Yes, this weekly MLS preview still exists. Much like our team’s offense for the better part of 6 months, I’ve been on a self-imposed sabbatical. But we’re both back baby!!! Austin FC finally found some rhythm last week, scoring six goals and picking up two massive Copa Tejas wins. The attack looked more fluid and…
Month: June 2023
The Worst Kit in the History of Kits
It’s been a great week for Austin FC fans. The team defeated both in state rivals 3-0 to take a lead atop the Copa Tejas standings and they hired Rodolfo Borrell as new Sporting Director (former Liverpool and City academy director, and Pep Guardiola assistant). Life is beautiful Well It was beautiful Like how dark…
Chicken Prediction: Is This The Real FC?
Gentle reader, I need to thank Charles Peacock, Esq. for his work last week. If you are not aware, he’s a real one. Now, I won’t stoop to that level to explain what he is real at, but he is. This team of ours, our beloved FC, continue to confound those of us here at…
Chicken Prediction: Guess Who’s (maybe) Back?
As all of you are painfully aware, Austin FC has not played a match in 11 days when they…well, let’s just not remember what happened that day. Instead of talking about that match, I wanted to do an update on The Compound, as our intrepid staff used the break in the schedule to catch up…
Behind the Scenes at Texas Tifo Solutions: A False Nine investigation
Austin FC has had a robust fan culture before the team even existed. It started with MLS2ATX, a group of fans that sought to get a team here and that morphed into multiple supporters groups who have built the fan culture that all of us have enjoyed along the way. But they didn’t do that…
Austin FC at Sporting KC 6/10/2023 Recap
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Chicken Prediction: A Sylvan Aries
Gentle reader, you had thoughts about us here at the compound. You felt we were too negative, too nihilistic, too much a harsher of one’s mellow. So, in an effort to prove you wrong, I feigned positivity last match. I went all in on the positivity. To wit: Tell me, reader, how the match turned…
#WolffIn: A Rebuttal
My esteemed colleague, Uncle Tony P, wrote a piece yesterday arguing that the underlying data suggests that Josh Wolff should be sacked. Maybe because I am a patient man who is so used to dealing with travel delays that it’s second nature, but the piece struck me as a bit hurried. Look, no one is…
Numbers Don’t Lie: #WolffIn or #WolffOut
We’re one game away from being halfway through the 2023 MLS season and things are, to be blunt, not going that well for Austin FC. The team sits 8th place in the Western Conference standings, was bounced out of the U.S. Open Cup at home, and maybe most embarrassingly, took an early exit in the…
Chicken Prediction: Positivity
Gentle reader, El FC’s last performance was surprising. And by surprising, I mean it ended in a victory. I will admit I was not expecting that. Unfortunately, Phil West was. Also, the dearth of trust in the team seems to not be an uncommon opinion. And so, today, gentle reader, I look to turn over…