Battery beaten by a fimiliar foe: Battery 1, Loucity 2

[00:00:14] Welcome to Cannon Crue, a weekly podcast discussing the Charleston Battery. Your host, Granite, will be joined by other defenders of the fleet from the black and yellow supporters section, and together they will help fortify and conquer. They are the Cannon Crue. Welcome to the Cannon Crue. I am Granite and I am joined by Patrick. How are you, Patrick? Okay. Okay. Just okay. Just okay. Just okay. Okay.

[00:00:47] Ryan, how are you doing? I'm doing good. So we have a just okay and we're doing good. So let's talk a little bit about the battery. Let's talk a little bit about the first match. Heartbreaking. Punch in the guts, slap in the face. We were a little excited beforehand and it quickly went away. So let's first, let's talk about the starting 11.

[00:01:12] A lot of new faces. We had, what, five new players come in and start. We did. We did. New goalie. I mean, hell, what position didn't we have someone new in? Because we had a goalkeeper, right back, CDM, left winger, striker. I mean, we even had new position at left back for Chris Allen. So he sure did.

[00:01:41] Well, he played her in the last season. Is that his normal position? No, he's left back. Then why are we playing at left back? That's what I was confused about. But then we made the halftime substitution and put those Santos back there. So. Yeah. Who, who, who, who Nate probably had the best scoring chance out of everybody from the open play. But anyways, let's talk quickly about Mr. Klein.

[00:02:14] Sounds like there's an airplane going over somebody's house. So are we back in Keeve or Keeve or are we in Moscow there, Ryan? I hope not. So let's talk about Klein real quick. So Patrick, you had an interesting view from your seats cause you kind of moved on us cause you brought your lovely wife and you got to sit close to his parents. Smart move. Yeah. His, his mom was sitting in front of us.

[00:02:43] So our new seats are basically in the wives and girlfriends section. So we're the wags crew now. Um, but unfortunately for his family, they only got to see about 45 minutes before he came off. I didn't think there was anything to write home about, but I also didn't think he played that terrible. Um, I mean, it's hard to say someone played bad in our first half when the battery had 70% possession.

[00:03:10] Did you, did you notice where he was kind of, uh, playing? Was it really traditional left back or was he moving forward? Was he getting any overlapping runs? No, he was definitely playing just up. Like he was, I mean, it's hard to tell. He's more at the half line, most of the game. Um, so whether it be on counters or whatever, I mean, it's more of a supporting role, but like, like I said, nothing really to write home about.

[00:03:39] I don't think he was involved enough. Like a lot of our new guys, they're just weren't really involved in a lot of the play and the effort wasn't there to get involved. Oh, that's an interesting point there. He said the effort wasn't there. It did seem like it was a little lackluster. It looks like those were missing a little energy. Uh, I don't know why we didn't have the energy. So let's talk about, uh, some other players that were in there for starting 11 that we, we have not seen before.

[00:04:10] Um, Langston Blackstock. Yeah. I thought he did. Okay. I thought he did good for the first opening minutes. He had two tackles. He won, um, outside of that, honestly, he didn't really produce much. He had an opportunity or two to put a few crosses in and decided not to pull them back, sent them back around.

[00:04:33] Um, you know, again, I agree with Pat, you know, there wasn't an emphasis on to stand out in the game. Per se. Yeah. I was talking to Kelly the next day and she was sitting in a spot in the first half where she could see Langston playing and, and she just, she just kept getting, he didn't seem like he was into the game. Like he was just, I don't want to say lazy, but he just wasn't an active participant.

[00:05:02] Oh, so it was an interesting viewpoint from somebody on the sideline there. And it's something to make note of. Cause it's not something we see from a pure men squad ever is just kind of a lack of hustle. Like we have guys that can come on and play. And maybe that's why he made some halftime substitutions. Cause there just wasn't anything on the field for him to be like, Hey, this is, it's just not going to do it at home.

[00:05:26] If we're not even taking chances on goal and we're getting pretty opened up on our backend as well. Yeah. We'll talk about that a little bit. Uh, the black stock, the other thing he didn't play like he played in the preseason match against the Greenville triumph there, he was making a lot of overlapping runs and just really getting up forward and, and, you know, spreading out the defense. And here it didn't seem like he was doing that as much as he was there or what we're used to from, uh, Nate.

[00:05:56] As soon as Nate come on, that was a different story. It wasn't not, I guess he come in on, on Chris Allen's side, but we started seeing those overlapping runs. I mean, it's a little tough with Torres in front of you. I mean, you know, he's going to stay more forward. So if you're going up, he's, unless it's like that last ditch playoff effort, he's not sprinting back as much. So I can see like the tactical reason to kind of hang back and maybe play a little more dull defensively.

[00:06:25] But yeah, I'll, I'll say my wife did point out, she has no idea what's happening with the team. And she said, are a lot of these guys new? Cause it just doesn't look like they're gelling together. We weren't really connecting passes like more than two or three at a time before just playing kind of a wayward ball. Yeah. And it wasn't like we didn't have possession. We had a lot of possession. Like we normally do. It just, you're right.

[00:06:51] It just seems like there wasn't a connection there that we've seen or gotten used to last year and the year before. And it's still a first game. So, I mean, there's plenty of time to grow. It's just, it was very exciting having all these guys come in that we're just going to scream down the field and shoot at the goal the whole time. And, well, everybody loves, everybody loves a new signing, you know, but then also you throw five or six of them on the pitch and maybe that's too many new signings all at once, or at least early in the season.

[00:07:18] So the other player noted was Landry playing midfield. Patrick, you had some thoughts on him? I did not. No. No, you didn't. I think my old thing with all these guys was, man, I'd like to see some shuffle before the next game. Yeah. They weren't moving as well as we're used to. You know, Aaron was in front, kind of, kind of, trolling in front of our two center backs and he was doing what he normally does.

[00:07:49] But he didn't have Chris Allen up there to connect with. And maybe that seems like that was kind of obvious. Yeah. And he wasn't used to Landry where he was going. And Icaza was so far forward where he should be as an eight. And it just, we're missing that Lincoln chip through that middle third. And the last one.

[00:08:09] Oh, that's where Langer is supposed to come in at, you know, and provide that type of specialty role because that's exactly what he did for New Mexico United last season. He was that midfielder role where he connected from the CDM to the cam or to out wide. And he, he directed and dictated that midfield in a lot of games, especially after, you know, battery opened up. We beat New Mexico four zero.

[00:08:36] Don't free a new Mexico then went out and won the Western Conference in the regular season. So he played a massive role last year. Maybe he just has another slow start. I hope to hope to continue to see him in the starting lineup, but it just looked like he was about a second or two behind the entire game. Yeah. Maybe it's maybe it's a, maybe it's a language issue. I don't know. We'll see.

[00:09:04] Last person we're talking about real quick, then new on the roster was our keeper, Ryan go for it. Now, Luis did really good. He's a very elusive keeper. He's you can, you could honestly compare him very well and very closely to Adam. Grin was who we had last year. But Luis obviously adds a few more years to a playing time that have him around as a younger guy.

[00:09:32] He very, very good footwork. That's one thing actually kind of rate him higher over Adam with the one thing that is kind of questionable is his ball handling. That was his keeper note marked at with DC United came into the game and there were some questionable calls on some of his air balls. And again, with his second goal.

[00:10:01] First of all, great save. Second goal. Yeah, I think he did very well except for that second goal. And I don't know if he just didn't see it. We talked a little bit before we jumped on here. I had a different view of it than you all did because you thought maybe there were some issues with some players that should have well, the other player turned. But I just seemed like he just didn't see it. Yeah, I kind of look at it like this. Right. So both goals. First one.

[00:10:31] He made a great save. If defense doesn't clear the ball out, gets rebounded goes in unfortunate second one. It's 50 50. You know, guy should not be able to turn 20 or so yards in front of the box turn and have the direct shot. Secondly, he should have saved that. That's definitely very saveable. I mean, his arms are bent all goes right through his hands. I mean, there's it's textbook save.

[00:10:57] But again, you know, he has that vision blockage. Anything can happen. And it was unfortunate against us. So let's let's go. Let's back up to that first goal, because, you know, I'm a believer in one day. We were talking earlier, too, about how people made the fantastic save. It goes out.

[00:11:20] We did a really crappy clearance and it just seemed like there was a big hole in our defense between our right back and Juan David not even want to come back and try to fill that spot. I mean, it's it's not something that we'd like to see, but we do get the benefit of that more so by having this outlet with Juan David and getting these wonder goals from him. So it makes sense for him to stay up more.

[00:11:49] But you can't have one amazing save. This is his third biggest save in a row to keep us in the game. He had two in the first half that were one V one. The first save probably the best I've seen in a long time. Just cutting the near post and blocking it with his foot from the back post. The second one was a one V one 20. I think like 29th minute, but another huge save.

[00:12:17] Archer clears it, but clears it like 15 yards up in the air. And they just they go win the ball back. And then again, our right back is just there's no effort in another challenge because it's a 50 50 ball. But this 50 50 balls in your box, you have to go for it. You can't just half ass it and be like, eh, it's on you like this is 100% a defensive mistake and a defensive goal.

[00:12:46] I don't blame the keeper for this one at all. No, not at all. And it seemed like like there were the defensive backs were so far shifted over in front of the goal that it kind of opened up that space even more and allowed that to happen. Ryan, what's your thoughts on? No, I can't. I think I already voiced it well enough. Um, you know, again, keeper makes a great first save. Defense doesn't clear it.

[00:13:11] Uh, it's a thing I teach my young keepers now is that, you know, when it when a mistake like that happens, it's those type of mistakes. You can't let that hurt you or stay in your mind at all. You know, when a keeper normally makes a mistake, they let that kind of dwell on them a bit. They want to learn from it. Um, when it comes to the stuff like this, honestly, it, and it's the one thing that every keeper kind of struggles with.

[00:13:37] And it's the communication aspect, just communication is the only thing to avoid something like this because the defense has to have the urgency and the communication to be able. Who's going for it. Who's marking who's got cover pressure, cover balance, et cetera. Um, and that's honestly it right there. And that's the frustrating part because communication is such a simple thing that we do day in and day out that we forget to do it sometimes. Yeah.

[00:14:04] And we, and Ryan, you and I were, uh, at the tunnel when they were coming off and, uh, Luis was coming off and he was obviously not a happy person. And I appreciate that. I appreciate that anger and that, that kind of, you know, that self-examination that made him kind of just walk down the middle. You can see that he was very upset with himself. So I appreciate that other players come off and they're a little more jovial. I was like, yeah, we just took it to one ass whipping by, uh, our direct competitors.

[00:14:30] And they probably should be a little more, uh, repentant. I don't know. Remorseful. I don't know what the word is. Well, he has you looking at him, right? You're watching him come down the tunnel and you're not seeing a player who's pissed off and frustrated over the result that came about off of performance. They just had, they're not throwing the trash can. They're not kicking the chairs. They're not swearing. They're not treating the fans poorly. They're not doing this or that.

[00:14:59] He simply keeping his, put his head down and is self-reflecting and everyone could see it on his face. You know, that he was upset and knew to leave him and that, you know, he's going to come back and go to work this week in training. I have no doubts about that. There's no doubt about that. I mean, cause hopefully this is the one hiccup that he has and the rest time he's laser focused, not saying he wasn't laser focused. I don't know how I missed it other than just shit happens.

[00:15:28] I'm sorry. No, it happens. It's just, it's just a little late and loud. Someone's got a new button tonight. I got a bunch of different buttons. Uh, so let's move on to, let's talk about something very positive. And that was the one to strike again by Juan David. Uh, I don't know what happened there, Ryan. I'm going to throw it to you. Cause again, it looked like the keeper. I don't know what, what are you doing? I talked about a keeper, not seeing it. Yeah. What are you doing?

[00:15:58] Are you watching the wall or what could have happened from your perspective? The, the, so as a keeper, what I try to do with my players is that you want to line up the wall within, it depends on the type of kicker. So in for instance, like Juan David, I would have done one person from the goalpost over.

[00:16:25] So if I'm looking at my front post, I have one person link left of the goalpost and then everybody else is to the right of it. Um, because I know Juan David's going to use a left footed end swinger. Then when you set up your position, you're kind of crouched low enough to where you can see through your players legs or through them side by side. And you're able to lock in on the ball. That keeper never saw the ball again. Once he got his wall set up, he was lit. You can watch the video.

[00:16:52] He is constantly looking for the ball the entire time through their feet. And he never saw it again. Do you think that was the case? Or do you think he was just watching the players? Cause people were crashing in and like his defender went to head. It went right over his head. Do you think he was just expecting someone to redirect it? So he was not too quick to like move his positioning. Cause that's what it looked like. It looked like he was just waiting for someone to hit it.

[00:17:22] And then it was too late. No one's touching it. Oh shit. I got to go dive at this. In my opinion, if he, if he sees it the whole way, he's claiming that ball right away. Like he's moving his defender or she's going over top of his defender and will knock his defender down to punch that ball. Because I know I'm going to get that ball over my defender because my defender misses it like he did. Then we're in the same situation. So that's why keepers have the confidence.

[00:17:49] If they know that they can go out and get it, you knock your defender down. I'm sure you've probably had instances where keepers kind of knocked you down, but apologize to you saying had to clear it out. That's definitely one of those instances where I believe he, he just did not fully never relocated the ball, misjudged it, froze on his line and ball goes in. We're up to our road tied one, one. Ryan, did you ever apologize when you cleared everybody out? No.

[00:18:17] Did you ever apologize for clearing everybody out going out to get the ball? No, no, no. Are you talking about that, that fictional good natured keeper that does that? Okay. Yeah. He's saying what he teaches, not what he practices. Okay. I'll, I'll, I'll go with that. So what you're saying is Juan David hit the invisible ball and use the little magic and got it in the net. Oh yeah, for sure. Uh, it's fantastic.

[00:18:44] So do you think maybe his, the keeper's positioning? Cause Patrick and I watched a match, uh, over the weekend where it seemed like a keeper kind of cheated to one side and then paid drastically for it. Do you think maybe, cause if you know Juan David, you know, he's coming with, like you said, that left footed in swinger. Do you cheat to one side versus the other? Yeah. You have to, so, so, and that's, and that's the other thing too, that kind of upsided me because the way the keeper was standing is that he was outside of his wall.

[00:19:13] He was far right enough to where he was standing outside of the last man on the wall. Where normally for Juan David, him being a left footed, you need to be two people inside your wall. So I was in the middle of your wall. You're looking at the foot because he, he has all respect. I mean, you saw what he just did to you. You have to respect the shot. And I'm telling my, I'm telling my boys to, I'm telling my first two players to not jump and to stay on the ground.

[00:19:42] And I'm telling my into guys inside two guys to jump. Um, in case he shoots it. And if that ball was coming on the ground, I'm hoping my defender can clear that one on the ground out first before it gets to me. Patrick, any more thoughts on why Juan David's invisible ball shot is beautiful? I will just say he wasn't a hundred percent going for goal, but this was the second big chance he created.

[00:20:10] One right before halftime where there was what, like 44th minute where he kind of slashed it right across goal. And Cal Jennings, I think Cal was offside if he had been able to put his foot out and kick it in, but maybe it was a big chance, um, right before. So like, again, it seemed like Torres was the only one out there providing these big chances during the entire match.

[00:20:39] And like I said, I mean, you kind of expect certain things if he's not coming back to defend and he upheld his bargain on the attacking end of the field for us. Well, I apologize. I just don't think anyone helped him. I apologize. I should have brought my head out low. My Colombian head out a little sooner. Recognize this Ryan? Yes, I do. Okay. Very good. This, I want to start wearing this to matches. Now real quick, while we're still on one DVD, Pat, how did you see him play in the middle of the field?

[00:21:09] From what I saw, I think he has been given permission to fill in Nick Markanik's free room role because I saw him go from left to right, left to rights out of the field constantly with the ball on his feet too, at times, you know, not him just making a run left to right, but him with the ball on his feet too. Constantly going across the cross top of the box with the ball on the field. And I think that's a lot of the ball on his feet. So just curious to see if you saw that too.

[00:21:37] Do you think that he has been given that permission and that role to free row? Yeah. I think certain playmakers on this squad are told when we get to that final third, I kind of want you to do what you do best and be disruptive. He is one of them. Malloy is another and he causes the third, like these three guys can interchange, move around.

[00:22:01] We just didn't have anyone supporting their kind of holes in the field once they left them, which was our downfall. Like we didn't have anyone make that overlapping run. We didn't have anyone fill in. Exactly. If you look at the heat map where Juan David was, he was a little bit on the right, but he was more towards that central area and you see where he's moved a lot around. Well, if you look at that, if you look at the numbers, uh, shots on target, Emilio had one, Juan David had two, Cal Jennings zero.

[00:22:30] Uh, what was the other, other number that was kind of interesting? Uh, successful crosses, Emilio one, Juan David two. So he's thrown in there. Chances created. Emilio with three, Juan David with two and Cal Jennings with one. Did you just look at shots total itself? Yeah. Shots on target is a one for Emilio and a two for Juan David. Yeah. But shots itself, that shots on target.

[00:22:58] If you look at shots itself, one David accounted for eight total shots and the team shot attempts were set at 14. Yeah. I have half of the Charleston batteries shot attempts shot, shots on off target one and block shots five for Juan David, uh, which kind of concerns me because our, we bring in a striker forward a little bit different than MD and didn't seem like he produced a lot. Now he did apologize. Come down to the tunnel.

[00:23:26] He did apologize for, uh, not showing up tonight. Uh, when we're getting there, get him a sign of scarf. Oh, but we need more out of our, our, you know, forward. Yeah.

[00:23:40] So let's talk quickly. Yeah. And he came off of his foot. It was dirty. Cause the goalie stood still. Yeah. He saw that one and he could not react.

[00:24:11] So let's talk quickly about, uh, the blue team that was out there. And I think we were talking about the, the blue team that the center official. Oh, how many red cards has he's given us in the last four matches? Three, three. This is not a third or just the fourth. I don't know. It doesn't matter. I mean, it does matter, but it doesn't matter. So I look, I went back. I didn't see what happened.

[00:24:39] I saw that arm was kind of a little bit raised. I went back and looked at the, uh, that's exactly the way I felt when he pulled out the card. So, and I went back and looked, and I do not see where the, where he even got the requisite, you know, criteria to issue red card. He didn't even put motion.

[00:25:09] But, and when he showed an elbow, the blue team guy did, he even used the wrong arm. Well, he also said you went up in his face and it was like the guy was grabbing them. He's moving with naturally with his arm out. And then maybe it's still there, but he's still holding on. He didn't hit him in the head. Cause the guy just looked up and got off the ground right away. Like he ran off. Oh, you're giving him a red for that. Okay.

[00:25:35] I mean, you can, you can see the look on Arturo's face when he, he knew he probably thought it was yellow. I thought it was a yellow. But then when he turned around and saw him pulling out a red card, uh, I don't, he doesn't need to be refereeing our matches anymore. He, that referee, and I'm going to go on a rant here. Cause I think I want to rant last time. He is so focused on him being the center of attention and being the person that everybody remembers from that soccer match. That he doesn't need to be playing center referee anymore. He talks to the players way too much.

[00:26:05] He doesn't have control of the match. And then he makes bullshit calls like that, that not only just affect that moment in the game, but the rest of the game and a couple of games after. Cause Arturo is a key player coming off an injury. That's I think that's the reason why he wasn't starting. Cause he was injured coming into this. So they'll give him some minutes. And then all of a sudden when the couple minutes, he gets a red card. Ridiculous.

[00:26:26] Well, and granted, can you really upset it was that if you look at the majority of the styles that were committed on the battery, the referee would stand over top of where the ball was being placed and would delay it. He wouldn't allow us to play quick. And then there was times where the referee would be talking to one of our players who had committed a sell while letting the other team play while letting Louisville be able to play quick.

[00:26:52] It's like, it's like, you can't be able to, you can't talk to the players. If the other team's playing, you have to stop the game. If you're talking to the players, like you can't, cause then you're distracting. The player runs away from you and you look at that as, um, uh, as, um, what do you call it? Being a bullshit call. That's what it's called being disrespectful or whatever and gets a yellow card. I mean, that's just messed up. You know, now you have the whole new referee abuse policy. Is that considered dissent at that point?

[00:27:22] You running away from the referee? I don't know how right I believe the referee is dissentful, but maybe it is. I had one of my high schoolers get yellow carded running to the referee. He's one of the three captains and he's one of the ones who's supposed to be only one of the ones supposed to be able to talk to the referee. And he runs over to the referee asking why I was, I was at one of those matches. Harded. And he got yellow carded because the way he ran to the referee was in a dissentful manner.

[00:27:49] Apparently it's like, I was, I was at one of those matches of the night and another player knocked a West Ashley player out. And it was, it was, it was just a yellow card the second time we did that. So I don't know about the level of officiating expertise on the high school fields right now. Patrick, you were going to say karate kick. Yeah. I was going to say just touching on the red card.

[00:28:16] I mean, how long was it before Louisville had almost the identical challenge on one of our players? I would just like, I want to hear your thoughts on the consistency of it. Cause like, that's the biggest thing that boils my blood with referees. It's not a bad call. I can get over that, but if it's not consistent, it really drives me nuts. Yeah.

[00:28:38] You know, when you're out there and, and I only do youth league, so I have no, I'm by far not a, uh, professional level officiate. Uh, but when you look at certain things like consistency, sometimes you might not see what happened. So sometimes I get that, but you should be able to look at the referee. And sometimes you can use the referees to go like, I just didn't see it. And you don't want to call it. If you don't see it.

[00:29:08] I think what the first call on a turtle, he thought he saw something. He saw some player that took a dive cause he got hit right below the chin a little bit. And he, he, he reacted inappropriately. The other thing I kind of look at referees and look for little things they do, such as the jerk up top. When you go through referee courses, even the youth thing, you're taught certain things like don't turn your back on the ball. That referee will turn around and sprint the other way. And I have looked at the ball.

[00:29:39] He did that several times. A weird sprint, by the way. Yeah. How are you supposed to officiate a match? If you're, if you're not watching what the ball is, you have two ARs. You're watching behind you. Watch the other thing. So, uh, I don't know. I don't know if there's any lack of communication. Be interesting to see if there's any communication.

[00:29:57] Do you think that you think it's, do you think it's lack of communication or do you think it's a potential retraining or re look at the training method by the referees at the use and the U S system? No, I, I, cause a lot of referees don't make themselves the center of attention. Cause we talk about a lot about that with. True. This guy makes himself, he makes himself the center of attention.

[00:30:24] He is the one that is the, everyone that walks away from that match going like, Oh yeah, he was the guy in the middle. And he was the one, uh, taking too long to start free kicks, holding up play, handing out red cards, all sorts of just as mannerisms. Just, just kind of leave me to believe that he is more focused on his own personal game than actually being a witness to a match. And the sad part is that that's majority of the high school system here in South Carolina too.

[00:30:51] Well, just sticking with this game in particular, I think even him, like, cause the chance I'm talking about that basically they did the same elbow. And one of our players face was in front of the fourth official and the linesman obviously is in front of the benches, but a lot of players were just looking at the fourth official. Like you just saw it, tell him. And I think it comes down to what you're touching on with this center.

[00:31:19] Center ref Brad is that he has his way. He's not even going to listen to his fourth official or his side one. He doesn't care because they were just like, what do you want me to say? And it's like, this is your job. This is what you get paid to do. Speak up. It doesn't matter if he's doesn't listen to you. You know, you should say something. Exactly. I mean, I was 15 rows away from the, from the elbow and I was like, that was worse than the other one. The guy actually tried to elbow him in the head.

[00:31:46] And that's part of their, that's part of their responsibilities is to be watching where the center ref is not watching so they can pick up things like that. Fourth officials can definitely should have communication with the center. He could have called them over there. Same thing with a red card on a turro. Maybe he should have went over to the AR said, Hey, let's talk this through real quick. What'd you see? This is what I saw and then made a decision, but no, it was immediate. It didn't even flinch for a second. Other than the only person that flinched was the guy got hit in the chin who flinched up and ran off immediately afterwards.

[00:32:16] I have to call the third red card. Last thing, last thing with that. Do you think since we don't have a VAR system in the U S yet, do you think it's okay and more appropriate and more justified defense would want to see it more if the referees check each other? Like in that instance, the center ref gets called over by the fourth official and they have a quick word and then make a decision after that. Well, that's the job. He should be doing that.

[00:32:45] That's like that a hundred percent should be happening. That's not being caught though. That's not communicated. That's what they're taught to do. Is this being taught? I've never been, I've never seen it. I've never seen a fourth official in a professional, like other than watching the World Cup or watching Serie A or the Prem or something like that. I have not been in a game or two way game played in a game where I've seen the fourth official communicate with the fourth, with the center referee other than additional time. It doesn't happen.

[00:33:16] Well, maybe they should make it happen because decisions like a red card are measured. Goals are hard to come from. Hard to get. That's right. It's different when you're at the center. We worked 90 minutes and we only got one off a keeper that couldn't see. They got two over 90 minutes off of one that the keeper couldn't see or messed up.

[00:33:34] They're very hard to come by, very hard to come by and to just make a rash decision like he, like he did without even consulting somebody just for a second, just to pause, to go, let me make sure what I'm about ready to do is the proper thing to do. Yeah. But I think, I think his ego and his lack of confidence leads him to, to make those kinds of rash decisions. I don't know. VAR is a tough thing.

[00:34:01] I don't like VAR because it just holds, slows down the match, but at least, at least at some, at some degree, I would have to go word. Like if I, if I am throwing a red card, if I fully believe I'm about to read card somebody, at least before I handed out a red, I have to check with one of my officials to make sure, Hey, do you think this is a red? That's maybe they do. Maybe they don't walk over there. Maybe they have the communication system so they can talk through that.

[00:34:30] But that obviously was not the case with Arturo because it was immediate. It was, he was grabbing for his pocket shortly after it happened. Mm-hmm. I'll just say one last thing in order for stuff like that to make a difference, there has to be accountability and there is done.

[00:34:47] Like nobody, the Federation, U.S. soccer, nobody goes back and says, Hey, that was a blatant mistake. You're suspended for six games or six weeks. It's just like, Hey, rest a lower league game. You're going to have to be in one time. If there is a punishment, which isn't because you're still letting them ref a game. And then you get to go back in and do whatever you want to do. So like, until you have accountability on it, it's never going to change.

[00:35:12] Yeah. And maybe that's it. And I'll, I'll back off now. Maybe that's because there's not enough in the referee system to get to that level that they don't have that choice. Then go, okay, you're sitting out the next six matches or even, Hey, you're not playing. You're not going to be center.

[00:35:27] You're going to be an AR for the next six matches or something along those lines. I don't, I don't know if there's just not enough feeding into it or, um, the money's not there as much as we pay for beers and tickets and they keep taking spans away from us. Oh, we're going to talk about that. Where are we keep taking stand standing sections away from us. Maybe they should pay them a little more. We get a little more professionalism. I don't know.

[00:35:50] I would just like one, one replay of an event on the big screen right after it happened. I kept looking over being like, let me see that red card again. Let me see that. I was waiting for them to show the Louisville player doing it to get the crowd riled up. Oh, I thought that was just an advertising board up there. They can do replays on it. Oh yeah. I thought.

[00:36:14] Sorry. Sorry, battery. I know you're not listening, but if, if you happen to be that that's my dig at that damn scoreboard, it's oversized and really bright. The graphics did look good. They were cool. Hey, the guy, I just wanted to see a replay of the red card so I could boo. Yep. Several times. Anyways. Okay. Let's talk quickly about Rhode Island because they're coming up next. What are we going to do? Big grudge match.

[00:36:41] Big grudge. I mean, we haven't beat them yet. We got, we got to finally beat this team. How do we draw this? We come up Louisville first and then Rhode Island second. I mean, couldn't they get a couple matches in? I don't know. I kind of like being able to face them early in the season because then it allows you to figure out what you need to do against these higher repetitive teams.

[00:37:05] And then you're playing the lower end teams for the majority of the rest of the season maintaining that. But now we're, we are playing catch up with Louisville and Rhode Island already. Yeah, we lost six points. We basically lost six points. Not if we beat Rhode Island. What's a big, it's, I get what you're saying. It's a big swing from between first and second place where end of the year, you're fighting for home field advantage, home field, Eastern conference, home field championship advantage. Yeah.

[00:37:35] These big games matter. And I, from what I saw on Saturday night, if we bring that to Rhode Island, we're going to get hammered by them. They're even more deadly on the counter and they're just, I like when we played our best, it was a tough game to play. And we have holes all over the pitch where guys just are falling off and they got to get it together in order to play a team like that. Okay.

[00:38:05] Predictions. Ryan, what's your prediction? Goal wise, not food wise. Battery win one zero. Say it again. Battery win one to zero. You can't do that. You just said earlier that you always give, you know, that one goal to the other team. Oh, oh. And now you're judging me. This might be a history. I don't think you've ever predicted. This is the battery's first shutout. I think. I wrote that one down.

[00:38:34] I think Luis comes back and he shuts down the box this week. I think he, he's. This is the best way to put it for Luis. Luis. He has accepted the fire around him and he is burning the fire inside of him stronger to consume everything around him instead of just trying to put out the fires. Yeah. He's getting all. He's going to kill everything in the box this week. And I think it's going to be a one zero. All eight arms coming out. Yeah. He's going to be a Mr. Octopus.

[00:39:04] Patrick. Oh, I mean, I'll just go three, two. If we can start firing some goals in, I just, from what I saw from our defense there, if they just keep letting the other team pepper our goal, eventually a few are going to go in and it's not going to be the goalie's fault. But. So we, I just don't see it. This match. We, we, we lose a lot on the counter.

[00:39:34] How important is it that we score that first goal? It's huge. It changes matches. Teams have to completely adjust their tactics. Cause they're going to come. Either they throw more for. Yeah. Either they go more forward, which opens them up or they play more defensive, which doesn't help them because they need to go forward. So it's more of a win-win for our play style. If we go up one, no. Okay. I'm going to two nil.

[00:40:02] One David with another invisible wonder goal. And I'm going with Nate. Nate, Nate was so damn close. The equal eyes so close. You could see it in his face. I could see it. I was standing right there. And she didn't have, but he was, he was so aggressive in the box. It just didn't happen for him. It's going to happen. This coming week. I'm going to say Cal will get a goal. And is MD fit enough to be back on the pitch?

[00:40:32] Do we know? I don't know. If he's fit enough, he's getting the game winner. He's a double doctor. He should be always fit. Right. Should already have diagnosed himself and healed himself. Okay. Anything else to add? I hear more planes, drones flying over Ryan's house. No, I got to get going. Okay. Y'all. We'll catch up with you on, on, I think it's Saturday night. Yes, sir. Saturday night.

[00:41:01] Patriots warm. At what time? Seven. Should be the same time. Seven 30. Don't be moving on his battery. Cause people either show up late or they show up really early. I know. I like the 6 PM games. That'd be nice. But anyways, we'll see y'all out there. You know, cause that's, that's kind of the difference between us, three clowns and other people that do podcasts. We actually go to the matches and we actually live here in Charleston area. And we're actually. Yeah. Season ticket members.

[00:41:31] And season ticket members. We actually pay to go watch this. So if you're wondering, Ryan will be on time for this one in the parking lot. So you can have a beer. Who will be? Ryan will be on time. Ryan. Yeah. I'm this. Okay. We'll be there at five o'clock. Okay. Oh no. What actually plays Wanda on Saturday? Oh well. Battery first. Battery first. Okay. Y'all cheers. All right. See you Saturday.