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S3 Ep14 - DC 1 - Trinity FC 0 · Pegasus

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_01: It's your Pegasus post match after Dallas Trinity goes to DC and loses uh one uh loses zero goals to it doesn't matter because it whatever they scored, it wouldn't have mattered today, Rich.
• 0:17
  SPEAKER_01: Um I'm Jesse Madsen.
• 0:19
  SPEAKER_01: I'm here with Rich.
• 0:20
  SPEAKER_01: We're stones throw.
• 0:22
  SPEAKER_00: Idiomatically I thought you were gonna say we're stoned, but that we're not.
• 0:26
  SPEAKER_01: I wish I was.
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_01: That would have made this Sunday a lot better.
• 0:30
  SPEAKER_01: But yeah, idiomatically, we are a stones throw from the namesake of our club, and the we could play another three hours and we won't beat this DC team.
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I was just gonna start with one word bad, but thanks for elaborating.
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_00: You know it.
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, no, not like that.
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_00: You know it.
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I mean, if it's really, really bad.
• 0:57
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I mean, honestly, uh, this was one of the more disappointing uh performances that we've seen.
• 1:05
  SPEAKER_00: Like, it was just after the highs of last week, and I know, and I was talking to somebody about this, like I know last week was a friendly, but it was fun, we had lots of energy, we played well, we we were in sync.
• 1:18
  SPEAKER_00: And I think the thing, I mean, if you take out the first 90 seconds of this match and and us being able to throw everything at goal for the last six minutes, which includes five minutes of stoppage, the rest of this was just it was just no fun to watch.
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_00: Like it was it was truly like it looked like nobody on the pitch knew anybody else on the pitch.
• 1:45
  SPEAKER_00: Um it looked like we didn't know what to do with the ball.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_00: Um and honestly, for D from a DC standpoint, like I I'd be happy with the win, but it's not like they played a great game.
• 1:58
  SPEAKER_00: I didn't, I mean, I they their press was really good.
• 2:02
  SPEAKER_00: They were they were very active in trying to keep us out of you know the final third, but they you know they didn't do a lot either.
• 2:11
  SPEAKER_00: Like it just one of those things where like like they the they shot from distance, uh the keeper and the the bar keep the ball from going in, and the spillage leads to their goal because they had somebody running at net when that shot went to towards it, but but and it was a great finish, but you know, honestly, like anybody could have put that in net.
• 2:33
  SPEAKER_00: It just they didn't do a lot, but they did absolutely enough to win it.
• 2:39
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, they did enough to win, but it it that's really damning with faint praise, DC.
• 2:45
  SPEAKER_01: Because you a lot of a lot of times you can watch a match and be like, okay, well, they did a lot right, and they deserve the three points, and they deserve the three points, DC.
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_01: But if you're really being objective about this, and especially speaking from as a supporter of Dallas Trinity and someone who watches them, it's really more we were so poor for so long in this match.
• 3:13
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 3:13
  SPEAKER_01: And for longs, really long stretches.
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_01: I think we went we had one shot in that first 90 seconds.
• 3:21
  SPEAKER_01: Then we had our second shot just before the whistle at halftime.
• 3:26
  SPEAKER_01: So that's a that was about forty-four minutes between our sh our first and second shot.
• 3:32
  SPEAKER_01: Our third shot came in the second half from I think our one of our like our second or third set of substitutes, it was Cam.
• 3:42
  SPEAKER_00: That was like minute, that was like minute 72.
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_01: It was 30 minutes after the second shot.
• 3:49
  SPEAKER_01: So that's what I mean.
• 3:50
  SPEAKER_01: Like, we could play here.
• 3:51
  SPEAKER_01: They could be playing now.
• 3:53
  SPEAKER_01: And if we didn't have the urgency of the final whistle to have that flurry of shots, we might still be on four shots or five shots.
• 4:05
  SPEAKER_00: Well, and if and if and if the and if the if the broadcast feed had gone out like it has in the past, like we might still be playing and we wouldn't know.
• 4:13
  SPEAKER_01: But the yeah, you're right.
• 4:15
  SPEAKER_01: The all the energy of last week you feel like was really scraw squandered.
• 4:20
  SPEAKER_01: It was just there's so many really actually uh poor performances tonight, like, and like I think we should get into them.
• 4:27
  SPEAKER_01: Not like to to actually like dig into the players, but I think we are often very positive on this podcast, but I think sometimes you really do have to call out when you see it.
• 4:41
  SPEAKER_01: And I think we should we should.
• 4:43
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I I think if you're I think if you're gonna call anybody out, I mean I think that you can just start with the coach.
• 4:48
  SPEAKER_00: Like I like I don't like I I don't know like the the co when we okay, so let's back up.
• 4:53
  SPEAKER_01: So when we how we started, I I I don't know, like that's how I think we we should have started the match, but the coach didn't didn't.
• 5:02
  SPEAKER_00: I'm saying the adjustments weren't there.
• 5:04
  SPEAKER_01: But that's later, Rich.
• 5:05
  SPEAKER_01: He didn't do his his his lineup didn't get you you'd think you'd have got better than one shot in the first 90 seconds, and then the second shot just before the the whistle at halftime.
• 5:17
  SPEAKER_01: Well, like there's some the the cake was baked here with some poor performances prior to that.
• 5:23
  SPEAKER_00: I I would agree.
• 5:24
  SPEAKER_00: I think to DC's credit, I think they did a really good job of limiting Jasmine's uh you know effectiveness and it I mean no, I mean seriously, like like we like you said one of the things.
• 5:34
  SPEAKER_01: I don't think it's I don't think it's how much they did a good job, it's how bad we did.
• 5:39
  SPEAKER_01: We didn't give her any service, but when we did, she did she her first touch was off.
• 5:45
  SPEAKER_00: Well, or she was being mauled.
• 5:46
  SPEAKER_00: Like, dude, like DC, like DC pulled her down four different times in that first half.
• 5:51
  SPEAKER_00: I'm telling you, like, when the ball came to her, that she's getting pulled down.
• 5:54
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not saying that there weren't poor performances leading up to that.
• 5:58
  SPEAKER_00: There were plenty of them.
• 5:59
  SPEAKER_00: Um and I'm not saying she was great because I don't think she was, but I do think that the one thing that I feel like DC did a good job of was limiting Jasmine from being a factor in the game.
• 6:11
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, we also did a great job of being of limiting her as a factor in the game.
• 6:16
  SPEAKER_00: That's a good thing.
• 6:16
  SPEAKER_00: But I think it couldn't be a good thing.
• 6:18
  SPEAKER_00: But it's the one thing they did, it's the one thing they did do is that they did limit what she could do, and we did a terrible job of getting her involved.
• 6:26
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 6:27
  SPEAKER_00: So that's I mean, in the midfield, like you can just like that's so that's midfield was.
• 6:31
  SPEAKER_01: So that's Jasmine in the first like two-thirds of the match.
• 6:35
  SPEAKER_01: Midfield.
• 6:35
  SPEAKER_01: You wanted to do a midfield.
• 6:36
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, it's a terrible thing.
• 6:37
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, listen, like I like I said, I was just gonna start with the podcast with bad.
• 6:41
  SPEAKER_00: The midfield really, really struggled.
• 6:44
  SPEAKER_00: Um to I mean, like poor decision after poor decision.
• 6:49
  SPEAKER_00: The goal was a giveaway.
• 6:50
  SPEAKER_00: Like we like the midfield gave the ball away.
• 6:53
  SPEAKER_01: There was a giveaway prior to that that almost led to something.
• 6:57
  SPEAKER_01: But then there was another giveaway that led to that goal.
• 7:00
  SPEAKER_01: But yeah, Sophia Sedeno um.
• 7:03
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe the worst maybe the worst game for Sideno, maybe the worst game in the in the show.
• 7:08
  SPEAKER_01: A little bit in fairness for her, she got knocked.
• 7:10
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, and that was a theme a little bit of like getting bonked in the head.
• 7:13
  SPEAKER_01: Like we kept getting pelted.
• 7:15
  SPEAKER_00: We had three players get severely smacked in the head with the ball.
• 7:20
  SPEAKER_00: Really unlucky.
• 7:20
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, almost like target practice, but but but I mean I know it wasn't, but like uh, you know, and you know, and we had a player go off the pitch due to that.
• 7:29
  SPEAKER_01: Like, and and Sylvia Sedeño got knocked in the head, I think it was like 35 minutes from a ball.
• 7:36
  SPEAKER_01: And to me, that was a perfect opportunity to do a sub personally, because it was like you could you could make the argument of hey, you know, you're not playing very well.
• 7:45
  SPEAKER_01: But didn't she play the full match?
• 7:47
  SPEAKER_01: She planned up playing the full match.
• 7:48
  SPEAKER_01: I mean she was just wild.
• 7:49
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, only I mean out of the I mean Knox got taken off at a point which you know so yeah, our midfield.
• 7:56
  SPEAKER_01: Nagai, she got the sub in in the uh at halftime for Felicia Knox.
• 8:04
  SPEAKER_01: No, and Felicia Knox started.
• 8:06
  SPEAKER_01: Um but yeah, like that midfield, Sophia Sidenya struggled in that first half.
• 8:13
  SPEAKER_01: Um Felicia Knox struggled in that first half.
• 8:15
  SPEAKER_01: Nagai struggled in that first half.
• 8:17
  SPEAKER_01: So that's your three midfielders that just struggled.
• 8:22
  SPEAKER_01: It's just you can't have three players struggling um like that against DC.
• 8:29
  SPEAKER_01: Well you can.
• 8:29
  SPEAKER_01: So you can that's the problem is that.
• 8:32
  SPEAKER_01: Unfortunately, you can't.
• 8:32
  SPEAKER_01: That's an isn't that is an outcome that we could potentially befall us.
• 8:36
  SPEAKER_01: But but they were like the one thing I will say about DC that they're really good at, and a lot of it comes from a player that I really wanted after Spokane folded was Jaskinich.
• 8:52
  SPEAKER_01: She was a menace when uh in the Cotton Bowl when we won two-one.
• 8:57
  SPEAKER_01: But they were solid in a way that we were not solid.
• 9:02
  SPEAKER_01: We were just a pushover.
• 9:04
  SPEAKER_01: We couldn't hold on to the ball, we couldn't we couldn't make simple passes, we couldn't win the battle um or when it mattered.
• 9:11
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, you know, like really, you know, at uh um when it when it really mattered in matches and when things could turn for us.
• 9:21
  SPEAKER_01: Um yeah, so that's our midfield.
• 9:23
  SPEAKER_01: Um anywhere else we want to go.
• 9:25
  SPEAKER_01: I think because I I think our forwards, I think our forwards, like Gamaro, I think that's one of the poorest games we've seen from Gamaro.
• 9:31
  SPEAKER_01: She's a young player, this will happen.
• 9:33
  SPEAKER_01: But I think it's one of the poorest games I've seen, Anyaca Gamaro.
• 9:36
  SPEAKER_01: Seven Castain.
• 9:37
  SPEAKER_01: I think Seven Castain and She was almost non-existent.
• 9:40
  SPEAKER_00: Almost non-existent.
• 9:41
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, like truly.
• 9:43
  SPEAKER_01: I couldn't believe she was on the pitch like in 70 and 80, somewhere in there.
• 9:48
  SPEAKER_00: Well, the problem is you only have five subs, so it's like it's very like this is the challenge when you have a large group of players just not putting in, you know, or being effective at the shift.
• 10:02
  SPEAKER_00: Like I I don't I feel like there was plenty of match.
• 10:06
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, no, I know.
• 10:07
  SPEAKER_00: She she never got subbed off.
• 10:09
  SPEAKER_00: I know, but but but you would but like but the thing is is that you wouldn't have you wouldn't have known it.
• 10:14
  SPEAKER_00: Her her number got called, I think, twice the entire match.
• 10:18
  SPEAKER_01: And like first in the 60 seconds.
• 10:21
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, in the first 90 seconds, and then sometime in the second half.
• 10:26
  SPEAKER_01: I I checked multiple times to make sure that she was still on the field.
• 10:30
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, no, I mean it really was.
• 10:32
  SPEAKER_01: And it feels it feels really bad to single out a lot of these, but like we're really positive, but it's really important to talk about this because that was genuinely one of the like both individually and collectively, one of the poor performances.
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_01: I said early on it was like we were having a good Sunday.
• 10:50
  SPEAKER_00: And it's almost like Dallas Trinity, like we're like, Well, they knew that you were having a good Sunday, and they're like, guess what, Jesse?
• 10:56
  SPEAKER_00: I feel like I'm taking you down.
• 10:58
  SPEAKER_01: I feel like it was had a great day yesterday, had a great start.
• 11:03
  SPEAKER_01: We have we had one team that we really um like and enjoy.
• 11:08
  SPEAKER_01: They won.
• 11:09
  SPEAKER_01: A team we are our our our worst enemies lost today.
• 11:16
  SPEAKER_01: And so we rock up into this match, and it's just a great day.
• 11:22
  SPEAKER_01: It's a beautiful day.
• 11:23
  SPEAKER_01: The sun's out, it's a mild day in Dallas, and we're having a good time.
• 11:30
  SPEAKER_01: And it's like, look out.
• 11:32
  SPEAKER_01: We're gonna put we're gonna do this.
• 11:35
  SPEAKER_00: It was just I think I think, you know, it this was just such a hard watch.
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_00: And I I think it especially after I mean, and coming into this game, like one of the things, and in the first 90 seconds, what I was thinking to myself was, you know, our players finally understanding what the coach wants them to do.
• 11:53
  SPEAKER_00: We kind of understand what the coach is trying to do.
• 11:57
  SPEAKER_00: Um, we've done a good job at that.
• 11:59
  SPEAKER_00: And then this game, it just felt like all of that went out the window.
• 12:03
  SPEAKER_00: And you know, it just like it's it, I the hard part is it's like DC wasn't great.
• 12:13
  SPEAKER_00: Like they weren't, and they got it, they got a goal, and it, you know, it's not I mean, you know, they got they scored a goal, but like they they had they didn't have a lot of chances, they weren't really good.
• 12:24
  SPEAKER_00: Um it just was like they knew that we weren't going to get in.
• 12:30
  SPEAKER_00: Like they knew like they knew it.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_00: Like it wasn't, it just wasn't gonna happen for us today.
• 12:35
  SPEAKER_00: And I I mean, thankfully, like we made it interesting in the last six minutes, but um, and the fact that it was only one nil, like something could have happened there and we could have gotten a point out of it, but honestly, like the the performance itself wouldn't have made me feel like wow, we deserved that.
• 12:55
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, and that's the that's uh I mean I'll take it.
• 12:58
  SPEAKER_00: Like, don't get me wrong, like I would take it if we'd have gotten it, but I but I it just like it didn't you cheer a point.
• 13:06
  SPEAKER_01: It's one of the few points.
• 13:08
  SPEAKER_00: It's one of the few times where I like watch this team and go, man, like we just didn't have anything in the anything to offer today.
• 13:15
  SPEAKER_00: Like it just was not it was a rough watch.
• 13:19
  SPEAKER_00: It was a really rough watch.
• 13:20
  SPEAKER_01: It was a really wash rough watch.
• 13:22
  SPEAKER_01: Um who's your player of the match?
• 13:25
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, like who's your who's your who who who's your least um at the scene of the crime today?
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, of the match.
• 13:34
  SPEAKER_01: We're gonna get that in an acronym.
• 13:35
  SPEAKER_01: I don't even know.
• 13:36
  SPEAKER_00: But Sophie Braun had a great shot.
• 13:39
  SPEAKER_00: Did she?
• 13:40
  SPEAKER_00: She did.
• 13:41
  SPEAKER_00: She like like right.
• 13:42
  SPEAKER_00: She did.
• 13:43
  SPEAKER_00: She she had a really good shot.
• 13:44
  SPEAKER_00: She powered through, got into the box, and and shot up.
• 13:48
  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, wow, just like we shouldn't.
• 13:51
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I was like, I was I was I was number one shocked that she was up there doing it.
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_00: And I mean, I would have loved for her to score.
• 13:58
  SPEAKER_00: It was a great, it was a great save by their keeper.
• 14:02
  SPEAKER_00: Um and you know, led to a corner that went to nowhere.
• 14:05
  SPEAKER_01: It's a force four saves somehow in that second half, but I've never felt like a perilous.
• 14:10
  SPEAKER_00: So here we are.
• 14:11
  SPEAKER_00: We're we're at what at some point, I think maybe it was the Dallas Observer, maybe it was the morning news, uh, called the Helen Hunt Bridge, the bridge to nowhere.
• 14:21
  SPEAKER_00: So we're at the bridge to the Margaret Hunt, yeah.
• 14:24
  SPEAKER_00: Whatever, dude, whatever.
• 14:25
  SPEAKER_00: Uh we're at that.
• 14:26
  SPEAKER_00: We're at the at the end of the bridge to nowhere.
• 14:28
  SPEAKER_00: Some devil's high society person.
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, exactly.
• 14:32
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and some uh editorial person called it that.
• 14:35
  SPEAKER_00: Um this really felt like the game to nowhere.
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_00: Like it, like it just was like we uh like 20 minutes in, I'm like, there's nothing good to come from this game.
• 14:46
  SPEAKER_00: I don't like it.
• 14:48
  SPEAKER_01: What a way to live, right?
• 14:49
  SPEAKER_01: 20 minutes into a match, and like this is this is going nowhere.
• 14:53
  SPEAKER_00: Um yeah, so but then I'm happy to report we did win.
• 14:58
  SPEAKER_00: So wait, no, we didn't.
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_00: No, we didn't.
• 15:00
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah, you're winning.
• 15:00
  SPEAKER_00: Rich?
• 15:01
  SPEAKER_00: I'm sorry, I'm trying to change the narrative, Jesse.
• 15:04
  SPEAKER_00: I'm trying to make your day better.
• 15:07
  SPEAKER_01: That's what everyone should be doing.
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_01: We really did win.
• 15:09
  SPEAKER_01: That's what everyone should be doing, Rich.
• 15:11
  SPEAKER_01: Is is worrying about my day.
• 15:13
  SPEAKER_01: Um Yeah, so and and then there's the old the other thing around this about just the short season, okay?
• 15:21
  SPEAKER_01: We come into this match, we're we go to DC, we're both on eight games played in the in the level.
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_01: Level on points.
• 15:29
  SPEAKER_01: And level on points.
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_01: So it was an opportunity to like, hey, do we think we can might be able to tip this thing into our favor?
• 15:37
  SPEAKER_01: Like not only to like solidify something in the top four, but maybe make a push to the second place or to third or fourth, or to second or third.
• 15:49
  SPEAKER_01: And uh it was just not what you were looking for in this moment.
• 15:54
  SPEAKER_00: Um also you know, the second that Cam came on, she makes a difference.
• 16:00
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, she like has a touch, she's pushing, she has a shot.
• 16:05
  SPEAKER_01: Um I think that was I think I think it was five or to ten minutes too late for Gamaro.
• 16:13
  SPEAKER_01: I think I th I mean you can vouch.
• 16:14
  SPEAKER_01: I I think I was doing Gamaro for for Cam like ten minutes before like some.
• 16:20
  SPEAKER_00: That's 60.
• 16:21
  SPEAKER_00: Like we we talked about it at I think 56.
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_00: Um 60, 65 would be a good time to make a couple of these changes.
• 16:31
  SPEAKER_00: And that's kind of what I was saying when I was talking about.
• 16:33
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I some of this falls at the feet of the coaches in the later, definitely later in the middle.
• 16:38
  SPEAKER_00: In the sense that, you know, one of the things that I've really loved about Coach Wynne to this point is like he makes adjustments, even if he's not making changes of personnel on the pitch, he makes really good adjustments at halftime.
• 16:53
  SPEAKER_00: We typically come out looking better than we did in the first half.
• 16:56
  SPEAKER_00: There are adjustments made, and and those adjustments tend to work.
• 17:00
  SPEAKER_00: Uh what happened here, like, number one, he makes a sub, it doesn't like nothing really great happens, and then and then he waits to make the subs that could make a difference until it's I think too like it's too late, you know.
• 17:17
  SPEAKER_00: And and and and I I wanted those subs to come earlier.
• 17:21
  SPEAKER_00: I think everybody else did too.
• 17:23
  SPEAKER_00: Um and it's not like the people that were being subbed out, the players were having a great game.
• 17:28
  SPEAKER_00: They weren't.
• 17:29
  SPEAKER_00: Nobody on that pitch was having a great game.
• 17:32
  SPEAKER_00: So it's like, so if you sub early, it's not like you know, you're bruising any egos, or you're like like there's like there's literally nothing to worry about here because uh I think to a player, there's nobody that would walk away from this and say, I you know, we didn't win, but I kind of killed it.
• 17:50
  SPEAKER_00: Didn't happen, dude.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_00: Like no nobody out there looked good today.
• 17:53
  SPEAKER_00: Like it was not it's not and once again, it's not it's not lack of effort, like there was lots of hustle.
• 18:00
  SPEAKER_00: Um but no when we criticize it.
• 18:02
  SPEAKER_00: But it just wasn't but it just wasn't good.
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_00: Like it is.
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_01: Well when we criticize, that's that's really important point.
• 18:07
  SPEAKER_01: It's when you when you criticize, it's not always like you know, there like anyone wasn't trying.
• 18:14
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's not lacking.
• 18:16
  SPEAKER_01: I think that's like a that's real like a fallacy, like to make that because that is not what was happening.
• 18:22
  SPEAKER_01: And that's typically never what's happening at this level or what our team is like.
• 18:27
  SPEAKER_01: I don't see I I've hardly ever seen like I I don't think I ever have ever seen a Trinity player like not trying in a match.
• 18:39
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's whether or not it's the right thing at the right moment, whether it's it's it's the sharpness uh of what's needed, uh, you know, like the quality, the the skill, the decision um that's coming off.
• 18:53
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's it's definitely it's never about trying.
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_01: That's really not it.
• 18:57
  SPEAKER_01: Um the goal.
• 19:00
  SPEAKER_01: Like their goal.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_01: I think maybe you have a thought about this, but uh I had this I had this thought of like some of the most frustrating goals to me when they're scored against you are the ones that you can in you can't see yourself scoring in like a hundred tries.
• 19:21
  SPEAKER_01: Like to me, those are some of the most frustrating goals.
• 19:26
  SPEAKER_01: It's not sometimes like, oh well, we made a mistake or something like because mistakes happen.
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_01: But when you have a goal like they scored, and you can't see yourself, your team, your set of players scoring that goal is one of the more frustrating ones.
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_00: So, what part of that goal do you think m made it where we wouldn't have scored that goal?
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_00: Because it because honestly, like the actual goal itself, I mean, it was a tap-in that was very easy.
• 19:55
  SPEAKER_00: Like it was there was not that's the thing about it.
• 19:58
  SPEAKER_00: Like, had the initial shot gone in, I would have been like, okay, that's that's one I don't see us scoring.
• 20:06
  SPEAKER_00: Because we don't shoot from that distance very often, which I know is a part of what you're saying, but the other piece is like, and that was a tap-in, like anybody I like maybe I couldn't have scored it, but a lot of people could score that goal.
• 20:17
  SPEAKER_01: So you got part of my problem with that goal is that we don't attempt that goal.
• 20:23
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, that's number one.
• 20:25
  SPEAKER_01: Number two is in the in the squad we don't Okay, so if we attempted it, we don't have the quality really for that goal.
• 20:35
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, so now the coach has a decision.
• 20:37
  SPEAKER_01: You haven't switched to the side.
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_00: Alright, explain that a little bit further.
• 20:41
  SPEAKER_01: Well, the quality to have that shot to hit that bar from that distance.
• 20:45
  SPEAKER_01: Like who who in our who in our squad has that has that?
• 20:52
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I think there are probably a couple players that could pull that off.
• 20:56
  SPEAKER_00: I think Jasmine could pull that off.
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_00: I don't think that's a good idea.
• 20:58
  SPEAKER_00: I think I think I think Cameroon's a lot of people.
• 21:00
  SPEAKER_01: She's more of an in the box.
• 21:01
  SPEAKER_01: We've got a lot of like in the box.
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_00: No, I I think that I think they're better in the box.
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_00: I think it's unlikely, but I don't think that it's so it brings me to my number two.
• 21:08
  SPEAKER_01: So you have the coach makes instructions as to how we have how we attack.
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_01: How we attack foregoes that type of chance.
• 21:16
  SPEAKER_01: I would agree.
• 21:17
  SPEAKER_01: We don't we don't take that kind of chance.
• 21:19
  SPEAKER_01: So if that quality exists in our in our club, we don't let it let it happen because of decisions to not have that chance.
• 21:30
  SPEAKER_01: That's number two.
• 21:31
  SPEAKER_01: Number three.
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_01: We don't have the player we don't often have the extra player or the numbers in or the uh the instruction to follow that shot.
• 21:46
  SPEAKER_01: So you say it's a tap end.
• 21:48
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's a tap end.
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_01: But you have to have the number in the ready to ready to pounce on that chance or that um that the ball not broken.
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_00: I think because of the way we're I think because of the way we're coached and what the coaches want, we are getting into the box before we shoot.
• 22:10
  SPEAKER_00: And when someone's shooting, there's generally other people already in the box.
• 22:15
  SPEAKER_00: So they don't need to follow.
• 22:17
  SPEAKER_00: I think the one of the issues that we have, and we saw this um in the first half, is you know, we will get to the edge of the box with the ball quickly, you know, on a breakaway, and the ball will get shot across face of goal, but there is no one there.
• 22:37
  SPEAKER_00: No one there to be there for that tap in because they are that that's it's just not the way we're set up.
• 22:45
  SPEAKER_00: That's that's a coaching thing, it's a style of play thing.
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_01: Um it's more about a it becomes more about a structure than about expression and taking a chance.
• 22:55
  SPEAKER_00: It's not it's not bang and follow-up.
• 22:57
  SPEAKER_00: Like like we like like there are like there are teams and that play that way where they're shooting and they're they have players that are running into the box in case the keeper spills.
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_00: Same thing that happens in you know a number of hockey games where it's like that's I mean, that's a strategy to have is to shoot from distance and then hope that there's um some scraps to pick up and put in net.
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_00: Um we just don't we never try to create that way.
• 23:26
  SPEAKER_00: Very, very rarely.
• 23:28
  SPEAKER_01: This is my point.
• 23:29
  SPEAKER_00: But I but when it's frustrating, I don't see it as a goal we could do.
• 23:32
  SPEAKER_00: It's like we could do it, we just aren't coached to do it that way.
• 23:35
  SPEAKER_00: We don't like that's not the type of thing that that we do.
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_01: Well, sure.
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_01: In a in a alternate like scenario where we played like the way DC played, but I just think that is a frustrating way to concede a goal is when you yourself can't picture yourself scoring that type of goal.
• 23:53
  SPEAKER_01: And frankly, like we could have used that type of goal today.
• 23:58
  SPEAKER_01: And the way we play didn't really allow us to f to that chance.
• 24:02
  SPEAKER_01: Look, I I don't think it's about like trying to change the way we play.
• 24:07
  SPEAKER_01: I still go back to the thing of like we had so many poor performances across the the the team and they were compounded by the um the lack of decisiveness in making changes, the maybe the little delay in making changes.
• 24:24
  SPEAKER_01: But um but but I I just wanted to talk about it because because that it's just a funny thing of like when a goal is scored against you, sometimes it's most frustrating when it's like that goal is not in our in our quiver, right?
• 24:41
  SPEAKER_01: It's not in our arsenal.
• 24:44
  SPEAKER_01: And um it just compounded to the frustrations for me today.
• 24:50
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I I mean no, I I I definitely get what you're saying.
• 24:55
  SPEAKER_00: I think for me, the poor performance piece really comes down to kind of the the the being in sync with each other, like it just felt so disjointed at every step of the match.
• 25:10
  SPEAKER_00: It just felt like we were really out of sorts, and and this system of play, like the reason it worked so well last week in the El Classico is because we were in sync.
• 25:24
  SPEAKER_00: It's because like you're you're passing and you you're passing someplace where there is a player gonna that's gonna be there to pick it up.
• 25:32
  SPEAKER_00: And I don't know if that's DC disrupting some of it, I think really most of it is just like we're just not we just were not in sync.
• 25:41
  SPEAKER_00: We were not connecting, and that goes back to what you're talking about, which is that this was a poor performance, and a big part of that is once again not the effort.
• 25:50
  SPEAKER_00: The big part of that is where we just weren't connecting, you know, from the back line to the midfield, midfield having a terrible time controlling the ball and getting it anywhere of value, so not providing really any service uh to our forwards, and then when our forwards were on the ball, um just really ineffective at getting into that final third.
• 26:14
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and then in the final third, like you know, just uh the the quality of shot and the choice the choosing when to shoot, when that was even but there were there weren't very many opportunities to do it because we weren't getting in there to begin with.
• 26:28
  SPEAKER_00: And I think that all comes back to a lack of coordination, a lack of being in sync with each other.
• 26:34
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and this game plan that our coach wants from this team requires that players can make quick decisions and be in sync with each other so that the ball moves eventually into that final third.
• 26:47
  SPEAKER_00: And so we, I mean, we ended up with what 65% possession in this game doesn't matter, right?
• 26:53
  SPEAKER_00: Like like like it does like it like it doesn't matter.
• 26:55
  SPEAKER_00: You can play around with the ball in your own side of the pitch as much as you want.
• 26:59
  SPEAKER_00: That's not going to lead to a goal or a win.
• 27:03
  SPEAKER_01: Um okay.
• 27:05
  SPEAKER_01: This match is done.
• 27:07
  SPEAKER_00: We thankfully this match is Jesse.
• 27:10
  SPEAKER_00: Hey, I got I got something that'll put you in a good mood.
• 27:12
  SPEAKER_00: There's pretty much this match is over.
• 27:13
  SPEAKER_01: This match is over.
• 27:14
  SPEAKER_01: And uh there's plenty left in the Sunday.
• 27:18
  SPEAKER_01: And next week we have, thankfully, like if you could have a I I don't think well obviously if you pick your opponent, you'd want the last team in the league who's conceded seven goals and allowed uh sorry, uh scored seven and allowed sixteen goals.
• 27:37
  SPEAKER_01: You know, if you could play for a lot of people.
• 27:41
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know what they're doing today.
• 27:42
  SPEAKER_01: Like that's not my concern.
• 27:45
  SPEAKER_01: But you know, so next week, looking ahead, basically let's look ahead.
• 27:50
  SPEAKER_01: Let's look ahead.
• 27:50
  SPEAKER_01: Let's look ahead.
• 27:52
  SPEAKER_01: I you couldn't have a better opponent coming to your home to the Cotton Bowl, do the iconic Cotton Bowl.
• 28:00
  SPEAKER_01: Uh you couldn't have a better opponent for you than Fort Lauderdale next weekend on Sunday.
• 28:07
  SPEAKER_01: And um there's no choice but other than three points next weekend.
• 28:12
  SPEAKER_01: It really isn't.
• 28:13
  SPEAKER_01: Uh there's no place to hide next weekend.
• 28:16
  SPEAKER_01: And if you don't get it, and I have all the confidence, so it's not like there should be uh later layered on pressure or anything like this.
• 28:22
  SPEAKER_01: Just play your game and you you expect to get the three points next week.
• 28:27
  SPEAKER_01: So that's good.
• 28:28
  SPEAKER_01: Um but you know, if we're gonna make anything out of this shortened season and then we've really got to we've really got to get away.
• 28:36
  SPEAKER_01: Well we gotta do the business next week.
• 28:38
  SPEAKER_00: If it like if if we're gonna there are only five games left.
• 28:43
  SPEAKER_00: Um and every every every one of them to the from this point to the end matters.
• 28:49
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 28:49
  SPEAKER_01: If you lose matches like today, you've got to do the business at home.
• 28:53
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 28:53
  SPEAKER_01: So I expect and think and hope and all that that we'd get the three points against Fort Lauderdale next week, but we've got three home matches in in November.
• 29:05
  SPEAKER_01: And if you get all nine points from that those home matches in November, then you set yourself up pretty well.
• 29:13
  SPEAKER_01: And I think that's that's a thing that I've always been on of like you need to win uh for your home um at home for other a lot of other reasons, but just for math reasons, it allows you to lose on the road for DC.
• 29:28
  SPEAKER_01: Um so so yeah, couldn't pick a better opponent next week.
• 29:32
  SPEAKER_01: I hope we do it.
• 29:34
  SPEAKER_01: And I think we will do it.
• 29:35
  SPEAKER_01: We've got the quality to do it, and um we'll just see how it plays out in the end.
• 29:42
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, next week's a new week, and against a team that is um very beatable, and uh hopefully they're not good at kicking balls into the heads of our players over and over again.
• 29:54
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, it was it was like there's this sketch on a show that my kids used to watch called Studio C.
• 30:00
  SPEAKER_00: And look it up, the dude named Scott Sterling in goal, and he gets kicked in the head over and over again, and it is like uh that felt like today.
• 30:09
  SPEAKER_00: And and the worst part is that they kept showing the replays.
• 30:12
  SPEAKER_00: Like, it was the only stuff they showed replays on.
• 30:15
  SPEAKER_00: It's like, hey, there's other stuff happening.
• 30:16
  SPEAKER_00: Can we see a replay on that foul or a replay on that attempt, that shot?
• 30:21
  SPEAKER_00: Nope, just gonna see our players get hit in the head.
• 30:24
  SPEAKER_00: So, yay.
• 30:25
  SPEAKER_00: Uh all right.
• 30:27
  SPEAKER_00: So Jesse closes out, man.
• 30:29
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, take us home.
• 30:30
  SPEAKER_01: So, whatever happens next week, I promise promise not to take it as personally against my Sunday as as this week.
• 30:39
  SPEAKER_01: And we just gotta get out to the Cotton Bowl.
• 30:41
  SPEAKER_01: It's gonna be a beautiful uh fall weekend.
• 30:44
  SPEAKER_01: And what else do you got going on?
• 30:46
  SPEAKER_01: Like, let's just go out and have some fun and and see where this takes us.
• 30:50
  SPEAKER_01: I'm Jesse for Rich.
• 30:53
  SPEAKER_01: Um next time for the Pegasus Post match.