P/I/P: Revs vs MON, 10/23, 4pm

why do we care about 7th vs 8th place?

 

Draft slot?

 

Considering how inept Burns has been in bringing in SI's the draft is still important for the Revs and the higher we get to pick the better. I know the payoff from the draft the past few years has been marginal at best but it's always been a mainstay for this franchise

 

thanks --Id forgotten about those swaps.

 

Soccer America is reporting that the Revs are expecting north of 37k for this last game. What a shame it could not have meant something.

 

I hope everyone at the Revs, from top to bottom, resists the will to interpret a giant turnout to a meaningless game as a supporting leg in a blanket validation of their approach. e.g., "Wow, we can draw 37K+ to a meaningless game even if we don't deliver results on the field."

That could then in turn be the basis for the Revs continuing to conclude that the product they are producing is close enough to, or even exactly, what their customer base demands. And that game and season competition results just don't matter that much to the actual success factors that Revs mgmt DO feel are critical, whether those be financial and otherwise.

 

If this is true, then I guess it was probably just as well that we lost in Chicago last week. If we had won and everything was on the line for a do-or-die playoff game vs. Montreal, then it would certainly validate to the tone-deaf FO that things are just fine.

It's also been said before that a lot of the big crowd is due to group sales and flex-tickets being used. These were people who would have come anyway at some point during the season, but hadn't for whatever reason. The "use it or lose it" factor.

 

Heaps talks about the line-up, not putting out a B team, but some changes.

“There will be, here or there, a move or two. Maybe as the game goes on you’ll see different players factor in,”

Femi and Watson most likely out, Tierney maybe.

Do we want to see 90 minutes from Herivaux, Mccrary (is he still on the team?), Neumann, Smith, any of the other goalies?

 

I want to see Cropper and Herivaux.

 

What a great great year that was....

 

Yes - I hope we do. Otherwise, why bother keeping them on the roster? Don't they know they could **SAVE EVEN MORE MONEY** with a smaller roster? After all, you only get 3 field subs a game so a game day 18 is overkill...see Columbus

Here's to a 13 0 victory and Philly losing for a miraculous playoff berth. Ohhhh yeahhhh

 

Rev legends Joseph "box to box" Niouky
Edgaras "MGH regular" Jankasaurus
Zak "your calling is Doctor, not pro soccer" Boggs
Zach "hat trick hero to zero" Schilawski
Gabriel "we never got to see ya" Badilla
Pat "relative of Gerard" Phelan
Ilija "we still don't know why you left" Stolica
....
What a phenomenal team that was.

 

And what about "Psycho" Lekic? (or was he the previous year?) Hint: There should be certain telltale signs with anyone with the nickname of "Psycho." My lasting memory of him was how excited he was to join the team. He visited the stadium for the first time and marveled how it was as big as Borussia Dortmund, and concluded that we must be a YUUUGE club!

I felt bad for him when he finally realized they weren't talking about the Revs when they said that the football team in Foxboro sells out all 68,000 seats and has a long waiting list for season tickets!

 

Lekic was 2011 but yes, another legend

 

Since we're strolling down memory lane already, wasn't Rusty Pierce also "Psycho?"

 

While Rusty could be firey at times, he got his name as a nod to Stuart Pierce, the English player with, um, an interesting personality.

Kinda like how Brian McBride was sometimes called "Bake" (and it wasn't because 4:20 was his favorite time of day) or any ath-uh-leet named "Gamble" somehow gets tagged with the nickname "Oscar."

 

weather permitting I am making my first trip to Gillette this year only because I promised my grandson a game this year.