Hello and welcome to Richmond Kickers Weekly. My name is Darrell Grove and I'm joined by a man who was there on Saturday to see the kickers lose 3-0 to North Texas. I was. I missed one of the goals. I thought it was 2-0. I wasn't so bummed out. I asked my wife why she was so disappointed and she said, well, because it's 3-0. I'll be honest because it was

CVSA night which is our local amateur league we had a box essentially for all of us. I don't think we

paid as much attention to the game at the time as we should have but we've re-watched it.

Thanks to ESPN plus we've gone back and re-watched it and it's still 3-0.

Yes it is., it is.

Yes, it is.

We didn't miss three late equalizers, unfortunately.

We did not.

I did appreciate North Texas SC for living up to the hype that I had spread around my friends and family who had traveled with me to that game.

You like watch Ricardo Peppy.

Pretty much.

His kid's 16.

Yeah.

Place for the U. 17s.

I should be scared.

I think I may have said at the time that he was 17, in fact.

And then I corrected myself midway through the game to say that he's, no, actually 16, even though he looks like a grown man and scores goals like he is too. That's fair. A very talented grown man is how he scores goals. I think the thing we need to talk about is what's going wrong for the kickers

because this is four losses in a row.

Three in a row. Three in the league, one of the cup. Yep, so four losses in a row. There is, I do want to put this disclaimer at the top. I think I'm not as disappointed in this as a lot of other people seem to be, including Coach David Buehler, I think, was he looked not happy at the end of

this game, right? He was definitely not happy. We saw him standing behind the advertisements at midfield.

I think he was gripping them white knuckle style, such was his frustration. I talked to the

kicker's goalkeeper coach after the game. He kind of indicated that there was a decent amount of

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