OL Reign 2020

Discussion in 'Seattle Reign FC' started by shlj, Jan 13, 2020.

  1. hotjam2

    hotjam2 Member+

    Nov 23, 2012
    Club:
    Real Madrid
    thanks for the explanation. Me thinking the trade & draft pick was somehow connected for the Spirit to get Macario,,,,but with their many winning seasons, there's no way Seattle was going to have the very first choice draft choice!
     
  2. Klingo3034

    Klingo3034 Member+

    Dallas FC
    United States
    Oct 11, 2019
    Is Louisville going to get the number one pick?
     
  3. SiberianThunderT

    Sep 21, 2008
    DC
    Club:
    Saint Louis Athletica
    Nat'l Team:
    Spain
    By all means they should, yeah. The whole league has known they were coming in for well over a year now. The only reason previous expansions teams have "missed" getting the #1 pick was that they came into the league with less than an offseason to go, meaning everyone else had planned for the draft without expansion considerations.
     
  4. hotjam2

    hotjam2 Member+

    Nov 23, 2012
    Club:
    Real Madrid
    I don’t get how Louisville is the only expansion? It’s a real pretty town, but it’s only a half a mill strong with no suburbs & or major cities close by. In the meantime the 14 million plus LA area still got to wait another year, what gives?
     
  5. SiberianThunderT

    Sep 21, 2008
    DC
    Club:
    Saint Louis Athletica
    Nat'l Team:
    Spain
    Not necessarily(?) on-the-pitch related news, but midfielder (currently on loan) R. Quinn has come out as trans on their Instagram. Just a fun tidbit I wanted to share. =-)
     
  6. Reign Man

    Reign Man Member

    SEATTLE REIGN!
    Sep 28, 2016
    Seattle
    Club:
    Seattle
    Nat'l Team:
    Netherlands
    Things are going to get interesting with player moves starting tomorrow.

    So who do folks feel like we must protect in the expansion draft next month.
    I think Balcer and Murphy are the top two we must protect.
     
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  7. Klingo3034

    Klingo3034 Member+

    Dallas FC
    United States
    Oct 11, 2019
    Is allocation money going to be involved in this also? This will be confusing as well if it did. Get two players from a team, and offer money for another 3rd player from the same team.
     
  8. Klingo3034

    Klingo3034 Member+

    Dallas FC
    United States
    Oct 11, 2019
    And finally, what about the players overseas? Like Christen Press, Sam Mewis, Rose Lavelle and so on?
     
  9. Reign Man

    Reign Man Member

    SEATTLE REIGN!
    Sep 28, 2016
    Seattle
    Club:
    Seattle
    Nat'l Team:
    Netherlands
    Surely it won't be involved in the draft -- but you're right that there will be a high likelyhood of trades soon after.
     
  10. Reign Man

    Reign Man Member

    SEATTLE REIGN!
    Sep 28, 2016
    Seattle
    Club:
    Seattle
    Nat'l Team:
    Netherlands
    22-Oct 14:00 PDT Trade window closes. All previously unannounced trades announced
    29-Oct 14:00 PDT End-of-season process deadline (all contracts renewed or waived)
    04-Nov 14:00 PST Protected list due from clubs to the NWSL
    05-Nov 10:00 PST Protected/unprotected lists distributed and made public
    12-Nov ??? time Expansion Draft
    13-Nov 06:00 PST Trade window opens
     
  11. Reign Man

    Reign Man Member

    SEATTLE REIGN!
    Sep 28, 2016
    Seattle
    Club:
    Seattle
    Nat'l Team:
    Netherlands
    They haven't posted the rules yet.

    2014 rules
    teams can protect 9
    non-playoff teams can protect 1 more
    after player taken can protect 1 more
    required to protect internationals & loans
    allowed to protect discovery claims
    max taken from a team 2
    max taken from a team if allocated taken 1
    max allocated taken in whole draft 2 US + 1 Can + 1 Mex

    2015 rules
    teams can protect 9
    non-playoff teams can protect 1 more
    if >2 allocated, can protect 2
    after player taken can protect 1 more
    max taken from a team 2
    max taken from a team if allocated taken 1
    max allocated taken in draft 2
    players on loan, wavers or rights can be taken
     
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  12. Klingo3034

    Klingo3034 Member+

    Dallas FC
    United States
    Oct 11, 2019
    That 2015 last line makes things interesting. Players on loan, wavers or rights can be taken.
     
  13. Reign Man

    Reign Man Member

    SEATTLE REIGN!
    Sep 28, 2016
    Seattle
    Club:
    Seattle
    Nat'l Team:
    Netherlands
    OK scratch Murphy. Crap.
     
  14. Klingo3034

    Klingo3034 Member+

    Dallas FC
    United States
    Oct 11, 2019
    Could be somebody from overseas will join OL, maybe from Lyon.
     
  15. shlj

    shlj Member+

    Apr 16, 2007
    London
    Club:
    FC Nantes
    Nat'l Team:
    France
    Yes, very surprised they preferred to keep Betos rather than Murphy.
    And yes someone could come from Lyon considering some of their French players might retire from the NT while coach Diacre is at the helm. So that would be the perfect time to come to the USA ( pending Covid-19 of course).
     
  16. Reign Man

    Reign Man Member

    SEATTLE REIGN!
    Sep 28, 2016
    Seattle
    Club:
    Seattle
    Nat'l Team:
    Netherlands
    I'm a huge Betos fan, but i don't think she's an option. She tore her MCL earlier this month and will not be available for the start of the season. She'll be 33 which isn't OLD for a keeper but i don't see her as a full time starter. We've got untried undrafted invitee Carly Nelson but without Murphy we have to be in the market for a starting keeper.
     
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  17. Reign Man

    Reign Man Member

    SEATTLE REIGN!
    Sep 28, 2016
    Seattle
    Club:
    Seattle
    Nat'l Team:
    Netherlands
    I'd hate to see Hammond, Huerta or Celia get taken. Most of the rest, although i like and value most of them, my head says it's ok to lose one or two. I don't know if we have to protect Celia, as an international.

    My heart would want to protect Cox, but my head tells me you don't need to. She won't play anywhere else, for family reasons, so not a good pick for an expansion team - she'd probably just go back to retirement. We don't need to protect Fishlock either, if she gets drafted she will stay in Europe.

    Pinoe hasn't played in forever for the Reign... While she has great marketing value still, I'm not sure you protect her either on the off chance she'll be healthy and ready to play in what could be another Covid season.

    After Lu, Fish & Pinoe, the player with the longest tenure is, surprisingly,
    McNabb. I hope they take Long -- then we don't lose a second player and as good as she is individually, we play better as a team when she's not on the field.

    So maybe protect: Barnes, Balcer, Huerta, Hammond, Weatherholt, Spencer
    and if we need to protect internationals: White & Celia
     
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  18. Reign Man

    Reign Man Member

    SEATTLE REIGN!
    Sep 28, 2016
    Seattle
    Club:
    Seattle
    Nat'l Team:
    Netherlands
    Oh yeah! We've got to protect Lavelle too, in case she comes back to the league, Lavelle & Pinoe make 10, we get one more protection. I'm going to use it on the rook Leah Pruitt -- we only got a glimpse, but i liked what i saw.
     
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  19. crossbarsave

    crossbarsave Member

    Reign FC
    United States
    Feb 4, 2019
    If I was playing GM, I’d protect Long and Lavelle as my 2 NT protections, assuming they won’t choose Pinoe since she’ll never play for them. Along with Pinoe, I don’t think you need to protect Cox, Betos, Cruz, Momiki, Celia and Fishlock due to age and/or international. The 9 non-USWNT I would protect are Barnes, Balcer, Huerta, Jenkins, Pruitt, Quinn, McNabb, Hedge, Hammond. Unprotected list (if not waived this week) Spencer, Brooks, Smith, Weatherholt, Andrews, Hiatt, White, Ashley, Nild, George, Hazlett, Nelson. This assumes the coaching staff liked what they saw from their first-rounder Hedge before she got injured. If they didn’t, I’d swap White for her.
     
  20. Reign Man

    Reign Man Member

    SEATTLE REIGN!
    Sep 28, 2016
    Seattle
    Club:
    Seattle
    Nat'l Team:
    Netherlands
    Confirmation?



    Olympique Lyonnais President Jean-Michel Aulas says two of the following three Lyon players will suit up for
    @OLReign
    next year: - Sarah Bouhaddi (Goalkeeper) - Dzsenifer Marozsán (Midfielder) - Wendie Renard (Defender)
     
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  21. Klingo3034

    Klingo3034 Member+

    Dallas FC
    United States
    Oct 11, 2019
    Interestingly those are the same players that wanted to go to NWSL in pre COVID.
     
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  22. SiberianThunderT

    Sep 21, 2008
    DC
    Club:
    Saint Louis Athletica
    Nat'l Team:
    Spain
    I think "unsurprisingly" would be a better word than "interestingly". It means that the previous rumors were genuine interest that hasn't faded, and that COVID really was what killed the deals and not (as some suggest) salary issues.
     
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  23. msilverstein47

    msilverstein47 Member+

    Jan 11, 1999
    Nat'l Team:
    United States

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