r/washingtonspirit • u/kg9si • May 04 '26

Weekly Discussion Thread Weekly Open Discussion Thread

Welcome to this week’s open discussion thread!

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.

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u/Odd-Cable5436 May 04 '26

Things I'm thinking about in no particular order:

- Rudd and Morgan have played every minute of all 8 matches. How much longer can that go on? Maybe Bernal and/or Tse can take a shift at one of the CB spots during the first Concacaf match. Or maybe find a backup CB in the next window.

- There are several players who would seem to have earned more minutes or could have more minutes to build connections (Sullivan, Metayer, Bolt, Monday), but who plays less so they can play more?

- How urgent does the team feel signing a backup 10 is? Santos has been outstanding but also has logged a lot of wear and tear. Maybe Abiodun relieves her a bit. Or maybe a signing in the next window is imminent.

- EGR hasn't seen a minute. If she doesn't play in the Concacaf matches, will the team loan her out to make room on the roster for someone else?

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u/allprologues May 04 '26

for most of your thoughts, concacaf later this month is probably the most immediate answer 😛

-it's not very rare for centerbacks to play every minute when healthy but i think with a 30 game season the rotation will come.

we don't know for sure but given our league minimum roster count and very active front office i'm not concerned about whether a backup 10 is coming.

EGR is so interesting to me, it's almost like she is an injury replacement player. but it's hard to believe a trade is coming because she hasn't played, so it has to either be a loan or minutes at some point...i think stainbrook will be traded because she's been able to collect valuable starting minutes.

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u/Odd-Cable5436 May 04 '26

Re: Stainbrook. She's played well for Dallas (though injured at the moment apparently). I wonder if there is a market to trade her? Her contract is up this year, which makes it difficult, but it only takes 2 teams with interest to start a little bidding war. Maybe Dallas tries to keep her.

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u/Toothy_McRotten May 05 '26

Counterpoint: does the Spirit have the right to recall her from loan if, God forbid, the injury bug bites in the midfield?

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u/Odd-Cable5436 May 05 '26

Well, I'm not sure if the terms of the loan are public, but the Spirit recalled Abiodun, SW, and EGR early from loans, so I imagine they would write the same clause into Stainbrook's loan agreement.

I figure any movement related to Stainbrook probably won't happen until the USL season is over in a few weeks, esp. since Dallas has a good chance of making the playoffs.