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Shameless Reign Stan
@watmildon.bsky.social
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Reign FC super fan. Maps enjoyer. Ebike enthusiast. Father of the year five years running. He/him.

Owner/operator of: https://www.wnbascorigami.com/
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Shameless Reign Stan @watmildon.bsky.social · May 12
A merry NWSL Circle of Parity day to all who celebrate. I'd like to thank Orland for not waiting til the back quarter of the season to drop a game this year. Love this silly chaos league.

BAY -> LOU -> HOU -> SEA -> NC -> KC -> POR -> NJY -> LA -> WAS -> ORL -> SD -> UTA -> CHI -> BAY

#NWSL
A set of evenly spaced circles distributed around a circle. Each has an NWSL team logo and an arrow pointing to a team they have beaten in the regular season. The center has the NWSL league logo and the text "The 2025 NWSL Circle of Parity"
watmildon.bsky.social
Radio voice: Okay, campers, rise and shine, and don't forget your booties 'cause it's cold out there today... it's cold out there every day.

Nwsl
Still frame from the movie Groundhog day from when the groundhog is driving the truck and given the advice “dont drive angry”. The Reign FC logo has been placed over the groundhog. Macro text above says “dont play angry”
November 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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ajsportstat.bsky.social
Third-best save: Claudia Dickey vs. Orlando Pride (0.38 PSxG on 0.10 xG).

Dickey is able to deny the best to ever do it and keep her team in the game.
November 6, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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thetallestcoop.bsky.social
Get yourselves caught up with @vancrisp.bsky.social and I's latest episode of The Cooler Guild before the Reign's playoff match tomorrow.

🪲 Bugg brigade still going strong 🦗

Available on SaH or wherever you get your podcasts.

www.sounderatheart.com/2025/11/the-...
The Cooler Guild: Saved by the Bugg
https://www.sounderatheart.com/content/media/2024/07/
www.sounderatheart.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:13 PM
watmildon.bsky.social
Gonna lose my mind if she isn’t keeper of the year.

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chris-awk.bsky.social Chris Henderson @chris-awk.bsky.social · 5d
NWSL Goalkeeper Goals Prevented Per 90' & Total Goals Prevented

Claudia Dickey wins both categories.

I'll calculate Goals Prevented Ratio numbers at some point in the offseason.
November 6, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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moveredmond.org
It's Election Day! Remember to return your ballot to a ballot drop box by 8pm tonight! kingcounty.gov/en/dept/elec...
November 4, 2025 at 7:10 PM
watmildon.bsky.social
Well well well a nothing burger. 🍔

I will be accepting apologies on behalf of Reign FC. I will take them to Lumen for our home playoff game for distribution.
susierantz.bsky.social Susie Rantz @susierantz.bsky.social · 9d
In today's pre-match press conference, Charles w/ @circlingseasports.bsky.social asked Laura Harvey about her podcast comment about using ChatGPT to move to a 5-back with Seattle Reign, which went a bit viral this week.

Here's what she said:
I think for clarity and context, we are a club and a team that we are always trying to do everything possible to be innovative and be curious. And I was literally sat in the offseason, bored one day at home, and wrote one thing in one time and I've never done it again and probably won't for a while now. But I think, yeah, it's obviously something that is in our world nowadays I think with life. But does it replace the expertise of coaching staff and the expertise of analysts and all the work that we do every day to try and prepare ourselves? No, absolutely not. But I think the big thing about women's football is we're always trying to be innovative. Whether it be Michele Kang's company working on, I can't remember what the name of it is, but working on the women's health and trying to support our athletes as best we possibly can, we use a lot of technology in how we analyze things, whether it be data performance, whether it be video analytics, whatever it might be to best prepare ourselves to be able to put the best product on the field that we possibly can. And I'm proud to be part of an organization that's always thinking outside the box. This was … what I said was not an example of that. It was me sat on my sofa on my own and in context of what I said, I'd never played a back five in my whole coaching career and I'd never really thought about it. And just by reading some articles it made me think, ‘Oh, maybe it's something I should really look into and could we as a team execute that?’ And that's where the work started really was to really delve deep into was that something that we could do? And from some articles that I read that other teams had thought about it, whether it be in the men's game or in the women's game, they played it in different ways. Obviously Manchester United pretty well-known for playing it right now, and it set me on a journey to go and delve deeper, literally was it that that was all it was. And yeah, the blowup and the, I've never gone viral, so that's been an interesting few days for me. But yeah, obviously for me, I'm just conscious that I don't want to take away anything from our coaching staff and our analytics department and everyone that works so hard on trying to do the best we possibly can every week to put something on the field that our players and our staff and our club can be proud of. And like I said before, none of technology replaces human expertise. Our sport is about gut feeling, it's about going with instinct as much as it's about all the research and all the other stuff that we do behind the scenes that no analytical database is ever going to be able to tell you those things around gut feeling and just the way that you feel about something. And me as a coach, I'm very much drawn into that. Anyone who knows me, actually I'm very anti-data, pretty much you guys say all the time and I'm like, don't talk to me about certain data metrics. I'm not that interested in it. So for me to be the one that's actually blown up virally about something like that, I find quite amusing.
November 1, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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phenomemon.bsky.social
Also, it's very naive to think your favorite team (in any sport) isn't doing similar things with AI too 👀. Wait till you guys hear about sports analytics!!!
October 30, 2025 at 8:16 PM
watmildon.bsky.social
My apparently hot take is that everyone is losing their minds over basically nothing.

It didn’t set XIs or run drills at practice or keep the locker room morale going etc etc. It wrote some gibberish (which she identified as gibberish!!) at her and one little piece she was like “well maybe?”
October 30, 2025 at 7:26 PM
watmildon.bsky.social
The real issue is she should have used Claude SONNET 🥁

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October 30, 2025 at 7:06 PM
watmildon.bsky.social
It me! I am that fan!

You too can join Clawd Squad! All you need is $6 (what they cost me to get made) and to find me at a Reign FC game. I am the overly enthusiastic doofus pitchside with the silly signs.
A box in a garage full of novelty navy foam lobster claws with CLAWD SQUAD screen printed on them in white.
October 30, 2025 at 6:13 PM
watmildon.bsky.social
Given how much marketing material I end up being pictured in… I hope this guy enjoys looking at my deranged signs. 🫶

Reign FC
reignfc.com Seattle Reign FC @reignfc.com · 13d
NEWS | Sounders FC & Seattle Reign FC announced today the appointment of Ro Vega as Chief Marketing Officer.

Vega will oversee brand, content, marketing, communications, and fan insights across both clubs.

Read More ➡️ rgnfc.com/4qxLbVU
October 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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reignfc.com
Congratulations to Lynn and Marley! 💙
October 25, 2025 at 7:10 PM
watmildon.bsky.social
KC can win games without Chawinga. Reign FC would be a bottom 3 team without Dickey. In terms of value above replacement for a team, she should be MVP.

🦞 🦀 🦞 🦀
chris-awk.bsky.social Chris Henderson @chris-awk.bsky.social · 21d
NWSL xG & PSxG Differential Charts - Through Round 25
October 22, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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vancrisp.bsky.social
Hey Seattle people, so that sucked.
We do have women’s soccer team that is fun and has already secured a playoff spot so let’s be sad and also refocus our energy to the Seattle Reign. Catch up with our podcast —> www.sounderatheart.com/thecoolergui...
The Cooler Guild
Coop and Van host The Cooler Guild, a Seattle Reign podcast brought to you by Sounder at Heart.
www.sounderatheart.com
October 21, 2025 at 3:47 AM
watmildon.bsky.social
🦞 THE CLAW IS THE LAW 🦞

Reign FC
chris-awk.bsky.social Chris Henderson @chris-awk.bsky.social · 21d

NWSL GK Goals Prevented Per 90' & Total Goals Prevented.

Claudia Dickey's got both of these about wrapped up too.
October 21, 2025 at 12:13 AM
watmildon.bsky.social
True Reign FC heads know that having 2/3 of the big saves for the week is just another day at the office for our 🦞 CLAWDIA 🦞
ajsportstat.bsky.social ajsportstat @ajsportstat.bsky.social · 22d
Goals and saves from NWSL week 25 with highest PSxG-xG 👇🧵
October 20, 2025 at 9:50 PM
watmildon.bsky.social
The 3 Lu Moon shirt came in time and I have never more foolishly or wonderfully spent $50.

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reignfc.com Seattle Reign FC @reignfc.com · 24d
We 💙 Our Fans!
October 18, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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likkitp.ynyaproductions.com
An icon for your desk from an icon. Win this tiny cooler signed by Seattle Reign's Laura Harvey.

$10 donations will get you a chance at this and also entered in @cascadiangamers.bsky.social Super Raffle! Check my Extra Life donor page for the incentive and donate: bit.ly/extralife25lp
Seatle Reign head coach Laura Harvey sitting a cooler on the sidelines a 3D printed replica of a cooler signed by Seattle Reign's Laura Harvey screenshot showing my donor page and the incentive for the cooler drawing
October 14, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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voght.org
Reign FC also introduces the Lu Barnes Award, presented by Paula’s Choice Skincare, to annually honor a Reign FC player who exemplifies integrity, leadership and excellence - with captain and club original Lauren Barnes recognized as the first-ever recipient A very hasty photoshop of Lu Barnes giving Lauren Barnes an award.
October 14, 2025 at 4:19 PM
watmildon.bsky.social
I have been sitting on this 3 Lu Moon design for YEARS and am now forced to pay a extortionate rate (worth it) to have one made in time for the Friday game. Why can't procrastination always pay off??

Reign FC
A black tee shirt in the style of 3 wolf moon but the wolves aren't wolves any more, they are Lu Barnes! and the moon is a soccer ball!
October 14, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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reignfc.com
One of one. A Club OG forever. 👑 #ThankYouLu
Lauren Barnes poses for a portrait in front a dark blue background. Lauren Barnes poses with Reign's three NWSL shields.
October 13, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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voght.org
With today's result, all eight NWSL playoff spots could be secured next weekend:

* Reign and Gotham each need a draw or for NC to draw/lose
* Thorns and Wave each need a win or for NC to draw/lose
* Racing needs a win or NC loss + Dash draw/loss + ACFC draw/loss
October 12, 2025 at 11:23 PM
watmildon.bsky.social
Sam Meza’s mom sat down with us for the game last night and surprised me with my new favorite piece of Reign FC glam.
A man in a Reign FC shirt wearing a brand new gigantic Reign FC queen logo necklace on a very chonky chain. He is beaming with pride.
October 11, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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reignfc.com
History maker ✨

With tonight's appearance, Lauren Barnes is the first-ever player in NWSL history to reach 250 regular season appearances. Congratulations, legend! 👏
October 11, 2025 at 4:46 AM
watmildon.bsky.social
Cereal is back on the menu.

Reign FC
A faked up cereal box that reads “oops all maddies” with Lu barnes in a captain crunch hat. The cereal bowl contains Maddies (prohaska, curry, dahlien, mercado)
October 8, 2025 at 10:28 PM