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Talking NWSL's KC Current with THOMBOMB! · Into the Channel ⚽️ A Podcast Primarily About Women's Football

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Hello, Kate, welcome to you Into the Channel podcast premiere
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about 1 football. I'm your host, Dean Suspicious
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and today we're joined by a very special guest as well as my
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coast, Mr. Grant Angle. What's up, man?
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I'm feeling fantastic, buddy, and that is because our guest
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today is one of the top football journalists and podcasters in
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our business. Today.
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He is 20% of Shades of Blue, the internet's greatest Manchester
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City Football Club podcast, as well as one of the hosts of The
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12, the podcast and YouTube show you should be following for all
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of your Women's Super League banter.
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But for the purposes of today's show, we're going to lean into
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his expertise as an intrepid reporter who covers Kansas City
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current in the NWSL. You should immediately seek out
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about the 2025 Shield winners returning to the Into the
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Channel podcast live from KC, MO.
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The City of Fountains, the Paris of the Plains, the heart of
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America. It is an honor and a privilege
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to welcome back to the program Tomba.
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Thank you, gentlemen, so much for having me on it.
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That that is a humbling introduction, my word.
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But it's great to see you guys both again.
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And I'm really excited to talk about this because there's
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actually been a lot going on after Kansas City's playoff
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defeat. So yeah, I'm interested to get
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into it. Can't wait.
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Yeah, I think one of the reasons we wanted to kind of have this
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conversation, obviously historic season from Kansas City
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standpoint and then kind of got zapped like it should from from
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one moment to the next. Like what what felt like was
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supposed to be a kind of like very historic, obviously coming
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off Orlando, win the double last year, Kansas City on an even
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more torrid pace than that. Close the shield out even
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earlier, even in even more dominant fashion, and then don't
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get it done. Tom Bomb.
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What was been from your experience?
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At what point this season did we hit peak KC current?
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So in retrospect of everything that happened in the season, I
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really think that the peak moment might have been the wet
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bulb thermometer match only because there was just so much
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build up and so much hype. Like this game is going to be on
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big CBS and every like it's it. And then it was just too hot to
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play and you got Jeff Long yelling on a cell phone with
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whom I assume is going to be Jessica Berman or Chris Long.
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Excuse me got the referee saying that like no, we we need to take
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this again. Then you have training Staffs
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from both Orlando and Kansas City and then for all of that
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for it to end up on CBSSports.com, not not even on
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the on Paramount plus like and the match to be 00.
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I I think that in retrospect, like might have been the peak
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moment of Casey's like the most Casey current 2025 moment of
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2025. That is funny.
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I mean, you know, it was an unbelievably unfortunate thing
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for happen to happen. Pardon me?
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You know, we were looking at the the double winners, the
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defending double winners versus the juggernaut and, yeah,
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CBSSports.com. I mean, come on, What do we
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like? It doesn't make it to Paramount,
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doesn't even make it to the CBS Sports Network, which was
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probably showing like, a rerun of World Series of Poker at that
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time. Like, what are we talking about
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here? Like we can't even get on
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terrestrial television. Yeah, it it, I think it builds
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in with all of this hype. And then you can't you don't get
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the the final payoff and on top of the match, like on top of
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that, the match was terrible. Like that was the match, the
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Barbara, that was the match. The Barbara Banda got hurt.
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It was nil, nil. The players from both sides,
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just like, I don't want to be here anymore.
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Like I have you ever just seen somebody as a body like, like
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even in the press conference, just like the players like, all
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right, can I go home because I'm tired?
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Like they had been at the state, like we had all been at the
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stadium for at least six hours at that point.
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It was like, I just want to go home.
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And like, you felt that from everyone that was in the
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stadium, honestly. I think, well, you know, all all
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of that, that that weather heat talk kind of got me a little
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thirsty. I think, you know, obviously
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we're we're we're heading into the end of the this the year.
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I kind of want to, you know, cheers.
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I'm I'm glad we're doing a three player pod this episode.
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We have a great way to kind of close out the season.
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I went back. I want to kind of do a little
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roundup real quick of who we've had on the pod.
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So Tom Bomb, just indulge us for a second year.
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Shout out to Jordan Silkowitz, Jackie Olli, a seal to Filey,
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Chris Sharples, Leanne Sanderson, radio tool, Claire
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McEwen, the legend, Mike Watts and now Tom Bomb to close us
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out. What a 2025.
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What do you know? Cheers to us.
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Let's get it cracking and let's let's let's quench some of this
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thirst. Tom Bomb, A2 Time guest in the
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Year of Our Lord, 2025. Is it was.
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No, All good. Cheers to you gentlemen.
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Cheers to the football. Cheers to you gentlemen, and
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cheers to the football you. Pour some end of year, sing them
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all up Albany. Look at you that's.
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Fantastic sleepy boys going to get extra sleepy this eve.
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See Bear with us. Grant, Mr. Grant, angle where
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you want to get. Started All right, so 6 minutes
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into the podcast, I, I like that opening question.
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I like kind of, you know, getting into getting into the
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game a little bit. There was some recent Kansas
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City current news, at least as far as we know.
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So Jeff Kasuf of ESPN reported that Kansas City current are
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planning to hire Chris Armas after what seemingly felt like a
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quiet search from a couple of outsiders like us.
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Obviously, we, we bring Tom Bomb on the show as somebody who
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follows the team closely, boots on the ground, if you will.
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So I mean, you know, Tom, I got, I got to ask the the question
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here. Like, you know, they announced
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Jeff Kasuf reports Chris Armas. Everybody immediately looks to
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the resume. He's a women's football manager
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at Adelphi University, the Panthers, which is his alma
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mater from 2011 to 2014. Then the rest of his
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professional experience is in the men's game.
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I can see that he was an assistant manager at New York
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Red Bulls, manager at Toronto FC, Colorado Rapids, which let
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me make sure teams in the MLS, which I believe is a subsidiary
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of Apple if I'm not mistaken. So you know, he's also he's also
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been an assistant at Manchester United and was a Co interim at
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at Leeds United when Leeds was just acting crazy in the early
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twenty 20s. All this build up to say it, is
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this the right guy for the shield winners?
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You could have given me 1000 chances to guess a name that I
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thought like, Oh yeah, they'll hire like, yes, that's
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absolutely somebody that the Longs would bet, and that's
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absolutely somebody that Vladco would bet.
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And I would have never arrived at this name ever.
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Like what? There would not be any
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connection for me to have even like brought that on for me.
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I I don't believe that they have the same agent.
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Like I I know that like that's a that is a big thing, but even
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still, like that's not something that like I would have even like
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guessed it all. I'm not, I'm still not convinced
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it's happening because I haven't heard anything like the team
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hasn't like necessarily put out of statement saying like this is
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the coach. This is who like, and they, the
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the team made a big deal about when they went to the world
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sevens that like basically Freya Coombe was the head coach.
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And I think that that's important because Freya Coombe
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was basically the attacking coordinator for for Kansas City
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current. So like she was the one that was
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working like closely with Biazanerato, who has left the
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team with Tamwa Chiwenga, with Michelle Cooper, with Ali
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Sentinor, with Debenia. So those are excuse me for a
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good players that you would want to base your attack on.
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And so obviously those those players feel comfortable with
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that coach. I'm not saying that Freya's
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Freya Coombs history necessarily would have been like, Oh yeah
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she's a slam dunk hire, but it would have made more sense than
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Chris Armas for sure. Yeah, go ahead.
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Oh no, I was I was just going to ask a quick ally sent in our
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follow up because you know that it just, you know, hit hit my
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antenna because I it just took me right back to when the trade
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happened and we all looked around and just were like what
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why this is not can somebody stop it and stop this?
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It just seemed in the moment like Ali Sentinor, I think high
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expectations coming into into the season, slow start, then the
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trade happens. Kansas City was already off to
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like a blazing hot start in high expectations as well coming off
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last season, so it felt a little bit unfair.
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What was the Ali Sentinor experience post trade?
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It's a good thing that Debina was willing to be flexible and
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play out on the wing. I I think Ali probably needed
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some more time to get acclimated with the team.
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I think it it will be interested to see what she can do with a
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full offseason. Now the fact that
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Blackowandanovsky is not no longer the coach, I don't know
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how that's going to work. So that's going to be a First
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off full offseason for everyone. I think that the prevailing
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thought is like, oh, Oh my gosh, like congratulations, Vanessa de
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Bernardo, Like you and your partner are having a baby and
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then like we need someone who can replace your productivity.
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And like there wasn't, that wasn't necessarily replaced per
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SE 'cause I, I believe that she was on like eight goal
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contributions when she left for maternity leave.
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So like, it wasn't like Ali Sentinor picked up a whole bunch
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of assists. Like I think that I won't say
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that she necessarily played poorly, but I don't necessarily
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know if I'm not sure if I would have pulled the trigger on that
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trade. That's that's that's spicy.
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OK, hold on a SEC. I want to, I want to get back to
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that now. I mean, the the statistics bear
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it out. I don't think she had a counting
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stat for you guys. I don't think she had a goal or
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assist in a Kansas City current uniform if I remember correctly.
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Not in, not in league play. Yeah, there we go.
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But I want I I want to kind of rewind to to the news of the
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week, sort of what the arm is trade.
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But I'm glad you bring up Sentin Ordino because, you know,
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obviously I'm out here in Seattle.
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I cover Seattle rain football club.
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One of the questions I asked after their playoff loss to
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Laura Harvey was I kind of framed it of you are charged
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with the development of Jordan Buck, an extremely promising
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young player who's going to get US women's national team
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minutes. Now, whoever this is, whether
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it's whether it's Armas and by the way, I just love the the
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weather balloon idea of was this floated out here?
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The club hasn't announced anything.
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We can talk more about that too. But acquiring Allie Centnor on a
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team that set the points record and won the shield, that makes
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this higher unbelievably important, probably, arguably.
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And you're much more of a historian on this league than I
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am, specifically this team. Of course, it's got to be one of
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the most important hires, coaching hires in the history of
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the club because you have a team that should be able to win the
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title. I mean, they won the title last
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year. You know, we have our, you know,
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damn it, the end of the USL Championship is a cup.
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Well, I'll say that discussion's another day.
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But you have a team that could win the title again, could win
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the double again. And you have a young superstar
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in Ali Sandor. You need a coach who can foster
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her development in context with these other superstars and go
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and compete for the trophy again.
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I I think that kind of Still, that makes a hiring of Chris
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Armis maybe doubly puzzling. Am I?
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Am I overreacting here? No, because I think that like
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you, you see a lot of the moves that especially some of the
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younger players who maybe want to get on the plane to Brazil in
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2027, like with the US women's national team, kind of made like
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with that Ally Sentinor moving from Utah to Kansas City, with
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Jaden Shaw moving from North Carolina to Gotham, Like it was
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almost like they were told. And even like Alyssa Thompson
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moving to Chelsea, it's almost like they were told.
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Like I need you to go somewhere where there's some sort of club
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and institutional stability like I even if like they're the
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results are not there. I need you to go somewhere where
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like I trust the, the structure of the of how the club is being
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built. And now for Ally Sentinor, you
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take away part of like a large part of that instant
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institutional structure with Ladco vacating the position of
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head coach but still being technical director.
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And then, like, and then you float out the idea of possibly
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Chris Armas, like, how is that going to foster her development
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so that she is like, feeling confident enough, like, I'm
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going to get a spot and I'm going to get on the plane to
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Brazil in 2027. Like, I'm not sure that that's
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necessarily being done. Yeah.
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And and with those, I mean, obviously that's I was part of
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the definitely a player development goal, like you
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mentioned, Grant, But you know, there there are, you know, club
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goals for sure, you know, and and I think, you know, we do
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talk about on the show, the shield sort of being like the
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apex. You know, it's like it is the
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culmination of the entire season.
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It is what what everyone's chasing.
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But this season did kind of put my personal philosophy to the
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test a little bit because Casey's regular season pursuit
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of the shield, you know, winning of the shield was so spectacular
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and then the playoff loss was so deflating.
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You know, and obviously you lose, I don't NBA terms, you
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lose your your leading scorer. And then I was also your your
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league, your six man, your six man scorer off the bench.
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You lose pretty much also like a huge chunk of scoring and almost
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impossible to make up. Gotham goes on to win the whole
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thing. It it did kind of put that
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philosophy into a it stressed it a little bit.
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What, what was the feeling like, you know, in the city, in the
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building, you know, around the organization, you know,
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obviously elation to begin and then, you know, such
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disappointment. What was, was there a balance
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there? Was it, was it all of both or
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kind of like, can you take us through what the feeling was?
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I feel like the the defining play of 2024 was, you know,
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Marta putting Alana Cook and Kayla Sharples on absolute
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skates and then scoring that goal, right.
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And I think that every player had that moment in their mind
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for 2025. Even if you were new to the
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squad, it was almost like you were like, watch this play.
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We're not letting this happen again all season.
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And and and you, you felt that like that amount of spite
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towards it, especially since they were like that was supposed
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to be a the championship was supposed to be a home game for
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them. Like they thought that they
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could win the cup on their homes like at CPKC Stadium.
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And that didn't happen. And I think that that just that
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definitely fueled the team. And I think that over the summer
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in in the city of like there was like a big push like, oh, like
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this is a winner. Like we need to get behind this
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winner. Like.
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And I think that clinching the shield as early as they did was
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I think it was just kind of like mind boggling because they were
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like, the first thing that Claire Hutton said was job's not
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done. And I was like, first of all,
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you were the most professional 19 year old person I have ever
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met in my entire life. I don't know how that I don't, I
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don't know how that I don't know how you exist, ma'am.
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But second of all, I was like, OK, that like I I see that there
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are further goals even, you know, as much as like Vladko and
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the team were like, OK, we're going to take this one match at
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a time. Like we're not looking beyond
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this. But like you could tell that the
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team had larger goals. And so for the team to lose
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basically on the last kick of the match at home in a playoff
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match where you didn't have the M, the two time defending MVP
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and you didn't have like someone who was elevating up the ranks
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of the US women's national team and Michelle Cooper and
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Biazanerato is out here basically on one leg.
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It it was just so deflating. Like I looking at Vladco in the
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post match press availability, you could tell that he had been
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crying. But like, and I like I kind of
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expected that like, you know, you should see like like a
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result like that in then in retrospect, like it was more
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than that because like, I think that he really felt that this
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was his last shot and like he was giving it his all.
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Like not that you not aren't always, but he I think he was
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kind of calling his shot is like he knew that this was the end.
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Like regardless of whatever the result was, like this was the
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end. And then a week after the
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playoff loss, you get the news that in a Jeff Kasuf story
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saying that he was stepping down as coach and but still going to
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be in charge of player retention, which is also player
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identification, which is also interesting because Carducci was
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also let go. So and she was the general
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manager so it was like, OK, are there some things that they are
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not seeing eye to eye on, especially if he's going to be
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like not as much in the day-to-day and like more
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involved in talent identification And especially
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like there were many long term deals that she locked down.
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Kayla Sharples, Lola Banta, Izzy Rodriguez.
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I think I'm missing a few. And then just like bring like
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putting getting Katie Scott out on loan to racing Louisville,
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even though they recalled her, which was weird.
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And then just working with HB Koga in, in in Europe, which is
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the sister club that the longs brought bought recently.
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I, I just wondered if there was a little like friction in that
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potential marriage. And then grant, you mentioned
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the weather balloon and I know we had talked about this before
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we started recording. So Jeff Kasuf was the writer of
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the story for that was saying that black code was like a like
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local media had no clue until the story dropped.
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And like, when the story dropped, like everybody's like,
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I, I had gotten a tip from somebody in KC Blue Crew, like,
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hey, something might be going on tomorrow on ESPN, be ready for
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it. And I was like, what?
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I was like, what? Huh.
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And so I like, I'm like all throughout the day, like trying
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to figure out like, OK, can I do I need to watch ESPN?
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And then like I, I pull up the like, I was like, holy smokes,
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what is happening right now? So everybody, like everybody who
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covers Casey Currant was really blindsided by this.
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It wasn't necessarily something that was really well known, but
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that stated, I think that it's important to know that Jeff
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Kassouf was the one that broke that story.
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Just like Jeff Kassouf was the one who is now reporting that
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Chris Armas is the finalist for the job is like Jeff and Vlaco
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have a a good working relationship going back to his
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days with the US women's national team coach.
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So it would not surprise me if this is just something that at
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this point Blacco's just kind of floating out there.
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It's like, hey, let me see what the reaction is to this like and
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we can kind of test the waters and see like, oh, what it what
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do the fans think? What do talking heads think?
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What do the writers think? If which is weird because Vladco
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is like notoriously offline. So if I would say that if he was
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listening to what is what is happening online and what the
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fans are saying, he would not pull the trigger on that
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contract. Can I say I love the idea of
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hey, check, something's going to happen on ESPN and it's just
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like coming up on first Take, Stephen A reacts to right,
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Stephen A like Stephen A. It's preposterous.
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It's an unmitigated disaster. Like I could just imagine Steve
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and I just going crazy about it and then, you know, with with
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Chris arm I it's just it's so bizarre to be that close.
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I understand you know Bia's departure, but you guys are
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still right there like, you know, I, I.
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I think that the part that's that's crazier is that this
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reporting is kind of half out there and not what's out there.
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Not out there. It might be the it's like the
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the the candidate, the leading candidate, like the the wording
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is, is very particular and it sounds like might not happen at
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all. And like, you know, that the
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whole tip like the end of yourself.
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The part that I I like about it that where the league gets a lot
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of Flack is it's it really is just kind of like by the seat of
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their pants. Like a lot of this stuff in
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terms of like how they how do you know things get written and
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how organizations sort of make these decisions.
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This is not something that. What are you talking about?
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High impact players have been a part of this league for a long
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time. Very long since last.
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Since earlier this month, very long time.
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Of course, I think I remember a high impact player actually
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playing in a high impact way last season went under the
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radar, not talked about. But I just think it's it's
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weird, like how experimental some of this, like it's
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experimental kind of a wonky way.
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I just find it bizarre because I totally agree with you, Grant.
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In a different sport, A-Team coming off a historic season,
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dominant just and it's in a championship to boot, going in
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and kind of like 1 foot in on a coach and maybe 1 foot out and
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we will coach maybe the wings and who knows what's actually
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going to happen. Tom Bomb from an organizational
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standpoint, where would you rank?
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How you know how the organization is run like, from
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like a Clint like, you know, like and you know, it's
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sometimes it's tough to do, you know, from a measuring 6
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standpoint. But do you get the feeling that
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there is a high level plan, there is some organization,
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there is a vision? Or does it sort of feel like
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things are a little bit, you know, you, you might show up on
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a Monday and and all the furniture is all in a different
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spot? I think that there is a defined
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vision. I think it it's a little murkier
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without a head coach right now and that it can be cleared up
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now. What I will say is I think that
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there is a defined future and I think that based off of some of
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the moves that have been made and some of the roster minutes
26:37
that may have been given, there may be a push to see certain
26:44
players, maybe a very specific player feature at a high profile
26:50
position, which I'm not even sure that she's going to be able
26:54
to do next season, seeing as how she spray tore her ACL with the
27:05
U20 with EU nineteens. So I'm not sure if that are the
27:09
U20 threes. I'm sorry, I'm not sure if
27:11
that's in the in the bag for 2026, but it it does seem to be
27:17
the like 20272028 plan. As young as that player is, I'm
27:25
not sure that that is the right plan, but I can also understand
27:34
why it is the plan based off of who that player's parents are.
27:41
Fair enough. I'm talking in a lot of circles
27:43
and I know that I would, I, I would, I would see, I would
27:51
beseech your viewers and listeners to look up who the
27:57
owners of Kansas City Current are and then look at the roster
28:03
of Kansas City Current and see if you see any commonalities,
28:08
especially around last name. I'll leave that at that.
28:14
OK, I don't feel qualified to to speak on these things, so I will
28:20
also leave it at that. Thank you for that nugget.
28:23
I think it's you know, it's it's not it's not super difficult to
28:28
find out Just hop on mob hop on FB ref you'll be able to see the
28:33
the commonalities of the last name there Mary, Mary quite
28:38
contrary, of course. So let's let's think let's talk
28:42
about the the season as a whole. I mean, so for anybody listening
28:48
to this podcast, my original conceit for this was, OK, let's
28:51
talk about the coaching hire, let's talk about the weird
28:53
Vlatko situation and then let's do a retrospective with Tom Bomb
28:57
because he was boots on the ground at the matches covering.
29:01
And we've gone a little, you know, we're 29 minutes in.
29:03
I think we probably got like 1520 minutes left in us at this
29:06
point. But I I want to go back and talk
29:08
about because we're like, this is a historic season.
29:10
It's the all time record for points in a season.
29:12
I know there are more, there were more matches than ever
29:15
because there are more teams, but they set that record before
29:18
they would have even hit the old, you know, season long
29:22
number of matches. This was a dominant team.
29:26
So you guys, Kansas City currents starts off, starts off
29:29
the season 5 match winning streak.
29:31
Then they have these two kind of bizarre losses 1 to Seattle rain
29:37
in Seattle without Temwa Chewinga like an understandable
29:41
weird loss. And then in the next 17 matches,
29:44
this is where the shield is 1 they are 15 wins, 2 draws, 0
29:50
losses. They, I think they went through
29:52
a through a stretch where they had won eleven of 13 or or or
29:58
however. Out.
30:00
In in the course. No, they beat, sorry, they beat
30:03
11 of the 13 teams. My bet, I dropped that little
30:06
nugget in there, so I think it derailed you, but I was like,
30:09
did they beat every single team during that 17?
30:12
It felt like it. It felt like it, but not quite
30:15
the. Season, but the over that
30:17
stretch they'd be 11 of the 13 teams.
30:18
Unbelievable. Thank you for that.
30:20
So so during that dominant stretch now, I mean, you know,
30:23
we've talked about it. You're a man in the city of
30:25
fountains, KC, MO. We've seen Patrick Mahomes and
30:29
the Kansas City chefs go on this incredible run themselves.
30:34
You know when you're watching that, when you are reporting on
30:37
that, talking to the players, talking to Vlad, go what was
30:41
this like? Did they feel as invincible as
30:44
they looked? I, I don't think that they
30:51
necessarily they, I think they felt good about their run of
30:55
play. I think that they felt good
30:56
about what they were trying to execute each and every match
31:00
because it was very clear. And to an extent, I think that
31:04
that was also their down downfall in a way.
31:06
Like they, they played in like they played in one game state,
31:11
which was like, we're going to punch you in the mouth in the
31:13
1st 10 minutes of the match. If that doesn't work, we're
31:16
going to sit back or absorb your pressure and then we're going to
31:19
hit you on the counter and then you're just not going to be able
31:21
to stop us. Like that's that's just the name
31:23
of the game. Like the last match of the
31:26
season was the first match all season.
31:29
The last regular season match against San Diego was the first
31:32
match all season where they had conceded first and then came
31:35
back to even get a result. Not not just like get a win, but
31:39
actually just get a result at all.
31:42
So, yeah. So if like, they were always
31:46
going to play on the front foot and like, that was always going
31:48
to be their style of play. And that might have been their
31:53
detriment. And I but I reported this and
31:57
like, it went crazy on Blue Sky when I said like, like I said,
32:03
like, you know, they didn't really have a Plan B with Tim,
32:08
with Chowinga and Michelle Cooper being out and like, he
32:11
caught a lot of hell for that. And it was like, yeah, like you
32:16
probably should have a Plan B. It's.
32:20
Just the very next plan. It's just the second one.
32:23
It's just the extra 1. And why would I have another one
32:27
when this one is working so well?
32:29
Sure. And that's fair.
32:30
So I, I, I understand what Vladco was thinking and I also
32:37
understand what a lot of NWSL fans were thinking.
32:40
And I also like just to clearly get this out there, there is a
32:46
very large sect of women's soccer fans across the United
32:52
States that will never see it from lateral tobacco anthenos.
32:56
Like it just will not happen ever.
32:59
Like just based off of the 2021 Olympics, based off of the 2023
33:06
World Cup. Like they're like, I can't, I
33:11
can't tell you how many times my mentions were filled, were
33:13
filled with pictures of Cat Macario in just 7 minutes.
33:17
Like I, I, I don't, what do you want me to do with that?
33:20
That's, that's not, I don't, I can't do anything with that.
33:26
And he only played Cat Marie Macario for 7 minutes in a
33:30
tournament, but you needed to score goals and you didn't.
33:33
So I get it. So I, I think that there are
33:40
people, especially like online people that are always going to
33:43
be willing to, to to pounce on Vladko.
33:46
So I think trying to give him the benefit of the doubt and
33:52
also like holding him accountable.
33:53
Like, I mean, yeah, like, just like, you know, in in
33:59
basketball, like if you're, you know, top two players go out,
34:03
like you do something different, like do something completely
34:07
out-of-the-box. So like, you know, the other
34:10
team is like at least like, oh, I have to think about this.
34:13
So like, if you decided to just like, you know what we're our
34:16
line of confrontation is going to be like 2 yards outside of
34:20
the 18 yard box and we're just going to hit you on the counter.
34:22
We're going to sit all 11 players behind the ball.
34:25
And that's just what we're going to do for 90 minutes and we're
34:28
going to figure it out, like do something different that and it,
34:33
it, I think what was so weird about the, the playoff match and
34:37
I even talked about with Vladco in the, in the initial match
34:41
against Gotham at CPKC Stadium is that they did such a good job
34:47
of limiting, even though Gotham had the the majority of
34:51
possession, they did such a good job of limiting where Gotham had
34:56
possession. And so like, it was always in a
34:58
place where Gotham was not necessarily comfortable like
35:01
progressing the ball or making that key pass in, whereas I
35:06
thought that the the script was completely flipped in the
35:09
playoff match and Gotham was dictating to Kansas City where
35:14
they could and could not have the ball.
35:19
Yeah, it must have been incredibly frustrating too.
35:22
And and then Casey obviously claws back a super late 1 and
35:27
regulation. And then it's like almost like
35:29
double heartbreak to kind of end the season that way.
35:33
It's funny to hear you say to talk about the mindset almost
35:39
being a little wounded, You know, I mean, I was I was at
35:42
that KC Orlando Marta game and I remember that moment in the
35:46
press box, just the roof coming off the press.
35:48
I mean to everybody was just the jaws were on the floor.
35:51
So I couldn't imagine being a player on the other side of that
35:53
just because I'm watching, I will never freaking just
35:56
watching it. And it's funny to hear you say
35:59
the players kind of almost carried that into the season and
36:02
somewhat through the season. I have to wonder what now gets
36:06
carried into next season. So, you know, obviously
36:10
coaching, you know, sort of like questions aside, you know, we
36:15
know what the personnel is or we have that idea of some of the
36:17
personnel that's gone out the door and maybe something that's
36:19
come in. And so where things might be
36:22
headed. What's your what's a temperature
36:24
check from you Tom Bomb on what you think kind of like could be
36:29
in store for 2026 for this team? I think that within the no, we,
36:45
I think we all know that the NWSL schedule comes out
36:47
notoriously late in the year. So but I I would say that before
36:52
the schedule is released, we will hear the club announce a
36:56
coach. Whether or not that is Chris
36:58
Armas, I don't know. I could.
37:01
Hope so, not Armas. Yeah, I I hope so too.
37:06
And I think that's it. If you decide to bring in
37:13
someone from the outside, I'm not necessarily saying that
37:15
Freya Coombe or Ivan Milanovic are gonna are like because I
37:20
know that they like interviewed well with Vlad Co as well.
37:23
I'm not saying that they would be the shoo insurance, but like
37:26
if you are losing that, like Ivan Milanovic was the basically
37:31
the defensive coordinator. So like and you saw Kayla
37:35
Sharples have the season that she had like I I will still die
37:38
on the hill that like I think that she should have been
37:40
defender of the year. That's.
37:42
My pick? Yeah.
37:44
I think if you decide to move on like and like go outside of go
37:52
with the name outside of that box, you're going to see a
37:56
regression. And I think that we're already
37:58
going to see a defensive regression because I don't think
38:01
that like that, like allowing 13 goals in a season is not that
38:07
that that's not that's not sustainable.
38:09
I I in in this league. No, that's that's not that's
38:14
that like that's not something that you can continue to do.
38:18
Now, that stated, I I still believe that this team can and
38:25
will score a lot of goals. Will it be we're going back to
38:29
those, you know, those 5, four matches against Portland to
38:32
start the season off maybe, but the the team will still score
38:38
goals. I don't know whether or not
38:39
they'll be able to stop as many goals as they as they score.
38:45
I think that's fair. I mean, we saw it.
38:47
We saw that little bit of regression to the mean with
38:50
Orlando pride this year, right? Like the the defense can only
38:53
suffocate teams for for so long. I, I this is a good transition,
39:01
at least for us to kind of talk about it a little bit.
39:05
No, nobody likes any best 11. Dino and I have been really
39:08
leaning into the joke that that we made the ITC best 11.
39:12
It's the most unimpeachable, best 11 you could possibly ever
39:17
make, of course. Getting impeached out there.
39:20
Yeah, yeah, I'm sure people are. I'm not looking at the comments
39:23
at all. I I enjoy everybody.
39:25
I like everybody who watches the program.
39:26
Thank you. I'm not.
39:28
I'm. I just can't look at comments
39:29
about a best 11 because nobody likes any best 11.
39:32
Don't. Worry you, you, you, you mean
39:34
your your midfielder of the year is not a forward.
39:39
I will see. This is where I this is where
39:43
this is where I get into trouble a little bit because like Dito
39:46
put me in charge of picking the formation of our best 11 and I
39:50
pick a 352 and I'm like, yeah, because we can play more wings
39:53
and do stuff like that. And people are just like, what
39:56
is this fucking guy doing? But I I digress.
40:00
The can can we just talk about for a second just how?
40:07
Because I agree with you, you guys are going to score goals.
40:10
I mean, I think. We owe we own as much Michelle
40:14
Cooper's stock as I think any women's football podcast out
40:17
there. I just love everything about her
40:19
game. And then Tim Wachuinga, if we're
40:21
talking about best elevens, it is outrageous that she would not
40:28
be in every single best 11. I I I'll ask you.
40:32
I asked you this question earlier about the coaching
40:33
search off. I guess I'll frame it this way
40:35
again. Am I?
40:36
Am I going too far over the top of my overreacting in just my
40:41
absolute utter disgust that Temwa Chuenga would not be in
40:45
any best 11? No, no, because I.
40:52
How could she not? I like I, I mean, I think
40:58
between the three of us, we watch a lot of global women's
41:01
football, right? Sure.
41:05
Can you think of a winger in the world that is more dangerous
41:11
than she is? Because like, I, I mean, I, and
41:17
it's not just the fact that she's like so explosively fast.
41:21
I think we all know that, but like, I think we also know that
41:24
Barbara Banda is also explosively fast.
41:27
And I think that like Tim with Chowinga is a more clinical
41:30
finisher than Barbara Banda is. I think that like that's, I, I
41:35
think that that's the thing that separates the two of them
41:37
honestly. And I think that we're seeing
41:41
more and with the league being more dependent on rankings and
41:49
listings is going to be very important to make sure that we
41:56
give her her flowers and for the things that she's accomplishing.
42:00
Because I think that like to score as many goals in a 2 Spain
42:06
in a two season span as she has. And then just basically say
42:09
like, no, I am the most important player in the league.
42:12
Like you all will act like it like that.
42:16
And the fact that she's just so, so humble, so soft, soft spoken
42:20
like such a great ambassador for what football can be.
42:25
I can't imagine any. Well, let me put it this way,
42:29
Grant. You said you can't imagine any
42:32
league best 11 with her off of it.
42:35
I can't imagine any world best 11 with her.
42:39
Totally agree. Yeah, we made, I think when we,
42:43
when we were initially having the conversation, I think the
42:46
thought exercise I took myself through is like, and, and Tom,
42:49
maybe you can speak to this. I don't know that that
42:52
organization would trade Temwa Chewinga for any single player
42:56
on the planet. I don't think there's any player
42:58
that they'd be like, I would take that player for, you know,
43:01
like just be when you think about her, you know, I mean,
43:04
she's probably, she's probably a way to getting a statue, you
43:06
know, like I think two straight MVP's, you know, there's
43:08
probably more trophies to come for sure.
43:10
Still a lot of years in her career.
43:12
So I I totally agree with you that I think that's that's kind
43:16
of she's definitely on that level.
43:17
I mean, better than Bandai might have to, you know, push back a
43:21
little bit on that. You know, the band has got some
43:23
strengths too. But I think turning this
43:25
finishing is just, I mean, it's absolutely sublime.
43:28
I mean, you know, and I think it's so it is so much more than
43:31
her speed. There's a lot of fast players in
43:32
the league. There's a lot of fast players in
43:34
the world, but not a lot of players that you look at and
43:37
you're like, Oh yeah, someone trying to remind me of those
43:39
other players. It's like she's she's absolutely
43:42
a one of one. Oh, absolutely.
43:45
And I, you asked me for a prediction earlier.
43:49
And I think one of the things that I am predicting is like, I
43:51
would not be surprised if we see her more particularly since
43:56
striker depth might be a problem.
43:58
It would not surprise me to see her play more in the center like
44:03
as, as the number 9 versus playing as the the wide forward.
44:08
I think like that's something that black hole like actually
44:12
only did sparingly. It was usually like within the
44:15
last like 5 minutes of a match, like, OK, we're just like she's
44:19
going to be our outlet. Like, because yeah, that's just,
44:23
that's another thing about like it's the fact that she is as
44:26
fast as she is. Like it's, it's not just that
44:29
she's fast in the 5th minute, it's that she's fast in the 85th
44:32
minute, like and like that. And that makes a big difference.
44:38
Like, I mean, heck, the the game against Washington Spirit at
44:42
Audi Field, Like that's the reason they that they won is
44:46
because like she like was fast in the 85th minute and like
44:51
scored the go ahead goal. So I think that it would not
44:55
surprise me if we see her play more centrally going forward in
45:00
2026. Wow, that's that's very
45:03
interesting. I mean, she's obviously a
45:04
nightmare on the wing. I but I I also like her ability.
45:09
She has a great football intelligence where she does like
45:13
that little leave off pass in certain spots where I just think
45:17
that she's a goal scorer. She's one of the elite goal
45:20
scorers in the world, but I but she also has an ability to pick
45:24
out her teammates that I that I really like to I, I want to play
45:28
a quick, wait, you got something on that?
45:31
Oh, I, I think part of that is because like the the reason that
45:34
she wears number six is because one of her youth coaches played
45:37
her as a six first. That's awesome.
45:40
And so like that's one of the reasons why she has the vision
45:43
that she does. So like when you say like, oh,
45:45
like those leave out. It was like, mm, hmm, yeah,
45:47
that's because she plays 6. So like that's what her quote UN
45:51
quote classical training would be.
45:53
That's cool. That's fantastic.
45:55
So let's play the game because I I loved when Dean when we talked
45:58
best 11, Dino said. You know, Kansas City current
46:01
would not trade Temwa Chewinga for any player in the world.
46:04
So of course, I, I want to play the game.
46:06
All right, Tom Bomb, you have, you have replaced Vlatko
46:09
Endonofsky. You are now the director of
46:11
football operate, the president of football operations for
46:13
Kansas City. Current Barcelona football club
46:16
calls you up and says, hey, look, Aitana Bone Mati, she is
46:20
27 years old, born January 18th, 1998.
46:25
I believe that makes her a Capricorn.
46:27
Temwa Chuenga is 27 years old. She was born September 20th,
46:31
1998. There you go, that makes her a
46:34
Virgo. Thank you.
46:35
Dino Oh I'm bone nutsy would be a.
46:38
Aquarius Oh, OK, excellent. Thank you for that.
46:45
Yeah, Capricorn. No, my brother's Aquarius.
46:47
January 26th, you said the 18th. Yeah, January 18th, so.
46:53
Oh, my bad. I thought I I heard.
46:54
I saw 28th in my mind I heard 18th.
46:57
I saw 28th. My bad.
46:59
All good. I know that I know the calendars
47:00
are all different. I the one that I have up that
47:02
just on my desktop that just says Zodi signs.
47:05
I just for some reason I like to I like to quote these sometimes
47:08
we digress. Either way, Barcelona football
47:11
club calls you up and says, hey, look, we know they're different
47:14
positions. We need another goal scorer.
47:17
We're done with the Itano bone, but they've completely lost
47:20
their minds and said we've we're done with the with with the
47:22
Itano bone with T experience. They offer you one for one bone
47:26
Mati for Tamwa chewinga. You say what?
47:32
Is Selma Periueilu coming with her?
47:37
Let's go, I'm telling you. Because I'm because I'm not.
47:41
I'm not doing that. Not without.
47:43
Not without Selma, no. Incredible.
47:47
An institute type MVP. Yeah.
47:50
You like at. At that point, it's not who's
47:55
better right or who who's a little Madden Raider who FIFA
47:58
rating is a little tick couple ticks higher.
48:00
It's like it's the impact. It's like, you know, she is
48:05
going to end up being that organization signature, but you
48:09
know she's going to be Kobe or however you want to think about
48:11
that. Like that's where where this is
48:13
going. And you know, the trophies are
48:15
already starting to rack up like the MVPS trophies are there and
48:18
the shield's there. And I think it's more to come
48:19
for sure. And I saw a not very good
48:23
Houston Dash team bully that Barcelona midfield.
48:27
So I don't know how well a ton about Mati's game would play in
48:32
this league. And that's not to say that she's
48:35
a a player, a player of poor repute.
48:38
I'm just saying that she ain't built for this CONCACAF life.
48:42
I know that. Oh man, that's spicy.
48:45
I, I, I didn't think we can get a lot spicier than do you pull
48:49
the trigger on Allie Centenoor or wow, OK, sure.
48:53
I mean, I'm a, I'm a bone Mati guy.
48:55
It's not hard to be a bone Mati guy, 33 ball and doors, But OK,
48:59
I like it. I like, I like where you guys
49:02
heads are at here. So I, it takes us to, and I know
49:06
Dino's kind of touched on it before, like what are, what are
49:09
we, what are we expecting going into the next season?
49:13
I I think that we have to ask ourselves the question and you
49:18
as obviously somebody who covers the team, the windows coming up
49:23
will, will make you the president of football operations
49:26
once again. What are you looking for in this
49:30
in this window or what are what are the spots?
49:32
Laurel Ivory, I think she goes to the New Boston Football Club
49:36
as a backup keeper. Obviously you have the
49:37
goalkeeper of the year and Lorena, what are you looking
49:40
for? Who are you looking to add?
49:42
What do you, what do you need to shore up on this great squad?
49:49
You're looking for definitely for forward depth.
49:52
I think that that's why you you've seen like the college
49:55
signings of players like Gianna Paul to the squad.
50:02
I think, and this is, and this is just me because I'm I'm I'm
50:08
like this about injuries before or a lot.
50:12
I am looking into like focusing in on how do I make sure that my
50:18
players are good in March, but also great and as informed as
50:27
they possibly can be in September, October and November.
50:30
Like I think that that might be like the biggest focus of of
50:36
what I'm trying to do. Like if, if I were to have the
50:39
Long's ear in this way, I'd be like, Hey, I need you all to
50:42
spend some money on like making sure that we are making sure
50:46
that our our athletes are at their peak by the time that we
50:51
get them ready for September, October in the stretch run.
50:55
And if we're not doing that, then we're not doing this
50:57
correctly. I'm with it.
51:01
I love that take. That makes a ton of sense.
51:03
And it reminds me, Grant, when you were saying that you're
51:06
like, oh, OK, Seattle played the Current without chewing.
51:10
It's like I wouldn't have chewing it that day.
51:12
You look at the knock, the knockout, the quarterfinals they
51:14
have during that day either. So you go to, to the black coat
51:18
conversation we're having earlier too about not, no, no
51:20
Plan B. It's almost like there's the,
51:23
the physical preparedness component, making sure you're
51:27
ready, but also the strategic readiness of like, hey, we might
51:31
be, we, we don't know who's going to be out, might be
51:34
missing one or two or three. And like, what are the moves
51:37
there? Because like, I think the
51:38
permutations start to add up pretty quickly when you think
51:41
about who could be missing was pretty clear that, you know, I
51:44
think there whether or not there was a play that the play we
51:47
didn't, you know, kind of like actually hit the pitch.
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So I think in addition to you, it's a great point about
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physically being ready. But I think mentally and, you
51:57
know, from a vision standpoint, philosophically, they also want
52:00
to make sure that, you know, it's not too many eggs in one
52:02
basket and not a repeat of the past.
52:04
And then it's kind of makes me think about is Casey in this
52:07
cycle of like focusing too much on the most recent trauma of
52:14
last season, you know, and like basically trying to win last
52:17
year's championship and maybe not focusing on we on next
52:19
year's championship and like it. Is there a component to that?
52:22
Because we saw just from the Orlando title to this past
52:25
season, a lot of evolution of the game, tactics, talent, like
52:30
into it. It really feels like the game is
52:33
taking leaps forward and it's almost like you don't want to
52:36
get tied to A to a vision that's too long and that could could
52:39
get sailed pretty quickly. I would agree with that and I
52:42
think that like I think that that was one of the like
52:47
hindsight being 2020, I think that that was one of the
52:49
indicators why Lyco had to no longer be coaching the team.
52:53
Like, and I think that that and I think also to further that
52:57
point like that is why I would be so hesitant to like even if I
53:02
were just look like if I were just looking at Chris Armas
53:07
record and like his style of play with all of his stops.
53:13
Like they pretty much play like all of those teams for the most
53:17
part pre played much played one way.
53:20
Like we're going to press the hell out of you and we're like,
53:24
and we're going to just make it 90 minutes of hell for you, like
53:28
all across the pitch. Like if, if, if you, if you're
53:32
bringing in a coach that's already married to a strategy
53:35
and not a coach that like says like, yes, I would like to do
53:38
this, but I also know that these are the players that I have.
53:41
So I'm going to be like adapting and doing this instead.
53:45
Like that's where you need to go versus like a a Jesse Marsh
53:51
disciple. And I I will leave that at that.
53:55
Look, man, I'm, as you're saying that, I mean, well, let's talk.
54:00
We talked about the best 11 I came up with with, you know,
54:04
with a formation that I thought would fit.
54:06
You're talking about coaches making adjustments.
54:08
I I nodded to it at the beginning of this show.
54:12
You are a supporter of the greatest football club in the
54:16
Galaxy, Manchester City Football Club.
54:18
We are Pep Guardiola, you know, appreciators, lovers.
54:23
You might want to say you make the changes.
54:27
You, you do what? You, what does your club have?
54:29
OK, we'll do that. To to your point to your earlier
54:34
hypothetical, if, if the if I'm the still the player personnel
54:42
manager for KC current and of course the Reese picks up the
54:47
phone and was like, listen, we're about to extend Bunny, but
54:53
if we can have her one for one pretend with Chewinga.
54:56
That might be the only scenario in which I say like.
55:00
OK Oh yes, I love that she would destroy in NWSL She and and we
55:07
say that I mean Chewinga is currently destroying, but Bunny
55:10
would be Bunny would be excellent as well.
55:13
Well, and vice versa, because like I don't like just in WSL
55:17
play, they are not. They think, they think Alyssa
55:20
Thompson is fast. And while she is, and while she
55:23
is fast, no, no, she not like that, not like that, not like
55:29
that. Yeah.
55:32
I hear you, I. Felt bad.
55:33
I felt bad saying that too. I was like I was like, hey,
55:35
you're up. You think Alyssa Tom.
55:38
I was trying to explain the temple chewing A phenomenon.
55:40
So but I I can totally relate for sure.
55:43
Tom, Bob, I want to get you out of here on on relative time.
55:48
Grant anything else you we got anything else for Tom mom?
55:51
I think that's it buddy. I mean I I, I mentioned it in
55:54
the intro, but please for the people, let them know where they
55:59
can find you. You can find me on Shades of
56:04
Blue, which is the internet's most comprehensive Manchester
56:07
City football podcast talking about both Manchester City men
56:11
and women. Shout out to my guys over there.
56:14
You can find me on The 12, which is the WSL podcast that you
56:18
should be listening to that is also on the Shades of Blue
56:22
Network, and you can find me on the Shea Butter FC feed at the
56:27
current moment. And if you just want to follow
56:30
me around on social media for just some general shenanigans,
56:33
you can follow me at Tom Bomb 816.
56:36
That is my username for any social media that I participate.
56:41
On Awesome. Well, Tom, been awesome having
56:48
you on the show. Really appreciate the time I.
56:51
Appreciate you all having me. Anything, any, any flaming hot
56:55
takes you, you haven't got anything back of the notebook
56:58
that you kind of like, would need to kind of like uncork here
57:01
before we hit the hour mark, we've got 2 minutes and 56
57:04
seconds 55. Congratulations to Ellie
57:10
Wheeler. Ellie Wheeler just got married
57:13
this past weekend. She was proposed to by her
57:17
boyfriend after the match. Guys, don't do that.
57:24
Remember that. Yeah.
57:25
Yeah. Don't do that.
57:25
Don't do that. Don't like, don't, don't, don't
57:28
go to, don't go to their job and propose to them.
57:31
Don't do that. Don't do that.
57:33
Yeah, yeah. Do it at a baseball game.
57:34
Some. Some are respectable.
57:35
Oh. God, there you go.
57:41
Sure. Anyway, congratulations on
57:42
nuptials to Ellie Wheeler. This has been an episode of the
57:44
channel. Thank you, thank you, thank you
57:45
for watching listen to hang it out.
57:47
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58:06
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58:09
changing on your second appearance that puts you at the
58:11
very top of the leaderboard. 2025.
58:14
I got my years mixed up so forgive me.
58:16
There links to all the above much much more in the
58:19
description of this episode. A big thank you to Tom Bomb for
58:23
joining us. Thank you for having me so much.
58:27
And a big thank you, my clothes as well, Mr. Grant Angle for
58:30
always being up for it doesn't matter. 20252026, You know, late
58:35
night, early morning, sleepy boys, awake boys.
58:38
I appreciate you, bro. I mean, I think, you know, we're
58:42
closing out the year in a very sleepy way, just sputtering,
58:45
stumbling to the finish line. I think we'll dust ourselves
58:48
off, be ready for next year. But either way, another great
58:51
season for your boys. I appreciate you bro.
58:54
Likewise, buddy, but we're finishing strong.
58:56
I mean, come on, you can't get much better than AKC.
58:58
Current retrospective after the Chris Armis reports.
59:01
We're doing what we can. Tom Bomb, thank you for coming
59:04
here. And much like your colleagues at
59:06
Shea Butter FC, delivering the takes with soul and seasoning,
59:10
soul and seasoning that will moisturize your skin.
59:12
I knew I was going to fuck that line up when I wanted to say it.
59:15
Either way, no splutters here. We're powering right through it.
59:20
Thank you everybody for watching and we will see you all next
59:23
time.