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Speaker 1: Is Tony Pike Cincy three sixty about Cincinnati. From Cincinnati.

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Speaker 1: This is ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back, Happy Friday. Hour three continues, and let's get

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Speaker 2: it started in a big way. FC Cincinnati got their

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Speaker 2: season off on the right foot with a four nil

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Speaker 2: victory in the Conka Kef Cup. I don't think you

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Speaker 2: could ask for a better way to start a season.

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Speaker 2: And now you turn that around and it feels like

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Speaker 2: the season almost just ended. And now MLS play returns

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Speaker 2: to TQL Stadium tomorrow at four forty five. Let's talk

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Speaker 2: to the voice of the Orange and Blue, Tom Gallairder

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Speaker 2: joining us right now. Tommy, Tommy, Tommy, what's going.

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Speaker 3: On, Tony, Tony, Tony, Happy Friday?

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Speaker 4: Here?

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Speaker 3: We are already to start the Major League Soccer season.

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Speaker 3: Like you said, a really strong effort from the guys

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Speaker 3: in the win on Wednesday night down in the Dominican Republic,

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Speaker 3: and I thought it was professional wins, kind of what

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Speaker 3: we called in the postgame show, that the team did

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Speaker 3: the right things and got four goals from the strikers

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Speaker 3: and dispatched to O and M and leg one most

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Speaker 3: again on Wednesday night. But it'll pass the well versus their.

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Speaker 5: Concerned and heading into this Atlanta match, how important is

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Speaker 5: what you just described the professional start, because every year

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Speaker 5: you're going to go through a unique offseason.

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Speaker 2: You're you're going to have players that leave, You're going

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Speaker 2: to have additions, and a lot of times it can

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Speaker 2: feel clunky at the start of the season. How important

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Speaker 2: was it, as you described, to go and get a

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Speaker 2: professional win on Wednesday night?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, you know, I think we talked about it

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Speaker 3: last week, the continuity right of the team and what

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Speaker 3: that has meant in the preseason.

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Speaker 4: Pat really hit that.

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Speaker 3: Nail on the head when we talked leading into and

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Speaker 3: I think we saw some of the I think because

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Speaker 3: and had this really busy schedule with four matches and

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Speaker 3: other open season, it sets up to be able to

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Speaker 3: put a strong line.

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Speaker 4: Out in the season opener. You know, listen, you want

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Speaker 4: to go down.

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Speaker 3: There, make sure you win so that sets up your

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Speaker 3: second leg in the return of TQOL Stadium on wed

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Speaker 3: Day and you're securing the opportunity to advance to the tournament.

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Speaker 4: You also don't want to do it at the expense.

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Speaker 3: Of your home opener ro game and begins to Minnesota

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Speaker 3: in playing for games in twelve days.

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Speaker 4: So I think that the way you have set uptation.

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Speaker 3: And the player availability really worked out flavor and did

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Speaker 3: in a professional way, and he got to care of

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Speaker 3: business passions of SA You can have took you guys

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Speaker 3: the media.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so Tommy, you you then turned the page and

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Speaker 2: now it's all of a sudden the MLS opener and

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Speaker 2: coming to TQO Stadium is a team in Atlanta who

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Speaker 2: did not have a great year last year when you

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Speaker 2: look at the final standings near the bottom of the league.

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Speaker 2: How difficult does it become when it's early in the

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Speaker 2: year differently? Obviously, when you don't finish the way they

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Speaker 2: wanted to in Atlanta, you've got to make some changes.

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Speaker 2: So how do you prepare for a team when you

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Speaker 2: may not know fully what's coming in?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's a fair question, Tony, But I'll

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Speaker 3: tell you that's much there's a lot more information sent

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Speaker 3: on Atlanta than I do than there was on Owen MFC.

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Speaker 3: I told someone yesterday that at Owen MSc rostered I

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Speaker 3: was the least information I've ever had on the team

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Speaker 3: in eleven years of preparing for these matches. So that said,

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Speaker 3: I think they probably have decent information on Atlanta. Granted,

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Speaker 3: the didn't make the playoffs last year and they fired

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Speaker 3: the coach, but they brought in their previous coach, tot

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Speaker 3: To Martino, who they won twenty eight mL US Cup with,

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Speaker 3: So I think people know what to expect from tot

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Speaker 3: To Martino, and I think there's a lot of talent

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Speaker 3: spent for Kevin Danka and lotelt had six.

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Speaker 4: Goals and for the money that they spent on him,

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Speaker 3: So I think that it's really important, you know, if

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Speaker 3: you're an Atlanta United fan, that you're expecting Tata Martino

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Speaker 3: there's good talent on that team. It's just a matter

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Speaker 3: of how can Tata Martino put them in a group

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Speaker 4: The best out of them, and what does that look like?

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Speaker 3: So I think that's the biggest question that everybody's going

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Speaker 3: to kind of be holding their breath as I figure

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Speaker 3: out Atlanta. Look, Cincinnati is going to have a strong lineup.

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Speaker 3: I think that they are going to.

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Speaker 4: Take care of themselves first and foremost.

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Speaker 3: But I think they'll have enough information on Landy United

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Speaker 2: Those that maybe didn't catch Wednesday night and tomorrow will

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Speaker 2: be the first chance they have to see this team

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Speaker 2: the twenty twenty sixth version of FC Cincinnati in action.

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Speaker 2: Is there a glaring difference in the style of play

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Speaker 2: or the personnel in which they're going to use that

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Speaker 2: will be different to those that watched last year compared

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Speaker 3: No, I don't think that there's going to be a

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Speaker 3: glaring difference at this point, and we'll wait to see

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Speaker 3: exactly what the lineup card looks like when you know,

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Speaker 3: Pat Ninon turns it in till marow. But I know

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Speaker 3: that they've tried some new philosophies here through the preseason

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Speaker 3: and been working on, you know, some different things in

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Speaker 3: and they got four goals from their strikers in the

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Speaker 3: to be, you know, some new player. There will be

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Speaker 3: some new players potentially out on the pitch. You know,

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Speaker 3: Brian Meers came off and happened that we think that

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Speaker 3: bat Neman wants to start him again in this match

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Speaker 3: on Saturday Atlanta. Brian, I thought it was very good

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Speaker 3: in the forty five minutes they played out at left

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Speaker 3: you know, I think that that is a piece of

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Speaker 3: who is sliding in next to Kevin Denk when they

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Speaker 3: You know, Tom Barlow started and he got the he

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Speaker 4: And then Ayub Jabari, who.

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Speaker 3: He saw five times in the regular season last year,

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Speaker 3: I had a big assist in the playoffs.

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Speaker 4: He comes in late and gets two goals.

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Speaker 3: So you had the opportunity, you know, to see a

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Speaker 4: A good competition there alongside Kevin Dank. But I don't think.

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Speaker 3: Overall all like the tactics are going to be wildly

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Speaker 3: different or the formation. It'll be more so some tweaks

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Speaker 2: Has anything in the offseason happened or just less ross

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Speaker 2: back to last year, you were replacing Luciano Acosta in

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Speaker 2: an MLS MVP. You're not having to do that this offseason.

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Speaker 2: And I think when you look at the long season

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Speaker 2: year where it felt like a roller coaster. You know

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Speaker 2: a lot of highs, some lows, some laws that this

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Speaker 2: that over the course of such a long season. There

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Speaker 2: are going to be some dips, but the consistency aspect

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Speaker 3: I think probably it starts with depth, right, and I

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Speaker 3: think that that a lot of that depth is there.

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Speaker 4: There's great depth at center back position.

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Speaker 3: Look, we saw Andre Durilla called in from the two

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Speaker 3: We know that there's there's competition in the defensive midfield.

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Speaker 3: You had Geeye, Buka, you know, Blowodo, all great options.

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Speaker 3: Pat Noonan, one of those guys is out, and who

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Speaker 3: great competition. And then the striker position, like I was

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Speaker 4: I feel pretty good about that. Who will be.

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Speaker 3: Next to him will be a Jabari, will be Tom Barlow.

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Speaker 3: That's what's to be determined, and I think exciting to

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Speaker 2: week talking about red spring training and Joe mentioned that

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Speaker 2: just being around the team leading up to where they're

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Speaker 2: getting to, you could sense a way in which they

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Speaker 2: carry themselves that felt different. And I wonder that with

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Speaker 2: FC Cincinnati, because you've been at the bottom, you've been

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Speaker 2: right there near the top, You've been within striking distance

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Speaker 2: when this team was preparing and you're around the club

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Speaker 4: I don't.

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Speaker 2: I don't know that it's a confidence, but uh uh

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Speaker 2: Do you sense that differently with this team going into

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Speaker 2: to this season.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I think that there is a confident in

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Speaker 3: that there is that connuity that we've talked about so much,

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Speaker 4: And I think that.

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Speaker 3: Those are all factors that pay big, big dividends in

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Speaker 3: because if you're successful for fourth eight years but you

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Speaker 3: fall short of that ultimate goal winning MLS cupbo ain't

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Speaker 3: gonna start, you know, maybe scratch your head and being

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Speaker 3: like what else, what else do we have to do?

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Speaker 4: How do we get there?

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Speaker 3: I think it was Alvias Powell Will made a comment,

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Speaker 3: you know, last week or so, it's time. It's time

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Speaker 4: And then there's a pretty big hunger in that dressing

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Speaker 2: If if you could, if you could take one or

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Speaker 2: two big keys for tomorrow against Atlanta to get get

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Speaker 3: I think the biggest Tony is just sticking to your

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Speaker 3: At times, t QoS team has been a fortress and

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Speaker 3: think that it's okay, you're coming into our house. You're

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Speaker 4: We're gonna you know, uh, we're gonna make.

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Speaker 3: A statement early. You get an early goal, take advantage,

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Speaker 3: build that crowd and that energy, and then be strong

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Speaker 3: in the areas you know you're really good, and be

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Speaker 4: You know, let Evander and Denkey and whoever the other

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Speaker 3: And play f C Cincinnati pat noon and soccer.

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Speaker 4: And if they do that, they're gonna put themselves in

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Speaker 2: Lastly, before we let you go, Tommy, TQL Stadium at times,

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Speaker 2: yea since its inception, has been a fortress for FC Cincinnati.

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Speaker 2: Last year, the season ended on a sour note. Miami

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Speaker 3: Well, I think it's really important if you want to

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Speaker 3: You know, then you need to have the portress. You

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Speaker 3: who knows what happens in the playoffs from there, But no,

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Speaker 3: I think you know, listen to fans have been unbelievable

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Speaker 3: for every year this club around, you know, celebrated ten

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Speaker 3: of that. And listen, you get a win in your

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Speaker 2: Tom Gletter, the voice of FC Cincinnati, first class all

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Speaker 2: the way. Today, Tommy, we have appreciate your time, good

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Speaker 2: luck this weekend, and we'll talk again next week.

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Speaker 3: Hiks here for you always appreciate it. And yeah, let's

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Speaker 3: have a great weekend and talk too.

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Speaker 2: There he is Tom Galladter, Tommy Tommy, Tommy, the voice

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Speaker 2: of FC Cincinnati. We'll be back. We've got Bob man

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Speaker 2: Gen and our number three as well. You see Nova

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Speaker 4: When the headlines are enough