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🗓️ 16 October 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Connor Tobin, head of the USL Players Association and one-time captain of Forward Madison, sits down with Tommy and Sam to discuss where things stand in the ridiculously complicated three-way negotiations in which the players, clubs and league are trying to hammer out a new collective bargaining agreement as the December 31st deadline begins to loom larger and larger (in hopes of avoiding a possible work stoppage)
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| 0:00.0 | The The All right, everybody, everybody, welcome back, Sam's Army bonus episode number 10. |
| 0:36.0 | Shout out to our resident professional Tommy McGunner, who is |
| 0:39.9 | joining us today in welcoming to the program, Executive Director of the USL Players Association, |
| 0:47.1 | and more importantly, one-time captain of Ford Madison, my beloved club. Connor, |
| 0:53.0 | Turbo Tobin. welcome to the program. |
| 0:56.0 | So the point of this is we're going to get to the bottom of the CBA negotiations that's |
| 0:59.2 | going on with the USL right now. |
| 1:01.3 | The journey, shall we see, towards a CBA. |
| 1:04.4 | But for the first off the top, how are you doing, Conner? |
| 1:08.6 | It's great to have you on. |
| 1:10.4 | Yeah, thanks for having me on. |
| 1:12.8 | It's scary that I'm still remembered for playing at Madison because that was terrible. |
| 1:17.2 | I certainly was not doing good things back then. |
| 1:19.4 | So, yeah, it's great to be here. |
| 1:23.4 | Listen, you represented the club well. |
| 1:26.6 | You were a very good face of the club, and they needed a personality, and I think you represented the club well. You were a very good face of the club and they needed, you know, they needed a personality. And I think you were that. We don't need to worry about it. You got to work with what you have. Exactly. Exactly. So we'll be diving into the CBA and sort of what the importance of that is so people really understand and also sort of what the status is of the negotiations. |
| 1:48.2 | We'll get to that in a second. |
| 1:49.4 | First, we've got to let our loyal listeners and viewers for the beauties in the Discord live chat who might hop on here. |
| 1:59.9 | If you're not in the live chat, get in the Sam's Army Patreon to get into the live chat and |
| 2:04.4 | in the Discord community, the best little soccer sickle community around. |
| 2:08.8 | But as I was saying, you got to let these people get the measure of the man who is |
| 2:12.5 | Connor Tobin. |
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