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…
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…
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…
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…
#wolffout
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…
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…
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…
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…
Driussi’s back! Stuver is a wall! Rado is a maniac! We’re gonna win the World Cup! OK, maybe that was just me after Wednesday’s game, but damn if that mid-week win didn’t feel good after the previous 7 days where Austin FC was knocked out of the U.S. Open Cup, dropped a Copa Tejas match…