The Midnight Riders are proud to announce that plans for the annual Meet the Coach event have been finalized. The event will take place on Saturday, April 5, 2003 at the Funway Cafe in Foxboro from 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM. The Meet the Coach has become a great chance for Revolution fans to have questions about the upcoming season answered by Revolution Management, as well as a meet and greet amongst Revolution fans. New England Coach Steve Nicol will be present, and the Revolution have been invited to send anyone else along that would like to show up (Sunil Gulati, Lou Imbriano, etc). The only catch for this event ... you must be a member of the Midnight Riders to participate. The Riders will be hosting their annual membership drive beginning at 1:30 PM on Saturday, until 2:00 PM, when the Q&A session with Nicol will start. Midnight Riders memberships are $10 for a single person, $15 for families. The Riders will have the scarfs available for sale at the event as well. To make it a bit easier, please print out the application and bring it with you on the 5th, http://www.midnightriders.com. For more info on the Funway Cafe, please go here: http://funwaycafe.com/NewFiles/fwuloc.html. We are in the process currently of making sure that the Funway will allow a viewing of the Galaxy/Crew match that will start off the season at 4 PM right after the Meet the Coach ends. We hope to see you all there as we get closer and closer to the season. If you have any questions, please contact us at themidnightriders@yahoo.com. The Midnight Riders
Please note, due to issues on the Revolution side, the time has been changed to 10 am for the start of the membership drive and a 10:30 start for the Q&A. Monty
Just out of curiousity, did the Riders ever have their 'Man of the Year' banquet with Taylor? I hadn't seen anything on it.
The past three years, the Revolution have allowed the Riders to make the Man of the Year presentation on the pitch, the final match of the year. We have done so two out of three years, the only one we missed was due to the last game being cancelled on Sept 15, 2001 (due of course to 9/11). We did have a small party at a bar in Boston that was open to anyone for Cate that year. Monty
I'm sorry. I must have misunderstood then. I was under the assumption that you had an actual dinner (or something to that effect) for the winner of 'Man of the Year' after the completion of the season.
The Midnight Riders Man of the Year ceremony has evolved over the years. In 1996 when Alberto Naveda claimed the award, the traditional Revere Bowl was presented in a small ceremony at Cafe Dello Sport in the North End in front of Revolution and MLS supporters meeting to celebrate the 1st MLS Cup. Afterwards, a few fans went out to dinner with some of the players in attendance (Francis Okaroh and his wife, Aidan Heaney, and Beto.) In 1997 a large formal dinner was laid on at an Asian restaurant just outside of Boston where the entire Revolution team attended along with members of the front office and coaching staff, this when Walter Zenga earned the award. 1998 saw the presentation made at the Bukowski Tavern in downtown Boston to Edwin Gorter where he, a few other Revolution players like Ian Feuer, and front office staff were also in attendance. Since then a number of the more recent presentations have been made on the field, including the last three. It just makes more sense in opening up the presentation to all Revolution supporters, it saves a great deal of money to do so, and it's just exceptionally hard to try and get the entire team or parts of it together for a ceremony. The Magpie
Makes even more sense in doing it in front of all the supporters since the voting for the MOTY is open to anyone.
Not a bad issue . As said in anothter thread, go to MTC, head back into Boston for lunch, and hopefully watch the Revs in some warm afternoon sunshine.
Rickster- No axe here. I actually think he does more than people think. Sunil is globetrotting 24/7 so who do you think deals with soccer matters? Lou? Tornberg? These are ticketsellers, not soccer minds.
Since it was Clearblue himself that told us out of the clear blue that Capobianco was going to get the job that he has, maybe he wants to ask a question of himself? Or maybe of a very good buddy?
We have asked the Revs to send along anyone that might be available that day, and I have personally asked Lou Imbriano to join us as well. It just depends on whether or not they have the time. And if they want to deal with us. Monty
Bump so this doesn't get lost in the shuffle, since we have two threads on this topic now. Funway, Saturday, 10am. Riders Membership is required and will be available at the door. Scarves will also be available. Not hand-knit by Grandma, but fabulous nonetheless....go to the Midnight Riders pages for more info!
Are they hand or machine made? Believe they're machine-made, but that's just from observation. The Magpie