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Full Time with Meg Linehan: A show about women's soccer

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4.8 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

First, Julia Poe of the Orlando Sentinel (6:01) walks us through the Orlando Pride’s approach to the Fall Series and beyond with a ton of local insight, then Sandra Herrera of CBS Sports (28:54) is back again to rep Chicago, plus discuss the stakes of NWSL games right now and the disrespect of Crystal Dunn. Follow Julia Poe on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jpoe24601 Follow Sandra Herrera on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SandHerrera_ Watch Katie Nolan’s segment (ONE OF US): https://youtu.be/BuNRvHt8t1Y Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome back to full-time with Meg Linnehan. We have double the guests, so double the fun on this week's episode.
0:24.0	First, I am joined by Julia Poe, who covers the Orlando Pride and Orlando City for the Orlando Sentinel.
0:31.0	It's a whole lot of Orlando in that one sentence.
0:33.1	And then she walks me through what is happening down in Florida and what we can expect out of this team
0:38.3	as they play their first games of 2020 finally. Then Sandra Herrera of CBS Sports is back. That earns her
0:46.1	the honor of being the first repeat guest on the show. I'm not entirely sure that's an honor,
0:50.4	but we're going to treat it like one. And of course, I got her thoughts on the Chicago Red Stars, but also the NWSL fall series as a whole. And we also put on our
0:58.8	no one disrespects Crystal Dunn in this house hats for at least a few minutes. So let's get you
1:04.1	caught up on everything from this week first and then dive right on into another episode.
1:09.1	So I'm recording this on Wednesday afternoon for the news, and we're
1:12.3	going to go very NWSL-centric today. But the timing also means that I held off long enough to
1:17.3	include this past weekend's NWSL ratings on CBS in the show for you. So the nil-nill-nill draw between
1:23.8	the Orlando Pride and North Carolina Courage picked up a new high of viewers for the
1:28.0	fall series with a total of 495,000 for the game and 171,000 in the 18 to 49-49 demo. So the match was also
1:39.0	the highest rated of the weekend coming in just ahead of the West Ham Arsenal fixture in the Premier League
1:44.8	by just about a thousand people. These are actually the best numbers of the fall series so far
1:49.8	with last week's Houston versus North Carolina game totaling at 370,000 viewers and that first
1:55.8	match between SkyBlue and the Spirit coming in at 381,000 overall.
2:06.0	So again, considering the lack of promotion and all the discourse around who's missing for these games and the quality, these are really impressive numbers for the NWSL to build upon.
2:11.7	On Sunday, we found out as the Utah Royals FC match at Providence Park against the Thorns was starting that both
2:18.6	head coach Craig Harrington and assistant coach Louis Lancaster had been placed on administrative
2:24.1	leave by the team and Amy LaPelbitt had been named interim head coach. The timing was obviously
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