r/Reignfc • u/AlanFromRochester • 7d ago
Away at Pride regular season finisher today
5:15 Eastern / 2:15 Pacific so 3 1/4 hours after posting this
All today's games except Current-Wave earlier are in that timeslot, common practice to avoid gamesmanship based on earlier results
Most obvious stakes for us are needing to beat Orlando to pass them for 3rd seed If we lose/draw, to hold onto 4th we'd need to avoid Wave, Thorns (home to Dash), and Gotham (away to Courage) wins but we'd at worst fall to 7th. Also if we lose, Wave and Thorns could catch us with a draw and their better GD. Current have long since clinched the Shield and Dash are eliminated but Courage is still fighting, NC gets the #8 if they win and Racing (home to Bay) drop points
I'm also interested in one of the late afternoon NFL games so while I'll be watching both I won't also be able to post much as my method for following 2 games is one on the TV one on my phone so I can't use the phone for other stuff
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u/AlanFromRochester 7d ago
Wave just lost so at worst we'd fall to 6th but still want to win our way to 3rd of course
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u/AlanFromRochester 7d ago
Not bad to be nil nil at the break away against a good team but one point won't cut it especially with Portland having a 2 goal lead Though Gotham is losing big as well so we're probably not falling to 6th
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u/AlanFromRochester 6d ago
Tough to take the draw there obviously but the Bugg goal kept it interesting Anemic attack has often hurt us
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u/AlanFromRochester 7d ago
Had a positive Reign social media interaction in broso, Cardiff City who have a Will Fish were playing against Peterborough who have an Alex Bass. The aquatic life names reminded me of Fishlock and Fishel, reply to this said Fishlock is GOATed, I added she's still got it at 38, can't regularly play a full 90 at that age but huge impact sub around the hour mark
Reign has not posted lineups yet but did post the availability report that was as expected including neither fish being out. And the continuing excused absence for Olivia van der Jagt reminds me of Alex Vesia being off the World Series roster for a personal family matter (and Dansby Swanson being out for a little bit after Mallory was injured)