City Council just approved the term sheet. One step closer.

Big news yesterday! New stadium, new ownership (new MLS push?). How are you feeling about everything? I’m certainly interested to see how ownership dynamics work out and what the new stadium looks like.

Ok, just last week I was among those shitting all over the team and ownership for having no apparent plan or future, and failing to communicate with fans. I was not one of the Twitter combatants, but I was pretty vocal in this sub and with my account rep.

I humbly apologize and admit that I was way wrong about the plan for the future. Today’s news is hugely exciting. All of my fellow shit talkers need to come clean here in the comments.

I was NOT wrong about the frustration with the lack of communication with fans. That is still an area for improvement and I hope the new ownership group is on top of that.

https://fox40.com/sports/soccer/sacramento-republic-fc/sacramento-republic-fc-stadium-rancheria-wilton

https://youtu.be/oW6s-bMpp9E?si=S5Sk0Syf9ThCcFgz

Briggs is easily the best coach we’ve had; the 2022 run will live on forever.

But this team has goals of a USL championship. Briggs has been in charge for 5 years, and we haven’t even made a USL final. Not to mention the 2nd half meltdown this season; no road win since July, dropping from 1st to 2nd to 5th and not getting a home playoff game, and bouncing out in the first round.

Not to mention, 1 sub in 120 minutes of a knockout game? Insanity.

I really really like Briggs. I hope he lands an MLS job (maybe SJ or Austin?). But it was time to move on. The same tactics and team talks only work for so long, and, in my opinion, players got complacent and knew their spots were secure, and that caused some significant issues. 5 years in charge is a LONG time.

All the best to Briggs, and here’s hoping we bring in someone who plays some entertaining football.

Urbs Indomita!

LFG

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As a die hard Republic fan and supporter of many years I just wanted to share my personal thoughts on this season.

Note: what am I about to type is really long, but I know the real fans will want to know opinions and thoughts. (I feel if you’re on a subreddit of a team you’re probably not a casual though? Idk)

Going into this season I was more excited than ever. Coming off that BRUTAL WCF loss to Phx Rising I knew our squad was equipped to challenge for the 1st seed and win it all. We added the Usl league 1s golden boot winner and a player with experience in EFL league 1 (which is a much better league compared to the USL)

Once we lost Roro it all went down hill in my opinion. Not super fast, but it happened in a consistent slow fashion. We lost that energy, long switch pass he was so good at, press from midfield all in 1 moment. He was our best player and arguably this clubs best ever player. Maybe Iwassa Is, but that’s an argument for another day.

I’m not going to go into every single players form and the injures we faced because that’s all normal but I do want to highlight one player because I genuinely think he was so awful I have to talk about him. 👇🏽

Justin Portillo is just not it. He came in to replace Roro. Playing that deep lying play maker. Portillo can’t defend, can’t pick out a decent pass, small, not fast enough for his role. The downgrade from Roro to him really affected us. The fact Briggs plays him every single minute of every game was just absurd to me. Also honorable mention to Trevor Amann. Absolutely awful besides the start to the season. Nonchalant, acted like he didn’t care. Probably insanely low on confidence.

Fast forward to the end of July: Russ scores the winner against a very decent Detroit city. A hard fought 3 points on the road. Our season is there and alive. Fighting for the 1st seed with New Mexico.

Fast forward to the end of October: We haven’t won an away match since the Detroit match and we have not won in nearly a month. New Mexico has already secured the 1st seed and Las Vegas, Memphis, Colorado are all breathing down our neck for that 2nd spot. We lose to Colorado at home on “fans appreciation” night and we drop to 5th. Keep in mind if we won we would’ve secured 2nd and played probably the easiest opponent at home, which was Oakland.

Briggs was the main issue this season in my opinion. I’m not going to even go into the WCF last year and his sub choices. Strange squad rotations, not using subs at the right time or using them at all cost us so many games. Taking off Phillips at the 60th min consistently and putting on Amman… the list goes on and on. Of course there are many factors to a difficult season and it wasn’t just Briggs. The owners are awful, the atmosphere around the club the last month of the season was probably at an all time low, form, injuries, etc.

With Phillips loan ending painfully soon I fear this could be a dark year ahead of us if Briggs is still our manager. I have 0 idea on contracts ending and all that. All I can say is we have to stay faithful and hope for the best. Please feel free to let me know what you think of this season and what needs to change.

Up the Quails ❤️

A tough end to the season but thinking back on some fond memories this year:

• Beating the Quakes in one of the most exciting games I’ve probably attended • Coming together to support Roro and his son 💕 • LOLing at the copter blowing a bunch of shit over to drop the game ball • Destroying the Roots on their home turf • Danny Vitiello winning save of the week 95% of the weeks (I think TBB came up with a chant for him? If not, I think we need one next year…)

The last few months have been rough.

I think a lot of us had high expectations for this team. They were impressive last season and had a lot of holdovers on the roster from last year with what felt like some improvements on paper.

Someone called them boring a while back and I don't disagree. I remember leaving a loss earlier in the season feeling really excited about how they played (maybe Cup against Seattle?). Lately, it's been nothing close to that and finding the back of the net has felt impossible.

There were questions last year about Roro being too old. He may be too old to stay healthy for a season, but before he got hurt, he was still fierce and giving younger opponents fits. Losing him was catastrophic. I hope he's back, but given the injury history, he can't be plan A, B, and C.

We were striker heavy, but couldn't seem to score goals, especially at the end.

There are bright spots. Danny kept this season from being much worse. Timmer is solid and might be the fastest guy on the field most nights. Chibi has matured quickly. Parano is magic with the ball (but doesn't seem to get the playing time I wish he did). Gurr is Gurr.

I feel like they invested in players and tried to make improvements throughout the season-they just didn't necessarily work. They brought Portillo and Kieran in mid-season. Portillo obviously isn't Roro. Kieran had moments of brightness and was the best finisher this season. They signed the top scorer from USL1, he started hot, and then disappeared. Didn't even take a PK last night which blew my mind.

I won't pretend to know what they need, but expect we'll see a lot more roster changes than last offseason. Curious how radical they get.

I'm not holding out hope for stadium news. I'll embrace my bench seat, the constant rotation of youth teams and random casuals that come through my section, and will continue to park on the street and boycott overpriced beer. We locked in with a legacy membership so we're in it. I don't need quarterly updates from ownership that say nothing. Cal Expo it is.

The primary kit is still ass. At least we can put that to bed.

Enjoy the offseason.

#FT-Pens: Las Vegas Lights FC 0-0 Sacramento Republic FC

Venue: Cashman Field

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Las Vegas Lights FC

Raiko Arozarena, Ousman Jabang, Joe Hafferty, Gennaro Michael Nigro, Shawn Smart (Grayson Doody), Valentin Noël, Charlie Adams (Elias Gärtig), Jean-Claude Ngando, Khori Bennett, Christian Pinzon (Coleman Gannon), Solomon Asanté (Joseph-Claude Gyau).

Subs: Vaughn Covil, Nicholas Ammeter, Andre Fortune.

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Sacramento Republic FC

Daniel Vitiello, Chibuike Ukaegbu, Lee Desmond, Jared Timmer (Shane Wiedt), Luis Felipe Fernandes, Nick Ross, Aldair Sanchez, Justin Portillo, Kieran Phillips (Damià Viader), Trevor Amann, Russell Cicerone.

Subs: Jared Mazzola, Harvey Neville, Jonathan Ricketts, Cristian Parano, Conor Donovan.

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Nagle’s other club just got knocked out of the FA cup by a semi-professional 5th division club, while using their 1st choice team.

So at least we don’t have that

Is anyone traveling to Las Vegas for tomorrow's game? Is there any specific section for Sacramento fans?