And Down The Stretch They Come

DCSR, Episode 8

Aug 26, 2022

April 23rd was last episode drop. 

Been a long time, etc

Thoughts about ‘22 so far

• Tough league
• Upsides: Goalkeeping, defense
• Areas for improvement: Scoring goals

The matches remaining (home bolded)
 

• At Charleston
• Indy 11
• At Colorado Springs
• Tampa Bay
• At RBNY2 (Wed)
• FC Tulsa
• At Loudoun Utd
• At Lou City (Wed)
• THE Miami FC

Yadda yadda yadda

• What would success look like from this point?
• If we miss the playoffs, is that ok?
• Twitter Q’s:
  • Do we know which players are on multi year deals and are for sure coming back next season?
    Adam Hernandez
  • How late can we add guys to the roster and be able to use them for the playoffs?
    John Clinton
  • If you could change one thing with our tactics/roster what would it be? // and… which of our opponents do you hate the most so far - who is our biggest rivalry or derby? Is it really Pittsburgh in the middle of the bonfire?
    Chris Farnum
  • What's up with Cy and Foster? Is Foster going to be our next head coach? Who do we want to play first round of playoffs? Chance in hell at home playoffs? Do you have any insight on payroll or contracts for next year?
    Nate “Meat Tray (not meat ray which is what i always thought it was -DD)

We didn't do any fuckin notes. 

INTRO: Stars self-immolating

• Hi, lots to get to, let’s get to it
• Yes we will discuss the Stars statement, but later, once Jamie’s on

USL WHIPAROUND

• You know what? Ain’t nobody got time for that. Maybe Sean just reads off the scores in a stupid voice.
• Any matches you wanna talk about?

LAST WEEKEND - Memphis

• City 1-1 Memphis
• Breakdowns on the goal - how much ground we gonna give?
• FREESTYLE about the match - personal experience, things we noticed
• Man of the match?
• Pronounced tendency for City to get much better after the half
  • Is it motivation or tactics?
  • Memphis lucky to get out with a draw

LAST NIGHT - Sharta

• City 3-0 Romeo Wanderers
• Set piece domination
• No need for a halftime bump as was men v boys
• FREESTYLE about the match - personal experience, things we noticed
• Man of the match?
• Let’s talk limitations
  • Obvious payroll limitations are having an impact
  • Cup run good or nah? Let’s talk it out a little

BREAK TO GET JAMIE ON

SHARTA MOUNTAIN BREAKDOWN

• City 3-0 Romeo Wanderers CONTINUED
• Point and laugh at George and The Statement
  • Sean gonna talk epistemology briefly, yaaaaaaay

THIS COMING WEEKEND - Atlanta Utd 2

• Hard to get hype tbh
• Does Atl Utd 2 have fans who are just super committed ultras of the main Atlanta United club, or what? And who are they?
• Sean don’t know nothin’. Let’s look at their numbers live on the air for a moment, then

SHARTA MOUNTAIN BREAKDOWN (REPRISE)

• City 3-0 Romeo Wanderers CONTINUED AGAIN
• Point and laugh at George and The Statement
  • I’m closing with Fuck Sharta fyi

Live broadcast rewatch: https://youtu.be/CrFHI0Jxcr4

INTRO: Seat of our pants

• Fucking people in Grand Blanc were all about their pizzas today, etc
• Whassup with Dion

USL WHIPAROUND

• You know what? Ain’t nobody got time for that. Maybe Sean just reads off the scores in a stupid voice.
• We played Pittsburgh and drew. Memphis travelled to Las Vegas and won. Any matches you wanna talk about? We’ll talk about Memphis in a minute

LAST WEEKEND - Pittsburgh

• City 1-1 pitty
• Breakdowns on the goal
• FREESTYLE about the match - personal experience, things we noticed
• Man of the match?
• Let’s talk about depth and how fragile this team is right now
  • Can maxi and brad sustain this work rate, cuz damn
  • Injury on either flank would immediately change the shape
  • Share your best folk-magic blessings
• Good things - possessing the ball so very well
  • Pitt pressed the absolute shit out of us, to little avail
  • Maybe dap up Nate’s growth here cuz again damn

BREAK TO GET JAMIE ON

THIS COMING WEEKEND - Memphis

• Fail Caesar week
• Won last weekend, 1-0, over Las Vegas
• Pirmann Ball: Very not pretty, more effective than it seems like it should be
  • Obviously good at motivating; all 10 outfield players work hard for each other, which is familiar from his time here
  • They keep changing shape, including moving to what looks like a 3-4-3-ish thing last week. If I’m honest it’s rudimentary compared to what City are doing in the same formation
  • SEAN SAY City’s gonna have like 70 percent of the ball
• Does Memphis have fans? Are they cool?
  • SIDEBAR: Return to Steel Army’s social media bullshit for a moment first
• More freestyling. Maybe talk Memphis personnel. Fuck, I dunno, it’s less than an hour until air time, I’m just hacking this thing out

Rewatch the livestream here!!
 Episode 3  <-->  March 23, 2022

INTRO: Sean’s back

• Sorry about last week, we are all both the victims and the perpetrators of capitalism
• Whassup with Dion and shoutout to Jackie (whose stage name I believe should be Jackée - no i have no reasoning behind this)

USL WHIPAROUND

• Matches happening right now: Red Bull 2 v Lou City, Atl Utd 2 v Tampa Bay
• Kicking off later: Tulsa v San Diego, El Paso v Las Vegas, Los Dos (LA2) v Rio Grande Valley
• Results last weekend
  • Detroit City 1-0 Charleston - WE WILL GET TO THIS
  • NYRB 2 0-3 Loudoun United
    • Loudoun lowdown RIDIC
  • Los Dos 1-2 San Antonio
    • SAFC survives v children. First goal from Mullet Hobbit, second from a set piece. Elliott Collier was out injured against us, MLS vet showed incredible tactical and situational awareness to get a red card for ‘foul and abusive language’ one minute after Los Dos went down a man
  • Memphis 2-1 Oakland
    • Two set piece goals, 36 percent possession, held on to win - yup, this is a Ben Pirmann team
    • Ok that’s not exactly fair, they could’ve won 3- or 4-1 easily
  • Pittsburgh 2-1 Hartford
    • We will dig into this later too, but soft 1st half red made it easy
  • Lou City 2-0 THE Miami FC
  • Tampa Bay 2-0 Indy
    • Big yikes start for Indy 11
  • Colorado Springs 1-0 Monterey Bay
  • El Paso 1-2 New Mexico
    • Big early-season west clash goes to New Mexico
  • Tulsa 3-1 Birmingham
    • Old enemy Dario Suarez playing v well for Tulsa
    • Bham red early in second half killed it off
  • Las Vegas 2-1 Phoenix
    • Remember Danny Trejo (LA Force) - he was MotM here, goal and assist as LVL shocks Phoenix
    • LOLs around the league - let’s talk shitshow LVL
  • Orange County 2-1 Rio Grande Valley
  • San Diego 2-0 Sacramento

LAST WEEKEND - charleston

• City 1-0 Charleston
• FREESTYLE about the match - personal experience, things we noticed
• Man of the match?
• Striking options for City - do we have a first-choice goal-scorer?
• CYRUS? Dunno if we’re going to talk about that but if so, here’s where we do

BREAK TO GET JAMIE ON

THIS COMING WEEKEND - pittsburgh

• Won last weekend, 2-1, over Hartford
• SUPER soft red in the 38th kinda ruined the match as a contest
  • ref gave a caution for a high boot, clearly not remembering the guy was already on a yellow
• Pittsburgh is atop the league (until Lou City match tonight finishes, anyway) but have spent half the first two matches playing with a man advantage
• They play a similar system to ours
• PITTSBURGH FREESTYLE let’s get weird, y’all

Episode 1  <-->  March 2, 2022

INTRO: Welcome to Detroit City Supporter Radio!

• Episode what? Point out WNGS archive just for continuity
• Name change, game change - brief discussion of Dion’s ‘retirement’
• Sean still the same weird gnome - patreon HYPETRAIN or, y’know, brief embarrassed mention
• Welcome to USL
  • JFC
  • LET’S FIRE UP A BOONDOGGLE BRO
  • But seriously, nice to not feel like the whole league is not one of those fake towns from an old Western
  • Different vibe this year, much more big-time - long travel in USL-C; Rovers will be outnumbered first time ever, really
• FOR THE CULTURE- COMING NEXT WEEK: USL Oppo scouting with JamJam, a/k/a JamJam Notes

THEM YOUTS!

• Should be hearing names for the first-ever DCFC USL Academy sides tomorrow IIRC

THE WOMEN!

• Still ridiculously early for the women - won’t start practice with the locals for a couple months yet
• Opportunity for folks who missed NPSL days to recreate that experience with the women
• Sean didn’t know j-baby adkins from j edgar hoover in 2014; get to know the players and the experience opens up SO:
• Tons of commitments early on, let’s talk through them
  • Madison Duncan
  • Kenna White
  • Shannon McCarthy
  • Elisa Baeron
  • Marlee Taylor
  • Megan Miles
  • Rachel Philpotts
  • Becca Przybylo
  • Gabby Schriver
  • Bethany Kopel
  • Margaret Berry
  • Grace Philpotts
  • Brooke Sleeva
  • Gabby Tremonti
  • Acadia Murphy
  • With weeks to go before they even start practice
• Michigan away days!
• :( Wednesday night matches :((((((

THE MEN!

• Where we’re at
  • 10 days out from opening match; 17 guys signed
  • Preseason matches - 1-1 at Indy, 4-0 vs Oakland, 2-2 at Phoenix
    • We can talk about this a bit if you’d like, very positive preseason so far
  • Talk about what lack of depth does to a roster
  • Injury scenarios and general jinxing
• Returners
  • Stevie, Connor, Matt, Maxi, Pato, Yazeed, Bosh
• New guys
  • Laye Diop
  • Brad Dunwell
  • Devon Amoo-Mensah
  • Deklan Wynne
  • Rhys Williams
  • Antoine Hoppenot
  • Michael Bryant
  • Francis Etuahene
  • Billy Forbes
    • Which is where we talk about the Billy situation, yaaaaaaay he said weakly
• OUTRO: Tune into next week’s show for up-to-the-minute info as the men’s side tries to round some of the edges off.
• FEATURING a look at our first opponent, San Antonio, both on the pitch and off,
  • with hottakes like hotcakes from the righteous and inimitable Jam Jam,
  • legit bantz and hard questions from Dion,
  • and the usual mumbling weirdness from Sean

The list of questions we got and answered pretty in order.

USL stuff

@jdavidson1: How does ‘the market’ view USLC v NISA. More sponsorship opportunities? Is it considered a higher league? Will it boost attendance?

@jgbrass: Wants us to give a “lay of the land” description of USL - who’s the best clubs,etc.. Also asks what tactical adjustments we are likely to have to make.

@taco: word is that USL2 perception as higher level than NPSL/MWPL hurt our recruiting. Thinking forward to USLW, is that likely to now help us v UWS?

@RyMcT jokes “when can we expect our ‘selling out’ checks”

@ThaBlackUnicorn: Which USL mascot do we want to see Friendly fight?

Segue to pure City stuff with

@jdavidson1: International friendly speculation
@taco: bigger budgets for intl friendlies? Higher stature?

CITY CITY FUCKIN CITY

@taco: Is new, deep pocketed investor likely to bump up payroll?

@TheJAC33: Who on the current roster are must keeps, who are fine for depth, and who needs a testimonial planned?

@EpeeBill: Do we get a USOC slot next year, or is that rule about not getting a spot after you switch leagues still around?

@taco: U23s on hiatus for a while, what’s up with the academy? Any prospects?

@gusmacker1: Do you think Keyworth will need to be monitored more, or limited a bit to the public, with all the upgrades coming? Will we need to redo the lease since the club has moved up?

@Motorcitymadcat: Will NISA ever get their financial situation in order?

• Chokanooga haha

• LA Force scouting report: 3-4-3ish, inverted wingbacks, cluttered middle

• Individuals: Chaney, Gordillo, Villon, Ocegueda

• Le Rouge freestyle: Haven’t trailed all season. What it means to win. Should the stakes be this high for this match? Shouldn’t we have already won? General appreciation for this squad. Stevie. Cyrus. Maxi. Matt. Nate. Anthony. Pato. Connor. Kevin. James. Roddy. George. The rotating forwards. Trevor motherfucking James.

WNGS Radio, Episode 31, 5.20.21

NISA

• Juncaj to NISA - “YOU DON’T HAVE THE BALLS”
  • Will NISA, in fact, have the balls? A discussion
  • The politics of PLS and the realities of NISA v USL (i.e., why NISA might not do the right thing here)
  • How many confirmed for fall 2021? Chicago and Rochester?
• Chicago House will exist - gotta coach, got two players
  • Given their ticket prices, will their player personnel budget be massive?
• Flower City Union - are they still thinking fall 2021? No coach, no players
• INTERACT WITH CHAT on NISA stuff

OPEN MIC

• Literally any topic in world football

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