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You're listening to Raising Anchor on 990 WBOB.

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Welcome to the Raising Anchor Soccer Show with

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Matt Entrekin and Jason Carey. Your home for

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news, analysis, and everything Rhode Island FC.

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Each week they take you inside the locker room,

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inside the tactics, and inside the storyline

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shaping R -I -F -C. Here's Matt and Jason. Rhode

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Island FC fly 3 ,000 miles to get sacked in Sacramento,

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falling to the Republic two to one in midweek

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action that they can't even dwell on as they

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head back to Pring's tire cup magic. this weekend

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and it might not even be a matter that that might

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not even be a match that matters Jason because

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Brooklyn F .C. returns to Centerville Bank Stadium

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can Kano Smith turn things around this week find

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the first three points since the break of 21

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days and deal with a tired injured squad or will

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we see the amber and blue continue to struggle

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Jason Carey co -host with the most I almost don't

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want to do the show today and we talk about when

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losses like this happen It's kind of depresso

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espresso. Not sure I want to sit in the hot seat

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with you tonight, buddy. I hear what you mean.

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Uh, definitely a little tired. We stayed up late

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to watch this West coast match. And you know,

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I mean, we've done quite a bit of that when it

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comes to the world cup here, but a lot of that

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where it was, let's say a little bit more entertainment

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value in some of those matches, even if maybe

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some of the results didn't go the way that we

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wanted them to. This was a, this was a tough

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watch last night. And then to put insult to injury,

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There's now hydration breaks and usl championship

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matches that turn into ad breaks And then like

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literally during the middle of the game. They

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just like we're like, ah, this free kick is taking

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too long Let's just play an ad and I was like,

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are you kidding me? Like what are we this is?

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Soccer soccer is dead rip 2026. It was a good

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run. Hopefully this World Cup final will give

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us something to celebrate and then from here

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on out it's It's all downhill. Do you remember?

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I'm going to take you back in time. Do you remember

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when we were watching, starting to learn the

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league in 2023 as we started to do our homework

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before we even signed our first player? Do you

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remember when we watched that first Las Vegas

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Lights game together and they had the DJ who

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started playing music whenever the ball went,

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you know, out of, or into touch, I should say,

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or out of touch, like it, like the DJ would quickly

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just do a 32nd, you know, like who let the dogs

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out and then it would go back and we were like,

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what is going on in the sport? We love so much.

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It's for river hounds. I've seen done that too.

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And I've watched some of their matches and I'm

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like, do they disrespect soccer fans so much

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that they think, Oh, these guys must be bored.

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They're, they're going to find a ball for a throw

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in. Let's just blast the music out of them real

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quick to confuse them. I mean now counterpoint

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and we said this when we saw that we did have

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the visceral reaction I think with all of the

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other Defiant 1636 fans that showed up at High

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Motor last night But after we got through that

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reaction there was that like, okay, let's let's

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unpack this. Let's make sense of this We know

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that this league needs to grow We know that this

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league needs to find sources of revenue to pay

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its way into becoming bigger than it currently

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is Is there a call out that says not good for

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the global game, not good for the sake of the

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game, but maybe exactly what USL needs right

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now so that these players can continue to build

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the brand and make more money and the league

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collectively can grow? Considering that it came

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out in a report that Fox made enough money in

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ad revenue from the hydration breaks alone just

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to cover the cost of buying the rights to host

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the World Cup. You kind of think like, okay,

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maybe apparently commercials are worth a lot

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of money and We are a small league. We nearly

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had a break in schedule because players were

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not getting paid. So is this like a Double -edged

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sword here in a sense of like this is this is

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bad but also it's good if it brings more money

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into the league and I'll guess I'll just have

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to make sure I attend all of the matches Because

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at least I only have to watch ads in half of

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them, the away ones. What do you think the percentage

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of money from Fox doing a hydration break ad

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to ESPN plus doing a hydration ad, what do you

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think that is? If we're talking $10 million for

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Fox, what percentage, what's the dollar amount

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that ESPN started? I don't know, somewhere between

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1 % and 5 % at best. I was going to go decimals,

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my friend. I was going to literally say decimals.

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I don't I don't know how I like ad money works.

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So it's like magnets. How do they work? But hey,

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you know, speaking of Fox, it's interesting that

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they can claim that they've made so much money

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off of the revenue from those hydration breaks

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and then simultaneously go out and complain that

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too many fans are actually instead watching the

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broadcast on Telemundo. So Fox needs to kind

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of get their prerogative straight as well at

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the same time. And we're just trying to brush

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up on our Spanish. Yeah. Duolingo is great, but

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sometimes you got to watch it live. And, you

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know, maybe you don't know what the word Terminator

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means and the broadcaster in a Spanish will still

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say the exact same word. Want to talk real quickly

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about the World Cup. Hashtag not a World Cup

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show. France, Morocco today. France looks like

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they're in the driver's seat and they've set

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this in the cruise control. I do not see anyone

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getting through them at this point. Morocco was

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under siege the entire match. Yeah, I think this

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really kind of proved that France is the best

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team in the tournament here. I mean, I look at

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even Spain is going to struggle. I think to give

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them a problem. the one thing i i'm curious about

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here is you know we we had cancel culture can

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can we somehow use that to cancel stutter step

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penalties because they are abysmal i i don't

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know like how how do we do we sign a petition

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like how do we how do we get people like more

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angry about this because they are so dumb i i

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would say we would have to like revolt but that's

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not something America does really well when it

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comes to coordinating uh changing things in this

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country. I'm not going to go there. I want to

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talk about who the likely opponent is for France

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in the final because I just don't see them. I

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know that they still got to get through the semis

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but let's just let's just call it they're going

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to the finals. Who are they seeing on the other

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side? It could be Spain. Like you don't think

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Argentina's got it? Uh oh sorry um trying to

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think of the the bracket isn't um Argentina's

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on the other side right? Great. No, I'm not talking.

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Oh, I'm talking on the final. Yeah, sorry. OK,

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I thought you meant the next semifinal. So it's

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going to be Spain. It'll be France and Spain.

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France will win that. So France is just going

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straight to the final. It could be Argentina,

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but like it also could be fun to be Norway or

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England. I mean, I'm very much team Viking at

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this point. I think it'd be it'd be fun if they

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knocked England out and hey, maybe Norway, Argentina

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and every Argentina game is just out of control

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because they don't know how to defend. but then

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they also apparently get favorable calls but

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then Messi also just does his dark magic and

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and just scores the most insane goals ever and

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you're like well of course of course that happened

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not sure if I want to see it be Norway considering

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we've already seen that in the group stage but

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they also play their b -squad against them that's

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true so I'd be curious to see a rematch of that

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with like what did a what would a full squad

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look like because there are a few moments in

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that match where Norway looked like they were

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actually causing them problems and this was with

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their backup squad. Oscar Bob not exactly bringing

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the thunder. We know who brings the thunder for

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Norway. Got to get back though into Rhode Island

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FC and talking all things USL Championship because

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this is the Rhode Island FC soccer show for Raising

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Anchor and want to talk about league standings

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here. Jason, tell us where we moved in this wonderful

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midweek action. We went up to eighth, we fell

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back to tenth. What happened in Rhode Island

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here on the night? Yeah, so after that 2 -1 defeat

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to Sacramento last night, RFC find themselves

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in, believe it or not, ninth place. How'd you

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know? Now on a 4 -4 -5 record, no longer balanced

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anymore, starting to run out of those games in

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hand. Looks like we're never gonna move out of

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ninth. I think I'm gonna create a t -shirt. We'll

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put it for like... charity donations only and

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it's just going to have the word nine but the

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German version of no and then the number nine

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below it so that way everyone knows we're never

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leaving ninth place because it feels like we

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just it's like we put roots down in ninth right

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we've we've created a home for ourselves gotten

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comfy we're part of the community yeah I don't

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want to have to pick up everything and move.

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There's not really a lot of pressure. We just

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have to win one game. We're back in playoffs.

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But you know, if we don't, no big deal because

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we're not in them right now. So it's almost like

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this is exactly where Kano wants to be until

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he pulls the reverse trap card later in the season

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and we go all the way to the Eastern Conference

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final. Wouldn't have it any other way. So I want

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to ask a question to you before we get into this.

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Obviously, we're going to talk about the results

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after our first break, but. Looking at this,

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you know, you just mentioned a second ago. We're

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now four four and five and That's five losses

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now on the season. The symmetry is broken We're

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not exactly a road team anymore. Are we we really

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aren't? We kind of built ourselves up on that

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In the early stages I don't know if the fact

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that like the temporary home had anything to

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do with it or the fact that initially the The

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road kit was the better of the two kits. So they

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just they felt Better they played a little bit

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better you know psychologically maybe that was

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it. But now that we've kind of settled in and

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you can start to say that. You know this team

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actually does play well center of the bank stadium

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and we're also scoring goals in central bank

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stadium now too. When we travel away there just

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seems to be some mojo that's lost and they don't.

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play with the same confidence and swagger that

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we've seen in the past. Yeah, two wins, four

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draws, one loss at Centerville Bank Stadium this

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season, the only loss coming in that very odd

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Birmingham Legion match. Meanwhile, on the road,

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two wins, zero draws and four losses. It seems

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like we either are in control... of our destiny

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on these away matches or we're never quite in

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the game to be like, we're just not finding a

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way to even get out of there with a single point.

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And we've talked privately a lot that some of

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the teams that we love, some of the teams that

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we follow. It's not about them being amazing

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and incredible every single game and being, you

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know, undefeated for the entirety of a season.

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Sometimes it comes down to winning the games

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at home in front of your fans and then being

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on the road, maybe playing a different way, being

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a little scrappy and just getting that point

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so that you're never really losing. You're never

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dropping that momentum, but maybe it's just not

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quite the same version of the team away. I'm

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not sure we're seeing that right now with Kano

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Smith's side. Yeah, you look at away matches

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and think there are a few teams in the world

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that can go away and really just impose themselves

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on on the home team So in that regards you need

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you travel away Maybe you want to play a little

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bit more defensive you want to play a little

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bit salt like a little bit more solid in the

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back a little slower maybe not as expansive and

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What we saw last night maybe a little too expansive

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a little too open and kind of got eviscerated,

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you know, like Would i have loved to see a no

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no draw absolutely not but would we be. Feeling

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a little bit better about coming away with a

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point on a potentially tough away travel. What

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about now now we're staring at a loss and thinking

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okay. The momentum that we just had playing the

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top team in the west. Did that just disappear

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like do we have to build that back up again.

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especially coming off a long break. I mean, only

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six goals on the road so far this season in league

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play won't even bring up some of the unfortunate

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results we've seen in Pring's Tires Cup action.

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We'll save that for later in the show, but of

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the 23 goals, six of them coming from the road,

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the rest of them, we just seem to be in our best

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form when we're at home. Looking now, thinking

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about that with the two games we've already seen

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this week, does it almost feel dis... ingenuous

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or maybe a disservice to fans that we only got

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one goal on the weekend against Orange County

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because I didn't even really think about that

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number ahead of time and now it's just kind of

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like what are we doing here? I don't want to

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disservice or disingenuous but I do think that

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like we look at that match and think well they

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traveled up the road and they played a Hartford

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team who also has a hard time scoring who put

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two against them And you think, okay, we've definitely

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been a little bit more productive at home. Maybe

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we could have gotten a little more out of that,

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but coming off that long break, I think the reality

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was we're just a little bit rusty. Well, we will

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see if that continues as we break that down later

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in the show. But first, we got to go to break.

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And when we return, we're going to talk about

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how exactly Kano set up for this game against

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All right, looking here at how Kano set up for

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this away match here, uh, cocaine Vegas and net

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as always. We've got an interesting lineup here.

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It's kind of maybe a back five, sometimes a back

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four. We'll talk about how the team. was maybe

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not completely organized here in a second, but

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we've had Nick Scardina, Kareefa Yow, Grant Stoneman,

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Frank Nodarse, and then also kind of Aldair Sanchez,

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somewhat playing a back five, but he would also

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push up. We had Amos Shapiro Thompson, Hugo Baccarac,

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and Noah Fuson, somewhat as your midfielders,

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with JJ Williams and Noah Fuson up top. At times

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it looked like a 5 -3 -2, other times kind of

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a 4 -4 -2, but but definitely was some maybe

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misorganization there. What matters, Jason, is

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that the graphic said it was a 4 -4 -2, and you

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know we can never not go with the graphic. Bot

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Mob is never wrong. Kevin Ordoy is still on the

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squad. Especially when you consider that Koke

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Vegas had his legal first name in the game, and

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people looked at us like, who is that? Surprise

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to those that don't know, or maybe are new to

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the Raising Anchor soccer show, Koke Vegas is

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not his real name. So if you didn't know that

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now, you know, go Google it. It's too Spanish

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for me to even try because I've only looked at

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it like three times. But is his like legal Spanish

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name was was listed in the graphics card for

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that four four two. Yeah, it's very much his

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his stage name, if you will. I know that the

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team is dealing with an injury crisis right now.

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But is it me or just this lineup felt a bit too

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defensive against a team that's averaged one

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goal a game? I I. Completely agree with you.

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And the frustrating thing is, one, it's interesting.

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We go to a back five. And I think people may

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argue with us. I don't care. But it was a back

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five. If you go and look at the heat map and

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if you go look at the average positioning, Aldair

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Sanchez and Frank Nadarse occupied a lot of the

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same space. Sure, Aldair was a little bit more

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forward, but... It really was a back five for

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all intent and purposes. And when I think about

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that and how much success we've seen in rotating

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to the back four, I do know that you're strapped

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for players that you can select and put into

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the game day. We've seen it times and we've heard

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it from Kano Smith that Aldair Sanchez and Jojea

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Quisera can be almost interchangeable on that

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left side. He's felt that way at least last year,

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but also he said that again, mimicking some of

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that of what he's seen. this season but to your

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point is is we go so defensive and then from

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there we leave some of our best weapons on the

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bench in this game so even if you are putting

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a back five out there You're leaving a player

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like Jojea Quisera on the bench. Now, we don't

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know if he was fatigued. You know, they have

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the GPS sensors, they have all the monitors,

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so they know what a player's endurance, what

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a player's stamina is at. That's a level of sports

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data we will never get here on the show. And

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so maybe they had to make the call for that.

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But like, you still leave a player like Jojea

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out of your starting lineup. You're asking more

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from players who really haven't produced at that

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same level. I mean... We can talk about Afonso

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and Fuson, but most of their success has come

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from the bench this season. And you could also

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argue, well, OK, it's a crappy squad. So this

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is the moment for players like Afonso and Fuson

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to show up to say, hey, coach, I'm going to earn

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that starting spot back. But it felt like with

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the injuries, Kano wanted to tinker versus playing

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the best available players he had. And as a result,

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it kind of felt like he was going for that second

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half squeeze. That only works if you don't let

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Sacramento score against you and guess what they

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do? They go and score in the 24th minute so that

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game plan goes right out the window. I think

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Kano got this wrong from a tactics and a setup

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perspective. I think he put this team into a

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bind right from the get -go. I mean, we can celebrate

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the fact Aldair Sanchez gets his 100th cap of

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the USL against his former team. You can celebrate

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that we finally saw Danny Rivera in championship

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action this season along with Kevin Vang, players

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who we've only seen so far in Open Cup and I

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think Prinks Tires Cup action. Great to see them.

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I mean, I thought Rivera for the... 16 touches

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he had, I thought he looked brilliant. Kevin

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Vang, I didn't really see in the game as much.

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There's a height joke in there that we could

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make, but I'm not going to do it. Kevin Vang,

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I love you. I don't know, Jason, you tell me

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like this didn't feel like we were set up tactically

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to win from the get. Yeah, doesn't help that

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that first goal was somewhat of a somewhat of

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a fluke there. Did you wish we had VAR when that

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goal happened? Or could you clearly and obviously

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tell that it went across the line? The replays

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show that it's not like 100 % conclusive, but

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I'd say it's close enough that it looks like

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it passed it. Okay, do you wish you had VAR when

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the goal or the ball went off the pitch and then

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we floated in for the equalizer at the death

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of the half? I mean, that would be nice there

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to confirm. I've noticed that, you know, we've

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been spoiled watching a ton of World Cup where

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you get quality replays. USL is just like now

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we don't want to like I just want to hear you

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say we don't want on VAR that's all we don't

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want to incriminate ourselves and show that maybe

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that ball actually still wasn't play and maybe

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that should have been a goal and then like have

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you know fan bases right when they realize like

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It's clearly showed here on the replay. There's

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no VAR so we can't go back and change it and

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now we're just robbed Yeah, I don't disagree.

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I don't even want to do heroes and zeros on this

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because I think collectively, and when we get

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to the mailbag, oh my gosh, there's so much anger

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in the mailbag for once. I've never seen it quite

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at this level since, well, actually I won't even

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go there. Let's just break down where the breakdown

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happened. And we got to start with the defensive

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partnership. I have told you at times, I don't

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think Grant Stoneman is of starting caliber.

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I just don't think he has that in... his locker

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anymore. I think that the game has evolved past

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where he can offer a starting performance. I

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think he still has a leadership inside the locker

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room. I think that he has an ability to teach.

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Everyone says he's going to be a player coach

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into a full coach one day. There is a lot of

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good things about having a player like Grant

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Stoneman on this team, but I think The quality

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or the lack thereof is starting to show with

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these injuries that are piling up because I just

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think that he is starting to become a liability

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when we see him in the starting 11 partnered

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with whoever it's partnered with, whether it's

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Crefa or it's Omidy or it's another player. I'm

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just, I'm starting to get concerned about the

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mental lapse and some of the spacing and some

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of the positioning that we find our defenders

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in in these games. Yeah. My, my concern with

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him is that when we see him play A lot of times

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he's paired up with Karifa Yao. I know that we're

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currently very limited in our options for injuries.

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So there's a bit of kind of a conundrum there.

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I don't know if CJ Williams is ready enough or

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maybe even too green in the squad that kind of

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was worried about throwing him into the deep

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end, if you will, but they just don't seem to

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mesh well together. I think to a certain extent,

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they're not the exact same player, but you look

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at both of those players and neither of them

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are known for their speed. Kareef at times is

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just an absolute brick wall. Nothing gets past

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him. But if it does He doesn't have the recovery

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speed to get back and kind of make that challenge

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or try and push the defender wide And usually

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we have someone partner with him like Omni Joe

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who has a little bit more speed Well, it's the

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same thing with Grant Stoneman Grant Stoneman

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is very very calm very good on the ball But he

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just doesn't have enough pace. And so the problem

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is when we have players running at us and especially

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when we seem disorganized because I said they

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just don't seem to have a partnership that really

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works well together. There's just a lot of there

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was a lot of emergency defending and we just

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were getting cut open and they were just spread

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too wide and I don't know if there's something

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going on but and then we have no Darcy who has

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played a center back and who does have some speed

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he's not the quickest but he's definitely faster

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than those two but Doesn't seem like Kano trusts

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him to play him as a center back unless he has

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literally no other options. He seems to Be a

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jack -of -all -trade where he can't really seem

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to claim down one specific spot Well, I think

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the other thing we have to acknowledge no clay

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holstead no party in this game because we talk

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about how Rhode Island doesn't really allow The

00:22:09.960 --> 00:22:11.720
opponents can get into the final third, but when

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we talk about touches in our box, that's something

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we do a really good job of limiting based on

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having that double six pivot. This game, more

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players out wide on the defense to trap down

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and isolate the wing backs. And I get it, the

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fullbacks for Sacramento are lethal players,

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but they eclipsed our own touches in the box

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in this game. Something when you compare to Orange

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County, a team that is supposed to have a better

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offense than Sacramento, We limited them to like

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nine or 13 touches in our box last weekend. This

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time around, Sacramento almost doubles it. It

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felt like we were inviting too much consequential

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pressure into our final third because we stopped

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having that kind of defender in the front line,

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the quarterback in the six. Hugo often too far

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up trying to play more of an offense creator,

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a chance generator. And we saw, I mean, he gets

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the goal, but it's like. Even with all the defenders

00:23:04.960 --> 00:23:07.059
we had on the night, it just felt like it was

00:23:07.059 --> 00:23:09.319
the wrong tactic to set up against the Sacramento

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side. We've talked about games at length in the

00:23:11.940 --> 00:23:14.799
past where sometimes it's the players and sometimes

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it's Kano getting it wrong on the setup. Which

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one would you subscribe to? Because I think about

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the last time Kano really didn't set up well

00:23:22.279 --> 00:23:24.400
against the team. Historically, it's always when

00:23:24.400 --> 00:23:26.039
we get knocked out of the playoffs, but like

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we've normally not done well against Pittsburgh,

00:23:28.700 --> 00:23:31.150
right? It's like we just have a lineup. dual

00:23:31.150 --> 00:23:33.569
problem where he sometimes the players he picks

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doesn't make sense to me. Was that more of this

00:23:36.130 --> 00:23:38.970
on the night with Sacramento or was this Sacramento

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just finally coming alive and becoming the beasts,

00:23:41.690 --> 00:23:44.009
you know, in the West that we've always anticipated

00:23:44.009 --> 00:23:47.470
them becoming? I honestly would think it's probably

00:23:47.470 --> 00:23:50.109
a little bit of both because I don't ever like

00:23:50.109 --> 00:23:53.210
recall a time I've ever seen a team this disjointed.

00:23:53.230 --> 00:23:55.670
They were getting overrun in the midfield. They

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were misplacing passes. They were being sloppy

00:23:57.789 --> 00:24:01.519
in general. And I mean, We can blame it on a

00:24:01.519 --> 00:24:03.319
short week, but they had a long break before

00:24:03.319 --> 00:24:06.519
this. So I mean, I was it. Was it too late in

00:24:06.519 --> 00:24:08.539
the night for them? Was it past their bedtime?

00:24:08.980 --> 00:24:10.460
I mean, I won't say which players, but we did

00:24:10.460 --> 00:24:12.799
see some at Hawk Club extremely late at night,

00:24:13.079 --> 00:24:15.000
like a week before we got back into the season.

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They're allowed to be humans. They're allowed

00:24:16.259 --> 00:24:19.500
to have live. Yeah, and then like is then. So

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is this then? Just like you said, no clay, no

00:24:22.200 --> 00:24:24.700
party. Is he the glue that holds the team down

00:24:24.700 --> 00:24:27.599
together, who protects the defenders and really

00:24:27.599 --> 00:24:31.920
only has them deal with one or two kind of situations?

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It just felt like the team was so disrupted,

00:24:35.980 --> 00:24:37.799
disjointed, and we really couldn't put anything

00:24:37.799 --> 00:24:40.400
together. There's such a lack of cohesion and

00:24:40.400 --> 00:24:44.460
creativity. Are we going to blame body clocks

00:24:44.460 --> 00:24:45.980
at all? Because it's not something we talked

00:24:45.980 --> 00:24:48.539
about in the preview. We were tired watching

00:24:48.539 --> 00:24:51.420
the game. I can't even imagine on you know a

00:24:51.420 --> 00:24:53.720
short transition you're going out your matches

00:24:53.720 --> 00:24:55.480
starting at a time when probably most of these

00:24:55.480 --> 00:24:57.900
players are going to bed in a midweek setting

00:24:57.900 --> 00:25:01.420
they're playing till past midnight on the on

00:25:01.420 --> 00:25:03.559
the body clock right like there's not a lot of

00:25:03.559 --> 00:25:05.319
time you get to adjust to that from a jet lag

00:25:05.319 --> 00:25:08.059
perspective do we get to blame body clocks at

00:25:08.059 --> 00:25:09.779
all on this one because otherwise we need to

00:25:09.779 --> 00:25:11.740
have a conversation about how west coast teams

00:25:11.740 --> 00:25:13.359
line up and they have to play the games at like

00:25:13.359 --> 00:25:15.980
5 30 and who cares if their fans show up or not

00:25:15.980 --> 00:25:20.259
so like do we blame body clocks um I mean, that

00:25:20.259 --> 00:25:22.539
would be something I think maybe a good question

00:25:22.539 --> 00:25:25.019
for them. I don't, I wouldn't think that three

00:25:25.019 --> 00:25:27.859
hours would be that big of a deal, but maybe

00:25:27.859 --> 00:25:31.259
if they have very strict regimens, potentially.

00:25:32.140 --> 00:25:34.400
Um, I mean, you can always prepare for that.

00:25:34.460 --> 00:25:37.700
I feel like just get, get some extra sleep, but

00:25:37.700 --> 00:25:39.880
I just don't know if I would buy that excuse,

00:25:39.880 --> 00:25:42.799
but I'm also not a professional soccer player.

00:25:42.839 --> 00:25:45.619
So I feel like I can't weigh in too much of that.

00:25:45.880 --> 00:25:47.779
But I mean, like it, it does, like you mentioned

00:25:47.779 --> 00:25:50.299
is, was this just Sacramento waking up? It, it

00:25:50.299 --> 00:25:53.960
just, it's, I don't know how to explain it. How

00:25:53.960 --> 00:25:57.200
often do we play a team who's like, we're looking

00:25:57.200 --> 00:25:59.980
at them. Oh, they're down on their luck. They're,

00:26:00.079 --> 00:26:03.119
they're, they're not doing well. And then they

00:26:03.119 --> 00:26:05.880
have their game of their life against us. It

00:26:05.880 --> 00:26:09.420
just feels like RFC are cursed and incredibly

00:26:09.420 --> 00:26:12.140
unlucky. I've heard this song before. Yeah. And

00:26:12.140 --> 00:26:15.380
it's, it's like, it feels like an excuse, but

00:26:15.549 --> 00:26:17.990
Anyone who's a fan of this club has seen this

00:26:17.990 --> 00:26:24.190
time and time again. uh rendon gets the little

00:26:24.190 --> 00:26:27.150
flick across his body going the wrong direction

00:26:27.150 --> 00:26:30.450
from goal and does this little cute chip over

00:26:30.450 --> 00:26:33.009
koke to get the single goal of the game to lose

00:26:33.009 --> 00:26:35.410
one nil and then look at this one it's a it's

00:26:35.410 --> 00:26:37.970
it's a collision in the box a fair challenge

00:26:37.970 --> 00:26:40.869
ball goes high koke can't track it no defender

00:26:40.869 --> 00:26:44.710
by the way runs in to cover the goal mouth and

00:26:44.710 --> 00:26:46.890
by the time koke can see where it's going it's

00:26:46.890 --> 00:26:49.900
too little too late like We don't get those kinds

00:26:49.900 --> 00:26:52.440
of goals. We don't get that kind of luck going

00:26:52.440 --> 00:26:55.559
our direction. We always have to fight hard for

00:26:55.559 --> 00:26:58.500
like just amazing, incredible sequence and build

00:26:58.500 --> 00:27:00.740
up the right place, right time and set pieces

00:27:00.740 --> 00:27:03.640
or like some galazzos where, and I'm not talking

00:27:03.640 --> 00:27:05.720
the luck in the galazzos, I'm talking like skilled

00:27:05.720 --> 00:27:08.240
shot taken from a place that they always practice

00:27:08.240 --> 00:27:11.119
it versus a little deflection here, a little

00:27:11.119 --> 00:27:14.059
chaos here. Is what I'm gonna see unlucky then

00:27:14.059 --> 00:27:17.119
at this point? I think so. I just don't, I don't

00:27:17.119 --> 00:27:19.339
know any other way to describe it. I mean, I

00:27:19.339 --> 00:27:22.599
think to a certain extent you do in sports where

00:27:22.599 --> 00:27:26.259
you have to create your own luck by working hard.

00:27:26.579 --> 00:27:30.160
That's what XG is for. Yeah. And, but like it,

00:27:30.160 --> 00:27:32.559
you look at this game and there are no givens

00:27:32.559 --> 00:27:34.859
in this league, right. And from top to bottom,

00:27:35.359 --> 00:27:37.420
there's parody in this league. Any team can beat

00:27:37.420 --> 00:27:41.519
anybody, but Sacramento Republic are rated 24th

00:27:41.519 --> 00:27:45.559
out of 25 in the league. Like they aren't, They

00:27:45.559 --> 00:27:48.259
were the worst team. They're particularly good

00:27:48.259 --> 00:27:50.019
at anything. Sorry, Will. I know you're listening,

00:27:50.059 --> 00:27:52.779
but they were the worst team up until last night.

00:27:53.059 --> 00:27:55.339
And then somehow, somehow we're ranked fourth

00:27:55.339 --> 00:27:57.759
out of this. So clearly it doesn't make any,

00:27:57.759 --> 00:28:00.200
the stats don't make any sense because we're

00:28:00.200 --> 00:28:03.440
somehow forever stuck in ninth place, but we're

00:28:03.440 --> 00:28:05.700
doing everything right, right? But nothing is

00:28:05.700 --> 00:28:08.559
going our way. so we're either unlucky or the

00:28:08.559 --> 00:28:10.779
teams that show up in big moments big ways are

00:28:10.779 --> 00:28:13.779
lucky we're not putting away teams on paper that

00:28:13.779 --> 00:28:16.440
we are superior to and again if you ask the players

00:28:16.440 --> 00:28:18.539
they'll they'll all say they'll all lie and say

00:28:18.539 --> 00:28:21.180
oh every every game was a tough battle there's

00:28:21.180 --> 00:28:23.240
so much parity league you know there are teams

00:28:23.240 --> 00:28:25.880
you're supposed to beat is there a mental lapse

00:28:25.880 --> 00:28:29.259
here is this some is this coach kano as a student

00:28:29.259 --> 00:28:32.400
of pep guardiola tinkering too much i mean Again,

00:28:32.440 --> 00:28:34.940
we can go back to the formation. Summarize for

00:28:34.940 --> 00:28:37.900
me why we lost this game. Is it on Coach? Is

00:28:37.900 --> 00:28:39.759
it on the player performance? Don't give me a

00:28:39.759 --> 00:28:41.920
little column A, a little column B. Point it

00:28:41.920 --> 00:28:43.480
down to one thing that if we go back to Coach,

00:28:43.480 --> 00:28:45.019
if I were to go to training tomorrow and say,

00:28:45.180 --> 00:28:48.480
Coach Cano, why did you do this? Or Coach Cano,

00:28:48.480 --> 00:28:51.019
why did your players do X? What would you put

00:28:51.019 --> 00:28:53.220
that down to? And I may ask him this tomorrow

00:28:53.220 --> 00:28:59.420
morning. I mean, I look at how I would be curious

00:28:59.420 --> 00:29:02.339
as like... Why did the team, why were so disorganized?

00:29:02.380 --> 00:29:05.420
Why were so disjointed? Did the teams not feel,

00:29:05.720 --> 00:29:08.299
did the team not feel comfortable in the positions

00:29:08.299 --> 00:29:11.900
they were asked to play in? Was it the tactics?

00:29:12.319 --> 00:29:15.400
Like why, why did they have a bad game? Cause

00:29:15.400 --> 00:29:17.240
they didn't just bunker on a gentleman's four

00:29:17.240 --> 00:29:20.619
four two and just go for the point. Obviously.

00:29:21.500 --> 00:29:23.779
Obviously. I don't know. I, I don't know. Those

00:29:23.779 --> 00:29:26.440
are the questions that someone has to ask. I

00:29:26.440 --> 00:29:28.839
don't know who it is. David asking on the chat,

00:29:28.880 --> 00:29:31.140
could it be the surface? He said the pitch looked

00:29:31.140 --> 00:29:33.859
torn up compared to ours. It could have been.

00:29:34.420 --> 00:29:36.920
I mean, there's probably a plethora of different

00:29:36.920 --> 00:29:39.779
things that could have happened. But this team

00:29:39.779 --> 00:29:42.220
knew how important it was. There's not many games

00:29:42.220 --> 00:29:44.720
in hand that we have. And this one is a squandered

00:29:44.720 --> 00:29:47.259
game in hand. We got nothing out of this. And

00:29:47.259 --> 00:29:49.500
we've talked about protecting that advantage.

00:29:49.599 --> 00:29:52.200
And nothing came of it as a result. So then I'll

00:29:52.200 --> 00:29:55.539
ask you, was this a bad result? Absolutely. Was

00:29:55.539 --> 00:29:59.140
this the worst result of the season? I'm trying

00:29:59.140 --> 00:30:02.200
to think. It might be pretty close. I think that

00:30:02.200 --> 00:30:04.880
Miami result wasn't very good either. The team

00:30:04.880 --> 00:30:08.000
looked very flat, but I look at this and think

00:30:08.000 --> 00:30:12.779
maybe this is worse because we were starting

00:30:12.779 --> 00:30:16.660
to build on something and immediately just got

00:30:16.660 --> 00:30:19.759
flat tired and kind of tripped over ourselves.

00:30:20.420 --> 00:30:23.650
And so I know a way can be tough but then you

00:30:23.650 --> 00:30:26.650
also look and ask yourself like well how do teams

00:30:26.650 --> 00:30:30.269
like Tampa Bay Charleston Louisville in Pittsburgh

00:30:30.269 --> 00:30:34.410
go out and do it you know season after season

00:30:34.410 --> 00:30:37.829
I don't know I don't have an answer for you all

00:30:37.829 --> 00:30:40.950
I know Kyle Edwards scores the opening goal we

00:30:40.950 --> 00:30:46.289
equalize um about 20 minutes later then we get

00:30:46.289 --> 00:30:48.759
scored on again and then Second half just doesn't

00:30:48.759 --> 00:30:50.519
matter in this game. Mark Anthony K with two

00:30:50.519 --> 00:30:52.839
assists, Kyle Edwards with a goal. We talked

00:30:52.839 --> 00:30:56.400
about how he was just so good. 12 goals and 10

00:30:56.400 --> 00:30:59.039
starts for Hartford Athletic doing the work there.

00:30:59.500 --> 00:31:01.279
I don't know what else to tell you about this

00:31:01.279 --> 00:31:02.819
game other than I wish I could purge it from

00:31:02.819 --> 00:31:04.960
my memory. I think the only thing I would disagree

00:31:04.960 --> 00:31:08.259
with, Jason, is the fact that this isn't a worse

00:31:08.259 --> 00:31:10.200
result because we haven't seen success against

00:31:10.200 --> 00:31:13.180
Sacramento yet in a way we want to. Quickly becoming

00:31:13.180 --> 00:31:15.440
the Pittsburgh Riverhounds of the West for us.

00:31:15.849 --> 00:31:18.410
But this wasn't an Eastern Conference team, so

00:31:18.410 --> 00:31:21.029
I'm okay with dropping points to a Western Conference

00:31:21.029 --> 00:31:23.670
opponent. I think to your point, the Miami game

00:31:23.670 --> 00:31:26.279
could haunt us later. The sporting Jacks could

00:31:26.279 --> 00:31:28.400
haunt us, but probably most likely the Birmingham

00:31:28.400 --> 00:31:30.539
game is what's going to haunt us because if Birmingham

00:31:30.539 --> 00:31:32.700
figures their act out, they're probably the most

00:31:32.700 --> 00:31:34.660
likely going to be the ones chasing after us.

00:31:34.779 --> 00:31:36.980
I think Miami is going to show who they really

00:31:36.980 --> 00:31:38.839
are by the end of the season, and it's going

00:31:38.839 --> 00:31:40.920
to be a problem. And I can't wait to talk about

00:31:40.920 --> 00:31:43.339
that in about three more months as we pretend

00:31:43.339 --> 00:31:45.759
that the September rise is going to happen. But

00:31:45.759 --> 00:31:47.819
we've got to go to break. And when we return,

00:31:47.960 --> 00:31:50.019
we're going to hit the garage and check in on

00:31:50.019 --> 00:31:52.880
the Prinks Tire Cup action ahead on this weekend.

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Cup conversation brought to you by Originally

00:32:27.960 --> 00:32:31.099
Jägermeister. Let's talk about these table standings

00:32:31.099 --> 00:32:33.019
here for a second. Jason, we're only going group

00:32:33.019 --> 00:32:35.960
five if you really want to get in the nitty gritty

00:32:35.960 --> 00:32:37.599
of the entirety of the tournament. That's your

00:32:37.599 --> 00:32:39.420
prerogative. But here we're going to focus on

00:32:39.420 --> 00:32:41.779
what matters in this group five action. Yeah,

00:32:41.839 --> 00:32:44.059
so taking a look at group five here, we have

00:32:44.059 --> 00:32:46.180
at the top of the group, Hartford with seven

00:32:46.180 --> 00:32:50.220
points, Brooklyn in second with six, RFC in third

00:32:50.220 --> 00:32:52.900
with fifth. Hearts of pine right behind us with

00:32:52.900 --> 00:32:55.900
fourth rounding out the bottom there cosmos with

00:32:55.900 --> 00:32:59.539
three points in Westchester with two points in

00:32:59.539 --> 00:33:02.720
This tournament only the best wild card team

00:33:02.720 --> 00:33:05.500
goes through. It's not angular uno singular It's

00:33:05.500 --> 00:33:08.059
not like the World Cup were eight of the best

00:33:08.059 --> 00:33:11.660
certainly. Oh, it's it's only one of them. So

00:33:11.660 --> 00:33:14.579
If our FC win their match this weekend against

00:33:14.579 --> 00:33:17.160
Brooklyn that would put them on eight points

00:33:17.160 --> 00:33:21.130
that would be You know, potentially a second

00:33:21.130 --> 00:33:23.049
point like second for second place. It really

00:33:23.049 --> 00:33:27.190
depends to top the group though. That means Westchester

00:33:27.190 --> 00:33:31.470
has to get a result against Hartford. And this

00:33:31.470 --> 00:33:34.369
is Hartford's competition. They won last year.

00:33:34.849 --> 00:33:36.930
I mean, they, they just put up two goals against

00:33:36.930 --> 00:33:40.710
Orange County soccer club the other night. Maybe

00:33:40.710 --> 00:33:43.049
something in them is finally waking up. I just

00:33:43.049 --> 00:33:46.049
don't know if I trust Westchester to like do

00:33:46.049 --> 00:33:49.380
the work for us. And if we take a look at the

00:33:49.380 --> 00:33:51.059
other groups, which we're not going to go through

00:33:51.059 --> 00:33:53.680
currently, every second place team and their

00:33:53.680 --> 00:33:57.119
respective group as a wild card has at least

00:33:57.119 --> 00:34:02.359
one more point than us. So we need every single

00:34:02.359 --> 00:34:06.539
second place team to not get a result for us

00:34:06.539 --> 00:34:10.079
to sneak through the wild card. It feels very

00:34:10.079 --> 00:34:13.079
much like the to tie it back to world cup. There

00:34:13.079 --> 00:34:15.440
was that there's all those graphs going around

00:34:15.440 --> 00:34:18.719
for scotland of like okay how can scotland sneak

00:34:18.719 --> 00:34:22.280
in with three points of like well a b and c d

00:34:22.280 --> 00:34:25.460
e f and g we need like four of those all to happen

00:34:25.460 --> 00:34:29.679
at the one the same point so in connor mcglin

00:34:29.679 --> 00:34:32.980
we trust is what i'm hearing i mean it's really

00:34:32.980 --> 00:34:35.639
not in our control or destiny you know real fast

00:34:35.639 --> 00:34:37.380
want to talk about the the format of the tournament

00:34:37.380 --> 00:34:40.110
there's 44 teams, I believe, in this between

00:34:40.110 --> 00:34:43.869
USL 1 and USL Championship. Having now experienced

00:34:43.869 --> 00:34:47.329
the expanded format of the World Cup, I really

00:34:47.329 --> 00:34:49.250
wish that they had, instead of having most of

00:34:49.250 --> 00:34:52.030
these groups be six teams, I really wish that

00:34:52.030 --> 00:34:54.469
they had brought them down to four teams and

00:34:54.469 --> 00:34:57.269
had the next two teams move on and then played

00:34:57.269 --> 00:34:59.449
for something more. Because at this point, you

00:34:59.449 --> 00:35:02.309
know, we're now playing games and so many teams

00:35:02.309 --> 00:35:06.570
don't make it forward. It almost feels like a

00:35:06.570 --> 00:35:10.130
disservice. Like I don't know like at this point,

00:35:10.130 --> 00:35:12.409
you know, and I'm sure the teams are at the top

00:35:12.409 --> 00:35:14.070
They've earned their way so they would say no

00:35:14.070 --> 00:35:16.170
we fought for this. We deserve it and last year.

00:35:16.170 --> 00:35:17.929
That was us, right? We were first in our group

00:35:17.929 --> 00:35:22.110
But it's almost more fun To see this be something

00:35:22.110 --> 00:35:24.389
where you limit the amount of teams and it's

00:35:24.389 --> 00:35:27.269
two championship teams to usl one teams two teams

00:35:27.269 --> 00:35:30.050
can move on and then you you Randomize the tournament

00:35:30.050 --> 00:35:31.530
and then everyone can go wherever I know they

00:35:31.530 --> 00:35:33.610
want to protect it from a financial travel perspective

00:35:33.610 --> 00:35:35.630
But then it becomes too much like the open cup.

00:35:35.650 --> 00:35:38.679
I really think for this to get traction and get

00:35:38.679 --> 00:35:40.719
legs under it. I think they need to reduce the

00:35:40.719 --> 00:35:43.159
groups, make the knockout games where two of

00:35:43.159 --> 00:35:46.000
the four can move on and then see what happens.

00:35:46.300 --> 00:35:48.219
And I think that's what I have to do. Maybe there's

00:35:48.219 --> 00:35:49.980
a couple instances where, again, a third place

00:35:49.980 --> 00:35:53.760
wild card can extend the match. But I this just

00:35:53.760 --> 00:35:55.300
seems boring at this point that knowing there's

00:35:55.300 --> 00:35:59.199
only one team out of six in Group five that are

00:35:59.199 --> 00:36:01.320
making it and then the other five just are sitting

00:36:01.320 --> 00:36:02.920
here twiddling their thumbs like it almost feels

00:36:02.920 --> 00:36:06.630
stupid that this is how we're moving on. I think

00:36:06.630 --> 00:36:10.809
you look at this and like a sicko like John Morrissey

00:36:10.809 --> 00:36:13.309
will love all the different permutations and

00:36:13.309 --> 00:36:16.329
enjoy that. But as the fan of a singular team,

00:36:16.389 --> 00:36:18.590
you're like, well, cool, we're essentially knocked

00:36:18.590 --> 00:36:21.570
out. So what does this game mean to me? I mean,

00:36:21.570 --> 00:36:23.909
I'm looking at it right now. No one can catch

00:36:23.909 --> 00:36:25.949
Colorado Springs switchbacks. They won group

00:36:25.949 --> 00:36:28.170
two. So there's five teams that are probably

00:36:28.170 --> 00:36:31.949
out. San Antonio most likely has group three.

00:36:33.179 --> 00:36:35.079
Louisville Louisville and India are probably

00:36:35.079 --> 00:36:37.059
the closest fight because they're only one point

00:36:37.059 --> 00:36:40.000
apart Hartford and Brooklyn technically but Hartford's

00:36:40.000 --> 00:36:42.400
gotta kind of give me since they're playing Westchester

00:36:42.400 --> 00:36:44.559
who has two points so you could say that one's

00:36:44.559 --> 00:36:47.480
done group six is actually at a cut through right

00:36:47.480 --> 00:36:49.260
now between Charleston battery and Charlotte

00:36:49.260 --> 00:36:51.539
independence and Tampa Bay route is already one

00:36:51.539 --> 00:36:55.659
group seven so it's like Again, like it was only

00:36:55.659 --> 00:36:56.920
one team moving on from each of these groups.

00:36:56.980 --> 00:36:58.619
Where's the fun in that? Like I want to see more

00:36:58.619 --> 00:37:00.519
in the future I don't want to see it come at

00:37:00.519 --> 00:37:02.360
the expense of additional championship games

00:37:02.360 --> 00:37:04.880
in regular season taken away but there's got

00:37:04.880 --> 00:37:07.280
to be a way that we can find a better balance

00:37:07.280 --> 00:37:10.199
to this because this doesn't feel and maybe actually

00:37:10.199 --> 00:37:12.199
Maybe it does come from the fact that you play

00:37:12.199 --> 00:37:14.380
one less game anyways than if you don't have

00:37:14.380 --> 00:37:16.980
Four teams that you have to fight in the group

00:37:16.980 --> 00:37:18.380
stage because we didn't even play everyone in

00:37:18.380 --> 00:37:20.440
our group talk about unfair parity They're like

00:37:20.440 --> 00:37:22.440
I think this needs to get a little bit reverse

00:37:22.440 --> 00:37:25.039
engineered for the next year iteration not really

00:37:25.039 --> 00:37:27.980
a fan of it right now but having said that and

00:37:27.980 --> 00:37:29.760
while it's probably apparent to everyone on the

00:37:29.760 --> 00:37:32.760
show that coming off of a short rest and we just

00:37:32.760 --> 00:37:34.840
came all the way across the country and being

00:37:34.840 --> 00:37:37.500
injury depleted it's probably not a great time

00:37:37.500 --> 00:37:40.119
to be placing bets on RFC considering what we're

00:37:40.119 --> 00:37:41.920
going to talk about in the starting 11 projection

00:37:41.920 --> 00:37:43.820
here in a second and that's even if you could

00:37:43.820 --> 00:37:46.000
bet on Pring's Tires action because I know firsthand

00:37:46.000 --> 00:37:48.320
you can't bet on that on some of these websites

00:37:48.320 --> 00:37:50.440
because I tried when we headed out to Hartford

00:37:50.440 --> 00:37:53.960
earlier in the season. Yeah, and kind of get

00:37:53.960 --> 00:37:55.699
into the previous match look in our head -to

00:37:55.699 --> 00:37:58.739
-head record against Brooklyn. We've Surprised

00:37:58.739 --> 00:38:01.000
only play them one time. They're a brand new

00:38:01.000 --> 00:38:04.380
team And that was at home this year May 29th,

00:38:04.380 --> 00:38:07.900
which saw both JJ and Josiah record Joe J. I

00:38:07.900 --> 00:38:12.219
record a brace Given our FC a 4 -1 victory since

00:38:12.219 --> 00:38:15.500
that match. They've played four league matches

00:38:15.500 --> 00:38:18.739
They had a indie match that was postponed probably

00:38:18.739 --> 00:38:22.329
due to some crazy weather in the Midwest You

00:38:22.329 --> 00:38:24.230
know during those games they had a one two and

00:38:24.230 --> 00:38:28.440
one record somehow that that one win. They picked

00:38:28.440 --> 00:38:30.800
up a cheeky win against the one and only Pittsburgh

00:38:30.800 --> 00:38:32.960
Riverhounds. Wasn't cheeky. Wasn't cheeky. It

00:38:32.960 --> 00:38:36.179
was a brutal slug fest. And I literally mean

00:38:36.179 --> 00:38:39.280
slug fest because our IFC alumni Albert Diqua

00:38:39.280 --> 00:38:42.639
left the game early after punching Tommy McNamara

00:38:42.639 --> 00:38:45.800
in the face before then getting dropped to the

00:38:45.800 --> 00:38:48.219
pitch, getting sucker punched himself from a

00:38:48.219 --> 00:38:49.980
Brooklyn FC player that I don't remember at the

00:38:49.980 --> 00:38:52.920
moment. So definitely Diqua taking lessons from

00:38:52.920 --> 00:38:55.980
J .J. Williams on how to attack players at the

00:38:55.980 --> 00:38:59.739
neck and above. I listen I know that these are

00:38:59.739 --> 00:39:01.940
different competitions, but you look like that.

00:39:01.940 --> 00:39:04.400
You get a commanding 2 nil win against the team

00:39:04.400 --> 00:39:07.300
like the Pittsburgh Riverhounds. Is that a catalyst

00:39:07.300 --> 00:39:09.440
for Brooklyn to find its feet here in Jager Meister

00:39:09.440 --> 00:39:12.800
play or sorry Prinks tire play? I'll answer that

00:39:12.800 --> 00:39:16.019
just a sec, but this fact that Albert Deque will

00:39:16.019 --> 00:39:18.219
punch someone and it just like we've talked to

00:39:18.219 --> 00:39:21.340
him and he seems like just like a quiet nice

00:39:21.340 --> 00:39:23.800
guy like I did not think he had that dog in him.

00:39:23.940 --> 00:39:27.800
So so have you seen the punch? It's like someone

00:39:27.800 --> 00:39:29.679
discovering they have arms for the first time.

00:39:30.119 --> 00:39:32.219
I think he went to shove him and then just like

00:39:32.219 --> 00:39:34.500
a fist came out. I was like, hey buddy. And so

00:39:34.500 --> 00:39:36.000
it didn't even look like a strong punch, but

00:39:36.000 --> 00:39:38.179
of course a player sees a fist coming at your

00:39:38.179 --> 00:39:40.179
face and it makes contact. You're going down.

00:39:40.599 --> 00:39:42.460
So McNamara is on the ground. Like he's just

00:39:42.460 --> 00:39:44.460
been knocked out and going through concussion

00:39:44.460 --> 00:39:47.219
protocol. I don't think dikwa intended he just

00:39:47.219 --> 00:39:48.519
got caught up in the heat of the moment he got

00:39:48.519 --> 00:39:51.440
shoved it doesn't look like a jj williams haymaker

00:39:51.440 --> 00:39:53.920
okay so i was gonna say is there something in

00:39:53.920 --> 00:39:55.880
the water over there or what's going on in the

00:39:55.880 --> 00:39:57.800
merrimack whatever like yeah so sadly though

00:39:57.800 --> 00:40:00.159
fun fact too what's the mahogany river i should

00:40:00.159 --> 00:40:04.099
know that uh the intent behind it it's not even

00:40:04.099 --> 00:40:06.239
in the replays i had to go back to the feed like

00:40:06.239 --> 00:40:08.820
usl doesn't even want the red card shown like

00:40:08.820 --> 00:40:10.980
what are you doing usl when you get your youtube

00:40:10.980 --> 00:40:12.960
highlights that's exactly what you put on there

00:40:12.960 --> 00:40:15.599
we want to see grown men Fist fighting. Okay.

00:40:15.719 --> 00:40:17.619
This is, this is, this is how the NHL sold their

00:40:17.619 --> 00:40:20.639
stuff. Learn from their, uh, opportunities and

00:40:20.639 --> 00:40:23.159
build upon your own. Yeah. Um, to tie back to

00:40:23.159 --> 00:40:25.300
what you said though, I mean, we heard Clay Hulsad

00:40:25.300 --> 00:40:28.300
said it right. They look at these games as another

00:40:28.300 --> 00:40:30.920
game. They don't sit there and think, well, uh,

00:40:30.980 --> 00:40:33.099
it's in a different competition. It doesn't count.

00:40:34.019 --> 00:40:36.599
So realistically, this can help build form in

00:40:36.599 --> 00:40:38.300
the same way that it could help our opponents

00:40:38.300 --> 00:40:42.139
build form too. Um, and it does feel like they

00:40:42.139 --> 00:40:44.340
are kind of starting to build something there.

00:40:44.880 --> 00:40:47.360
There's blocks of consecutive losses and chunks

00:40:47.360 --> 00:40:49.619
of relatively slow performance, but there's slow.

00:40:49.800 --> 00:40:52.659
They're not as bad as when they started. Um,

00:40:52.780 --> 00:40:54.599
they've only dropped points to Tampa Bay since

00:40:54.599 --> 00:40:58.139
facing us. And who hasn't, right? I mean, minus

00:40:58.139 --> 00:41:00.940
us, of course. Yeah. And meanwhile, drawing to

00:41:00.940 --> 00:41:03.000
Louisville and Jacksonville while blowing out

00:41:03.000 --> 00:41:05.320
Portland and now winning against Pittsburgh.

00:41:05.599 --> 00:41:08.239
I mean, that's, that's not terrible. I mean you

00:41:08.239 --> 00:41:10.280
could you could maybe bet that they're kind of

00:41:10.280 --> 00:41:13.000
moving in the right direction uh would this team

00:41:13.000 --> 00:41:15.599
sit in second in you know pranks tired cup action

00:41:15.599 --> 00:41:18.619
in a week between games they have you know to

00:41:18.619 --> 00:41:20.500
to bring their a game i mean also maybe this

00:41:20.500 --> 00:41:22.219
gives us an opportunity to spoil their party

00:41:23.099 --> 00:41:25.719
We're gonna need it. I mean, we're on the wrong

00:41:25.719 --> 00:41:27.340
side of this. Getting into where Rhode Island

00:41:27.340 --> 00:41:29.500
X really sits right now. Talking through that

00:41:29.500 --> 00:41:31.440
availability report. CJ Williams, we saw him

00:41:31.440 --> 00:41:34.039
on the bench. So off the availability report

00:41:34.039 --> 00:41:36.559
we talked about, he should be ready and he was.

00:41:36.980 --> 00:41:39.500
Go Go Peters, still questionable. Don't have

00:41:39.500 --> 00:41:41.820
an update on him. Same with Zach Harrevo. Clay

00:41:41.820 --> 00:41:44.000
Holstead, I think is gonna be out. I think we're

00:41:44.000 --> 00:41:45.880
not gonna see him for at least a week or two

00:41:45.880 --> 00:41:47.980
at a minimum. And again, we still don't have

00:41:47.980 --> 00:41:50.860
an update on the severity. of that injury against

00:41:50.860 --> 00:41:53.619
Orange County Soccer Club. And Omni Jobe, he's

00:41:53.619 --> 00:41:55.199
going to be the question mark. Again, we talked

00:41:55.199 --> 00:41:57.920
to him at Saturday's game. He said he was basically

00:41:57.920 --> 00:42:00.519
ready to go. Kano gave us a conflicting answer

00:42:00.519 --> 00:42:02.940
in the press. So don't know what that'll look

00:42:02.940 --> 00:42:05.559
like. But either way, we've now been exposed.

00:42:05.699 --> 00:42:08.949
We have now seen when key players are out. how

00:42:08.949 --> 00:42:11.230
Rhode Island of Sea responds to that, where the

00:42:11.230 --> 00:42:14.110
level of their depth or lack thereof is. Should

00:42:14.110 --> 00:42:16.230
we be, should we start be talking reinforcements

00:42:16.230 --> 00:42:18.210
at this point? I know everyone was like, Oh,

00:42:18.230 --> 00:42:20.409
Matt was teasing Cal Jennings. Listen guys, if

00:42:20.409 --> 00:42:22.889
I, if Cal Jennings comes, you can thank me later,

00:42:22.889 --> 00:42:25.829
but I, he's not coming. I am. I'm so sorry. I

00:42:25.829 --> 00:42:27.429
hate to do that. I had several people in the

00:42:27.429 --> 00:42:29.530
mail bag go, what did, why didn't you not finish

00:42:29.530 --> 00:42:31.650
your Cal Jennings statement? As of right now,

00:42:31.730 --> 00:42:33.230
Cal Jennings is not a Rhode Island of Sea player,

00:42:33.469 --> 00:42:36.619
but I would be. I'd get the tattoo if Cal Jennings

00:42:36.619 --> 00:42:40.500
becomes the one IFC player. Where do we need

00:42:40.500 --> 00:42:42.179
to get reinforcements now that we've seen kind

00:42:42.179 --> 00:42:44.480
of some of the stretches or thinness in our formation?

00:42:44.880 --> 00:42:47.500
Yeah, we've seen mid -season acquisitions in

00:42:47.500 --> 00:42:49.820
the past and a lot of those have bolstered the

00:42:49.820 --> 00:42:52.380
squad and kind of really helped us push for that

00:42:52.380 --> 00:42:55.559
second half playoffs. With the injuries that

00:42:55.559 --> 00:42:59.780
we have, I almost think we need a handful of

00:42:59.780 --> 00:43:02.340
players. I look at our depth in the center backs,

00:43:02.360 --> 00:43:05.159
like how many You know, do we need another center

00:43:05.159 --> 00:43:09.360
back? Do we need another midfielder? Do we need

00:43:09.360 --> 00:43:13.420
another striker? I mean, we just lost, you know,

00:43:13.480 --> 00:43:18.639
Logan. You know. How many and then how many?

00:43:18.840 --> 00:43:20.980
How long are these injuries going to take to

00:43:20.980 --> 00:43:22.920
like come back so? But what would you want right

00:43:22.920 --> 00:43:25.099
now? I mean, not just because we have limited

00:43:25.099 --> 00:43:28.159
options. Assuming the back line sorts itself

00:43:28.159 --> 00:43:30.650
as soon as Omidy's back. Clay, you could say

00:43:30.650 --> 00:43:33.050
the same thing when he comes back. Is there a

00:43:33.050 --> 00:43:34.550
player that you could say, yeah, I want him and

00:43:34.550 --> 00:43:37.250
I want a better version of them than Clay Holstead

00:43:37.250 --> 00:43:39.230
or Omidy Jope. And I want to go get them right

00:43:39.230 --> 00:43:41.090
now. I mean, off the top of my head, I don't

00:43:41.090 --> 00:43:43.530
have some names, but like maybe profiles. Yeah,

00:43:43.530 --> 00:43:46.389
I want a, so up top, we need another striker.

00:43:46.829 --> 00:43:51.170
Does it have to be an exact replica of JJ? Maybe

00:43:51.170 --> 00:43:55.469
I may like, I think it could help to like have

00:43:55.469 --> 00:43:57.449
a consistent play style, right? Where you can

00:43:57.449 --> 00:44:00.369
give JJ some rest. Put it in another guy who

00:44:00.369 --> 00:44:02.210
sure, maybe he's not as good, but he can play

00:44:02.210 --> 00:44:05.630
the same kind of bruiser holdup style. Uh, in

00:44:05.630 --> 00:44:08.570
the midfield, if clay and Hugo are out, like

00:44:08.570 --> 00:44:10.909
we just don't have enough, we just don't play

00:44:10.909 --> 00:44:15.530
the game. It was just forfeit. So we need maybe

00:44:15.530 --> 00:44:17.690
a certain, like an understudy to one of them.

00:44:18.289 --> 00:44:20.710
Um, which was Zach Haribow, if he can stay out,

00:44:20.750 --> 00:44:23.869
Zach Haribow second time. Yeah. Yeah. No, he,

00:44:23.869 --> 00:44:26.070
he's been the last two seasons. He's kind of

00:44:26.070 --> 00:44:28.239
struggled with his health. I'll remind you that

00:44:28.239 --> 00:44:30.980
Zach Haribo, coming from Tampa Bay, had an injury

00:44:30.980 --> 00:44:34.179
so bad that he couldn't lay down for like 10

00:44:34.179 --> 00:44:37.119
months. So, you know, we just talk about a man

00:44:37.119 --> 00:44:39.000
that just needs to stay healthy. Zach Haribo

00:44:39.000 --> 00:44:40.639
needs to find that health and he needs to find

00:44:40.639 --> 00:44:43.780
there quick. Yeah. So someone of that ilk who

00:44:43.780 --> 00:44:47.500
can kind of play in that position and then just

00:44:47.500 --> 00:44:49.880
probably another center back who. I'm Emma Beaker.

00:44:49.940 --> 00:44:52.219
Where are you at? I mean, we know where he's

00:44:52.219 --> 00:44:56.150
at, but yeah. Someone maybe who's got a little

00:44:56.150 --> 00:44:58.610
bit more pace who can kind of balance out. Okay,

00:44:58.670 --> 00:45:02.349
so we still have We sell the owl we still have

00:45:02.349 --> 00:45:04.969
stoneman, but like we need a balance where okay

00:45:04.969 --> 00:45:08.110
if Omni joke is not available Do we have someone

00:45:08.110 --> 00:45:10.110
who's got legs and can kind of get up and down

00:45:10.110 --> 00:45:12.670
the field? Rio Hope gun. Do you think he wants

00:45:12.670 --> 00:45:15.730
to come back? You just scored it the other day

00:45:15.730 --> 00:45:17.769
for first time. Did you finally watch that goal?

00:45:17.869 --> 00:45:19.630
We thought we joked who scored better that night.

00:45:19.690 --> 00:45:21.960
Did you ever go back and see it? Nah, with the

00:45:21.960 --> 00:45:24.039
World Cup, I don't have time for that right now.

00:45:24.199 --> 00:45:25.840
Good thing you're in the media, my friend. It's

00:45:25.840 --> 00:45:27.599
a good thing. All right, give us the projected.

00:45:27.739 --> 00:45:29.099
Actually, no, it's not a projected level. We're

00:45:29.099 --> 00:45:30.840
not doing that tonight because this one might

00:45:30.840 --> 00:45:33.099
be the hardest test we've ever had in formations

00:45:33.099 --> 00:45:35.079
guaranteed to be wrong. So I think the best way

00:45:35.079 --> 00:45:37.500
to win this game is to not play it tonight. So

00:45:37.500 --> 00:45:40.780
rather than do that, how do you want to approach

00:45:40.780 --> 00:45:44.320
this when we talk about starting 11? I mean,

00:45:45.079 --> 00:45:48.239
I wonder, do we finally see some rotation for

00:45:48.239 --> 00:45:52.489
the goalkeeping spot? Because at this point,

00:45:53.349 --> 00:45:56.670
not to say that this game doesn't matter, but

00:45:56.670 --> 00:46:00.510
we have to win and we also have to have the dominoes

00:46:00.510 --> 00:46:05.250
fall in a certain way. So, you know, if we don't

00:46:05.250 --> 00:46:08.889
see anyone here, we will never see another goalkeeper

00:46:08.889 --> 00:46:12.190
this season barring some sort of injury. So I

00:46:12.190 --> 00:46:14.389
think this is the time to at least give someone

00:46:14.389 --> 00:46:17.309
one appearance just so they can update their

00:46:17.309 --> 00:46:21.719
transfer market or, you know, page. So so do

00:46:21.719 --> 00:46:23.900
we need to put like a Jack Daniels bet on this

00:46:23.900 --> 00:46:27.719
because you know they may or may not be a part

00:46:27.719 --> 00:46:29.780
of the game day experience coming up this weekend

00:46:29.780 --> 00:46:31.860
we I have the scarf somewhere they they found

00:46:31.860 --> 00:46:33.559
us at Trinity Brewer house and gave us this and

00:46:33.559 --> 00:46:36.000
I was like do you know who I am I didn't do that

00:46:36.000 --> 00:46:38.639
but do we need to put this and then because one

00:46:38.639 --> 00:46:40.440
of us will end up drinking on the day the other

00:46:40.440 --> 00:46:43.320
person has to do soccer reporting and go that

00:46:43.320 --> 00:46:45.659
route do we do we want to put I'll let you choose

00:46:45.659 --> 00:46:48.059
and I'll just take the I'll take the other Do

00:46:48.059 --> 00:46:50.780
you want to make an actual wager that jacob castro?

00:46:51.079 --> 00:46:53.519
Is oh, so are we gonna do a shot bet that jacob

00:46:53.519 --> 00:46:55.400
castro but only the loser? Yeah, but then because

00:46:55.400 --> 00:46:57.059
one of us drinks one of us can't do our job and

00:46:57.059 --> 00:46:59.380
report on the game So that means then like, you

00:46:59.380 --> 00:47:01.179
know You could sabotage yourself right now and

00:47:01.179 --> 00:47:03.099
take the easier one so that you don't have to

00:47:03.099 --> 00:47:05.639
be a reporter And i'll sit in the press conference

00:47:05.639 --> 00:47:07.539
room and get yelled at and get stares from conno

00:47:07.539 --> 00:47:09.039
smith How do you want to play this? All right

00:47:09.039 --> 00:47:10.780
i'll take that back because i'm just gonna disappear

00:47:10.780 --> 00:47:13.099
and go watch the argentina game anyway I wish

00:47:13.099 --> 00:47:17.079
I could all right, so Did you anything else before

00:47:17.079 --> 00:47:20.599
I want to chime in? But, uh, I mean, like, do

00:47:20.599 --> 00:47:22.920
we finally? So we saw Danny Revere and Kevin

00:47:22.920 --> 00:47:26.139
you thing. Uh, I mean, we saw CJ Williams before

00:47:26.139 --> 00:47:28.280
he was injured. Did like, do we, we don't have

00:47:28.280 --> 00:47:32.039
a lot of players to rotate, but do we actually

00:47:32.039 --> 00:47:34.739
rotate this time? Like, how do we feel about

00:47:34.739 --> 00:47:38.400
the squad? Okay. So, so here, here's my theory.

00:47:38.519 --> 00:47:41.139
All right. I think we won't know right until

00:47:41.139 --> 00:47:43.199
we see the lineup card come out an hour before

00:47:43.199 --> 00:47:45.730
the game. But I think when we see that we will

00:47:45.730 --> 00:47:48.809
know right then and there Kano's intentions on

00:47:48.809 --> 00:47:52.710
how he's taking this match right because he's

00:47:52.710 --> 00:47:55.650
got to give some of his players a break and He

00:47:55.650 --> 00:47:57.929
has other players that he can call upon to play

00:47:57.929 --> 00:48:00.829
in this match But the level of play between those

00:48:00.829 --> 00:48:02.909
players is kind of where his intent will be on

00:48:02.909 --> 00:48:06.070
is he actually going for it? Or is he just getting

00:48:06.070 --> 00:48:08.590
a match out of the way and moving on with his

00:48:08.590 --> 00:48:11.750
life? especially considering where we are in

00:48:11.750 --> 00:48:14.110
the tournament and the deck being stacked against

00:48:14.110 --> 00:48:17.210
us, that's the real answer, right? We don't have

00:48:17.210 --> 00:48:18.949
to predict like we'll know, but we'll see everything

00:48:18.949 --> 00:48:21.750
behind his intention based on that starting lineup.

00:48:22.170 --> 00:48:24.789
Now that being said, should we see players like

00:48:24.789 --> 00:48:27.530
Danny Rivera, Noah Fuson, who's got a battery

00:48:27.530 --> 00:48:29.789
for days and busy, who got a limited number of

00:48:29.789 --> 00:48:32.110
minutes in Sacramento? I think absolutely. I

00:48:32.110 --> 00:48:34.550
think those are lock -on, they should be starters.

00:48:35.050 --> 00:48:37.389
Could we also see Kevin Vang be a start at this

00:48:37.389 --> 00:48:40.260
point? Could we see Jacob Castro get the nod

00:48:40.260 --> 00:48:43.579
finally? Wouldn't be surprised. Is CJ Williams

00:48:43.579 --> 00:48:46.340
fit enough to actually start a game coming off

00:48:46.340 --> 00:48:48.519
of all this lack of availability? He could have

00:48:48.519 --> 00:48:50.119
just been, I mean, we didn't even see him enter

00:48:50.119 --> 00:48:54.340
the game despite some shaky defending. We instead

00:48:54.340 --> 00:48:56.500
tried to go back at it, tried to get the equalizer.

00:48:57.260 --> 00:48:59.639
Is CJ Williams ready to, is he ready to task

00:48:59.639 --> 00:49:02.739
and be a starter? I don't know. But the other

00:49:02.739 --> 00:49:04.639
question to it is that those are what five players

00:49:04.639 --> 00:49:07.079
I mentioned There's six more that have to still

00:49:07.079 --> 00:49:09.820
play and all of them have played over You know

00:49:09.820 --> 00:49:12.980
close to 200 minutes this week on some very tired

00:49:12.980 --> 00:49:15.800
legs like JJ Williams played the entirety of

00:49:15.800 --> 00:49:17.340
Of this game. I think he played the entirety

00:49:17.340 --> 00:49:18.920
of the Orange County game as well because again

00:49:18.920 --> 00:49:21.880
There's no striker profile that can really replace

00:49:21.880 --> 00:49:23.940
them in that forward position, and he didn't

00:49:23.940 --> 00:49:26.760
get a goal in either game Is JJ Williams gonna

00:49:26.760 --> 00:49:29.679
be our striker? Right or is that a Fonzo now?

00:49:29.920 --> 00:49:32.380
Like that's it's Hugo backwreck who ripped off

00:49:32.380 --> 00:49:34.500
a knee brace and has like you always see he's

00:49:34.500 --> 00:49:37.500
got knee tape He he gestured about it almost

00:49:37.500 --> 00:49:39.559
looked like he wanted to get subbed off But we've

00:49:39.559 --> 00:49:42.039
made all of our subs right like does he have

00:49:42.039 --> 00:49:44.820
it in the tank after being beaten up and bruised?

00:49:44.880 --> 00:49:47.699
I I don't know like you know like our defense

00:49:47.699 --> 00:49:49.960
like just does Grant Stoneman does you know senior

00:49:49.960 --> 00:49:52.139
citizen Grant Stoneman? And I know he's I'm older

00:49:52.139 --> 00:49:54.960
than him, but you know humor me does he have

00:49:54.960 --> 00:49:57.000
it in the tank or like you know there's just

00:49:57.000 --> 00:49:58.800
there's too many players that have had too much

00:49:58.800 --> 00:50:01.500
mileage in this week can they go get the distance

00:50:01.500 --> 00:50:03.780
because you would have expected at this point

00:50:03.780 --> 00:50:07.039
for us to rotate but with what five players on

00:50:07.039 --> 00:50:09.179
the dl right now like that's not really an option

00:50:09.179 --> 00:50:10.900
and we haven't replaced some of the positions

00:50:10.900 --> 00:50:13.179
that we never went out and backfilled in the

00:50:13.179 --> 00:50:16.059
preseason so this is like one of those like funny

00:50:16.059 --> 00:50:18.460
you know i know hashtag not an mos soccer show

00:50:18.460 --> 00:50:21.579
but When MLS teams are having a bunch of injury

00:50:21.579 --> 00:50:25.159
issues and all of a sudden they sign like Five

00:50:25.159 --> 00:50:27.559
of their players from their like two squad like

00:50:27.559 --> 00:50:29.920
a 30 -day contract and just throw them all in

00:50:29.920 --> 00:50:32.320
there You think we're gonna see 25 -day contracts

00:50:32.320 --> 00:50:36.579
by Friday. Oh Could that be something that we

00:50:36.579 --> 00:50:39.880
just just to get hey, you're gonna play two games

00:50:39.880 --> 00:50:43.760
tops and you're gonna you're gonna like it I

00:50:43.760 --> 00:50:45.820
Mean it the the one we had worked out pretty

00:50:45.820 --> 00:50:49.510
well for us I mean, as of right now, do you know

00:50:49.510 --> 00:50:51.750
how many players we actually have on the squad?

00:50:51.849 --> 00:50:55.909
Not counting keepers. I'm going to guess 16.

00:50:57.030 --> 00:51:00.369
That is a very good guess. Are you cheating now?

00:51:00.809 --> 00:51:02.849
Well, then you should be like a savant or something,

00:51:02.849 --> 00:51:06.269
because we do in fact have 18 players. But you

00:51:06.269 --> 00:51:09.510
were super close. You were super close. I don't

00:51:09.510 --> 00:51:11.349
know. I don't have the answer for you. I just

00:51:11.349 --> 00:51:13.289
maybe we have Will Meyer play as a defender in

00:51:13.289 --> 00:51:16.920
this game. who knows the possibilities are endless.

00:51:17.340 --> 00:51:20.199
Let's talk about this Brooklyn side. Not going

00:51:20.199 --> 00:51:21.980
to get into the players, you know half of them

00:51:21.980 --> 00:51:25.260
because they're former RFC alumni. Does Brooklyn

00:51:25.260 --> 00:51:27.199
have a real chance of actually not just winning

00:51:27.199 --> 00:51:29.920
this but moving on because this might be the

00:51:29.920 --> 00:51:32.079
closest thing they get to any accolades in season?

00:51:32.420 --> 00:51:34.860
Like are they a dangerous animal right now because

00:51:34.860 --> 00:51:36.380
they have everything to play for or does that

00:51:36.380 --> 00:51:41.889
make them more, let's call it, Risk at risk because

00:51:41.889 --> 00:51:44.530
they have so much to go for as we really don't

00:51:44.530 --> 00:51:46.250
so we can play a little more free a little more

00:51:46.250 --> 00:51:50.210
brave I mean they're in a position to set themselves

00:51:50.210 --> 00:51:53.610
up to be a pretty decent shout for a wild card

00:51:53.610 --> 00:51:58.349
if they If they win that what puts them on nine

00:51:58.349 --> 00:52:02.030
points for a second place team I don't know if

00:52:02.030 --> 00:52:05.010
that's going to be enough But they're probably

00:52:05.010 --> 00:52:06.849
thinking about that and saying hey like this

00:52:06.849 --> 00:52:09.530
could be our opportunity to build something this

00:52:09.530 --> 00:52:16.449
year Um, it really depends on how we take this

00:52:16.449 --> 00:52:18.849
in terms of seriously. And like they, they have,

00:52:18.989 --> 00:52:20.789
we just talked about their form, right? While

00:52:20.789 --> 00:52:23.010
not amazing, they're starting to get something

00:52:23.010 --> 00:52:24.969
together because when we first played them earlier

00:52:24.969 --> 00:52:27.429
on, they were all over the place. They, they

00:52:27.429 --> 00:52:30.050
picked up a win against Charleston, I think earlier

00:52:30.050 --> 00:52:32.809
on, but so did, so did we. And Charleston was

00:52:32.809 --> 00:52:34.829
really all over the place until they recently

00:52:34.829 --> 00:52:37.510
kind of sorted themselves out. Think there's

00:52:37.510 --> 00:52:39.769
a good possibility that this team is maybe finally

00:52:39.769 --> 00:52:41.809
correcting some things and kind of moving in

00:52:41.809 --> 00:52:44.409
the right direction So I don't expect this actually

00:52:44.409 --> 00:52:48.250
to be the same matchup was when we saw them what

00:52:48.250 --> 00:52:51.829
like two months ago I Mean I agree now asking

00:52:51.829 --> 00:52:55.269
this question Kano famously denies this but I've

00:52:55.269 --> 00:52:57.769
got the tape Good teams don't lose two games

00:52:57.769 --> 00:53:00.949
in a row Does that count in this circumstance

00:53:00.949 --> 00:53:04.150
with the injuries with the fact that this isn't

00:53:04.150 --> 00:53:06.449
technically a league game? Do we get to give

00:53:06.449 --> 00:53:09.289
an asterisk to Kano on this one? Would he ask

00:53:09.289 --> 00:53:12.510
for like if we lose this game Do I do I because

00:53:12.510 --> 00:53:14.269
i'm gonna lose this bet which which which did

00:53:14.269 --> 00:53:17.090
you take by the way castro early or Vegas? You

00:53:17.090 --> 00:53:19.210
took castro. Yeah. Okay. So now I know your intentions

00:53:19.210 --> 00:53:22.610
behind this Do I sit in front of the post game

00:53:22.610 --> 00:53:25.130
and ask him you told us good teams don't lose

00:53:25.130 --> 00:53:27.949
two in a row Is rod Island FC a good team? Do

00:53:27.949 --> 00:53:30.469
you want to tell me? I did I never said that

00:53:30.469 --> 00:53:34.010
about usl tire prank act tire prinks tires action

00:53:35.569 --> 00:53:38.070
So I would argue that like we aren't a good team

00:53:38.070 --> 00:53:40.309
How many wins have we strung together going into

00:53:40.309 --> 00:53:41.969
the you're going into the post game with that

00:53:41.969 --> 00:53:44.949
attitude? You're setting me up for success here

00:53:44.949 --> 00:53:47.929
We we aren't we're in ninth place. We just lost

00:53:47.929 --> 00:53:52.090
to one to a Team who had been kind of struggling

00:53:52.090 --> 00:53:54.030
and see her score and we gave up two goals against

00:53:54.030 --> 00:53:56.730
them That doesn't mean that we can't become a

00:53:56.730 --> 00:53:59.570
good team Because we we've seen the song and

00:53:59.570 --> 00:54:02.190
dance before with this team they figure out what

00:54:02.190 --> 00:54:03.869
to do in the second half of the season and we're

00:54:03.869 --> 00:54:06.389
still kind of floundering around, figuring out

00:54:06.389 --> 00:54:08.269
what our best lineup, figuring out what our tactics

00:54:08.269 --> 00:54:12.590
are to kind of have something consistent. We've

00:54:12.590 --> 00:54:14.690
had a little bit more success earlier on this

00:54:14.690 --> 00:54:16.889
year, scored some more goals than we have. And

00:54:16.889 --> 00:54:19.650
we're kind of thinking like, maybe this is the

00:54:19.650 --> 00:54:21.929
year where we don't do the same thing we've done

00:54:21.929 --> 00:54:25.670
the last two years, that we, you know, the definition

00:54:25.670 --> 00:54:27.449
of insanity, doing the same thing over and over

00:54:27.449 --> 00:54:30.210
again, expecting different results like turns

00:54:30.210 --> 00:54:32.960
out, you know, Maybe this team is a little insane.

00:54:33.179 --> 00:54:36.500
I don't know because it just doesn't, it doesn't

00:54:36.500 --> 00:54:39.380
feel like right now that we, I would call this

00:54:39.380 --> 00:54:42.820
a good team. We're inconsistent. We are key.

00:54:42.980 --> 00:54:46.280
We can be a good team at home. I think we've,

00:54:46.280 --> 00:54:49.199
we've had some results where two of the top teams

00:54:49.199 --> 00:54:52.440
in this league came to center real bank stadium.

00:54:52.659 --> 00:54:55.719
While we didn't beat them, we look slightly dominant

00:54:55.719 --> 00:54:57.659
against them and we're able to hold them to one,

00:54:57.659 --> 00:54:59.789
one draws. So I think you look at that and say

00:54:59.789 --> 00:55:02.989
at home this team can be good So we need a home

00:55:02.989 --> 00:55:05.309
playoff berth more than ever then yeah, except

00:55:05.309 --> 00:55:08.510
for we We can't pick up any points away. So it's

00:55:08.510 --> 00:55:10.489
gonna be it's gonna be a struggle. You know,

00:55:10.489 --> 00:55:13.889
I look at this prinks tires Group standing and

00:55:13.889 --> 00:55:15.650
one of the things that should we win and let's

00:55:15.650 --> 00:55:18.489
say conor mcglin pulls out a worldy And gets

00:55:18.489 --> 00:55:21.789
a hat trick and is the hero we deserve and somehow

00:55:21.789 --> 00:55:26.699
we take the top of the table We still need goals

00:55:26.699 --> 00:55:29.019
if it comes down to any kind of tiebreaker situations

00:55:29.019 --> 00:55:31.380
right now We only have a positive two differential

00:55:31.380 --> 00:55:33.219
most of the teams that are running away with

00:55:33.219 --> 00:55:36.760
certain attributes They have like six or five

00:55:36.760 --> 00:55:39.179
So not only do we have to win this game if we

00:55:39.179 --> 00:55:41.039
have a hope of moving on but we have to win it

00:55:41.039 --> 00:55:44.860
by like a three Plus goal differential Do you

00:55:44.860 --> 00:55:47.360
think that we can pull that off in the eyes of

00:55:47.360 --> 00:55:49.059
Brooklyn who are probably going to be pretty?

00:55:49.300 --> 00:55:51.360
Protective of not going through that similar

00:55:51.360 --> 00:55:53.219
experience of losing for one like they did in

00:55:53.219 --> 00:55:56.179
league play Think it'd be possible with a healthy

00:55:56.179 --> 00:55:58.239
squad. Oh, so it's not possible because we're

00:55:58.239 --> 00:56:01.480
not healthy. Okay, I Think there's a very good

00:56:01.480 --> 00:56:05.039
world where we can still win this match But our

00:56:05.039 --> 00:56:08.139
is it gonna be for one again? Probably not. So

00:56:08.139 --> 00:56:11.079
then knowing our soccer fans and please for the

00:56:11.340 --> 00:56:14.280
the dozens and dozens and dozens of you in here

00:56:14.280 --> 00:56:17.539
right now want to ask this question if we bow

00:56:17.539 --> 00:56:21.059
out of the prinks tire now here whereas last

00:56:21.059 --> 00:56:24.059
year we won it do we look at this as an objective

00:56:24.059 --> 00:56:27.260
failure because this club could not reproduce

00:56:27.260 --> 00:56:29.719
similar results and and does it make it worse

00:56:29.719 --> 00:56:32.440
that we're potentially gifting the advancement

00:56:32.440 --> 00:56:35.719
of our hated rivals in hartford uh taking that

00:56:35.719 --> 00:56:37.920
on i'm curious what the chat says but while they

00:56:37.920 --> 00:56:40.300
while they pontificate Jason, what do you think

00:56:40.300 --> 00:56:42.079
about that? Should the fans get into an uproar

00:56:42.079 --> 00:56:44.579
because we take an early exit out of pranks?

00:56:45.460 --> 00:56:47.340
I mean, I think it'll be very disappointing.

00:56:49.940 --> 00:56:53.639
If we do what we've done in the past and go on

00:56:53.639 --> 00:56:57.360
a successful run into the playoffs, then I think

00:56:57.360 --> 00:56:59.099
people forget about that. It's not going to be

00:56:59.099 --> 00:57:03.019
a big deal. But if we get knocked out of Pranks

00:57:03.019 --> 00:57:06.360
Cup action and then we also maybe don't have

00:57:06.360 --> 00:57:10.389
a good Second half of the season. I think this

00:57:10.389 --> 00:57:14.670
this will be looked on as you know a bad or unsuccessful

00:57:14.670 --> 00:57:18.010
season Well, then how does Rhode Islander see

00:57:18.010 --> 00:57:20.929
take three points here at Sonoma Bank Stadium

00:57:20.929 --> 00:57:23.849
on the weekend? They're gonna have to score first

00:57:23.849 --> 00:57:29.269
We saw last night it we get scored on first Doesn't

00:57:29.269 --> 00:57:33.239
go our way very often if ever You know, the goals

00:57:33.239 --> 00:57:35.840
really change everything. And I think this battle

00:57:35.840 --> 00:57:38.500
tonight is going to be kind of Rhode Island's

00:57:38.500 --> 00:57:41.159
midfield versus Brooklyn's press. Even with the

00:57:41.159 --> 00:57:43.320
rotation, the midfield's got to dictate possession,

00:57:43.500 --> 00:57:46.559
avoid cheap giveaways. So many bad passing sequences

00:57:46.559 --> 00:57:49.579
in last week and yesterday's game. So many failed

00:57:49.579 --> 00:57:51.559
combinations. Characteristically poor. Yeah.

00:57:51.739 --> 00:57:54.500
And that if that first line of pressure is broken

00:57:54.500 --> 00:57:56.639
consistently, Brooklyn will be forced to cheat,

00:57:56.639 --> 00:57:59.840
retreat and defend deeper. If not, Rhode Island

00:57:59.840 --> 00:58:02.039
risks valuable energy recovering from transition

00:58:02.039 --> 00:58:05.139
moments. And that's what I have is because you're

00:58:05.139 --> 00:58:06.980
so depleted, because you're going to be tired,

00:58:07.380 --> 00:58:09.840
because all you're basically doing is regeneration

00:58:09.840 --> 00:58:13.000
and very light practice, if anything. To me,

00:58:13.059 --> 00:58:15.599
this is a game about conserving energy, being

00:58:15.599 --> 00:58:18.519
efficient. I don't think we should see or anticipate

00:58:18.519 --> 00:58:21.039
that explosive style of transition ball that

00:58:21.039 --> 00:58:22.900
Rhode Island FC is historically characteristic

00:58:22.900 --> 00:58:25.579
of because they just don't have it right now.

00:58:26.219 --> 00:58:28.679
Brooklyn will have better legs and better rest

00:58:28.679 --> 00:58:31.579
to match that energy. I think you're going to

00:58:31.579 --> 00:58:32.780
have to play this one a little rope or dope,

00:58:32.820 --> 00:58:35.019
a little cagey. Try to get something out in the

00:58:35.019 --> 00:58:37.219
second half. Almost treat this like you're on

00:58:37.219 --> 00:58:40.519
an away game performance, going for a draw first

00:58:40.519 --> 00:58:43.920
and foremost. Be conservative, be compact, find

00:58:43.920 --> 00:58:47.199
those moments and then go for it. But if it's

00:58:47.199 --> 00:58:49.869
this trying over and over, And then it's just

00:58:49.869 --> 00:58:51.869
bad passing sequences. It's it's not looking

00:58:51.869 --> 00:58:55.030
up to find your your man. It's just sloppy like

00:58:55.030 --> 00:58:56.269
that's going to kill them and they're going to

00:58:56.269 --> 00:58:58.130
get punished on the counter from Brooklyn. I

00:58:58.130 --> 00:59:00.070
mean, we go back and watch the Pittsburgh game

00:59:00.070 --> 00:59:02.210
if you don't believe me and you could argue Pittsburgh

00:59:02.210 --> 00:59:05.690
was in a much better, you know, endurance position

00:59:05.690 --> 00:59:08.590
than we will be coming into this match. So. It's

00:59:08.590 --> 00:59:10.750
been a great show. We do still have more, but

00:59:10.750 --> 00:59:12.590
we're going to cut this for the radio programming.

00:59:12.670 --> 00:59:14.949
So if you're still here with us, don't go anywhere.

00:59:15.329 --> 00:59:17.570
It's going to be the mailbag when we return all

00:59:17.570 --> 00:59:20.349
here on the Raising Anchor Soccer Show. Now let's

00:59:20.349 --> 00:59:22.769
get back to the Raising Anchor Soccer Show on

00:59:22.769 --> 00:59:27.969
990 WBOB with Matt Entrickett and Jason Carey.

00:59:28.210 --> 00:59:30.110
Jason, this one's going to be painful. This might

00:59:30.110 --> 00:59:32.510
be the most angriest mailbag I have ever seen

00:59:32.510 --> 00:59:35.840
in my life. Joe P starts it off with just an

00:59:35.840 --> 00:59:38.539
overall flat performance except for Shapiro Thompson

00:59:38.539 --> 00:59:41.659
and Hugo It looked like jet lag hit this side

00:59:41.659 --> 00:59:44.280
now We have injuries to deal with it is up to

00:59:44.280 --> 00:59:46.219
the bench to pick it up. The talent is there

00:59:46.219 --> 00:59:48.719
They just need the sense of urgency. They are

00:59:48.719 --> 00:59:50.800
still in the playoff hunt This is the only nice

00:59:50.800 --> 00:59:53.159
one of the night. Everything else just gets depressing

00:59:53.159 --> 00:59:56.239
Joe always with the always with good commentary

00:59:56.239 --> 00:59:58.360
there. Do you think though that do we we still

00:59:58.360 --> 01:00:01.380
in the playoff hunt? I mean is the Hopi I'm still

01:00:01.380 --> 01:00:03.969
with you We're on the outside looking in. You

01:00:03.969 --> 01:00:07.449
did not just use a stained lyric on us. Uh, I

01:00:07.449 --> 01:00:09.409
mean, we are in the sense that because eight

01:00:09.409 --> 01:00:11.610
teams can make it through and there are some

01:00:11.610 --> 01:00:14.130
teams below us that are pretty bad. And like

01:00:14.130 --> 01:00:17.670
you said, I think Miami's the, the luster is

01:00:17.670 --> 01:00:20.110
kind of following up, falling off of them unless

01:00:20.110 --> 01:00:22.949
somehow they're, uh, Chris, how players come

01:00:22.949 --> 01:00:26.050
back with that, like World Cup energy or something,

01:00:26.190 --> 01:00:29.349
you know, we'll see though. Um, Bob D says, I

01:00:29.349 --> 01:00:32.159
lost two hours of sleep watching this. Will this

01:00:32.159 --> 01:00:35.739
team ever come from behind and win a game? Uh,

01:00:36.000 --> 01:00:37.639
so I don't know if we've done it yet this season,

01:00:37.639 --> 01:00:39.559
but we have done it in the past, Bob. I remember

01:00:39.559 --> 01:00:43.380
very, very distinctly when the North Carolina

01:00:43.380 --> 01:00:45.519
game, like the second game ever at home in center,

01:00:45.519 --> 01:00:48.320
real bank stadium, it was like at the death maxi

01:00:48.320 --> 01:00:50.699
bearing the penalty one last year. Also, I think

01:00:50.699 --> 01:00:52.860
we had like two, two wins last year. I don't

01:00:52.860 --> 01:00:54.880
know if we've done one yet this season, but hey,

01:00:54.960 --> 01:00:57.440
listen, anything's possible. Okay. If Cape Verde

01:00:57.440 --> 01:01:00.940
can hold Argentina to two goals for almost 120

01:01:00.940 --> 01:01:04.000
minutes, like anything is possible, my friend.

01:01:04.739 --> 01:01:08.179
Eric N writes in absolutely abysmal. We are wasting

01:01:08.179 --> 01:01:10.940
games in hand with terrible performances. The

01:01:10.940 --> 01:01:12.920
only silver lining here is at least I didn't

01:01:12.920 --> 01:01:17.579
have to watch that result at home. Yeah, but

01:01:17.579 --> 01:01:22.920
you had to watch ads. I mean, I mean, I kind

01:01:22.920 --> 01:01:25.719
of, you know, I wouldn't use the word abysmal,

01:01:25.780 --> 01:01:28.699
but I was. I was not feeling that performance

01:01:28.699 --> 01:01:31.820
at all. And I'm kind of a little frustrated to

01:01:31.820 --> 01:01:33.900
that the games in hand that we have are starting

01:01:33.900 --> 01:01:37.199
to slip away. Uh, Lynn case says, I'm really

01:01:37.199 --> 01:01:39.159
upset that I watched the match today, despite

01:01:39.159 --> 01:01:41.940
knowing the result ahead of time. My day has

01:01:41.940 --> 01:01:44.480
been absolutely ruined. I didn't know that Lynn

01:01:44.480 --> 01:01:48.119
was a, uh, a fortune teller for seer of the future.

01:01:49.159 --> 01:01:51.739
I mean, I can't, I'm not going to lie. I, no,

01:01:51.739 --> 01:01:54.539
no, no, no, no. I got this, I got this email

01:01:54.539 --> 01:01:59.099
at like 12 30 today. So she woke up, or he, I

01:01:59.099 --> 01:02:01.980
don't know if this is female or male, or are

01:02:01.980 --> 01:02:05.739
they Lin, but all I do know is that they're saying

01:02:05.739 --> 01:02:07.719
that they watched, they saw that they must have

01:02:07.719 --> 01:02:10.219
woken up to the score line, and then still actively

01:02:10.219 --> 01:02:12.599
chose to watch the game. Oh yeah, no, that's

01:02:12.599 --> 01:02:16.079
terrible. Or this is a delayed email, and I don't

01:02:16.079 --> 01:02:18.179
know which one it is, but my guess is based on

01:02:18.179 --> 01:02:20.260
the time of day they sent the email, that this

01:02:20.260 --> 01:02:23.320
is how that went down. Listen. if you know the

01:02:23.320 --> 01:02:25.260
result don't do this to yourself that's all i

01:02:25.260 --> 01:02:27.199
can say just wait till the show comes on and

01:02:27.199 --> 01:02:29.780
commiserate with us and and we'll you know we'll

01:02:29.780 --> 01:02:31.659
give you the nitty gritties of what happened

01:02:31.659 --> 01:02:33.420
and then you can pretend like it never happened

01:02:33.420 --> 01:02:36.019
we have to watch the show unless you spend your

01:02:36.019 --> 01:02:39.340
free time talking into a mic about the game if

01:02:39.340 --> 01:02:42.260
you see the result is bad just Just don't do

01:02:42.260 --> 01:02:45.059
it. I will remind people that when games happen,

01:02:45.099 --> 01:02:48.219
whether they're live at Centerville or they are

01:02:48.219 --> 01:02:51.320
away games, nine out of 10 times we watch the

01:02:51.320 --> 01:02:54.340
game and then we rewatch the game one additional

01:02:54.340 --> 01:02:58.179
time. So like we're trying to do that. We're

01:02:58.179 --> 01:03:00.539
trying to do that for you so you don't have to

01:03:00.539 --> 01:03:03.019
watch the match. We're trying to protect you

01:03:03.019 --> 01:03:06.300
from yourself, Lynn. Rachel H writes in please

01:03:06.300 --> 01:03:09.639
start calling out this team and Kano It looked

01:03:09.639 --> 01:03:12.960
like they had no ideas and was eerily similar

01:03:12.960 --> 01:03:15.460
to the US men's national team game earlier this

01:03:15.460 --> 01:03:18.340
week My heart simply can't take these kinds of

01:03:18.340 --> 01:03:22.179
losses. I Mean first off Rachel if your heart

01:03:22.179 --> 01:03:24.699
is in any kind of cardiac duress go see a doctor

01:03:24.699 --> 01:03:27.260
like Completely. It's just soccer at the end

01:03:27.260 --> 01:03:30.639
of the day deep breaths That being said though

01:03:30.639 --> 01:03:34.460
comparisons to the US not I mean like I can kind

01:03:34.460 --> 01:03:38.500
of see it. They're very shaky in a way that is

01:03:38.500 --> 01:03:43.659
like, what are you doing? The passes that they're

01:03:43.659 --> 01:03:45.719
making, they look very disjointed. They're kind

01:03:45.719 --> 01:03:48.119
of all over the place. There was also, I don't

01:03:48.119 --> 01:03:51.360
want to blame Koke for that happening, but then

01:03:51.360 --> 01:03:52.820
you also had a goalkeeper - Do not compare that

01:03:52.820 --> 01:03:56.840
to Matt Friese. It's completely different, but

01:03:56.840 --> 01:04:00.679
it's also a - Mean if it you will not slander

01:04:00.679 --> 01:04:02.920
El Capitan like this on our show. I'm not I'm

01:04:02.920 --> 01:04:06.280
not but they're the comparisons are there I would

01:04:06.280 --> 01:04:08.480
say this I don't think Rhode Island gave up.

01:04:08.820 --> 01:04:10.579
I just think they could never get back in it

01:04:10.579 --> 01:04:13.239
I'd say the US men's national team. I think they

01:04:13.239 --> 01:04:15.840
absolutely gave up in that game I think they

01:04:15.840 --> 01:04:19.039
gave up after Tim Fries missed the ball Tim Fries.

01:04:19.139 --> 01:04:21.119
Did you say Tim Fries? Yeah, sorry I was I was

01:04:21.119 --> 01:04:23.440
looking at the next name Tim Ream and and and

01:04:23.440 --> 01:04:26.780
Matt Fries combined is now used together they

01:04:26.780 --> 01:04:29.860
did the fusion dance to make the you know most

01:04:29.860 --> 01:04:32.079
mistake prone soccer player of all time but rachel

01:04:32.079 --> 01:04:34.019
seriously go to go to a doctor if you're having

01:04:34.019 --> 01:04:36.219
heart problems we we need you out we need you

01:04:36.219 --> 01:04:37.960
you're one of the regulars continue to write

01:04:37.960 --> 01:04:40.000
in and uh it's just a game at the end of the

01:04:40.000 --> 01:04:42.559
day yeah we'll get through this together uh tim

01:04:42.559 --> 01:04:46.079
are so are we bad i think we're bad at soccer

01:04:46.079 --> 01:04:49.940
uh yeah yeah yeah i mean that game was not great

01:04:49.940 --> 01:04:52.320
uh i don't think we're at the five alarm fire

01:04:52.320 --> 01:04:56.639
bell yet tim um but i do think that we should

01:04:56.639 --> 01:05:00.570
probably start Like, again, I play players in

01:05:00.570 --> 01:05:03.789
their natural positions. Don't experiment. JoJ

01:05:03.789 --> 01:05:08.150
needs to go back to the right. Frank probably

01:05:08.150 --> 01:05:10.329
needs to stay in the middle for now. Stop getting

01:05:10.329 --> 01:05:12.469
injured. Yeah, stop getting injured players.

01:05:12.630 --> 01:05:14.429
That's all it is. I'm so sorry. I forgot it's

01:05:14.429 --> 01:05:16.329
that easy. There's a couple of things I think

01:05:16.329 --> 01:05:18.750
Kano can do to improve the squad and play less

01:05:18.750 --> 01:05:22.389
experimental and less, like, nuanced, beautiful

01:05:22.389 --> 01:05:24.670
soccer. Yeah, I think we need to give back to

01:05:24.670 --> 01:05:26.590
some good old 4 -4 -2 football terrorism for

01:05:26.590 --> 01:05:29.130
a while. and until the players are back to health.

01:05:29.250 --> 01:05:31.969
Because again, we talked about this last night

01:05:31.969 --> 01:05:34.550
with some of the fans at High Motor. A draw is

01:05:34.550 --> 01:05:37.010
never fun, but a draw is something we can keep

01:05:37.010 --> 01:05:39.210
our heads held high to. Losses never are going

01:05:39.210 --> 01:05:43.090
to pave the way to us making any heads or tails

01:05:43.090 --> 01:05:45.070
inside the playoffs. It's just not going to work

01:05:45.070 --> 01:05:48.409
out. Stacy L writes in, why do we keep losing

01:05:48.409 --> 01:05:52.150
to bad teams? This team needs a mental examination.

01:05:52.670 --> 01:05:57.179
Maybe a sports therapist could help. I don't

01:05:57.179 --> 01:06:01.159
know if I don't think we have a therapist on

01:06:01.159 --> 01:06:03.579
the roster. Maybe it's a part of their benefits.

01:06:04.139 --> 01:06:08.340
I don't know. I think Stacey and comment back

01:06:08.340 --> 01:06:10.519
if you're in the chat or comment in an email

01:06:10.519 --> 01:06:12.619
back to us. But I know she's like referring to

01:06:12.619 --> 01:06:14.239
like I know in Ted last so they have a therapist

01:06:14.239 --> 01:06:16.579
and sports. I know it's a real thing. It's a

01:06:16.579 --> 01:06:19.159
very real thing. Do we think this is a therapist

01:06:19.159 --> 01:06:21.079
driven like mental block or do we think this

01:06:21.079 --> 01:06:24.940
is just the lads like they just they've had a

01:06:24.940 --> 01:06:29.519
bad week? It's it's it's so hard to to really

01:06:29.519 --> 01:06:31.800
figure out like from the outside because we can

01:06:31.800 --> 01:06:35.579
only speculate like we've we ask Questions, oh,

01:06:35.579 --> 01:06:37.139
they don't invite you into the locker room all

01:06:37.139 --> 01:06:39.719
the time like they do me Yeah, no, they don't

01:06:39.719 --> 01:06:42.099
I've never been in that locker room fans of the

01:06:42.099 --> 01:06:44.019
club have been in a locker room That is a place

01:06:44.019 --> 01:06:46.260
that is will remain alien to me for probably

01:06:46.260 --> 01:06:50.840
my entire time Covering this club. I am I am

01:06:50.840 --> 01:06:55.239
NOT welcome in that locker room It's it's really

01:06:55.239 --> 01:06:57.619
hard to pin down exactly what's wrong because

01:06:57.619 --> 01:07:01.139
one week will look great. We'll go out there

01:07:01.139 --> 01:07:04.039
Everything is just going. Well, it's nice and

01:07:04.039 --> 01:07:07.340
gravy in the next week. It's just like that meme

01:07:07.340 --> 01:07:10.119
from was a community with just that like you

01:07:10.119 --> 01:07:11.679
walk in with the pizzas and everything is on

01:07:11.679 --> 01:07:15.159
fire and just it's like What happened? How did

01:07:15.159 --> 01:07:17.300
we get here? This doesn't make any sense How

01:07:17.300 --> 01:07:19.480
do you how do we get from point A to point B?

01:07:19.860 --> 01:07:22.260
I don't know what the behind the scenes like

01:07:22.440 --> 01:07:26.760
What is causing this? Because it's just it's

01:07:26.760 --> 01:07:32.260
so much inconsistency. So I maybe that's the

01:07:32.260 --> 01:07:35.559
answer, but I think that's something that the

01:07:35.559 --> 01:07:38.219
team and the staff would have to kind of do some

01:07:38.219 --> 01:07:40.699
soul searching and say like, hey, maybe this

01:07:40.699 --> 01:07:42.760
is something we need and not kind of something

01:07:42.760 --> 01:07:46.920
for us to decide. Brian A says, I swear we are

01:07:46.920 --> 01:07:49.340
the unluckiest team in the league. That first

01:07:49.340 --> 01:07:52.789
goal would only happen to us. I mean, I, I kind

01:07:52.789 --> 01:07:55.329
of agree too, but I mean, I think we kind of

01:07:55.329 --> 01:07:56.889
touched on it and I cheated. I probably brought

01:07:56.889 --> 01:07:58.750
this up when we were talking about howlers in

01:07:58.750 --> 01:08:02.150
this league, but like, it just feels like whenever

01:08:02.150 --> 01:08:05.349
we give up a goal, somehow it's the most amazing

01:08:05.349 --> 01:08:07.510
goal ever. Like this, this T this player has

01:08:07.510 --> 01:08:10.429
never score scored a worldly before. Or it's

01:08:10.429 --> 01:08:13.010
just like a comedy of errors. Oh, Malongo's goal

01:08:13.010 --> 01:08:15.389
in the second goal for Sacramento was that was

01:08:15.389 --> 01:08:17.369
good. That was a great goal. The argument wasn't

01:08:17.369 --> 01:08:19.289
that he took the goal and he probably couldn't

01:08:19.289 --> 01:08:21.729
replicate that, you know, three out of 10 times.

01:08:22.010 --> 01:08:23.909
The problem was we gave him so much space to

01:08:23.909 --> 01:08:26.449
encroach into the top of the box to line up for

01:08:26.449 --> 01:08:28.770
that shot. Grant Stoneman didn't come out. Grant

01:08:28.770 --> 01:08:31.789
Stoneman caged in and tried to block down the

01:08:31.789 --> 01:08:33.909
shooting lane. He didn't he didn't he didn't

01:08:33.909 --> 01:08:35.510
mirror and match it correctly. But when you bend

01:08:35.510 --> 01:08:36.850
a shot like that, there's very little you can

01:08:36.850 --> 01:08:39.369
do. The question's not on the second goal that

01:08:39.369 --> 01:08:42.090
Sacramento got. It's that first goal and our

01:08:42.090 --> 01:08:45.470
failure to respond to it in its entirety. But

01:08:45.470 --> 01:08:48.489
I agree with you, Jason, on that. And I also

01:08:48.489 --> 01:08:50.789
agree with Brian. We probably are a bit unlucky

01:08:50.789 --> 01:08:53.170
in that regard. I still think, too, that... We

01:08:53.170 --> 01:08:56.630
still need to do some sort of seance or something

01:08:56.630 --> 01:08:59.109
to like uncurse the team. That comes in September

01:08:59.109 --> 01:09:01.659
or August when we haven't gotten that... Second

01:09:01.659 --> 01:09:03.500
half, you know swing that we all like when it

01:09:03.500 --> 01:09:05.539
becomes the second half slide That's when we

01:09:05.539 --> 01:09:07.260
start hitting the panic button start doing the

01:09:07.260 --> 01:09:09.220
burn pit in the center of Centerville Bank Stadium

01:09:09.220 --> 01:09:12.979
I will say this though one of the curious things

01:09:12.979 --> 01:09:15.399
about how teams line up Do you think because

01:09:15.399 --> 01:09:18.819
what I don't see has seen success? I mean, we

01:09:18.819 --> 01:09:21.260
haven't won anything ever but we have gone further

01:09:21.260 --> 01:09:23.859
than most teams in the last two years Do you

01:09:23.859 --> 01:09:27.550
think that causes a like? Chip on the shoulder

01:09:27.550 --> 01:09:29.710
of our opponents to a certain degree like we're

01:09:29.710 --> 01:09:34.010
not loud and walking in with you know, our our

01:09:34.010 --> 01:09:36.449
Laundry still dirty and asking them to use their

01:09:36.449 --> 01:09:40.210
machines to do it before the game. We are a Maybe

01:09:40.210 --> 01:09:42.970
in the same way that when they come to like our

01:09:42.970 --> 01:09:45.170
nice stadium and it makes them play better because

01:09:45.170 --> 01:09:49.069
they feel like they're in Like I think it elevates

01:09:49.069 --> 01:09:51.510
their game. Like I I'm a I'm a real professional

01:09:51.510 --> 01:09:53.569
athlete. I'm not playing on some high school

01:09:53.569 --> 01:09:57.180
field I mean, I just I'm wondering if Rhode Island

01:09:57.180 --> 01:09:59.260
FC has a reputation amongst other teams. It's

01:09:59.260 --> 01:10:01.039
like they're a team we can't take for granted.

01:10:01.039 --> 01:10:03.319
Not that any team would be, but like we have

01:10:03.319 --> 01:10:05.359
to show up extra hard for, you know, JJ Williams

01:10:05.359 --> 01:10:07.340
is going to smack us around if we don't play

01:10:07.340 --> 01:10:08.880
our game. I don't know. We'll have to figure

01:10:08.880 --> 01:10:12.079
that out. Last question of the night. Dave S

01:10:12.079 --> 01:10:15.060
writes in. Why should I go to the game this weekend?

01:10:15.520 --> 01:10:18.300
It's a cup competition we are out of. Well, maybe

01:10:18.300 --> 01:10:20.819
not. Dave, I don't know. We did the numbers earlier.

01:10:21.420 --> 01:10:23.420
But it's sandwiched between two quarterfinal

01:10:23.420 --> 01:10:26.380
World Cup games and knowing us, it'll probably

01:10:26.380 --> 01:10:29.539
rain. Convince me to go. Jason, how do you get

01:10:29.539 --> 01:10:32.180
Dave from glass half empty to glass half full

01:10:32.180 --> 01:10:35.460
right now? I mean, well, the S stands for sicko,

01:10:35.520 --> 01:10:37.460
right? So we know that you're a sicko, Dave.

01:10:38.460 --> 01:10:40.739
You know, apparently there may or may not be

01:10:40.739 --> 01:10:44.220
some sort of Jack Daniels event there. There's

01:10:44.220 --> 01:10:46.489
bobbleheads. That's not this weekend. Oh, it's

01:10:46.489 --> 01:10:48.289
not that's not that's the that's the Hartford

01:10:48.289 --> 01:10:51.430
game. Okay, so there is it's pride night. It's

01:10:51.430 --> 01:10:53.789
pride night. So there's not nothing. It is pride

01:10:53.789 --> 01:10:56.170
night celebrated outside of pride. There's also

01:10:56.170 --> 01:10:59.050
Cape Verde and heritage night that they've announced

01:10:59.050 --> 01:11:01.350
a lot of things and some of them have to be overlapping.

01:11:01.600 --> 01:11:03.560
Because the yeah, because Cape Verde is July

01:11:03.560 --> 01:11:06.079
5th is their independence and so they didn't

01:11:06.079 --> 01:11:08.239
want to share it with America's 250 So they're

01:11:08.239 --> 01:11:09.979
sharing it with pride night and stuff. Okay,

01:11:10.100 --> 01:11:11.960
so we didn't have we only had one game in June

01:11:11.960 --> 01:11:14.939
So too many things happened. Yeah. Yeah. Um,

01:11:15.039 --> 01:11:18.520
and then also because We have the best community

01:11:18.520 --> 01:11:24.199
in all of yourself Also, I hear you I am worried

01:11:24.199 --> 01:11:27.340
about the overlap of the Argentina game starting

01:11:27.340 --> 01:11:30.180
It while this game is still going on. I'm curious

01:11:30.539 --> 01:11:33.779
How would I see one will be attended and how

01:11:33.779 --> 01:11:36.479
they will manage? Like when you see fans leave,

01:11:36.479 --> 01:11:39.119
if the game is like a blowout one way or another,

01:11:39.119 --> 01:11:41.220
like, are we going to see what we used to see

01:11:41.220 --> 01:11:43.159
back in Los Angeles? Like people leaving in the

01:11:43.159 --> 01:11:46.100
70th minute because they want to go on that hill

01:11:46.100 --> 01:11:50.659
and Dodger Stadium. So you got to leave. All

01:11:50.659 --> 01:11:52.880
right. Well, Dave, I hope to see you there. We

01:11:52.880 --> 01:11:55.399
will be there. And I just know this. I will be

01:11:55.399 --> 01:11:57.399
in the postgame press scrum sitting there for

01:11:57.399 --> 01:12:00.800
20 minutes interviewing people who Want to maybe

01:12:00.800 --> 01:12:02.840
be interviewed while the Argentina game is almost

01:12:02.840 --> 01:12:05.899
at halftime. So if I have to suffer you should

01:12:05.899 --> 01:12:07.579
have to suffer too, buddy I'm not giving you

01:12:07.579 --> 01:12:09.800
roses. I'm giving you the doom and gloom or suffer

01:12:09.800 --> 01:12:13.460
with me watching Argentina What's the ref reporter?

01:12:13.899 --> 01:12:16.680
Uh, yeah looking at our refs here. We have Guido

01:12:16.680 --> 01:12:21.579
Gonzalez jr. Assistant refs are Tom Felice and

01:12:21.579 --> 01:12:25.579
Andrew Karen with the fourth official being Justin

01:12:25.579 --> 01:12:28.180
Saporito. I don't think we've ever had Gonzalez

01:12:28.180 --> 01:12:30.800
Jr. as a ref. Tom Felice looks familiar, but

01:12:30.800 --> 01:12:33.760
I think he's always been an AR, so who knows?

01:12:33.819 --> 01:12:35.680
We'll talk about whether they are a storyline,

01:12:36.020 --> 01:12:39.710
as we almost always do. in the recap next week.

01:12:40.109 --> 01:12:42.470
Watch information for this game. A reminder,

01:12:42.529 --> 01:12:44.529
it is Pride Night at Centerville Bank Stadium.

01:12:44.930 --> 01:12:47.250
Tailgate lots are opening at 4 .30 p .m. Rest

01:12:47.250 --> 01:12:49.649
of parking at 5 .30 and gates, of course, opening

01:12:49.649 --> 01:12:53.829
at 6 .30. Kickoff set for 7 .30. As of right

01:12:53.829 --> 01:12:57.270
now, Dave, it's a 78 degree beautiful evening.

01:12:57.529 --> 01:13:00.729
No rain in the forecast. But like you said, who

01:13:00.729 --> 01:13:02.789
knows? And you should always just bring an emergency

01:13:02.789 --> 01:13:06.630
poncho just in case because you never know. Yeah.

01:13:06.680 --> 01:13:08.560
Just pack a sandwich. It's Rhode Island. Pack

01:13:08.560 --> 01:13:13.279
a sandwich, pack a poncho. I don't know if it's

01:13:13.279 --> 01:13:15.359
because it was a tough match that has somehow

01:13:15.359 --> 01:13:17.520
made us revert back to our old selves and we

01:13:17.520 --> 01:13:20.260
somehow win an hour plus. No, it's too much to

01:13:20.260 --> 01:13:22.619
talk about. It's World Cup. We have three games

01:13:22.619 --> 01:13:25.640
in seven days. We knew we knew we were going

01:13:25.640 --> 01:13:27.539
to blow the timeline off of this one. I already

01:13:27.539 --> 01:13:29.880
sent the I already sent the report to the radio

01:13:29.880 --> 01:13:32.420
station like, hey, this is not going to be easy

01:13:32.420 --> 01:13:34.399
for you guys to mix back into the station. This

01:13:34.399 --> 01:13:36.399
one's not going to be a fun one. So. That's on

01:13:36.399 --> 01:13:38.479
them. That's why they pay us the big bucks, you

01:13:38.479 --> 01:13:42.239
know? Yeah. Anyways, it's always great. Thanks

01:13:42.239 --> 01:13:44.659
for joining us, guys. We'll catch you next time.

01:13:44.760 --> 01:14:04.680
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you leave the show. We thank you for joining

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us and look forward to seeing you again. Until

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then, I'm your main man, Juju, and on behalf

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of the Raising Anchor crew, goodbye for now.

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And as always, we are Rhode Island FC.