We have now lost two straight to teams below us in points. At the beginning of the season, I thought we looked better and would have a much better season. While we still look better than last year, so do other teams and the result is that we still are not good enough to compete. Dropping a critical potential 6 points straight and now facing tougher teams makes me think that we are sinking and heading for the bottom fast. I don't have the exact answer on what needs to be done but I am getting tired of the marking errors at the back and the lack of scoring by the attack. I think its time to sit Sene and try something else. He is not producing anything and I'm tired of seeing him shy away for any potential contact. The bottom line is if we cant beat Toronto and Montreal, who will we beat?
Yeah, last night essentially confirmed the playoffs won't be happening this year. The Revs have dug too big a hole for themselves - especially with Saturday's SKC game being almost a sure loss. I've adjusted my expectations accordingly - if the Revs finish with 11 wins (5 more out of the remaining games) I'll be happy with the progress made this season. I've always judged this team on DC United's rebuild. 2010 they were the worst team in the league, 2011 they were dangerous but missed the playoffs, and this season they're a Cup contender. I'm hoping the Revs follow the same path.
I am down as a fan. I was so hopeful that we would be on the upswing by this time. Losing these two really hurt.
Ya, but, let's step back from the ledge.... Not having Shalrie out there meant we relinquished the midfield play. He's back and it's all back. Yes he is slower lately, but he still bosses the field out there. Benny is proving not to be up to the Challenge. Benny, I'm dissapointed in you. And Tierney? I still don't see what he brings that everybody talks about. We were a chaotic mess last night. Can't tell if Jay is experimenting or floundering with all the positional combos we see. I don't see a main direction yet, just different combos each week. We are work in progress.
I'm at the point where I'd rather play the 6-4-0 than see that god-awful #23 jersey and the "player" that inhabits it on the pitch for another second
The Revs player you described, "bossing the field" and maintaing possession is no longer Shalrie Joseph, in fact it's Clyde Simms. He's the guy who is keeping the midfield together, and it showed when Heaps took him out for Brettschneider. I really resented the fact that Feldman called the Simms for Brettschneider substitution an attacking move because in reality it wasn't. Although we were throwing another player into the attack (a rather useless player at that) we were conceeding possession and control of the game by removing Simms. Substituting Simms essentially made every other attack minded substitution null and void. As for Joseph, he's a shell of the player he once was. He no longer owns the midfield like he once did, he has been struggling with the pace of the game and continues to turn the ball over. Unfortunately we're paying him as if he were the Shalrie Joseph of five years ago. I'm glad that Shalrie is finally getting his piece of the pie because he's one of the all time greatest Revs, but at this point he shouldn't be a starting central midfielder in Jay Heaps' current system.
We now officially suck? The Revs have officially sucked for a few years now. Seems like business as usual to me.
The credibility comes from watching the games and evaluating his play. Two things it seems as though you haven't done this season.
We beat them once... not sure it would happen again. Wasn't NY missing like 6 starters for that game? I keep thinking that we looked better at the start of the season but am also considering that maybe we're the same.... it's just that everybody else is now better. Time for the Revs to stop shopping at the clearance rack and bring is some better players. Other teams are doing it, why can't we? We're not drawing as well as we should because people are not going to pay to watch what the Revs are fielding... kind of makes me sad too because this region has the potential to be one of the best supported teams in the league if it weren't being run so poorly. Between playing in the oversized Razor, field turf and bargain basement players....why would anyone go? Also, remember when we always got Nat games in here and filled the place? Ha... those days are gone too.
I'd rather play with 10 men. At least the non-existent player wouldn't botch open chances, lose the ball and run around like a moron with no idea of what he is doing.
Doesn't take a lot of losses for the wrist knives to come back out and for K.O. return to becoming completely lugubrious.
Ooohh..They're only, mostly dead! But, I doubt we'll get be getting a Dread Pirate Roberts anytime soon..!
Personally I thought Montreal, as a team, was one of the faster teams I have see all year. I'd bet that if Shalrie played last night he would have been mauled
Man do I disagree with that. Simms has been much better in possession than I ever expected, and better than he's ever been previously, but much of the reason why is he plays mostly square and back balls. He's kept things simple and played clean. What he isn't doing is moving the ball forward or getting on the ball a lot. Against Montreal Feilhaber was on the ball more and he was the guy who transitioned the ball forward, but he doesn't necessarily win territory so much as he moves through it. What Shalrie can do, even though he's not the player he used to be, is build a base of operations in the other team's half of the field. When this team has played its best games this season, Shalrie has been in the middle of the pretty things taking place on the field. Simms seems incidental when it comes to beautiful game concerns. Shalrie has been essential.
The question was who will we beat, not who did we beat. I don't think we even play all those teams a second time so I don't think we can beat them all again.
I don't how you're just realizing this now. I, like many others, cancelled my season tickets a couple years ago. I'll still watch every game on TV because I love the game, but I couldn't keep shelling out money to this organization. The potential in this region is there, as you've mentioned it always has been, but the ambition from the organization is not.