Oops ... Welcome to the 4th installment of #FriedelFriday!RT for a chance to win two tickets to tomorrow's #NERevs match against the@LAGalaxy.We'll pick one winner at random, general rules apply: https://t.co/U2OhRlpxC9 pic.twitter.com/5VaCxV3FYe— New England Revolution (@NERevolution) August 10, 2018
Of course, the unreasonably long time between announcement and game availability is just a precursor to the subsequent adductor strain and six weeks of recovery prior to the playoffs, I mean next season.
Ha, if you look at the comments - someone asks if they are trying to scam and why don't they just retweet correctly. Then below I notice they have another typo with a correction tweet regarding their home schedule.. What is going on over there?
Lemieux Previeux: Playoff implications abound as Revs host Union in only August home game August 10, 2018, 10:25AM EDT
I think Brad and Paul get a bonus every time they say that an opposing goal came "against the run of play." Not that it isn't the case sometimes, but good gosh, they go to it every time.
Man... How many bouncing balls in the philadelphia 6 How many quality chances did revs attackers fail to puton net And how long am i going to complain about our cb before anchange gets made
What was Delamea thinking? He deliberately raised his arm and batted the ball away. I've never seen anything like that. Maybe the Pats should give him a try out.
Bad combination -- the gang who couldn't shoot straight + the back 4 who can't defend set pieces. Ugh.
I think its just the center backs. I thought farrell and bye were solid all game, including on set pieces
If this was hockey, Zahibo would be -1. He let Elliott run by him twice and then got one back for us.
So, as a long-time Revs fan, where the heck am I supposed to find sources of hope these days? Despite what Jorge Mas says, there's no discernible signs of progress in regards to getting a new stadium built. I'm not sure why Revs fans would have any faith that Brian Bilello has the ability to close such a deal. The academy teams are being embarrassed on a routine basis by their peers. They haven't produced a single player of note in years. Brad Friedel is a rookie head coach who just admitted he spent all week working on how to defend set pieces following a game in which his team conceded three set piece goals. And while his teams had some success early on, the rest of the league has arguably caught up to what he's doing and he has yet to show that his team can play a variety of ways or that they can consistently impose their will on other teams. And then there's Mike Burns. The guy's been around since the end of the Steve Nicol Era, and he's continually failed up. The same garbage that we've been complaining about for years - empty roster spots, failed international signings, failing to get deals "over the line" in the summer, lack of overall urgency - is practically a tradition at this point. That can't be the fault of Nicol, Heaps, or Friedel for it. He's been criticized by player agents and opposing GMs alike. His record is mediocre at best, and no one seems to care. He's the Teflon GM. His time has come. His continued employment is a slap in the face of every Revs fan that wants to see the club succeed. But most discouraging of all is the growing sense that ownership - perhaps drunk with their own success in their other sports venture - honestly feels that they don't have to act like other successful MLS clubs in order to achieve similar success. Do they honestly feel as if they know better than everyone else because they have five Lombardi Trophies? Or maybe they feel like they're in over their heads, so they're scared to make any sort of changes to upper management for fear of making things worse? See? As a Revs fan, I'm not even exactly sure who I should be pissed at most or exactly why I should be pissed at them, because ownership can't be friggin' bothered to communicate or explain anything to their own damn customers, and when management speaks, they don't say anything. It's maddening. And it's why I don't blame anyone who's turned their back on the franchise.
On the bright side...it didn't rain on us! PS: What the hell is a "unified" team? I was too disgusted to stick around and find out...
Very disappointing. I know they are not mathematically eliminated from the playoffs, but it feels like they are psychologically eliminated at this point.
Is there any correlation in how we do when Brad wears his suit and how we do when he wears his warm-ups? If Mancienne doesn't turn out to be Jermaine Jones-like then maybe we can resort to some mojo adjustments...
I just went back and rewatched the first half. Its definitely zahibo on the 1st one, might have been bye on the 2nd one. Either way, the announcers are going on about the 1v2 and 2v3 off the corner, and sure that needs improvement. But in both instances the defender in the box is ball watching, and his man just beats him ti the spot (in addition to an unlucky bounce off turner's back). Its just mind numbing, especially because zahibo had the exact same thing happen in the 2 games prior! Why is he still getting run out? I also need to give credit where credit is due. I've been riding the center backs (for good reason) and anibaba made a great pass in the run up to the 1st goal. Absolute beauty of a diagonal ball that leads to a goal, so kudos to him for that
I just watched this movie on Hulu, called Eight Men Out, about a team that intentionally through the World Series. And then I watch the Revs play... It's like, literally, the defense meets up before the game and asks, "Ok, how do we lose this one?" Everyone: "Set pieces." "Sounds like a plan--dammit, Farrell, you scored!" Farrell: "Sorry!" Delamea: "It's ok, I got this." I'm not going to watch a team that won't compete. I won't. I'm going back to hibernation, and waiting for the train wreck. I have no reason to watch a team that won't compete. I have no reason to invest myself in a team who's performance like this is considered "over-achieving" by ownership. Fire ********* Burns and get rid of the whole backline. Mancienne, ONE PLAYER, is not going to change that whole disaster.