Certainly, there have been many. But in the seven year history of the Revs franchise there have been plenty of lows and a few highs. Basically, what have been some of the good and the bad things that have happened - especially the ones that have impacted the organization? For the record, has this franchise had the most coaches [Stapleton, Rongen, Zenga, interim-Nicol, Clavijo, interim-head coach of the year Nicol] and have they cycled the most players? Thanks...
Amazingly, the Revs haven't had the most coaches in MLS, and we're only tied for most coaching changes! The Metros have had six coaches: Eddie Firmani, Carlos Queiroz, Carlos Alberto Parreira, Alfonso Mondelo, Bora Milutinovic and Octavio Zambrano. I'm not sure, but I think every single one of them was fired before he could resign. The Revs have only had five coaches, although Nicol has served twice, so we have had the same number of coaching changes.
I think the Revolution have cycled through more players than any other club. Either that or we're just below Metro. Good things and bad things... how much time do you have? The Magpie
I would say that THE lowest point for me as a Revs fan was a 1999 doubleheader with the US Women's National Team. It was the USWNT's first game after winning the Women's World cup, and there had to be 45,000 people at the old Foxboro Stadium. The women' toyed with Ireland for a while before finally laying the smack down, 5-0. In the second half of the doubleheader, Tampa scored FOUR goals in the first half, en route to a 5-1(?) pasting of the Revs. It was so bad that after he gave up the fifth goal, Walter Zenga subbed himself out of the match, walked back to The Fort, handed his gloves to a fan, and retired on the spot. He was later talked out of it by Jonathan Kraft and Brian O'Donovan, who promptly fired him two weeks later. The other low point for me was the Ariel Graziani charade. I thought it was indicitive of how messed up Revs management was at the time. The high point? Probably Mauricio Wright's goal in the 2000 playoffs that beat Chicago in Game 2.
Trading a #1 draft pick for John Harkes was the low imo. Gave me the sense that, not only were we not going to be good now, but the Revs had no idea what to do to become good in the future. The high outside of this season might be Paul Keegan's goal on a diving header, which iirc got us into the playoffs. But there are probably 10 moments from this season which beat that.
High Point - Nevada's half-field goal & his hat trick (against Meola??). High Point - My all-time favorite chant from the FORT: He's fat, he's round He's always on the ground ME-O-LA, ME-O-LA Low Point - RED CARD WATSON!...'nuf said. Low Point - Rebuilding EVERY FREAKIN' YEAR! Scott
Right the second time. By my count, the Metros have used 124 players over 7 years, whereas the Revs have managed to get by with only 115. Yes, these are the two top figures in the league, by a significant margin. The lowest number of players used overall would is probably LA, who had used only 61 players through the end of last year and still have 2 starters from their original squad. Columbus, Dallas and KC were all in the 60s through the end of last year as well. The Crew, amazingly, used 6 players this year who were played for them in 1996 (Clark, Maisonneuve, McBride, Warzycha, Washington and Yeagley).
This was pretty depressing. Only would've made sense if the Revs had also acquired his broadcasting rights (the guy's going to make a heck of a color man someday). Big Irony here? The pick, which turned out to be the # 3 pick in the 2000 SuperDraft, after a flurry of trade activity ended up being used by Colorado to acquire.............drumroll............Aiden Brown.