(in which we ponder how the Thorns will do through the Olympics) UPDATE: Amandine Henry was at the Timbers USOC match on June 29. It now appears that she will not be joining the French Olympics training camp this week and instead will play for the Thorns this weekend! Opinions vary widely about the Thorns’ […]
Read More What, Me Worry?With the addition of Amandine Henry the Thorns have become a terrifying soccer machine. Guest Lewis Selway joins us to discuss the games against Chicago and New York, how July is looking to shape up with six players gone on national team duty and why it shouldn’t be as devastating as some people fear. https://soundcloud.com/chizeck/episode-7-friends-dont-let-friends-worry-about-july-wlewis-selway
Read More Episode 7: Friends Don’t Let Friends Worry About July (w/Lewis Selway)(in which the Thorns make good with their last full roster until nearly September) The Thorns played the first-place Chicago Red Stars at home on June 22 and then flew across the country to play mid-table Orlando on the 26th. The results were a nervous 2-0 win in the first match and a dramatic come-from-behind […]
Read More Full Strength(In which the Thorns show their class outside Oregon, only to get some bad news back home.) Our Thorns went on the road to play two distant matches against the top two teams in the league. Both outings were excellent with a 1-1 draw at Chicago and then five days later a 2-0 win versus […]
Read More Road, Sweet Road…Several folks have asked about the upcoming schedules and potential absences. I consolidated the schedule for every national team represented on the Thorns from July 1 to the end of the season. Optimistically, I am sticking by my preseason projection that Amandine Henry joins the Thorns for the July 2 home match and therefore that […]
Read More Who is gone when?Richard is back to discuss the matches against Seattle, the future of certain players on the squad with the Olympics coming up and Emily learns about roses. https://soundcloud.com/chizeck/episode-6-a-matter-of-inches-wrichard-hamje
Read More Episode 6: A Matter of Inches (w/Richard Hamje)The Thorns survived a scare on Sunday in one of the more exciting and tense nil-nil draws you could ask to see. The team lost half its starters to national team duty yet managed to fight the nearly full-strength Seattle Reign to a stalemate at Providence Park. It is clear that Mark Parsons has brought […]
Read More Phew!The Thorns finally returned to Providence Park on Saturday and what a return it was! The opponent was the Washington Spirit, tops in the league. We’d recently played them to a nil-nil draw in the wilds of Maryland. Given that the Thorns had scored only five goals in five games while the Sprit had conceded […]
Read More Is that the Death Star on the Horizon?Thorns capo Alex Staller (@stalleralex) fills in for Patrick (who had laryngitis, not a hangover as the hosts claim) as we discuss the match against the Seattle Reign, the upcoming match against the Washington Spirit and what being a capo is like. https://soundcloud.com/chizeck/episode-5
Read More Episode 5: Double Standard FC (w/Alex StallerCatfight in Seattle by Richard Hamje Have you ever watched two cats face off? Lots of posturing, hissing, back-arching as the opponents watchfully circle each other. A sudden flurry of claws and teeth that quickly settles back into attentive circling. Sometimes a little blood is drawn but most often the combatants simply walk away with […]
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