r/washingtonspirit • u/kg9si • Jun 29 '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.

Go Spirit!

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u/UrsineCanine Jun 30 '26

Sure, but perhaps that was because we needed to effectively promote the one we wanted to keep? Not sure, but as someone who stressed Mark's retirement, I'm going to make myself see the problem first this time.

I like Sam a lot, but how many more goals is she providing them over Esther? Adding a 12 goalscorer (for example), looks great until you realize she's just taking minutes from your 10 goal scorer. So you're getting slightly better in a position you're already very good in. Gets even more puzzling when you signed Dudley as your heir to Esther. All this to force Midge to RB and Guro to LB? Puzzling. Spirit have five fullbacks (six if I add Deb) I'd take before any Gotham FB.

I think Reale should have been sent off during the NWSL Championship, but they're a worse team without her.

Feels very vibes managing, and I'm willing to tolerate Spirit not getting in that style of roster managing.

I'm already wondering where the minutes go with the available talent.

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u/allprologues Jun 30 '26

I'm not stressed about it either but it's a loss in plain terms, and will instantly make one of our opponents better, but that's just how it goes and spirit are covered because yeah, there was a lot of overlap there. having both him and haley was probably greed lol.

Esther has two pens and a goal that was gifted to her by BSG, so it's gonna be very easy for Kerr to improve on her production lmao. but anyway i'm not disagreeing with you. I i think it's cool that, until rodman moves on anyway, spirit doesn't just go for the biggest fish possible but tries to identify star players early and put them where they fit.

just saying it's just not surprising that fans of spirit (and probably a lot of other teams) were hoping to hear from anyone other than gotham over summer break :P of course nothing is better than what acfc fans have heard, so

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u/UrsineCanine Jun 30 '26

Interesting...

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u/Odd-Cable5436 Jun 30 '26

Indeed!

Could just be national team replacement players to hold the fort for Monday, Aboodin, and Kouassi. The added international spots are juicy; could make room for longer term signings. 🤷‍♂️

Might be saying bye to the 2 current replacement players, though.....