If I could ask u17 NT coach Bryan Rosenfeld anything...

[StrandOne]

... in the second half it seemed to pick the girls up and they played much better in the second half.

Agreed. Whatever talk Bryan gave at halftime had a positive effect on the pace of the game. The girls put more pressure on Ghana and played with more spark & urgency. It was tough watching BOTH teams struggle to string 5 consecutive passes together for much of the game but I'll take the win.

In anearlier post I mused about whether it's embarrasing for the players to be screamed at by name. It's just now occuring to me that perhaps Coach Rosenfeld was a smidge embarrased by the way they were playing. Not that it's a tit-for-tat game of embarassment but I can understand his frustration-- especially if they play stunningly well against Ireland, a tougher opponent, demonstrating what Rosenfeld may already know-- that Canada has waaaay more talent than they showed against Ghana.

[robdiamondpresents]

next year will be a bit different. PEI/NS/NB (for example) no longer has an provincial team that competes at the national all stars, it will now be a Maritime team. At the same time, Lewis Page is the assistant coach of the u17 team, but the girls here dont have anything more to aspire to than the UPEI womens team, which is one of the better ones in Canada. A couple of girls have dressed for the u15 team when they played in PEI.