

the the devil's advocate of everyone saying we need 30 people and I'm going to try to

figure out what size a roster we could actually get away with. I know 26 felt like too thin last time.

It sure did. But some of that was sort of caused by the way we constructed that roster and certain things that we knew ahead of time

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