If we could design a nice “Fire Burns” protest t-shirt and find someplace to print up a bunch, I would totally buy one and wear it to home games until the FO was “extinguished.” Just sayin’.
I've used custome ink -https://www.customink.com/ -before. So there is a place to start for you creative type.
With the revs reportedly listening to offers from Chicago and Montreal for Nguyen it will be interesting to see what Burns can get in return.
Read the Lee Nguyen news thread. That's what I was referring to. If Burns makes a deal I would bet my mortgage it will be for some combination of TAM/GAM. However if it's a player I would be fine if Chicago parted with Polster+money or just Nikolic (for example). Montreal doesn't have anyone I'd want on the revs.
Does anyone need Lee and a keeper? Because if Cody Cropper's not playing for us, I'm thinking there's plenty of other teams who'd like him.
I had the same thought, and Chicago seems to fit the bill. With Richard Sanchez (allowed 4 goals Saturday) and recently signed Patrick McClain. along with reserve keeper Stefan Cleveland, all that they have in net. Cropper didn't make the 18 again, so unless he is really sick, he's third string. After starting most of last year, he can't be happy about that.
Hope this is all bull. WE NEED LEE, not money we don't use or draft picks (worthless). We trade him and Im going with the fire BF movement.... already there on Burns
Well, it is way, way too early to make any conclusions on how this will all play out, but even now, it seems like some of this is on Brad's shoulders. Now if Nguyen comes back and plays at his previous level, all will be forgiven and forgotten. If they trade him for something of at least reasonable value (players who can step in now, not "future assets"), then Friedel will be OK. But if this drags on and consumes us to the point where we are still talking about this a month from now, it will be a problem. And it will be (at least in part) due to how Friedel has chosen to handle it. He should have contacted Nguyen as soon as he took the job, tried to convince him that it will all be different with him in charge and that he wants him and needs him to be a major cog in the team. If Nguyen still insisted on being traded, Friedel should have told him he's disappointed, but he'd try to accommodate him. However, he's not taking less than full value in a trade and he expects him to report to camp on time and be a professional. A two-way street. Instead, it's a combination of Friedel/Burns taking a hard line, zero-tolerance approach and Nguyen being a jerk about it (at least at the start). Where the actual truth is in all of this is anyone's guess, and there most certainly is a lot of stuff we don't know.
Oh, and Friedel will get at least 2 full seasons, even if we are 1999 MetroStars level of bad for both those years.
How do you know that's not exactly what happened? It's what I think did. Three. But, that's a glass %10 full kind of view.
Well, if it did happened that way, then it's on Nguyen. But I recall some reports that Friedel had not spoken with Nguyen until after he was a no-show, which is why I said that's what he should have done. Like all of this, who knows what the full, real story is. This will all come out in time, and if it all turns out badly, there will be plenty of blame to go in both directions.
Because Friedel said he wasn't going to be traded BEFORE Nguyen held out: https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2018...l-lee-nguyen-speculation-hes-not-being-traded. I don't know what he was telling Nguyen in the background, but saying that publicly and NE not entertaining trade discussions with other teams (Per league sources, #NERevs not even engaging with teams who are interested in trading for Lee Nguyen. It's a firm no, with not even a discussion of a price.— Paul Tenorio (@PaulTenorio) January 24, 2018 ), would not give me confidence that they were trying to trade me if I was in Nguyen's place regardless of what Friedel was saying privately.
You'd never want to publicly declare you're trading him, that just creates the perception of a fire sale. Now, maybe the Revs went too far in the "we're not trading him unless you twist our arm" game? I'm not suggesting they handled this well, but I don't think Nguyen did either (although I could understand his frustration if his requests just met with inaction - if that's what happened).
As for the topic of this thread, it should be noted that this season (starting when 2017 officially ended), the Revs have been bringing aboard international players at a decent pace. Of course it remains to be seen how they'll do, but at least the current pipeline is a refreshing improvement from the near stagnation of previous years.
Honestly, I don't care how the Revs do this year in terms of acquisitions and performance on the field. Even if every acquisition is a stud, the team has a great record, and the season is a success by every metric...Mike Burns still sucks and has to go. I would need to see several years of consistent success before I would ever change my mind on him.
Having only 23 of 30 roster spots filled mid-season last year was an embarrassment. So, the fact that they are at 26 now and still looking to add is a good sign.
I do think partial culpability falls to the coach, given past quotes about their "collaborative" approach. Heaps was out of his depth and grasping at straws last year. That said, it's still up to Burns to get the signings over the line.
We'll see how the last two signings work out before I get excited. Our game Sat is against a real team. I think we'll know a lot about where we stand after that one.