One year is a Causey for Heaps of experience, we got the right Guys, assuring us more Nguyens, and instead of getting Burned, we'll Soare to the playoffs via Rowe-ing on the SS Shuttleworth. Ok, I'll stop, before the Dorman throws me out.
Ha ha, you're killing me! I'm going to drive to Alston now and call Tyler a Polak and Kalifa a Cisse because I heard that's where they live. Then I need to see my financial Guy at Caldwell Banker.
OUCH. Here's another positive for some people: No more Neg-Rep on BigSoccer, no matter how much pain they cause and how much they may deserve it.
Old-school Revs edition: Yeah, but I hope they don't find a new to Goulooze. Too many Rongen assessments on players will be like jumping from the van Saun-a to the Farias
It is telling of my excitement level for this coming season that I only just realized that the Superdraft was less than a week away. Is that a positive?
I'm assuming you're not a big fan of the league as a whole? This has been arguably the most exciting offseason in MLS history (not necessarily the best, but definitely exciting).
Be a Twellman. Shalrie we agree no more Zengas in this thread? I'd pay a Heaps of Nicols if you'll all stop. Naveda dudes!
Gillette it go, will ya? By Summers, we'll have Krafted a Moore perfect team and will Cancela the need for a new SSS. We may have been Phelan, but 2013 is a new year!
Traded for the first round pick in the draft. First time in 18 years the Rev's have had this position.
Well, I would rate it after 2002, when we picked over the carcasses of Miami and Tampa and got a lot of good players, not to mention a certain striker named Taylor Twellman in the draft. Still, your point is well taken. I don't ever remember an off-season when they did this much before camp started. Hey, this is the "optimism" thread!
I don't count that year, because what they "did" wasn't because of what they did. They lucked out and took advantage of some favorable manipulation. This year they have gone out and done a lot, proactively, mostly on their own.
Maybe so, but Sunil was smart enough to figure out that allocations were to be used as currency in the biggest Monopoly game in MLS history, and we amassed something like 6 or 7, when the most any other team had was 2. We didn't re-sign Leonel Alvarez and let him go to Veracruz for an allocation, we got a retroactive allocation for William Sunsing, and a few other things. Yeah, they probably had some insider knowledge, and at the time they were a team that drew good crowds and was relevant (!) but hadn't been able to put it together on the field, despite being the USOC finalist the previous year. The thinking was that "if they ever got a good team, they'd draw 30,000 a game." Hmmm, it didn't quite turn out that way, did it?
Hey, remember one year ago, we were despairing that the team was doing nothing and making no roster moves, or ostensibly doing no things to improve? Well I just realized we seem pretty placated in comparison this winter! Good huh?
Aside from the signings they have already made The Revs have a chance to help fill key holes with the draftl My Take on todays Draft: I'm satisfied---they touched all the options I wanted covered ~top pick---a starting quality right/center back ~second pick--strong left sided player, maybe LB option ~third pick---a scrappy, big body forward ~forth pick--BIG keeper with solid potential Overall a solid B+ I still hoping they can land a mature, quality Forward
I still think they lack a true central midfielder to Marshall the attack, and the right side of the field is still very questionable. BUT I will give them an A for the draft. I don't really care about the second round picks. Whatever, they are complete crapshoots. But the fact that they went out and got the guy they wanted to get is awesome!
I agree..the drive to go get what they want proved that they aren't just sitting on their haunches waiting for the next diamond to fall in their lap. That's about as positive as I can be about this outfit for now...
Quietly, the Revs have assembled a young, (relatively) cost-controlled core with high upside - yeah the Revs could have done that without 3 straight losing seasons, but things could be looking up for the next few years. Here's a list of Revs players who are expected to play significant minutes in 2013, under 27: AJ Soares (24) - CB Stephen McCarthy (24) - CB/DM Andrew Farrell (20) - CB/RB Scott Caldwell (22) - CM/RM Lee Nguyen (26) - LM Kelyn Rowe (21) - CM/RM Diego Fagundez (17) - RM/F Jerry Bengtson (25) - F Saer Sene (26) - F Obviously Fagundez might want to move on at some point, but that looks like a solid core.