Speaker 1: Welcome back to another episode of Rain Weekly. Killy Donning
Speaker 1: here with Laura Shott and our new sideline reporter for
Speaker 1: Radio here on ninety three point three KGr FM, Kwame
Speaker 1: Apia reminder, we're.
Speaker 2: Back on radio on the tenth.
Speaker 1: Curious for you, Kwame, you finally did your first sideline
Speaker 1: reporting I think it was your first sideline reporting ever.
Speaker 2: Was that your your sideline reporter debut?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was my sideline reporting debut.
Speaker 2: Yes, all right, let's uh, how was it?
Speaker 1: Give us a day in the life or an evening
Speaker 1: in the life of a sideline reporter in the NWSL.
Speaker 3: It was super cool.
Speaker 4: I'll say, I feel like I have the best seats
Speaker 4: in the house, you know, getting to kind of just
Speaker 4: hang out on that sideline view everything as it's being played,
Speaker 4: see what's really going on. You hear all the grunts,
Speaker 4: the contact like it makes you feel like you're part
Speaker 4: of the game, and so I feel like it added
Speaker 4: such a major element to understanding what's going on.
Speaker 1: I have noticed that sideline reporting in general has kind
Speaker 1: of been one of those positions that seems to be disappearing,
Speaker 1: and as a producer, I think that's such a miss.
Speaker 1: It's such an often I don't want to say like
Speaker 1: a forgotten position, but it's such an important position. It's
Speaker 1: like you said, Kwame, you have an entirely different vantage
Speaker 1: point and you're feeling the vibes and you're being able
Speaker 1: to see exactly what's going on on the bench, and
Speaker 1: I mean you are like right next to Laura Harvey
Speaker 1: who's sitting on her yetti.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you see everything.
Speaker 4: You see every reaction, you see every single time the
Speaker 4: coaches look at each other, they think, like, what just
Speaker 4: happened there? What should we do? Why is that player
Speaker 4: out of position? Or is that player in the you know,
Speaker 4: in the right place, or they're making the right moves.
Speaker 4: So it makes you feel so connected. And I think
Speaker 4: if you can take the almost the feeling of what
Speaker 4: you have down there and share it with the rest
Speaker 4: of the world and everyone who's tuning in, I think
Speaker 4: that that's such an important advantage to viewing the game.
Speaker 1: I love that, Laura, you've done every single position. I
Speaker 1: believe you've been an analyst, you've been color commentary, You've
Speaker 1: done it all. What's your favorite position on the broadcast team?
Speaker 1: Just out of curiousity. Honestly, for me, I love sideline.
Speaker 1: I mean, Kame, you're just killing it down there. You're
Speaker 1: so perfect for that.
Speaker 5: Obviously killing Stone some of that Khila You've done that.
Speaker 5: You guys have been outstanding.
Speaker 6: I mean something that stands out was Ball of the
Speaker 6: Face game, where you just took it and then you
Speaker 6: just kept going as though, like the professional you are,
Speaker 6: it didn't even phase you.
Speaker 5: You're just like next next thing.
Speaker 6: I honestly think that for me, it's it's what I'm
Speaker 6: doing currently, and it's color. I just love being able
Speaker 6: to be a bit of it dips into coaching a
Speaker 6: little bit. I think, you know, live TV feels a
Speaker 6: little bit the same feelings. Is like getting ready for
Speaker 6: a game. You're either making the call correctly or you know,
Speaker 6: sometimes you miss some and then you got to move
Speaker 6: on and you got to make the next call as
Speaker 6: best you can and represent the team.
Speaker 5: And it's fun to talk about the players.
Speaker 6: It's you know, I love the group that we're working with,
Speaker 6: true professionals, and so I'm going to go with coleenr.
Speaker 5: Although they're all fun.
Speaker 1: I like the shout that you said about coaching and
Speaker 1: color commentary. I actually feel like the best color commentators
Speaker 1: that I worked for or worked.
Speaker 2: With having coaches. Shout out to coach Pete viewing.
Speaker 1: Shout out to Steve zach Wanni who coached high school
Speaker 1: for a bunch of a couple of years there. And
Speaker 1: Brad Evans who also coached girls. I think he actually
Speaker 1: still might be coaching. I have to talk to him
Speaker 1: about that, but he was coaching girls high school, which
Speaker 1: is awesome.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: For me, it just feels like, you know, a lot
Speaker 6: of the thoughts that you have during the game as
Speaker 6: a coach, you just start to say them out loud,
Speaker 6: and then you know, you try to paint the picture
Speaker 6: for everybody viewing and give them a little insight as
Speaker 6: to you know, substitutions, rotations, changes of formation, you know
Speaker 6: why things are happening game within the game moments. It's
Speaker 6: just fun to talk with strategy. I love it well.
Speaker 1: In kwame, your debut was unfortunate match for sure.
Speaker 2: We won't go into that match again.
Speaker 1: Three no laws at Utah obviously, but you were on
Speaker 1: the sideline when Jess Fishlock went down, which is you know,
Speaker 1: trial by fire if there ever is one first sideline reporter.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean that was a you know, for lack
Speaker 4: of a better way, to present it. That was a
Speaker 4: Murphy's Log game. You know, anything bad that could happen happened.
Speaker 4: But I think, you know, like you said, it's a
Speaker 4: child by fire moment. I think for it was for
Speaker 4: us and also for the team, right, I think you know,
Speaker 4: they were coming back into Luman for the first time
Speaker 4: in quite a while. I think it was all about
Speaker 4: just like recentering understanding that hey, like we are pretty
Speaker 4: top of the table, but we you know, we have
Speaker 4: to keep striving to make sure we stay there and
Speaker 4: every moment counts, and I think like that's a big
Speaker 4: part of just the game. Like you know, looking at
Speaker 4: the EPL games over the weekend, you know, a title
Speaker 4: race that was decided, your English Premier League title race
Speaker 4: that was decided by one bad back pass, right, And
Speaker 4: so it's moments like that where I feel like child
Speaker 4: by fire. Yeah, Like the team noticed like, hey, if
Speaker 4: we're playing in the back, we've got to be tidy,
Speaker 4: We've got to make sure we're making the right connections
Speaker 4: and the right decisions. And hey, if it gets the
Speaker 4: point where we don't know what to do, we'd have
Speaker 4: the opportunity to clear it or put it in an
Speaker 4: open space and so yeah, it was.
Speaker 3: It was a good tild By fire moment for all
Speaker 3: of us.
Speaker 1: All Right, Jess fish Lot going down, who is going
Speaker 1: to take over in the ten?
Speaker 5: You guys.
Speaker 2: Try fire question right there?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean put us on.
Speaker 6: I think the great thing about the rain right now
Speaker 6: and the midfield and the rotations, even Mercado coming down
Speaker 6: from the nine to the ten playing in midfield, really
Speaker 6: she could take I think the.
Speaker 3: Ten or the eight.
Speaker 6: I think the best thing in a situation that obviously
Speaker 6: isn't the best and nobody wants, is that there's there's options.
Speaker 6: You know, you have Mentee coming back in this game,
Speaker 6: you can rotate. I mean, Maza is doing a great
Speaker 6: job in the six, but you have a lot of
Speaker 6: players that are playing in midfield that are showing really well.
Speaker 5: I got to shout out Mcammon two. She's been solid again.
Speaker 5: A number of.
Speaker 6: Young players that are stepping into roles, whether it's the
Speaker 6: six or the eight or the ten, there's there's a
Speaker 6: lot of players that can play each of those positions
Speaker 6: and play them quite well. So I think it's an
Speaker 6: exciting moment. Although again we didn't none of us wanted
Speaker 6: to see it to see who steps into those roles
Speaker 6: because obviously, you know, unfortunately in twenty twenty five, j
Speaker 6: just Fishlock similar not same, but similar situation, and that
Speaker 6: in the first half of the season she went down
Speaker 6: and she missed most of it, hoping that she's back
Speaker 6: for a lot of the second part. I don't know
Speaker 6: any timeline. I'm not aware of what her timeline is,
Speaker 6: but obviously we all want her back for as much
Speaker 6: of this season as possible. But she did something to
Speaker 6: this effect last year, and she came back and she
Speaker 6: was on fire. And given it's her her final year
Speaker 6: and she's announced that, I think she's gonna come back
Speaker 6: into this rotation and do great. But in the meantime,
Speaker 6: there some outstanding players that will will step in and
Speaker 6: do well.
Speaker 2: I don't want to be overly optimistic.
Speaker 1: This was just me reading vibes from Laura Harvey and
Speaker 1: her press conference talking about Jess Fishlock, and she was
Speaker 1: in very good spirits about it, which Laura's many things.
Speaker 1: Poker face, I don't think she really has one. I mean,
Speaker 1: her face and her tone. You know what she's thinking
Speaker 1: and you know how she's really feeling about things. So
Speaker 1: that was encouraging, just you know, reading body language and
Speaker 1: all of that fun stuff. Milestone, Dania. Oh, go ahead, Kwame,
Speaker 1: go ahead.
Speaker 4: You know I was gonna say, I think there's a
Speaker 4: lot of ways to look at it, you know.
Speaker 3: I think when Jess went down, I think Manda Sire.
Speaker 4: Actually moved to the ten for a little bit, which
Speaker 4: you know, typically pacy down the wing player, but also
Speaker 4: probably one of our best players on the ball. So
Speaker 4: do you think maybe we just put her in the
Speaker 4: tent spot and just see what she can start creating.
Speaker 4: I think there's a possibility there. There's also maybe putting
Speaker 4: someone else in a deeper role and then maybe pushing
Speaker 4: Sam Mizza up because is great with the turn and release,
Speaker 4: and so maybe you get a bit more you know,
Speaker 4: deep line passes, a bit more quick in that tense spot,
Speaker 4: quick movement, quick passes down the line, quick breaking ball.
Speaker 4: So there's a lot of options here, I think, and
Speaker 4: obviously we don't we were in a position where we
Speaker 4: have to take those options.
Speaker 3: We didn't want to have to.
Speaker 4: But I think that, you know, I'm with you in
Speaker 4: the sense that I do feel optimistic about our options there.
Speaker 2: Laura follow up on that, that was some good stuff.
Speaker 6: No, it's great I mean between what I had mentioned
Speaker 6: and what Kalme's mentioning there, I think that the through
Speaker 6: line is that there are a lot of options. There's
Speaker 6: not you know, like one player that can step in
Speaker 6: and play the ten. There's great rotation. I love that
Speaker 6: shout out to Cocona. I mean, I don't necessarily want
Speaker 6: to see somebody that was scoring so many goals in
Speaker 6: preseason and in Coachella and you know it started off
Speaker 6: the season very well necessarily moving back and we all
Speaker 6: know that we need the scoring power.
Speaker 5: But I'm with Kwalme. She can do the job.
Speaker 6: I'm really high on her and I think that if
Speaker 6: she is in that spot, she would do just fine.
Speaker 1: You know, as we're having this discussion, it's sort of
Speaker 1: coming to mind how versatile a lot of these players
Speaker 1: are that we have currently on the Rain and how
Speaker 1: you know, they can play multiple positions and there's a
Speaker 1: lot of flexibility, which is a huge bonus and a
Speaker 1: huge advantage for this Rain team. And it gives Laura
Speaker 1: Harvey tons of options when she puts out her eleven
Speaker 1: every single match, because, as you know, she is very
Speaker 1: matchup based on her starting eleven, so tons of options
Speaker 1: she must love that milestone Mania this weekend, Laura Harvey
Speaker 1: is about to hit three hundred and WOSL games coach
Speaker 1: across all competitions. On the twenty six, she hit two
Speaker 1: fifty with the Rain. Now she's gonna be hitting three
Speaker 1: hundred two forty two with the rain.
Speaker 2: And if I can do.
Speaker 1: Math correctly, the rest and I'm not even gonna try,
Speaker 1: the rest of them were with Utah Royals.
Speaker 5: I mean, when you think about WUSL.
Speaker 1: I mean, she's got to be on the Mount Rushmore
Speaker 1: at this point, Like there's just no question she's the
Speaker 1: coach of the NWSL, Like, let's put her, Let's let's
Speaker 1: put her silhouette on the you know at this point,
Speaker 1: like just her sitting.
Speaker 2: On a Yetti or a Gatorade cooler, Like.
Speaker 6: I guess you could, right if the league symbol was
Speaker 6: Laura Harvey on a YETI I mean, amazing.
Speaker 2: We need to at least make those two. Actually, I
Speaker 2: think those T shirts might exist.
Speaker 1: I hope that they do. Merch April on our merch team. Hello,
Speaker 1: let's let's let's make those happen. But Laura Harvey, I mean,
Speaker 1: what a career. She's about to hit three hundred nl
Speaker 1: result games coached across all competitions, hopefully better result than
Speaker 1: number two fifty.
Speaker 2: With rain E FC. But I mean she's a legend.
Speaker 2: She's literally just a legend.
Speaker 4: Yeah, big time. I think you just think about the
Speaker 4: progress that NWSAW has made from the beginning, and when
Speaker 4: you are one of those major pioneers, if you think
Speaker 4: about the players, the fact that Jess is, you know,
Speaker 4: one of the last players out there, you think about
Speaker 4: how much you know, how long it's been and so
Speaker 4: paving the way in terms of on the field and
Speaker 4: off the field. You have two very incredibly pivotal pieces
Speaker 4: to the whole history of the NWSL. So yeah, I
Speaker 4: mean it's it's really cool to see it and really
Speaker 4: cool to kind of witness the growth and like how
Speaker 4: impactful Laura has been this whole time.
Speaker 1: I think what's really impressive to me about her is
Speaker 1: her ability to coach anyone and everyone. There's not a
Speaker 1: profile of oh this is a Laura Harvey player. I
Speaker 1: feel like she can coach and mentor and be effective,
Speaker 1: and she knows how to put any type of player
Speaker 1: in the right position, which just makes her an ego
Speaker 1: list coach in my mind. That you know, it's not
Speaker 1: about Okay, this is my you know, mastermind tactics, and
Speaker 1: you're gonna all fit into my game plan.
Speaker 2: She takes the game for what it is.
Speaker 1: She takes the players for who they are, whether they're young,
Speaker 1: younger players or veterans. She's done an incredible job coaching
Speaker 1: the Ogs, and now she's doing an amazing job coaching
Speaker 1: all these young up and comers. I mean, we had
Speaker 1: a production call where she just saying AINSLEYE. Mccammon's praises
Speaker 1: and talked about how that young player who is she
Speaker 1: even twenty yet is one of the leaders on the
Speaker 1: team and is on the leadership team and is being
Speaker 1: built up as a potential leader eventually in her career.
Speaker 1: And I mean typically you hear coaches, you know, they're
Speaker 1: either really good with, you know, a Megan Rappino type
Speaker 1: of player, or they're really good with a EMERYA Domis
Speaker 1: type of player, or they're really good with a you
Speaker 1: know me official type. But she's incredible with everybody. So
Speaker 1: that is a credit to her as a leader. And Laura,
Speaker 1: we look forward to seeing you in many more production
Speaker 1: meetings during training. So get ready, I know I'm bringing
Speaker 1: a bunch more media.
Speaker 2: Members your way.
Speaker 1: Appreciate you. Hopefully you're listening and are hearing me say
Speaker 1: thank you, so thank you. Any more thoughts on Laura
Speaker 1: Harvey guys before we.
Speaker 6: Move on, I mean, she's an the n WSL gout
Speaker 6: all right.
Speaker 2: I think that was a mic draw moment. Well said you, guys.
Speaker 1: A couple more milestones before we go to the break.
Speaker 1: Emria Damas is about to hit fifty regular season appearance
Speaker 1: with her next appearance, and Claudia Dickey is three saves
Speaker 1: away from reaching two hundred regular season saves. She will
Speaker 1: be the thirteenth NWSL player to reach that mark with
Speaker 1: one club Legendary team, one of the og clubs in NWSL.
Speaker 2: Too many milestones to account.
Speaker 1: I think that this is a category that we have
Speaker 1: every episode.
Speaker 5: When we come back.
Speaker 1: Recap of a hard fought draw versus Houston and our
Speaker 1: preview against Washington Spirit.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to Rain Weekly.
Speaker 1: Killy Dunning here with Laura Shott and Kwamea Pia, our
Speaker 1: new sideline reporter for nine fifty KGr AM.
Speaker 2: We will be back on.
Speaker 1: Radio for the match coming up this weekend, also on
Speaker 1: Victory Plus. If anyone is looking to stream the match,
Speaker 1: but tickets are still available rainfc dot com slash tickets.
Speaker 1: All right, guys, before we move on to the next match,
Speaker 1: let's do a quick recap of our May first draw
Speaker 1: at Houston dash pouring rain torrential downpour. By the way,
Speaker 1: shout out to all the fans who were actually in
Speaker 1: the stands during that match.
Speaker 5: That's commitment.
Speaker 2: Shout out to Houston fans because that.
Speaker 5: Is some serious, serious commitment.
Speaker 1: And watching it. They didn't even have Parkson or raincoats.
Speaker 5: They're just taking it. They're taking it.
Speaker 4: What was it?
Speaker 1: Okay, So okay, this is just and Kwame will go
Speaker 1: to you really quickly. But this was just a really
Speaker 1: funny reference. We were in the broadcast truck like watching
Speaker 1: as everyone's getting ready dah da da da, and just
Speaker 1: watching the feed and they're showing these drummers and they're
Speaker 1: like drumming but it's pouring rain, and our graphics operator
Speaker 1: Larry just goes it's like the Blue Man Group.
Speaker 2: They're playing like the.
Speaker 5: I thought that was pretty funny, and it was. It
Speaker 5: was like the Blueman Group.
Speaker 2: Uh, Kwame playing in rain?
Speaker 5: What is that like?
Speaker 2: And not just rain? Torrential downpouring rain.
Speaker 5: And fifty degrees.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, it's really funny when it's light rain
Speaker 4: and it's a little nice outside.
Speaker 3: There was this quote that I heard a while back.
Speaker 4: Whoever thought sunshine was happiness has never played soccer in
Speaker 4: the rain, right, when it's very light rain and the
Speaker 4: ball moves and it skips a little differently. For me,
Speaker 4: it's like a striker's dream. You just hit the ball
Speaker 4: low and you hope for it. But when it's torrential,
Speaker 4: it's a whole different story. And I think one thing
Speaker 4: that needs to be factored in as well is like
Speaker 4: rain in Seattle if it's torential, rain in like Houston
Speaker 4: if it's crential, different, Like the thickness in the air
Speaker 4: is different, and so like it's a whole new environment
Speaker 4: to play in. And so when I think about like
Speaker 4: the likelihood to you know, commit errors or mistakes, it goes.
Speaker 4: It just skews up significantly, And so overall, I honestly
Speaker 4: think a point is good in this circumstance, especially considering
Speaker 4: the two teams aren't far apart, right, so it's like
Speaker 4: two teams battling it out. Ultimately is just like one
Speaker 4: team trying to make sure that nobody makes a mistake
Speaker 4: and then all you know, it comes down to the
Speaker 4: point I gotta say, we got to take that.
Speaker 3: We're happy with it, you know what I mean, based
Speaker 3: on the circumstance.
Speaker 1: Yeah, zero zero draw In this instance, I feel like
Speaker 1: that was actually a very As Phoebe mclarnan and Matty
Speaker 1: Mercado after the match, they were the postgame press conference,
Speaker 1: they said, you know, it was a really gritty, hard
Speaker 1: fought result and the team is actually very very happy
Speaker 1: with it. And as I said before, Laura Harvey has
Speaker 1: no poker face and she was smiling in her postgame
Speaker 1: press conference. So that's always a good sign, but does
Speaker 1: not take away from the fact that this rain team
Speaker 1: needs goals. Three hundred and nineteen minutes without a goal,
Speaker 1: three consecutive matches without a goal. March twenty eighth versus
Speaker 1: Racing Louisville, Coco's goal was the last goal scored by
Speaker 1: Rain FC. We haven't scored in four of seven matches.
Speaker 1: Chicago leads this stat with five scoreless matches this season.
Speaker 1: But it sort of doesn't really make sense because there's
Speaker 1: so many attacking threats on this team, and the eye
Speaker 1: test has shown us that they're moving the ball, they're
Speaker 1: creating chances. Laura Harvey and the postgame press conference and said,
Speaker 1: we would be worried if we weren't creating chances, but
Speaker 1: we clearly are Official clear had the sitter. I don't
Speaker 1: even want to call it a sitter because it was
Speaker 1: playing in the rain and it was just crazy. And
Speaker 1: coach Laura Harvey actually did a shout out to me
Speaker 1: Official on this season that she's had great hold up
Speaker 1: play and she's been phenomenally defensively.
Speaker 2: I'm just looking at our attacking core Emery Coco.
Speaker 1: Matty Dullen, Britney Radcliffe, Me Official, Matti Mercado.
Speaker 2: It doesn't make sense to me that we've only.
Speaker 1: That we're been scoreless in four or seven and watching
Speaker 1: the team, it hasn't looked like we've been held without
Speaker 1: a goal in four of seven of our matches.
Speaker 2: What are your thoughts, you guys.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, from my perspective, I think there's a
Speaker 4: component of it that has to do with I think
Speaker 4: experience that I mean, there's there's a bit.
Speaker 3: Of growth right that still needs to happen.
Speaker 4: I think, you know, the team's still young, especially in
Speaker 4: the attacking corps midfield to attacking corps, and so, you know,
Speaker 4: I think it comes with getting a bit of experience,
Speaker 4: which helps gain a lot more composure. You know, it's
Speaker 4: it's really heavily underestimated how much composure helps in all circumstances,
Speaker 4: especially within that eighteen yard box.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: We still had I think about eight shots in the box, right,
Speaker 4: And so it comes down to just the composure, getting
Speaker 4: fine with it, getting normal with it, feeling like, hey,
Speaker 4: this is just another day for me, And you have
Speaker 4: to put a few in the goal to start feeling like,
Speaker 4: all right, it's just another day. If it's you know,
Speaker 4: circumstances like this where it's like teams really really fighting
Speaker 4: for that whole position and fighting for that goal opportunity,
Speaker 4: it becomes a very tense experience where it's like, oh
Speaker 4: my gosh, this might be the only chance I get, right,
Speaker 4: And so it's gonna come with a lot more chances
Speaker 4: created the normalcy of hey, I'm going to get another shot,
Speaker 4: so right now, I don't need to feel pressure.
Speaker 3: I just need to do my best with this one.
Speaker 4: So a little bit of experience, a few more opportunities
Speaker 4: put into the box, and I think we can really
Speaker 4: start settling into being comfortable and scored.
Speaker 1: All right, coach Laura, what have you seen on the
Speaker 1: attack with the and how can they get some more
Speaker 1: goals in the back of the net.
Speaker 6: You know, part of this is just and we've seen
Speaker 6: the lineups change quite a bit over the last couple
Speaker 6: of years. But I agree with Laura Harvey, no surprise there.
Speaker 6: Laura Harvey is brilliant. But my official starting that Orlando game,
Speaker 6: her hold up play was it.
Speaker 5: Was a difference maker. Yeah, you could see the plan.
Speaker 6: The team just right off the bat off of preseason
Speaker 6: looked a little bit more polished for the beginning of
Speaker 6: a season, even at the event at the end of
Speaker 6: twenty twenty five, me official and her hold up play
Speaker 6: in that game was a big part of that fluidity
Speaker 6: and players having time and to develop runs for the
Speaker 6: timing to be a little bit more crisp than it
Speaker 6: has been in the past. I loved seeing forwards run
Speaker 6: off of her. I loved seeing Jess Fishlock run off
Speaker 6: of her. When she was able to hold the ball
Speaker 6: up and play that nine so well, It just opened
Speaker 6: up a lot of opportunity for the players around her.
Speaker 6: I think we saw glimpses of that with Houston, I
Speaker 6: think for various reasons.
Speaker 5: I mean she's, you know, still coming back from.
Speaker 6: Injury and all that. We saw her defensive presence and
Speaker 6: her work right there, that's big. But in this game
Speaker 6: it kind of came and went when she would hold
Speaker 6: up and it started to look good and you could
Speaker 6: see the runs develop and getting into the attacking third,
Speaker 6: and then at times we weren't.
Speaker 5: Quite able to find her feet.
Speaker 6: So and obviously without Jessin, that's that's a change, right,
Speaker 6: So the timing changes, the personnel changed a little bit,
Speaker 6: and then you have to get that chemistry back. So
Speaker 6: I definitely saw flashes of what we've seen in the
Speaker 6: prior games of you.
Speaker 5: Know, scoring. And it's not that the Ryan haven't scored.
Speaker 6: I mean, if we look back at the beginning of
Speaker 6: the season, whether it's Orlando or you know, all of
Speaker 6: those home away games that Spokane, there's been production.
Speaker 5: Obviously a little.
Speaker 6: Bit of scarcity right now, but for me, the positive
Speaker 6: is that we we are getting chances.
Speaker 5: I mean, a Domos hit a post.
Speaker 6: We could debate whether that was a cross or a shot,
Speaker 6: still an opportunity if that went in. We were not
Speaker 6: complaining there are opportunities talked about me official there's a
Speaker 6: crossbar as well, so the opportunities are coming. Those are
Speaker 6: just moments of inches and it's not going the rains
Speaker 6: way right now. So it's really about continuing to stay consistent.
Speaker 6: Having that number of shots inside the box is great.
Speaker 6: I honestly would like to see us take a few
Speaker 6: more shots outside the box. We have players who are
Speaker 6: more than capable of catching a keeper off off their line,
Speaker 6: you know, element of surprise, specifically in a game like
Speaker 6: that where the field's a little bit unpredictable, just let
Speaker 6: them go. We didn't hit a whole lot of shots
Speaker 6: from outside the box. I think maybe we were at
Speaker 6: six or so. So I think that it's just a
Speaker 6: matter of getting back on track and getting some momentum,
Speaker 6: maybe against the team that's sitting second in the league
Speaker 6: right now, against Washington Spirit. If we're able to start
Speaker 6: to create it there and create some momentum, get a
Speaker 6: goal or two right off then in that first half,
Speaker 6: that would be amazing. But right now, I mean, the
Speaker 6: upcoming games are gonna be challenging, so got to get
Speaker 6: get it back.
Speaker 5: Together and get on the score sheet sooner than later.
Speaker 1: Let's dive into this next match. On the tenth Mother's Day,
Speaker 1: a Mother's Day match, make sure to bring your queen
Speaker 1: out to lumin Field to watch rain EFC take on
Speaker 1: Trinity Rodman and the Washington Spirit. Speaking of Washington Spirits,
Speaker 1: Speaking of Trinity Rodman, she's been back. Her last match,
Speaker 1: actually last match from Washington Spirit four two win over
Speaker 1: Orlando Pride, and Trinity Rodman had two assists and a
Speaker 1: goal in that win. She has been touted as one of,
Speaker 1: if not the best one v one attacker. However, we
Speaker 1: also have a top one B one defender in Madison Curry.
Speaker 2: How do these teams match up? Guys?
Speaker 1: A lot of I mean, of all the Mother's Day
Speaker 1: matches that we could have planned, this is gonna be epic,
Speaker 1: to be honest with you. The Rainer in such good
Speaker 1: form and Washington Spirit are one of the top teams
Speaker 1: in the league. What can everyone's moms and families expect
Speaker 1: when they come out to Lumen against Washington Spirit?
Speaker 3: Oh? You take you want to start this one offl over,
Speaker 3: I can start.
Speaker 5: I mean, stands up to me and I just pulled
Speaker 5: it up again.
Speaker 6: I'm looking at it now. Thirteen goals scored for the
Speaker 6: Washington Spirit so far this year. Tony Robin's sitting on three,
Speaker 6: but you've got a couple others in Santos and Kenty
Speaker 6: sitting at three as well. You know, obviously Buttune lost
Speaker 6: her in the trade this last year, but you know
Speaker 6: you've got Gift Monday. She's a player to me that
Speaker 6: you know, she's sitting on one goal right now, but
Speaker 6: she has been explosive and I think you can see,
Speaker 6: whether she's scoring or not that she has that potential
Speaker 6: and she pulls defenders out a position and is able
Speaker 6: to split their vision and make creative runs. So I mean,
Speaker 6: there's no shortage of players that are that have been
Speaker 6: going hard to goal for the Washington Spirit. I think
Speaker 6: back to, you know, late twenty twenty five again with
Speaker 6: with the rain playing there tough game. I think that
Speaker 6: given when the Reins passed, usually when they have a
Speaker 6: tough game or a prior game with an opponent, the
Speaker 6: next game is usually pretty good. They bring that heat,
Speaker 6: they use that as motivation, and I think that that
Speaker 6: will be similar.
Speaker 5: Hair coming up.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I'm really excited for this one. I
Speaker 4: think it's gonna be a great opportunity for the Rain
Speaker 4: to you know, prove what they've got. You know, I
Speaker 4: think they're just a really solid team in terms of,
Speaker 4: you know, goals conceded. It's you know, one less goal
Speaker 4: conceded I think, or maybe actually one more goal conceded
Speaker 4: than the Spirit. And so defensively it's really similar, right,
Speaker 4: But it just comes down to the attack. The Spirit
Speaker 4: have a lot of goals they like to score, but
Speaker 4: as you said, it comes from the right side a lot.
Speaker 4: Right get the ball to Trinity's feet. She's gonna do
Speaker 4: what Trinity does. She's gonna go hard at that defender
Speaker 4: cut if you put a few in the box and
Speaker 4: you know, hope somebody's on the end of that.
Speaker 3: And so it comes to that one to one defending.
Speaker 3: But I also think it's.
Speaker 4: Gonna be a little bit of maybe hopefully tucking a
Speaker 4: cen defensive midfielder along to help Madison as well. And
Speaker 4: if we can do that and just kind of like
Speaker 4: shut down Trinity just a little bit, I think we
Speaker 4: can take a point out of this one. And honestly,
Speaker 4: I think, like I said, defensively.
Speaker 3: We're gonna be solid.
Speaker 4: It comes back to us getting the ball into the
Speaker 4: box early and often, and if we can create enough
Speaker 4: opportunities to start feeling the confidence behind those opportunities, put
Speaker 4: one or two away, then we can lock them down.
Speaker 3: So I feel good about it all.
Speaker 1: Right, Guys, Sunday May tenth, Mother's Day Match, four o'clock
Speaker 1: pm Pacific time kickoff, and if you are in the
Speaker 1: car or watching from home, make sure to turn on
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Speaker 2: AM and Laura.
Speaker 1: We will be back on Fox thirteen plus after the
Speaker 1: World Cup breaks. So exciting stuff. But you will still
Speaker 1: be on Rain Weekly with us every single week, so
Speaker 1: don't worry, everybody, you will not be deprived of Laura Shott.
Speaker 1: We will be back with Rain Weekly next week, hopefully
Speaker 1: recaving a awesome epic Mother's Day victory against one of
Speaker 1: the premier teams in the n w sall Washkin Spirit
Speaker 1: with Madison Curry completely dominating Tritany Rodman on that right side.
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, guys, and see you next week.