I'll say it now. I just can't believe what it must feel like to be an Orlando pride fan in 2024 dealing with constant, you know, player turnover, coaching turnover, some truly disastrous seasons in the late 2010s.

And then now to be here in 2024 when they are by far the best team in the league and like I said up there with some of the best teams in

an end of you a cell history this like the amazing thing right about the end of the end of u s. is you just never know how things can change.

Hello everybody and welcome to this week's edition of the late sub.

I am your host Claire Watkins.

It is Tuesday, September 3 3rd happy to be back

talking NWSL W MBA a lot to dig into there we've got some teams making some

surges to the playoff line we've got some teams falling off, both in basketball and in soccer.

And then we have a wonderful chat with NWSLPA President Torin-Huster about the League's

landmark new CBA, what it means for the past, the present, and the future.

Much to dig into.

Let's get started.

All right, we are back, and so is the NWSL back from after the Olympic break.

There have been two match weekends post Olympic break,

post Summer Cup, post some of these more international style

friendlies that we saw.

So it's kind of going to be a bit of end of USL analysis mostly just focused on the regular season here to see sort of where teams are rising which teams are in a little bit of trouble going into this final push towards the playoffs.

So we still don't have any teams officially

clinch for playoffs.

We don't have any teams officially eliminated.

But we're seeing major trends in that direction.

And this same kind of idea of what the league is. in that

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