Revolution adds Stephen Myles as assistant coach

It is officially time to start drinking now.

 

See, this is all part of the plot to bring Becks to the Revs



I mean Brooklyn Beckham

 

Eh. We'll see how he works with the players and staff. It's not like top-shelf coaches are lining up around the block to be assistants in MLS anyway. If he works well with Stevie then I guess that's the most important thing.

 

If Nicol want's him as his assistant I suspect he thinks he can do the job. The fact that he has extensive experience working with player development is a plus in my mind. The MLS model is to bring in for all intents players who are still raw and coach them up to first team abilities. Having an asst that's skilled in that shere makes good sense.

 

Why?

 

Official release:

http://www.oursportscentral.com/services/releases/?id=3959667

Sounds like someone who can help facilitate the progression of players from our U18 Academy team to the full Revs squad. Can't complain about that, to be honest. That's going to be the future, and I'm glad it seems that the Revs are committed to it.

 

Because the Revs got some lousy youth coach as their assistant! [gasp]

Remind me, what was Paul Mariner doing before he joined the Revs again?

 

Shhh! Not facts!

 

I have no opinion. Like (too?) many players, we'll have to wait and see. John Harkes and Cobi Jones have been/are assistants in MLS. This guy appears to have been coaching longer.

 

Well, at least we've added a warm body to the bench.

Beyond that, it'll have to work itself out.

 

You mean besides earning 35 caps for the English national team, playing for Arsenal, Plymouth, ispwich town and a few others and being an assitant at Harvard and a couple of adult professional teams? Not sure really

For all I or anyone else around here knows Stephen Myles could be a damn good coach. he could do a great job with the Revs and I hope he makes the transition from the galaxy u16 head coach to coaching pros. Do I think the revs should have gone after someone with a little more experience at the pro level? ya. I think the right hand man should be a little more seasoned but if this is the guy Nicol wanted, so be it,,,,,lets support the guy

 

I may be miss reading his CV but it looks to me he has one hell of a lot of top level Professional coaching experience in Europe before he came to America. Clearly his work in the US have been at lesser levels but I think he has more professional coaching experience that a bunch of people who have coached in MLS or have been touted for MLS coaching jobs.

As you said--Nicol wanted him and thinks he can do the job---and I guess that suggests we should be supportive and welcome him into the family

 

We need a reason now?????

 

Nope. Just wondering why this news, of all things, is the reason to start.

 

From the resume, it seems he did coach the Sheffield first team (as asst. caretaker head coach - so it's not clear if he was an assistant and then took over as interim coach. He's not listed as a manager that year, so I think he probably was an assistant.

Regardless, the guys been around Sheffield for a LOT of years. Mariner had higher-level playing experience, but less coaching experience. I'd say the coaching, at a variety of levels, is likely to be more relevant in this role.

I'd guess that Nicol probably likes to run the team like the english teams that he played for, so he's got a guy who's pretty familiar with that system. And, the first assistant's main job is usually to run the training, so being an "organization" guy, he can probably do that in his sleep.

Because in the lack of information, this group always trends toward despair.

 

wait, does this mean i should stop drinking for a minute? or can i just continue?

 

I trust Nicol, if this is who he chose, that's fine by me. This is totally different than player acquisitions so dont bring up some bum the Revs signed as proof Nicol cant be trusted or something like that.

 

Those were my thoughts as well. In this respect it's a step forward, but it will be hard to make a judgment until game time.

The reality is Mariner was well respected and well liked by the fans that no matter who the Revs brought in to replace, people were going to question and wonder if this guy can fill those shoes.

 

We don't know how many options he went through before this guy agreed to the job.

 

Is there any indication that the youth team system is going to work like this in the near future? It was my understanding that it was a way off.