Lucy Rushton

And then if not, as we said, I don't know that the standings matter so much in terms of feeling confident against any of these matchups.

I'll be quick on this because I know we've got Lucy Rushton coming up too, and we have yapped a lot about decision day, which it should.

It should get its time.

I don't think anybody drops points.

Right.

biases like in that when we talk about building like we're going to have our own like well I like playing football this way and how much do we want to allow that to kind of come into our thinking so those are the kind of conversations we've had in them and like what are our objectives like what are our one year three year five year objectives because that should probably drive like what our style of play is maybe in year one versus year three as well So it's kind of based on all of those things, but certainly like a collaboration.

Like, yeah, it's not like this is the Lucy Rushton book on how to play.

But also as well, like just being influenced by NWSL and what success is, right? Like we need to know what does it take to be successful in this league and in the women's game.

Let's move on and talk about the actual expansion franchises and their GM hires and what we think about each of these.

Let's start with Atlanta because Columbus hired Lucy Rushton, who made her name with Atlanta.

She was available and the same ownership group that owns the men's team, Atlanta United, decided not to hire

her.

And you might just be like, how, what, what, what are, what is her management style and what context of leadership is she, is she plugged into, which maybe the AFC wasn't the right combination of personalities.

And yeah, ultimate vision.

Who's to say? But regardless, I think the other thing that this shows you is when uh when you made the joke about how like richard gunny might not seem up from the outside like an ambitious hire i think the reason i kind of rejected that idea was like lucy rushton is an example of just like how just how few people with quote unquote like substantial track records doing these jobs in women's soccer how short that list is that lucy rushton Despite only having 12 months as as a as a GM, like would have been near the top of that list of people who would have been available for a job like this, you know, because there's just so few that actually have like long standing.

And frankly, half the ones that do don't deserve GM jobs.

NWSL team's, uh, general manager, uh, this week, and, uh, that's probably something we should mention.

Lucy Rushton, uh, has been named the general manager.

That happened late last week.

Uh, I'll touch on that here in a little bit.

You know, you'd love to be in the playoff picture or in, in the playoff field right now.

But I, I, I would much rather be the Crew as an organization than, than what FC Cincinnati is at, at this point.

Um- I said I'd mention the, um, new GM of the Crew's NWSL team, uh, Lucy Rushton, who was announced on Friday, um, and then they had a press conference with her, uh, this Monday.

Um, I will read you some of her experience.

Atlanta had their hire.

Columbus also matched with a hire this week as Columbus NWSL hired Lucy Rushton as their GM.

Rushton, who has had roles in the Major League Soccer realm and NWSL realm.

What do you make of this hire, Jordan? I thought it was interesting.

I find it interesting.

Just

Lucy Rushton's success rate in both of those leagues, both in MLS, especially I would say with DC United, and then with Bay FC.

To me, it doesn't stand out as like wowing me.