The Mane Land PawedCast

A lot has happened since we last met, constant listeners. Orlando City has played twice, the Orlando Pride has finished their inaugural NWSL season, and Orlando City B has qualified for the USL playoffs in its first year. We're here to talk about all of that.  We're breaking down Orlando City's loss at D.C. United and draw at Toronto FC. The Lions didn't make it very easy for our Man of the Match...

Those consecutive wins over New York City FC and Montreal Impact feel like they happened years ago. Orlando City has been slam dunked on two weeks in a row, and the road doesn’t get any easier with the team traveling to RFK to take on D.C. United this weekend. Still, we can only talk about the games that have been played (or are about to be played), so let’s dive into that Columbus loss a little b...

Let’s get one thing straight right off the bat. There are about a million things we’d rather do than break down Orlando City’s 4-2 loss at LA Galaxy on the weekend. For example, breaking down an Orlando City win in that game. Unfortunately, we can’t bend time or reality so you’ll have to settle for our analysis of the Lions’ rough loss in Landon Donovan’s return to MLS. In addition, it wasn’t a go...

It’s been a long time since Orlando City enjoyed a two-game winning streak and so we’re going to enjoy this one for as long as we can, even though we’ve got a trip to play the LA Galaxy coming up this weekend. That trip was made all the more difficult with this week’s announcement that Landon Donovan is returning from retirement to help the Galaxy the rest of this season. He’ll reportedly be avail...

It's been a minute since we've been able to celebrate Orlando City winning all three points with you, constant listener, but we get to do just that this week after the Lions dispatched New York City FC, 2-1, over the weekend. Forgive us if we go in-depth into the match. We didn't have a guest this week and still gave you more than an hour of our takes on the Lions and their continued mastery of th...

After a week off due to scheduling conflicts, the PawedCast is back and we’re not fooling around. We promised we’d make it up to you for the week off and in my opinion, we delivered. Not only do we give ample time to Orlando City’s three (!) most recent matches since we last spoke to you through the internet airwaves, but we also discuss the Orlando Pride and OCB, and preview the upcoming match wi...

Well, that wasn’t as fun a weekend as we’d have liked, was it? The 3-1 loss to Seattle still stings in the midweek, not only because it ended the team’s home unbeaten streak, but more importantly because even another lousy draw would have had the Lions above the red line and still with a game in hand on New England. Oh well. We’re here to pick at the bones of that game and give you what might be t...

A new coach gave Orlando City a new lease on life in Major League Soccer, as Jason Kreis led the Lions to a 3-1 home win over the New England Revolution on Sunday. It was a good performance for a team that has been struggling to get results in 2016 and we're here to break it all down and talk about what we saw, including our picks for Man of the Match. We also talk about the big midweek trade by O...

The Bobby Murphy era is over and the Jason Kreis era has officially begun. The new gaffer will lead his team out onto the pitch tonight in a friendly meeting with EPL side Stoke City, but it's really just a warm-up for Sunday's clash with the New England Revolution.  Here to help us break down Sunday's affair is Jake Catanese of The Bent Musket, SB Nation's blog covering the New England Revolution...

Obviously the big news of the week is the hiring of Jason Kreis as the new head coach for Orlando City. To find out more about the new boss, we've enlisted our friends from around SB Nation Soccer -- Matt Montgomery from RSL Soapbox, and Raf Noboa y Rivera from Hudson River Blue. They give us the lowdown on Kreis from his days with Real Salt Lake and New York City FC, respectively.  While the addi...

The new coach came in pretty much how the old coach went out. Bobby Murphy's first match in charge as interim coach resulted in a 0-0 home draw against the Houston Dynamo -- the club's ninth tie of the 2016 MLS season. We've got a rewind of the match, a recap of Orlando Pride's dramatic 2-1 win over the Boston Breakers, and OCB's result in Rochester. We also have a bit more on Adrian Heath's firin...

Sometimes things don't go as planned. While wrapping up this week's PawedCast, the news broke that Orlando City had fired Head Coach Adrian Heath. That sent us on quite a tangent, and our listeners will hear us discovering the news and processing it in real time. Sure, we could have hit the stop button and talked out how we wanted to tackle the topic, but that's never been our way of doing things...

First of all, I want to apologize for the sound quality of the non-interview segments of the show. Recording myself alone takes place in a much different way and I had no co-host this week. I didn't realize that the quality was off until after the entire first segment had been completed. But, I cleaned it up as best I could and although it isn't the usual quality, it's better than it was. So there...

Orlando City is coming off an emotional 2-2 draw with San Jose Earthquakes in a game that featured two stoppage time goals. We've got a lot to digest from a game in which your hosts didn't necessarily see the same way. We also give you our Man of the Match selections and we didn't agree on that either. Next up, we've got Toronto FC on Saturday night, and here to help us break down the big match is...

Well, we took a week off during Copa America but the Mane Land PawedCast is back with a vengeance. We've got a show clocking in at a smidge over an hour long where we talked about Copa, Euro 2016, the resurgence of Orlando City B, the road woes of the Orlando Pride and a whole lot more. We were also fortunate enough to talk to Orlando City midfielder Servando Carrasco. Servando tells us why he lov...

Well, we've finally got a breather, of sorts, in the schedule, but that doesn't mean we're shorting you on the PawedCast magic. We're here to break down Orlando City's dramatic 2-2 draw on the road against New York City FC at Yankee Stadium on Sunday, including our picks for Man of the Match. We've also got plenty to say about Orlando Pride's loss at FC Kansas City, as well as Orlando City B's com...

One great thing about a double game week is that it gives us even more to talk about and boy did we ever on this supersized episode of the PawedCast. We break down Orlando City's 2-1 win over Montreal and the 2-2 midweek draw against the Philadelphia Union. Plus, we've got thoughts on the Orlando Pride, OCB, Kaká to Brazil's Copa America squad, and a look ahead to the friendly against Stoke City....

It has been scientifically proven that losing is much worse than winning or even tying. Yet, here we are with Orlando City on a 0-3-3 skid in the last six matches and we may have (hopefully) seen the nadir with Sunday's abysmal performance at Children's Mercy Park in Kansas City. Despite a 2-1 score line, the Lions were completely pummeled by Sporting Kansas City, yielding 34 shots and failing to...

Another week, another draw for Orlando City as the New York Red Bulls came to town and left with a single point. The Lions may not be able to buy a win right now but at least most of these games are worth a point. We've got your complete breakdown of the 1-1 draw at Camping World Stadium Friday night with Kevin Molino playing the hero, Cristian Higuita getting a red card, and Adrian Heath getting...

Orlando City may be winless in the last four matches, but a come-from-behind draw at New England felt a bit more like a win with Carlos Rivas scoring his first MLS goal in dramatic fashion. While it wasn't three points, it's a hard-earned road point in the tight Eastern Conference race, so we'll take it. We'll discuss Saturday's match at Gillette Stadium, Rivas' contributions and a whole lot more...

Losing sucks, so it's a good thing Orlando City has only done it twice so far in the 2016 MLS season. Although the referees find a way to make us scratch our heads and ask "why us?" every week, the Lions are still in the thick of the fight as April winds down.  We break down just what happened in Orlando's 3-2 loss to New York at Red Bull Arena on Sunday, including our our Man of the Match award....

Well, we're pretty sure we've seen everything now, after that rather...interesting...handball call against Servando Carrasco Sunday that led to a 2-2 Orlando City draw against the New England Revolution. On this edition of the PawedCast, we're certainly going to talk about the officiating a little bit, but we're also going to talk more about the game, our Man of the Match and a bit of this week's...

While you're still reeling from that late goal Friday night, as well as the ensuing explanation that it shouldn't have counted, we are preparing for a date Sunday with the New England Revolution. We'll give you our key match-ups and our score predictions for Sunday's match. However, that's way at the end of the show and before we get to that, we've got to break down everything that happened on Fri...

Orlando City put together its most complete performance of the season with Sunday night's 4-1 dismembering of the MLS Cup champion Portland Timbers. We're here to break down captain Kaká's return to the lineup and how big his impact was on his teammates. We discuss lots of scoring, a saved penalty, first goals, injuries and more.  But it wasn't all good news from Sunday. Cyle Larin and Tommy Reddi...

It feels good to have a game this weekend after enduring last weekend's bye week for the international break. How can you not get excited when the MLS Cup champs are coming to town Sunday? We'll get you appropriately prepped for this weekend's Orlando City tilt with the Portland Timbers.  Kaká is training and has pronounced himself fit for the weekend. We discuss how that might impact the game. We...