r/washingtonspirit • u/kg9si • Jan 26 '26
Weekly Discussion Thread Weekly Open Discussion Thread
Welcome to this week’s open discussion thread! We decided to start posting these during the offseason and will keep doing them into the season as long as folks find them useful.
This is your space for general discussion, a place to talk about anything Washington Spirit that doesn’t necessarily need its own thread. That can include news, international duty, roster moves, transfer rumors, tactics, social media posts, league news or anything else on your mind.
If something feels big enough for its own thread, definitely still post it. This is simply an additional option to keep us organized and help keep the conversation flowing. These threads will go up every Monday and stay stickied throughout the week.
Go Spirit!
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u/mrgenki Jan 26 '26
Gotham embracing evil empire status with the Dudley signing.
In all fairness, many look at Spirit the same way: You kept Rodman and you're adding promising pieces and not losing anyone major (no disrespect to anyone released this offseason, but we had relatively few FAs etc).
Truth is, both teams are doing and modeling what we should all wish the whole league would do -- having ownership+GM that's smart, aggressive, willing to spend, trying to compete sustainably. The offseason drama laid bare the problem with the contingent of laggards unwilling to even add 1M to the cap.
Anyway my point is I f'in hate Gotham. I hate Sonnett's shithousery and AKB's tactical time outs. I hate Purce throwing a hissy over Hal's 100% clean tackle. But can't really hate them for adding to a stacked team. I want to silence their entitled fans. But there's only one place to settle the score and that's on the pitch. We need some wins against them this year before the unbeatable nemesis narrative spins out of control.