Moan, groan, doom, gloom (Warning - Negativity Inside)

This is my home sweet home.
Actually, I had a very interesting exchange with someone from the revs office. It's nothing special. Just a quick encounter. All i did was casually ask so what's in the works? do you think their will be any significant signings? (I didn't want to be a pain in the ass) No one high up, but someone I had a very brief conversation with (and I can't use his name, sorry, it's just a respect thing since he was nice enough to answer.). it's no super special info and some of you may even have better info, but it's worth mentioning

bottom line from the conversation, believe it or not... the revs are actually pursuing a few players very actively right now (he said he can give me names). He said he did not know if the revs would be using thier DP spot (but hoped they would).

I tend to fall into the "are we doing anything crowd?" so for me this changes my opinion a tiny bit....


instead of "we never do anything", my new opinion is "apparently we do stuff, we just apparently aren't all that good at it"

 

Truth, truth, and more truth. Everything stated is fact about what has happened this off-season. The only way to turn things around is to sign a few players with proven quality, but as rkane pointed out, January is coming to a close.

I've been lurking around here for a few weeks, and I'm bored to tears every time. We got a thread about a dream SSS, and list of every single footballer in Europe in a useless DP thread. We Revs fans have nothing to speculate on, so we make up our own speculations.

We see the attendance numbers drop year by year, and it could very well be linked with our inactivity during the off-season. People simply forget we exist, and there is nothing to look forward to in the form of new players. I suspect we lower number this year, because we lost Dempsey, and believe it or not, Dempsey had a good following. So who will they watch in place of Dempsey... Wells Thompson?

But hey peabrain talk to a guy who smart enough to not say anything bad about his organization... I'm sold!!!

RRRREV IT UP

 

The Larentowicz signing was a big move. Thread closed.

 

I tend to defend the Revs as I have once dealt with what they go through on a day to day operation and how little as a fan I knew about their plans. Peabrainidiot just proved my point, that the Revs are active, we just don't hear about it.

I am one that is on the wagon that will moan and groan that we don't hear near enough from the Revs FO, but I'll never doubt that they aren't working hard to improve the team.

 

I'm not Doc, but when I played him on TV I needed a lot of makeup, so that makes me qualified to answer. It is because we are all just unwilling passengers on a runaway train to doom and anihilation. Brief spasms of joy are there only to point out the total hopelessness of all human endevor.

 

This reminds me of a test my class bombed in A school. A chief came in and yelled at us and said we "just----didn't----try" while a vein was busting out of his head. One of my classmates had quite a pair and said "with all due respect, chief, we each put in 10-15 hours of study in this week above what was required" (20-25 was the required norm for study hours outside of the workday). The chief quickly changed his tune and sternfully said "When the sub is going down, it doesn't matter if you try. It matters if you get----the job----done."

The moral? It really doesn't matter if the Revs are trying. This is especially so if they don't announce any players they are going after. We will always draw our own conclusions when there are no results and nobody knows what the heck they are doing. That chief may have had a slightly different attitude coming into the room if he had looked at the study log, but it didn't matter in the long run.

In the end, apathy and incompetence lead to similar results.

 

A potential SSS is an interesting subject to a lot of people. That thread is also very old. If you add up the posts and views on other topics such as the subject of this thread, you would see where the focus is.

 

Guy from The Guardian (the British paper for those of you who don't know it) comes into my job. Shows me his press pass, we started talking soccer. After discussing MLS (of which he was pretty knowledgable) he says, "Why hasn't your side done anything?"

Long story, says I.

 

3/15 New England Revolution vs Cancun Spring Break All-Stars

 

That was Pitino, right? I was overseas when he made that speech, so I don't know the specifics. Am I right?

 

Just a note to all you doom-and-gloomers. Our inbound transfer window doesn't close until Mar 31. So we can bring in anyone from anywhere in the world until that date. The January transfer window in England/Scotland/Most of Western Europe only means we can't sell out players to these clubs after Jan 31.

So you will need to postpone your moaning about inbound transfer activity until the end of March. Unless you want to argue that the inbound player really needs to be in camp from Day 1.

 

yes, it was also after the infamous..."chauncy billups is our pointguard of the future," and then ultimately traded two days later.

as frustrating as it is with REVS management be thankful that Rick Pitino isn't running our organization. Though Pitino did get a raw deal when the pingpong balls bounced towards San Antonio in the Duncan sweepstakes, his moves after that were shocking.


We should just start a "Ronaldinho to REVS" thread just to work everyone into a tizzy for a few hours and ruin some gullible idiots day. That would add to the excitement this offseason.

 

Don't try to bring sunshine into our rainy day...it isn't nice

 

Hmm, I recall reading that someplace before:

 

Is that SN real quote? Steve Nicol was around when Yaz was booed??? and Rice??? Hmmm...didn't Nicol play that stupid soccer game is some God forsaken Eurotrash country back then?? What does William Wallace know of Boston Sports, anywho!? LOL

The truth is folks...you guys haven't been negative at all!!! I realize our lives aren't completely dedicated to eating, drinking and thinking Revs Soccer...I guess it's just a fact of living in America, where passion for anything is subdued from all of the stimuli we receive in our daily lives. Work, relationships, keeping warm, eating, etc. are more important that anything we leisurely involve ourselves in, in our spare time. The passion that is seen for the game elsewhere will probably never manifest itself here. If some big name squads across the Pond had the relative inactivity that the Revs have shown during a very important transfer window period..there would indeed be protests outside the club's office. They would probably need police to be present to keep the group from getting overly unruly.

This inactivity to me, is truly an apathetic gesture by the Ownership. It shows that they are still sulking over their prized posession not making what they consider to be the only real championship worth investing in. I for one, have no harsh words for SN...I believe if he was in charge of Fulham, he too would have done all he could to get Clint to sign. I know he's shown a brave face and wished the Deuce well when he took off for the PL, but deep down inside, his guts must be wringing. I'm sure he is trying to find the key to release him from the shackles but I think the search may be futile.

I don't want to be negative, but I will, this ownership still thinks it's 1996. It seems clear that they have no intention of investing in a DP, etc. MLS in general created the Beckham rule, and it looks like it was done for just that...David Beckham. No Figo, no Ronaldo, no Davids, No nothing...There's only a few days left in the Jan. Transfer window and as usual...nothing. I have received 2 calls regarding my season tickets for 2007. I haven't gotten them yet. In all honesty..we as the purchasing public, who "want" to go see the sport we love, played by the team that we choose to root for and give our leisure time to, have the RIGHT to ask WHY isn't anything being done. WHY did the number 1 American player get sold to a team 3000 miles away. WHY hasn't the team replaced him? WHY have the Revolution been so Nonchalant about losing CLINT..and possibly Joseph and/or Noonan and even Twellman? These are questions that we have the right to ask.

Sorry Bob, but all your interest in Liverpool or any other team doesn't mean squat! If you think that the sheep will continue to come out during the months where they'd would rather be on vacation, you might be correct. You might rest on the laurels of the LA Galaxy's new signing, just like you did when DC United signed a 14 year old kid. You might even see some decent 30k crowds when LA comes to town..but I seriously doubt 400fans will come out when the Revs are playing Columbus in some downpour...Face it, I don't care what product you produce, if you don't give the customer what they want or expect, ultimately that customer is going to realize your Toilet Paper causes a bad rash and they'll stop buying it altogether. And then your product will have a stigma that you can't ever reverse....

think about it..but, you only have 5 days.(or whenever the real transfer window closes)

 

It's nice to know that I live in the only country on earth that people place keeping warm and maintaining relationships over soccer.