Welcome to the Total Soccer Show and our latest batch of listener questions.

On today's episode, we're asking whether MLS should pause for international breaks.

We're debating the use of rolling subs,

and we're asking why Newcastle aren't better than they are.

My name's Ryan Bailey, PowerTrio on TSS today, joining me, Graham rather than, hello, Graham. Hello, Ryan. How are you? Are you still trying to tell me that the Belgium Tintin kit is actually bad rather than one of the best kits at Euro 2024, which is obviously the correct opinion? Defend yourself, Ryan. I am trying to tell you that, Grave. Confirmed. Belgium played in their friendlies this week, or certainly in a friendly against England on Tuesday, in Sky Blue shirt. Yep, good, good, very good, all good. Brown shorts. Brown shorts. It wouldn't be tintin without the brown shorts. It would just be a blue shirt. That's the whole point of it. I don't care if it's snowy, tint, or any of those lovely, adorable characters. Brown shorts, Graham. I think I own a couple pair of brown shorts. Also, all I'm saying is, if England had played in brown shorts, Gary Linecar would have saved themselves a lot of trouble. Hey, hey, hey-oh.. Joe Lowry, how are you doing today, sir?

I am doing great. We are off to a hot start around here. It's good to see you, fellas. Joe Lowry, brown shorts in general. I mean, St. Powley, I guess, technically playing brown, right? Didn't know that. I think a brown short can absolutely be the right fit. I don't know that I love the Tintin Kit, but I lean closer to Graham than I lean to you.

I'm just down for some experience. I think a brown short can absolutely be the right fit. I don't know that I love the Tin Tin Kit, but I lean closer to Graham than I lean to you.

I'm just down for some experiments, right? Like, let's just have some fun. Let's Guy Fierry, this kit. Let's do, I mean, we've done it before with Belgium. Like, let's go off the rails, people. I'm ready for it. Every country should have a novelty, like film or cartoon character.

No, yeah, that, no, what Graham said it.

The Scotland Shrek away kit. I would buy that. Should buy the family guy, USMN T-shirt? Yes. Yeah, just like Stewie's little overalls. That's what are you getting? They should definitely do that. Yeah, that's good, that's good. Excellent stuff. Rather than keep riffing on that, we should probably move on to the main body of the show.

No Taylor Rockwell here today, by the way. Another single-day luxury cruises on. He's such a salty sea dog, Taylor Rockwell. He loves it. He loves it. He loves it, yeah. Graham, by the way, my condones is to you and the situation with Wales, not in the Euros.

You're very upset by this development overnight oh yeah absolutely distraught coming at the Scotland game last night losing at home to Northern Ireland absolutely abysmal performance yeah that just that just deepened the malaise no I'm kidding. I saw that score and that lifted my mood. Last

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Let's get to the body of this episode.

Some list of questions coming here, including this one from Garrett Headley,

who says, I'm wondering how much stronger you guys think the USMNT is right now

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