The Lists Are In
Full Time: A show about women's soccer
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🗓️ 10 December 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
The trades are done (for now, sort of) and Meg and Steph immediately hopped on Zoom to react to the protected and unprotected lists for the upcoming NWSL Expansion Draft as soon as they dropped on Friday. Real-time reactions, ruminating about the nature of the draft itself, plus some suggestions on additional programming for the broadcast — just tossing this out here, but if you’re going to put retired players on the list, then we deserve a NWSL retired player combine.
The NWSL trade tracker (free to read): https://theathletic.com/live-blogs/nwsl-trade-tracker-sam-mewis-to-kc-current-sarah-gorden-and-julie-ertz-to-angel-city-and-more/DQSpUFTtvqRa/
The protected/unprotected lists: https://www.nwslsoccer.com/news/nwsl-releases-protected-lists-ahead-of-2022-nwsl-expansion-draft-presented-by-ally
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, and welcome back to full-time with Meg Linahan. I'm Meg. You are listening to a show all about women's soccer on the Athletic Podcast Network. |
| 0:23.7 | It is still December. |
| 0:25.3 | Stuff is back once again because more trades happened. |
| 0:28.6 | We have the protected and unprotected list for the NW cell expansion draft. |
| 0:32.9 | So this is basically a live reaction as we start to make our way through them, try to make sense of |
| 0:38.3 | some of these trades. Now knowing there are also some handshake trades that are in effect that can't |
| 0:44.1 | actually go through until the day after the expansion draft. So again, exactly what I said last week, |
| 0:50.7 | we are trying to make sense of it all, knowing that we've only got half the puzzle so |
| 0:55.5 | with that said uh you know again i'm not going to get into the news because this is a very news heavy |
| 1:01.7 | episode but there are links to both our live trade tracker which has all of the information on who's got |
| 1:07.7 | full immunity partial immunity partial immunity, no immunity whatsoever, |
| 1:12.8 | plus the list for protected and unprotected players directly from the NW cell in the show |
| 1:17.8 | notes. So that way you, just like me and Steph, can have all of these open while we try to make |
| 1:23.2 | sense of it all. Here's stuff. So it's Friday night and we are here to basically like |
| 1:33.6 | live process our reactions to the expansion draft protected and unprotected list slash |
| 1:39.3 | probably at some point kind of go through some of the tail end of the trades. So I guess we can just, |
| 1:48.6 | let's start with maybe some of the bigger trades that happened. We had a live trade tracker, |
| 1:55.8 | which I think was honestly just as helpful for me as it was hopefully for everyone else |
| 2:01.8 | because so much was happening all at the same time. |
| 2:06.0 | Steph, what was your biggest surprise? |
| 2:10.2 | And we'll just consider the trade window as a whole for what got done and was actually |
| 2:14.6 | announced officially since there are apparently some handshake deals |
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