News: Revs put Twellman on season-ending injury list

Set back? Hurt himself filming a comercial did he.....nice

 

DP.

 

If there ever was a time when this team really needed one this is it. Losing a 100 goal producer is not something easily replaced.

 

Is there anyone here who can honestly say they're surprised by this?

 

It's not gonna hurt us as much as it's gonna hurt Taylor. My worry for his health (physically and emotionally) far exceeds the current state and needs of the team right now.

 

Soccer Quack

 

Heard the Revs have their eye on a certain North Korean world cupper ... a low salary add and anxious to live abroad. Might have a small language barrier and has never seen a TV, cellphone, or ground beef.

 

And guess we're our ideal on and off the field DP is going?


http://twitter.com/galaxyprez/status/16733923998

http://twitter.com/galaxyprez/status/16883149937

http://www.goal.com/en-us/news/1110...-angeles-galaxy-interested-in-ac-milan-winger

 

Shock!!!

 

Jason Griffiths in 3...2....1...

 

He even comes with 1000 imported Revs supporters! A win win situation for the FO!

 

poppycock. dont believe ticket agents.

 

Should have sold him to Preston North End; at least we would have an allocation at our disposal.

 

I feel terrible for Taylor, tough break. However...yeah, come on. I'm about as surprised by this as I was by Mike Lynch on Ch. 5 still managing to make fun of soccer even while showing the Donovan goal. Not very, to say the least.

 

Consider it a compliment; when they make fun of your sport, it's a threat

 

Rev Army, Rev Army, Rah Rah Rah.

 

I am trying to think of something witty to say... but it's too early... maybe later...

 

He will either retire at the end of the year, or be playing for AC St Louis next year (assuming they still exist then).

Best wishes on your post-soccer career Taylor. It's been a blast watching you score 101 goals. You will be missed.

 

That would make us the Redolution?

 

In hindsight, given that the FO is so committed to doing nada for this team, I wish Taylor had gone to PrestonNE, Shalrie had gone to Celtic, and we had a bunch of young kids who at least were motivated to make a name for themselves...... and just maybe Taylor's and Shalrie's careers, and lives, would not take the hits they have been taking.
This is just sad.

 

Amen, I couldn't feel any worse for Taylor and Shalrie. They both had their opportunities to play in Europe shot down by the Revs. Twellman was left off the US roster for 2006 World Cup, and Joseph picked Grenada over the United States when he unknowingly could have been a potential World Cup starter for the US in the future. Joseph is stuck playing on a terrible Revs team, while Twellman is stuck watching a terrible Revs team. To top it all off, neither one of them has an MLS Cup trophy to their name. Tragic, that two of the best players in our club's history have had so much not go their way.

 

At the time both of these guys had the chances to move, I was against it. I admit that it was for purely selfish reasons--I reasoned that few teams could lose players like that and still be competitive, especially one like the Revs who have had an "uneven" record of bringing in impact players from outside the league.

On the other hand, can anyone cite even one example of when a player had the opportunity to move to a bigger club and make double/triple/quadruple or more the salary he was making, and yet the club refused to sell? I know there have been negotiations over transfer fees, but the deal always gets done and the player gets to make his move. The premise behind this model is that a little, obscure clubs like Manchester United can sell a player like David Beckham to Real Madrid, and then United can take that money and go out and buy some other player(s) to replace Becks. (Unlike the Montreal Expos who would lose every promising player they ever had to fee agency and get nothing in return). That is the way the system has worked for the better part of 100 years all over the world.

The Revs decided that they didn't want to go with the natural order of things because they decreed that they weren't a "feeder" team/league, even though by all accounts they are. (They think they are the "Patriots," but actually they are the Lowell Spinners). Meanwhile, the players, who have a very limited timespan when they can maximize their earnings get penalized. Before someone says that they'd like to be "penalized" to the pay levels of Twellman and Joseph, let's be honest, they could and should be making a lot more on the European free market, unlike the socialist workers paradise that the USA is.

Could this be the "Soccer Gods" penalizing the Revs for their upsetting the natural order of how the game is administered worldwide? They could have had some serious cash in transfer fees to sit in the bank collecting interest next to that pile of money they got for Clint Dempsey, but at least in part due to their own inability or unwillingness to spend for adequate replacements for sold players, they wind up with nothing but Joseph and a shell of mediocre parts.

Sometimes you get what you deserve.

Unfortunately, Twellman deserves better than this, and I hope that he can make his smooth post-career transition to the broadcast booth.

 

Thanks for all the great goals and excitement you brought to the REVS! Good luck and you'll be missed!!