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The Rouge Shoots of Spring:

WNGS Radio - Show #29 - 3.25.2021

• Welcome and extended intro-chat - where we been, random free for all

Rouge women update

• Incredible talent-vacuuming work underway
  • Driven by massive “recruitment spreadsheet” - Jon Evans & Juice
  • Existence of two-tier roster means City can sign up every aspirational young footballer out there while still getting top-line recruits
  • No return for Sydney Blomquist, but it was a very near thing - offer from Brazil came the same week the comms team was planning to announce Syd as a returner
• Specific players to get hype over
  • Returners: Sarah Huge, Kenna White, Lily Lucas, Caroline Fleming, Hannah Becker, Kayla Halmaghi, Grace Philpotts
  • Newcomers:
    • Leaders: Megan Miles (like SH a coach at City west); Elisa Baeron is strength & conditioning coach at MSU; potentially Madison Duncan
    • Stepping-stone ringers: Brenna Lovera, potentially Madison Duncan
    • Promising younger players: Madi Wolfbauer, Madeline Carlson, Brooke Sleeva

The men

• Roster stuff
  • MWPL side not even a glimmer yet, everyone chill on that. Maybe Beni & Bosh together, that move the needle for yas?
  • New guys
    • Anthony Manning
    • Javan Torre
    • Maxi Rodriguez
    • Pablo Cruz
    • Barnabas ‘Bosh’ Tanyi
  • Still awaiting visa approvals for Zeed and Max but they’re both signed
  • Expecting a new round of trialists next week
• The schedule
  • Shifting reality around COVID
  • NISA mini-tourney, then a regular season, then whackadoo playoffs
  • Hoping to have normal ‘Apertura’ league season in the fall.
• May Day v the Bobcats, spring has motherfucking sprung and let’s get HYPE
• Or would that be Clausura? NISA maybe waffling on fall-spring calendar which leads us to

NISA is not NPSL Pro

• We helped get it going, but NISA is its own thing now
• Odd signs: UWS announcement, then un-announcement
• Is there any daylight between the Prutch family and Prometheus Capital?
• Ranting and speculation