Thorns FC: Memory Box 3 – Fashonista!
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Read More Thorns FC: Memory Box 3 – Fashonista!Thorns dress for success!
Read More Thorns FC: Memory Box 3 – Fashonista!The Loved Ones…
Read More Thorns FC: Memory Box 2 – The Loved OnesLet’s talk about some favorite (and maybe not-so-favorite) Thorns..!
Read More Thorns FC: Memory Box 1 – The EnigmasWhile we’re waiting for the delayed season to start…let’s discuss the club’s offseason moves!
Read More Thorns FC: Drafts and Deals, Part 1Back when I was a broth of a boy – in the Eighties, for those of you who can’t imagine such a thing – I whiled away the time at soldiering. Or, at least, what we imagined was soldiering; the notion that you could spend a career commuting between CONUS and various unpaved portions of […]
Read More Thorns FC: In the Dead TimeWith Richard Budweiser at the helm we discuss the draft, John relates the plot of the 2008 children’s film Bolt and Shannan shares a hot tip from a secret informant.
Read More Episode 32: It’s Getting Drafty in HereIn the old movie this is where the editor runs into the newsroom shouting “STOP THE PRESSES!!!” To me this is intriguing on a number of levels: First, because without Macario I don’t see the #1 pick on this draft being worth all that much. Certainly not worth a subsidized player. Certainly not worth a […]
Read More Thorns FC: Wild CardWell, so far it’s been an underwhelming NWSL off-season everywhere but in Australia. And we’ll talk about Thorns Down Under some time in late January or early February. Whole Lot o’ Nothin’ The hoped-for 2020 NWSL expansion is officially deader’n the passenger pigeon. Sacramento, for reasons that have still not been fully explained, was unable […]
Read More Thorns FC: Draft CardI thought I’d said enough about last season, until I realized that I hadn’t got to where the buck really stops; the coaching and training staff and the club management. So in this final, final-grades post I want to discuss what in the Army we liked to call the “echelons above reality”; the people who […]
Read More Thorns FC: Final Grades – The Coaches, Trainers, and ManagementWe’ve finally come to the end of our look at the 2019 Thorns with the players whose job is to put the biscuit in the basket; the forwards. Before we got to this point we’ve looked at the goalkeepers, and concluded that we have two players who appear to be on diverging paths; A.D Franch, […]
Read More Thorns FC: Final Grades – The Forwards