Long time WS fan. Want to start by saying I appreciate the hell out of the Spirit Squadron, I see you and you're crushing it. Wanted to get people's thoughts on the following though..

I've been to almost every home match this season and have run into / met a lot of new fans in the supporter section who are stoked to be there, supporting the team and making noise. In almost all of these interactions however, I've heard the same piece of feedback, that the chants are hard to join or participate in bc they're pretty wordy. I've told them to check out the website but at the same time I know ppl want to be watching the game when they attend, not staring at their phones trying to memorize a chant. I've also noticed it seems hard for the rest of the stadium to get going as well which could also be bc the chants are hard to hear, understand or join in on. I used to go to all the thorns games when my dad lived in Portland and there was something so exciting about hearing the entire stadium chanting "PT FC" together.

Not at all suggesting we scrap the current chants just maybe add some simpler ones to the mix that everyone can join and belt out enthusiastically at the games like "D-C SPIR-IT" (clapclap clapclapclap)

I even heard a contingent start chanting - "She's here, she's there, she's every-fuckin-where Rodmannn, Rodmannnn" - after one of Trin's glorious runs and everyone who heard, loved it.

Borrowing another from Ted Lasso,

"We're SPIRIT til we die, we're SPIRIT til we die, we know we are, we're sure we are. We're SPIRIT til we die!" (could also substitute DC for Spirit)

Will share all of this through the website too just wanted to hear the groups thoughts here.

Anyone have 1 available? Willing to purchase. Please… I am looking as a gift for my wife and cannot find one anywhere.

How we feeling after tonight match against the North Carolina Courage?

Thoughts?

Comments?

Concerns?

CLAIMED

Long shot, but if anyone who goes to the game gets the bucket hat and does not want it I will pay $$$ for it. I can’t make it to this game unfortunately, but really like the look of the bucket hat.

We aired out our flag over night. It smells fine. Now back to the more important stuff. (Thank you Spirit).

We need three points tomorrow against the Courage! Go Spirit!!! (Also, bucket hat).

Hey Y'all! Like the title says the Spirit Squadron will be leading the first ever fan march-in for the Washington Spirit before the 6/29 game! We will be gathering outside of Solace and plan to depart no later than 6:30 for Gate A. Fan march-ins are a special tradition among strong soccer supporter cultures and we are so excited to finally execute one for our Spirit! So come one come all! We will be chanting, clapping, hollering, waving flags, and bringing the best vibes to hype-up the pregame crowds! Hope to see you there!

Using a friend’s season ticket tomorrow (he’s out of town) and his only condition is that I get a bucket hat for him. I don’t really want to get there right at 6, though I will if I have to—only downside of higher attendance is I’m not sure how fast 5000 people will arrive! Any guesses or people that have gone for other “first X people” and can tell me what time things seemed to run out?

Spirit flag, summer scarf, and magnet! For me, it's a great gift package - all things I will use - so I'm super pumped. (For example, I'll probably wear the scarf to this weekend's game.)

Be warned: the flag smells truly horrendous and will need to be aired out (definitely not a natural material or production process).

https://www.starsandstripesfc.com/2024/6/26/24186364/usa-uswnt-2024-summer-olympics-olympic-roster

Quality podcast/Youtube watch. Croix is in the later half, awesome as always.

The late sub

In honor of Courtney becoming the 11th player to score a goal for the Spirit this season, let's be silly and predict who will be the next Spirit player to join that illustrious club.

Feel free to explain your vote in comments below (e.g., Metayer scored 3 goals last year; Kingsbury because she's your favorite player and for the NWSL chaos vibes).

Reddit limits polls to six options. Non-SEI field players are listed below in order of minutes played so far this season. For this statistic, scoring an own goal against the Spirit does not count. Additionally, the goal must be scored during the 2024 NWSL season - regular or playoffs (i.e., Summer Cup and friendlies don't count). The 11 players who have achieved this outcome to date are Sarr (6); Bethune (5); Rodman (4); Ratcliffe (3); Hatch, Hershfelt, and Sullivan (2); Brown, Krueger, Silano, and Wiesner (1).

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Has anyone received their STH gift for 2024? I know we got the Rodman bobblehead for last year but haven't heard anything for 2024.

Edit: Email today says the gift is en route.

I’m a new fan and new STH. So I’ve never really been this invested in a playoff race. I believe that season tickets means I get some kind of preference for purchasing playoff tickets? But I don’t really know what that means practically. What were the logistics of this last year?

When Croix scored the buzzer beater at the end, I stood up with everyone else and then pretty quickly passed out. Weirdly, the woman behind us also passed out. We were both fine and came to after a few seconds, but it made me wonder how many other people in the stadium might have experienced this?

Does the USWNT post their camp schedules somewhere? I’m not sure how to know which matches Spirit players on the USWNT will be available to the Spirit and which matches they will be unavailable for. Thanks in advance for guidance.

Hi all, looking to potentially travel to Red Bull Arena for Sundays game. Do we have an official away supporter section?