Speaker 1: You know, you hit a button and you're thinking something's
Speaker 1: gonna work, and then you're like, well maybe it will
Speaker 1: and maybe it won't. There you go, Hi, it's a
Speaker 1: new it's a new week, and it's another go round
Speaker 1: of sd H A M. John here you there, Thanks
Speaker 1: for dropping byes you always do. We'll go over the
Speaker 1: Landy United Loss in Chicago. Abe Gordon's going to join
Speaker 1: us in about ten minutes or so. We'll catch up
Speaker 1: with Abe and we'll hear from Ronnie Daila and Ronald
Speaker 1: Hernandez in depth the sound from after the mat I've
Speaker 1: pulled and it's long, but it's worth it. And you
Speaker 1: know me, I don't like dealing in sound bites, and
Speaker 1: the fact that we have the space that we have
Speaker 1: is a good thing where we can all just kind
Speaker 1: of listen to things in depth and frustrations and all
Speaker 1: this kind of stuff. And you definitely hear that from
Speaker 1: both Ronnie Dieline from Ronald Hernandez. So we'll catch up
Speaker 1: with that and we'll catch up with your thoughts as
Speaker 1: we go. Our number two, we're gonna kind of go
Speaker 1: and this is where this week we're gonna be kind
Speaker 1: of drifting in and out It's a chaos week to
Speaker 1: begin with because Atlanta United has Austin on Wednesday, and
Speaker 1: we're tracking folks down in Austin to see if they
Speaker 1: can catch up with us before Wednesday night. Then on Tuesday, Wednesday,
Speaker 1: Thursday Friday, it's the GHSA Championships. You can catch that
Speaker 1: on the NFHS network. And let's see me Maddy Jess,
Speaker 1: Jason Matteene, the dream atteen, Rod, the voice of the
Speaker 1: Athens Rock Lobsters, Luke Winstell, who is a friend of
Speaker 1: the network. He's going to be calling matches. Justin Hanover
Speaker 1: is going to be calling matches. What we're gonna be
Speaker 1: kind of doing for coaches that can't take their noon
Speaker 1: hour and be a part of in session at noon,
Speaker 1: I've kind of opened the gates up a little bit,
Speaker 1: and so in our gap spaces this week, we're gonna
Speaker 1: try and catch up with some coaches as they get
Speaker 1: ready for their activity in the Championships. To that effect,
Speaker 1: Scott Snyder, the head coach at Westminster, is going to
Speaker 1: join us at ten. Micah Aiken, the coach at Marist,
Speaker 1: is going to join us at ten twenty. So that'll
Speaker 1: get us kind of into the GHSA Championships. No soccer
Speaker 1: is in session today. That picks back up tomorrow, and
Speaker 1: it looks like it's going to be Molly McCarty from Jefferson,
Speaker 1: Frank Zamora from Johnson Gainesville, and Troy Connolly also looking
Speaker 1: to join us from Cobb County, and that's going to
Speaker 1: be coaches one, two, and three tomorrow. Coach McKinnon from
Speaker 1: Atkinson County's gonna join us on Wednesday, and that's kind
Speaker 1: of how this will go at least in the in session.
Speaker 1: No in session today, So we have opened up the
Speaker 1: gates a little bit in our number two. Westminster and
Speaker 1: Marrister going to join us and we'll catch up with
Speaker 1: them and find out what's going on. But once again,
Speaker 1: remember whatever's on your mind as we go here on
Speaker 1: a reaction Monday, and we'll lay out everything stats, all
Speaker 1: the numbers, all that kind of stuff involving Atlanta and
Speaker 1: Chicago Fire. But once again, the idea of three matches
Speaker 1: in eight days, that's what you can look at here.
Speaker 1: You have a good week, you get you get into
Speaker 1: the playoff picture and then you go from there. But
Speaker 1: you're talking about teams with three different styles in Chicago
Speaker 1: in a rebuild in Austin, trying to find an offense,
Speaker 1: and we know what Philly brings to the table. That's
Speaker 1: on Saturday night, So that's where we are this week.
Speaker 1: We're going to be kind of slamming in the Atlanta United.
Speaker 1: Three matches in a week, plus the GHSA Championships, plus
Speaker 1: our pundits, so it's going to be a week that's
Speaker 1: going to fly by, and we've got a lot of
Speaker 1: stuff to get into. Tomorrow probably is when we will
Speaker 1: get into what happened with an owner who's not supposed
Speaker 1: to be an owner storming out onto the field and
Speaker 1: catching his coach and that almost was opening kickoff, But
Speaker 1: it's entirely too much to think about, and there's plenty
Speaker 1: to talk about where that's concerned Nottingham Forest, if you
Speaker 1: missed it, their owner who isn't an owner, who had
Speaker 1: to put the team in a blind trust so they
Speaker 1: would not fall victim to the rules of European Monetary
Speaker 1: football engagement. After the match, he stormed the field and
Speaker 1: he wanted to, I guess talk to the physio for
Speaker 1: Nottingham Forest and he got headed off by head coach
Speaker 1: Nuno Spirito Santo and still Evangelinas Marinacas, decided that he
Speaker 1: wanted to have a conversation and dressed down anybody that
Speaker 1: he could stand next to in a public forum, even
Speaker 1: as his team had qualified for Europe. We'll get into
Speaker 1: that tomorrow because then we'll have the space to get
Speaker 1: into it with some of the analysis that was instant
Speaker 1: from our friends at NBC Sports and the Premier League.
Speaker 1: So yeah, this week we're drifting in and out of
Speaker 1: Atlanta United, We're drifting in and out of the GHSA Championships.
Speaker 1: And because here's here's the grid, Here's here's here's the
Speaker 1: grid at the moment, by the way, So in session Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
Speaker 1: it's our last four Soccers in sessions of the year,
Speaker 1: presented by Kaiser Permanente. Because the championships go this week,
Speaker 1: time slots that we have available, hopefully we can bring
Speaker 1: in high school coaches to catch up with the championships
Speaker 1: and literally just fly around and sit there and go
Speaker 1: in out, in out, in out and out. So that's
Speaker 1: kind of what we're hoping for this week as we
Speaker 1: fly around like you wouldn't believe, trying to catch up
Speaker 1: with everything. Yes, I'm waiting to see, man's properly got
Speaker 1: to be properly hydrated. He has to be properly hydrated.
Speaker 1: That's how this works, making sure that well. And I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go ahead and bring Abe in a little early here,
Speaker 1: because you know, Abe was once again he's on the
Speaker 1: Tom Kaflin scale. Five minutes earlier on time, you're on time,
Speaker 1: you're late, you're late, doors closed, doors locked, you ain't
Speaker 1: getting in, so you don't have to hide being hydrated
Speaker 1: in this segment, right.
Speaker 2: No, I I I you know, I woke up not
Speaker 2: too long ago. I don't. I hadn't had anything to drink,
Speaker 2: took a dog out, and uh uh yeah, we're just
Speaker 2: getting going. Man.
Speaker 3: It's uh.
Speaker 2: You know what's funny is, as you mentioned, I'm like
Speaker 2: five minutes early, I don't actually like I'm I'm always
Speaker 2: at the same time now. And I don't remember what
Speaker 2: time I was supposed to be original. I think it
Speaker 2: was originally like nine to twenty, and then I started
Speaker 2: showing up early and that now I'm just here at
Speaker 2: nine to ten every day.
Speaker 1: So here we go. That's perfectly fine. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: it's it gives me a chance to get through the
Speaker 1: opening monologue. And get everything squared away for the week
Speaker 1: and get opening kicked off up and running as we
Speaker 1: juggle both high school and a three match week for
Speaker 1: Atlanta United, And uh, you know, obviously and after you
Speaker 1: I have postgame sound from both Ronald Hernandez and I'm
Speaker 1: not bleeping it, so I'm running it as is and
Speaker 1: that because I don't want to do bleeping and editing
Speaker 1: and things like that. And then the Ronnie Dila sound
Speaker 1: obviously that you and Maddy got the chance to listen
Speaker 1: to after the match with Chicago. But you know, once again,
Speaker 1: it was one of those where at the end of
Speaker 1: ninety minutes it wasn't good enough. There were waves, there
Speaker 1: were moments, but it didn't take over the full ninety
Speaker 1: and you end up getting the own goal. However, look
Speaker 1: right now, get a goal on the board, feel better,
Speaker 1: and then you can push and pursue and then coming
Speaker 1: back on defense and backtracking, and then Chicago has an
Speaker 1: opportunity and it ends up open in between the six
Speaker 1: and the penalty spot for a slam dunky. You lose
Speaker 1: two to one. Now that you've had a day and
Speaker 1: a half to think about it, what else is stuck
Speaker 1: in your head?
Speaker 2: Yeah, What really stood out to me, I think, is
Speaker 2: the message that Ronnie Dila wanted to deliver and then
Speaker 2: ultimately couldn't because of the eighty six minute go ahead
Speaker 2: goal for for Chicago. Look, you fall behind here fifteen
Speaker 2: minutes into this game, a tough penalty kick, but had
Speaker 2: to be called. There's no way around that. And and
Speaker 2: you fight and you scratch and you claw, and ultimately
Speaker 2: you're not very dangerous, but but you stay in the
Speaker 2: game and then in a moment, you put the ball
Speaker 2: in a dangerous position. And look, I don't want to
Speaker 2: I don't want to hear about the own goal nonsense,
Speaker 2: Like it's not like guys are turning around and firing
Speaker 2: it at their own keeper. Like you're putting the ball
Speaker 2: into dangerous positions. I don't really care if it goes
Speaker 2: off of your guy's shoulder, off of a head, off
Speaker 2: of a hip, or off of one of their guys.
Speaker 2: Those it finds him back of the day. So put
Speaker 2: the ball in good things could happen. And it felt
Speaker 2: like for well, I guess for five minutes, because that's
Speaker 2: all it was. It felt like for five minutes, maybe
Speaker 2: things had flipped a little bit where you could say
Speaker 2: this is a team that doesn't give up, This is
Speaker 2: a team that continues to fight, This is a team
Speaker 2: that finds a way all that stuff. And ultimately, because
Speaker 2: you did not outplay Chicago in this one, ultimately you
Speaker 2: maybe could have said that this was a result that
Speaker 2: we maybe didn't even necessarily deserve and can use that
Speaker 2: as a chance to step forward. But that was a
Speaker 2: five minute stretch in which you thought that way, and
Speaker 2: then it all went away. And it took a while
Speaker 2: for Ronnie Dila to enter the postgame press conference room.
Speaker 2: I would imagine there were some words being said in
Speaker 2: the locker room, and then when he got there, he
Speaker 2: called his team soft three times. Go back and listen
Speaker 2: to it. He called the team soft three times, and
Speaker 2: that's pretty much all you need to know. I think
Speaker 2: he had a message he wanted to deliver when they equalize,
Speaker 2: and and ultimately couldn't deliver that message to the media
Speaker 2: or really just to Jason h who was the media
Speaker 2: on Saturday night. And it's frustrating, and there's a lot
Speaker 2: of things that go into it. Late Loth was largely
Speaker 2: invisible in this game. We keep asking whatever we want
Speaker 2: to ask of Milgal Almaron He's nowhere close to goodenough
Speaker 2: right now. He's just not dangerous. Saba didn't start, and
Speaker 2: obviously he comes on late and does what he can.
Speaker 2: I thought they were better all the way from the
Speaker 2: back line up until the attacking third. But again, your
Speaker 2: your XG, which I know I'm not the biggest fan
Speaker 2: of it, but I use it in this instance to
Speaker 2: point it out. You're just not dangerous, like at all.
Speaker 2: Chicago had a two point seven I want to say
Speaker 2: x G and you you go back and look at
Speaker 2: that game and look at the saves. Right, obviously a
Speaker 2: ball cup through a wall which is just sloppy, but
Speaker 2: Gooz has to make a massive, massive save there. There
Speaker 2: there were other moments Gooz almost got beat at the
Speaker 2: near posts. He had to go down low and and
Speaker 2: poke it away for a corner kick, almost a goal there.
Speaker 2: The Chicago looked dangerous right now. Ultimately was only the
Speaker 2: two goals, but they looked dangerous at times where you
Speaker 2: kept him out of net. Atlanta didn't look dangerous. And
Speaker 2: that's what's the most frustrating thing for me is I
Speaker 2: just don't know how to make the argument for goals
Speaker 2: are gonna come because there's just nothing there. There there's
Speaker 2: no knocking on the door. I guess you can send
Speaker 2: it in like Moranchuck did and hope for the best.
Speaker 2: And obviously it worked out. But Latte Lot is not
Speaker 2: getting serviced there. There's still obviously a massive disconnect there.
Speaker 2: And and quite frankly, Miggy is completely lost. I don't
Speaker 2: know if it's stress or the pressure returning to this
Speaker 2: club and trying to be that guy. He is nowhere
Speaker 2: near the player that Lady United paid for or expected.
Speaker 1: The numbers that you were alluding to, the XG was
Speaker 1: double two six, two to one, three one four big
Speaker 1: chances for Chicago, none for it Landy United, eighteen total
Speaker 1: shots for Chicago, thirteen for it Land United. You mentioned
Speaker 1: Brad Brad had six saves on the day to your
Speaker 1: point about pressure, nine corners for Chicago only one for
Speaker 1: it Landy United.
Speaker 2: Now one corner was like in the eighty eighth minute
Speaker 2: or something like. It was super late.
Speaker 1: Too, And you know, you you look at a couple
Speaker 1: of other things. You know, Atlanta United had more free kicks,
Speaker 1: had a couple more tackles, They had one more yellow
Speaker 1: card on the day. So you all of these things
Speaker 1: coming together in a lineup that was a back five,
Speaker 1: and it starts out as Ronald Luis, Derek, Matt Edwards,
Speaker 1: Brooks Lennon and if you want to go five to
Speaker 1: four to one just for the sake of you know,
Speaker 1: pictures and drawings, but an't you j Fortune Matteas click
Speaker 1: Miguel almeroon and then Latte Lot up top when Brad
Speaker 1: by far has your largest grade from sofa score to
Speaker 1: seven point nine because of the six saves that he
Speaker 1: had on the day. Derek had a seven to Midanchuk
Speaker 1: and Latte Lot had sevens everybody else had sixes. I
Speaker 1: mean it's, you know, pretty one sided, and I don't
Speaker 1: know how else to say it. In this particular case,
Speaker 1: it was one sided and you had a chance, and
Speaker 1: then you end up giving up the goal five minutes
Speaker 1: five six minutes after you get the equalizer. Where I
Speaker 1: think conventional wisdom is that you get that equalizer, okay,
Speaker 1: go ahead and chase after the second one. You got
Speaker 1: the first one, good, You've got to draw, and now
Speaker 1: go chase after more points on the road, and it
Speaker 1: turns into a transition opportunity where you don't get back
Speaker 1: and Ronnie Ronnie Dila the head coach alludes to that
Speaker 1: in the postgame press conference. I didn't allude to it.
Speaker 1: He just pretty much laid it out there. You got
Speaker 1: to get back in these situations, and you don't for
Speaker 1: whatever reason. Right now, this is where it Landy United is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean maybe that's their mindset, like the way
Speaker 2: this season is gone. In no world am I like,
Speaker 2: all right, let's go find a second, like you got
Speaker 2: so incredibly lucky to find a first, Like I was
Speaker 2: sitting there like ride this out, like take your point.
Speaker 2: You certainly didn't deserve it. If we're gonna be honest
Speaker 2: and and and see if you can regroup and and
Speaker 2: do better on Wednesday with a short week. So yeah,
Speaker 2: that was wouldn't have been my mindset here, John, because
Speaker 2: I thought at that point, the way you had been outplayed,
Speaker 2: the way they had held the lead for as long
Speaker 2: as they did and as many times as they knocked
Speaker 2: on the door to find a second, I thought you
Speaker 2: were lucky to be in a tie situation there for
Speaker 2: five minutes. So again, the team and the manager, they
Speaker 2: obviously can't concede that. You know, we're we're just gonna
Speaker 2: hold down one point, especially not the way the season
Speaker 2: has gone right, you're a little desperate, and maybe that
Speaker 2: leads into that decision or that feeling. But I would
Speaker 2: have been happy with the one, and ultimately that didn't happen,
Speaker 2: and now we're stuck where we continue the same discussion
Speaker 2: points of did the formation work? Why are you out
Speaker 2: played for so long? Who's your best starting eleven? You know, why?
Speaker 2: Why can't this happen? Why can't that happen? Whose fault
Speaker 2: is it? What are the things that And they just
Speaker 2: keep saying the same thing. We need to come together,
Speaker 2: we need to fight for each other, we need to
Speaker 2: see love for the game, all that stuff. But ultimately,
Speaker 2: at the end of the day, like individuals are just
Speaker 2: not dangerous and that's a problem for me well.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, though, I would much rather
Speaker 1: hear a unity of message instead of sitting there and
Speaker 1: having you know, players flying off the handle and not
Speaker 1: being locked into you know, what you're supposed to be
Speaker 1: doing in this situation. You know, you don't want negative freelancing.
Speaker 2: I'd like to see it. I'd like to see a
Speaker 2: showcase on the field at some point though, as a
Speaker 2: supposed to just delivery through the media. And I agree
Speaker 2: with you right. You you want, you know, the one
Speaker 2: unified front, right, you want to be chasing it from
Speaker 2: the same direction. But look, maybe the thing that this
Speaker 2: team needs is a big old shouting match in the
Speaker 2: locker room. Maybe this is a situation where they got
Speaker 2: to figure some stuff out, and it's not gonna be
Speaker 2: a fun way to do it, because I mean, what
Speaker 2: are they second from the bottom right now? And it's
Speaker 2: I mean, you're down there with Montreal, like that's one
Speaker 2: of your only wins this season. So I don't really
Speaker 2: have an answer, Like I wish we could take a
Speaker 2: look at tactics and try and break it down. And
Speaker 2: I know Maddie was talking about tactics on the countdown beforehand,
Speaker 2: and I was like, look, I get it, like the
Speaker 2: tactics or something. You got to figure out the formation.
Speaker 2: You got to figure out at the end of the day, though,
Speaker 2: like someone's got to step up and make a play.
Speaker 2: Someone's got to be an individual and make a difference
Speaker 2: out there. And I remember early on in the season,
Speaker 2: it may have been in the first game, it may
Speaker 2: have been in a second or third game. Like I
Speaker 2: saw Meggie and he put a tricky dribble on someone
Speaker 2: and and made, you know, created some space and you're like,
Speaker 2: all right, that looks like the guy we want to see.
Speaker 2: I haven't seen that from him in two months or
Speaker 2: however long. It's been eight games, seven games. And again
Speaker 2: he's not alone. Right. We tried moving Saba on the right,
Speaker 2: try and make him more dangerous. It It worked for
Speaker 2: two games and then that completely fell off to the
Speaker 2: point where he wasn't even in the starting eleven this
Speaker 2: past week. And then again a lot of is a
Speaker 2: little bit different. He had one. They need to find
Speaker 2: a way to get him the ball higher up the field.
Speaker 2: He's having to drop so far back, he's got fifty
Speaker 2: yards to go just to get into a dangerous position,
Speaker 2: and he's kind of just based on the amount of
Speaker 2: service or quality he's going to get from the other
Speaker 2: So he's in a slightly different position. But you're not
Speaker 2: gonna teamwork your way into a goal. You're not gonna
Speaker 2: tick you tack of fifteen to one touch passes with
Speaker 2: a tap in at the back post like that. That's
Speaker 2: not happening. So someone's got to find some individual efforts
Speaker 2: to create some space to create a shot and make
Speaker 2: a difference. And we haven't seen that for weeks.
Speaker 1: Now well, and now you are in and out of
Speaker 1: necessity since you have three matches in a week. And
Speaker 1: it was a point that I made before you came
Speaker 1: on where you're having you're dealing with three separate clubs
Speaker 1: with three separate approaches that with Atlanta United you this
Speaker 1: may end up being auditions to a certain degree because
Speaker 1: of out of necessity. I don't think you're gonna play
Speaker 1: a lot of folks two hundred and seventy minutes in
Speaker 1: eight days. So you're going to see in theory some
Speaker 1: different folks in different places, in different positions. Some folks
Speaker 1: may be, you know, starting two of three, coming in
Speaker 1: off the bench for a third. You might see some
Speaker 1: interesting uh starting elevens starting in the midweeknd in Austin
Speaker 1: and then turning around against a very very physical Philadelphia
Speaker 1: squad that comes in on the weekend. So this may
Speaker 1: end up being something akin to Ronnie Dila and the
Speaker 1: staff having you know, for lack of a better phrase,
Speaker 1: open auditions. It's like, okay, we have this week. We
Speaker 1: saw what happened with Chicago. Next step is Austin. We
Speaker 1: got to figure out who can give me X number
Speaker 1: of minutes where can I put them or wait until
Speaker 1: I need those minutes in Philly. I think this might
Speaker 1: be this will be a very interesting week to see
Speaker 1: how things progress heading toward Philadelphia.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and look, you saw moye on Buckam off the bench, right,
Speaker 2: and I know he had been recovering from the injury
Speaker 2: and working his fitness back, So that was the thought.
Speaker 2: And same thought with Saba was maybe he was off
Speaker 2: the bench because you plan on starting him in one
Speaker 2: of these next two and you're trying to arrest him
Speaker 2: and like you said, you're not gonna go all three,
Speaker 2: and that's all fine. You got some guys though, on
Speaker 2: that roster that are different guys than what you've been
Speaker 2: putting out there, and I think it's time you see
Speaker 2: some of them Togashi and Brennan and Riley and Cobb
Speaker 2: and some of these other youngsters. We've seen the veterans
Speaker 2: who have been mainstays here. It's not working. I'm not
Speaker 2: saying you go full sale changes here or or that
Speaker 2: it's permanent, but I think we need to see some
Speaker 2: of these younger guys and some of these matches coming up,
Speaker 2: you got to try something different. And again, I don't
Speaker 2: care who's getting paid what. I don't care what designation
Speaker 2: anyone has. Someone's got to produce. And if the guys
Speaker 2: that are are labeled as such aren't producing, then I'll
Speaker 2: try guys that that you maybe don't count on the produce.
Speaker 2: I thought Jay Fortune has been great. I thought Matt
Speaker 2: Edwards has been great. These are guys that are stepping up.
Speaker 2: I thought Noah Cobb was good in the match. He
Speaker 2: did play a week and a half ago, whatever it was,
Speaker 2: So you got to try something different. You've modified the
Speaker 2: formation a little bit now and back to back weeks.
Speaker 2: One week it gave you thirty minutes of improved play.
Speaker 2: It didn't do anything for you. The five in the
Speaker 2: back didn't do anything for you on on Saturday. And
Speaker 2: a lot of that maybe is determined by the handball
Speaker 2: and and kind of a free goal if you want
Speaker 2: to call it that. But you got you gotta start
Speaker 2: looking maybe a little bit more drastically, uh if need be,
Speaker 2: because it's it's getting We're not halfway yet through this season,
Speaker 2: but we're not that far from halfway, and and you
Speaker 2: barely are touching double digit points.
Speaker 1: Hey Gordon ninety two nine of the game, visiting as
Speaker 1: he always does here to start things off. So are
Speaker 1: you of the mindset with these three matches? You saw
Speaker 1: what you saw against Chicago, You're going on the road
Speaker 1: to Austin. Do you do you try and front load
Speaker 1: things with ideas or do you want to try and
Speaker 1: bring in those new names you're thinking of against Austin
Speaker 1: and see what happens against Philly or do you want
Speaker 1: to experience against Philly? How are you in your mind?
Speaker 1: How are you seeing how you would lay things up?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think you could do anything with Philly
Speaker 2: right now. You got to find a way to get
Speaker 2: three points, and all attention has to be paid on Austin.
Speaker 2: And I'm not I'm not saying anything about we're gonna
Speaker 2: plan for this and then we're gonna plan for that.
Speaker 2: There is no secondary looking ahead to to I know,
Speaker 2: it's like the oldest you know, like coach speak, like
Speaker 2: you know, one game at a time, all that stuff,
Speaker 2: But like as far back as you are in the standings,
Speaker 2: like you have to maximize everything you can to get
Speaker 2: three points on the road and then you can worry
Speaker 2: about the home games coming up against Philly and beyond
Speaker 2: after that, I would I would see what works at Austin.
Speaker 2: Hopefully you can find some level of success and then
Speaker 2: try and recreate that at home against a tougher Philly team.
Speaker 2: But I don't know if you can plan right now
Speaker 2: for for what's coming on the weekend. When you have
Speaker 2: the midweek match and you're in the form that you're in.
Speaker 2: Some teams have that luxury, right you can kind of
Speaker 2: look and say, if we can just play to a
Speaker 2: drawl on the road midweek and then we can focus.
Speaker 2: Atlanta's not in that position where they can kind of
Speaker 2: half hand a game over and and focus on one
Speaker 2: or the other. So they've got to go full on
Speaker 2: for three points Wednesday, and well, I'm interested to see
Speaker 2: how dramatic a change that could be.
Speaker 1: Yep, and I think it's you and me partner. It is, Yes,
Speaker 1: you and me partner at Colony Square. So we're gonna
Speaker 1: be sitting there watching everything at Q two. So hit
Speaker 1: the promo for some guy named Nelson joining you inside
Speaker 1: Colony Square.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you and me, we're gonna do a fun
Speaker 2: little pregame. Hopefully it's fun because the way the way
Speaker 2: the season's gone, the post games have not been fun,
Speaker 2: so so we'll know we'll break it down, and it
Speaker 2: was very interesting with Maddie to see some of the
Speaker 2: changes the form and trying something new, and so I'm
Speaker 2: interested to see what they try in this one because
Speaker 2: there the more this level of performance goes on, the
Speaker 2: more drastic I think the changes have to be. And
Speaker 2: I know they kind of say you can't change everything
Speaker 2: all at once, but you are starting to move that
Speaker 2: way if you continually fall short. So it'd be interesting
Speaker 2: to see what the formation looks like, who they have
Speaker 2: and then, as you mentioned with the match compression, who's
Speaker 2: gonna play? Because some interesting decisions there for Ronnie Dayla.
Speaker 2: But pregame should start at what is it? Six thirty?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: Seven thirty seven thirty right seven? Pregame at seven thirty
Speaker 2: with kickoff there at Austin around eight thirty, So looking forward.
Speaker 1: To that as always, my friend, great to see. Thanks
Speaker 1: for the recaps, and go go cleanse and tune everything
Speaker 1: out for a couple of minutes before everything starts back
Speaker 1: up again. As always, great to see my friend to
Speaker 1: start things off every week.
Speaker 2: We'll do and we'll see you again on Wednesday.
Speaker 1: All right? Abe Gordon ninety two nine and the Game
Speaker 1: and the Oudyssey app Yeah, so it's me. I guess
Speaker 1: I should have hit the breaking news soundar. It's me
Speaker 1: and Abe, Me and A A colony square on Wednesday night.
Speaker 1: So here's and here's the here's the rundown. So with
Speaker 1: the the match in with all the morning show stuff,
Speaker 1: morning show doesn't change. So then you have me and
Speaker 1: ab a colony square for a Central time kick in Austin.
Speaker 1: And apparently, and I got to check this again real quick,
Speaker 1: so hang on weather dot com. Uh no, that is
Speaker 1: not what I spelled. So of course everybody's sitting there going, yeah,
Speaker 1: why don't you Uh all right, so temperatures in Austin, Texas,
Speaker 1: they are not going to be small like I said,
Speaker 1: it's uh, you've got all kinds of things going on,
Speaker 1: uh meteorologically. So the team is flying out, I don't
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're flying out tomorrow. I'll double check,
Speaker 1: but uh, you know, for the for a Wednesday match.
Speaker 1: So the uh, the high Wednesday, the high Wednesday in
Speaker 1: Austin is slated for one hundred and six. I'm not kidding.
Speaker 1: And just to show you that I'm not kidding, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do the thing with the screen share, just to
Speaker 1: just to let you know, just to see. No, I
Speaker 1: don't want that one. It's not that one, it's the
Speaker 1: other one. So here we go. So here's here is
Speaker 1: the uh, here's your forecast right there. You see you
Speaker 1: see Wednesday, Wednesday, one hundred and six, one hundred and
Speaker 1: six partly cloudy though, and you'll we will have weinds
Speaker 1: out of the south southwest to twelve but one hundred
Speaker 1: and six degrees get rid of that pop up there.
Speaker 1: So one hundred and six on Wednesday in Austin, So
Speaker 1: you got that to keep an eye on as well.
Speaker 1: One hundred and six blanken degrees on Wednesday. And that
Speaker 1: was why I was asking about how different the lineup
Speaker 1: is going to be, just in general, in general because
Speaker 1: of you playing three matches in eight days Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
Speaker 1: So it's three and eight. What does it look like?
Speaker 1: What does it look like in Austin? And you're going
Speaker 1: to have to probably manage minutes, manage players, use your
Speaker 1: subs wisely, all things being equal, hoping that everyone stays
Speaker 1: as healthy as possible. You're gonna have your hydration breaks
Speaker 1: after thirty and at uh, what eighty seventy eight seventy
Speaker 1: five five minutes somewhere in there, seventy seventy five. So
Speaker 1: you got that to look out for as well. So
Speaker 1: you anticipate hydration breaks, You're going to have to have
Speaker 1: the your your substitutions ready to go manage all of
Speaker 1: those kinds of things. And you're going up against an
Speaker 1: Austin club that until Open Cup because once again it
Speaker 1: was El Paso locomotive. It's a you know, it is
Speaker 1: a team that is offensively challenged. Then there's no other
Speaker 1: way to put it. I mean, they actually did score
Speaker 1: in MLS play for the first time in three weeks
Speaker 1: in the two to one loss to Cincinnati, and you
Speaker 1: look at how it was for Cincinnati and for Austin.
Speaker 1: Austin plays in the three five two five three two,
Speaker 1: and yes, we are efforting OPO research on this. So
Speaker 1: with Brandon Vasquez Emirto Uzuni in being the two up top,
Speaker 1: you're thinking that it's probably going to end up being
Speaker 1: a back five. That would be my guess, unless you
Speaker 1: know you have you know, us Open Cup hero Brandon
Speaker 1: Vasquez playing by himself, a Zuni drops back and it's
Speaker 1: a five four one or or something like that from
Speaker 1: a Nico Estevez. But if it's two, then you're probably
Speaker 1: gonna have three center backs, so you're probably with a
Speaker 1: back five or something akin to a back five. If
Speaker 1: Ronnie goes Ronnie Dialley goes with the four two three
Speaker 1: to one, then you end up with one of those.
Speaker 1: Maybe you're six, being that de facto third center back.
Speaker 1: And like I said, this is me taking one of
Speaker 1: the first things I learned from Jason and applying it
Speaker 1: to a starting lineup. Always have one more in defense
Speaker 1: than they do an attack. So if Austin is gonna
Speaker 1: go with two with two up top Vasquez in a Zuni,
Speaker 1: then you're thinking three in defense. So who are those
Speaker 1: three in defense? And then you have to once again
Speaker 1: go from a team in Chicago that is on a
Speaker 1: rebuild to a team in Austin that can't score, to
Speaker 1: a team in Philly that doesn't want the ball and
Speaker 1: is going to try and out physically you out of
Speaker 1: the building. So navigating these three things also is a
Speaker 1: part of it too, so that that's kind of the
Speaker 1: early OPO research that you have here their starting lineup.
Speaker 1: Once again, it was you might have matching five, three,
Speaker 1: to two, three, five twos. They had five at the
Speaker 1: back Kolemanich, biro Heinzeich, Spatalk and John Gallaher midfield Savovich,
Speaker 1: Ilier and owen Wolf. And then to up top Vasquez
Speaker 1: and Uzuni with your bench Fudrig, Dubersarski, Jeter Obrion, Osman
Speaker 1: Buccari and Diego Rubio, Julio Casconte, Irvn Torres, Riley Thomas,
Speaker 1: and Stephan Cleveland. The backup keeper Brad Steuver obviously is
Speaker 1: going to be the man between the sticks. He is
Speaker 1: the one who had the highest rating for Austin in
Speaker 1: their matchup against Cincinnati. Five saves, goals prevented a point
Speaker 1: eighty four to two runouts, two high claims, four saves
Speaker 1: twenty four fifty three passing seven of twenty five on
Speaker 1: his long ball's two clearances, and that's it in a
Speaker 1: two to one loss. So that's what you're looking at with.
Speaker 1: Like I said, that's just like the basic basics of Austin.
Speaker 1: As we get into Austin on Wednesday, and then we'll
Speaker 1: turn the page and see if we can catch up
Speaker 1: with our buddy Dave Leno on either Thursday or Friday,
Speaker 1: to get you ready for Philly. But we got to
Speaker 1: get we got to get through, we got to get
Speaker 1: to Austin. First, I'm gonna play the sound from Ronald Hernandez.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna play the I'm gonna play the sound for
Speaker 1: Ronald Hernandez. It's most of his press conference opportunity. And
Speaker 1: no I did not bleep it out because he had
Speaker 1: uh he had two references that expressed the general displeasure.
Speaker 1: And I'm just double checking to make sure that the
Speaker 1: sound is what the sound is? Where is where is that? Okay?
Speaker 1: So here is once I once I actually load it
Speaker 1: because you know, you kind of need to load the
Speaker 1: sound so people can hear it. But that's just me.
Speaker 1: But yeah, Ronald Hernandez and Ronnie dialup before we get
Speaker 1: into getting ready for Austin. Over the next two days,
Speaker 1: like I said, I will probably play both of these
Speaker 1: two very very long segments. They total up to about
Speaker 1: eight and a half minutes, but like I said, it's
Speaker 1: worth it. I'm gonna start with Ronald Hernandez, and like
Speaker 1: I said, there are two moments in here that could
Speaker 1: have been bleeped. I didn't. So we're we're going to
Speaker 1: earn our explicit rating today. So here's Ronald Hernandez after
Speaker 1: the match. And then after Ronald, we'll get into the
Speaker 1: numbers and get into players and get into player ratings
Speaker 1: and things like that. And if we have time before
Speaker 1: Scott Snyder and Micah Aiken join us in our number
Speaker 1: two to talk to Westminster and Marist getting into the
Speaker 1: GHSA finals, we'll play it there or we'll play it
Speaker 1: after and we get back into the Atlanta United discussion
Speaker 1: in the final twenty five minutes of the show. So
Speaker 1: here's Ronald Hernandez after the match, most of his press
Speaker 1: opportunity that he had with Jason at Soldier Field in Chicago.
Speaker 1: And so here's Ronald Hernandez after the match, the two
Speaker 1: to one loss for a Landy United against Chicago Fire Guys.
Speaker 2: Roald Hernandez here again, we'll start with questions in the room.
Speaker 5: Jason go Ahead.
Speaker 6: Made some information changes today playing in about five.
Speaker 5: What worked in your mind and what didn't work?
Speaker 4: Obviously it is our freeze change of formation. This decision.
Speaker 4: We knew it that isn't going to be perfect, but
Speaker 4: mainly we need to to be secure. We gotta five
Speaker 4: for the second balls, and then we need to we
Speaker 4: gotta have to build our foundation with the backfires. Uh.
Speaker 4: To be honest, we did that, but but unfortunately we
Speaker 4: got the penalty. Uh, and then that changed a little bit.
Speaker 4: But we we have the Rayman said to look to
Speaker 4: to go after the game. You know, I think that
Speaker 4: that that's why we play backfire.
Speaker 5: The mentality and then together.
Speaker 6: I felt like there were moments where very connected and
Speaker 6: Chicago fowls about people are in their face, and then
Speaker 6: there were moments where disconnected.
Speaker 5: Was inconsistent in your mind?
Speaker 6: Is down to just the pressure of the situation of
Speaker 6: not finding results.
Speaker 4: Uh, I'm not sure about that. But we need to
Speaker 4: be honest with ourselves and then that's the true. We
Speaker 4: have been inconsistency this season and that little little details, Yeah,
Speaker 4: it changed our difference. You know, it changed the the
Speaker 4: sorry it changed it changed the the rhythm of the game.
Speaker 4: But we've gotta be a strong We need to bounce back,
Speaker 4: and then we have to talked about it.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 7: We gotta.
Speaker 4: Two to put together more consistency through the full ninety minutes.
Speaker 5: There's moments where it feels like Alexi and Miguel get into.
Speaker 6: The same spots and try moving them around a few times.
Speaker 6: You know, how hard is it at times for you
Speaker 6: and your role to find them a dangerous moment?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 4: Uh that that is hard. Depend on the opponents always
Speaker 4: be me g and Alexis. We need to figure it
Speaker 4: out and find different positions to help the team for
Speaker 4: a moment. Derek play very good balls for for both
Speaker 4: of them, which was the play what we want.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: But you know, like we go back again on consistency.
Speaker 4: We need we've gotta be like to be honest with
Speaker 4: each other and move forward. We need to be reviewed
Speaker 4: the film and and to be honest. We only can
Speaker 4: push and we can only improve this this situation.
Speaker 5: And we've talked about it before. You believe the bad.
Speaker 6: You defend the city, defend the Colors strongly as anybody.
Speaker 6: How hard is it right now to be seeing the
Speaker 6: team play and the way they are.
Speaker 4: It's tough, man, especially if you are outside. You want
Speaker 4: to have the team. I have been here for a
Speaker 4: while now, and then you feel shited to be outside
Speaker 4: and and and you want to have the team. Today
Speaker 4: it was my thur And you know, I know the
Speaker 4: people working in the club for so for so much
Speaker 4: time that I appreciate things like little around the club
Speaker 4: and stuff that I fell in love. But we need
Speaker 4: to give more. It's not enough, Our performance is not enough,
Speaker 4: and we know that.
Speaker 1: There you go, Ronald Hernandez after the match with Jason,
Speaker 1: and I thought it was important to play that whole
Speaker 1: element if you can find it, find the whole thing.
Speaker 1: But that's a handful of minutes, and I thought it
Speaker 1: was important to play that because of what Ronald was discussing,
Speaker 1: so that it's in the locker room and it's there,
Speaker 1: the feelings are there, and it's stuff that we get
Speaker 1: into and we've had the discussions about competitive stress and
Speaker 1: all those kinds of things. But I thought it was
Speaker 1: important to play that whole segment. That's about eighty percent
Speaker 1: of Ronald's press conference that he had with the Q
Speaker 1: and A at Soldier Field. But I thought it was
Speaker 1: important just to hear the frustration from players like Ronald
Speaker 1: who absolutely live and die by this badge, and to
Speaker 1: have someone like Ronald who will basically he'll give you
Speaker 1: one hundred percent every single day on the practice field.
Speaker 1: He will play wherever you want him to play. And
Speaker 1: what I would also recommend is go back and see
Speaker 1: there was the long form feature that we did at
Speaker 1: SDH with Ronald, and I would go back and listen
Speaker 1: slash watch that to give you an idea where Ronald's
Speaker 1: coming from. This is straight up Ronald Hernandez and Ronald
Speaker 1: Hernandez once again will live and die by that badge
Speaker 1: every single day and twice on game day. And so
Speaker 1: when he was asked to be the player to step
Speaker 1: up and speak from the player perspective postmatch, to hear
Speaker 1: that from Ronald is not a surprise at all. Class
Speaker 1: act on and off the field, lays it all out
Speaker 1: there for you at one hundred percent and represents the
Speaker 1: crest the right way. He's gonna tell you what he thinks.
Speaker 1: He is not afraid to hide what he has to say,
Speaker 1: and to be able to have him there, I thought
Speaker 1: it was I thought it was important to play the
Speaker 1: whole thing. So, like I said, that's just part of it.
Speaker 1: We'll go through the numbers, and like I said, Scott
Speaker 1: Snyder from the Westminster School joining us at ten, Micah
Speaker 1: Aiken joining in after that, an abbey, there is a
Speaker 1: there is a thought put in the young'uns, and you
Speaker 1: are going to have to at some point because of
Speaker 1: multiple competition, schedule, compression, what have you? How different are
Speaker 1: you going to look? How different are you going to
Speaker 1: look on Wednesday? How different are you going to look
Speaker 1: on Saturday? Those are the questions for me. Then Abe
Speaker 1: and I get to experience it together on when day
Speaker 1: in Austin watching from here. But I think there is
Speaker 1: a I think that there is opportunity once again. I
Speaker 1: think that depending on the health of Pedromador and probably
Speaker 1: the idea of a quick turn, you probably are not
Speaker 1: unless there is a recovery pattern and we don't know
Speaker 1: the bell curve on it, It's probably going to be
Speaker 1: some combination of Ronald or Matt and then your back line,
Speaker 1: some combination of Louis, Derek, Noah and Ephra and perhaps
Speaker 1: Brooks Lennon on the right. Then your midfield once again
Speaker 1: click Sleash, Jay and Tristan. Once again, we don't know
Speaker 1: where Tristan is in his recovery coming back from the
Speaker 1: muscle injury. It wouldn't surprise me once again if he
Speaker 1: did not start but came in and gave you thirty.
Speaker 1: That would be my that would be my thought on
Speaker 1: the midfield, just looking at it from the numbers and
Speaker 1: returning from injury, and then once again you have your
Speaker 1: decisions up top. We've talked about Togashi, We've talked about
Speaker 1: Luke Brennan, We've talked about you know, you have, You've
Speaker 1: got obviously Miggy and Mirunchuk and Saba and all of that.
Speaker 1: But there will be times in the schedule and this
Speaker 1: is probably one of those weeks where it will look different,
Speaker 1: but how different and when that's the thing. So that's
Speaker 1: that's kind of what you're staring at here. Let's get
Speaker 1: into the numbers and lay it all out for you
Speaker 1: for this past weekend with Landy United. We talked about
Speaker 1: some of the we talked about some of the numbers,
Speaker 1: but we do have some breaking news that we do
Speaker 1: have to get into from about eighteen minutes ago. But
Speaker 1: let me go through the numbers and we'll probably end
Speaker 1: our number one with the breaking news and its overseas
Speaker 1: and it's one of the worst kept secrets known to Mankak,
Speaker 1: but it is finally officially official. So we mentioned some
Speaker 1: of the numbers, numbers, Let's get into the lineup once again.
Speaker 1: We'll go through the lineup numbers that are there. So
Speaker 1: Brad punched a seven point nine. We talked about we
Speaker 1: talked about what Brad has been able to do. Six saves,
Speaker 1: goals prevented one point three one run out, three saves,
Speaker 1: fifteen passes out of the box, eight for twenty on
Speaker 1: long balls clearance, won a ground duell and he was
Speaker 1: fouled ones back line Ronald Luis, Derek Williams had a
Speaker 1: seven point two Matt Edwards and Brooks Lennon. So Derek
Speaker 1: Williams on the day since he was the highest rated defender,
Speaker 1: played the full nine XG plus x A for the
Speaker 1: x everything ap point three to eight fourteen clearances for
Speaker 1: Derek Williams in the afternoon one block, sorry, one pick,
Speaker 1: two tackles, five of seven on his duels, fouled once,
Speaker 1: fifty five of sixty nine passing at eighty percent, seven
Speaker 1: of eighteen on long balls, one shot off target, had
Speaker 1: one shot blocked and one shot hit the woodwork, but
Speaker 1: four but you had the fourteen clearances on the day
Speaker 1: for Derek Williams. Midfield Midonchuk was your highest rated midfielder
Speaker 1: to seven point zero, Jay Fortune, Matais Klick, Miggy All
Speaker 1: in the sixty six to six eight range and Malay
Speaker 1: and Midanchuk had that seven with a yellow card twenty
Speaker 1: seven to thirty five passing against seventy seven percent. Three
Speaker 1: key passes on the day, one one crossed, two long balls,
Speaker 1: two shots on target, one off. Only won one duel
Speaker 1: on the day, one fouled, two clearances, two blocks, one
Speaker 1: total tackle, and then you had the penalty and the penalty.
Speaker 1: They're really in the whole lot there that you couldn't
Speaker 1: do about it because of once again you're trying to
Speaker 1: chest it down and clear it and direct it, and
Speaker 1: then as your right arm is chicken winging and then
Speaker 1: you're coming across that. To me, obviously that's contact, that's
Speaker 1: a handball, and it's unfortunate. But nevertheless, and then Latte
Speaker 1: a lot of seven up top, played the full ninety,
Speaker 1: did not have a shot on target, had one shot
Speaker 1: off target. And I know that you want more to
Speaker 1: get to yours, to get to your high signing striker,
Speaker 1: so he can have more than just the one shot
Speaker 1: off target on the day. One dribble attempt successful, ten
Speaker 1: of seventeen passing, three key passes, seven to fourteen on
Speaker 1: his duels, three of five on the ground, four of
Speaker 1: nine in the air, fouled twice and that's it. J
Speaker 1: Fortune once again lined up on the left as a
Speaker 1: left winger, but then he would drift back defensively to
Speaker 1: be a part of things. And I think that when
Speaker 1: you see when you see Jay listed as a left
Speaker 1: winger per se, once again, that's probably whistle blows. Jay's
Speaker 1: there in the offensive attack, but then he drifts back
Speaker 1: to be a part of the midfield defensive corps. So
Speaker 1: just because you may see j in a four four
Speaker 1: two or a four to three three where he's left wing,
Speaker 1: then that's not necessarily going to be the case. So
Speaker 1: what in the wide role of sports is what in
Speaker 1: the wide role the sports was at I was getting
Speaker 1: something in my ear and I didn't know where it
Speaker 1: was from, all right, So let me go, let me
Speaker 1: go back in because I think I lingered too long
Speaker 1: on a particular on a particular who'sy, what's it's in
Speaker 1: particular pop up window, that's what I was looking for,
Speaker 1: so and all right, so once again before it, let
Speaker 1: me let me get Jay's numbers here, let me go
Speaker 1: back through the front line. And I'm sorry that the
Speaker 1: damn pop up window forced me to reset everything here. So,
Speaker 1: like I said, once again, Scott Snyder from Westminster in
Speaker 1: ten minutes, and then we got breaking news Scott Snyder
Speaker 1: in ten minutes from Westminster, Micah aken behind him at
Speaker 1: DEBT ten twenty and then like I said, last twenty
Speaker 1: or twenty five minutes, that's probably when we'll hear from
Speaker 1: Ronnie Diler. So all right, So the numbers four the
Speaker 1: rest of the midfield and the rest of the attack
Speaker 1: in the lineup. So we mentioned Jay Fortune, and I
Speaker 1: think it was probably because I hovered over something. Jay
Speaker 1: on the day seventy three minutes twenty nine of thirty
Speaker 1: passing ninety seven percent, four of seven on his ground duels,
Speaker 1: fouled twice, two picks, two tackles, and one drouble passed.
Speaker 1: Matteas Klick, who I think is rounding into form, getting
Speaker 1: close to one hundred percent healthy, played seventy three minutes
Speaker 1: twenty seven to thirty six, passing one key pass, one
Speaker 1: long ball, two for two on his ground duels, one clearance,
Speaker 1: two picks, two total tackles, and then Miggie on the
Speaker 1: day played the full ninety twenty four to thirty two,
Speaker 1: passing seventy five percent, one long ball, two shots off target,
Speaker 1: two shots blocked, two of four on the dribble, five
Speaker 1: of nine on ground duels missed, the one in the air,
Speaker 1: two fouls, one off side, and three total tackles on
Speaker 1: the day for Miguel Almo. So I think it is one.
Speaker 1: I think it's one chance in the last two matches
Speaker 1: that Miggy has been credited with creating. So that's that's
Speaker 1: your numbers when it comes to Atlanta United and Chicago Fire. Okay,
Speaker 1: let me get into the breaking news because it broke,
Speaker 1: and like I said, it broke bottom of the hour,
Speaker 1: so right as we're getting into all of this discussion,
Speaker 1: of course, that's when this stuff breaks. I'm not really
Speaker 1: surprised by it all. So we're is man, that was loud. Oh,
Speaker 1: I didn't realize how loud.
Speaker 7: That was.
Speaker 1: Shocking no one. The Brazilian Football Confederation confirmed Carlo Ancelotti
Speaker 1: as their new head coach. Ancelottio will join from May
Speaker 1: twenty six, so two weeks from today, following the end
Speaker 1: of the law Leaga season and ahead of Brazil's FIFA
Speaker 1: World Cup qualifying campaign in June. Quote, the CBF extends
Speaker 1: at sincere gratitude to Real Madrid and mister Perez for
Speaker 1: the cordiality and sportsmanship shown and facilitating the coaches released
Speaker 1: during his contract term, allowing this new chapter to begin
Speaker 1: with mutual respect and cooperation between the teams end quote period.
Speaker 1: Diego Fernandez facilitated, according to Ben Jacobs, and led negotiations
Speaker 1: with Ancelotti in Real Madrid on behalf of the CBF.
Speaker 1: Shabi Alonzo will replace Ancelotti on a three year deal
Speaker 1: and in time for the Club World Cup. So that's
Speaker 1: your news from all of the thing that are going
Speaker 1: down over there. So that's uh, that's that's what it's at.
Speaker 1: So Carlo Ancelotti, shocking no one, is the the new
Speaker 1: head coach for the Brazil national team. So that's uh,
Speaker 1: that's where that's where we are. Yeah once again. Yeah,
Speaker 1: uh sorry, I'm going back and forth with guests. All right,
Speaker 1: so uh all right now, uh we've got a couple
Speaker 1: of minutes, so let me go through and say hi
Speaker 1: to everybody. And I know that you guys are well
Speaker 1: into the well into the discussions, which I always enjoy.
Speaker 1: Morning Derek, Morning, Michael, is good to see you and
Speaker 1: Shelley yesterday as we were all getting our exercise, actually
Speaker 1: I think, uh Michael and the Boss were getting exercised
Speaker 1: by their pitbull literally Uh, like I said, Michael's about
Speaker 1: a five iron away from me here at the office
Speaker 1: HD and he and the boss they were out in
Speaker 1: the neighborhood as I was wrapping up my four miles yesterday,
Speaker 1: and uh, it was it was good to see them.
Speaker 1: And you could tell that the that their pit bull
Speaker 1: was just kind of leading them along and Michael's just
Speaker 1: kind of hanging on for dear life at points. But no,
Speaker 1: it was good to see the two of them yesterday.
Speaker 1: So Pars, good to see you, Alex, good to see you.
Speaker 1: Good morning Abby, And oh, Vast Maverick, whoever Vast Maverick is,
Speaker 1: it's the end of your days. So let's see here.
Speaker 1: See God, this is the thing that gets to me.
Speaker 1: It's like I'm trying to slide up. Where is it?
Speaker 1: Where is it? Where is it? Where is it? It's
Speaker 1: like I'm trying to just do the right thing and
Speaker 1: slide up here, but I can't do it, and it's
Speaker 1: annoying that I can't. And so I can do this
Speaker 1: with the It's interesting that I can do it with
Speaker 1: the arrow up and down. Vast Maverick, blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: All right, so we'll take care of a bot to end.
Speaker 1: Ah counted the suspended or the act of b it,
Speaker 1: so we didn't have to I didn't have to do anything.
Speaker 1: Thank you for everybody who jumped the gun on them.
Speaker 1: So let's see. So morning Pars, Morning Abbey, Morning Michael,
Speaker 1: Morning Emilio. Uh, let's see morning Michael, Morning Emilio. And
Speaker 1: once again, as always, it's great to great to have
Speaker 1: everybody here that's lined up and attached to everything that
Speaker 1: you guys are not afraid to that you guys always
Speaker 1: have the discussions. Morning Katie. It's good to have a
Speaker 1: Katie Weaver in here this morning as well. So now
Speaker 1: good to have all of you in here. Good to
Speaker 1: have all the discussions and everything. Katie says, Atlantic can't
Speaker 1: hurt me because Spurs are going to Bilbao. But yes,
Speaker 1: so Katie, are you going to Bilbao for the Europa League?
Speaker 1: You're going for the Europa League Final? Are you? Are?
Speaker 4: You?
Speaker 7: Are?
Speaker 1: You got some miles maybe in some points that you
Speaker 1: can take care of. But but no, thanks to all
Speaker 1: of you folks. But yeah, Carlo Ancelotti is the new
Speaker 1: manager of the Brazilian national team. Color me shocked. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and Ricky, welcome home, Shabby yep, three year deal, so
Speaker 1: those pieces going into place. I don't know how many
Speaker 1: of you saw El Classico yesterday, but it was it was.
Speaker 1: It was drunk. There's no other way to put it.
Speaker 1: It was absolutely crazy. And I had There's one of
Speaker 1: my bosses at one of my other gigs, he's like,
Speaker 1: should I watch El Classico? And it's a text chain
Speaker 1: with me and another one that I work with that's
Speaker 1: an arsenal guy, but he understands world sport and he'll
Speaker 1: watch things over he'll watch overseas, not just in the
Speaker 1: Premier League, and we're like, yeah, you should, just because
Speaker 1: And it was, I mean, it was the day drinking.
Speaker 1: It was out of it was out of control. And
Speaker 1: at the half, if you had an over under of
Speaker 1: five and a half, in the first half alone, it
Speaker 1: was a plus sixteen twenty five. So you put down
Speaker 1: one hundred, you put down a hundie, you come out
Speaker 1: of that, you play the over it's at five and
Speaker 1: a half yesterday in the first half alone, first forty
Speaker 1: five minutes. Then you ended up at a plus sixteen
Speaker 1: twenty five or sixteen seventy five one, and it was
Speaker 1: north of plus sixteen hundred, so north of plus sixteen
Speaker 1: hundred if you had over under five and a half
Speaker 1: yesterday for El Classico and you got both sides of
Speaker 1: Killian and Bape yesterday, but you got to see the
Speaker 1: Classico and Montjuiq was an incredible atmosphere, and I would
Speaker 1: recommend if you have the four letter to go back
Speaker 1: and watch it, like literally, if you have nothing going on,
Speaker 1: you just want to kind of decompress and decompressed into
Speaker 1: the crazy for a little bit and have some fun.
Speaker 1: Ian Dark Steve McManaman calling that match at Montjuique and
Speaker 1: that crowd was nuts. The game was stupid. The crowd
Speaker 1: was nuts, and it was out of control. I mean
Speaker 1: you could uh Rafena could have had four and Bappe
Speaker 1: could have had four if it wasn't either off sides
Speaker 1: or flopping. But no, if you if you have the
Speaker 1: chance to go back and watch L Classico, go back
Speaker 1: and watch it. If you have the chance to watch
Speaker 1: it in the future, watch it. But right now it
Speaker 1: looks like h it looks like since I think Barsonese,
Speaker 1: I think one win. There's seven points up with three
Speaker 1: to go, and then they should they should end up
Speaker 1: with the trophy, and then that's why and that's probably
Speaker 1: another reason why Real Madrid was counting Fiorentina president. Yeah, yeah, Carlo,
Speaker 1: go for it. Yeah, go for it. I mean it's
Speaker 1: gonna take a lot more, but yeah, go ahead and
Speaker 1: see it's all good. But uh yeah, that was absolutely
Speaker 1: crazy yesterday, some amazing goals and if you haven't seen
Speaker 1: the Montiel goal that was from South America yesterday, it's
Speaker 1: probably going to win the Puscus Award a twenty three
Speaker 1: yard bicycle kick. It's out there, so all you have
Speaker 1: to do, like literally is go Puscus Montiel, m O
Speaker 1: N t I E L Pusqus Montiel. Watch it, and
Speaker 1: then you're just gonna sit there and you're gonna be
Speaker 1: watching the whole thing, and you're probably gonna end up
Speaker 1: watching it like fifteen times before you realize that the
Speaker 1: loop is over. But no, Puscus Award probably is gonna
Speaker 1: go to Montiel for an absolutely insane bicycle kick. But
Speaker 1: yesterday El Classico for ninety minutes was just as insane,
Speaker 1: and it was more insane, but it's more like ninety
Speaker 1: seven minutes because you had stuff happening. After ninety minutes,
Speaker 1: you had stuff happening when you thought the match was over.
Speaker 1: You thought that you had handballs that weren't called you
Speaker 1: had stuff that was called stuff that wasn't You're like,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, what's going on here? And it would
Speaker 1: have made for an entire segment with Bart. Bart unfortunately
Speaker 1: is not with us today. He had to attend to
Speaker 1: some family of some family stuff, and all of our
Speaker 1: love is headed his direction, obviously, But but yeah, El
Speaker 1: Classico watch it yesterday should have been the PSA watch
Speaker 1: it and we'll find out how many folks actually did
Speaker 1: watch it. But yes, outside of that, the Puscus Award
Speaker 1: nominee Montiel in South America definitely worth that as well.
Speaker 1: All Right, it is our number two and it is
Speaker 1: time to kind of go Soccer's in session and talk
Speaker 1: about the GHSA Championship. So we're kind of going, we
Speaker 1: are whiplashing from Atlanta United to Montiel and the Pusca's
Speaker 1: goal and El Classico to high school soccer because championships
Speaker 1: or Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. And our first coach that
Speaker 1: we're bringing in since in session is not here today,
Speaker 1: Scott Snyder out of Westminster. We get to find out
Speaker 1: what's going on with him. How is class.
Speaker 8: No we're actually we have a it's called may Atl.
Speaker 8: It's a like a little ending sort of a one
Speaker 8: course thing, so that we're just doing planning right now.
Speaker 1: So how is planning?
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is better.
Speaker 1: When you have a week like this where you're trying
Speaker 1: to prepare for chasing after a state championship. How hectic
Speaker 1: is it when you have folks like me knocking on
Speaker 1: your door going, coach, can I borrow you for an interview?
Speaker 1: You know these? How hectic is this week? And how
Speaker 1: do you manage it to make sure that you and
Speaker 1: the coaching staff are the ones that get most of
Speaker 1: the heat, and that the players can focus and try
Speaker 1: to stay away from social media even though they probably
Speaker 1: blue won't and their classmates and that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: How do you manage the navigate the pressure?
Speaker 8: The big thing that I've gotten to do recently. It's
Speaker 8: a luxury, but I use my staff. I mean that's
Speaker 8: that's a big.
Speaker 3: Part of it. Instead of I used to take on
Speaker 3: everything and you know.
Speaker 8: All down to the final details of like where we're
Speaker 8: gonna get gas for the bus, and now I've kind
Speaker 8: of passed that stuff off and it makes it makes
Speaker 8: it doable.
Speaker 3: And there's definitely. You just you don't sleep very much.
Speaker 1: No, I mean seriously, you don't. I mean not, you know,
Speaker 1: because you how much? How far back do you go
Speaker 1: when you're trying to research an opponent for a situation
Speaker 1: like this, Uh that.
Speaker 8: In today's world, you can go back pretty far if
Speaker 8: you want to, So you try to. I have coaching guilt,
Speaker 8: I'll put it that way, like if I don't do
Speaker 8: certain things and we were not to do well, I
Speaker 8: would feel it was my fault. So I definitely that
Speaker 8: pushes me to stay up another hour to watch a
Speaker 8: little bit.
Speaker 1: More fil what have you sixteen and six Westminster going
Speaker 1: up against fourteen and oh Meyrist coming up Thursday at
Speaker 1: seven point thirty. And when you have a matchup like
Speaker 1: this and full disclosure John A John akins Son, Micah
Speaker 1: is going to be with us to discuss He's up
Speaker 1: after you. You're you're bat and lead off and Mike's
Speaker 1: baton second. Yes, when you have all of these coaches
Speaker 1: and all this responsibility that's there, when did it take
Speaker 1: you to get into this rhythm of deferring instead of
Speaker 1: taking everything on yourself.
Speaker 8: I wish it had been a lot to be honest
Speaker 8: with the I've finally in the recent years, I've gotten
Speaker 8: a really great staff. And I mean it used to
Speaker 8: be I'd have a one assistant and that was just
Speaker 8: the thing. And now I have Ludraft's former players that
Speaker 8: wanted to volunteer to coach, and so it's great to
Speaker 8: have them in the fold and they can help out
Speaker 8: and do things and they enjoy it.
Speaker 1: You know, when you go to a place like Dalton,
Speaker 1: I mean when you talk about guys like Matt Chiefs
Speaker 1: and coaches like yourself that are the stalwarts here in
Speaker 1: the state of Georgia that you are. You know, when
Speaker 1: folks gravitate to talking about Georgia high school soccer, you
Speaker 1: two are toward the front of this list. For those
Speaker 1: that didn't get the chance to see what happened against
Speaker 1: Dalton where it was an early lead that you had
Speaker 1: to come back from and then you're having to go
Speaker 1: to PKS. How crazy was that match with two heavyweights
Speaker 1: going at it?
Speaker 7: It?
Speaker 3: Much like you just said, it was very exciting. I
Speaker 3: guess that's a good way to say it. I mean,
Speaker 3: we went with a definite game plan and.
Speaker 8: When we went down early, that wasn't part of it, obviously,
Speaker 8: but we stayed with the plan, and I usually go
Speaker 8: over like a scattery or now have a lot of information.
Speaker 8: I paired that down for this game, and I just
Speaker 8: zeroed in on five things that we had to stay
Speaker 8: focused on, and that kind of carried us through and
Speaker 8: then we were able to get the goals against them.
Speaker 8: It kind of helped us in the sense that I
Speaker 8: felt that home field advantage sometimes isn't an advantage when
Speaker 8: you're kind of on the ropes and your fans start
Speaker 8: to feel a little tension.
Speaker 3: I thought we were able to accomplish it. It was
Speaker 3: a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: Oh, no doubt, And you know, when you get to
Speaker 1: see the talent that's on your roster and the talent
Speaker 1: that's on theirs. I think for the neutral it's one
Speaker 1: that you could sit there and you go, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: watch this one because of all the talent that's there.
Speaker 1: How difficult is it for you to schedule non region
Speaker 1: or do you purposely try and schedule outside the state
Speaker 1: in that season one the non region to get you
Speaker 1: ready for region and playoffs? Do you schedule purposely out
Speaker 1: of state or is that just a difficulty because of
Speaker 1: who you are?
Speaker 8: No, it's intentional originally from Tennessee, so I have a
Speaker 8: lot of coaching contacts up there, and I've made friends
Speaker 8: in lots of places. So really we play pretty much
Speaker 8: in the same two tournaments out of state that we've
Speaker 8: been doing for years, mainly because of those friendships. But
Speaker 8: then I get to meet more coaches who coach different teams,
Speaker 8: and it's it's it's just a lot of fun. I'm
Speaker 8: from East Tennessee. We go up to Gatlinburg, and Gatlinburg
Speaker 8: is fun for the boys. Even if we don't win
Speaker 8: a game, they still have fun walking around Rednick Riviera.
Speaker 1: So it's good. And yeah, I mean for me, it's
Speaker 1: like going back to the days where you're going to Ripley's,
Speaker 1: You're going to Lums to have yep, breakfast or lunch
Speaker 1: or what have you. And the fact that I can
Speaker 1: remember Lums. Everybody's sitting there going lums. What's lums? No, Look,
Speaker 1: look it up on the wikipedias. You'll you'll know all
Speaker 1: about that. When you go. There was a spot in
Speaker 1: the season when you were playing Georgia competition where you
Speaker 1: go it's the pace level Centennial kel Gauntlet and you
Speaker 1: lose three of those four. What did you learn about
Speaker 1: yourself in a sixteen and six season where you lose
Speaker 1: three of four and you do it and basically a
Speaker 1: nine day period, would you.
Speaker 3: Learn that we needed to get better, that we had deficiencies.
Speaker 8: It's actually it was a and now looking back on it,
Speaker 8: it was a good thing because we would have gone
Speaker 8: in feeling, hey, we know what we are and we
Speaker 8: really didn't. And yeah that Pace beat us handily and
Speaker 8: then we lost the last two. We had already sinched
Speaker 8: up the region seed.
Speaker 3: So we were good there. But yeah, it was a
Speaker 3: case to where we hopefully we're going to learn from it,
Speaker 3: and we have so.
Speaker 1: Scott Snyder, head coach at Westminster, getting ready for the
Speaker 1: club the Class Quad A boys title game in three
Speaker 1: days at dlute seven thirty. Nothing like having to take
Speaker 1: Atlanta traffic and go, yeah, you're having to go down
Speaker 1: and then up. Yeah, that going up eighty five. That's
Speaker 1: going to be fun. My guess. As you're leaving tomorrow
Speaker 1: to try to get there in time to patch up
Speaker 1: at the Luke, I'm trying to count numbers here, four, five, nine, eleven,
Speaker 1: twelve different goal scorers for you this year, one in
Speaker 1: double digits. What's it like to have that kind of balance.
Speaker 8: Well, what happened is we have one player who was
Speaker 8: probably our best player in terms of attack, and he
Speaker 8: missed half the season. He's only come back since the playoffs,
Speaker 8: and that made us have to learn how to manufacture goals.
Speaker 8: And it kind of really spread it out because we
Speaker 8: were coming up with lots of different ways, a lot
Speaker 8: of stuff to be done.
Speaker 3: And then boys grew up, which is nice. It's nice
Speaker 3: to see that evolution.
Speaker 1: Counting the number of seniors, I've got four, I've got
Speaker 1: a handful here. I think eight seniors. I think on
Speaker 1: this roster six seven, eight are that are part of this,
Speaker 1: plus a couple of others. So you've got a lot
Speaker 1: of seniors. What's it been like to see this senior
Speaker 1: class grow to this point to where they're playing for
Speaker 1: a state title in their last matchup in the season.
Speaker 8: This class was really married to the last senior class,
Speaker 8: and they were used to the last year's class kind
Speaker 8: of being the leaders, and so this year, in the beginning,
Speaker 8: it was one of those ones that they had kind
Speaker 8: of learn and grow on their own.
Speaker 3: They they had always been able to.
Speaker 8: Rely on the great leaders that we had had, and
Speaker 8: they've progressed well. But since the playoffs, I mean, it's
Speaker 8: been an evolutionary change. It's a revolutionary change. I'd to
Speaker 8: say we were not hitting on all cylinders. We do
Speaker 8: well and then we play poorly, and then we do
Speaker 8: well and play poorly. Now it's like we kind of
Speaker 8: dialed in and have got things set, and that is
Speaker 8: that came out of those lives.
Speaker 3: That it got us better.
Speaker 1: Was there a moment coming out of those losses where
Speaker 1: you saw that the team had their aha moment? Or
Speaker 1: was it just kind of an evolution of the learning
Speaker 1: from that time frame and then you're like, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: they finally figured out, you know, they finally learned what
Speaker 1: happened in those three losses. Was it a switch that
Speaker 1: got turned on or was it something gradual?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 8: After we lost our last regular season game, I was
Speaker 8: kind of depressed myself. I go home and I'm trying
Speaker 8: to figure out what to do because I mean, I
Speaker 8: got on to them about their faults and that didn't
Speaker 8: seem to be working, and we were just kind of stuck,
Speaker 8: and I sat and tried to figure out In about
Speaker 8: two in the morning, I thought baseball teams always believe
Speaker 8: in curses.
Speaker 3: So I got to figure out what the curse is
Speaker 3: and then I can get rid of it.
Speaker 8: And I googled up and I found pretty cool stories
Speaker 8: about sports teams with curses, including they land the Hawks
Speaker 8: when they lost their Pacman jersey.
Speaker 3: They they struggled. So I told the boys. The next
Speaker 3: day I came in, I said, guys, I know why
Speaker 3: I've been losing. And they all looked at me, like what,
Speaker 3: And I.
Speaker 8: Said, it's our uniforms. They're cursed. I said, I've got
Speaker 8: a cross here. My wife's family had gone to Italy
Speaker 8: and they got a cross blessed by the Pope.
Speaker 3: I've got a cross here, and I'm going to use it.
Speaker 8: And we've got uniforms we have not yet used, and
Speaker 8: we're going to use this cross to bless them and
Speaker 8: then we will be fixed.
Speaker 3: We haven't lost since, so I guess it worked.
Speaker 1: So how difficult is laundry in a situation like this,
Speaker 1: because well, because I mean, I assume that you've got
Speaker 1: to keep track of every piece. You have to make
Speaker 1: sure that all the jerseys are taking care of, all
Speaker 1: the shorts are taken care of. I imagine it's not
Speaker 1: like hockey players or something like that, where yes, we
Speaker 1: are going to put them in the washer and they're
Speaker 1: going to get washed, and it's not the same funk
Speaker 1: from you know, match one when everything turned But how
Speaker 1: difficult is it to keep track of everything and have
Speaker 1: folks sat there and misplaced things, you know, briefly and
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, I know where it is, and then
Speaker 1: everything turnhole again? Has it? Has it been an adventure
Speaker 1: keeping all of this stuff together?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 8: I used to be micro managed and I would take
Speaker 8: up the uniforms after every game, but that just got
Speaker 8: to be too much, and so no, we have extra.
Speaker 8: What I do now is when I get uniforms, I
Speaker 8: get them for both the varsity and JV at the
Speaker 8: same time, and I number them from two up to
Speaker 8: like seventy seven or whatever, and so I always have
Speaker 8: another one because our JV program has been done.
Speaker 3: For about three weeks.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, all right, So now we know the rest
Speaker 1: of the story. For someone who goes to Duluth to
Speaker 1: see you and Marist for the first time, they sit
Speaker 1: down there at Duluth and they watch and they watch
Speaker 1: you play, who would be those players that the first
Speaker 1: time Slash neutral viewer would be gravitating toward when it
Speaker 1: comes to your se excess.
Speaker 8: I think our back line has changed since the regular
Speaker 8: season and that's been a big plus for us.
Speaker 3: And along with that, we have a.
Speaker 8: Probably our best striker, best forward has returned and he's
Speaker 8: he makes a big difference for us in that.
Speaker 1: How big a difference is it? You said he makes
Speaker 1: a big difference, So how big a difference is it? Coke?
Speaker 8: Well, if you look at this, he scored both goals
Speaker 8: against Dalton, although the second goal got knocked in by
Speaker 8: somebody else, and he scored scored three goals in our
Speaker 8: second round game. He scored one goal in the first
Speaker 8: round game, and then he scored I shoot the last
Speaker 8: round he scored I think one. Now, he's just he's
Speaker 8: a great kid. And that's the cool thing that I
Speaker 8: like about Westminster is that I've known him since he
Speaker 8: was like in second grade. You know, he comes to
Speaker 8: my camps when he's little, and I've seen him up
Speaker 8: and it's just awesome.
Speaker 1: So what was your first What was your first impression
Speaker 1: when he walked in the door.
Speaker 3: Oh, when he was young, he was winny, he was tiny.
Speaker 3: He still gets mad because my one.
Speaker 8: Middle school coach, he didn't get put on the top
Speaker 8: team when he's in middle school his first year out,
Speaker 8: and I always I use that. I'd go back to
Speaker 8: the middle school now and I was like, look, we
Speaker 8: have this guy, and you know he's going on to
Speaker 8: playing college. But in middle school he was on the
Speaker 8: second team. I said, being on the second team is
Speaker 8: not a knot, guys, it's it's a process.
Speaker 1: Right now, you've only given up twenty six goals in
Speaker 1: twenty two matches, so that's one and four over twenty two,
Speaker 1: so it's like one point one point eight. Brag on
Speaker 1: your defense a little bit. What's it been like to
Speaker 1: see them do what they've been able to do this year?
Speaker 8: Ooh, that's actually a source for me because I'd like
Speaker 8: that goal to be a lot less. Okay, there was
Speaker 8: one year he gave up five goals for the whole
Speaker 8: season and you know we lost a game four nothing.
Speaker 3: This year, I was like, guys, that's almost like.
Speaker 7: A season's worth.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I really.
Speaker 8: Along with the changing the cursed uniforms, which was it
Speaker 8: was good for us. We changed our formation and we
Speaker 8: change some of the personnel, and it's it's like most things,
Speaker 8: like when you can find the right thing when they gel,
Speaker 8: it just works. It's not like that you moved people
Speaker 8: all over the field, but just sometimes a little subtle
Speaker 8: change is like the one guy in the right place
Speaker 8: makes everything fall in.
Speaker 1: So how much time are you going to devote a
Speaker 1: day between now and game day to what's going on?
Speaker 1: You say you don't necessarily get a whole lot of sleep,
Speaker 1: But do you talk, do you step away, do you
Speaker 1: sit there and take breaks? Or are you just kind
Speaker 1: of locked into this whole thing this entire time and
Speaker 1: then you'll worry about sleep later.
Speaker 8: I've got to be better giving myself grace because I
Speaker 8: feel like I've got to be doing Like when I'm
Speaker 8: not doing something, I have guilt that I should be
Speaker 8: doing something. And you do need to be able to
Speaker 8: take time and sit back because you know, when you're young,
Speaker 8: you can do this.
Speaker 3: All the time. It's like hundercent because it's just pure,
Speaker 3: you know, adrenaline.
Speaker 8: But as I gotten older, I've got to find ways
Speaker 8: to pace myself because I do not want to be
Speaker 8: a burnout. And there's times where you're like you're making
Speaker 8: yourself do stuff and I'm like, all right, I'm just
Speaker 8: gonna step back and just watch Saturn Night Live for
Speaker 8: an hour and then come.
Speaker 1: Back there you go. Okay, so as promised, Micah is here.
Speaker 1: He's coming from the green room and so this is
Speaker 1: where we do the hot tag. But before you go, now, Mike,
Speaker 1: Mike is going to enjoy this all right. So, uh,
Speaker 1: since coach Snyder was here first, Coach Schnyder, do you
Speaker 1: have a question for Coach Aiken leading into the matches?
Speaker 3: Oh, that's a good question. I don't know if I'm
Speaker 3: reading for that. No, I know, I know of Mike. Uh,
Speaker 3: this is the first time I actually got to talk
Speaker 3: to him directly. But his father is the coach at
Speaker 3: Ogle with Oar.
Speaker 8: But I think my daughter went to Oglethorpe, and I've
Speaker 8: known John for years and tried to send players his
Speaker 8: way and stuff, So I think highly of his father,
Speaker 8: and that'd be the thing that's not really question, is
Speaker 8: just a statement for I know he's probably tired of
Speaker 8: hearing about his father this.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, honestly, honestly, at this point, I'm so
Speaker 7: used to it, you know, especially since I played for
Speaker 7: him for four years at Oglethorpe too, So it's like
Speaker 7: it's just it's just intermingling at all parts, you know,
Speaker 7: and now now my brother on varsity, so my dad's
Speaker 7: at all the games watching his son play and coach.
Speaker 7: So it's like, you know, the the family dynamic is there,
Speaker 7: and it's been there for a while, so I'm just
Speaker 7: used to it at this point.
Speaker 1: So Micah, do you have a question for coach Snyder
Speaker 1: before we let him go and actually go back to
Speaker 1: study hall and get ready for you?
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, you've you've obviously been in the high
Speaker 7: school scene for a long time. This is, you know,
Speaker 7: my my third year. What are some things that you know,
Speaker 7: you tell your players leading up to I mean, you
Speaker 7: guys made it to the state final last year. You
Speaker 7: wanted out last year. You know, you're you're finding yourself
Speaker 7: there again. What are some things that you kind of
Speaker 7: tell your players to help keep them motivated. I mean,
Speaker 7: it's such a long season, you know, and they start
Speaker 7: to get tired, and I mean, I'm sure Westminster's similar
Speaker 7: when it comes to Maris with scheduling. I mean, there's
Speaker 7: so many activities going on in the spring, So how
Speaker 7: do you kind of find that balance of keeping your
Speaker 7: players focused without you know, completely taking away from some
Speaker 7: of the other things that they have going on in
Speaker 7: the spring.
Speaker 8: Yeah, well I'm a big movie guy, and so I
Speaker 8: always like to uh and obviously they don't have the
Speaker 8: tension span to watch a movie anymore, but you can.
Speaker 3: Pull in clips from movies and like that. We'll do
Speaker 3: pregate like, well we're gonna have practice state, but.
Speaker 8: We'll have a meeting before and a couple of movie
Speaker 8: clips that I think are kind of like relevant to
Speaker 8: what's going on, and they enjoy those. And also, I'm
Speaker 8: smart enough now or maybe I was dumb back then
Speaker 8: or both. But you try to make it fun. I mean,
Speaker 8: it's still supposed to be fun. You know, you want
Speaker 8: to win and all those things. But when we went
Speaker 8: up to Dalton last week, that was my big thing.
Speaker 8: It's like, hey, just enjoy this moment. I mean, how
Speaker 8: many times you're gonna be just like you guys? I
Speaker 8: got to come watch your pious game and what an
Speaker 8: awesome you like crowd and things like you feel. Really
Speaker 8: you'll never get that at a club game. And I
Speaker 8: always preach that. I mean, to me, we're like the
Speaker 8: national teams. Club is the pro teams and it's more
Speaker 8: fun for us.
Speaker 1: What what movies are you thinking of pulling? Clips from
Speaker 1: Oh yeah.
Speaker 3: Oh like when we went to Dalton.
Speaker 8: We they're so trite because everybody used them, but we
Speaker 8: used Miracle, which works because Doun't wears red uniforms. They
Speaker 8: weren't really rushing, but it.
Speaker 3: Played into it. So I'm a big Rocky guy. I mean,
Speaker 3: I grew up. I watched Rocky two before every high
Speaker 3: school game. I know every second of that scene. Oh
Speaker 3: oh but yeah. And then there's there's really cool documentaries
Speaker 3: out there too.
Speaker 8: There's one about this Memphis football team that's on Amazon Prime.
Speaker 3: And it is awesome and it's cool.
Speaker 7: It's so cool.
Speaker 8: It's like you want to go back and find out
Speaker 8: where are these kids now? And it was just a
Speaker 8: volunteer football coach that coach for year and it was
Speaker 8: real life, which makes it better.
Speaker 1: As always you that's very cool and so Scott, thanks
Speaker 1: for coming by, especially in a massively busy week. Yeah,
Speaker 1: breaking it all down for us. And uh so, like
Speaker 1: I said, thanks for being a part of everything. Thanks
Speaker 1: for doing what you do for high school soccer and
Speaker 1: high school athletics here in the state of Georgia. We'll
Speaker 1: catch up with you soon, my friend. Thanks for dropping by.
Speaker 7: I appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 1: There we go, Scott Snyder. Now it's time to catch
Speaker 1: up with a friend of the fam in front of
Speaker 1: the network, Micah Aiken. And uh so, now that you've
Speaker 1: got your you got your question in for coach Snyder
Speaker 1: over there at Westminster, What's what's preparation been like for
Speaker 1: you getting ready for the final exam after knocking off
Speaker 1: BT one though.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think for us, you know, we've been watching
Speaker 7: a lot of film, just kind of trying to figure out,
Speaker 7: you know, how they play and what their system and
Speaker 7: shape are, and you know, picking up on tendencies, and
Speaker 7: then over the next couple of days, it's just really
Speaker 7: trying to recreate some of those moments. You know, they've
Speaker 7: got a kid who's really dangerous on long throw ins.
Speaker 7: We want to be making sure we're managing that properly,
Speaker 7: and so just a lot of different kind of game
Speaker 7: situational moments, you know, because we're we've been out of that,
Speaker 7: you know, we got to run and keep our fitness
Speaker 7: up kind of stage. Now it's just maintaining that fitness
Speaker 7: and then, like we said, handling game time moments. So
Speaker 7: we've been working on that started yesterday. I'm going to
Speaker 7: try to continue with it through today and tomorrow, and
Speaker 7: then a quick little light walk through the day before
Speaker 7: the game leading up to Thursday.
Speaker 1: So fourteen and oh eight No in Reagion, Number five
Speaker 1: nationally in some polls, number four in the state of
Speaker 1: Georgia in some polls. How difficult was it for you
Speaker 1: to navigate the three matches in basically ten days where
Speaker 1: it's north of Coney Centennial BT. How difficult was it
Speaker 1: to navigate that part of the playoff?
Speaker 7: I think for for our team specifically, you know, we
Speaker 7: had a lot of opportunities for breaks. I think, you know,
Speaker 7: at this stage, especially with games you know, happening so
Speaker 7: close together, it's really important to take some time off.
Speaker 7: So after the first two of those games, and actually
Speaker 7: after the BT game as well, we gave them a
Speaker 7: day off the day after the game, you know, and
Speaker 7: just said take care of what you need to take
Speaker 7: care of, you know, because again, it's the spring season
Speaker 7: is just so hectic for a lot of these guys.
Speaker 7: And you know, I've got ten seniors on the team
Speaker 7: who you know, have everything across the moon right now
Speaker 7: starting to come up with They got graduation and baccalaureate
Speaker 7: and everything so you know, finding time for them to
Speaker 7: take care of that stuff, I think really clears their
Speaker 7: head when we get into practice time. So you know,
Speaker 7: it's it's beneficial to give them a little bit of
Speaker 7: that balance. So I noticed for us specifically, given that
Speaker 7: time off, we really came in sharp for practices and uh,
Speaker 7: we just were ready. You know, the boys were super excited.
Speaker 7: They were amped on practice days, and it really kind
Speaker 7: of led to the culmination of what we've been able
Speaker 7: to accomplish over those past few games.
Speaker 1: So four goals allowed all season. Half of those were
Speaker 1: in one matchup, in a matchup that you beat Cross
Speaker 1: Keys Janie Gobrik March seven, So that's two. That's nine
Speaker 1: weeks ago. You gave up half of the goals that
Speaker 1: you've given up this season. What has it been like
Speaker 1: to see this defense be what it is to where
Speaker 1: Yank giving up nothing to nobody.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, it's it's exciting. You know, I have
Speaker 7: I have a group of solid corps of players in
Speaker 7: a back, in a back five or even sometimes the
Speaker 7: back six, who just understand roles and responsibilities, you know,
Speaker 7: and on top of that, they're they're strong, you know,
Speaker 7: they don't give up anything. Easily. So you know, they
Speaker 7: have just been extremely organized. I mean it was you know,
Speaker 7: after day one, Uh, these guys were yes, Coach understand
Speaker 7: and it was never a oh well this doesn't make
Speaker 7: sense or this doesn't make sense. You know. They there
Speaker 7: wasn't a lot of trying to figure things out. It
Speaker 7: was just hey, we've got it covered and we're we're
Speaker 7: gonna make it happen, you know. And they all understand
Speaker 7: each other so well too. They're really good friends, and
Speaker 7: I think some of the off of the field stuff
Speaker 7: really benefits their kind of cohesion as a back line
Speaker 7: as well. They're really good friends. They understand each other's
Speaker 7: tendencies and they know, you know, hey, if Ed gets
Speaker 7: the ball, he's gonna want it on his right foot,
Speaker 7: or even if he's on his left foot, I need
Speaker 7: to show at an angle to give him the right
Speaker 7: the right opportunity to find find my feet. So, you know,
Speaker 7: they they just understand each other so well. And it's
Speaker 7: it's honestly, very little of what we've done. We kind
Speaker 7: of gave them a blueprint and you know, the players
Speaker 7: have taken it and just run with it. And it's
Speaker 7: been it's been super exciting to watch.
Speaker 1: How long did it take for them to get to
Speaker 1: that where it's just second nature and I don't have
Speaker 1: to worry about it. I know that if I do
Speaker 1: this to hear that everything's going to be fine. How
Speaker 1: long did it take for them to get to it
Speaker 1: where's second nature?
Speaker 7: I mean, honestly, it was. It was probably the first
Speaker 7: you know, two or three weeks of training. I think
Speaker 7: we you know, have the opportunities. We saw it in game.
Speaker 7: You know, we had already played enough games too to
Speaker 7: where we saw what some different formations might look like.
Speaker 7: So how we line up against certain teams kind of
Speaker 7: played a factor, and you know, it was it was
Speaker 7: clicking pretty early. I will say, you know, in that
Speaker 7: cross Keys game, there was a lot of kind of
Speaker 7: outside variables. Girls game finished early, so now we're starting early.
Speaker 7: It's throwing our warm up routine off. You know, was
Speaker 7: our first first game playing on that turf field over
Speaker 7: at North to Cab and so the first goal we
Speaker 7: gave up, my keeper actually told me it was like Coach,
Speaker 7: I slipped. It was like that was not it was
Speaker 7: like I could have very easily gotten that ball, but
Speaker 7: I just I backpedaled and slipped on it. So you know,
Speaker 7: that could have been a very very easy recovery for
Speaker 7: him to stop maybe one of those goals. So, you know,
Speaker 7: those two that we gave up against cross Keys is
Speaker 7: maybe not not our best moment, but you know, throughout
Speaker 7: the course of the season, and as we continued, you know,
Speaker 7: and we were able to keep our rhythm before game days.
Speaker 7: That was that was a huge component of just our success,
Speaker 7: you know, not having any kind of you know, alteration
Speaker 7: in terms of how we prap and what we do
Speaker 7: for our warm up.
Speaker 1: When it comes to this group of yours going up
Speaker 1: against Westminster. If and I and I asked Coach Snyder
Speaker 1: this question too, I said, so, so first time viewer,
Speaker 1: someone who hasn't seen you play, somebody you know, the casual,
Speaker 1: just comes to sit down and they want to watch
Speaker 1: what's going to happen at Duluth in a couple of
Speaker 1: days time. When things are going well for you, who
Speaker 1: do their eyes gravitate toward who are we keeping an
Speaker 1: eye on on your team? So we know that things
Speaker 1: are going well for Marist against Westminster.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, you know, for me, Edward Kennedy, my
Speaker 7: my big central player in that back three. I mean
Speaker 7: he's been phenomenal all season. One Player of the year
Speaker 7: for the region. You know, had I want to say
Speaker 7: it was eight goals or nine goals in region play
Speaker 7: and was a big, huge part of the success in
Speaker 7: giving up so little goals throughout the season, and you know,
Speaker 7: and actually won us a couple of games on some
Speaker 7: some major headers, you know, cross Keys game it was
Speaker 7: I think I believe it was two two, and his
Speaker 7: diving header across is what made it three to two
Speaker 7: to put us in the lead. You know. So he
Speaker 7: he's just a big time player to watch and he's
Speaker 7: been fantastic for us this season. And and he's one
Speaker 7: of those that just gets it. And then I would
Speaker 7: say a couple others that you know, you'll have to
Speaker 7: keep an eye out for our grand bird. Number twenty
Speaker 7: two freshman came in, was originally playing with JV and
Speaker 7: got an opportunity to call up and started and it's
Speaker 7: been he's been in the starting lineup since, you know.
Speaker 7: So he's been electric, very technical player, It's comfortable on
Speaker 7: the ball, makes good game time decisions. So he'll be
Speaker 7: he'll be one to look out for if we're if
Speaker 7: we're on our a game. But I'll be honest too.
Speaker 7: You know, those are just kind of two that stick out,
Speaker 7: But really you'll know we're playing well if all eleven
Speaker 7: are just linking passes together and in the right positions,
Speaker 7: because you'll see formationally, we do a very good job
Speaker 7: of keeping our shape and trusting in each other as
Speaker 7: a team, and so I think that's been a huge,
Speaker 7: huge part of our success as well. It's like we said,
Speaker 7: you know, when you only give up four goals all season,
Speaker 7: a part of that is just comfort and understanding of
Speaker 7: formation and shape and what roles and responsibilities are for
Speaker 7: each player. And so you know, we give them obviously
Speaker 7: the freedom to have that kind of creativity when they
Speaker 7: have the ball at their feet, you know, and the
Speaker 7: creativity to make the decisions on and off the ball.
Speaker 7: But really just that that comfort and keeping their shape
Speaker 7: and their positioning is when is when we look super
Speaker 7: super clean.
Speaker 1: How much film study have you done on Westminster or
Speaker 1: do I even need to ask?
Speaker 7: We've watched a couple of their most recent games, you know,
Speaker 7: specifically playoff games, because I feel like it's you know
Speaker 7: a lot of what you see in region games is
Speaker 7: going to be different than what you might see in
Speaker 7: playoff games, you know, there's a whole slew of things
Speaker 7: that could be happening throughout region play. You know, they're
Speaker 7: still in school, so there's stuff going on. They could
Speaker 7: have been out for a certain day or different things
Speaker 7: like that. So you know, once you get into the
Speaker 7: state playoffs is kind of where it solidifies a little
Speaker 7: bit more in terms of what your expectations of. You
Speaker 7: know who's coming on the field, you know what formation
Speaker 7: they might play. So we've definitely done our due diligence
Speaker 7: over the past several playoff games as well as one
Speaker 7: or two regular season games. But you know, I think
Speaker 7: I think we've got a solid game plan, and again,
Speaker 7: it really is going to boil down to us. So
Speaker 7: the biggest key for me is focusing on how we play,
Speaker 7: how how we want to accomplish our goals. And you
Speaker 7: know the boys yesterday, I mean they were fired up.
Speaker 7: You know when we were in training just moving the
Speaker 7: ball really well. I mean I could add twelve thirteen
Speaker 7: players to the other team and they still would have
Speaker 7: found ways to find pockets of space and find ways
Speaker 7: to play. So you know, they're really really dialed in
Speaker 7: on this, and I think it's you know, it's it's
Speaker 7: crude us to all the players for you know, continuing
Speaker 7: to stay locked in. So yeah, it's it's I'm excited,
Speaker 7: it's gonna be a fun game.
Speaker 1: How do you keep them from getting too excited and
Speaker 1: too locked in and too amped up? You want them
Speaker 1: to pay sit heading into that game. But if they're
Speaker 1: already you know, playing you know, nineteen on you know,
Speaker 1: nineteen on eleven, and they're handling it. You know, you
Speaker 1: want to keep adding more players, more players, more players,
Speaker 1: how do you keep them calm and locked in understanding that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's cool to you know, it's it's cool to jump
Speaker 1: out of your skin a little bit, but you know,
Speaker 1: it's a long week. You got to you still have
Speaker 1: a couple of days. How do you keep that tempered?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean I think you know, for us, it's
Speaker 7: it's really in how we train. You know, we like
Speaker 7: to break sessions up and handle things in a certain way,
Speaker 7: so you know, we don't do a lot of scrimmaging,
Speaker 7: especially at this stage, just because again we want to
Speaker 7: look at some more uh, you know, minute details, So
Speaker 7: we'll scrimmage for a little bit. But I actually I
Speaker 7: feel like over the course of the season we've we've
Speaker 7: had the opposite issue. You know, for us, where there's
Speaker 7: a lot of games we come in very calm, cool
Speaker 7: and collected and maybe you know, the nerves. The nerve
Speaker 7: side of things for them is more so a you know,
Speaker 7: I'm just going to try to relax rather than you know,
Speaker 7: get too amped up. So I think that's that's part
Speaker 7: of the reason why they're successful in A twelve thirteen
Speaker 7: fourteen v. Eleven is because they're just They're cool as
Speaker 7: a cucumber.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 7: These guys are are very calm, cool and collected. They understand,
Speaker 7: you know, and this has been a reiteration over the
Speaker 7: course of the season from all of our coaches on staff.
Speaker 7: It's you know, mistakes are going to happen. You know,
Speaker 7: how do you respond to a mistake is what's more important.
Speaker 7: You know, you're not going to always be perfect. So
Speaker 7: if you misplace the pass, what's the next step? How
Speaker 7: do you respond to that?
Speaker 3: How do you react?
Speaker 7: And so I think they're comfortable in that in that
Speaker 7: realm of Okay, I can make a mistake. Mistakes are
Speaker 7: are natural parts of the game, but I just have
Speaker 7: to make sure that my response to that mistake is
Speaker 7: is going to benefit the team and it's crucial for
Speaker 7: our success leading into the final as well.
Speaker 1: So what are you the most confident about going into
Speaker 1: this matchup against Westminster and what concerns you the most
Speaker 1: about Westminster?
Speaker 7: I think I have confidence in our ability to keep
Speaker 7: possession through the midfield. I think we're going to have
Speaker 7: some very good movement on and off the ball to
Speaker 7: try to create some space, but also have confidence that
Speaker 7: if it doesn't work out right away and we kind
Speaker 7: of feel ourselves getting pinned back and you know, Westminster
Speaker 7: maybe takes the forefoot, I have confidence that, you know,
Speaker 7: we can absorb pressure until we figure out what we
Speaker 7: need to do and where to find the space to
Speaker 7: break it down. That was a huge component for our
Speaker 7: win against BT, where you know, for the first fifteen
Speaker 7: to twenty minutes, we felt like we were defending for
Speaker 7: the most part of it and we were having trouble
Speaker 7: breaking out. But then as we got into the second
Speaker 7: half and things settled down a little bit, we were
Speaker 7: finding more room, we were finding more gaps and starting
Speaker 7: to create create problems for BT, and that's how we
Speaker 7: pick up a goal. As we switched the point of
Speaker 7: the attack holding Mit gets at the top of the
Speaker 7: box and he is not afraid to have a rip
Speaker 7: and he just let it go, you know, and that
Speaker 7: was that was a huge moment for us as a team.
Speaker 7: So I would say that's where I'm confident. One thing
Speaker 7: I will kind of, you know, give credit to Westminster's
Speaker 7: I think they they find, you know, kind of a
Speaker 7: calmness in chaos. So I think they like to throw
Speaker 7: chaotic moments at teams to try to cause some problems,
Speaker 7: and you know, they find themselves calm in those situations.
Speaker 7: So long throw ins, you know, clearances off long throw ins,
Speaker 7: corner kicks, like they they like to really throw the
Speaker 7: gambit from what we could tell. And so we just
Speaker 7: have to make sure that even in those moments, we're
Speaker 7: taking care of ourselves and what we need to accomplish
Speaker 7: to make sure that we're not giving up, you know,
Speaker 7: anything off of a moment of a moment of or
Speaker 7: loss of focus.
Speaker 1: So Michaeh Aikin, the head coach at maris getting ready
Speaker 1: for the matchup against Westminster at Duluth in theory seven
Speaker 1: point thirty on Thursday. If things don't happen longer before him,
Speaker 1: which would create more fun approaches and things like that. Miki,
Speaker 1: It's always great to see you, my friend. Thanks for
Speaker 1: dropping by. Thanks for the preview, especially during one of
Speaker 1: the busiest weeks of the year. Good to see it.
Speaker 1: We'll catch up soon.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I appreciate it. Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1: There we go. That's Micah Aiken and before him, it
Speaker 1: was Scott Schnyder, and so we we had. We had
Speaker 1: your quad a matchup for the boys, locked in, locked out. Done.
Speaker 1: So now here's the deal once again. All all week
Speaker 1: long you may see drifting into the Morning show, into
Speaker 1: some of our off into our gap spaces. We're trying
Speaker 1: to catch up with as many coaches as we can
Speaker 1: on the GHSA side, leading it, leading into the championships.
Speaker 1: And so here's the rundown, and we'll drift back into
Speaker 1: Atlanta United coming up in a bit. But here's the
Speaker 1: here's the rundown as it as it exists for when,
Speaker 1: what is going to be played? Where and how? So okay,
Speaker 1: so here we go. Here, here's your rundown of all
Speaker 1: the of all your matchups. Tomorrow. It is going to
Speaker 1: be Class A Division one boys and girls, and it
Speaker 1: is going to be at mckeechern at five and seven thirty,
Speaker 1: So five and seven thirty tomorrow morning, David, David, we've
Speaker 1: kind of drifted into Atlanta and I died. We had
Speaker 1: Abe Gordon from ninety two nine in the game. We've
Speaker 1: gone over some of the numbers. We heard from Ronald Hernandez.
Speaker 1: We're going to hear from Ronnie Diley coming up in
Speaker 1: a bit and it's a bit long. We played the
Speaker 1: Ronald Hernandez sound that we didn't bleeve, so we earned
Speaker 1: our explicit rating this morning in hour number one. But
Speaker 1: we also caught up with head coaches at Westminster and
Speaker 1: marrist on the boys side. They're going to be playing
Speaker 1: each other in the Quad A final on Thursday at
Speaker 1: Duluth at seven point thirty. So here's your rundown before
Speaker 1: we drift back into And we also talked about Carlo
Speaker 1: Ancelotti being the new manager of the Brazilian national team.
Speaker 1: So here's your rundown of all of the matchups when
Speaker 1: they are where they are, and remember no soccer is
Speaker 1: in session. Playoff Daily Live today that kicks back up
Speaker 1: tomorrow and it is going to be Molly McCarty from Jefferson,
Speaker 1: Frank Zamora from Johnson, Gainesville, and I know we have
Speaker 1: a third at twelve fifteen that I can't remember off
Speaker 1: the top of my head. Wednesday, we catch up with
Speaker 1: Atkinson County. And don't be surprised if you end up
Speaker 1: with coaches here in the Morning Show this week, since
Speaker 1: they can if they can't, make an opportunity to be
Speaker 1: a part of things on one show or the other.
Speaker 1: So if you end up seeing a high school high
Speaker 1: school coach in the Morning Show this week, that's why.
Speaker 1: Because it's championship week and we're trying to have coaches
Speaker 1: in wherever we can get them to break everything down
Speaker 1: in the sixteen matchups, and trying to catch up with
Speaker 1: thirty two coaches is a bear, but that's two of them.
Speaker 1: Breeman and Model at mckeecher and tomorrow at five thirty.
Speaker 1: Class A D one girls, Class A D one boys
Speaker 1: are Merchie and Thomasville. That's at seven thirty at mckeechern.
Speaker 1: On the Wednesday, Jefferson and a Coney County Triple A girls.
Speaker 1: One of the matchups to watch regardless the classification. Triple
Speaker 1: A classification is going to be some fantastic soccer. Five
Speaker 1: o'clock at mckechern on Wednesday. It is going to be
Speaker 1: Class A girls Jefferson Naconey County. We're also trying to
Speaker 1: crab Judson hanby Cee if you can catch up with
Speaker 1: him too, Duluth at five o'clock on Wednesday, love it
Speaker 1: and GAC On the girls side, well, where've reached out
Speaker 1: to both of those coaches. Class A boys mckechrin at
Speaker 1: seven thirty Wednesday, Johnson Gainesville and Northwest Whitfield. It'll be
Speaker 1: a good chance to catch up with coach Zamora and
Speaker 1: Isau Goodierrez. Also excuse me Duluth at seven point thirty.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 1: Private boys State Championship AIS and Whitfield Academy. That is
Speaker 1: on Wednesday at seven point thirty at Duluth. Thursday full day,
Speaker 1: three venues going at once Walton and Buford six eight
Speaker 1: girls mckechrin five o'clock Jarrett Smith and I will have
Speaker 1: that one for you on the NFHS network. Walton and
Speaker 1: Buford two heavyweights. That one's going to be fun. Marriston
Speaker 1: BT Girls five o'clock on Thursday at Duluth, Aca Atlantic
Speaker 1: Classical Academy and Lake of Cony Academy. That one is
Speaker 1: on Thursday at five o'clock Class AD two girls, Lake
Speaker 1: Acny Academy ranked number three, ACA ranked number five six
Speaker 1: A boys Grayson and Campbell. That one is going to
Speaker 1: be Thursday, seven thirty ish at Mckeechron Grayson and Campbell.
Speaker 1: Grayson ranked number one. Campbell is coming in as the
Speaker 1: two seat out of region number three unranked, but have
Speaker 1: made runs deep in the past. Quad A boys once
Speaker 1: again seven point thirty at Duluth on Thursday, Marriston Westminster
Speaker 1: caught up with coaches Snyder and Aiken just now also
Speaker 1: seven thirty at Mercer, Class AD two boys Atkinson County
Speaker 1: once again. We're catching up with coach McKinnon from Atkinson
Speaker 1: County tomorrow on Wednesday on in Session Live and Laker
Speaker 1: Coney Academy going for the double once again. That one
Speaker 1: is at seven point thirty on Thursday at Mercer. Macon
Speaker 1: five A girls five o'clock at Duluth on Friday, Northgate
Speaker 1: and Roswell Double A Girls five A at Mercer on Friday,
Speaker 1: Pike County and Savannah Arts Academy seven thirty Double A
Speaker 1: boys at Mercer, Shaw and Drew Charter five A boys.
Speaker 1: That one's seven point thirty at Duluth Spraybury and nationally
Speaker 1: ranked river Ridge. Spraybury and river Ridge once again, this
Speaker 1: one's going to be a heavyweight battle. Got to call
Speaker 1: the Spraybury Johns Creek matchup on Friday as our last
Speaker 1: regular season broadcast for everything here on SDH Spraybury and
Speaker 1: river Ridge. That one's going to be pretty good. Five
Speaker 1: A boys, and so that is your rundown of everything
Speaker 1: going on. So, like I said, if you're not, if
Speaker 1: you're if you're kind of drifting in and out and
Speaker 1: you end up seeing a high school coach, that's why,
Speaker 1: because we're trying to cover them both here on the
Speaker 1: morning show and on in session if they can't get
Speaker 1: away for their lunch hours. So that's where we are,
Speaker 1: all right, Time to circle back morning David. You didn't
Speaker 1: miss much. You've got a lot of folks talking about stuff,
Speaker 1: and so here is the as promised, the conversation that
Speaker 1: was had, at least a part of it, probably half
Speaker 1: the conversation that Ronnie Dila had with the media, and
Speaker 1: it starts with Jason's first question. Once again courtesy of
Speaker 1: our friends at Atlanta United, here's Ronnie Dila after the
Speaker 1: matchup with Atlanta United and Chicago Fire. Ronnie Diala starting off,
Speaker 1: answering a Jason's first question after the matchup this weekend
Speaker 1: in Chicago.
Speaker 9: I think it was a difficult pitch to play on
Speaker 9: because it's very sticky and a lot to win, especially
Speaker 9: first off. I think we had to defend a lot,
Speaker 9: and I think we wanted to go out with a
Speaker 9: back five to control more and I'm more control when
Speaker 9: switches come and also get players more higher pitch when
Speaker 9: we when we win it and play a little bit
Speaker 9: more longer and get more of the first pour. Second most,
Speaker 9: I think we come into some good moments, but we
Speaker 9: won't accurate enough in bid the ball and also too
Speaker 9: soft inside our own box. So I think that's what's
Speaker 9: gonna is the message. Like through the whole game, you know,
Speaker 9: we give away too much easy like the penalty situation.
Speaker 9: I think it's six to seven night times that we
Speaker 9: can clear that ball in the box and then with
Speaker 9: that penalty to them without it's not even a close
Speaker 9: first chance, so that it does, of course in a
Speaker 9: difficult situation. But I think we were kept in and
Speaker 9: in second half we are coming more and more into it,
Speaker 9: and I think we in the end deserve to get
Speaker 9: the goal. And then I'm very very disappointed how soft
Speaker 9: we are, and I'll we don't track runners, we don't
Speaker 9: defend the same way, and we let them get into
Speaker 9: the game one chance, okay, you can accept, But when
Speaker 9: it come too and three chances to them with the
Speaker 9: ball losses and then counter attacks and we don't do
Speaker 9: the job. That's uh, that's what we have to learn.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 9: If not, we we're not gonna win football games one
Speaker 9: one here. You can take that video and then uh,
Speaker 9: maybe you had a chance to win it as well.
Speaker 9: Then you put yourself in situation we are two one down,
Speaker 9: then uh, then of course it's gonna be tough to
Speaker 9: to win football games.
Speaker 6: Felt like there were waves in the game where there
Speaker 6: were moments where from one another and there were moments
Speaker 6: where they were everything.
Speaker 5: Is that inconsistency just kind of the nature struggling results.
Speaker 2: At the moment.
Speaker 9: Yeah, well totally right. That's what's so when you can
Speaker 9: come in and you can say, I felt we show
Speaker 9: that we wanted more today, like a little bit the
Speaker 9: same as it was it for thirty five minutes against Nashville.
Speaker 9: You see the spirit, you see the fight but then
Speaker 9: you see also in the next situation, we we we
Speaker 9: switched off and we we give away things that it
Speaker 9: is not possible to do. Uh, and then you end
Speaker 9: up with on the wrong side of the the goal
Speaker 9: scorer and you don't get points.
Speaker 5: What other ways are there in your mind to try
Speaker 5: to get a few different ways?
Speaker 3: Is there anything else to do?
Speaker 9: Yeah, of course, you know, we have to keep keep
Speaker 9: moving forward talking about situations and they also you know,
Speaker 9: it's about accountabilability for for everybody. Everybody has a responsibility,
Speaker 9: but it has started with hard work. That just has
Speaker 9: to be a bottom and as you say, I think
Speaker 9: today you see a lot of hard work, but it's
Speaker 9: inconsistent and we need to have that consistence over time
Speaker 9: and especially inside of the two boxes. We need to
Speaker 9: be more deadly than we are. So so I think
Speaker 9: again also we went to a back fourth to get
Speaker 9: a goal. We get the goal, but then also you
Speaker 9: see the the problems we get with switches or play
Speaker 9: and uh, when we come half and half and on
Speaker 9: track runners, then then you get get into a bad situations.
Speaker 9: So in a way, we went for it. So you know,
Speaker 9: back five, I've felt control. But of course we need
Speaker 9: to score goals as well. So it's a find that
Speaker 9: balance between things. So and on the road you need
Speaker 9: to suffer. You need to to stay to stick together.
Speaker 9: And now, as I said, now and I see to said,
Speaker 9: we have to come you know.
Speaker 7: You have to come together.
Speaker 9: We have to feel the feeling that we have now
Speaker 9: and understand that the only way forward now is to
Speaker 9: to really really be humble and accountable and then uh,
Speaker 9: and understand that you need to do that as a team.
Speaker 9: Then there's nothing now to sit and be inside and
Speaker 9: think about yourself or feel sorry for yourself or whatever.
Speaker 9: It's not the time. It's the time to take responsibility.
Speaker 9: It's the time to take care of each other. It's
Speaker 9: the time to be ready and and uh and start
Speaker 9: to go. And there should be a long time since
Speaker 9: we we do that. And I'm tired to hear about
Speaker 9: all the talent we have because uh, that's been said
Speaker 9: of a long long time, not before my time. Also,
Speaker 9: talent is not enough. We need We need unity and
Speaker 9: uh and uh and hardworking mentality that is strong enough
Speaker 9: in good times and in bad times. And into that way,
Speaker 9: it's the only way now to break that circle and
Speaker 9: start to win football games. That's that's that's how it is,
Speaker 9: and it can't be in periods. Has to be consistent
Speaker 9: and has to be accountable. It has to be put
Speaker 9: accountability to each other on the pitch and also to
Speaker 9: the staff and to me if there's something that is
Speaker 9: not clear enough, something we need tomorrow, whatever. I think
Speaker 9: that that the door is always there and from there
Speaker 9: we have to grow because we are where we are
Speaker 9: because we deserve it.
Speaker 1: Ronnie Diiler, head coach of at Landy United. And there's
Speaker 1: a lot in there. And like I said, this is
Speaker 1: why I like the format that we have because we
Speaker 1: can take longer than just the twenty second SoundBite that
Speaker 1: folks can take out of context and misinterpret, misidentify what
Speaker 1: have you? Where we can go and run, you know,
Speaker 1: three minutes of Ronald Hernandez, four minutes of Ronnie dialup
Speaker 1: then so Ronnie sick of hearing things and he said,
Speaker 1: you got to backtrack, You got to be back there defensively,
Speaker 1: and you know, at the same time admitting that you know,
Speaker 1: if there's something that's not getting through in translation, then
Speaker 1: it's something that you know, obviously he and the staff
Speaker 1: have to work for. But he's you know, you heard
Speaker 1: how frustrated he was in the post match interview setting
Speaker 1: that was there. So so there you go. Once again.
Speaker 1: This is a very it's this is the first big
Speaker 1: week of a lot of big weeks, and you're in
Speaker 1: a week where you're coming out of Chicago. You don't
Speaker 1: really have time to And this is something that we
Speaker 1: discuss with other coaches and things in situations where if
Speaker 1: you're coming off of a loss, the fact that you
Speaker 1: have three matches in a week means that you can
Speaker 1: basically take this one, flush it, but don't forget it,
Speaker 1: because there's a difference flush it and forgetting it is
Speaker 1: one thing flushing it and remembering it and taking the
Speaker 1: lesson and going forward to something else. So you have
Speaker 1: the opportunity here with Atlanta United to sit there and
Speaker 1: learn from what happened with Chicago, learn from what Ronnie
Speaker 1: Dallas said postmatch, and apply it to what you're seeing
Speaker 1: with Austin. And you get to do the same thing
Speaker 1: from from Austin and from Chicago and apply it forward
Speaker 1: to Philadelphia. But, like I said, three separate approaches in
Speaker 1: three separate places where these teams are right now, where
Speaker 1: you have Chicago, who is rebuilding under Gregborholter, you have
Speaker 1: Austin who can't score except in open Cup competition against
Speaker 1: USL Championship competition where they were down to one to
Speaker 1: l Passo Locomotive, scored too quickly, turned around, came back
Speaker 1: and got the win to advance to the round of sixteen.
Speaker 1: And everybody's like, oh, they found their they found their
Speaker 1: shooting shoes, understood that it was against a team that
Speaker 1: you should have beaten from a lower division, and you
Speaker 1: you found the minutes, you found the connections, and I
Speaker 1: think that if you were watching the match, I also
Speaker 1: think that El Paso was they were fading and it
Speaker 1: was an opportunity for Austin to take advantage of it.
Speaker 1: But yes, Austin in MLS play has only scored one
Speaker 1: goal I think in the last four weeks, well five
Speaker 1: weeks or two and five, So they are still struggling
Speaker 1: offensively and it's an opportunity for Atlanta to take advantage
Speaker 1: of that come midweek. So you look at Austin and
Speaker 1: we mentioned their goal scoring lack of prowess, and right
Speaker 1: now Austin five six and one, they've only scored eight
Speaker 1: goals all season, tied for at last in the Western conference,
Speaker 1: tied for next to last in all of Major League Soccer.
Speaker 1: Montreal has scored six lag and Austin have scored eight.
Speaker 1: Going into the statistics, I believe that that own goal
Speaker 1: is second on the roster right now, or it might
Speaker 1: have it might have trimmed its way back. But Brandon
Speaker 1: Vasquez has scored three of the club's eight goals. Biro Pereira,
Speaker 1: galaher Buccari and Azuni have scored one each. So you're
Speaker 1: going up against the team and I would not anticipate
Speaker 1: that this matchup in Austin is going to be a
Speaker 1: high scoring matchup because of the two keepers that you
Speaker 1: have in Brad Gazanne and Brad Steuver, the defense in
Speaker 1: this match brought to you by the letters Brad, So
Speaker 1: anticipate a lower scoring game. So you have to be
Speaker 1: clinical and take advantage of opportunities when they're presented to you.
Speaker 1: So you're coming out of the match in Chicago, You're
Speaker 1: going into a match that could be very defensive, very
Speaker 1: low scoring, and then you're going into a matchup against
Speaker 1: Philadelphia which is very very physical on the weekend. So
Speaker 1: this is the individual challenges that you're facing in the
Speaker 1: collective of the struggles that you're seeing with Atland United
Speaker 1: this year. So that's where you are right now. We
Speaker 1: talked about all Classico, and like I said, we'll talk
Speaker 1: about more about Atlanta United as the week go. We're
Speaker 1: going to try and get our OPO research from some
Speaker 1: folks that we are trying to track down in Austin,
Speaker 1: and we'll try and track them down as best we
Speaker 1: can to try to have them on either Tuesday or Wednesday,
Speaker 1: and then catch up with our buddy Dave Leno on
Speaker 1: either Thursday or Friday, so we'll see what we can
Speaker 1: do there when it comes to getting ready for Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: All right, So that's Atlanta Nighted once again. Conversations are
Speaker 1: going to be there with it about Atlanta Nighted all
Speaker 1: week long, so we can get into that, and that's
Speaker 1: that's always going to be a topic that's going to
Speaker 1: be available. Probably can get into that more tomorrow considering
Speaker 1: everything that will be available to us coming out of
Speaker 1: those conversations. So once again, and if you missed it
Speaker 1: in our number one, it is going to be me
Speaker 1: and Abe from Colony Square in the studios of ninety
Speaker 1: two nine in the game. So ninety two nine in
Speaker 1: the game in the Audissey app. Mike and Jason will
Speaker 1: be in Austin. Maddie will be there as well for
Speaker 1: the Unified broadcast at atlutd dot com slash Live. I
Speaker 1: can't wait for Alex Everley to wear a ten gallon hat.
Speaker 1: And then so Jason and Maddy on Unified, Mike and
Speaker 1: Jason on the match itself with atlanda United me and
Speaker 1: a pre and post. So eight forty means seven thirty,
Speaker 1: so seven thirty start temperatures supposed to be well into
Speaker 1: triple digits. One hundred and six is listed as the
Speaker 1: high temperature in Austin on Wednesday, so we'll see what
Speaker 1: happens there. And once again this falls into the whole
Speaker 1: idea about anything and everything that will be attached to
Speaker 1: this one that is a part of the greater picture.
Speaker 1: Coming out of Chicago heading into Austin, looking three days later.
Speaker 1: Friday said, yeah, three days later, you get home, you regenerate,
Speaker 1: you walk through, you got Philly, you regenerate yesterday. Maybe
Speaker 1: you got yesterday off ight, walk through travel Austin, you
Speaker 1: come home, regenerate, walk through Philly. So that's where you are.
Speaker 1: You are with atlanda United Right, now and once again
Speaker 1: Ronnie Diaila and he ain't having it. Wasn't having it.
Speaker 1: After the matchup in Chicago, you heard that got to
Speaker 1: get back and defend, especially when you've got an equalizer
Speaker 1: that you worked for with ten minutes to go. So
Speaker 1: I will be intrigued to see what it looks like
Speaker 1: at practice and what it looks like around the board
Speaker 1: when it comes to who's in the starting eleven, who's
Speaker 1: in the match day eighteen, who's going to get minutes,
Speaker 1: how do you manage your minutes? All of those questions
Speaker 1: here in the midwek to get you ready for the
Speaker 1: big matchup against Philly on the weekend, and I know
Speaker 1: that you you kind of have to look at things.
Speaker 1: And I know that Abe was one who was not
Speaker 1: going to line things up and he's not looking at
Speaker 1: Philly yet, But you kind of have to, I would think,
Speaker 1: just because of your roster standpoint and managing minutes and
Speaker 1: all these kinds of things. Unless you just want to
Speaker 1: sit there and go after the Philadelphia matchup, then you
Speaker 1: don't have to worry about anything until the matchup with
Speaker 1: Cincinnati on the twenty fifth. But then you turn around
Speaker 1: and you play the Purple Team on the twenty eight,
Speaker 1: then that wraps up that week. So basically what you
Speaker 1: have here in the month of May, you're in the middle,
Speaker 1: You're in the middle of a three match week. Then
Speaker 1: you have nothing going on until your Sunday Night soccer
Speaker 1: on the twenty fifth, and then you go Sunday Wednesday
Speaker 1: Saturday taking on Red Bullet Red Bull Arena. So three
Speaker 1: match week, nothing in a seven day period, then three
Speaker 1: match week, three matches in eight nothing, three matches in
Speaker 1: seven So because of all of the things going on,
Speaker 1: you're going to have to You're gonna have to manage
Speaker 1: your roster, and you're going to have to figure out
Speaker 1: minutes here, minutes there, all of those things stylistically going
Speaker 1: up against different opponents, what it's going to look like.
Speaker 1: So this is going to be one of the the
Speaker 1: added challenges for the coaching staff having to deal with
Speaker 1: once again, three matches in a week, three different styles,
Speaker 1: and then you end up with, you know, two that
Speaker 1: are fairly wide open twenty fifth and twenty eighth, Cincinnati
Speaker 1: and the Purple Team, and then you know what you're
Speaker 1: going to get from Red Bulls, whom you've you know,
Speaker 1: managed fairly well earlier this year, and that gets you
Speaker 1: through the month of May. But like I said, five
Speaker 1: matches left in the month of May, you can make
Speaker 1: some you can make some hay here and you'll see
Speaker 1: what happens. So that will be the storyline here in
Speaker 1: the month of May. Five to go to work your
Speaker 1: way into a playoff position, playoff discussion, whatever however you
Speaker 1: want to break it down. But that's where we are.
Speaker 1: Uh let's get into gossip, Berman and Nuendo. Want to
Speaker 1: watch where to watch it? How to watch it? Remember,
Speaker 1: no soccer is in session Playoff Daily Live today that
Speaker 1: kicks back in tomorrow. Looks like Jason Page from Walton's
Speaker 1: going to join us at nine. Looks like Judson Hanby's
Speaker 1: gonna join us from Acony County at nine twenty. Then
Speaker 1: Soccer's in Session Playoff Daily Live is going to be
Speaker 1: stacked starting at noon. Molly McCarty from Jefferson, Frank Zamore,
Speaker 1: Johnson Gainsville. They're going to be a part of the discussion.
Speaker 1: Like I said, we're also efforting oppo research out of Austin,
Speaker 1: so we'll see what we can come up with here.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's going to be drifting in and out
Speaker 1: of high school and Atlanta United and Austin and all
Speaker 1: of those things. Getting it through the midweek, and then
Speaker 1: on Thursday, we'll talk about Austin, talk about the championships,
Speaker 1: We'll talk about getting ready for Philly. We'll talk about
Speaker 1: the championships, and then Philly's on. Then Philly is on
Speaker 1: Saturday night, seven to forty kick on Major lel in
Speaker 1: the MLS Season pass and with Mike and Jason at
Speaker 1: ninety two to nine in the game. So, uh, what
Speaker 1: to watch, where to watch it, how to watch it,
Speaker 1: gossip rumored, innu Windo and all all the things. Ben
Speaker 1: Jacobs has been very, very busy. One to six temperature
Speaker 1: in Austin. That's the high On Wednesday. Manchester United optimistic
Speaker 1: of signing Liam de Lap if they win Europa League.
Speaker 1: United and Chelsea currently the two leading Premier League clubs,
Speaker 1: considering triggering the thirty million pound clause active now since
Speaker 1: Ipswich are relegated. All Hill All is still in touch
Speaker 1: with the Bruno Fernandesh camp new meeting this week, given
Speaker 1: a week to a final answer. Due to the urgency
Speaker 1: of Helal lining up signings ahead of the Club World Cup.
Speaker 1: Manchester United's position remains that Fernandesh is not for sale.
Speaker 1: Captain has given no encouragement to date, told Hillal last
Speaker 1: year he wanted to state United until at least after
Speaker 1: the twenty six World Cup. They also have Uri Telaman's
Speaker 1: meaning all Hallal as in another midfield option on their
Speaker 1: radar and believe a fifty five to sixty million euro
Speaker 1: bid would be accepted. And so once again we mentioned
Speaker 1: about Carlo Ancelotti. Brazilian Federation has come out with a statement,
Speaker 1: as has Analdo Rodriguez from the CBF. So you have
Speaker 1: both of those sides coming out with talk Genoa defender
Speaker 1: Cony Deventer drawing interest from Spurs west Ham Crystal Palace
Speaker 1: enter anopoly somewhere in the neighborhood of twenty five to
Speaker 1: thirty million euro and then the Martin Zuba Mendi signing
Speaker 1: that happened over the weekend as well. All right, so
Speaker 1: once again you have your gossip. That's why we call
Speaker 1: it gossip. And also depending on what particular source you
Speaker 1: get it from, Bayern Munich do not intend to improve
Speaker 1: their contract offer the Leroy Sane despite the new agents
Speaker 1: of the twenty nine year old who's out of contract
Speaker 1: with the summer, submitting a fresh propose to the Bundesliga
Speaker 1: champ sets from Flora and Plettenberg at Sky Germany. Napoli
Speaker 1: sporting director Giovanni Mana remaining silent about a move to
Speaker 1: sign Kevin de Bruna on a free. Jonathan David'll be
Speaker 1: a free when his deal with lel ends in the summer,
Speaker 1: and he's another target for Napoli byer le Evercusan chief
Speaker 1: Fernando Carro believes the fifty to fifty chants Florian verts
Speaker 1: staying with the club. Arsenals Jakob Kivi yours on the
Speaker 1: radar both Juve and Enter Milan as he weighs up
Speaker 1: his long term future. Real Madrid looking to agree to
Speaker 1: a deal with Liverpool worth about a million. Now, see,
Speaker 1: you go from fifty thousand, you go from fifty thousand pounds.
Speaker 1: It's like, well, you know, we kind of like to
Speaker 1: you know, what we kind of like to do is
Speaker 1: what if we give you, like, oh, fifty thousand pounds
Speaker 1: to release him early And Liverpool's like, no, that's not
Speaker 1: going to work. So now we're up to about a million.
Speaker 1: Trent Alexander Arnold, by the way, got booed when he
Speaker 1: came on to the field for the yesterday Boode when
Speaker 1: he touched the ball. Boode when he came on. Nicely done.
Speaker 1: Liverpool fan uh Real Madrid looking now for up to
Speaker 1: a million to UH for Trent Alexander Arnold to join
Speaker 1: them before the Club World Cup. Sean Diisch among the
Speaker 1: candidates to take over at Leicester City, with the Foxes
Speaker 1: expected to part ways with rud Van Nisselroy Douglas Louis
Speaker 1: says he misses playing for aston Villa as he struggles
Speaker 1: for first team football at Juve, who signed the twenty
Speaker 1: seven year old last summer. Brighten among a number of
Speaker 1: clubs interested in twenty one year old defender Diego Coppola,
Speaker 1: who plays for Hellas Farona that's from Ferbrizio Romano Ac
Speaker 1: Milan are keen on fine Arts center back David Henko,
Speaker 1: but face competition from Lever Cues and a Nuve for
Speaker 1: the twenty seven year old Slovakian international. Now What to watch,
Speaker 1: where to watch it, how to watch it and all
Speaker 1: the things? All the things. Today English Championship Promotion playoffs
Speaker 1: at three Sheffield United Bristol City FA ES two has
Speaker 1: the doubleheader of the league that we neither can, don't
Speaker 1: endorse nor promote. Fox Deportes simulcasting ESPN Plus La Liga
Speaker 1: B Granada and Ibar to twenty. Fox Soccer Plus has
Speaker 1: a children's fan special in the Canadian Premier League with
Speaker 1: Forge and Ottawa Paramount Plus Syria Doubleheader fanetsiafe or In
Speaker 1: Tina twelve thirty Atalanta Roma two forty five and then
Speaker 1: once again on Paramount Plus Sheffield United Bristol City is
Speaker 1: at three o'clock. So tomorrow the rundown will be as such,
Speaker 1: We're gonna have coaches and we're gonna talk about the
Speaker 1: GHSA Championships kind of like I said, all weekend Law
Speaker 1: all week long, we're gonna be kind of having them
Speaker 1: drifting in and out, and so I apologize if the
Speaker 1: show's a bit of a train wreck when it comes
Speaker 1: to the rundown. We're talking about teachers and trying to
Speaker 1: find availabilities and shoehorning them into shows. So we'll gonna
Speaker 1: have I think we're gonna have two coaches to start
Speaker 1: off tomorrow, Jason Page Walton Walton Girls, Judson hanby A
Speaker 1: Coney County Girls in one of the marquetups of the
Speaker 1: entire week. A Coney County Jefferson Girls triple a one
Speaker 1: of the best matchups of the week. Walton Buford absolutely a.
Speaker 1: Coney County and Jefferson absolutely so, two halves of the
Speaker 1: two of the better matchups the entire week. Coming on tomorrow,
Speaker 1: the bat lead off and they'll get us to about
Speaker 1: nine to forty five. Then we'll get into everything else.
Speaker 1: Once again, we got to talk about what happened with
Speaker 1: Evangelinas Marinacus and what happened with Nottingham Forest and him
Speaker 1: charging onto the field even though he's no longer owner,
Speaker 1: and then we'll get into all of the other news,
Speaker 1: anything that's left over from all the discussions from Atlanta
Speaker 1: United and once again getting ready for the matchup with
Speaker 1: Austin and soccer is in session playoff Daily Live is
Speaker 1: noon tomorrow as well from noon to one, and then
Speaker 1: we'll break all of that down to get everything started
Speaker 1: this week. So a lot of high school this week,
Speaker 1: a lot of Atlanta United this week, and we'll try
Speaker 1: and see what else is going on. There's a big
Speaker 1: day in Jacksonville tomorrow and hopefully we can catch up
Speaker 1: on the news with that and then yeah, and so
Speaker 1: maybe we can catch up with our friends from Major
Speaker 1: League Soccer on Friday as well. But yeah, that's a
Speaker 1: long way off, but it's gonna come real quick. Once again,
Speaker 1: thanks to all of you folks for coming in as
Speaker 1: you always do to help break things down on a
Speaker 1: reaction Monday. As I always say, reaction Monday, get it
Speaker 1: all off your chest, and we'll do the same thing
Speaker 1: on Thursday. We'll do the same thing again next Monday.
Speaker 1: Like I said, six matches left for a Land United
Speaker 1: in this month, and we'll see where things stand as
Speaker 1: you get close to the halfway pole here in Major
Speaker 1: League Soccer for twenty twenty five for Atlanta United. So
Speaker 1: for everybody here at SDH once again, thanks to Scott
Speaker 1: Snyder at Westminster, thanks to Mike aik and at Marris,
Speaker 1: thanks to A. Gordon ninety two nine in the game,
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Speaker 1: Much of plot I'll play it safe and since it
Speaker 1: is the end of the show means we get to
Speaker 1: do this. No soccer is in session, Playoff Daily Live Today,
Speaker 1: that kicks back up tomorrow, So you back here nine
Speaker 1: oh five tomorrow morning for Tuesday thoughts where we continue
Speaker 1: to crush it when it comes to the high school Championships.
Speaker 1: Lay safe, everybody. It's the end of the show that
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