Welcome to the third edition of the Detroit City FC TankS. I'm John Zino alongside Sean Gorgon. Hey, how'd it go? Dean is on the road this week.
We'll be having him call in for his segments. We've got a good episode for you today. We've been talking about a great weekend for City. That was.
We're going to be looking ahead at a week where City doesn't play but some other stuff happens up and down the lead table. And we've got a really good interview with Brett Mullen, City goalkeeper and quasi player coach. So we start off by dedicating this episode to the fine gentlemen of non-week America. Hopefully a lot of folks have just beat them this week.
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All these considered for those of us who are City is Sean. First game this week was obviously an away game at Fort Pitt on Friday. Ended up in one nothing DCFC victory. Third minute header by Sev Harris.
I think he's the best header in the league. I don't know that there's anybody else I can think of who would win a header over Sev. I think he's genetically part tree. But they held on to the rest of the game.
I wasn't there. I was just Twitter watching from the airplane. John, were you there? Yeah, it was a maybe there was a deeper strategy that I couldn't discern.
But it seemed like half the club was unfortunately playing possession. And half the club was trying to bomb it down the field. And the two sides of the team weren't ever necessarily connecting up. We had a couple guys with energy.
They had a great game. So I've had a great game. You know, the usual suspects were the usual suspects. But you know, they've been in the solid in the middle as always.
But Alex had a goal of my saves. Kept something in that game. But it was not their finest hour. Luckily, they were playing a pretty crappy team.
That's always hard. That was a turf field, right? Yeah. I always seem to struggle on turf fields for whatever reason compared to cast tech.
It's just a completely different flow of the game when you're playing on turf. So I, Fort Pitt, sort of weak team. But, and Dean will get into it in the craps of orders in the internet. And it's not an awesome experience other than the victory, which is great.
Yeah, I don't think that'd be a good day. Well, and I think the man of the match in that game was Alex Buonek, the keeper, for a shot out in that game, which was really good to see Brett Mullen was not there. It was a long time stalwart for a detroit stadium. We're interviewing him a little bit later.
So it was really good to see, get that confidence to have a really solid second option to both push Brett and if he's out. But I was really happy to see a really strong performance from second keeper. So, I'll have to see how the competition between the two develops for the rest of the season. I guess one last point is just, it always seems like in such a competitive division, there's no team that is now undefeated.
Everybody has a loss in the division. It's sort of close games all the way through. But the good team just find a way in the end. I think that's what we saw this weekend before.
It just found a way to keep Fort Pitt out of the hole and hang out at 1-0, 1-0 lead. Get those three points on the road. The game also featured something which was unusual, which was a actual legit no doubt. Yeah, you deserved it.
A way red card for a city player. Charlie, just about UFC, a dude. I should have told that we would see the legal UFC. Yeah, he deserved it and nobody complained too much.
Which was unusual for us when we got that sort of a way red. But this was a legit way red, I'm afraid. Sorry Charlie. Alright, moving on.
We're going to go into the Lansing game, which is another one, nothing victory. Another Alex Binek shut out. I really thought that this was probably the most complete performance we've seen from the team thus far this year. I mean, there's a final victory against Madison and against Minnesota Twin Stars.
But Lansing, they were undefeated before this game. And they did not have all that many chances at goal. I thought the defense was really, really nice for the entire thing. And I was really, really impressed by this game.
Lansing to their credit though, they didn't give us too many good chances on goal. I think I thought we would control more of a midfield, but there was not much final penetration at all. I mean, it was just a whole point all year long. It's been their defense.
They had it. They sort of covered up their lack of offense with a great defense. They're serving so great defense. But City's defense, honestly.
So these defense and midfield to me, what we said looked as good as I had seen that. And there was one or two places where William and I kind of make it really solid save. But beyond that, I mean, it wasn't like they were pepperating the whole way. Lansing has been pepperating other people's holes, you know, taking 15 shots and making two.
That wasn't like that. This time, that was the city really put the clamps on them. And I know we didn't have a lot of great chances, but just from this, we're the pace of play and who had control and how over control looked. But easily, ended up, you know, a free nothing game without it being weird.
I mean, it was that score line doesn't, I don't think shows the dominance that he had in this match. Yeah, they really seem to control more of the midfield. I was really, really impressed by some of midfielders during that game. Almost every Lansing attack seemed to just die in the defensive center midfield between Troy Lawson and David Robertson.
Both of them played outstanding breaking up attacks and just good smart distribution to keep the ball on the way out once it was won. Yeah, I mean, we always, you know, we sort of take Edwards in for granted and, you know, we shouldn't, we probably be able to serve a sort of music. He's always solid. Troy probably had the best match.
You've seen him play for City of the game. I think so. I think he's sort of having a breakout here. I mean, when he was introduced to the club like the Council of the Palace, and they looked good, but that was back in high school.
Nobody really knew about him all that much, but I think he's really been sort of a revelation player for this year. And everybody sort of knows in now and he's played a lot of games. It's been really solid defensively. So another state, and all the state for us back.
That is true. We've had a lot of them over the years. And that set us up really well for the end of the season. Drove fans out there are ecstatic with the revenge on Lansing after the 3-1 loss away there.
Everybody should be ecstatic. Like, I'm on cloud 9 after that win. Still got some pressure that people can't tell. I mean, that's the thing.
I mean, that's the thing. You know, you want to be lost. You got to be lost. And last year, you know, Lansing came out of our region.
Yeah, that was the case. So, I mean, if City wants to make any sort of run in the playoffs in postseason, and you know, we can get into the playoffs in someplace, you know, they got to be lancin'. Yeah. And the score line might not be that fan of the game itself.
That was really, really pathetic. I like the Lansing. They've got a good team again this year. They're pretty solid all the way through, not just offensively, but they were really organized defensively.
I thought, but really Miller's Blair just broke that game open in about the 3-8 minute with an amazing solo run. And just left the port Lansing defenders in the dust. Like flat footed. They hit hard and it was bawed.
You're crying on the grass. Deserve man of the match there for that goal. I mean, he's something special really. He tied up, on the goalie tied up for the ECSC all time leading goalscore with Zack Myers.
Unfortunately, he's been battling injuries some this year. But man, William Myers Blair, he's been something special every time he's appeared in the ECSC. Sure, I think. Yeah, and that raises a point.
I mean, obviously, we've got guys like Bill Miller's Blair and the other sort of Michigan Prize, which is important to happen. We've got guys sort of the second off-out state pipeline that we've gotten there for those two schools, and a lot of our really important players from those schools. But with the injuries that the team has seen this season, having the ability to draw players, quality players, from elsewhere, to fill in and patch over the net, and lead like this, the injuries that go on, it's the guys we've lost have been pretty damn important. It's with Mac devying up the season, and then also spending a lot of guys that did think, thank goodness we, of course, early on, we're like, how is the season going to find playing time for all these great players?
It's like, well, unfortunately, one of the places that's going to happen is because it's going to happen to them that's hurt. I mean, you've got to rely on your depth on the happens. And sometimes you've got to find new players. I mean, that's, you know, dancing one of their top two, you know, other than Matt Brown, you know, their other leading offensive guy, like in his name, but he wasn't able to play his hurt.
That probably showed him. I mean, that's, you know, they had another, you know, top offensive guy up there that might have been different. That's the link that was. Airback, and now joining us via the magic of the internet from someplace so far south that they think Auburn is a state.
It's Dean with what's going on in the community this week. Thanks, John. I'm in Georgia, not in Auburn or Alabama. But yes, I'm very far south.
Painfully had to miss the game on Sunday versus the United. But, you know, it is what it is. But the good news was managed to get a little Roos Rovering in on Friday and my wife and I, we were among, well, what would you say? I don't know, I don't know.
I don't know. Forty, forty-five people made the Roos Rover trip to Pittsburgh. Something like that. At some point, I probably should have stopped and counted by us to be screaming.
Right, yeah. Same here. At some point, I was sure waving a flag and screaming and everything. So I don't actually know how we were numbers wide.
Although we had a pretty sizable contingent. I do know, Sergeant, you did a head count of all of the non-staff for the four-fifth contingent that we came up with, 18. So even in the very conservative estimate for us, we had double their home crowd, which was in a 10,000 seat stadium. Yeah, one heck of an experience to say the least.
So. But if I had the idea of the ballboys, we're singing along with us. I know, I know. They were trying to, for those who didn't see the whole exchange on Twitter, at one point, we got yelled at by some sort of a parent, mother, or something rather than four-pit for being vulgar.
I believe her direct quote was, so sit your asses down, which is fantastic. I'm not sure if logic is engaged in, Pittsburgher, what might have been happening there. But I noticed at the end when she was leaving, she was the mother of the two ballboys. So I'm curious.
I'm curious what kind of car conversations might have happened or later on this weekend if we have two new followers on Twitter for DCSC, but if we have to, it's a diverseively, I don't know what the situation was. But yeah, as far as the trip, everybody had a great time. The restaurant that hosted us in Primonthe's was fantastic. I mean, you had a lot of lunatic out of towners, all demanding food and beer immediately, and they did a great job, so appreciate them.
Anyway, that had the opportunity to do what I guess I would call an authentic Rooster Rover experience. So not the trip up to Ochemist's, East Lansing, not the trip up to Pontiac or Dearborn. And I don't mean to discredit it, those are important to go support the club in every game. You know, those are essentially just kind of like regional home matches as far as just, you know, but the people that they would have sent to you or Minnesota or Pittsburgh, it's just an incredible experience.
Can it be in part of a tight low club of people who are there because they love it? It's fantastic, you know, we had the great representation. I know the players really felt it. I mean, gosh, that stadium was a giant echoing canyon.
At one point, you know, we do, at the cast we did the DCSC, kind of back and forth from the supporters section to the press box section. And we at one point decided that I was gonna lead a contingent or seven or eight people over to the opposite side of the pitch. And we would do that back and forth. The third year 35 was, you know, the seven or eight of us.
And so it was a lot of fun. We did that. We did Rooja Golda La La back and forth across the 50. And because there was nobody else singing, there's nobody else cheering.
I mean, I vaguely remember a few, you know, kind of PA announcer things about cards or a goal or whatever, but I mean, there was pretty non-cast. I mean, I think the high school is upper St. Clair High School. And I noticed on the scoreboard kind of in the top, it had the scrolling ticker message.
And throughout the entire game, it would say different high school students who were performing well in track and field, it would keep saying the flash of the word recognition, which is really strange. And then at different points, it was like going through the, you know, what you see like, the American part of the baseball stadium, they're trying to get the crowd to be chant louder and louder. But what they wanted to try to chant was USC for upper St. Clair.
So throughout time, it would be like, give me a U, give me a U, give me a C. It was just so strange. And so, you know, the context was absolutely bizarre for that. I laughed a lot.
Let's just put it that way. And I think I know you, I know you, in showing at the afternoon chat about non-league merit a little bit early on in this episode, but some of the guys from non-league America joined us. They're on this little summer road trip, which most importantly involved two matches and both of them were ours. So they wrapped it with us on Friday.
And you had a chance to talk to Brian, and I'll put a link to his Twitter, the other Twitter accounts and stuff. And shown us, you know, blast on Friday, he was over on the opposite side with us doing the chance the whole time. You know, on Sunday, he can't, he could say enough about how great that fan experience. So that means talking about a difference between fan experience, you know, being one of 40 or 50 on the road at Pitt and then being, you know, I guess for Brian, Casey was a 3,700 in first person and cast, you know, get 3701 and you know, that could have been him.
Although I know Fuzzi said, he's done a pretty proud to be the one. So everybody was that one. But I'm really interested and encouraged to hear their feedback, you know, their write up on the experience. I mean, you know, they couldn't say enough positive about, you know, being part of what was not going on.
But I think the thing that just really has to be emphasized the most is that, you know, I got to, when I walked out to the promontae, this restaurant bar in Pittsburgh, you know, like 530 or imagine it was at seven or something like that, walk in and I see the DCSC table and half the people I didn't know. And I think that was the coolest thing, because like I always imagined, you know, I didn't mean all think about like, oh yeah, and these are the people that are always gonna be there. You know, Sarge was there, he's from Pittsburgh. You know, John, you guys were there.
There's some of the, the solvers who have been there game after game after game were there. But there were so many relatively new and young faces to the group and it has to give a shout out to Plogs, or Die Hard in Kansas who found out about DCSC in the off season. And I'm actually gonna, I want to, in a future episode, I want to make sure to chat with a few minutes and kind of hear his thought on how he came to DCSC and what his first experience was this Rouge Rover thing. And so yeah, I'm gonna get his office at some point and see what he thought about that.
Kind of the incredible, evolving growing nature of the supporters group for DCSC. I think it's so important. The players, I mean, to see, Bullenek, you know, I believe, I'm not gonna say he's taken out his first clean sheet. I don't think he's had a clean sheet prior to this.
No, but it wasn't, he deserved it as well. He played it all the game. Absolutely. And so if you see that picture, the man of the match photo of him after the match with us, you know, there's whatever, it's kind of well done on the fence right up the pit.
There's so much like joy and emotion on his face. Everybody were all just like screaming so long down. And he was so, you know, keen on like talking to every single one of us about like, how glad he was there, how glad he was that we were there. And I think, you know, without a doubt, the cast of 3,000, 4,000 people, like that's an incredible atmosphere that mostly they never planned.
But even when you take it out of that, and you look at these 40, 50, 60, 80, 100 crew on the road, how does it still change the atmosphere? Because were they, had we not been there? Or had we just been there sitting quietly and reading or whatever it is the other fan of these other clubs to do? It would have been an absolutely lifeless, soccer less conversation than a barely game on it Fort Wayne, like I explained in the summers.
And so even 30 or 40 people completely changes the dynamic of the atmosphere. And I think that like, that has to be driven home. Anybody who has a chance of supporting the road, it matters. And the players will tell you that.
I couldn't agree with you more. The first off that I was struck by how many people there that I didn't know or sort of vaguely recognize, but didn't, you know, face to the name kind of thing. And then as well, just, you know, it's fun to support away. It's a great experience.
And it's really, you know, it makes you feel real connected to the team and the players. And they're really happy to see you. And it's a good thing. And anybody who can do it at all, like I said, if it's just Pontiac, if it's just Lansing, that's great.
You know, if you have the ability to do something further away, like a Buffalo or a pit or a Cleveland or a CNC or something like that, it's cool and it's different. And you get to sign the Rouge Rover flag, which is a nice one. Which, the last time I went, we didn't do that yet. But that was a good one.
Absolutely. Yeah. So now we're getting to the 4-bit experience, you know, on Friday. Because I left from Pittsburgh and we drove about there at like six o'clock in the morning, we drove south to Georgia, I didn't get a chance to go to Sunday match.
But I do have to acknowledge, when we talk about supporter college, supporter culture, I do have to acknowledge the Chattanooga, very briefly. Chattanooga, they've got an NPSL team in the same league as us. We've never played them. We're in different conferences.
We've never gotten to play some playoffs where we match up. We got knocked out one year where we theoretically were on the trajectory to play them. And then it's going to get through right if they happen in a year. But we haven't crossed paths yet.
We've been there for any vocal active supporter group, real decent people. And we were changing Twitter messages throughout the day on Saturday. And they made a point that, please, we're already driving south and they can't come to our game. Why don't you stop by our tailgate?
We want to buy you some beer and at least do things right as fellow vocal supporters of the club. And so my wife and I stopped through Chattanooga. We were only able to crowd about 15, 20 minutes. But Chad Ougens, Galen bought us some growlers of their Chattanooga beer.
And they were great. Like, are you sure you don't want to stick around? We can take it. Why don't you come to a game anytime?
I think they had a little mini watch party of our game on Sunday. So we rag on some of these clubs that don't have supported groups, like Pitt. But last week, we had to give shout out to CNC and their supporters working to make a cool atmosphere there. And at least as a fellow supporter of an NPSL club, I got a lot of credit to Chad New guy.
Hey, free delicious beer, which is helping to help fuel the DCSC Twitter account live tweet that I did yesterday. And my recording here, drinking a little Chattanooga brewing company here while we talk. So yeah, I hope people enjoyed that live tweet. By the way, I was on the stream sitting on the floor of a cottage in Georgia and I figured, why not?
So hopefully that was appreciated. I was amused by it as was Sean. So with the very least, you had us laughing at it, especially why the best part is getting the responses to people and seeing the response. I'm like, what the hell did he say to get that response?
Yes. Yeah, well, it happened. But the one thing that they talked about, the Lansing match, the one thing that you probably didn't get on the stream that I wanted to chat about real briefly is the one issue that we had this match. I didn't deal with it.
I came in fairly early with my drum. But apparently, I hadn't seen us having before. Maybe we're being victims of our success. But apparently, there were some real issues with lines to get into the stadium.
And I've seen that that wasn't a DCFC thing as much as it was a Detroit public schools or a DPS police issue. I don't know. I don't want to sort of lay blame at anybody's feet or responsibility with anybody. But since Ransom, the Lansing daycare book club supporter group, they weren't in their space until after the match was going.
And we were sort of teasing them. And apparently, it was more of an issue of the lines getting into the stadium than anything else. And other folks were talking about having issues with lines that were fairly long. Like, one photo I saw was the length of the stadium of a line of people waiting to get in.
So I would imagine just knowing the club's care for a game day experience that they'll figure that out, that they'll deal with that before the next match, that if there's somebody needs to be worked with, that they will do so. But it was for an organization that runs so often flawlessly on gaming, at least from we as supporters see to see that, was sort of like, OK, well, that's the, you know, yeah, when you get 300, 300 people trying to get through one game, that could be a problem. But that's something we sort of hope they figure out pretty quickly. Yeah, I think you're right.
And the club has been great about resolving these types of issues pretty quickly. So hopefully, maybe, obviously, the easiest solution would be to open another gate. But you know, I've had a conversation before in the past with owners or whatever. It sounds like it's just not an arrangement that the club and DPS and such can they happen for whatever reason.
So it is what it is. Hopefully, they get that resolved, though, because obviously, if that becomes a bigger issue going forward, that's going to mean people are going to, some people are going to just play that not coming to the match or going straight to the stadium and missing the march so that they can get in quickly. And that's not what we want to happen. Obviously, the results of the game, you guys are talking about a fantastic, beautiful game.
Obviously, it would've been great to put some more points on the board just because it's always great to have a lot of points on the board. But what a hard thought game. We looked pretty good. All that supporter section was on point.
The smoke of the 85 was absolutely incredible. Holy crap. I wasn't really sure if my dad was watching the stream up in China, say, Northern Michigan. Like I texted him and heard from him, and I just got this text at the 87th minute.
I just said, smoke in the bottom. Smoke is so impressive or something. I was like, well, please keep watching. I actually caught, I couldn't see much from my spot in the middle of all that among the drums.
But the one thing I did catch was somewhere around 87 or so there was a brief break in action, a ball without or something like that. There was a corner getting set or something. And Dave Edwards, as that standing at Midfield, he glances over and you can sort of see him double take as you see sort of how epic everything is. He says something like, holy crap or whatever.
You can see him mouth something and then he gives us a little golf clap like, well done. Like while the game's going on. Absolutely. And for everything we have to offer to be sort of noticed like, oh, this one's another level.
That was impressive. And obviously my voice is still fried from that. Can you hear my support? I did catch a little bit of that.
Although you're not as bad as you put on earlier today. I found it earlier with LaRouche Motor City in Helps. It's got curative powers. And that's a great selling point.
As to smoke, there was a big push to over the last week, really not just at the match, but just kind of the whole thing in general. Donate at the match, contribute online, that type of thing, to help us fund the smoke for the rest of the season. And that's been taken care of. So good job to everybody for helping us kind of lock that down for the rest of the season.
Again, if you watch the game yesterday, whether you were there on Sunday or whether you watched it online or if you've seen like beyond pictures, incredible, right? Absolutely incredible. We lit off. I even saw almost 70 pounds of smoke.
And it seems like about 65 of those pounds were at the age. No. It was incredible amount of smoke lit off at the end. That's awesome.
So yeah. So going forward, I mean, we have two home games left in the game in Pontiac. So this is always the part where I have to remind people to get out there by the single season. The single game tickets, if you don't have to see the pass, borrow somebody's either pass or get out of the pass.
Whatever it takes, you want to be at the last couple of games. You know, we're in a playoffs and we're in great place for the playoffs. But there's no guarantee at this point that we'll have home field playoff game. There's enough season left.
They're caught up pretty significant difference there. And so if we take care of what we need to and somebody else is out along the way by beating the United, great. But just saying we got home playoff game, there's no way to know that right now. And so don't bank on that and miss something awesome.
Yeah. One of the things that we're playing are teams that we have a history with. Correct. Sharda, Sparta, Stars, whatever they want to call themselves.
And maybe one of these days as we tease the upcoming Ask Padre segment, one of the interesting topics, maybe before that match would be like, who the hell are these guys and why do we care? What was the surgical masks that time? They've been a thorn in our side competitively, but a thorn in our side is by the fact that they're very existence acts as a negative to the quality of soccer in southeastern Michigan. And then Erie is, if there's any call out that's had historical success at Cass and all, it's Erie.
So there's a lot of quite, normally they have to have supporters. And in Erie's case, we actually banner with their keeper. And obviously he has played along to some extent, but I definitely along with the banter. But he also did allow us to buy the jersey from him if we raise enough money for a hooligan three heroes who would wear your project.
So who does it in for that? But I hope we crush them, absolutely and utterly crush them. But we do have history with them. We can definitely take some notes for our PS5.
I'll just ask you one second. I do have to give one more supported related chart on. That is to our good friend, Mr. McInnes, Charlie McInnes, or Copa Summerine on Twitter.
He played for us. He did a red card at Pitt. Throw a un-deserved red card at the same time. Yeah, it was a red card.
You know how the traffic lights are green, yellow, and red? And then we'll say like, it wasn't yellow. It wasn't even orange. It was red.
It was a pretty serious red, to say the least. Nothing, I didn't deserve it. But hey, it was red nonetheless. But we made sure to save a seat for Charlie in the supporter section.
He was with us. And there's a great picture that Sarge has him eating a victory popsicle in the section with us yesterday. So absolutely brilliant. Love him.
We should have him on the podcast someday. He's a good guy. And so that was fantastic. So now I come to wrap this up with this new little segment that we're going to be doing every episode.
And we're calling it the Ask Audrey segment. So here's the deal. This is not the first season or first game or anything like that by DCS David or supporters. So there's a lot of new people.
Like I said, there are new people even in fit. Or people I didn't really know. So we're going to use this segment each episode to answer a question, explain something, what is the little culture thing like John talking to that about? What is the situation with these people?
Why do we choose these masks? What is the story with this club? Something like that. Or if I can't answer it or if there's a better person to answer it like a Sarge or a Gene or a Banshee or John or whoever, we'll have them on to answer that question.
So the first question that comes up, we're wrapping up a year four. So what was the first game? What was it like? What happened to the first game?
So that's going to be our focus. What was the first game and the experience there? Now, John, if I remember correctly, you were not at this game, right? You were first game.
We did the show up to you. So the very first game was May 14, 2012. That cast, it was against who we joke in the called AC parma for a couple of years, AC Cleveland. They take way out in the suburbs of Cleveland for some time.
What is really interesting, if you go back in the next of the city, Facebook page even has these photos. This is so early in the development of the support culture that nobody's in Black NGS wear. Everybody's kind of wearing the same LaRue shirt and the same seat in one scarf, which is a very, very desired coveted item to say the least. There were some great, I actually just put through and there is comment from me on the game asking, how do I get a flag in the Northern Guard to tell me contact Jean?
That is brilliant. So the great game is an evening game. Jeremy Clark was in goal. Some familiar faces were there on the pitch.
Ken and Jean were there from day one. Chris Dose was there. Bone Ranger, Ryan, he's there. But there are a lot of, the supporters actually was really sparse.
And I was in the press box that season helping out the club. The first two seasons really. And it was a really light crowd compared to what we expected today. Now, we've never had under 1,000 people at a match.
Even the first year, the games were over 1,000 people. But when you think about it, that's less than a third of what we draw at a typical cast match today. So there was a lot of room in the supporter section. You could bounce around a lot in Tetris and maybe not hit somebody next to you.
It was a really low to fun and really cool thing to be part of in any way. Jean Short-Cannon goes back to that game for better, for worse, I believe. You're changing the shocking thing of those photos for me is that Ken Butcher is wearing pants. Yeah.
Ken himself, Hilton, Ken is in pants. This is absolutely true. It's a little bit shocking. He's just kind of wearing a baseball cap and watching the game.
Nothing too crazy. And I don't think it was. I think it was the third game of the season, which would have been, if I'm not mistaken, that might have been your first game. The first game was a big and thin game on June 2nd.
Yeah, OK. So that game was the unveil of the City 2 stick with Gerard Butler from 300. And you started to see some of that culture take on Sarge Head in his first battle helmet in the second game of the season against the then-Eurean rules, Eurey Burger King's, Eurey Ceven, Eurey Comitores, whatever they're called at any given time. Sarge actually had his helmet by that point with Lee's March.
And by game, that second game, another piece I developed. And that was kind of the prominent of some of the skulls. And so I'll include this because it's kind of this first couple of games experience. So there's always everybody to spend any time thinking, reading, knowing about Detroit, even if you've never been here before, imagine all the supporters have.
But if you can't, you always have always been a series of everyone left when you're in Detroit to Dead City. Instead, there's nothing there. Why, nobody doing anything without that. So if you listen to the Q&A and things like that, the interview in our Rebecca and season, you can talk about that at one point.
You can't even talk about it a lot. So they decided to break the Wild If Our City depend, then we're going to be the Walking Dead. So you started to see the skulls start to appear a little bit more by game two and three of that season. Was that game the big into game?
Was that a rain game? I think it was. No, that one wasn't. It was a Sparta rain game later in that season.
Was that a game? OK. Yeah, I've been a couple of awesome rain games. So to say the least.
So anyhow, hopefully, that's an information that helps. The first game was May of 2012. And there was a lot of room in the supporter section that is not an actual thing anymore. And that's OK, because that means we're doing something right.
So again, if you've got any interesting questions that you want answered, again related to supporter culture, don't send me any silly, silly, silly questions. I'm not answering them on the podcast. Behave yourself. So yeah, anything related to DTSC Northern Guard that we can answer, I will get these, work these in and answer them.
And if not, we'll find somebody like a star or just somebody that can. They're always questions. The new people, especially always have questions. And there have been people that have been around for two and a half years that might not know about what happened the first year and want to ask something about it.
So ask the way, tweet us, email us all the usual stuff. Do the Twitter hashtag and ask Padre, or if you want to ask a question that's a little bit longer, or you don't want it public, you can feel free to email us at the DCFC fancast at Gmail. If you've got a question you think is really stupid and you don't want us to use your name, we will keep you anonymous if you want. I think that's it for the community section, John.
And being safe travels back home, we got no match this week, but we're going to be getting back together while somebody else will do another interview this coming week. And then we'll see everybody know, Sean will be talking about the upcoming thing. And this is going to be very interesting to watch these playoffs. The playoffs coming up.
And that's the playoffs. We had to, actually I think our next ask Padre needs to be about the R heaven TFO. That'll be a fun one. That was really fun.
That's actually how I got wired into this portaculture. So we went out to help paint that playoff TFO. Why don't you tweet that question to me with a hashtag, ask Padre. And I'll definitely put on the list of questions.
Sounds good. Sounds good. All right, safe travels back home. All right, thank you.
And we will do this again in a few days. All right, back to that, folks. Amber back, joined today by a familiar face on the field between the pipes for Toretson. You have seen over the past couple of seasons.
Both people grab models on us. Right, thanks for joining us. I think I have. So speaking of coming back, I mean, you're then coming back to Detroit.
Spending your summer here for a couple of years now. What brings you back from Boston, Carolina every year to play for DCFC? Just the great experience I've had for the team on the way to the top and set. It's an issue to get back and build these guys.
And just the opportunity to wake up from the city of this man, just great experience that I'll hold it until I get back. I mean, you've sort of got this dual existence, not just being the coach at college and then the player during the year. You also serve as a player coach, as I said, for City. You talked a little bit about that.
I mean, that's something we got to bend KVU and it's a three-year take on. It's just that you can talk about your public. Well, my first year at the Gen Clark was kind of the same thing. He was a coach, a player.
I tried to go keep going. I was like, what's the same thing about the state? Gen Clark was back, so I spent a fact I spent a lot of time in the position. You let me do it, so it's been great.
So you grew up globally, correct? Yeah. So can you just take us through like starting a fourth year play, you do a club and then give us like a whole background and we're playing history up and what got you to this point? I started playing when I was three years old.
I don't know if that's a play back. I started playing tribal in third grade. I went to high school, but obviously you know that. I started three years there.
I went to open university where I registered my first year and then so I limited a playing time. I started my sophomore year, my freshman sophomore year. I was my next year, I started my school right now. I decided to transfer to university where I was the start of the year after that.
I went on a trial at Harrisburg, and I was actually out there. And that's the big way to back down there. And after that, came back home, then texted me and came up with trials, came up with team a bit and then just signed a good team. Came here for about, it's not third year.
All right, so you mentioned that you do some of the coaching duties for keepers down here at DCHC. What does that like every day of practice? Because obviously you're trying to practice and improve your own skills, but you're also trying to coach how the other keepers. How's that?
How do you work that balance? Yeah, it is a different kind of balance, but basically it's just, you know, I come in and I take a bowl of people for about the first 30 to 45 minutes. I take three drills as well. And we've had, we started season with a big ball.
And then both of these went back to a big number. So it was a big number. So it's at the first, but then the start of the number started to go down. So I just went three or four.
And then we just come in and push each other and you know that one guy plays. But it's still like a goalkeeper's union, but all guys say it's a one-time season. So she knows that one spot went back for it. And they're all going to the same thing.
So we're all going to the same thing. So we're all going to the same thing each other. Just think each other better. We should be able to still play and train with some allies.
So we're getting ready for preseason. And I feel like I can come out and try to do that. So it's been a cool dynamic training in the coaching. So unfortunately, one of the things that came out in the past game is that you can practice that you were out for last match because of injury and training.
Did you chat a little bit about that? Yeah. It was last Tuesday at practice. I just kind of offered the land on my knee.
And it was just been bugging me a week. And that wasn't able to play a nice game. But unfortunately, Alex is going to play pretty well for us last weekend. You guys can't shut us.
You just been way on point. That's a good scene. So it hasn't been missed a beat. You don't know yet.
And it turns out like how long or anything that's going on it? No, not yet. I got a doctor's card this week. Can I see what the deal is?
Go ahead and see Mickey, our trainer as well. Can I figure out what the deal is? Well, he's been progressing better each day. So hopefully, we're going to be able to get back in.
We're going to record this on Monday night. So that's kind of the most spooky. I don't think it's going to help things, Mike. So who gets to make a final call who plays in the game?
Because I have a friends decision. Yeah. All players are just left out for that. I've never had a question in the game.
Me or any other players. That was awesome. You've been here for a while. Have you seen anything in terms of how he's changed his coaching style or an evolution or anything like that over the years that he's been here?
No, I don't think so. Ben's a great coach. He's very direct with the players. He always knows what he expects from you.
And nothing's ever left up to guess. He always knows what he wants. And he gets the best out of the players. And he's going to let us and he gets back to stuff like that.
But I'd like to say that he's a player's coach. Because I often feel the school of the guys, like we all are specks, we all have to say. He says, this is what happens. Yeah, it's been great.
So when you're coaching at Coast Caroline, it's the same sort of thing. We're still doing drills with the team. Is that helping keep him shaper in the offseason? Or do you feel like you've got to come back from not having done much to the center?
No, I coached for the past two spring seasons. We've only had one both of them. So I've had to jump in and play. I've been like every day.
So it's a good way for you guys to keep in shape. And if it wasn't for that, I'd probably not be able to play. I'll be able to be the summers. Because we go through position.
You have to always be training and always be chirping every time you go. As you lose it very fast. And you've got to play games, get in training. Otherwise, you lose basically a technique.
Do you have a goal for a plan for how much longer you plan on playing? Then do you know what your body's going to tell you when it's time to coach full time? Yeah, well, I've had to give you a hint on that. I've talked to people, and this week, just last year, I think they'll probably might too.
It's kind of a good game to go. You have to be under guys, an opportunity to college guys, an opportunity to play. You don't want to be that guy. It's hanging on, hanging on, you know.
So it's like 18-year-olds there on the team. It's going to be 10-28, so it's kind of. I've had my fun here on my career. So I'm going to go to the private class.
No, it's not underline. Regardless of the skill, the other keepers, I know the supporters are missing. Yeah, no, I've missed that. It's been a lot of fun watching for a couple years.
What does it mean as a player? You'll probably get more time being able to watch the supporters than any other player. Everybody else has to keep on running around. You get the chances for standing back there and then watch what's going on.
Do you have favorite moments or stories or stuff that you had a high and a half ad over there? Well, yeah, my favorite song is in the cast and city songs. I heard that in the act that was hilarious. And you mean, Josh, you're sitting on the classroom and going away getting into the city.
My very first game, I was very nervous. I remember playing in front of these in the crowd. It was, I mean, it was just, when you stuck here that the drums and the chances from parries, it slowly came over a lot of the odds. It was a bit overwhelmed in first game.
But now it was just, when you started here, it was just changing and I got extremely dirty for those teams that come to the cast. It was interesting to know. To the way we talked to last week, said you thought there might almost be a weird issue where, I mean, yes, obviously Cass has the Sniper advantage, but that almost the lack of that advantage and lack of that energy is pulled away by almost the negative friendship Do you think they're something too bad or? I don't know because we still get a lot of the support that battle.
I mean, we're at Cincinnati and they have maybe three or four support which I'm in flags. We have 50. So I mean, I don't know what I would say. Like, don't say it's a disban or a way, but because we get some of the guys that do travel.
But it isn't extreme, won't we? We definitely miss when we're not home. How about the smoke? The smoke, yeah.
It's a very cool part of the game. But like I was saying before, there was one game where we scored to go up with maybe 10 minutes left and the smoke was going and the wind just happened. So I have to be going in my face. So I'll smoke and I can really see anything.
But it is a very cool part of the game. It's awesome. Do the other players ever heard them say anything to you guys about this? Like, how they have to deal with this?
Or I wish I could play for you or anything like that? Yeah, it is just funny that some of the guys in the field are going to see it. They get into drills and the coffee and stuff. But it's an awesome part of the game.
I wouldn't want to either way. Now that the screens are going, you ever go back and watch the streams and analyze your positioning and stuff? Yeah, I've always been a kind of a film guy. Whenever I'm from college up till now, I always like to go back and see if I do let it go, likely to come up differently.
Or if it was a good play that I made, just to see before I game it's good for watching. The plays he made just to kind of get your visualization and come and stuff. But I have to go back and watch a lot of times. Did you, before this season, the obvious whole life during this year, but did you guys have done what they all do to watch before this year?
Or is it just like the guys, there would be some highlights that they put up on the DCS website. Because that can happen, there's just one can up. But this year is awesome. But the whole life stream is really good quality.
Everyone has the right to come and see if you can be out there announcing what you can do. You said you've got a family here, you think on the matches? Well, my brother is a big trick city fan. He's got to see him take it.
He's our own cyber game. My parents actually just moved to Germany two years ago. So I've never been able to go to the city play. My brother is there.
He brought my uncle together. He's got a week. So it's been a place to see him out there. We talked about this, all things considered probably in your last year and I went and got into coaching.
And what's, would you sort of like to move up the ranks, specializing in being a keeper's coach? Do you know what I'm interested in trying to become my head coach, that's sort of your goal? As far as that goes, you have what? Yeah.
You know what I think I would like to be a coach. And somehow, for the record that way, obviously, if you're coaching, that's a main goal, to have a team your own. So I think, yeah, I'd like to be a coach of that. So I'm just kind of right now, just working with making somebody networking, and working next to second-hand, and just getting all the licenses that you can.
This is what they're doing. The life of a keeper can be sort of a strange one. I grew up with my younger sister, I was a keeper, and he was fairly good, and he was first team, and played for college, and sort of as a fan, as a brother, watching it just for the end of the day, like, you know, the center made from all downs, and we have this, like, you know, that sucks, you know, the keeper misses one. Everybody notices even people who don't notice their own other games.
That's something you've sort of embraced, is that something you had to figure out how to deal with as you came up, or how does that mentally work for you? Yeah, it's a very interesting position. I mean, even from a young age, they have to be extremely mentally tough, because, you know, for that one, you can't think about it, you can't think about it, you know. You can be the hero of the villain, pretty much, you know, and in the real competition where you cannot make it safe, you know, like, like, the center made it fall down, so I'm not slipping everything, but we have to be there to cover it up, and say, pretty much.
Like you say, you know, we can make 10 amazing saves, get sort of 90 minutes, and we're just like, the love played for it, but that's what I think. Sort of the teams evolved in terms of the players on the field, and the pass over the years, you're starting to see guys, like, you know, Bennett coming up from Pittsburgh, a player, another guy from Iowa, and the like, people wanting to be a part of this, in the locker room, and the class, is that changed to, sort of, the field that you saw, is it, is it, is it, is it, in terms of the new guys coming in terms of keeping the spirit of the team, and focus of the team together? Oh, yeah, those guys have been, they have some very cool personalities, and say, um, they're very funny guys. I mean, they're Ross and Abby, and they're all very different, and they're very alkaline, which is going to be a good helping.
We're on the bus rise, it's a big team bonding type of atmosphere, we always have a fun, we always, and new guys always bring them by them, so it's, you know, with us being such a diverse team, as far as I know, these guys are England, they guys are Iowa, from all over the place, so it's like, they come out to the summer, and we're how they really have, so it becomes a type of family type of atmosphere, and you know, we all have each other's backs, and it's just really like them. But I thought sort of the quality of the team in front of you, as soon as you know, it goes to the guys in the room, it sort of seems like even this, you know, this is a whole list of the quality plays in front of the room, and it's passed up a year. Yeah, definitely, I think this year is probably one of the best year we've had, as far as competition, I think it was the last year's, because we're just in position. But yeah, Ben's done a great job with bringing guys in, and we have very talented pool players this year, and as you can tell, I think we've had the same lineup for two games this year, we can flip out with players, and we've got our injuries to attack, Myers, Harvey, and Ross, those guys, the lot of players going down, and we have a recipe, and we're trying to come together for a pretty time, for a great help, and a season for us play.
And it's been good at playing, as we have a field yet for winning some of the college players are heading back, and I think that's a good challenge for the half of the year. Yeah, I think, with college, I think it's different. I know the mission you guys actually went back a little bit early, and we'd like to have our guys back to the 18, just because they need a break between summer and April, or as you get from now, because we think about it, it's 18 on the straight, when it's actually spring to the summer for fall. So it depends on the school really.
A lot of times, if the teams make the playoffs, they'll coach the ones they, but I really just kind of like the coaching program. So you mentioned the joy team for the coast of Carolina, are you going back at that time, or are you going to stick around until the end of the season? I'll probably stick around here for playoffs. It all depends really on what kind of youth you're out to need, everything, but you know, right now, if I say you're here, I'll be here for a half.
Yeah, I like that other things are going to be anything you're going to need. That's one of the things, talk about the camps. You've got a chance to do any of your camp stuff, or maybe your way up for the match to do something kind of thing you're interested in, something that's really simple, the team is doing with the youth camps, and the youth leads they should like, I'm going to know even my son is right now, and I'm going to just test it, and I'm talking about how do you check it in at that camp, and look at it. Is it the kind of thing that you sort of, as a player, enjoy seeing the team work with the next generation?
Yeah, I think that's been really cool. You know, if they've set up all of the pile stuff, and everything has been, I did it a lot last year. I haven't got a chance to get a lot of coffee, but I've got some guys who have a lot of team. It's been really cool to just get out there with these kids, and you know, pop up the next generation, kind of, you know, they're looking up to us.
So it's really cool to be on, because everyone else is acting on, and everyone else is acting on, and everyone's looking at the players, you know, with the training and stuff like that. It's, you know, that's the throwback right there, but you know, it's just an honor to be back in the game. So it's an honor to be back in the game. I think we're, you've been around soccer all over life.
We're, do you think, city's going to end up? I mean, can you see this town, is it going to be a Detroit area of soccer, do you think this town supports higher level soccer? I mean, that was the account since then, since then, it was just a community. It was more people caring and watching, and it was like doing playing a beat by soccer than I've ever seen in my entire life.