The "Thoughts That Don't Require Their Own Thread" Thread XII

OK, so this one is kinda funny...

My daughter started 5th grade this week. One of her terachers likes to do this "call-back" thing with the kids. For example, last year, she would say "Scooby doobie do" and the kids would all call back "Where are you?"

They thought that was too young for them, so she asked for suggestions for something new. I half-jokingly told my daughter that they should do one of the old Rev Army cheers:

"Oooogie, oooglie, ooogie!"
"Oi, oi, oi!"

Guess what the kids did today in school...

 

Németh must bring quality to the team.

 

Great article on the issues with Video review by Ridge Mahoney a few months ago. Does anyone know what the VAR is watching the game on? It appears that the head referee is as involved as the VAR on the review and he's watching a freaking IPad (or Surface), which is 1/16 the size of an average TV today. Is there standard monitor equipment that's used or is it up to each team to provide something? I know that I've heard that they are supposed to be able to avail themselves of all the feeds of the game. My only real issue with review so far is that I think they f'd up the Delemea handling offense (then again it could be the mushy FIFA regulations at fault for that), but this strikes me as a really half-a$$ed way to implement it.

 

ATL 7 @NERevolution 0: People talking about ATL having mercy on NE, & not who's to blame. How does Jay Heaps still have a job.. NE Rev fans?

— herculez gomez (@herculezg) September 16, 2017

It's not just this game. I've yet to see NE play to the level of their players; Kei, Fagundez, Rowe, Lee N, Agudelo, Nemeth.. how much more

— herculez gomez (@herculezg) September 16, 2017

You want your domestic league to grow? That means having team ownerships care. Long gone are the absentee owners, a new wave is in.

— herculez gomez (@herculezg) September 16, 2017

 

The Krafts may think they have a Versailles-Sun King- Heaps of Gold thing going..... but it's late term Louis XVI, baby Jonathan, and your Conde d'Burns is lying to you when he says that the baying outside your Bastille is just the AYSO Crowds at the Revs Family Fun Fair enjoying the shindig.

 

As of right now, #NERevs is trending on Twitter.

 

.@ATLUTD and @torontofc are putting @MLS' complacent billionaires to shame.https://t.co/ckMhJIbxMK pic.twitter.com/VPnz9jOSMe

— FourFourTwo USA ⚽️ (@FourFourTwoUSA) September 18, 2017

 

Not really. You can't very well embarass someone who has no shame.

 

Remarkable from a player picked late in what was essentially the 8th round of the draft. Also one of the better dudes I've ever worked with. https://t.co/yhY7PcjZAf

— Jeff Lemieux (@jeff_lemieux) September 20, 2017

 

Remarkable for a guy who the Revs didn't want to pay and dumped him to Colorado for a draft pick after his "moment of clarity."

 

Michael Bradley blasted the turf following last night's #NERevs game - now the NFL has a problem w/ it https://t.co/ufNTiKaO4y

— Brian O'Connell (@BrianOConnell21) September 24, 2017

 

I didn’t catch either game. How did the new turf appear to play for the revs?

 

bouncy

 

Good thing they replaced the old turf since it was already 4 months old! When I saw the game, I was wondering if it was new turf at all. It was wierd how the FB lines looked. It looked like they were faded, left over from a previous Pats game, which would be normal, but I had to wonder why they did it like that. Previous times they had done the lines completely, bright, with all the logos, stripes, etc. It was good for soccer that they didn't, but if they were going to do them lightly, why did they need to do the 4-foot wide sideline?

 

Don't want to start a new thread...

Jermaine Jones:
Year 1 (<1/2 season) - pure magic, lifting everyone's play, instrumental in getting to MLS cup
Year 2 - USMNT absences, injuries, still around enough and influential enough to get to the playoffs (and a stupid red)

Xavier Kouassi
Year 1 - absent due to injury
Year 2 - slow start returning from injury, more injury, tendency to get reds, not able to lift everyone's play
Note that this last red was not his fault

How can Biello and Kraft fail to see how badly Burns, perhaps with Heaps help, is at his job?

 

Great to see the Revs well-represented (Kelyn and Kei), in the new Take the Lead anti-racism PSA that will be shown at all Boston sports venues and on TV (just saw it on the Sox game).

 

Yeah, I noticed that when they were talking about this onthe radio, they mentioned that the Sox would be joined by "the other 4 major league sports teams" (which is usually just a dog-whistle for the Revs), but then they actually mentioned them by name. Considering soccer is, by far, the most diverse sport on the planet. the Revs had better be part of this.

 

Recently bought a copy of Football Manager 2017 for the PC. Loved the game for years, finally upgraded from the 2012 version. For $10, why not?

Anyway...immediately started as manager of the Revs and quickly realized that actually working within the MLS cap and roster rules is so confusing and frustrating - and I've been following the league for 20 years, so imagine someone new to the experience. After 3 seasons I had to move on to a different league; I resigned.

In real life, I have no idea why any manager would choose to come to MLS over any other league in the world considering all of MLS' restrictions, never mind the tight wallets in Foxborough. Other clubs in other leagues may have limited resources, but you can do almost anything you want with the money available. So how did Atlanta land Martino?

 

We can't judge Burns based on his inability to replace Jones. Year 1 Jones is a rare player that any MLS club would struggle to replace. And season 2 Jones is someone I didn't want around any more. Nobody expected Kouassi to be Jones' equal, and who knows if Kouassi's injury (not Burns' fault) eroded his ability before he even got here. There are PLENTY of examples of ineptitude by the club, this is not one of them.

 

Where is Robespierre when we need him?

 

Well paid opportunity working for a committed owner leading an exciting new project in an exciting young and growing league. What's not to like?

For the revs it's more like a poorly paid opportunity working for absentee owners leading a short staffed team of "square pegs" in an otherwise exciting young and growing "round hole" league.

 

What an exciting season, with the short ups and long downs, the late blur of reds-a-wavin', and the never ending suspense of possibly making the playoffs. Nothing else come close to this long term extended postponement of closure. You just cant beat it. So close, so close - for the entire season! That's Revs excitement. Nothing else quite compares.

 

Burns mentioned a while ago that there was lots of "international" interest in the job. Great. But I suspect it's kinda like some manager who would like to be in the Premiership. Sure, MLS is a young, upcoming league, with alot of potential, unlike almost any job in the world. Lts of upside if you are in a good situation. But for the same reason that "Premiership" job openings are not for Man United or Chelsea, but for relegation strugglers who would be lucky to win a third of their games, clubs who don't have the resources to challenge at the top. Now a guy might take a job like that for a couple of years and use it as a stepping stone to a better gig, but any experienced manager with a strong background and has options isn't going to go for a job like this. If you want to work in "the MLS," you sign on with a club like LA, who may suck now, but are ambitious enough to not want to suck forever, and whose ownership has a track record of doing everything they can to make the club competitive.

No, we'll hire a guy like Savarese. Cheap, looking to break into MLS, and at least would be a modest step up from Heaps. I suppose it wouldn't be all that bad, since it's probably the best we can expect...