vranes cut knox in favour of jamal gay's athleticism and had bigger players like juma clarence and lougheed. but even before that knox and joseph score rate was declining as the team moved away from caribbean level opposition to concacaf level. the midfield of paul, desilva and molino were scoring more goals that them. if i recall correctly, knox is a small man, and said he wanted to be an economist, not a professional footballer. i think joseph went to college too.
but in the last few years it seems we definitely moved away from picking smaller skilled players to favour big, athletic players in certain positions. dunno how this will affect the next youth team because we have a big group of techically strong small men coming thru. it would be a real shame to see a waste of more talent.