Success

As infamously captured by an interview by last season's Fusion women's coach saying he was more focussed on building a legacy than on wins and losses (He's not with the club any more, no clue if those two things are connected), success is a hard thing to define and even harder to capture.

In practice, it IS to do with wins and losses and after a winless first season under Jack Hartley, Fusion have two wins already this season under Marco Campoverde.

In essence, wins are the manifestation of success more than they are the sole benchmark of success. Especially in a league when draws are possible and only the division winners make the playoffs.

Again, Fusion have two wins (at least). In many ways, tonight's win was a bigger victory. It was at home. It was against a team that was not an expansion franchise. Home wins build momentum as a club in a way that road wins don't. Local fans get the chance to watch local players win. Even if those local fans tonight were only (by their own admission) 50 or so.

One last thought on that last point. Building a fanbase takes a bunch of things but really Fusion should have more fans when they are winning and also because there are zero other WPSL teams in the (actual) North outside of Fargo. Fire seem to think they are 'the North', so they probably need a map - given the constituency of WPSL North.

Let's see if Fusion's momentum continues next week against Mankato in Mhd.