WEBVTT - Reign Weekly 6-4: We’re A Podcast! 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:13.240 Hi, welcome to rain Meekly Keiley Dunning and Laura Shott. 0:00:13.520 --> 0:00:14.920 And this time we get to talk as long as 0:00:14.920 --> 0:00:16.479 we want. We have no limits. 0:00:17.440 --> 0:00:19.320 There we go, the limit. 0:00:19.079 --> 0:00:19.759 Does not exist. 0:00:19.840 --> 0:00:26.520 Quoting Tina Fey from Mean Girls, Oh Millennial Classics, I still, 0:00:26.600 --> 0:00:28.720 you know, I still reference that movie to help me 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:30.280 just navigate the world. 0:00:31.760 --> 0:00:34.520 Uh yeah, I mean I think I referenced that movie. 0:00:34.720 --> 0:00:36.520 I think I well, now I listen to any Polar's 0:00:36.560 --> 0:00:39.360 podcast quite a bit, so you know, there's all kinds 0:00:39.360 --> 0:00:44.720 of fun there. Bridesmaids is I mean, my my daughter's 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:49.240 loosely uh named after Kristen Wegg, so stop it. 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:55.320 Yeah, we were like soulmates for this dude. 0:00:57.120 --> 0:00:59.800 Yeah no, I am big fan, big fan. I mean 0:00:59.840 --> 0:01:04.200 those those those people are complete comedic and otherwise geniuses. 0:01:04.240 --> 0:01:07.400 So Amie Polar is just like one of my top 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:09.039 five favorite people I've. 0:01:08.880 --> 0:01:14.440 Never met, top people I've never met. 0:01:15.000 --> 0:01:17.480 I would be authentic, like and I don't get starstruck 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:19.640 because people are people, and it's not because I'm like, 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:22.000 oh they're not so cool, there's still like that's not 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:24.480 what I mean. I mean, people are just people. The 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:27.880 Amy Polar man if I ever If and when even 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:30.160 when I ever meet her, I'm just gonna be like 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:31.319 starry eyed. 0:01:32.000 --> 0:01:34.360 You know what's so fun is she's like I mean, 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:38.840 she's in God, She's in every SNL thing that you 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:42.600 know you love, from mom Jeans to Debbie Downer. And 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:44.760 then she now she does all this stuff right, and 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:47.160 she has parks and rac and she can do anything, 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:51.040 goes on tour with Tina Fey, of course, and then 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:55.160 now she just starts a podcast and her podcast sounds 0:01:55.200 --> 0:01:58.040 like she should have been podcasting this entire time. It's 0:01:58.080 --> 0:02:01.120 so good. It's such a natural all platform for her. 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:03.800 Yes, yes, I want to hang out with her, and 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:05.680 that's the whole point of a podcast. So thank you 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:07.840 listeners for hanging out with us. I hope it work 0:02:07.880 --> 0:02:08.560 fun to hang out with. 0:02:09.639 --> 0:02:12.359 I like to think that I am a good friend. 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:16.920 Chat soccer and other great chat. 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:17.920 Love Island. 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:21.240 I have great chat everybody. 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:23.040 I'll catch up on Island. 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:24.720 All right, Yeah, we'll catch up on Love Island later. 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:28.840 The first episode premiered yesterday. All right, Laura, let's switch 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:31.320 from Love Island. Although rin MC players do all love, 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:34.240 they love Love Island, so there is a connection there. 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:36.399 I will tell you that last year. When I heard 0:02:36.400 --> 0:02:37.919 that Laura Harvey gave us that. I think in a 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:40.280 pregame she was talking about how the players were really 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:42.720 into Love Island. I gave a shot. I gave it 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:45.440 a real shot, and I, you know, found it because 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:47.400 I had to find it, because that's how disconnected I 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:50.119 was from it. And I started to watch it and 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:54.800 I had I had trouble. I struggled a bit. I 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:57.720 struggled a bit. I you know, I pushed through. I persevered. 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:00.400 It was like my sixth one twenty. It's like, I'm 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:02.080 gonna go ahead and make this. I don't want to 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:03.760 have to run the fitness test again. I gotta see 0:03:03.800 --> 0:03:06.000 what this is about. And I did, and that's the 0:03:06.080 --> 0:03:07.840 last time it's been on my TV. 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:14.600 It's great background noise because literally nothing happens every episode, right. 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:16.560 Maybe that's what I should have. That's I was actually 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:18.640 trying to pay attention because I was like, well, you know, 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:20.399 they're into it. I kind of want to learn something. 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:21.400 And I started watching it and I was like, I 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:22.800 don't know if I can do this, And you know what, 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:24.359 that's the perfect way to do it. I should have 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:24.919 been doing that. 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:26.800 You know what Love Island reminds me of. 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:29.040 And this is actually this is what Love Island is, 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:31.960 and this is why it's probably so popular. It reminds 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:34.080 me of every time I would play with my Barbies 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:35.760 and my Kendles and I would just like play with 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:37.480 them and be like, these ones are dating, and now 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:40.000 these ones are dating and creating like all the stories. 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:42.840 But the audience are playing with a bunch of Barbies 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:43.400 and Kendalls. 0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:45.400 Maybe it's nostalgia for people. 0:03:45.440 --> 0:03:47.400 Maybe, Yeah, like that's what it reminds me of. It's 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:48.160 playing barbies. 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:51.760 Okay, I can I'm following that logic That would make 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:52.240 sense to me. 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:53.360 Yeah. 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:55.920 They all wear like weird crazy outfits all the time. 0:03:56.440 --> 0:03:59.320 They all couple up and date each other and switch up, 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:02.200 and it just reminds me of you know, ten year 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:04.240 old KILLI playing with her Barbies and her Kendall and 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:06.520 going on an ice skating date with Ken, and then 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:09.280 the next day and going on a surf date with 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:09.920 not Ken. 0:04:10.880 --> 0:04:15.400 That's right, different skipper, Skipper. 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:18.960 Skippers, the younger sister, I don't know. The guys had 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:21.920 the younger guy. I don't know. 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:26.200 Isn't there another guy more than Ken? Yeah? 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:28.360 Well, because there was like one with like dark brown, 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:31.400 like black hair, and there was definitely a blonde and 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:34.400 I kind had like the sandy brown hair. 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:35.600 We are so debating. 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:39.400 It's you're you're challenging my pop culture knowledge and I'm failing, 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:41.080 and I'm sorry, and I'll do better. 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:45.200 All right, Let's move into your area of expertise, Laura, 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:48.000 and let's do some NWSL action. We're obviously going to 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:51.599 get into Rain and they're unfortunate too. One loss to 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:55.040 Washington Spirit. Always tough to play the same team twice 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:57.280 in one month, especially when we played them so well 0:04:57.320 --> 0:04:59.440 the first time and then we had to go on 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:01.320 the road and and try and repeat that. 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:03.960 It was tough. It was tough. 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:05.200 You know. 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:06.960 Actually, now that I think of that, let's start with 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:09.840 that game, Laura. Yeah, let's start with the Rain game. 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:11.640 We are a rain of see, we are Rain weekly. 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:12.479 Let's start with the Rain. 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:16.599 I I am actually fairly high on the game. I know, 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:18.400 none of us, you know, we want to get the 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:20.240 three points. We want to even just get a point 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:23.279 on the road. Obviously we'll achieved that against Boston, which 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:26.000 was awesome getting the three. This game was just kind 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:27.960 of one. There was a lot of action to it 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:30.120 to me. There were times where I thought the rain 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:34.280 attacted very well with pace, with speed. Frankly, that's how 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:36.200 we created the goal that we got. I know that, 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:38.320 you know that goes down as an own goal. However, 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:42.680 Mercado running that ball down and then putting really three 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:45.039 players in an awkward situation so that they had to 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:47.320 make a decision and it ended up resulting in an 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:51.479 own goal. Great kind of hustle play there. Just to 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:53.920 stick with it. But I thought the game was really 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:57.279 open at times, really interesting. How you know, Like a 0:05:57.279 --> 0:05:59.600 lot of times the n WSL, you'll see teams transition 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:01.680 very well the defense and they'll get back in a block. 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:04.800 And oftentimes you'll see teams be successful in the attack 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:06.960 when they don't allow the opponent to get into that 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:08.200 block and they counter quickly. 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:09.279 You know, I e. 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:13.040 Banda showinga you know, players that have been very successful 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:16.000 at getting in behind. You know. I was going to 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:17.720 say this season, but I think I have to say 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:20.720 a lot of seasons. And I thought that this game 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:23.560 opened up at times and made it very entertaining to 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:27.040 watch as a fan. But also I got to give 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:29.839 a nod to the goals. The goals were all awkward, right, 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:32.839 You've got a free kick goal by Santos that you 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:37.440 could tell Dicky's vision was blocked and so it ended 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:39.280 up sneaking in the corner. It was very well taken 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:41.720 by her. I like the way she struck it. I 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:43.920 like the way it had a little bit of balance 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:46.120 on it, so it was difficult to read. Even when 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:49.240 Dicky could see it late. It's still very very hard 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:52.120 to make that save. So you know, you kind of 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:54.479 you kick off there with that goal, and then you 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:57.160 have the I'm just going to call it the Mercado goal, 0:06:57.240 --> 0:07:00.840 although we should technically call it the deep goal. 0:07:02.920 --> 0:07:04.680 Justice from Madison Curry, by the way, she should get 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:05.359 an assist on that. 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:10.320 Yes, I mean it's unfortunate that when you yeah, it's 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:12.480 unfortunate that there's not you know, some way I guess 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:16.200 to kind of stat count that because it was created 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:18.600 and we know that you know, Maddy Curry has been 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:20.160 I mean she did that in the last game, right, 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:22.920 great assist. So she's looking for it and it's and 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:24.520 she's playing those balls very well and it was a 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:27.679 very dangerous ball results in the own goal, but goal 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:31.760 for the ring, and then you get that final goal. 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:36.440 Which was was also awkward. Right, takes a deflection off 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:39.480 of Bug. Right, Dickie had read it, takes a deflection 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:42.160 off of Bug's foot and kind of you know, like 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:45.120 with pace, but then goes the other direction, just to 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:48.720 flex it enough so that you know, Dicky's dive is 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:50.400 just out of position now and now you know it 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:53.920 goes in the goal, quite simply. So all of those goals, 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:58.480 really can we say that they were created? Sure, but 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:02.800 they were all unique in that they weren't you know, 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:06.400 they weren't plan Something happened that was a little out 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:09.880 of the box that you can't really prepare for on 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:13.440 both sides, so on the attacking end in that sense, 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:15.800 I just I found the goals very interesting. 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:16.440 All right. 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:19.720 So let's look at NWSL and where we currently stand 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:25.280 in the league. Tenth place, four two and five. So 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:30.000 a good record, honestly, yeah, a good record. Not a 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:33.800 great ren of form to end this first half of 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:38.520 the season. Half ish half ish of the season. Let's 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:39.840 take a look at the rest of the table. Sean 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:42.720 diego way up and at the top eight one and four. 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:47.120 Look at that Utah seven three and two, and Laura, 0:08:47.200 --> 0:08:49.280 I know you wanted to delve into Utah a bit. 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:51.520 Let me just finish going through the standings and then 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:54.640 we'll go through some of the games. Utah sitting in second, 0:08:54.679 --> 0:08:59.959 Portland right behind, Washington, Spirit sitting in fourth, Gotham, Kansas City, 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:01.560 North Carolina, Orlando. 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:02.800 Those are your top eight. 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:06.560 Then we have Denver Summit, Our, Seattle Rain, Houston, Angel City, 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:10.520 Bay FC, Boston Legacy, Chicago Stars coming off for really 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:13.160 tough results and a tough ending of that one. 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:15.160 And racing Louisville at the bottom. 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:20.720 But you know, as is always seemingly the case in NWSL, 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:24.040 there's a lot of parody, and there is not a 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:27.880 lot of distance between the first place and eleventh place. 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:31.719 There are only eleven points between Houston Dash, Seattle Rain 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:32.840 was fourteen, and. 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:37.160 San Diego at twenty five, so attainable. No one is 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:38.920 out of it, frankly. 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:42.719 I mean maybe spiritually they're out of it, but mathematically 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:43.040 they're not. 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:44.679 Mathematically they're not. 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:46.880 So let's go through some of these games, and I 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:52.320 think the highlight was that Utah Portland matchup. I'll let 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:54.080 you go into what you saw first, and then i'll 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:56.680 give you some of my softer takes. 0:09:56.960 --> 0:10:02.640 Well, I mean, really interesting game. I really enjoy watching 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:06.359 Utah right now, specifically in the way that they've transitioned 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:08.840 from twenty twenty five to being, you know, in the 0:10:08.840 --> 0:10:11.880 position they're in right now in second, tied with the 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:14.040 Portland Thorns. So that was that was a you know, 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:15.880 back to back matchup two teams that are you know, 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:18.720 fying for first. If either one of those teams would 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:21.240 have won that game, they would be in first right 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:25.400 now in the league standings. But I mean Multrie with 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:27.920 her her first goal, I mean the first goal of 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:30.240 the game to kick that one off. You know, she's 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:33.800 been making really savvy, really great runs off the ball, 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:36.560 and really with that one, the placement of her shot 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:40.200 was clinical. I mean she went near post on it. 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:42.000 There wasn't much room there. The room that was there 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:45.280 she utilized. That's a very difficult ball to finish going 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:45.640 up one. 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:45.800 Oh. 0:10:45.920 --> 0:10:48.000 But I mean really in that game, I thought that 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:50.880 the at the end of the day, both teams played well. 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:54.480 There was a lot of attack, some great defensive stops, 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:57.520 really entertaining game in that way. You'd expect that from 0:10:57.559 --> 0:10:59.520 those two teams with the players that they have that 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:02.640 have been very aggressive in the attacking end. Really the 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:05.720 story of the game, though, was the final goal and 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:10.800 how it was. We'll call it created. I mean I 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:13.560 was asking you before, I would love the stat on 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:16.760 how often the eight second rule has come into play 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:19.600 in games. I don't remember one in any of the 0:11:19.640 --> 0:11:23.080 games that we covered last year. I don't remember one 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:25.880 in any of the games that I watched last year, 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:28.560 which is quite a few games. Or let's go into 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:30.600 this year too, in twenty twenty six. I don't remember it. 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:35.000 I haven't watched all the games. Maybe there have been some, 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:38.640 you know, surgeons in eight second calls, but this one really, 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:40.480 to me seemed like it was right on eight seconds. 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:43.240 The thing that will remain unknown, at least for me. 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:45.400 Maybe we can get some inside information. We'd have to 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:48.040 talk to the players involved, but maybe maybe she was 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:50.839 warned like four times, and then she held it again, 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:54.200 and you know, the referee decided not this time, but 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:58.480 eight seconds is called, corners taken, foul is called, and 0:11:58.520 --> 0:12:02.240 then that results in Thorne's p que, which is converted, 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:06.120 which results in the tie. And this all happened, I believe, 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:10.040 I mean the eighty eighth maybe to the ninetieth minute 0:12:10.160 --> 0:12:13.480 in regulation play, So I mean this was this is 0:12:13.559 --> 0:12:18.520 what really became the result was it hinged on this 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:21.360 series of calls right in the eleventh hour of the game. 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:25.760 I this doesn't happen very often. So when I was 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:28.160 watching the game and it was called, I mean, I 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:30.640 you know, like my soccer brain's running in the background, 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:32.480 and I was like, did he just call eight seconds? 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:34.800 But I wasn't quite sure because I was kind of 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:35.319 doing something. 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:38.160 I was so shy, like wait, right, You're like. 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:41.120 Did he do that? And then you know, I'm watching 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:42.880 and I'm like he did. And then I'm like, oh, 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:44.560 you know, you get that feeling. You've been in these 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:47.560 situations before. We were like, Ah, in a game, weird 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:50.520 call or not that it wasn't merited. I think it 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:53.520 was technically eight seconds. Did they call that very often? No, 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:56.959 I've seen goalkeepers hold and bounce and lay on balls 0:12:57.040 --> 0:12:59.920 for more than eight seconds. I can't remember how many times. 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:04.320 But in this particular instance, he went for It results 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:05.960 in the next play, which results in a PK, which 0:13:06.000 --> 0:13:07.640 results in a goal, and now you have a tie. 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:12.920 So I feel I'm sure Utah feels like that game 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:15.640 was stolen in some ways. I mean, you can't necessarily 0:13:15.720 --> 0:13:21.040 term it completely stolen. But that was definitely different than 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:23.480 what I've seen across other games. 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:26.640 It feels like Portland's kind of one of those teams 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:28.959 have benefits from that a lot. And maybe it's just 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:30.880 because we notice it because it's Portland. 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:36.480 Maybe, you know, I've seen a number of their games 0:13:36.480 --> 0:13:40.160 this year. They're they're running on als around cylinders. Tordon's 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:43.319 been great. I mean, their back line has been great, multrees. 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:46.760 I think, you know, really, you know, with the new 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:49.439 contract and really stepping into our own becoming more of 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:51.680 a leader, with you know, the absence of Sam Coffee 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:55.640 in that midfield, you know, just some things have shifted 0:13:55.640 --> 0:13:57.319 a little bit within that team. And I think people 0:13:57.400 --> 0:13:59.600 last year were like, oh well now they're not going 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:02.040 to be, you know, nearly as good. And to their credit, 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:04.920 a number of younger players have stepped in and just 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:09.600 showed out. They've been playing very very well. You know, 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:13.440 I haven't seen too many I haven't seen anything that 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:17.040 I'll just call it unique. Happened, you know in the 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:19.320 Thorns favor so far this year and in the games 0:14:19.320 --> 0:14:22.280 that I've observed, But I will say when you're in 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:25.720 the eighty eighth minute and eight seconds is called, and 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:29.800 then a PK is called. I don't know the probability 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:33.160 that that sequence of events occurs at I'm going to 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:36.840 say it's very very very very low. 0:14:37.000 --> 0:14:39.840 Very low eight silver eat silver. Can you tell us 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:41.400 the answer to that, please, I'm. 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:42.480 Sure we can get. Yeah, we can get. 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:46.000 We can loose some people in that Nolte speaking of Moultrie, 0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:48.840 that player is a hunter. 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:53.920 Oh yeah, when she I mean she is just relentless. 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:57.520 Yeah, I mean, well, if I'm a defender, I'm just 0:14:57.600 --> 0:15:01.040 constantly feeling her breathing down my neck the entire game. 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:03.480 I think you feel her breaking down your neck. You 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:06.520 also have to make sure that you've got eyes on 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:09.000 her at all times, because she pulls into spaces in 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:12.720 a very strategic and calculated way. And if you lose 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:14.680 her off the ball, or if you're looking at the 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:18.000 ball too long and Multrie's off the ball scheming, you're 0:15:18.040 --> 0:15:20.880 going to be in trouble. And I think this is 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:25.200 a piece of her game that frankly has been underestimated. 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:27.240 A lot of the focus since she was thirteen was 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:29.320 about her getting signed and is she too young and 0:15:29.360 --> 0:15:31.640 can she handle this? And she would be doing this 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:34.720 to players obviously she could just practice when she was 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:38.480 that age. There was the whole series of events that 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:40.960 finally allowed her to be able to play, and younger 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:43.680 players in the league kind of open doors. So she's 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:47.640 definitely a trailblazer in that way. But I think this 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:50.480 is an underrated piece of her game, her scheming and 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:53.040 her reading the game so well, just because there have 0:15:53.080 --> 0:15:57.400 been so many other facets of her playing life that 0:15:57.440 --> 0:16:00.600 people have kind of latched onto, whether it's her age 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:04.440 or whether it's you know, is this too young? Is 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:09.880 this the right move? Should she be going into a 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:12.080 court case so that she can get the right to play? 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:14.280 Should she be doing right? There's there's been a lot 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:18.000 of noise, and during that noise, to her credit, I mean, 0:16:18.040 --> 0:16:20.000 now it's been has it been six seven years? 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:22.520 Talk about scurity, by the way, talk about maturity. 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:24.360 All of that crowd noise around you and all that 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:27.240 controversy that has really it's completely out of your hands 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:30.280 and out of your control, and you're thirteen fourteen. She 0:16:30.360 --> 0:16:32.600 must have it either like a great support system or 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:34.440 just insane maturity. 0:16:34.880 --> 0:16:37.160 Well, I mean shout out to her entire her family, 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:40.840 and I know them, I've been around them. I was 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:43.240 with the Thorns and running the academy when she came 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:45.000 in and we were planning for her to come in 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:46.880 and how she was gonna get games and all those 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:48.480 sorts of things, and I got to coach her for 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:51.560 that period of time. You know at that time, don't 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:54.480 you don't quite know? Right, somebody new comes into a 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:57.760 situation and you don't quite know. You don't know if 0:16:57.800 --> 0:16:59.840 they're mature, you don't know what their family's like. You 0:16:59.880 --> 0:17:01.760 just it's not that it's bad or that it's negative, 0:17:01.760 --> 0:17:03.480 and it's not that it's good. You just it's a 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:05.280 lot of unknown. So there was a lot of planning 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:07.040 around it. It's the first time that something like that 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:10.439 had occurred. It was really a moment in time that 0:17:10.600 --> 0:17:14.200 was a first. So over time, you know, you get 0:17:14.200 --> 0:17:15.800 to know the family, you get to know the player, 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:18.520 you get to know the situation. And I'd say the 0:17:18.600 --> 0:17:21.040 thing that's important, and this is important for every player 0:17:21.400 --> 0:17:24.720 in watching and you know, starting to admire a player 0:17:24.760 --> 0:17:27.639 like Olivia Multrie for our younger players out there, is 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:29.800 that through that noise and all those things that were 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:32.000 happening and things that you know were talked about or 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:37.400 heard about she's training. She's just she's just hungry, right, 0:17:37.480 --> 0:17:39.560 she said it and put press conferences like she wants 0:17:39.600 --> 0:17:42.159 to be the player, like she she wants it. And 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:44.560 then on top of that, you know she she trains 0:17:44.600 --> 0:17:47.000 all the time. I mean she'll train when she's at training, 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:49.399 she'll train at the practice facility, she'll go home and 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:53.160 train like she's just she's that person. Now you look 0:17:53.200 --> 0:17:55.840 at when she was thirteen, the questions were, you know, 0:17:55.960 --> 0:17:57.359 is this too early? Is it too much? Or are 0:17:57.359 --> 0:17:59.359 you putting too much on a kid? I would say, 0:17:59.480 --> 0:18:03.080 in this particular instance, the kid wanted it that much. 0:18:03.480 --> 0:18:06.360 I think that this is, you know, the outlier of outliers. 0:18:07.800 --> 0:18:10.200 A lot of kids end up in pressure situations where 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:12.320 a parent or an adult wants it more than them 0:18:12.359 --> 0:18:15.560 and starts to create these manufacture these things around them 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:18.199 to get them to a spot because they're talented. And 0:18:18.240 --> 0:18:21.360 this is a situation where there's there's great support around her. 0:18:21.400 --> 0:18:25.520 But she also this was something that she really wanted 0:18:25.520 --> 0:18:25.800 to do. 0:18:27.680 --> 0:18:30.360 It's just really impressive. The entire situation is impressive. 0:18:30.440 --> 0:18:35.320 Yeah, she's still so young and and she's just begun 0:18:35.359 --> 0:18:38.280 her journey, which is crazy. 0:18:37.280 --> 0:18:40.359 And she's like, is it sick. Well, actually, I have 0:18:40.400 --> 0:18:42.879 to go back and look at when she first played. 0:18:43.000 --> 0:18:46.800 Was it five years ago? Because she couldn't play it first, right, Yeah, 0:18:46.800 --> 0:18:48.680 she had to fight for the right to actually play, 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:51.199 but she was training for a couple of years before that. 0:18:52.400 --> 0:18:56.040 Let's see, she was born in two thousand and five, 0:18:56.119 --> 0:18:57.840 so she is only twenty years old currently. 0:18:58.520 --> 0:19:00.320 Yeah, I'll see when she start. 0:19:00.359 --> 0:19:02.040 I believe that's seven years since she came to parlanm. 0:19:02.119 --> 0:19:03.560 She came when she was thirteen, but I don't know 0:19:03.560 --> 0:19:05.360