Welcome to the Scuff Podcast questions from patrons of the podcast. It's been a while since we've done that and we have a lot of good ones to work through.

Greg, how you doing?

Bells, I feel like I'm doing good. I feel like there's good energy around the questions we're getting.

I feel like some of that energy is almost just like carrying over from what has been for me like a really exciting fall club season opening.

It sure has. It sure has been exciting. It feels, I mean I'm probably just imagining it, but it feels like

the entire universe is pointing towards the World Cup in November.

From the like the US side, I feel like this fall has been almost like delivering on some excitement that we had expected in maybe some

previous fall season openings that didn't quite deliver as well.

How so you mean the Leeds Trio?

That kind of thing?

Yeah, that's basically what it is.

I mean, there have been a lot of high profile moves over the last two or three

years now of you know kids going to Europe and so there had been a lot of excitement and all

this like that preseason hype and then a lot of it kind of came crashing down

quickly for a lot of players and I know that we're still very early into this season.

But the levels are already higher like the number of players at the high levels is higher, and there's been some good payoffs.

Even just the fact that like the players that we want to are playing and not just, you know, instantly relegated to the bench or never never showing up.

That's making up. Most of them. That's making up for the ones who are kind of taking a while

to to get up and running. But yeah, so far this just feels like a even even

last year which I thought was another step up. This has been an even higher

step for the player pool and what they're what they're doing. It also helps to

coincide with again this sort of

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