WEBVTT 00:00:36.070 --> 00:00:38.909 Hello, and welcome to Raising Anchor Podcast, 00:00:39.310 --> 00:00:42.450 your source for all things Rhode Island FC. I'm 00:00:42.450 --> 00:00:45.229 your host, Matt Entrykin, and this is your Monday 00:00:45.229 --> 00:00:51.090 Mailbag for May 26, 2025. Jason, Rhode Island 00:00:51.090 --> 00:00:55.189 FC, yet to find a win, yet to find a goal against 00:00:55.189 --> 00:00:57.829 this Pittsburgh Riverhounds side. And guess what? 00:00:57.850 --> 00:01:00.689 They get to do it all again a little later this 00:01:00.689 --> 00:01:03.329 week. You were there. Give us the rundown. How 00:01:03.329 --> 00:01:07.629 are the vibes at the vault? uh it was good vibes 00:01:07.629 --> 00:01:13.489 um the weather was a little little wacky um there 00:01:13.489 --> 00:01:16.109 was one part during uh it was still like at the 00:01:16.109 --> 00:01:18.670 tailgate before the match and it just started 00:01:18.670 --> 00:01:23.150 downpouring for like five maybe 10 minutes max 00:01:23.150 --> 00:01:26.829 i think um so we all kind of huddled under some 00:01:26.829 --> 00:01:30.569 pop -ups and stuff to stay dry and it was a little 00:01:30.569 --> 00:01:32.890 bit like that where it would just kind of rain 00:01:32.890 --> 00:01:36.769 off and on here so bit of a gloomy overcast day 00:01:36.769 --> 00:01:41.209 i think maybe it kept some people away um you 00:01:41.209 --> 00:01:43.569 know the reality too is it's it's a three -day 00:01:43.569 --> 00:01:45.829 weekend so i imagine a lot of people had some 00:01:45.829 --> 00:01:47.709 plans doing some stuff out of town and whatnot 00:01:47.709 --> 00:01:50.890 so overall though like everything is still positive 00:01:50.890 --> 00:01:53.849 everyone excited to be there you know had a really 00:01:53.849 --> 00:01:56.730 great time despite the uh despite the result 00:01:56.730 --> 00:01:59.609 you know sometimes you just gotta go out of town 00:01:59.609 --> 00:02:01.829 yourself and watch a game like that from a laptop 00:02:01.829 --> 00:02:04.840 screen and remove yourself from the problems 00:02:04.840 --> 00:02:08.979 right so i uh i will say it was it was difficult 00:02:08.979 --> 00:02:11.139 to watch this one and we'll we'll talk about 00:02:11.139 --> 00:02:13.639 more at length you know in the week to come but 00:02:13.639 --> 00:02:17.439 today we are long overdue on doing a mailback 00:02:17.439 --> 00:02:21.460 because between the trips the many midweek games 00:02:21.460 --> 00:02:24.080 uh the interviews we haven't had a chance to 00:02:24.080 --> 00:02:26.280 answer fan questions and a lot of them have been 00:02:26.280 --> 00:02:28.860 stockpiling here and i've felt bad but i mean 00:02:29.280 --> 00:02:30.740 If you look back in the last three weeks, we've 00:02:30.740 --> 00:02:33.039 done two episodes a week. Two weeks, we did three 00:02:33.039 --> 00:02:36.060 episodes in a single week. So very much need 00:02:36.060 --> 00:02:37.719 to get back to the format if we're going to be 00:02:37.719 --> 00:02:40.719 able to continue these for fans. Yeah, it has 00:02:40.719 --> 00:02:42.939 been a bit of a busy week with all their few 00:02:42.939 --> 00:02:46.219 weeks with the season opening, the five games 00:02:46.219 --> 00:02:49.699 in 14 days. But these are always fun, so it's 00:02:49.699 --> 00:02:53.539 good to get back to that. You ready to jump into 00:02:53.539 --> 00:02:56.900 this? Yeah, let's just give it a shot. So Joe 00:02:56.900 --> 00:02:59.319 writes in, he's angry, Jason. Another frustrating 00:02:59.319 --> 00:03:01.500 loss for the guys. We had opportunities early, 00:03:01.639 --> 00:03:03.620 but they were missed. Pittsburgh got their goal 00:03:03.620 --> 00:03:07.800 and clamped down. Kudos to Mertz, Wati, and Griffin. 00:03:07.939 --> 00:03:11.439 We need a killer striker. Jason, it's more of 00:03:11.439 --> 00:03:13.599 a statement than a question. Do we need a killer 00:03:13.599 --> 00:03:17.860 striker? I think we got one. He is on the mend 00:03:17.860 --> 00:03:22.860 right now. You know, I was watching this game, 00:03:22.900 --> 00:03:24.879 and I was thinking this game is crying out for 00:03:24.879 --> 00:03:30.000 JJ. I think... with how informed he started the 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:32.759 season. I think he could have, uh, put some pressure 00:03:32.759 --> 00:03:37.879 on that back line there. You know, I, you know, 00:03:37.879 --> 00:03:41.120 I, I think that it was a tough pill to swallow, 00:03:41.300 --> 00:03:46.400 but maybe, maybe Lily ball just kind of has Connell's 00:03:46.400 --> 00:03:50.680 number. So what did more way to either? Like 00:03:50.680 --> 00:03:52.860 I, I went back and rewatched the highlights and 00:03:52.860 --> 00:03:55.319 there was a lot of good opportunities that on 00:03:55.319 --> 00:03:57.870 another night we, might have finished some of 00:03:57.870 --> 00:04:00.849 those chances yeah and i mean you look at the 00:04:00.849 --> 00:04:04.050 goal too it was kind of a freak goal it wasn't 00:04:04.050 --> 00:04:06.669 necessarily a well -earned goal from the riverhound 00:04:06.669 --> 00:04:09.669 side and you know to the point of what joe wrote 00:04:09.669 --> 00:04:13.129 though once once bob lilly goes up he he makes 00:04:13.129 --> 00:04:15.069 it almost unbearable to play it doesn't become 00:04:15.069 --> 00:04:17.709 soccer anymore it becomes kind of a keep away 00:04:17.709 --> 00:04:21.370 that both teams it just it wasn't fun soccer 00:04:21.370 --> 00:04:23.970 to watch at that point and i historically i've 00:04:23.970 --> 00:04:26.089 never really enjoyed the pittsburgh matches because 00:04:26.089 --> 00:04:29.240 they're not fun products, right? The 0 -0, then 00:04:29.240 --> 00:04:33.240 our 2 -0 loss, now our 0 -1 loss. These are quickly 00:04:33.240 --> 00:04:36.019 turning into the most unwatchable and unfavorite 00:04:36.019 --> 00:04:38.639 games each year against this Riverhound side. 00:04:39.259 --> 00:04:42.240 I mean, Lily Ball is maybe a version of football 00:04:42.240 --> 00:04:51.939 terrorism. Next one here from Pete. We lost the 00:04:51.939 --> 00:04:55.379 game, but didn't move in the table. You guys 00:04:55.379 --> 00:04:58.079 usually try to find the positives. Help me believe 00:04:58.079 --> 00:05:01.959 in this team. Pete's on the edge already. We're 00:05:01.959 --> 00:05:07.939 three home games into the regular season at home, 00:05:07.959 --> 00:05:11.519 and fans are already crying out. Listen, Pete, 00:05:11.740 --> 00:05:14.459 the only thing I can tell you is, and someone 00:05:14.459 --> 00:05:16.600 else asked this question a little later, so I'll 00:05:16.600 --> 00:05:18.779 save some of it, but we've been here before. 00:05:19.129 --> 00:05:21.490 So I don't know if you're new to the fandom in 00:05:21.490 --> 00:05:24.769 2025, and if you are, welcome. If you were here 00:05:24.769 --> 00:05:26.410 last year, then I would just tell you to dig 00:05:26.410 --> 00:05:29.250 deep and remember exactly where you were this 00:05:29.250 --> 00:05:33.529 time in 2024, where we had only gotten one win 00:05:33.529 --> 00:05:36.410 in the history of the club. Lots of draws and 00:05:36.410 --> 00:05:38.990 a couple of losses stacked up. You know, we're 00:05:38.990 --> 00:05:44.189 now 3 -3 -4, and so that's not a bad spot. We're 00:05:44.189 --> 00:05:46.290 still in sixth place, somehow, miraculously. 00:05:47.689 --> 00:05:50.170 And, you know, I think if you're looking for 00:05:50.170 --> 00:05:52.250 the positive, the only thing I can tell you, 00:05:52.329 --> 00:05:55.170 fourth game in a row where we strung together 00:05:55.170 --> 00:05:58.870 500 passes. So, like, hey, at least we like to 00:05:58.870 --> 00:06:01.569 move the ball side to side. I won't say we went 00:06:01.569 --> 00:06:03.550 forward. That would get too unrealistic. But 00:06:03.550 --> 00:06:06.709 at least we had some promise there. I think this 00:06:06.709 --> 00:06:09.250 team's close. And I think, again, J .J. Williams 00:06:09.250 --> 00:06:12.329 comes online. I think a lot of our problems get 00:06:12.329 --> 00:06:15.629 solved. Right now, just we have nowhere to go 00:06:15.629 --> 00:06:18.730 with the ball. So I'm not, I'm not yet out of 00:06:18.730 --> 00:06:21.589 hope. I'm not, I'm not coping, you know, I don't 00:06:21.589 --> 00:06:24.490 have the copium going right now, but I think, 00:06:24.490 --> 00:06:26.509 I think we're fine. Jason, do you, do you think 00:06:26.509 --> 00:06:29.610 otherwise? Yeah, no, I think, I think we're doing 00:06:29.610 --> 00:06:31.790 all right. I think we're technically, we're probably 00:06:31.790 --> 00:06:34.750 doing better than we were last year. Just a reminder 00:06:34.750 --> 00:06:36.589 for those of you who were with us last year, 00:06:36.629 --> 00:06:39.370 and maybe to those of you who were new to the 00:06:39.370 --> 00:06:42.420 season, like, like you said, Matt, welcome. But 00:06:42.420 --> 00:06:45.019 we didn't get our first home win until June 26 00:06:45.019 --> 00:06:49.040 against El Paso Locomotive. The team that everyone 00:06:49.040 --> 00:06:50.579 was getting their first wins against because 00:06:50.579 --> 00:06:53.779 El Paso was bottom of the table. Yeah, and then 00:06:53.779 --> 00:06:57.480 from that, I mean, we kind of already had a away 00:06:57.480 --> 00:06:59.660 match before that that kind of sprung Bordas 00:06:59.660 --> 00:07:03.300 into a good, pretty productive season last year. 00:07:03.500 --> 00:07:05.480 But we've already seen some good results away. 00:07:06.920 --> 00:07:09.879 Home form will come eventually. They'll figure 00:07:09.879 --> 00:07:13.899 it out. agreed uh sean writes in it's time to 00:07:13.899 --> 00:07:17.600 not just bench diqua but get rid of him we aren't 00:07:17.600 --> 00:07:20.600 good with him on the pitch ooh sean's out for 00:07:20.600 --> 00:07:22.939 blood i don't like i don't like getting rid of 00:07:22.939 --> 00:07:25.959 players but i understand the frustration i understand 00:07:25.959 --> 00:07:29.480 the frustration i think that unfortunately for 00:07:29.480 --> 00:07:33.160 diqua he um with that 20 goal season he had he 00:07:33.160 --> 00:07:36.680 kind of you know raised the bar to a certain 00:07:36.680 --> 00:07:40.300 extent for himself um I checked his stats here 00:07:40.300 --> 00:07:45.319 before. He's got three goal contributions, two 00:07:45.319 --> 00:07:48.199 and one this year so far. Out of nine games, 00:07:48.379 --> 00:07:50.959 that's what? One every three games, a goal contribution. 00:07:52.839 --> 00:07:54.959 Obviously could be better, but I still think 00:07:54.959 --> 00:07:58.980 it's early in the season with a lot of the injuries, 00:07:59.120 --> 00:08:01.779 rotation, some of the form we're going through. 00:08:01.879 --> 00:08:06.000 If the team can catch good form, we start winning 00:08:06.000 --> 00:08:08.930 games at home. I'm confident that he will be 00:08:08.930 --> 00:08:11.529 a contributor like he was last year. He ended 00:08:11.529 --> 00:08:14.189 up with, was it 14 or 15 goal contributions? 00:08:14.870 --> 00:08:17.730 Like 10 and 4 or something last year? I think 00:08:17.730 --> 00:08:20.750 13 or 14, yeah. So if he can get to double digits, 00:08:20.810 --> 00:08:24.449 get himself a handful of assists, obviously I 00:08:24.449 --> 00:08:27.050 would love 20 goals, but I don't think that it's 00:08:27.050 --> 00:08:29.990 anything to be too concerned about right now. 00:08:30.209 --> 00:08:33.490 I think it's frustrating for people because JJ's 00:08:33.490 --> 00:08:36.909 not healthy right now. You know, for me, what 00:08:36.909 --> 00:08:39.730 it is with, you know, and I'm okay with benching 00:08:39.730 --> 00:08:43.210 Chico until he solves what he needs to work on. 00:08:43.269 --> 00:08:45.149 We've seen him benched before for performance 00:08:45.149 --> 00:08:47.789 problems, and he came out the other side of it 00:08:47.789 --> 00:08:50.169 a little bit more improved. And I think you're 00:08:50.169 --> 00:08:51.889 right. You know, we got to stop thinking about 00:08:51.889 --> 00:08:55.149 him as the 2023 Golden Boot winner. But the problem 00:08:55.149 --> 00:08:59.809 really is, and smarter people have caught on 00:08:59.809 --> 00:09:03.289 to this as well, I just don't know where he fits 00:09:03.289 --> 00:09:07.289 in Conoball. you know you look at a player like 00:09:07.289 --> 00:09:10.970 jj and his two biggest assets are his verticality 00:09:10.970 --> 00:09:13.529 in the sense of he can take the ball collect 00:09:13.529 --> 00:09:16.909 it be strong on it keep you know do do something 00:09:16.909 --> 00:09:18.389 with whether he wants to turn and take a little 00:09:18.389 --> 00:09:22.529 goal or you know pass it pass it back towards 00:09:22.529 --> 00:09:25.409 an oncoming midfield to generate attack or he 00:09:25.409 --> 00:09:27.450 dominates in the air right so from a crossing 00:09:27.450 --> 00:09:29.250 perspective i think we're still accurate crosses 00:09:29.250 --> 00:09:32.700 fc it's one of those things where Like, that's 00:09:32.700 --> 00:09:34.220 the player profile. We know what we're getting 00:09:34.220 --> 00:09:35.940 with J .J. Williams, and that's why he's so important 00:09:35.940 --> 00:09:40.720 to this team. Chico, I mean, two years now covering 00:09:40.720 --> 00:09:45.440 him, I don't necessarily know what his thing 00:09:45.440 --> 00:09:49.620 is. Because if you look back at Pittsburgh, he 00:09:49.620 --> 00:09:52.840 thrived in a two -striker system where he got 00:09:52.840 --> 00:09:55.860 to be, you know, when a player gets to the age 00:09:55.860 --> 00:09:58.480 that Chico is, a lot of it becomes your soccer 00:09:58.480 --> 00:10:01.039 IQ. right it's your positioning it's understanding 00:10:01.039 --> 00:10:03.399 the players around you understanding the opponents 00:10:03.399 --> 00:10:05.360 and then just being in the right spot at the 00:10:05.360 --> 00:10:08.059 right time so a little bit of luck too and but 00:10:08.059 --> 00:10:10.200 that's that's where chico was at his best was 00:10:10.200 --> 00:10:12.419 just like oh i'm right here and i'm gonna like 00:10:12.419 --> 00:10:15.039 do the tap in or i'm gonna take the shot with 00:10:15.039 --> 00:10:16.980 no one marking me because everyone was somewhere 00:10:16.980 --> 00:10:20.240 else on the pitch i don't know how this works 00:10:20.240 --> 00:10:22.179 in the future because we've said about chico 00:10:22.179 --> 00:10:25.129 in the past he's not good enough to go solo But 00:10:25.129 --> 00:10:27.389 then in the limited minutes and someone last 00:10:27.389 --> 00:10:29.289 week on the Thursday show, I think Matt Jean 00:10:29.289 --> 00:10:32.889 did the calculation. The two strikers, JJ and 00:10:32.889 --> 00:10:35.710 Chico, have only played like 900 minutes total 00:10:35.710 --> 00:10:38.409 across both seasons, across all competitions, 00:10:38.629 --> 00:10:41.269 whether due to injury or due to formation selection 00:10:41.269 --> 00:10:44.250 or form. They've only played about 900 minutes 00:10:44.250 --> 00:10:46.210 together. And in that time, I think Chico's only 00:10:46.210 --> 00:10:48.830 got one or two of his 10 goals from last year 00:10:48.830 --> 00:10:54.809 in partnership with JJ Williams. i don't that's 00:10:54.809 --> 00:10:56.669 my problem right now as someone who wants to 00:10:56.669 --> 00:10:58.289 talk about this team and someone who wants to 00:10:58.289 --> 00:11:01.450 find the positive i don't know where chico's 00:11:01.450 --> 00:11:05.450 dimension brings this group into where they need 00:11:05.450 --> 00:11:08.490 to go right like if if if i could see it and 00:11:08.490 --> 00:11:10.409 then it's just more of a be patient and let the 00:11:10.409 --> 00:11:13.230 system unlock itself then i'd be having it i'd 00:11:13.230 --> 00:11:14.950 say hey give him as many reps give him as many 00:11:14.950 --> 00:11:17.669 looks as he needs but i don't know where he's 00:11:17.669 --> 00:11:19.690 at and i was i wasn't at the game but people 00:11:19.690 --> 00:11:22.379 yesterday were saying that kano was screaming 00:11:22.379 --> 00:11:24.679 directly at him for a majority of the time this 00:11:24.679 --> 00:11:27.100 wasn't like the normal kano getting himself engaged 00:11:27.100 --> 00:11:29.539 in the game and like trying to chess master everything 00:11:29.539 --> 00:11:33.259 this was like strictly targeted at chico so i 00:11:33.259 --> 00:11:35.759 i don't know and i'm not going to speak about 00:11:35.759 --> 00:11:38.659 someone losing their their livelihood but like 00:11:38.659 --> 00:11:41.919 you can say that the the performances need to 00:11:41.919 --> 00:11:44.120 improve immediately like right now is where we 00:11:44.120 --> 00:11:47.019 need chico the most without jj and we need him 00:11:47.019 --> 00:11:50.340 to step up in a big way We asked the same thing 00:11:50.340 --> 00:11:52.779 about Maxie. Noah's been quiet until just recently. 00:11:53.440 --> 00:11:55.659 Maxie's looking like he's taking his first step 00:11:55.659 --> 00:11:58.480 forward now. I think Noah is just getting closer 00:11:58.480 --> 00:12:00.700 and closer. I don't see a progression with Chico 00:12:00.700 --> 00:12:05.440 just yet. It feels like it's a backslide. Yeah, 00:12:05.500 --> 00:12:09.419 I'd say with the exception of the currently injured 00:12:09.419 --> 00:12:13.039 JJ, I think a lot of our forwards have not really 00:12:13.039 --> 00:12:16.120 been living up to their reputation this season 00:12:16.120 --> 00:12:18.899 so far. There was a bit of a rough start for 00:12:18.899 --> 00:12:21.320 our defense, but honestly, they so far have been 00:12:21.320 --> 00:12:25.340 the strongest point of this team. And so trying 00:12:25.340 --> 00:12:28.259 to get some sort of offense goal scoring going 00:12:28.259 --> 00:12:32.279 is the one final puzzle piece, I think, to get 00:12:32.279 --> 00:12:34.899 this team back to where they were last season. 00:12:35.580 --> 00:12:38.120 They can't all be on Joe Brito's shoulders, right? 00:12:38.179 --> 00:12:42.799 That's just not fair. Not fair at all. Let's 00:12:42.799 --> 00:12:45.000 get to the next question here. Is it mine? I 00:12:45.000 --> 00:12:47.759 think it's mine. Yeah. No, it's yours. Yeah. 00:12:47.759 --> 00:12:50.500 Rachel here says, who do you think is the better 00:12:50.500 --> 00:12:53.679 conference this year, East or West? It's always 00:12:53.679 --> 00:12:56.039 the East. It's always the Eastern Conference. 00:12:56.220 --> 00:12:58.120 You'll see it right now in the quality of the 00:12:58.120 --> 00:13:00.799 points within the table. There's always like 00:13:00.799 --> 00:13:02.759 those two teams per conference where they're 00:13:02.759 --> 00:13:04.940 so bad that they're making, they're propping 00:13:04.940 --> 00:13:07.559 up some of the normal actors that wouldn't be 00:13:07.559 --> 00:13:09.740 that high on the table. But when you look at 00:13:09.740 --> 00:13:13.690 the point spread. right now, the East is dominating 00:13:13.690 --> 00:13:16.250 in most of the stats. So it's a fiercer competition 00:13:16.250 --> 00:13:19.070 internally. I haven't, I didn't take the time. 00:13:19.090 --> 00:13:20.769 Maybe we'll talk about it on the Thursday show 00:13:20.769 --> 00:13:23.870 on like, where do we fall in West competitions 00:13:23.870 --> 00:13:26.090 versus East competitions? I'd be kind of curious 00:13:26.090 --> 00:13:28.429 at this point where we're dropping points and 00:13:28.429 --> 00:13:30.389 where we're gaining them, especially for later 00:13:30.389 --> 00:13:32.029 on. Right. Cause like, again, losing to Pittsburgh 00:13:32.029 --> 00:13:34.409 as a conference rival, that's a problem down 00:13:34.409 --> 00:13:36.370 the road versus like, Hey, here's three points. 00:13:37.100 --> 00:13:38.740 Who knows what that will mean at the end of the 00:13:38.740 --> 00:13:41.399 table standings at the end of the season. But 00:13:41.399 --> 00:13:43.639 historically, the East has always been the best. 00:13:43.720 --> 00:13:45.139 You look at Charleston right now, they're completely 00:13:45.139 --> 00:13:48.379 on fire. Lew City, no one's talking about them, 00:13:48.419 --> 00:13:50.559 but they're just as good in the standings. They 00:13:50.559 --> 00:13:52.899 show it. Loudon's had some slippage, but no one 00:13:52.899 --> 00:13:55.440 thought Loudon would be there. So East is absolutely 00:13:55.440 --> 00:13:58.100 the beast. But just remember, the Eastern Conference 00:13:58.100 --> 00:14:00.980 hasn't won the USL championship in like, what, 00:14:01.000 --> 00:14:04.360 five years? So at the end of the day. Does it 00:14:04.360 --> 00:14:06.159 even matter if you're that good and you don't 00:14:06.159 --> 00:14:09.320 get the prize at the end of the day? Yeah, I 00:14:09.320 --> 00:14:11.460 was going to actually bring that up. Good point 00:14:11.460 --> 00:14:14.059 there. What I will say, though, I guess to the 00:14:14.059 --> 00:14:19.320 West's credit, is that their division is very 00:14:19.320 --> 00:14:21.779 spread out. So I think a lot of them are used 00:14:21.779 --> 00:14:27.100 to the travel. So when it comes to a lot of that 00:14:27.100 --> 00:14:31.059 late -season travel in the playoffs, maybe they 00:14:31.059 --> 00:14:33.600 feel like there's a bit of an advantage there 00:14:33.600 --> 00:14:37.460 in their regards. The other thing I would say 00:14:37.460 --> 00:14:40.179 is that maybe with the East being historically 00:14:40.179 --> 00:14:43.519 strong every year is that by the time we get 00:14:43.519 --> 00:14:45.840 to the end of the season, we're all beat up and 00:14:45.840 --> 00:14:49.679 broken from fighting each other. And then that 00:14:49.679 --> 00:14:53.419 final version, whoever gets out of the East alive 00:14:53.419 --> 00:14:57.360 is hanging on there by a thread. It's a similar 00:14:57.360 --> 00:15:01.259 issue that a lot of... pundits in England would 00:15:01.259 --> 00:15:03.779 complain about where for a long time, historically, 00:15:03.960 --> 00:15:05.600 they were bad in the Champions League. They're 00:15:05.600 --> 00:15:08.919 like, well, we have such a busy, condensed holiday 00:15:08.919 --> 00:15:11.399 schedule where you've got, you know, Boxing Day 00:15:11.399 --> 00:15:14.340 matches, FA Cup matches, Carabao Cup matches. 00:15:14.940 --> 00:15:17.360 And then the time they get to the later rounds 00:15:17.360 --> 00:15:19.379 of the Champions League, they're all worn out. 00:15:20.200 --> 00:15:23.659 And that it can be such a dogfight in England 00:15:23.659 --> 00:15:27.799 where some of the other leagues, as great as 00:15:27.799 --> 00:15:30.659 the talent that they have are, You typically 00:15:30.659 --> 00:15:34.600 only see maybe like five or six teams realistically 00:15:34.600 --> 00:15:36.460 who have any source of winning. I mean, technically 00:15:36.460 --> 00:15:38.539 it's kind of like that in England too. But a 00:15:38.539 --> 00:15:41.679 lot of the bottom teams have really gotten a 00:15:41.679 --> 00:15:43.580 lot better. There's almost like a top eight at 00:15:43.580 --> 00:15:46.200 this point where there's a decent amount of teams 00:15:46.200 --> 00:15:49.019 that have the finances to really make the Premier 00:15:49.019 --> 00:15:52.580 League a tough battle. So maybe the East needs 00:15:52.580 --> 00:15:56.120 to find a way to balance some of their stamina. 00:15:56.320 --> 00:15:59.389 Try not to, you know. Get to the final dance 00:15:59.389 --> 00:16:01.950 there, but try and get there in one piece maybe. 00:16:03.169 --> 00:16:06.389 Yeah, I mean, it's both a marathon and then it's 00:16:06.389 --> 00:16:09.070 a sprint once you're in the postseason. So completely 00:16:09.070 --> 00:16:12.769 agree. Moving on, Bob writes in, what was worse, 00:16:12.870 --> 00:16:15.750 the Detroit game last year or this year's Pittsburgh 00:16:15.750 --> 00:16:18.870 game? Very disappointing. I don't know if he's, 00:16:18.870 --> 00:16:23.009 he must be referring to the loss at Bern. Yeah, 00:16:23.090 --> 00:16:26.710 I think the Detroit one at home was worse. I 00:16:26.710 --> 00:16:29.990 think this one. This had a nil -nil draw written 00:16:29.990 --> 00:16:35.289 all over it. That one goal, unfortunate. I went 00:16:35.289 --> 00:16:37.649 back and looked at it a few times. I don't think 00:16:37.649 --> 00:16:39.750 I would be too harsh on Koke there, especially 00:16:39.750 --> 00:16:41.990 because he made a few really good saves to keep 00:16:41.990 --> 00:16:44.669 it even. Grant Stoneman made a goal line clearance 00:16:44.669 --> 00:16:48.230 at the end. The defense was fighting hard to 00:16:48.230 --> 00:16:50.570 keep us in this match. We just couldn't score. 00:16:51.830 --> 00:16:55.370 So at that point, the Detroit game felt like 00:16:55.370 --> 00:16:58.350 we were never in that game. Like, they just outclassed 00:16:58.350 --> 00:17:01.070 us, and we were like, you know, couldn't have 00:17:01.070 --> 00:17:05.950 any sort of answers for that one. Honestly, it's 00:17:05.950 --> 00:17:07.890 so interesting about Grant Stoneman in this case 00:17:07.890 --> 00:17:10.670 because Grant Stoneman's kind of deliberately 00:17:10.670 --> 00:17:14.890 responsible for the goal in a weird, freak way. 00:17:15.130 --> 00:17:17.289 And then, you know, you talk about that clearance 00:17:17.289 --> 00:17:20.150 that he had. He's also the player that set up... 00:17:20.279 --> 00:17:23.900 the attack run on koke to begin with and just 00:17:23.900 --> 00:17:26.660 kind of like he takes us i think it was wealthy 00:17:26.660 --> 00:17:30.339 he dribbled through seven or eight players and 00:17:30.339 --> 00:17:33.819 stoneman is the last line of defense and stoneman 00:17:33.819 --> 00:17:37.240 takes a step and walt he just goes around him 00:17:37.240 --> 00:17:40.119 like he's a traffic cone and grant doesn't turn 00:17:40.119 --> 00:17:42.460 and try to like catch up grant just like almost 00:17:42.460 --> 00:17:45.289 like well i tried Like this was the best I could 00:17:45.289 --> 00:17:48.349 do. And so as the play, you know, kind of shifted 00:17:48.349 --> 00:17:51.470 further towards the left side of the pitch, Stoneman 00:17:51.470 --> 00:17:53.890 does finally catch up. And it's because he was 00:17:53.890 --> 00:17:56.430 so behind on the play that he was just trying 00:17:56.430 --> 00:17:58.490 to get into the box. Like if he had been on his 00:17:58.490 --> 00:17:59.950 player man marking, he would have never been 00:17:59.950 --> 00:18:02.430 in that position to be able to clear the ball 00:18:02.430 --> 00:18:04.390 in the first place. So it's good that he made, 00:18:04.430 --> 00:18:07.029 you know, he cleaned up his own mess, but also 00:18:07.029 --> 00:18:09.849 kind of involved in some of the most promising. 00:18:10.460 --> 00:18:13.319 problems for rhode island fc for the night interesting 00:18:13.319 --> 00:18:16.460 interesting times and when you go back and if 00:18:16.460 --> 00:18:18.759 you look at the the goal that pittsburgh scored 00:18:18.759 --> 00:18:22.359 if you pause it real quick before uh is griffin 00:18:22.359 --> 00:18:25.720 right i think before he hits it there are four 00:18:25.720 --> 00:18:29.539 rfc players blocking coque vegas's line of sight 00:18:29.539 --> 00:18:33.559 yeah and so when you look at anything why didn't 00:18:33.559 --> 00:18:37.319 he yeah but that and then the problem too is 00:18:37.319 --> 00:18:40.900 after that clearance They looked a little lackadaisical 00:18:40.900 --> 00:18:44.839 in terms of pushing to clear. Maybe, I don't 00:18:44.839 --> 00:18:48.200 know if the instructions were off there, but 00:18:48.200 --> 00:18:50.359 they didn't. Someone should have closed the gap 00:18:50.359 --> 00:18:53.400 quicker. Obviously, you're still defending a 00:18:53.400 --> 00:18:56.099 set piece. Maybe someone should stay back. Maybe 00:18:56.099 --> 00:18:59.359 not block Koke's view. I mean, it just kind of 00:18:59.359 --> 00:19:02.579 is what it is, but it's disappointing to let 00:19:02.579 --> 00:19:05.740 something in like that. It didn't feel like they 00:19:05.740 --> 00:19:08.960 were really the better team on the night. There 00:19:08.960 --> 00:19:12.599 were some opportunities, like you had said, that 00:19:12.599 --> 00:19:16.180 we were giving them, but ultimately it felt like 00:19:16.180 --> 00:19:19.519 it had nil -nil written all over it. Yeah, and 00:19:19.519 --> 00:19:22.099 I don't blame Koke at all. That was absolutely 00:19:22.099 --> 00:19:25.960 an obstruction case against him, so I don't blame 00:19:25.960 --> 00:19:28.619 him on that. I will say that the team felt really 00:19:28.619 --> 00:19:32.759 slow. and disorientated at times like in their 00:19:32.759 --> 00:19:35.240 passing sequence i know they had 500 passes but 00:19:35.240 --> 00:19:37.759 some of that was just you know that horizontal 00:19:37.759 --> 00:19:42.359 recycle um they didn't for a seven day rest you 00:19:42.359 --> 00:19:44.019 would i would have expected to see kind of the 00:19:44.019 --> 00:19:46.900 same hunger the same drive that we saw in three 00:19:46.900 --> 00:19:50.460 games and seven days the week prior and uh it 00:19:50.460 --> 00:19:54.549 i don't know i i thought maybe you know it was 00:19:54.549 --> 00:19:56.049 the weather and thinking because of where i am 00:19:56.049 --> 00:19:58.170 right now it's you know this fan is the only 00:19:58.170 --> 00:20:01.549 thing keeping me somewhat cool and i but then 00:20:01.549 --> 00:20:03.190 i realized you guys just come off the nor 'easter 00:20:03.190 --> 00:20:05.009 so it couldn't be that like i don't know why 00:20:05.009 --> 00:20:07.210 this team seemed to have lost a step last week 00:20:07.210 --> 00:20:10.109 and i again maybe it came down to the coach's 00:20:10.109 --> 00:20:11.890 tactics and the way that they're running off 00:20:11.890 --> 00:20:15.769 pure adrenaline then they got actual they got 00:20:15.769 --> 00:20:17.710 actual rest and they had to kind of warm themselves 00:20:17.710 --> 00:20:20.599 back up again kind of get going It always reminds 00:20:20.599 --> 00:20:23.720 me of Turnbull when he used to say he liked traveling 00:20:23.720 --> 00:20:26.259 because there was no distractions. There was 00:20:26.259 --> 00:20:28.059 a little bit more anxiety because you were in 00:20:28.059 --> 00:20:31.779 someone else's fortress. And maybe there's a 00:20:31.779 --> 00:20:34.519 truth to that. Could you imagine if we become 00:20:34.519 --> 00:20:38.220 a great road team again and then we see no success? 00:20:38.339 --> 00:20:41.740 That is the darkest timeline for new fans getting 00:20:41.740 --> 00:20:46.779 excited about this club. Yeah. Next one here. 00:20:46.880 --> 00:20:49.500 Ashley, it was great to be home. but disappointing 00:20:49.500 --> 00:20:52.559 not to see the stadium fill to capacity. How 00:20:52.559 --> 00:20:54.740 long do you think it'll be before we regularly 00:20:54.740 --> 00:20:59.700 sell it out? I would say... Wait, wait, hold 00:20:59.700 --> 00:21:00.880 on. Before we start, what was the attendance? 00:21:01.039 --> 00:21:04.700 Because I don't know what it was. I could maybe 00:21:04.700 --> 00:21:07.759 look it up real quick. I thought I heard five 00:21:07.759 --> 00:21:11.380 -ish. So north of 5 ,000. So if we were at burn, 00:21:11.480 --> 00:21:14.980 it would have been a sellout. Yeah. Okay. I mean, 00:21:15.000 --> 00:21:16.480 that's what matters right now. That is the ultimate 00:21:16.480 --> 00:21:18.019 base. I know there's going to be a lot of people 00:21:18.019 --> 00:21:20.240 who start crying about, oh, you can't even fill 00:21:20.240 --> 00:21:22.779 your stadium now. And, you know, it's Memorial 00:21:22.779 --> 00:21:25.680 weekend. That's no excuse. Bad weather. We're 00:21:25.680 --> 00:21:28.240 all New Englanders. You know, that's going to 00:21:28.240 --> 00:21:29.920 get thrown around. But the reality is, as long 00:21:29.920 --> 00:21:34.359 as you never fall below a burn stadium capacity, 00:21:34.700 --> 00:21:37.880 this is still a success year over year. Right. 00:21:38.279 --> 00:21:41.500 So I'm OK with that. As for when we sell it out, 00:21:41.599 --> 00:21:44.910 I mean. I haven't heard from the club. I mean, 00:21:44.930 --> 00:21:47.130 they'd love to, but their numbers aren't sellout 00:21:47.130 --> 00:21:49.470 for every game. They're like somewhere between 00:21:49.470 --> 00:21:53.029 7 ,500 and 8 ,500, and they're hitting their 00:21:53.029 --> 00:21:56.130 KPIs of what they want. So I don't see that as 00:21:56.130 --> 00:21:59.029 a bad thing, but I think I interrupted you. No, 00:21:59.069 --> 00:22:00.650 yeah, sorry. I mean, I asked you the question 00:22:00.650 --> 00:22:04.049 anyway. I just want to kind of jump in as I was 00:22:04.049 --> 00:22:07.970 there too and mention, you know. although we 00:22:07.970 --> 00:22:09.750 should all be used to it, the weather, but like, 00:22:09.750 --> 00:22:12.430 let's be honest, not a lot of people do use that 00:22:12.430 --> 00:22:14.670 as an excuse. Even when you, you kind of live 00:22:14.670 --> 00:22:18.210 in that area, it was, it, or still is a holiday 00:22:18.210 --> 00:22:21.430 weekend. People probably had plans to be out. 00:22:22.049 --> 00:22:24.069 And then maybe there's the reality that sure. 00:22:24.130 --> 00:22:27.049 We've won a few games away, but the buzz around 00:22:27.049 --> 00:22:30.450 this team is still building. So until we can 00:22:30.450 --> 00:22:32.609 win a few more home matches where people say, 00:22:32.730 --> 00:22:35.130 Oh, like I, I saw them win that. That was really 00:22:35.130 --> 00:22:38.359 good. We're. we're kind of starting over again 00:22:38.359 --> 00:22:43.480 in some way where you know it we've kind of got 00:22:43.480 --> 00:22:45.720 to build some of this back up again to a certain 00:22:45.720 --> 00:22:48.880 extent so i'm not too concerned i think the 7 00:22:48.880 --> 00:22:52.359 p .m starts actually might help where with the 00:22:52.359 --> 00:22:54.660 4 p .m a little earlier in the day people have 00:22:54.660 --> 00:22:57.779 a lot to do i mean there was like two softball 00:22:57.779 --> 00:23:00.299 tournaments across the street like tons of people 00:23:00.299 --> 00:23:02.079 and little kids and so in like that what you 00:23:02.079 --> 00:23:04.559 know like there are other things that people 00:23:04.559 --> 00:23:08.210 have to do 7 p .m. nightcap kind of end of the 00:23:08.210 --> 00:23:10.609 day, maybe a little easier on the weekends to 00:23:10.609 --> 00:23:13.029 still go out and do something, kind of come back 00:23:13.029 --> 00:23:17.670 and catch some RFC soccer. It's so funny because 00:23:17.670 --> 00:23:21.450 you speak of it as a single or a guy with no 00:23:21.450 --> 00:23:25.329 kids. And everything we hear from the other side 00:23:25.329 --> 00:23:27.609 of that coin is like they want the 4 p .m. games 00:23:27.609 --> 00:23:31.250 because a 7 p .m. game is too difficult to manage. 00:23:31.849 --> 00:23:34.869 with you know the flock around you so you're 00:23:34.869 --> 00:23:38.269 never going to make anyone yeah i mean i mean 00:23:38.269 --> 00:23:40.230 some of that's just speculation but i also know 00:23:40.230 --> 00:23:42.890 a lot of those parents their kids do stuff so 00:23:42.890 --> 00:23:44.490 like how are you going to actually take your 00:23:44.490 --> 00:23:47.690 kids to the match if you've on some softball 00:23:47.690 --> 00:23:50.210 or soccer tournament or something maybe for a 00:23:50.210 --> 00:23:51.769 lot of the people the goal isn't to go to every 00:23:51.769 --> 00:23:55.029 match anyway i don't know it's a better hit or 00:23:55.029 --> 00:23:57.130 miss you can never make anyone everyone happy 00:23:58.109 --> 00:24:01.609 No, you cannot, especially in New England. So 00:24:01.609 --> 00:24:04.710 this is the real question of the night, and we 00:24:04.710 --> 00:24:07.390 got to address it. Ben writes in, is Tidewater 00:24:07.390 --> 00:24:09.529 actually cursed? Do we need to go back to Burn? 00:24:10.410 --> 00:24:14.109 No. I kind of mentioned it talking about the 00:24:14.109 --> 00:24:18.150 last question here, but in a way, this is a first 00:24:18.150 --> 00:24:21.049 season all over again. We are in a brand new 00:24:21.049 --> 00:24:24.950 home. It can... take a while for that home to 00:24:24.950 --> 00:24:27.710 maybe feel familiar to become your own home. 00:24:27.769 --> 00:24:29.910 I know they get to train there at least with 00:24:29.910 --> 00:24:32.029 compared to last year where they had to train 00:24:32.029 --> 00:24:35.109 on like a side field because burn was being used 00:24:35.109 --> 00:24:39.950 all the time. Um, you know, I, I think once the, 00:24:39.990 --> 00:24:43.809 once the, uh, the first one comes, it'll be like, 00:24:43.809 --> 00:24:46.890 uh, you know, like an opening of the dam to a 00:24:46.890 --> 00:24:48.849 certain extent where like, okay, cool. We got 00:24:48.849 --> 00:24:51.730 that monkey off her back. We're fine. Now we 00:24:51.730 --> 00:24:55.220 can move on. Good thing we have Miami next week, 00:24:55.299 --> 00:24:57.819 or at least in the next home game. That's exciting. 00:24:59.900 --> 00:25:02.220 That's not a trap game at all, Jason. Not a trap 00:25:02.220 --> 00:25:06.299 game at all. I already have the name of that 00:25:06.299 --> 00:25:10.160 episode locked in. Not a trap game. Oh my gosh. 00:25:10.759 --> 00:25:17.740 Alright, next question. Andrew says, does Bob 00:25:17.740 --> 00:25:20.819 Lilly have Coach Kano's number? I would think 00:25:20.819 --> 00:25:23.220 so. They probably talk to each other. Yeah, yeah, 00:25:23.279 --> 00:25:26.819 8 -6 -7 -5 -3 -0 -9. Everyone's got Coach Gano. 00:25:26.839 --> 00:25:31.039 I've got Coach Gano's number. I actually forgot 00:25:31.039 --> 00:25:33.119 to say this, so I've got to go back a step, see 00:25:33.119 --> 00:25:35.819 my own notes. Back to the burn statement, though, 00:25:35.859 --> 00:25:38.119 just so everyone remembers, too. Like you said, 00:25:38.180 --> 00:25:41.339 it takes time. At this exact point in our season 00:25:41.339 --> 00:25:44.660 in 2024, in terms of our home record, we had 00:25:44.660 --> 00:25:48.640 only scored one goal in four games. So we are, 00:25:48.660 --> 00:25:52.200 like, perfectly on track with our normal. trajectory 00:25:52.200 --> 00:25:55.319 of performances early on in home games so like 00:25:55.319 --> 00:25:58.380 again when i tell people just relax like let's 00:25:58.380 --> 00:26:00.339 talk about this in two more months if we still 00:26:00.339 --> 00:26:04.160 only have one goal scored by us in our home stadium 00:26:04.160 --> 00:26:06.500 then yeah that's a problem but otherwise we're 00:26:06.500 --> 00:26:09.759 right on track as for does bob lily have coach 00:26:09.759 --> 00:26:12.240 cono's number this is curious we talked about 00:26:12.240 --> 00:26:14.940 this last week i think i said it incorrectly 00:26:14.940 --> 00:26:16.460 in the moment because you called me out we're 00:26:16.460 --> 00:26:19.039 like this wasn't a bad game referring back to 00:26:19.039 --> 00:26:21.180 the high mark performance last season but i did 00:26:21.180 --> 00:26:25.200 think coach kano tactically set himself up for 00:26:25.200 --> 00:26:26.960 failure and it was probably his worst coaching 00:26:26.960 --> 00:26:30.119 performance of his season because it just didn't 00:26:30.119 --> 00:26:32.940 look like he'd set his team up for success i 00:26:32.940 --> 00:26:35.299 look at this one now and i tried to have that 00:26:35.299 --> 00:26:37.680 lens on as i watched the game especially as things 00:26:37.680 --> 00:26:41.339 started going sideways on us and you know looking 00:26:41.339 --> 00:26:45.500 back at the first one last year jackison's first 00:26:45.500 --> 00:26:47.980 goal of his career in the usl championship was 00:26:47.980 --> 00:26:50.319 it was a good goal on you know running on to 00:26:50.319 --> 00:26:53.460 uh running at us and then the the sample goal 00:26:53.460 --> 00:26:57.200 was a fluke i mean like that that goal he couldn't 00:26:57.200 --> 00:27:00.000 recreate that nine out of ten times if he tried 00:27:00.000 --> 00:27:01.339 he probably couldn't recreate that goal ten out 00:27:01.339 --> 00:27:04.920 of ten times so like i look at that one compared 00:27:04.920 --> 00:27:08.279 to it and i i still see the same thing where 00:27:08.279 --> 00:27:11.960 we we talk about it at length lily loves shape 00:27:11.960 --> 00:27:15.700 he loves the team moving as a collective unit 00:27:15.700 --> 00:27:18.599 and instead of like the individual parts and 00:27:18.599 --> 00:27:21.960 they're not a team that wants to get drawn out 00:27:21.960 --> 00:27:23.880 they're not a team that wants to get broken down 00:27:23.880 --> 00:27:29.519 easily i don't know why that's so difficult for 00:27:29.519 --> 00:27:32.900 us because we've broken down better teams so 00:27:32.900 --> 00:27:38.420 is this where coach kano needs to change it up 00:27:38.420 --> 00:27:42.329 for the next you know and spoiler alert, it's 00:27:42.329 --> 00:27:46.390 this upcoming week, or does he need to perfect 00:27:46.390 --> 00:27:48.349 the system he has? Because this feels like to 00:27:48.349 --> 00:27:51.910 me now, this is the one team that we just can't, 00:27:51.910 --> 00:27:54.009 and I'm going to pull it up as you talk, but 00:27:54.009 --> 00:27:55.890 I don't think we had many final third entries 00:27:55.890 --> 00:27:59.309 in this game, or at least in comparison to where 00:27:59.309 --> 00:28:01.289 we normally are. It's one thing to not have a 00:28:01.289 --> 00:28:03.609 lot of shots on target or shots in general, but 00:28:03.609 --> 00:28:05.529 final third entries is something that we need 00:28:05.529 --> 00:28:09.319 to see at least to be dangerous. And I'm pretty 00:28:09.319 --> 00:28:13.440 sure they were pretty poor in relation to our 00:28:13.440 --> 00:28:15.900 normal stat numbers. I could be way off. It just 00:28:15.900 --> 00:28:19.400 didn't feel like it at the time. Yeah, I think 00:28:19.400 --> 00:28:21.680 it's tough against a team like this, right? And 00:28:21.680 --> 00:28:25.819 part of this comes down to, as a manager or coach, 00:28:25.980 --> 00:28:28.220 what type of philosophy do you want to have? 00:28:28.339 --> 00:28:32.539 Do you want to be reactionary in the sense that 00:28:32.539 --> 00:28:36.259 you change your tactics and style based upon 00:28:36.259 --> 00:28:38.630 the teams that you're playing? Or do you want 00:28:38.630 --> 00:28:42.329 to have your own distinct, unique style and be 00:28:42.329 --> 00:28:44.809 the best version of that self and be so good 00:28:44.809 --> 00:28:48.950 at it that you, even coming up against a opposing 00:28:48.950 --> 00:28:52.069 style that clashes or conflicts with yours, that 00:28:52.069 --> 00:28:56.049 you can still become the victor in that sense? 00:28:56.230 --> 00:29:00.029 And I think that, for instance, our lineup. I 00:29:00.029 --> 00:29:02.130 know it's just the way we start, but 4 -2 -3 00:29:02.130 --> 00:29:05.049 -1, I don't feel lines up very well against a 00:29:05.049 --> 00:29:09.470 3 -4 -2 -1. Right, so should coach have maybe 00:29:09.470 --> 00:29:12.829 shifted to, I know we kind of still somewhat 00:29:12.829 --> 00:29:15.589 play a 3 -5 -2 at times, but maybe been a bit 00:29:15.589 --> 00:29:19.769 more rigid in his 3 -5 -2? Should we maybe taken 00:29:19.769 --> 00:29:22.069 off one of the wingbacks, put another midfielder 00:29:22.069 --> 00:29:25.230 in or something? I don't know. But then at a 00:29:25.230 --> 00:29:27.390 certain point too, if you're constantly chopping 00:29:27.390 --> 00:29:30.329 and changing your own style, can you ever really 00:29:30.329 --> 00:29:33.769 get good at what you do yourself if you take 00:29:33.769 --> 00:29:37.140 away that repetition? And so do we just accept 00:29:37.140 --> 00:29:39.380 this as a bit of a growing pain to get better 00:29:39.380 --> 00:29:42.400 as that 4 -2 -3 -1 in the same way we saw last 00:29:42.400 --> 00:29:44.940 year where it takes some time for the style to 00:29:44.940 --> 00:29:47.579 really implement. But once we get going, it's 00:29:47.579 --> 00:29:49.480 like a steam train that just keeps going and 00:29:49.480 --> 00:29:51.220 like the momentum carries us through the rest 00:29:51.220 --> 00:29:54.259 of the season. Maybe ultimately you want to have 00:29:54.259 --> 00:29:56.579 the final destination be a little better, but 00:29:56.579 --> 00:29:59.400 I mean, honestly, if we made the final, like, 00:29:59.440 --> 00:30:01.500 you know, that was a pretty good first season. 00:30:02.140 --> 00:30:05.839 It took us a while to get there, but. So our 00:30:05.839 --> 00:30:08.720 final third entries were slightly below average, 00:30:08.799 --> 00:30:12.000 but our touches into the opposition's box was 00:30:12.000 --> 00:30:14.480 the second lowest of the season. And that includes 00:30:14.480 --> 00:30:17.140 the game. Like this was lower than our game against 00:30:17.140 --> 00:30:20.259 Detroit city where we were down a man. So in 00:30:20.259 --> 00:30:22.920 that aspect, this is like, it was less than half 00:30:22.920 --> 00:30:25.559 of our highest performance. And it was probably 00:30:25.559 --> 00:30:30.119 about 40 to 42 % less on average than our normal 00:30:30.119 --> 00:30:33.619 amount at just 14 touches. Ironically, our worst. 00:30:34.000 --> 00:30:37.160 touches into the opponent's box so far this season 00:30:37.160 --> 00:30:39.299 was the Tampa Bay game. But that's because we 00:30:39.299 --> 00:30:41.640 just decided we were going to only shoot bangers 00:30:41.640 --> 00:30:43.680 from the outside. Didn't even need to go into 00:30:43.680 --> 00:30:46.619 the box. Yeah. And listen, I don't disagree with 00:30:46.619 --> 00:30:49.259 you about, you know, you perfect what you can 00:30:49.259 --> 00:30:51.420 control and you line it up. It just feels like 00:30:51.420 --> 00:30:53.680 maybe the right question is, it's not does Bob 00:30:53.680 --> 00:30:56.380 Lilly have Kano's number. It's like they're playing 00:30:56.380 --> 00:30:57.980 the game of rock, paper, scissors, right? Because 00:30:57.980 --> 00:30:59.380 that's kind of what you're doing at that point. 00:30:59.420 --> 00:31:02.000 This is my strategy versus yours. And it just 00:31:02.000 --> 00:31:04.799 seems like every time. connor goes scissors bob 00:31:04.799 --> 00:31:07.559 lilly just comes in with rock and like just that's 00:31:07.559 --> 00:31:10.779 it so i i will say this just to kind of preface 00:31:10.779 --> 00:31:13.900 one of the final questions of this we it's really 00:31:13.900 --> 00:31:16.599 important we score a goal this week coming up 00:31:16.599 --> 00:31:19.440 like we need to at least you know whether or 00:31:19.440 --> 00:31:21.400 not we win the game like i'd like to see us win 00:31:21.400 --> 00:31:23.680 that and take a stronger stance in the jägermeister 00:31:23.680 --> 00:31:26.220 but like we now need to score we need to be able 00:31:26.220 --> 00:31:29.839 to prove to this team, to ourselves, that we 00:31:29.839 --> 00:31:32.059 can find the back of the net against a Bob Lilly 00:31:32.059 --> 00:31:33.740 side like that, I think is the most important 00:31:33.740 --> 00:31:37.559 mission of the next week. Yeah, absolutely. So 00:31:37.559 --> 00:31:39.660 Kevin writes in for this next question. Is there 00:31:39.660 --> 00:31:42.759 concern moving forward with this team? The lack 00:31:42.759 --> 00:31:44.779 of scoring, we're in sixth place and falling 00:31:44.779 --> 00:31:48.299 injuries galore. Is this team below expectations 00:31:48.299 --> 00:31:51.180 or did we set them too high? And I'm assuming 00:31:51.180 --> 00:31:53.339 by we, he means the collective we and not you 00:31:53.339 --> 00:31:58.720 and I. Yeah. I mean, Sixth and falling, we were 00:31:58.720 --> 00:32:03.500 just 11th, right? Like a week ago or 10th. We 00:32:03.500 --> 00:32:06.519 kind of jumped up there pretty quickly with two 00:32:06.519 --> 00:32:11.359 back -to -back away wins. Injuries are a concern, 00:32:11.480 --> 00:32:13.599 but a lot of those people are starting to come 00:32:13.599 --> 00:32:16.359 back healthy. I'd say within the next month to 00:32:16.359 --> 00:32:19.480 maybe month and a half, we're going to have almost 00:32:19.480 --> 00:32:22.519 everyone healthy at this point, assuming that 00:32:22.519 --> 00:32:27.220 no one else gets injured. I'm not concerned moving 00:32:27.220 --> 00:32:30.500 forward. Like we mentioned earlier, first home 00:32:30.500 --> 00:32:34.180 win didn't come until June 26th. If it's July 00:32:34.180 --> 00:32:38.259 1st, we're going into the rest of that summer 00:32:38.259 --> 00:32:43.160 stretch, and we haven't scored any goals at home, 00:32:43.259 --> 00:32:45.559 we don't have any more positive results to feel 00:32:45.559 --> 00:32:48.500 good about, then I'm going to start being concerned. 00:32:49.819 --> 00:32:53.299 In terms of setting our expectations high, like 00:32:53.299 --> 00:32:56.160 the collective, we maybe... We did make it to 00:32:56.160 --> 00:33:00.559 the final last year. So I think to expect this 00:33:00.559 --> 00:33:03.079 team to come right out the gate and just do the 00:33:03.079 --> 00:33:06.759 exact same thing again, you know, it doesn't 00:33:06.759 --> 00:33:12.059 always work like that. So it's still early. I'm 00:33:12.059 --> 00:33:15.240 not pushing any panic buttons just yet. Yeah, 00:33:15.279 --> 00:33:18.420 I think the only expectation that we're missing 00:33:18.420 --> 00:33:22.940 on right now is, and I forget how Coach worded 00:33:22.940 --> 00:33:25.200 it this year, because... he said it the way that 00:33:25.200 --> 00:33:27.099 everyone remembers last year like i never promised 00:33:27.099 --> 00:33:29.819 wins but i promised you'd watch entertaining 00:33:29.819 --> 00:33:33.240 soccer that had people committed like they were 00:33:33.240 --> 00:33:37.339 gonna leave it all on the pitch i am not necessarily 00:33:37.339 --> 00:33:40.640 entertained by the results but sometimes that's 00:33:40.640 --> 00:33:42.140 the beauty of it like a really good defensive 00:33:42.140 --> 00:33:44.900 game you have to be able to appreciate that as 00:33:44.900 --> 00:33:47.240 you know the eye the b was the eye of the beholder 00:33:47.240 --> 00:33:51.319 or whatever so like in that case like these have 00:33:51.319 --> 00:33:55.869 been well fought matches on both sides. Like 00:33:55.869 --> 00:33:59.029 no team wanted to be the first ones to get dunked 00:33:59.029 --> 00:34:00.650 on at Centerville Bank Stadium. And I guess that 00:34:00.650 --> 00:34:02.930 narrative continues. And then there were other 00:34:02.930 --> 00:34:05.170 teams that wanted to get the first win and dunk 00:34:05.170 --> 00:34:07.769 on Rhode Island FC as the Eastern Conference 00:34:07.769 --> 00:34:10.429 champions and the runners up from last year, 00:34:10.469 --> 00:34:12.050 right? We've talked about that at length too. 00:34:12.130 --> 00:34:13.829 Like a lot of teams are treating Rhode Island 00:34:13.829 --> 00:34:17.289 FC really different in comparison to how maybe 00:34:17.289 --> 00:34:19.150 they took the look at them and how they respected 00:34:19.150 --> 00:34:23.119 them. in 2024 so yeah we're it's we have just 00:34:23.119 --> 00:34:24.619 we're on the wrong side of the curve right now 00:34:24.619 --> 00:34:27.800 we have a much higher climb and it's going to 00:34:27.800 --> 00:34:29.920 be difficult but i don't think anyone's expectations 00:34:29.920 --> 00:34:33.840 should be anywhere other than wait until august 00:34:33.840 --> 00:34:36.539 are we in contention for a home playoff berth 00:34:36.539 --> 00:34:39.340 if not are we all okay that we're still going 00:34:39.340 --> 00:34:41.980 to make the playoffs and then we can kind of 00:34:41.980 --> 00:34:44.880 start reflecting on the comparativeness of of 00:34:44.880 --> 00:34:49.789 where we are and where we need to be yeah All 00:34:49.789 --> 00:34:53.130 right. And then what do we got next to Ross? 00:34:54.250 --> 00:34:58.869 How is our record compared to last year? I don't 00:34:58.869 --> 00:35:00.769 have the actual stat right off the top of my 00:35:00.769 --> 00:35:04.110 head, but I know based upon where we are in terms 00:35:04.110 --> 00:35:08.409 of the months, I think to this day, a year ago, 00:35:08.429 --> 00:35:10.750 the day we're recording right now, we got a nil 00:35:10.750 --> 00:35:14.730 -nil draw at home against Louisville. So at that 00:35:14.730 --> 00:35:18.179 point, our first, we only had one win. So we 00:35:18.179 --> 00:35:21.420 currently have three. So I think we're doing 00:35:21.420 --> 00:35:25.219 better. It's frustrating maybe because we're 00:35:25.219 --> 00:35:27.500 not seeing the results at home like we want just 00:35:27.500 --> 00:35:30.820 yet. But so far, this team has been road warriors. 00:35:31.360 --> 00:35:36.400 So it's an improvement. You know, it's incremental. 00:35:36.780 --> 00:35:41.159 I'll take it. It's still a young franchise, if 00:35:41.159 --> 00:35:43.280 you will. Right. This team doesn't have a lot 00:35:43.280 --> 00:35:46.500 of history. So we're still kind of fine near 00:35:46.500 --> 00:35:49.099 feet. I mean, this is also Coach Cano's second 00:35:49.099 --> 00:35:52.440 year as a head coach. So he's probably still 00:35:52.440 --> 00:35:55.579 learning a lot of things himself too after taking 00:35:55.579 --> 00:36:01.539 that over from being an assistant coach. So it's 00:36:01.539 --> 00:36:09.360 not too bad. There's still some hope. The way 00:36:09.360 --> 00:36:11.300 I look at it is this, is that it's more of a, 00:36:11.500 --> 00:36:17.159 are we happy? with the additional wins early 00:36:17.159 --> 00:36:20.780 on versus the additional losses right because 00:36:20.780 --> 00:36:23.860 this is within one to two points exactly where 00:36:23.860 --> 00:36:25.719 we would have been and remember we were kind 00:36:25.719 --> 00:36:27.639 of trapped in the basement for a very long time 00:36:27.639 --> 00:36:31.239 until that june uptick where we were like 10th 00:36:31.239 --> 00:36:34.679 and not going anywhere so these winds have elevated 00:36:34.679 --> 00:36:36.980 us technically we're doing better than we were 00:36:36.980 --> 00:36:39.880 last year the only concern now though is is that 00:36:39.880 --> 00:36:42.500 we have i think double the losses that we had 00:36:43.070 --> 00:36:47.750 in looking back in retrospect to 2024. Kano was 00:36:47.750 --> 00:36:50.969 very proud of the number of draws. I mean, he 00:36:50.969 --> 00:36:53.829 is the draw king when it comes to draw kings. 00:36:53.909 --> 00:36:56.170 And he was very happy about that. Like it was 00:36:56.170 --> 00:36:58.889 a badge of honor for him. So I don't know how 00:36:58.889 --> 00:37:01.809 you take that. Like in my world, like the wins 00:37:01.809 --> 00:37:03.750 are important because it creates the winning 00:37:03.750 --> 00:37:06.650 mentality. But draws can be just as equally important 00:37:06.650 --> 00:37:10.150 where it's like we will never give up and not 00:37:10.150 --> 00:37:13.539 get points out of any single scenario. So like 00:37:13.539 --> 00:37:16.780 if you had to ask me which one would I rather 00:37:16.780 --> 00:37:19.679 have, if all the wins were at home in front of 00:37:19.679 --> 00:37:21.719 fans, I would say that I'd want this season. 00:37:22.079 --> 00:37:24.619 But looking back, like I kind of have to respect, 00:37:24.800 --> 00:37:28.940 it was only two losses, one win and like six 00:37:28.940 --> 00:37:32.199 draws that early on. Like I kind of, that was 00:37:32.199 --> 00:37:33.500 a little bit more of an interesting narrative. 00:37:33.519 --> 00:37:35.780 At this point, we're just like not quite sure 00:37:35.780 --> 00:37:38.239 what our swim lane is yet. Yeah, the only thing 00:37:38.239 --> 00:37:41.360 I would argue against some of that was, Some 00:37:41.360 --> 00:37:43.920 of those draws, if we're being completely honest 00:37:43.920 --> 00:37:46.079 with ourselves, being removed from that season. 00:37:46.659 --> 00:37:48.760 Don't bring up the three nil -nil draws. Don't 00:37:48.760 --> 00:37:50.760 bring up that we had three nil -nil draws at 00:37:50.760 --> 00:37:52.780 this point in the season. I wasn't even going 00:37:52.780 --> 00:37:54.260 to say the score. I was just going to say some 00:37:54.260 --> 00:37:57.940 of those were boring games. We were excited because 00:37:57.940 --> 00:38:01.599 we've got our brand new team here, but some of 00:38:01.599 --> 00:38:03.239 those, there was not a lot of excitement to have 00:38:03.239 --> 00:38:07.480 here. Whereas, even a few of our losses have 00:38:07.480 --> 00:38:11.940 been frustrating. I felt okay about the majority 00:38:11.940 --> 00:38:14.420 of the performance that the team put out, that 00:38:14.420 --> 00:38:16.480 there was just a few tweaks that needed to be 00:38:16.480 --> 00:38:19.840 had, or maybe the ball was a little to the right, 00:38:19.860 --> 00:38:22.539 it would have went in, little things like that. 00:38:23.059 --> 00:38:25.440 Whereas some of those draws last year were just, 00:38:25.619 --> 00:38:31.800 they were tough. I should ask you, we always 00:38:31.800 --> 00:38:34.960 talk about the worst game, best game. Do you 00:38:34.960 --> 00:38:39.579 remember the most boring game of last year? I 00:38:39.579 --> 00:38:43.280 mean, I want to say it was either the Charleston 00:38:43.280 --> 00:38:45.920 or the Pittsburgh, both nil -nil games at home, 00:38:46.000 --> 00:38:48.000 I think, were pretty rough. Is there another 00:38:48.000 --> 00:38:49.679 one that I've just blocked out from my memory? 00:38:50.840 --> 00:38:53.099 Probably, because you can't recall it if your 00:38:53.099 --> 00:38:55.219 life depended on it. It was the North Carolina 00:38:55.219 --> 00:38:58.900 match. That was the most boring game. Oh, the 00:38:58.900 --> 00:39:03.699 away one? Uh -huh, correct. Yeah, I think there 00:39:03.699 --> 00:39:06.159 was literally one chance that Doyle had, and 00:39:06.159 --> 00:39:07.960 that was it, the entire game. The rest of it 00:39:07.960 --> 00:39:11.039 just felt like... okay we're just passing the 00:39:11.039 --> 00:39:14.059 ball around we're just playing keep away from 00:39:14.059 --> 00:39:17.039 ourselves but uh let's move on here brian writes 00:39:17.039 --> 00:39:20.079 in i heard you i guess he's referring to me on 00:39:20.079 --> 00:39:22.800 the qc say someone is trying to start claiming 00:39:22.800 --> 00:39:26.139 kano should get sacked ridiculous but do you 00:39:26.139 --> 00:39:30.599 think anyone's in a hot seat right now absolutely 00:39:30.599 --> 00:39:37.630 not it's it's so we're in sixth place like I, 00:39:37.710 --> 00:39:39.889 but Brian, I don't want to insult you because 00:39:39.889 --> 00:39:41.869 that's not the goal of this. It's just to have 00:39:41.869 --> 00:39:44.969 a discussion. I don't know if I don't, cause 00:39:44.969 --> 00:39:46.969 I, you sent it through email. So I don't know 00:39:46.969 --> 00:39:49.730 if this is a, if this is like someone who's again, 00:39:49.809 --> 00:39:51.829 like it's hard, like, and do me a favor to anyone 00:39:51.829 --> 00:39:55.130 that's like listening, do me the honor of when 00:39:55.130 --> 00:39:57.349 you write a question and if I'm not scraping 00:39:57.349 --> 00:40:00.150 them from social media and you want us to answer 00:40:00.150 --> 00:40:01.769 it and I've never interacted with you before, 00:40:01.849 --> 00:40:04.329 right? Like when you became a fan, because then 00:40:04.329 --> 00:40:06.719 that can help us tailor. the questions to it 00:40:06.719 --> 00:40:09.159 so brian i'm just going to assume that since 00:40:09.159 --> 00:40:12.559 you listen to quahog corner that you've been 00:40:12.559 --> 00:40:14.920 around for a long time and you would know that 00:40:14.920 --> 00:40:16.880 there are just certain individuals that want 00:40:16.880 --> 00:40:20.340 to say things for the sensationalism of it like 00:40:20.340 --> 00:40:24.159 jason just said we're in sixth place we are riding 00:40:24.159 --> 00:40:26.440 high we're basically perfectly balanced across 00:40:26.440 --> 00:40:30.239 our our table standings and we have so many games 00:40:30.239 --> 00:40:32.280 left we still have what 14 home games left this 00:40:32.280 --> 00:40:35.699 year 13 now i i think it's is it 13 it doesn't 00:40:35.699 --> 00:40:37.679 matter how many home games we have the point 00:40:37.679 --> 00:40:40.360 is we're in first place in the jägermeister cup 00:40:40.360 --> 00:40:43.559 we are just fine in a playoff contention for 00:40:43.559 --> 00:40:47.039 the championship and some people they only can 00:40:47.039 --> 00:40:48.960 see the negative out there and maybe you can 00:40:48.960 --> 00:40:52.559 call us the you know the ever positive you know 00:40:52.559 --> 00:40:56.460 optimistics but like i will never i will never 00:40:56.460 --> 00:40:58.659 start the narrative of anyone should be in a 00:40:58.659 --> 00:41:01.880 hot seat uh or getting fired until the time we're 00:41:01.880 --> 00:41:03.760 like the results need to improve immediately, 00:41:03.980 --> 00:41:06.340 right? And like, look at Brendan Burke, still 00:41:06.340 --> 00:41:08.639 with the club. Yeah, you look at Tampa Bay, Sacramento. 00:41:08.920 --> 00:41:11.460 How many, I think five teams have already recycled 00:41:11.460 --> 00:41:14.340 their coaches this season. And like, none of 00:41:14.340 --> 00:41:15.980 them have been eliminated mathematically from 00:41:15.980 --> 00:41:18.139 the playoffs yet. Look at Greg Vanney from the 00:41:18.139 --> 00:41:21.179 Galaxy. Hasn't won a game in 14 matches, got 00:41:21.179 --> 00:41:23.239 like a three -year contract extension. Like, 00:41:23.239 --> 00:41:27.940 we are perfectly fine. So I would advocate for 00:41:27.940 --> 00:41:31.000 anyone that follows this club, please. Do not 00:41:31.000 --> 00:41:34.239 say anything around, you know, a player out, 00:41:34.340 --> 00:41:37.380 a coach out, a front office member out. Like, 00:41:37.380 --> 00:41:41.119 you can be unhappy. You can lament them online 00:41:41.119 --> 00:41:43.239 as much as you want. That's your right. But I 00:41:43.239 --> 00:41:45.659 would ask, like, let's save the pitchforks for 00:41:45.659 --> 00:41:47.679 when we need it. Because that way, it's not just 00:41:47.679 --> 00:41:50.019 a calling card. It's like, it's a movement. Like, 00:41:50.019 --> 00:41:52.480 if we ever need to say Kano out, and there's 00:41:52.480 --> 00:41:55.360 substance behind it, that's when the time comes. 00:41:55.400 --> 00:41:57.320 And like, they take us serious. I don't know. 00:41:57.380 --> 00:42:00.099 I'm going way off the charts here on this one. 00:42:00.300 --> 00:42:04.280 I hate that. It's like the boy who cried wolf 00:42:04.280 --> 00:42:08.199 type stuff, right? I totally understand people 00:42:08.199 --> 00:42:12.099 being frustrated. I want people to, you know, 00:42:12.119 --> 00:42:14.039 it's great that there's so many people out there 00:42:14.039 --> 00:42:16.239 so passionate about this club, voicing their 00:42:16.239 --> 00:42:18.420 opinion. And, like, if they're frustrated and 00:42:18.420 --> 00:42:20.780 they're angry, they have all the right to be. 00:42:20.840 --> 00:42:23.440 They don't have to try and be as level -headed 00:42:23.440 --> 00:42:26.500 or positive as we always try to be. But I think 00:42:26.500 --> 00:42:30.059 even when you're in swimming in those lanes, 00:42:30.159 --> 00:42:33.480 that there needs to be some perspective. Sixth 00:42:33.480 --> 00:42:36.719 place. I understand that there is like New England 00:42:36.719 --> 00:42:39.420 excellence in regards to their sports, but it's 00:42:39.420 --> 00:42:41.920 our second year. We made it to the final in our 00:42:41.920 --> 00:42:45.380 first year. Give this team some time. You know, 00:42:45.400 --> 00:42:49.980 like you said, if we end the season with 15 points, 00:42:50.019 --> 00:42:52.400 well, then maybe we definitely can have some, 00:42:52.400 --> 00:42:54.860 we'd have some more serious conversations then, 00:42:54.880 --> 00:42:58.880 but we're. We're still early on. There's been 00:42:58.880 --> 00:43:01.340 some fight that we saw from this team. We've 00:43:01.340 --> 00:43:04.239 seen some good away victories. We've saw a lot 00:43:04.239 --> 00:43:06.320 of good performances. We know that we have a 00:43:06.320 --> 00:43:09.280 lot of good players. Maybe some of them are all 00:43:09.280 --> 00:43:11.460 not in form. There's still some stuff working 00:43:11.460 --> 00:43:14.260 through. There's a lot to be excited for in this 00:43:14.260 --> 00:43:16.639 team, I think, still. That it's a little too 00:43:16.639 --> 00:43:20.519 early to kind of go out there and start calling 00:43:20.519 --> 00:43:25.219 for people's jobs. You know, sixth place. i mean 00:43:25.219 --> 00:43:28.599 playoff spot you you can say new england's like 00:43:28.599 --> 00:43:31.280 expects champions but they just don't the reality 00:43:31.280 --> 00:43:33.199 is they don't handle loss as well look at the 00:43:33.199 --> 00:43:34.860 celtics they got knocked out this year after 00:43:34.860 --> 00:43:36.900 winning it the prior year and everyone's like 00:43:36.900 --> 00:43:39.820 oh blow it up get a new coach get a new team 00:43:39.820 --> 00:43:42.300 it's oh it's it's over now now they're just laughing 00:43:42.300 --> 00:43:44.940 at the knicks losing yeah and now the bruins 00:43:44.940 --> 00:43:49.400 bruins you know not great patriots when was that 00:43:49.400 --> 00:43:52.280 last and the red sox okay maybe i don't know 00:43:52.280 --> 00:43:54.849 that's plenty of baseball season left like Oh, 00:43:54.849 --> 00:43:56.190 I'm sorry. I forgot the big one, New England 00:43:56.190 --> 00:43:58.849 Revolution, because we're anti -New England Revolution 00:43:58.849 --> 00:44:02.130 on this hashtag not an MLS podcast. They're doing 00:44:02.130 --> 00:44:04.750 some good. I think that hashtag not an MLS podcast, 00:44:04.929 --> 00:44:08.010 they just gave up some goals the other day. No, 00:44:08.150 --> 00:44:12.170 but we're now looped into being anti -revolution, 00:44:12.309 --> 00:44:16.449 which, again, you know, whatever. Hey, if that's 00:44:16.449 --> 00:44:19.730 your team, support soccer. I mean, I prefer local 00:44:19.730 --> 00:44:23.550 soccer, but, you know, you do you. Next question 00:44:23.550 --> 00:44:26.710 here is Brad. Is there a player in your eyes 00:44:26.710 --> 00:44:30.690 that can max this team a top three right now, 00:44:30.769 --> 00:44:34.489 and can we get him? Maybe some transfer speculation? 00:44:35.090 --> 00:44:37.030 Have you ever heard of Cal Jennings? I hear he's 00:44:37.030 --> 00:44:40.690 pretty good. Yeah. I hear he's pretty good. Yeah, 00:44:40.690 --> 00:44:44.349 I heard he's going to replace Christian Pulisic 00:44:44.349 --> 00:44:47.969 on the MLS. Not MLS. The USMN's national team. 00:44:48.329 --> 00:44:51.320 You know, I saw him. Again, not trying to bring 00:44:51.320 --> 00:44:53.820 up my Italy trip, but I watched him play in that 00:44:53.820 --> 00:44:57.980 Milan game and wasn't impressed. I'm not going 00:44:57.980 --> 00:44:59.420 to say he cost Milan the game because it was 00:44:59.420 --> 00:45:02.699 other problems, but if that's the best we have 00:45:02.699 --> 00:45:05.139 and then he doesn't want to play in the Gold 00:45:05.139 --> 00:45:12.800 Cup, what are we doing? I don't know. Diego Luna 00:45:12.800 --> 00:45:17.460 is our savior. USL supremacy. Get Cal Jennings 00:45:17.460 --> 00:45:20.210 up there with him, honestly. i'd love to see 00:45:20.210 --> 00:45:22.030 it they'd probably go out there and fight for 00:45:22.030 --> 00:45:25.889 the shirt you know there's the kid up in um vancouver 00:45:25.889 --> 00:45:28.250 that's tearing up the the western conference 00:45:28.250 --> 00:45:29.809 with the white caps right now he just got called 00:45:29.809 --> 00:45:31.530 up and and he's talking about how it's like the 00:45:31.530 --> 00:45:32.809 greatest thing that could ever happen to him 00:45:32.809 --> 00:45:34.670 i feel like some of our us men's national team 00:45:34.670 --> 00:45:36.730 players like they treat it like it's a job and 00:45:36.730 --> 00:45:39.409 not that it's like more important than anything 00:45:39.409 --> 00:45:44.889 else you'll ever do in your life yeah but anyway 00:45:44.889 --> 00:45:49.400 us men's national team but back to uh any any 00:45:49.400 --> 00:45:52.000 uh players you think i don't i mean i don't know 00:45:52.000 --> 00:45:53.860 the preface to this so it's like i mean i made 00:45:53.860 --> 00:45:56.599 the joke about cal jenning you can go up and 00:45:56.599 --> 00:45:59.960 down i know on all the other um rhode island 00:45:59.960 --> 00:46:03.980 fc stuff people always want benzini from uh tormenta 00:46:03.980 --> 00:46:05.780 because that that was the that was the bargain 00:46:05.780 --> 00:46:08.659 value that we were supposed to grab that we didn't 00:46:08.659 --> 00:46:13.159 um i i championship wise there's there's no striker 00:46:13.159 --> 00:46:16.079 that's sleep that's been slept on. Every team 00:46:16.079 --> 00:46:18.239 that has a need for him, they're using them. 00:46:19.659 --> 00:46:23.059 I don't think that there's... I would like someone 00:46:23.059 --> 00:46:26.500 that's quick and can just stretch. Especially 00:46:26.500 --> 00:46:29.440 when JJ gets back, if we had a quickness to the 00:46:29.440 --> 00:46:34.119 front line, maybe like a Cameron Dunbar in the... 00:46:41.309 --> 00:46:42.869 Well, that's a phone call. I didn't know there 00:46:42.869 --> 00:46:44.869 was a phone call in this office. Maybe I'll edit 00:46:44.869 --> 00:46:49.070 that out later. That's fun. It's part of the 00:46:49.070 --> 00:46:54.010 mailbag. When was the last time you had a phone, 00:46:54.190 --> 00:46:56.710 like a landline? I haven't had a landline in 00:46:56.710 --> 00:46:59.050 years. Is it at least like something fun, like 00:46:59.050 --> 00:47:02.909 a hamburger phone? No, just an old Panasonic 00:47:02.909 --> 00:47:05.849 that was white at one point and is now very much 00:47:05.849 --> 00:47:09.809 that plastic yellowed needs to be changed out. 00:47:10.880 --> 00:47:13.219 um but back to it so like a camera dunbar like 00:47:13.219 --> 00:47:16.320 a speedy player like but someone that can get 00:47:16.320 --> 00:47:19.159 into the attack that's i think where we would 00:47:19.159 --> 00:47:23.679 want to go i've heard rumors about some mls sides 00:47:23.679 --> 00:47:27.840 that are looking to find a striker to loan to 00:47:27.840 --> 00:47:30.679 us um i didn't hear this from the rhode island 00:47:30.679 --> 00:47:33.079 fc camp i heard it from a journalist that covers 00:47:33.079 --> 00:47:37.000 an mls team in a market and like they were asking 00:47:37.000 --> 00:47:40.119 me if i knew anything The club has not confirmed 00:47:40.119 --> 00:47:41.780 or denied anything at this point, and nor would 00:47:41.780 --> 00:47:44.539 they. I don't see us seeing any kind of transaction 00:47:44.539 --> 00:47:46.900 until after League's Cup at this point, because 00:47:46.900 --> 00:47:49.219 like, why would you let go of an asset, especially 00:47:49.219 --> 00:47:51.179 like that's the time to potentially get them 00:47:51.179 --> 00:47:55.059 minutes or get exposure. But yeah, I think, I 00:47:55.059 --> 00:47:57.179 think there is probably a player out there that 00:47:57.179 --> 00:47:59.619 can immediately transform this game. I just don't 00:47:59.619 --> 00:48:02.059 know if we go the route of an aged or washed 00:48:02.059 --> 00:48:06.440 out championship slash MLS player who comes down. 00:48:06.920 --> 00:48:09.699 or if it's some bright and upcoming USL1 kid 00:48:09.699 --> 00:48:11.639 that no one's paying attention to or a collegiate 00:48:11.639 --> 00:48:13.639 player that just hasn't gotten their look. So 00:48:13.639 --> 00:48:15.659 for my answer, my legitimate answer, let's get 00:48:15.659 --> 00:48:19.719 Kai Kamara in. He gets his 10 minutes with team 00:48:19.719 --> 00:48:22.119 number 18 in the MLS, and then let's just have 00:48:22.119 --> 00:48:24.300 him retire at King down here in Rhode Island 00:48:24.300 --> 00:48:26.719 FC. He jumps on our channel all the time to listen 00:48:26.719 --> 00:48:30.159 to the pod, so why not? Yeah, actually, I remember 00:48:30.159 --> 00:48:33.079 saying on there, is this the real Kai Kamara? 00:48:34.360 --> 00:48:37.480 Hey, sign up. Some sort of, yeah, some sort of 00:48:37.480 --> 00:48:41.460 striker. I think at this point, you know, I'm 00:48:41.460 --> 00:48:44.340 not a, I'm not a Chico hater, but he's, he clearly 00:48:44.340 --> 00:48:46.500 hasn't been putting up the numbers. I think that 00:48:46.500 --> 00:48:48.659 we really want to kind of win us some games. 00:48:50.539 --> 00:48:53.159 Do you think that Chico needs more competition 00:48:53.159 --> 00:48:57.739 to give him an X factor or an edge? Maybe in 00:48:57.739 --> 00:49:02.360 the sense that like it, not that he's like just 00:49:02.360 --> 00:49:04.139 sitting there thinking, ah, no one can displace 00:49:04.139 --> 00:49:07.960 me, but. When you have to fight for your spot 00:49:07.960 --> 00:49:11.000 there, maybe it gives you that little bit extra, 00:49:11.139 --> 00:49:12.900 the little mental edge to really push yourself 00:49:12.900 --> 00:49:16.639 to be the best version of yourself. And maybe, 00:49:16.679 --> 00:49:18.219 unfortunately, he just doesn't have that right 00:49:18.219 --> 00:49:24.760 now. He's in a little bit of a funk. But yeah, 00:49:24.860 --> 00:49:28.639 I think we've been talking about this for a while. 00:49:28.699 --> 00:49:32.329 A third striker. I mean, we said we didn't think 00:49:32.329 --> 00:49:35.650 we needed it. Obviously, we do. We own that. 00:49:35.710 --> 00:49:36.929 I think we both said we're going to be fine. 00:49:37.190 --> 00:49:39.949 I just asked ChatGPT who's the best striker that 00:49:39.949 --> 00:49:41.730 we need to pick up, and ChatGPT is telling me 00:49:41.730 --> 00:49:44.949 we need to go out and get Alex Harris or Alec 00:49:44.949 --> 00:49:46.969 Hughes. So I know Alec Hughes, actually. He's 00:49:46.969 --> 00:49:49.789 in Massachusetts. So we just need to get one 00:49:49.789 --> 00:49:51.309 of those two players, and we'll win everything. 00:49:51.530 --> 00:49:54.070 So thanks, ChatGPT. Who needs scouting? You've 00:49:54.070 --> 00:49:57.329 got ChatGPT. So let's do this. Solve all our 00:49:57.329 --> 00:50:00.420 problems. I swear it'd be hilarious if one of 00:50:00.420 --> 00:50:02.460 those two players now gets picked up. We'll know 00:50:02.460 --> 00:50:07.719 Coach Kano's entire system. Next question here 00:50:07.719 --> 00:50:11.519 from Leighton. Good name, Leighton. When do we 00:50:11.519 --> 00:50:13.219 start panicking? I think we kind of touched on 00:50:13.219 --> 00:50:15.900 this earlier, but when actually is the date where 00:50:15.900 --> 00:50:18.159 we go, okay, let's push the button and let's 00:50:18.159 --> 00:50:23.079 get our tinfoil hats on? It's crazy that Everton 00:50:23.079 --> 00:50:27.760 left back Leighton Baines is a fan of RFC. Yeah, 00:50:27.820 --> 00:50:29.860 I don't think we need to start panicking until 00:50:29.860 --> 00:50:34.099 July if we don't see an improvement in regards 00:50:34.099 --> 00:50:36.800 to points, because like I mentioned a few times, 00:50:36.940 --> 00:50:41.079 we didn't get our first win until June 26. It's 00:50:41.079 --> 00:50:43.559 a month away from right now, and that is home, 00:50:43.619 --> 00:50:47.739 sorry. So the results are, we still have some 00:50:47.739 --> 00:50:50.480 time to quote -unquote be better than last season. 00:50:50.519 --> 00:50:52.940 In some ways, we kind of maybe are in regards 00:50:52.940 --> 00:50:58.320 to positioning and points. so stop sugarcoating 00:50:58.320 --> 00:51:02.239 it what is the date the hour the time that we 00:51:02.239 --> 00:51:05.860 hit the panic button uh i don't know i mean here's 00:51:05.860 --> 00:51:09.659 our schedule what games do we play in july all 00:51:09.659 --> 00:51:13.039 right july 5th we we host the birmingham legion 00:51:13.039 --> 00:51:18.519 uh then we go away to indie then oh towards the 00:51:18.519 --> 00:51:21.000 end of july there's the double header with hartford 00:51:21.000 --> 00:51:24.780 maybe that's that's kind of like too late from 00:51:24.780 --> 00:51:26.659 there there's still a decent amount of the season 00:51:26.659 --> 00:51:29.219 after that but at that point maybe if we are 00:51:29.219 --> 00:51:33.300 not in a a decent spot maybe that's where we 00:51:33.300 --> 00:51:37.139 can kind of feel like the rest of the we really 00:51:37.139 --> 00:51:39.119 have to be lights out the rest of the season 00:51:39.119 --> 00:51:41.579 to actually get where we want because you have 00:51:41.579 --> 00:51:43.760 a double header towards the end of july there 00:51:43.760 --> 00:51:46.340 with hartford i would say i'd say the second 00:51:46.340 --> 00:51:48.219 week of august because at that point the summer 00:51:48.219 --> 00:51:50.079 transfer window should be kind of locked down 00:51:50.780 --> 00:51:53.159 That's where any players or any performance changes 00:51:53.159 --> 00:51:54.980 we're going to have, that will be where we've 00:51:54.980 --> 00:51:58.480 completed the Jägermeister group stage. So if 00:51:58.480 --> 00:52:00.400 we advance, that's where we'll know if hardware, 00:52:00.539 --> 00:52:04.079 immediate hardware is closer to being earned 00:52:04.079 --> 00:52:06.500 and on the line. So yeah, I would say by the 00:52:06.500 --> 00:52:09.019 second week of August, you can make a date between 00:52:09.019 --> 00:52:12.019 the 8th and the 16th right there. That's the 00:52:12.019 --> 00:52:16.179 panic time. There's still 12 matches after the 00:52:16.179 --> 00:52:19.539 Hartford doubleheader. So that's a decent amount 00:52:19.539 --> 00:52:22.880 of... Matches to pick up some points. Next one 00:52:22.880 --> 00:52:25.820 here, though. Jude found you guys doing research 00:52:25.820 --> 00:52:29.039 for the MLR final hosted at your new stadium. 00:52:29.219 --> 00:52:33.699 Have you guys ever been to a rugby match? But 00:52:33.699 --> 00:52:37.699 I hope I have. It's fantastic. I've been to rugby 00:52:37.699 --> 00:52:40.940 in three different continents and it is it is 00:52:40.940 --> 00:52:46.159 my second favorite sport. And it I think I think 00:52:46.159 --> 00:52:50.980 I heard this once from a movie. that soccer is 00:52:50.980 --> 00:52:56.260 a gentleman's game played by hooligans and rugby 00:52:56.260 --> 00:52:59.840 is a hooligan game played by gentlemen. So it 00:52:59.840 --> 00:53:02.599 is one of the most fantastic things you will 00:53:02.599 --> 00:53:05.380 ever watch. Jason, when I get back, if there's 00:53:05.380 --> 00:53:07.139 still time, I don't think there is actually. 00:53:07.199 --> 00:53:10.119 It's probably why this guy or gal, Jude could 00:53:10.119 --> 00:53:15.699 be either. Is it Jude Bellingham maybe? A lot 00:53:15.699 --> 00:53:20.219 of famous soccer players listen to this RFC podcast. 00:53:20.420 --> 00:53:22.099 It's pretty crazy. I just think Jude just got 00:53:22.099 --> 00:53:23.940 out of all of his soccer season and he's like, 00:53:23.960 --> 00:53:25.300 you know what I need to do? I need to catch up 00:53:25.300 --> 00:53:27.619 on some raising. Hey, it's always good to see 00:53:27.619 --> 00:53:29.639 Jude's a rap fan. You know, that's where it really 00:53:29.639 --> 00:53:32.500 matters at the end of the day. But we will absolutely 00:53:32.500 --> 00:53:34.579 go to the final, no matter what. We'll go and 00:53:34.579 --> 00:53:36.440 attend that unless something gets in the way. 00:53:36.480 --> 00:53:38.760 But I want to go see that at least. And next 00:53:38.760 --> 00:53:40.619 year, if we've missed the free Jax window, I 00:53:40.619 --> 00:53:42.900 have to take you up and catch a free Jax game 00:53:42.900 --> 00:53:45.179 because it is. it is a ton of fun and anyone 00:53:45.179 --> 00:53:46.880 should go and watch it they do a really good 00:53:46.880 --> 00:53:49.239 involvement from a promotion standpoint like 00:53:49.239 --> 00:53:52.679 on and off the field um the merch is like just 00:53:52.679 --> 00:53:55.539 some of the best in the business and the players 00:53:55.539 --> 00:53:57.900 are very involved it's you can tell it's a like 00:53:57.900 --> 00:54:00.500 professional yes but also like very community 00:54:00.500 --> 00:54:03.260 driven so awesome experience i'm down check it 00:54:03.260 --> 00:54:05.900 out you don't get a choice i'm gonna kidnap you 00:54:05.900 --> 00:54:08.460 and just take you to the game so like i appreciate 00:54:08.460 --> 00:54:10.900 you that you want to go but This was a foregone 00:54:10.900 --> 00:54:13.500 conclusion. And then last question of the night, 00:54:13.519 --> 00:54:17.260 Rick, any significance of seeing the same next 00:54:17.260 --> 00:54:20.139 week? I think team. I don't know if I messed 00:54:20.139 --> 00:54:22.219 it up, but I'll try this again. Any significance 00:54:22.219 --> 00:54:25.000 of seeing the same team next week at their home? 00:54:25.260 --> 00:54:29.360 Does a win there negate what they did to us this 00:54:29.360 --> 00:54:35.500 Saturday? I mean, I don't know. I want to say 00:54:35.500 --> 00:54:38.500 a win would negate it, but it would. But it's 00:54:38.500 --> 00:54:41.239 a different competition. I think we're definitely 00:54:41.239 --> 00:54:43.639 going to see a different lineup in the sense 00:54:43.639 --> 00:54:47.280 like, you know, we'll have Leonette. And with 00:54:47.280 --> 00:54:49.960 the long season and maybe after that loss, I 00:54:49.960 --> 00:54:52.739 wouldn't be surprised if Coach maybe changed 00:54:52.739 --> 00:54:56.699 it up a bit just to kind of try some things out. 00:54:58.420 --> 00:55:01.139 That's kind of what cup competitions are usually 00:55:01.139 --> 00:55:04.849 for. It gives you an opportunity to... try things 00:55:04.849 --> 00:55:07.090 outside of the scope of the league and maybe 00:55:07.090 --> 00:55:10.130 not worry about this is three points dropped, 00:55:10.329 --> 00:55:12.730 right? This is, this is a cup competition. You, 00:55:12.789 --> 00:55:14.929 you try and do your best to move on to the next 00:55:14.929 --> 00:55:17.670 round. Obviously you try and put out the team 00:55:17.670 --> 00:55:21.469 there, but to win, but also that this is a deep 00:55:21.469 --> 00:55:23.909 squad. We just talked recently about like how 00:55:23.909 --> 00:55:25.769 much depth there is in the back lines. Maybe 00:55:25.769 --> 00:55:29.210 we see a bit of rotation there, you know, Joe 00:55:29.210 --> 00:55:32.579 Brito. Maybe we get him another look up there, 00:55:32.679 --> 00:55:38.019 see what he can do. So I don't think it will 00:55:38.019 --> 00:55:40.320 negate, but I think it will, because it is the 00:55:40.320 --> 00:55:43.039 same team, I think if we can come away with a 00:55:43.039 --> 00:55:46.260 positive result, it will be good for the morale 00:55:46.260 --> 00:55:50.000 of the team. Yeah, I think that makes sense. 00:55:50.179 --> 00:55:52.380 I mean, I look at it as, remember, too, in the 00:55:52.380 --> 00:55:55.139 Siegermeister tournament, there's still one more 00:55:55.139 --> 00:55:58.429 USL 1 team, too. So, like, if Kano... Wants to 00:55:58.429 --> 00:56:00.550 get some professional minutes to some of the, 00:56:00.550 --> 00:56:05.690 you know, the least seen players like Cole Dewhurst 00:56:05.690 --> 00:56:08.190 or Kevin Vang. Those could be opportunities, 00:56:08.250 --> 00:56:11.449 you know, for that, that heart, the hearts game 00:56:11.449 --> 00:56:14.849 a little later in June. So I could still see 00:56:14.849 --> 00:56:17.809 him taking the points here and going for it. 00:56:17.829 --> 00:56:20.909 Maybe not quite a secondary team, but. most of 00:56:20.909 --> 00:56:23.570 the starting 11 because again it's seven days 00:56:23.570 --> 00:56:25.090 and you know there's something to be said about 00:56:25.090 --> 00:56:26.929 form and performance like you want them getting 00:56:26.929 --> 00:56:30.949 minutes you want them being able to stay uh you 00:56:30.949 --> 00:56:33.809 know fit in that regard and I I do think too 00:56:33.809 --> 00:56:35.929 like this is a little psychological like how 00:56:35.929 --> 00:56:40.690 what better way to wash away a loss than to go 00:56:40.690 --> 00:56:42.610 and get a win like the next week like it's very 00:56:42.610 --> 00:56:45.739 often it's very rare excuse me to get these kinds 00:56:45.739 --> 00:56:48.760 of looks at teams a second time. So this could 00:56:48.760 --> 00:56:51.340 be a big ego boost in the right direction. And 00:56:51.340 --> 00:56:53.260 who knows? I mean, we've seen Danny Rivera now, 00:56:53.380 --> 00:56:55.940 like, out on the training pitch. Mark Ibarra 00:56:55.940 --> 00:56:58.860 one week is available, next week he's not. So, 00:56:58.920 --> 00:57:00.380 like, there's a lot of players that we haven't 00:57:00.380 --> 00:57:03.559 had, we haven't seen in a lot of minutes as of 00:57:03.559 --> 00:57:05.920 late. So I don't think this is, like, we're going 00:57:05.920 --> 00:57:07.320 to throw the B squad out and treat it like an 00:57:07.320 --> 00:57:10.119 Open Cup kind of situation. I think there's points 00:57:10.119 --> 00:57:13.099 to be had, and I think Kano will want to take 00:57:13.099 --> 00:57:15.739 Jagermeister Cup serious. uh the entire time 00:57:15.739 --> 00:57:17.840 and he and he said that so i i think this is 00:57:17.840 --> 00:57:20.280 i think this is significant as an optics piece 00:57:20.280 --> 00:57:22.940 but i don't think it's significant if we drop 00:57:22.940 --> 00:57:25.059 additional points and go oh we still can't win 00:57:25.059 --> 00:57:26.800 it'll be a terrible narrative that we still can't 00:57:26.800 --> 00:57:28.980 find a win against this team but i don't think 00:57:28.980 --> 00:57:31.840 that it i don't think it changes much i and i 00:57:31.840 --> 00:57:34.059 i don't mean like the entire team but like a 00:57:34.059 --> 00:57:36.739 handful of players kind of rotating and then 00:57:36.739 --> 00:57:39.079 still have the the quote -unquote a squad there 00:57:39.079 --> 00:57:41.079 to to kind of cycle through them as the game 00:57:41.079 --> 00:57:43.940 goes but I think you bring up a good point, too. 00:57:44.000 --> 00:57:46.079 It's very possible that he might want to just, 00:57:46.079 --> 00:57:49.199 for the narrative, the optics, try and put out 00:57:49.199 --> 00:57:52.260 the strongest squad he can there to kind of see 00:57:52.260 --> 00:57:54.679 if they can, you know, undo what happened this 00:57:54.679 --> 00:57:57.739 last weekend. Yeah, I mean, it would be fun to 00:57:57.739 --> 00:57:59.800 see three former Pittsburgh Riverhounds take 00:57:59.800 --> 00:58:02.440 the pitch against them. Chico needs the minutes, 00:58:02.480 --> 00:58:04.079 whether you like it or not. Like, if we're going 00:58:04.079 --> 00:58:06.719 to get this guy fixed, he needs to get out there 00:58:06.719 --> 00:58:09.380 and, you know, at least get like 15 to 25 minutes 00:58:09.380 --> 00:58:11.510 or more. So he'll at least make some sort of 00:58:11.510 --> 00:58:13.570 showing unless he picks up a knock between then 00:58:13.570 --> 00:58:15.789 and there. You get Marky Barr out there and then 00:58:15.789 --> 00:58:18.409 Danny Rivera. Let's see if the way to beat Bob 00:58:18.409 --> 00:58:21.329 Lilly is play Bob Lilly's players against him. 00:58:21.710 --> 00:58:26.949 That's the problem. There we go. That's our summer 00:58:26.949 --> 00:58:29.969 transfer signing. Just sign the Pittsburgh Riverhounds. 00:58:30.329 --> 00:58:32.449 What's the Starship Troopers like? To beat the 00:58:32.449 --> 00:58:34.289 Bugs. You must think like the Bugs. You must 00:58:34.289 --> 00:58:38.489 become the Bugs. Anyways, I think that's our 00:58:38.489 --> 00:58:41.590 show. That's where we're going to end it. Any 00:58:41.590 --> 00:58:45.429 final thoughts? Any final words before we catch 00:58:45.429 --> 00:58:48.449 up next Thursday for our regular stuff? I'm excited 00:58:48.449 --> 00:58:51.889 for the team to take another shot at glory in 00:58:51.889 --> 00:58:56.190 the Jägermeister Cup. It's my new favorite competition 00:58:56.190 --> 00:59:00.190 here now. I hope you bring Jäger shots to the 00:59:00.190 --> 00:59:02.690 guild. And then I hope you get banned for bringing 00:59:02.690 --> 00:59:06.199 outside alcohol into the establishment. Nah, 00:59:06.300 --> 00:59:08.780 I'm not going to do that. It is unfortunate that 00:59:08.780 --> 00:59:13.599 we don't have any tailgate where we can do Jaeger 00:59:13.599 --> 00:59:16.000 shots and I can inflict those upon people. Just 00:59:16.000 --> 00:59:18.079 reach out to Derek from the guild and see if 00:59:18.079 --> 00:59:21.940 he can bring a bottle in, courtesy of Duffy and 00:59:21.940 --> 00:59:25.679 the rest of the guild partnership. Speaking of 00:59:25.679 --> 00:59:28.039 drinks, by the way, I've been crushing this Hawaiian 00:59:28.039 --> 00:59:32.889 Sun Passion Juice. And it's delicious. I haven't 00:59:32.889 --> 00:59:34.489 had one of these in a long time. It's like my 00:59:34.489 --> 00:59:36.949 Capri Sun from when I was a kid here. But then 00:59:36.949 --> 00:59:39.429 I just looked at the label. It's only 2 % fruit 00:59:39.429 --> 00:59:40.889 juice. So I don't know what we're doing here. 00:59:40.989 --> 00:59:42.909 I don't know what's in this can, but I've drank 00:59:42.909 --> 00:59:48.710 like three of them now. So it's a problem. All 00:59:48.710 --> 00:59:51.389 right, let's just wrap this up. So everyone, 00:59:51.590 --> 00:59:55.289 what's going on? I was going to say, can you 00:59:55.289 --> 00:59:57.590 do this off the cuff? Yeah, go for it. I got 00:59:57.590 --> 01:00:01.360 it. I pulled it up from another document. professional 01:00:01.360 --> 01:00:05.280 over here. As for as many times, I think I'd 01:00:05.280 --> 01:00:07.860 memorize this by now, but make sure to check 01:00:07.860 --> 01:00:10.340 our friends over at the blazing musket for all 01:00:10.340 --> 01:00:12.880 of your new England soccer coverage, including 01:00:12.880 --> 01:00:16.500 RFC. And that's at the blazing musket .com. 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