The Thorns Prediction Game

WICC Championship: OL not-Reign The Thorns came back from 2-0 down to draw the Dash and then advance on penalties. The star for the Thorns in the ninety minutes was Olivia Moultrie who assisted the first goal and scored the equalizer with a free kick. In the shootout that followed, debutante Shelby Hogan saved three(!) […]

The Thorns Prediction Game

WICC Day One: Houston yet again The Thorns extracted a point, coming from behind to draw the Pride 1-1. Roses predicted that exact scoreline and also provided a wild prediction play-by-play that was almost prophetically accurate. For the first time, we had three players get skunked (dang that Jodie Taylor – why didn’t she do […]

The Thorns Prediction Game

Matchday 13: Back to the steambath The Thorns beat Washington 1-0 as Olivia Moultrie registered her first start and dished a lovely cross for Charley to head home. Daniel Stratton guessed a Moultrie assist and was this week’s winner, after getting shut out last time. Cap’n Sinc socks with gold medals earned 4-4-2 the two-point […]

The Thorns Prediction Game

Matchday 12: Ms. Smith Goes to Washington KC NWSL remains winless to nobody’s particular surprise, falling to the Thorns 2-0. “Own Goal” retook the league lead in the Golden Boot race. All of our predictors called the shutout win, but none called for an Everett goal (or an own goal). Constant Weeder takes honors for […]

The Thorns Prediction Game

Matchday 12: KC Barbeque Houston’s season-long home unbeaten streak ended as Sophia Smith scored in the 32nd second and the Thorns made it stand up. This was happy news for most our our predictors, as 1-0 with a Smith goal as the most popular guess (p.s. official scoring has the goal unassisted – bummer for […]

The Thorns Prediction Game

Matchday 11: Sweatin’ With the Moldies The Pride visited Portland where they always lose. And they lost. All of our predictors won, with Daniel Stratton taking the honors for the correct scoreline and two assists. PastaBake got two points for a wild tale of pet chaos in the suites. Roses is now in the middle-of-the-pack […]

The Thorns Prediction Game

Matchday 10: Pride Before the Fall Gotham visited and in spite of the Thorns having three one-on-ones with the keeper, a hit post, a hit crossbar, and two saves off the line – in spite of all that scoring potential there was no end product.. A chance to be firmly in first place was spurned. […]

The Thorns Prediction Game

Matchday 9: The Dark Knight Falls The “depleted’ Thorns showed up in Louisville looking like giant killers. They gave Racing a comprehensive and unexpected beating. Two of our players predicted a clean sheet win, Savannah S took the top honors by also picking their namesake to get the first yellow. The wild prediction went to […]

The Thorns Prediction Game

Matchday 8: Will We See Nadim? The Paramount+ announcers reminded us every minute that the matchup of the two best teams in the league was really even. Except that it wasn’t actually very close, was it? For the third match in a row, the best wild predictor on our team (4-4-2) scored two points, this […]

The Thorns Prediction Game

Matchday 7: Arch Foes Face Off Kansas City was overwhelmed in Portland on the 20th – a very hot afternoon. The Thorns should have chalked up a large score, except the strikers didn’t strike. Unlike all our players — everyone who played scored! 4-4-2 led the way with six points thanks to the most-liked wild […]