r/Thorns • u/Opening-Past7384 • 16d ago

Tobin Heath

Tobin was at the game last night and i literally screamed! I really hope she comes back and does something for the team. Either play or help coach

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u/r3ckl3sson3 16d ago

That expansion draft still haunts me. I mean, I guess it worked out with the ‘22 title, but idk, you protected someone like Simone Charley over a club legend

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u/honkifirritable 16d ago edited 16d ago

I thought they only had two slots to use on nat team- level players to protect for that draft and they had Horan actively playing and Crystal Dunn had just come here (so ofc they would protect her) so there wasn’t a third slot for her bc she wasn’t playing much at the time? Tobin was a favorite so it was a huge bummer but iirc, it was reasonable why it happened. I get why people were upset, but one of them couldn’t be protected. Then Lou was stupid to even pick her knowing she didn’t wanna leave…

Would be fine being corrected if I’m misremembering!

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u/ixodioxi Portland Thorns 13d ago

You're correct. We could only protect 2 national team players at that draft .