Revolution Stadium Groundbreaking "12-24 months" Part VII

I'm inclined to go along with this reasoning. The team has the workings of a deep team, just without the starters.

 

There's a reason the Revs went out and bought Bengtson, and it's because Saer Sene isn't that special. I agree that a striker's objective is to score goals and in that regard he has been a success, I just don't see him maintaining this pace for the rest of the season or next year. He is outperforming right now.

Soares and Alston are fringe starters IMO on most MLS teams, while Tierney, Guy, and McCarthy are all bench players. I'm not saying we should be getting rid of Soares or Alston right away, I'm just saying that these guys are far from studs and aren't great building blocks for the future. They're role players and just all piece of the puzzle in the grand scheme of things. We need to acquire the big pieces (a stud CB, another striker, etc.) to really compete.

 

Yes, but when you can't attain quality starters, you're left with a team of misfits. That's what this team currently is, a team of misfits.

 

Then let's make some of these players available. What can we get for AJ Soares, Kevin Alston, etc.? Is Burns trying to make moves, or is he just the laziest GM in the league?

 

Average doesn't mean good. If you take a terrible team and have an average off season transfer-wise, your still going to suck. And when you have one average season after 5 terrible ones, its pretty obvious where you stand. Burns still needs to go. He needed an exceptional year and he didn't have one.

 

So you still won't admit that this past season was awful and well below average compared to the rest of the league? You don't have to be like rkupp, just admit that you were wrong...

 

I don't think I'm wrong. About 50% of our aqusitions succeeded. That's about average. The Seattle's of the league have better success rates, but if you look at a team like Colorado, we did about the same.

 

Colorado brought in Jaime Castrillon, Martin Rivero, and Luis Zapata. They've all been starters for the entire season and IMO all three would be immediate starters for the Revs.

Meanwhile our "successful" acquisitions are bench players. When you're signing foreign players you expect them to be starters, you expect them to be your #9 as we were so infamously promised. Our signings didn't meet expectations, and that's why our offseason was below average compared to the rest of the league.

 

You can't judge teams off season acquisitions in that context. You have to judge them in the context of what they needed, what they did and what they didn't do. The Revs offseason, and then ultimately the rest of the season, was bad because they didn't do enough. It wasn't as though they exhausted resources and did all they could do. They have a billionaire owner, with roster slots available, DP's available etc...

I know this is obviously comes down somewhat to a debate of semantics, but this season was bad in pretty much any way you look at it. It was better than last year, but that would have been harder not to do.

 

Churning players isn't the way to build a winning team in MLS.

 

High School Football Stadium in Texas:

 

And remaining with the status quo is? Okay, Mr. Burns.

Vancouver, Montreal, NY, etc. have all made a lot of moves, and their teams are outperforming ours currently. We're currently the equivalent of an expansion side, and we should have the same amount of roster turnover. We need to make moves if we want to improve this roster.

 

Ok, I'll agree with you here. We needed a new LB and Burns brought in a back LB. As a backup, Lechner is fine, but he wasn't really what we needed.

 

I do agree that they did a lot this offseason, and appear to be moving in a more positive direction. The roster is certainly younger and potentially more talented. So, those are all promising things. However, when you look at the entire situation in context of MLS and what they could have done, in contrast to what they actually did, they could have done so much more.

 

Texans hate taxes, right? They don't want comprehensive healthcare right? But they pony up for this. Unbelievable. It's nice to know they have their priorities straight.

 

People spend ridiculous amounts of money on sports in other parts of the country. In the northeast, we build new schools and pay teaches a slightly higher wage. Everywhere else in the US, they build new athletic facilities and pay their HS football coach more than the principle.

 

don't mess with Texas

 

more like TAXas, amirite?

 

ZING!

 

That's a lot of typing for swaying me on zero bit. Just sayin.

 

and people call me an a-hole