Latest / Pegasus / S3 Ep6 - Trinity FC 1 - Carolina 3

Transcript

S3 Ep6 - Trinity FC 1 - Carolina 3 · Pegasus

0:20
SPEAKER_02: My name is Jesse, and I'm really glad to meet you.
0:22
SPEAKER_02: You've recommended to me by some people.
0:27
SPEAKER_02: Hey, is this illegal?
0:29
SPEAKER_02: I think I think winning at home for us has been illegal.
0:32
SPEAKER_02: I it's a Pegasus post-match.
0:35
SPEAKER_02: After Dallas Trinity loses Carolina a 1-3.
0:40
SPEAKER_02: I'm here with Rich Rogers and I'm here with Crystal, our our returning guest.
0:48
SPEAKER_02: Recurring guest.
0:49
SPEAKER_00: Recurring for sure.
0:50
SPEAKER_02: Recurring guest.
0:51
SPEAKER_02: And um I don't know, y'all.
0:54
SPEAKER_02: I am I I'm it makes me sad when I don't see my team win in person, and we keep not seeing them win in person.
1:06
SPEAKER_02: Crystal, does this how does this work for you?
1:11
SPEAKER_02: Not seeing them win in person?
1:13
SPEAKER_00: It's very frustrating because we we can.
1:16
SPEAKER_00: I mean, obviously we've scored a couple goals.
1:20
SPEAKER_00: So it's possible.
1:22
SPEAKER_02: It's possible.
1:23
SPEAKER_02: In the realm of possible.
1:25
SPEAKER_00: But I I don't think that the team is meshing well.
1:28
SPEAKER_00: Like I think everybody's like mis they're not they're not there's no chemistry right now.
1:35
SPEAKER_00: That's that's my thing, is there's no chemistry.
1:38
SPEAKER_00: It it feels like everybody's not like listening to each other or really paying attention.
1:44
SPEAKER_00: And it like we had some good runs tonight, and then everybody got tired, it felt like, and everybody kind of gave up, and I was frustrated.
1:53
SPEAKER_02: Speaking of not paying attention, I did not pay attention, I did not set the scene.
1:58
SPEAKER_02: Um we are at Cold Beer Company, our usual haunt after a home match, and um I'm so glad I've met some new people tonight.
2:07
SPEAKER_02: We've had some new people come out.
2:10
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it's not it's not going well for a like a like a like a way like lots of changes have have gone on.
2:20
SPEAKER_02: But um it feels illegal to see our team win at home.
2:24
SPEAKER_01: Well, I think I think one of the things that was pointed out to me tonight, and I think it's important to remember, is that this is there have been a lot of changes in this team, but it's also a very young team.
2:37
SPEAKER_01: And a team that does not, there are a lot of players that were on the pitch tonight that don't have a lot of professional experience, and so we've gone from a team that has lots of players with lots of professional experience, uh, domestically and abroad, to a team that is lacking some of that, and I think that we saw some of that tonight.
2:59
SPEAKER_01: I also think that the team is, especially in the first half, they're trying to do exactly what the coach wants and to their detriment.
3:10
SPEAKER_01: And and we can get into that if we want to, but what I'd like to do is kind of start with the lineup.
3:16
SPEAKER_01: Were there any surprises tonight with the lineup?
3:19
SPEAKER_01: Anything that you thought was should have been different?
3:21
SPEAKER_01: I mean, I feel like the coach put out the best possible 11 to start.
3:26
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so like the lineup, the only change from last week was bringing Cam in to start.
3:33
SPEAKER_02: So it seemed really heavy.
3:34
SPEAKER_02: It seemed really like forward heavy.
3:37
SPEAKER_02: Um it left us without a lot of changes later.
3:41
SPEAKER_02: We'll come out of that maybe, but it left us like with a not a lot of changes later to change the game.
3:48
SPEAKER_02: Um, but what ended up happening is we ended up moving a midfielder to right back, and then Cam um started.
3:56
SPEAKER_02: And then Sophia Sedeno and was um in the midfield too with Jamie Shepard.
4:02
SPEAKER_02: So last week's Sedeno was a little bit more forward combining with um Hamid and Seven Castain.
4:10
SPEAKER_02: Um so the only real change was that.
4:13
SPEAKER_02: Um I was excited by it.
4:15
SPEAKER_02: I was excited by the prospect.
4:18
SPEAKER_02: We did a lot in those first 20 minutes.
4:22
SPEAKER_02: Like you said, we did exactly what the coach has talked about, what we what he wants, what we want to do, but we were undone by the fact that we're not just not, to me, we're just not very good in both boxes at the moment.
4:40
SPEAKER_02: We're really good at passing, racking up passes, racking up possession.
4:45
SPEAKER_02: We're really good at racking up shots.
4:48
SPEAKER_02: I don't want to say chances, big or good chances.
4:51
SPEAKER_02: I mean, every shot's a chance, but whether or not there are like chances that we'll end up in the net, like it's just not happening.
4:58
SPEAKER_02: It did so.
4:59
SPEAKER_02: So we start well.
5:00
SPEAKER_02: We start really well, but we're undone by a Carolina team that is has the patterns down, they're assured in what they do, they know exactly how, they know they knew exactly how to both, they were comfortable in the fact that whatever they're doing, they'll stop us in their box, and then whatever they're doing in their box, they'll just put it in our net.
5:24
SPEAKER_01: Well, I think I wanted to ask Crystal this, because I think one of the biggest differences in that first half, you know, you see their goal, and it's there's there's there's someone that's at the edge of the box, they're passing it.
5:38
SPEAKER_01: There are a couple passes before that ends up in net.
5:41
SPEAKER_01: And it felt like in the first half, what we're doing when we're in the box, that person that's bringing the ball in, their first inclination is just to shoot it.
5:51
SPEAKER_01: And and so there's so the keeper's ready for it.
5:54
SPEAKER_01: Crystal, what do you think about that?
5:56
SPEAKER_00: So this is and it it's my it's my one issue with Gomero.
6:01
SPEAKER_00: I so last season I felt like we were lacking selfishness, but we kept passing it, right?
6:07
SPEAKER_00: We kept passing it to whoever, and no one was actually taking a shot.
6:11
SPEAKER_00: And then you have Gomero, who will take the shot.
6:14
SPEAKER_00: Jasmine Hamid, who will take the shot, but now we need them to pass, right?
6:20
SPEAKER_00: Because you've got two, three players.
6:22
SPEAKER_00: Why are you gonna try and dribble?
6:23
SPEAKER_00: Why are you gonna try and shoot through those three players, right?
6:26
SPEAKER_00: Why not pass it to the middle where there's some I mean that's how we got our goal, right?
6:30
SPEAKER_00: Cam passed it to Jasmine, Jasmine, and uh she'd be able to put it in the back of the net, right?
6:37
SPEAKER_00: Gamaro had a really good shot, don't get me wrong, it was a really good shot to the inside of the goalie, but it it was just slightly to the outside.
6:45
SPEAKER_00: And honestly, I think if she had probably passed it, maybe it could have been a goal.
6:50
SPEAKER_00: But it it it's been a frustration that maybe we're a little bit too shelf selfish with our forwards and we're not passing it enough, you know?
7:01
SPEAKER_02: Well, I think the one of the one of the things that struck me, I think I I think I I think I agree like to an extent of what you're saying.
7:08
SPEAKER_02: My thing was if we want to do this thing where we're gonna rack up possession, why don't we have the bravery to to to plant a flag deep in Carolina's half, really pull them apart, right?
7:25
SPEAKER_02: Like really tire them out.
7:26
SPEAKER_02: Like, why can't we quit why can't we um pen them in, work it out, um, put them under a lot of pressure.
7:36
SPEAKER_02: Like you said, like it was really good.
7:38
SPEAKER_02: Like last year we had trouble with shots, we weren't getting enough shots.
7:41
SPEAKER_02: Now I now like tonight, I kept thinking, these shots are coming too early.
7:45
SPEAKER_02: Yep.
7:46
SPEAKER_02: Because we're able to move.
7:47
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, way too soon.
7:48
SPEAKER_02: We're we're able to move through the thirds, and then we get to the third and we're snapping shots.
7:53
SPEAKER_02: We're not getting the we're not working a good sh a good chance.
7:57
SPEAKER_00: So another issue, another issue I had, right, was yes, we were taking two sh we're taking shots too early, but then they would have possession on the defense, and they sit there with their center back, and she'd sit there and hold it.
8:09
SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, what are you doing?
8:12
SPEAKER_00: Pressure that.
8:13
SPEAKER_01: For force that pass because I think we were not pressuring them when they were in their defensive end.
8:20
SPEAKER_00: And they would pressure us like constantly in our defensive end.
8:24
SPEAKER_00: Where where was the press?
8:26
SPEAKER_00: I get it, you want possession, but to have possession is.
8:59
SPEAKER_01: And then they've got possession in our final third.
9:04
SPEAKER_01: Right?
9:04
SPEAKER_01: They're right there.
9:05
SPEAKER_01: And it's and it's one of those things where it's like, I understand what you're trying to do, but if you're gonna do that, you have got to be completely aware of what's happening around you when you're in that end of the pitch, because otherwise, it's gonna end up in your net.
9:20
SPEAKER_00: So I to bring that up, Braun.
9:24
SPEAKER_00: I like her as captain.
9:25
SPEAKER_00: I need her to take a little bit more time with her passing.
9:29
SPEAKER_00: She, so, and I'm gonna compare her to Amber, and I know I shouldn't, but Amber would take a second, look the field, and then pass.
9:37
SPEAKER_00: Sorry if I'm talking too loud.
9:39
SPEAKER_00: Um she would look the field and then she would pass, whereas Braun, she she literally she holds it for like a second and then immediately passes it to her left or her right.
9:49
SPEAKER_00: She doesn't take the time to actually look and see who is open.
9:54
SPEAKER_00: Who is open further down the field, right?
9:56
SPEAKER_00: Like, who can I pass to to get it further down the field than maybe push their line back and you know, give give us a little bit more breathing room, or maybe give us a little bit more time to position ourselves.
10:08
SPEAKER_00: It's an immediate pass to the wings, and I don't I don't like it.
10:12
SPEAKER_02: Well, like this is the point, like, so we're talking about like a lot of things that we're not doing right, like Carolina set out, they jam the middle tonight.
10:22
SPEAKER_02: Oh my god.
10:23
SPEAKER_02: They jammed that middle.
10:24
SPEAKER_02: Like there was no room in the middle.
10:26
SPEAKER_02: They've got their high line, they've they've got this high line, they caught Jasmine Hamid like offside a number of times, and not just Jasmine.
10:34
SPEAKER_01: In the first half, probably four times, like a lot of times.
10:38
SPEAKER_02: And not just her.
10:39
SPEAKER_02: There was we're trying to get in behind, but it to credit Carolina, it's that they're you know, they're they're real confident, they're pushing real high, and then they're jamming the middle, forcing us out wide, and then and then out wide, the next play is towards the middle, and they're there, right?
10:58
SPEAKER_02: But but my thing is if we're at home and we want to play this way, of we're gonna keep the ball, we're gonna we're gonna um pass, pass, pass, we're gonna have a lot of shots.
11:18
SPEAKER_02: We have to be able, if that's our identity, if if that's our identity, it has to lead to something.
11:26
SPEAKER_02: And right now, it's early, it's early, and we're talking about this, it's early.
11:32
SPEAKER_02: The urgency in my voice comes from the fact it's a shortened season.
11:36
SPEAKER_02: But if we're gonna be this team, we have to get the reward from it.
11:41
SPEAKER_02: Not only do we have to get the reward for it, we can't let it in going the other way.
11:46
SPEAKER_02: Well and we did both tonight.
11:48
SPEAKER_01: If you if you look at that, so the first goal that they get, you could see that coming a mile away, and you know, just a great like the the the way that they played that ball, you know, perfectly executed.
12:03
SPEAKER_01: They had a plan, they did it.
12:06
SPEAKER_01: Um and the second goal, I it was one of those where, once again, like like you're saying, like we're not, we weren't good enough in the defensive end to stop that from happening.
12:19
SPEAKER_01: So we go into the half down 2-0, and pretty defeated, but then we come out after halftime.
12:26
SPEAKER_01: Zero changes, by the way, which I was a little bit surprised at, but like, what are you gonna bring off the bench, right?
12:32
SPEAKER_02: There was a there's one slight change.
12:34
SPEAKER_02: Um they moved to seven.
12:36
SPEAKER_01: I mean, as far as like no no no subs.
12:39
SPEAKER_02: No, but the significant one was they moved Jasmine Hamid closer to Cam.
12:44
SPEAKER_02: Seven Castain has been shading more on the right side.
12:48
SPEAKER_02: So it's been uh like a pair with Jasmine Hamid and Seven Castain.
12:52
SPEAKER_02: And it's mostly been Jasmine Hamid on the left, Seven Castain on the right.
12:56
SPEAKER_02: But moving Jasmine Hamid, uh Jasmine Hamid closer to Cam on the right, we got a lot of joy on that right side to start the hat.
13:05
SPEAKER_02: Absolutely.
13:05
SPEAKER_02: And that's where the get how that's where how the goal came.
13:08
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and then that was the thing is like we came out, I felt like as a team, we we were um committed to like bringing this back.
13:18
SPEAKER_01: The energy was amazing from the players, and that and I think that's one thing to say, like, I like I never have doubted the commitment of the players, the energy and the effort that they're putting in.
13:29
SPEAKER_01: It's just that there are times where it's just not good enough.
13:34
SPEAKER_01: But but coming into that second half, like we look good.
13:38
SPEAKER_01: We score that goal.
13:40
SPEAKER_02: But we were but we looked good in the first half to start.
13:44
unknown: Yeah!
13:45
SPEAKER_01: So it's true.
13:45
SPEAKER_01: We looked good, but we didn't have any real chances.
13:48
SPEAKER_01: Cutting edges.
13:49
SPEAKER_01: I'm sorry.
13:50
SPEAKER_01: No cutting edge.
13:50
SPEAKER_01: No real chances.
13:51
SPEAKER_01: No cutting edge.
13:51
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, there was not one moment where I thought we're gonna score a goal.
13:55
SPEAKER_01: In the second half, we were really clicking, and I would, and I think one of the most important moments of the entire match, if you're to boil it down to one thing entirely, it is the point where we take a shot, the keeper stops it, we get a second chance and kick it right into the defender, and it and it's not a goal.
14:18
SPEAKER_01: Like there is no had that had that actually been a goal, and then you're tied, that is a totally different game.
14:26
SPEAKER_01: But from that point, it really went south.
14:29
SPEAKER_00: So, so I'm gonna say it really.
14:33
SPEAKER_00: I know I'm I'm not gonna get too hard on the refing tonight, but I believe that it should have been two to one because that second goal should not have been a goal.
14:47
SPEAKER_00: There was a there was a very obvious handball.
14:49
SPEAKER_00: It went from her thigh to her elbow, and then they kept on going, right?
14:55
SPEAKER_00: And the ref didn't call it, and I'm like, how are you not gonna call that?
14:59
SPEAKER_02: It there was some questionable plays tonight, but that to me it felt like back to the problem we often have in the league of like the play is beyond the it's nothing against the ref.
15:12
SPEAKER_02: It's that the ref is not at the level of the pace of what's going on in the field.
15:18
SPEAKER_00: But I but I also feel like the linesman or even the the the what the fourth ref should have said something like the same thing.
15:25
SPEAKER_02: It's it's the same thing.
15:27
SPEAKER_02: Like in the supporter end, we saw the same thing.
15:29
SPEAKER_02: I saw the same thing.
15:31
SPEAKER_02: That line judge was a step behind the action almost every single time.
15:38
SPEAKER_02: And I think he got it right most of the time, but there's a few times where it's just like, no, you're not even in the right position.
15:46
SPEAKER_02: No.
15:46
SPEAKER_02: You're not in the right position.
15:47
SPEAKER_02: But I it's because things are happening so fast.
15:50
SPEAKER_00: Yes, and and I and I understand that.
15:52
SPEAKER_00: I'm just I'm very frustrated with that.
15:55
SPEAKER_00: I'm frustrated with the lack of hydration breaks.
15:58
SPEAKER_00: Because it's hot out there, right?
16:00
SPEAKER_00: Hydration brakes.
16:02
SPEAKER_00: It it's it's hot out there.
16:04
SPEAKER_00: Our girls are hot, right?
16:06
SPEAKER_00: They're running around, they're sweating, what have you.
16:08
SPEAKER_00: They're getting water when they can.
16:10
SPEAKER_00: And I feel like I I understand that there's probably like a wet bulb thing.
16:14
SPEAKER_00: That's usually what it is.
16:16
SPEAKER_00: It's like a wet bulb, like uh um.
16:20
SPEAKER_02: If there's a wet bulb thing, we bursted it tonight.
16:24
SPEAKER_02: And we bursted it last week.
16:25
SPEAKER_00: Humidity.
16:26
SPEAKER_00: It's humidity, right?
16:27
SPEAKER_02: I know what you're talking about.
16:28
SPEAKER_02: Like pretty wet wet bulb.
16:30
SPEAKER_02: We busted through that all the time.
16:32
SPEAKER_00: And we should have had a hydration break in both halves because it's fucking hot.
16:36
SPEAKER_00: Sorry.
16:37
SPEAKER_00: Sorry to cuss.
16:38
SPEAKER_00: Um, it's it's hot.
16:40
SPEAKER_00: Like, give them a hydration break.
16:42
SPEAKER_00: I also feel like that may have been it.
16:44
SPEAKER_00: But I do think at a certain point, our girls got tired and the energy wasn't there, especially in the second half.
16:51
SPEAKER_00: I feel like after their third goal, we kind of gave up a little bit.
16:55
SPEAKER_00: I'm not gonna lie.
16:57
SPEAKER_01: Like, it's I mean that they were trying, but that third the third goal, which um I think was an own goal.
17:06
SPEAKER_00: No, no, no.
17:06
SPEAKER_00: It wasn't an own goal.
17:07
SPEAKER_00: It it flicked off her foot just perfectly.
17:10
SPEAKER_01: But but but but just to say that like that was so deflating.
17:14
SPEAKER_01: That was the end.
17:16
SPEAKER_01: But prior to that, um, one of our assistant coaches, I mean, so I'm right there by the coaches, so I can hear what they say.
17:24
SPEAKER_01: One of our assistants goes up to the fourth official and literally says, hey, our next sub is gonna be for the ref on the pitch.
17:34
SPEAKER_01: And I was like, wow.
17:37
SPEAKER_01: That was that was a bold that was a bold move.
17:40
SPEAKER_01: And he didn't get carded for it either.
17:42
SPEAKER_01: And the ref was like, sorry, man, you can't do it.
17:45
SPEAKER_01: But there was a lot of frustration from our bench about the way the game was called, um, the way things were playing out, and and I and I understand that, and I do think it comes back to what Jesse said, which is I feel like it's not that the refs aren't trying to do a great job, they are.
18:06
SPEAKER_01: No.
18:07
SPEAKER_01: It's just that they are not up to the pace of the game as it stands.
18:12
SPEAKER_01: And I feel like the league deserves better, and I've said this many times, and I'm just gonna say it again.
18:19
SPEAKER_01: The league deserves better.
18:20
SPEAKER_01: I'm not saying that would mean that means we'd have won the game.
18:23
SPEAKER_01: I truly believe it comes down to we that that ball that goes off the defender and not in the net.
18:31
SPEAKER_01: Like, there was a like that that was our chance to make this a tie ball game, and we didn't do it, and and it ended the way it did.
18:41
SPEAKER_01: I wish it had been better.
18:43
SPEAKER_01: I wish that we'd have had more in the tank at the very end, but once they scored that third goal, like it was just done.
18:49
SPEAKER_01: It was done and dusted, and as hard as we tried, and and our team did not give up.
18:55
SPEAKER_01: I think the thing that was most disappointing for me is that Sydney Cheesman, who I thought had overall a very good game again, um, she's taken off the pitch due to uh concussion protocol.
19:09
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
19:09
SPEAKER_01: Um, like she did not pass that test.
19:13
SPEAKER_01: And it was a very physical match, and I and that I I worry about that because we need her to be good.
19:19
SPEAKER_01: Well, we need her to be on the pitch.
19:20
SPEAKER_02: We suddenly now have like a defender crisis going on right now.
19:24
SPEAKER_02: Like, we've got Lauren Flynn who has been out for a while.
19:28
SPEAKER_02: If Sydney Cheesman, like, you know, if she's not available, that's a problem.
19:33
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
19:34
SPEAKER_02: We had we had Boakman, she's a midfielder.
19:38
SPEAKER_02: She shifted back into center, um, center half.
19:44
SPEAKER_02: Beckman.
19:45
SPEAKER_02: Um so she shifted back there.
19:49
SPEAKER_02: Sophia Braun.
19:50
SPEAKER_02: Sophia Braun, she's been, I liked, I've liked her.
19:54
SPEAKER_02: She has been a midfielder, not a central, central, um, center half.
20:00
SPEAKER_00: Um center center back.
20:02
SPEAKER_02: Center back, center half.
20:05
SPEAKER_02: Um, we suddenly now have like this crisis of defenders back there.
20:09
SPEAKER_02: But um I think I uh like where I want to go and like like maybe it's a place like where we can kind of like then end where end on something.
20:20
SPEAKER_02: I don't know.
20:21
SPEAKER_02: But this is uh the way this match played out, and well not played out, but like how this match went was very similar to last week.
20:33
SPEAKER_02: We had this thing where we outpassed the opponent two to one.
20:40
SPEAKER_02: Tonight we outshot instead of in tonight we outshot the opponent three to one.
20:46
SPEAKER_02: Okay?
20:49
SPEAKER_02: My uh my like real worry and my like what's really like giving me um anxiety about the team and like everything is that if we're gonna do this, if we're gonna play the way we play, if we're gonna say we want to possess the ball, we want to um play a lot of passes, and we want to um, you know, it uh like very aesthetic, right?
21:17
SPEAKER_02: It's very aesthetic to me.
21:20
SPEAKER_02: If we're gonna do this, we have to get the reward for it.
21:26
SPEAKER_02: We have to.
21:27
SPEAKER_02: Because if you don't get the reward for it, it can all fall down.
21:31
SPEAKER_02: You can you you it doesn't take much for a a couple players to lose faith.
21:36
SPEAKER_02: It doesn't take much for supporters to lose faith in what's happening and what they're seeing on the field for for it to all not build on itself and to end up in a good place.
21:50
SPEAKER_02: So my so where I kind of want to talk about this is like we are now if you go back one.
22:00
SPEAKER_02: One year.
22:01
SPEAKER_02: If you go back one year, us coming to the Cotton Bowl, the iconic Cotton Bowl, okay?
22:08
SPEAKER_02: The iconic Cotton Bowl coming to the match, we have only seen them win in person in the flesh four times in one full year.
22:24
SPEAKER_02: I think that's a real problem for every goal that we that you want to set for the team.
22:30
SPEAKER_02: Whatever it is, if whatever you come to this team, if you're not getting results in front of your home crowd, and front in and when it's super hot and when it's all this, and make all these uh do you have all this stuff.
22:45
SPEAKER_02: My problem is that it's fine to have this identity for this thing, but if you're not getting the results, you're not getting the wins, it's hard to do anything you want to do with with where the club is at.
23:00
SPEAKER_02: So, Crystal, like I like have done this thing of like we need home wins, we need home supporters to experience this.
23:09
SPEAKER_02: Like, what is your take on this?
23:10
SPEAKER_02: Because I think that's essential to what everything we want to do.
23:14
SPEAKER_02: It will it brings supporters along, it brings everyone along, it brings the players along.
23:20
SPEAKER_00: Like it it builds morale because like a big thing is that like I literally got asked today, got my haircut, and the lady's like, oh, what are no, it was we went to uh we went to eat hot pot for lunch and we talked to a bartender we know, and he's like, What are y'all doing for the rest of the day?
23:39
SPEAKER_00: And we're like, oh, we're going to this soccer game, and he's like, Oh, like professional or like a friend, and we're like, no, like professional, it's the women's team.
23:48
SPEAKER_00: And he he didn't know, right?
23:51
SPEAKER_00: And it you want to be able to bring people to a game where they're gonna win, right?
23:56
SPEAKER_00: Like, I so not to bring like the NWSL and like the women's national team into it, but when they had their second game against Brazil, their friendly game, I told Michaela, if this was the first game that I had shown you, I would have turned it off.
24:14
SPEAKER_00: Because of how aggressive that game was.
24:16
SPEAKER_00: I was like, it's a beautiful game.
24:18
SPEAKER_00: That was a tragedy.
24:20
SPEAKER_00: We you don't want to see that, right?
24:22
SPEAKER_00: This game, same thing, right?
24:24
SPEAKER_00: You want to see wins.
24:26
SPEAKER_00: You want to see your team win, and you want to see them win right.
24:29
SPEAKER_00: We don't want to see them flop, you don't want to see them like, oh no, my leg.
24:34
SPEAKER_00: Like, you want to see a genuine win, and that's how you get butts and seats.
24:39
SPEAKER_00: Excuse me.
24:40
SPEAKER_00: I don't want to say that you you want to win the title.
24:44
SPEAKER_00: You don't have to win the title, but you do need to be up there, right?
24:47
SPEAKER_00: We've been middle of the pack two years in a row.
24:51
SPEAKER_00: We've we've made it to the playoff two years in a row, and we have not made it past that initial that initial game, right?
24:59
SPEAKER_00: We have never made it to the final, we've always been in the semifinal.
25:02
SPEAKER_00: I would like to see a cine final.
25:04
SPEAKER_00: I feel like that would really get the name out there, that would get butts and seats, but every time that we've done that, we've never had home field advantage, and you need to win games, period, home way, doesn't matter.
25:18
SPEAKER_00: You need to win games for that to happen.
25:19
SPEAKER_02: So my thing is it does matter for home.
25:22
SPEAKER_02: I think you can go away in this league and just do whatever.
25:26
SPEAKER_02: But if you're not doing the business at home, you're not, you know, you're this much less to sell a ticket, you're this much less likely to um to get the point.
25:39
SPEAKER_02: Like, first of all, like points on the road are hard.
25:41
SPEAKER_02: At least for us.
25:43
SPEAKER_02: I our opponent, not so much.
25:45
SPEAKER_02: They've won something like eight, nine out of ten of their last road matches, so maybe it's easy for them.
25:52
SPEAKER_02: But the sauce, like, like winning home matches it brings everyone along.
26:00
SPEAKER_02: And we're not getting it, Rich.
26:03
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I mean, look, I I think everybody wants to see a win.
26:07
SPEAKER_01: I think this town is particularly a winner.
26:10
SPEAKER_02: But are we making it a goal?
26:12
SPEAKER_01: A top line, like I'm sure dude, I I'm sure that we're making it a goal.
26:16
SPEAKER_01: I don't I don't I think the goal is definitely to win at home.
26:19
SPEAKER_01: I think the issue is is like, I once again, like, I feel like we have our team has been turned over.
26:26
SPEAKER_01: We've got a bunch of younger players that have got to figure it out.
26:31
SPEAKER_01: And I know that that everybody else has stuff they've got to deal with.
26:35
SPEAKER_01: So this isn't an excuse.
26:37
SPEAKER_01: It's just the reality of the situation.
26:39
SPEAKER_01: I want to I think we've got a lot of talent on this team, and I think there's a lot of things we can do this season.
26:46
SPEAKER_01: It's just a matter of how quickly can we figure it out.
26:50
SPEAKER_01: And I just and I don't know if there's enough time to figure it out.
26:54
SPEAKER_01: I don't know if our coach has enough time to get the players where he wants them to be.
26:59
SPEAKER_01: I just don't know.
27:01
SPEAKER_01: And this is once again, this goes back to last week.
27:04
SPEAKER_01: We've got this box, it's full of all sorts of things.
27:07
SPEAKER_01: We but we really don't know what we have, and we don't know how it's gonna work together.
27:11
SPEAKER_01: And I feel like after game two, I feel like I'm in the exact same spot I was last week.
27:18
SPEAKER_01: I don't know what this team really is, who we really are.
27:23
SPEAKER_01: Um, but I do appreciate the fact that this team is not giving up.
27:30
SPEAKER_01: They are fighting through, even at the end when I was discouraged, they're still fighting, they're still they're still working hard.
27:38
SPEAKER_01: And I and you can say that, well, that only counts for what it counts for, and that's true.
27:42
SPEAKER_01: But like I would much rather be supporting a team that is having a problem finding it this finding a win at home that's still working hard for it than a team that's not.
27:54
SPEAKER_01: And I've also seen that, and fortunately that's not what we saw tonight.
27:59
SPEAKER_01: This team's working hard, and I just I just I hope that I hope they figure it out.
28:04
SPEAKER_01: That's all.
28:05
SPEAKER_00: So, so I think I think that they're still again, they're still finding their chemistry because again, the team didn't come together under their coach until like what a month before the season started.
28:16
SPEAKER_00: So we're we're still trying to figure it out.
28:19
SPEAKER_00: Not great, but it is what it is.
28:22
SPEAKER_00: I do, I can tell that the girls do care for each other, which helps, because if they didn't like each other, you would see it on the field, right?
28:31
SPEAKER_00: There'd be a lot more selfishness with the ball, which, like I said, with shooting, there is a selfishness there, but that's just a I want to get the goal, right?
28:41
SPEAKER_00: It's not a, oh, I want the ball and I don't trust this person.
28:44
SPEAKER_00: They do trust each other, which is fair.
28:47
SPEAKER_00: And you want that, but it there needs to be a little bit more with the plays and where they're gonna place the ball rather than like shoot for the goal because like that, oh god, that one, that one that was saved like twice.
29:04
SPEAKER_00: If we could have had someone there on that back side there at the end, I think we could have scored, right?
29:09
SPEAKER_00: I think we would have been able to tie it, and it would have been a much better game, and everybody would have felt a little bit more energized because there was a lot more energy after that first goal.
29:20
SPEAKER_00: But there's growing pains.
29:22
SPEAKER_00: We're still going through growing pains.
29:24
SPEAKER_00: I wish we weren't through the first the like the first two games, but we are.
29:29
SPEAKER_00: And maybe we'll do better on the road.
29:31
SPEAKER_00: Who knows, right?
29:33
SPEAKER_00: We we we don't know what's gonna happen.
29:35
SPEAKER_02: I like I think for me, um for me, like, it's like three steps.
29:44
SPEAKER_02: I I can start with a delusion.
29:47
SPEAKER_02: This is like these are words from someone else that I'm borrowing because I love it.
29:52
SPEAKER_02: You can start with a delusion.
29:54
SPEAKER_02: Once you get to once you're at a delusion, then you can get to a hope.
30:01
SPEAKER_02: After hope, you can get to believing.
30:04
SPEAKER_02: Okay?
30:05
SPEAKER_02: And after believing, then you can do it.
30:08
SPEAKER_02: And I think we're still stuck at step one.
30:10
SPEAKER_02: I don't have any delu delusion of of what we can do with this team.
30:16
SPEAKER_02: And to me, that's a problem if you're if you're not able to do step one of this thing.
30:22
SPEAKER_01: Rich.
30:23
SPEAKER_01: Well, I'm at step two.
30:24
SPEAKER_01: I I always have hope.
30:26
SPEAKER_01: That's just who I am.
30:27
SPEAKER_01: Like, I am a I am a glass half full person, but I I also understand the reality.
30:34
SPEAKER_01: That's because you're an icon, Rich.
30:37
SPEAKER_01: Oh, stop it.
30:38
SPEAKER_02: The reality is Don't stop it, because you are.
30:41
SPEAKER_01: The reality is that I I like we've got a lot of talented players.
30:46
SPEAKER_01: I think we've got a very capable coach and a great coaching staff, um, and and we've got amazing supporters.
30:54
SPEAKER_01: I know that for sure.
30:55
SPEAKER_01: So it's really just like, can it all come together?
30:58
SPEAKER_01: And I I have hope that it can.
31:01
SPEAKER_01: Um I, you know, the fact that Tampa Bay uh tied against Jacksonville on the road, if they can do that, well, we can do that.
31:11
SPEAKER_01: Um and so uh I just I I I have hope for what with what's going on.
31:17
SPEAKER_01: I do.
31:18
SPEAKER_01: I'm I'm struggling to get it for the strongest.
31:22
SPEAKER_00: Tampa Bay time with Jacksonville is crazy to me.
31:25
SPEAKER_00: I'm sorry.
31:26
SPEAKER_01: I also really just want to say this real quick.
31:29
SPEAKER_01: Um I'm glad I don't have seen McKinsey George in person again for at least another year.
31:35
SPEAKER_01: So hooray for that.
31:38
SPEAKER_01: You and you and McKenzie George.
31:40
SPEAKER_01: I know.
31:40
SPEAKER_01: It's like I have like I got to terms with I don't even think about that.
31:43
SPEAKER_01: I got to terms with Boots, but I haven't gotten there with McKenzie George.
31:47
SPEAKER_00: What?
31:48
SPEAKER_00: I I'm sorry, I missed it.
31:49
SPEAKER_00: What?
31:50
SPEAKER_01: I know there's nothing to there's nothing to see here.
31:52
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
31:53
SPEAKER_00: I'll have to ask you off pod because I'm I'm confused with what you said.
31:57
SPEAKER_02: Like last bit.
31:58
SPEAKER_02: Crystal, do you have hope?
32:00
SPEAKER_02: I'm not at delusional.
32:02
SPEAKER_02: I am seeing for what this is.
32:04
SPEAKER_02: I need help to get delusional and then to get to hope, and then I can believe.
32:08
SPEAKER_02: I'm not even ad-delusional.
32:10
SPEAKER_02: Like, I think we are we are we are we've got a lot of parts.
32:14
SPEAKER_02: I've talked about this, and we've got a lot of things where we're taking risks and we're walking a tire up and all this, but like I I really think like if we don't get a handle of this, it could be bad for us in this season, in this short season.
32:29
SPEAKER_02: Do you have hope?
32:31
SPEAKER_00: I have hope that we can be middle of the pack, but I do not have hope that we can make it to the final.
32:36
SPEAKER_00: No, no, no.
32:37
SPEAKER_00: It so that's the thing, is like it's it's not a big sell for me.
32:41
SPEAKER_02: It's I hope to make it to the middle.
32:43
SPEAKER_00: So I no, and and it's not, but that's the thing, is it's such a short season, and we've had such a short time to like build our team with our coach that we have now, that I think that it's all we can hope for is middle of the pack right now with such a new team.
33:02
SPEAKER_00: I mean what?
33:03
SPEAKER_00: We've had nine returning players and half of them were injured, right?
33:09
SPEAKER_00: Like it it's it's very frustrating, but it's if we can keep the team through the next season, I think we'll have a genuine chance.
33:20
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
33:21
SPEAKER_02: So maybe um maybe we go to way to Jacksonville, we get a result or something.
33:26
SPEAKER_02: Thankfully, back here at home, we've got Brooklyn at home.
33:32
SPEAKER_02: If we can't do the business again against Brooklyn, I like I'll be stuck at step one.
33:38
SPEAKER_02: I'll be stuck at step one.
33:40
SPEAKER_01: I'm hoping Jesse gets beyond step one.
33:43
SPEAKER_01: That's that's my hope.
33:46
SPEAKER_02: I don't have any delusions.
33:47
SPEAKER_02: Give me delusions, Dallas Trinity.
33:50
SPEAKER_02: Please give me a delusion so I can get to the place where I can get hope and belief.
33:54
SPEAKER_00: At this point, Delulu is the Sululu.
33:58
SPEAKER_00: That's for them Gen Zers out there, those doomers.
34:00
SPEAKER_02: With that, I think we'll wrap it up.
34:02
SPEAKER_02: Okay.