Welcome, welcome, and welcome to Richmond Kickers Weekly. My name is Dar Grove, and I'm joined by a man who I don't think will be supporting a team in the USL League 1 playoffs.

His name is Taylor Rockwell.

I mean, I'll be supporting Ford Madison because I enjoyed meeting their fans and enjoyed watching them play.

I take your point, though, that I will probably not be supporting the Richmond kickers in the playoffs, since it seems very unlikely, if not mathematically, impossible that they will be in the playoffs.

So mathematically, mathematically.

It's still possible numerically, but it's just so unlikely, right?

It's so unlikely four games left that the kickers will overtake, what, four of the teams to make the top four. It's unlikely because that requires everybody else to lose games and drop points. But it's also still looking at it. Or just cease operation. We need a bunch of teams to fold. Really, really fast. Yeah. But it's also unlikely because it still is incumbent upon the kickers to pick up four wins in a row, which is not a thing I think

they're capable of doing.

It's not what has happened recently.

No.

Yeah.

So we are here to review the rich wing kickers zero for Madison one.

This was this past Saturday's game at City Stadium.

What minute did Madison score?

Because it was early.

It was out of the fifth or very early into the sixth. It was the sixth, according to the official match. I think they get the ball back in the fifth, they score on the sixth. So I think the best thing we can do is maybe just break down this goal because it was the main bit of action in this game. Yeah. That works for me. All right. I think as you said to me, because you saw this before, did you were there at the game, right? I wasn't.

It starts with the kickers counter it. in this game. Yeah. That works for me. All right. I think as you said to me, because you saw this before, did you were there at the game, right?

I wasn't.

It starts with the kickers counterattack. It ends with a forward Madison goal. It does. Can I pause there to go back a little bit to say that we had David Buello on last week, Richmond Kickers Head Coach. One of the things I wanted to ask them about what we sort of ran out of time was about the kickers having problems early.

And I have been aware of that because I tend to get there right around kickoff. The first thing you do when you walk into City Stadium, if you're me, is you go to the beer tent and you get your beer tickets. Then you go to the beer truck where you get your beer. Like a proper general. Obviously. Then you go and watch the game. And multiple times this season, I have followed that order and walked up, and it has been 1-0 against the kickers. This was pretty much the case again. I walked up. I was with Pablo Marr and Adam Snavely and my wife, and I was sort of like, wait, hold on, it's 1-0. Like, what has happened here? Because once again, the kickers concede early, and yes, it's a counter-counter attack that does it. Oh, okay. So it's a cross comes in from Madison. It's sort of headed away.

Yes. And yes, it's a counter-counter attack that does it. Oh, okay. So it's a cross comes in from Madison.

It's sort of headed away.

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