Does anyone have a screenshot when they listed the starting lineups and the Revs had no 7th sub....so it said no 7th sub available. Too sad.
Good catch. With any luck they will show that on the game highlights since they usually show the lineups at the beginning. Someone then needs to screen cap it and post on Twitter (broader audience than here). The FO needs to be embarrassed.
Yer know, discussion of the NT team when it concerns Revs players concerns Revs players. It's an astonishing fact, but there it is.
http://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2016/...fled-late-pk-call-admit-they-were-second-best Not sure if this line is something Heaps said or inferred by the author: meant Heaps couldn’t help but feel his team deserved a 1-0 scoreline rather than the 2-0 result.
Yeah, it would be absolutely terrible if we had a grass field and a stadium where our average attendance would make it 90% full and where we would be the primary tenant and anyone else renting the place would have to work around our schedule! If that were us, I don't know if I could live with myself! We were playing the same role that the Montreal Impact played last week. Funny how the narrative was that somehow we were for real, we were on a 3-game win streak, Heaps had found the right combination (after 3 months of not trying), blah blah, blah. The truth is, this was the same old Revs, regressing back to the norm. Sure, we beat Colorado who were undermanned. In the New York game, we definitely were the better team on the night, credit for that. But then we went right back to our old tricks in chapters 4, 5, and 6 with the Open Cup stinkeroo vs. Dallas. And Montreal laid down and died for us, worse than our performance in Columbus. This team is going nowhere. How are we going to win (or even draw) a playoff game against a half-decent team if we can't even be better than a USL side in Columbus?
OK, let's give him the benefit of the doubt. Suppose he didn't call that PK. So Jay, we played like crap and lost only 1-0. y'happy now? I guess if your boss is and decides a 1-0 loss is "good enough" to let you keep your job, while a 2-0 loss is not, I don't know what to say, other than you and Burns both should be fired no matter what.
We were thoroughly outmatched last night. For a few minutes, we did look like we belonged on the field, but other than that, the vast majority, the Crew ran circles around us. National announcers calling out this team for having no urgency. Won't make any difference, since I doubt the Krafts were watching anyway. It was astoundingly easy for the Crew to get the ball into their final third. There were 20 of us in Nashua at the viewing, and we counted 5/6 times where it took one pass from their keeper to the defender, to a wide open midfielder at the center circle, and one more pass and they were in the box. 3 passes is all it took over and over again. Then again, Heaps has made two finals in the last three years, so we should probably give him a contract extension.
So, #NERevs have no Goncalves, no Rowe, and "No 7th Sub Available". Good thing this is not a very important game. pic.twitter.com/Vpk9mWM1FM— A Casual Fan (@A_Casual_Fan) September 25, 2016
And FOUR empty roster spots. In this case a warm body better than Tony Farias III would have saved them some embarrassment.
Well as long as the seats are comfortable for tall folk and the home team wins more often then not, I don't care about the rest
Maybe the thinking was that despite playing like crap, at 0-1 we might have stolen a point. It didn't appear likely, but stranger things have happened.
But hey, you can only play 14, so those other roster spots don't really matter like they do in other sports....
"At the end of the day, Gillette Stadium is a great place for soccer. There's plenty of leg room and we've got cupholders, not to mention some weird-shape thing that looks like it could hold a late-90s style flip phone."
I know you're being sarcastic but is McCrary on the team anymore? How bad do you have to be to not even make the gameday travel squad with so many injuries? Even Smith made it and Neumann started. I don't get what's going on with him.
Really wish you were running the show doc - seriously, I trust your judgment more than the BB&H braintrust
McCrary is on the injury report. But yeah, I was looking through the box scores last week, and he has never once made the 18 this season. Even Matt Turner made the 18 once. Something must be up.
Audi Player Index - Columbus 2:0 New England Sep 25, 2016 Columbus: 5,954 New England: 3,171 Brad Knighton: 723 Kei Kamara: 588 Diego Fagundez: 315 Darrius Barnes: 265 Teal Bunbury: 230 Lee Nguyen: 214 Steve Neumann: 177 Andrew Farrell: 175 Juan Agudelo: 137 Chris Tierney: 132 Scott Caldwell: 115 Daigo Kobayashi: 94 London Woodberry: 9 Femi Holinger-Janzen: -3
No, the narrative wasn't so wrong. We were missing 4 pretty important players that were key to that narrative. Yes, we sucked in this game - mentally and physically. But, at this point in the season, with basically no playing time, starting Barnes is just asking for problems - and he delivered. We had to start a patchwork lineup and it didn't seem like Heaps was able to do that while maintaining some belief among the players. They played like they didn't believe they could win IMO.
That was the most disappointing performance of the year for me. After seeing how they played the last three games I was expecting at least a little "urgency". Totally agree with Lalas and Freedel. The Revs looked like a team who had already clinched trying to get through the game without any injuries. Totally pathetic. The only good performance I saw was Knighton. All the talk about the bogus PK but it really didn't matter. This game was lost long before that.
But if we had depth, any depth at all, maybe we wouldn't have needed to start Neumann and Barnes. We disagree on the whole empty roster spot issue, but if we picked up a guy like Jack McInerny (just to use him as an example of a "serviceable" MLS player who has been traded a few times and would have been available to us), and 3 other guys like him at other positions, that would have pushed the Neumans, Barnses, and Donnie Smiths down to the bottom of the (now filled) roster. We would have started those guys instead of the guys at the bottom of the roster. I mean who could possibly imagine that, late in the season, we might have key players injured or suspended where they couldn't play? I can't possibly picture a situation where that might happen! No other team has ever had it happen to them, and that's why no one else carries a full roster or has a reserve team where young players can get regular game minutes every week....
Fact is I did run a show bigger the the Revs for awhile I'm just as pissed off as the rest of us at what seems like gross mismanagement. I've wanted Burns scalp for years. The one thing that keeps me from being as vocal as the rest here are about the Krafts et al is I think there is a lot of behind the scene stuff of which we are unaware. Yes, we have a lot of data point but for me something is missing when people draw the conclusion from these data points that the Krafts don't care and content to leave Burns in place despite his horrific track record in his primary role of finding and signing players. Unfortunately the KGB couldn't get more info about this franchise than we're getting. Thats really tragic because a good part of being a fan is being made aware of the ins and outs about all things having to do with your team. We are getting NOTHING. Yea, I'm mega pissed
It's hard for me to fault the guys on the field when Burns hasn't been able to find and sign adequate first team MLS quality players to provide proper depth and the coach doesn't seem to have the skill to get the required extra gear out of what he has available. This has been true all season long--not just yesterday. Grade for 2016: Burns--Fail , Heaps Fail
Yeah, he was questionable on the report but I couldn't figure out why he wasn't even on the bench. You can be questionable and take up a spot on the bench all game - spare the team embarrasment. Also, where was Rowe? Something about getting ill midweek? Talk about bad timing, getting sick when he's finally playing well. He wasn't on the injury report either and apparently didn't travel with the team.
Some things painful to ponder: • How did the team collectively pull its give-a-s#&t muscle? That was a conspicuously weak effort. • What has happened to Lee Nguyen? He played absolutely no defense, and his passing was crap. • I have added Bunbury and Neumann to my list of players to waive at the end of the year. I wish I could waive Chris Penso. • Is it Heaps' fault? If the team does not find some glimmer of the form it had against NYCFC between now and the end, maybe so.