Revs News, League News, Good News, Bad News, No News Is Good News?

Ok we don't know where that headline came from (I think I just need some sleep) and it really has no bearing as to what we are going to write here other than it being a quick news wrap up.

Injury Suspicions Have Been Validated

We heard via Kyle McCarthy today that Didier Domi has returned from camp in Kennesaw, Ga. to Boston have further treatment for the his right knee.  Later today we learned that Ousmane Dabo who has been having issues with his quadriceps will not be available for the season opener next week in LA.  We voiced our concern over potential injury concerns when Domi and Dabo were signed, being aging and out of form players.  Unfortunately these injuries have apparently started before the season has even gotten underway.  These injuries have been reported throughout the pre-season however we were waiting to comment on them hoping it was just the team being cautious while the Frenchmen worked some kinks out.  The fact that we know Dabo will be out for a game over a week away makes us worry that he may be gone for longer than that since the decision has been made already to keep him out.  Dabo was supposed to be a big signing for us and help turn the team around and now he will not be available due to injury, bad way to start off the season.  Injuries seem to be a persistent problem with this team and it's time to wonder if there is something wrong with the training sessions and/or trainers.  According to Nicol, Domi is not experiencing any pain but just swelling and he hopes to have him available for the season opener.

Ch-ch-ch-changes...



Hope you wrote down the Revs game days on your calendar in pencil because we have more changes to the schedule, as if moving our NYRB away game wasn't enough.  So the game against Philly was originally on Saturday July 16 will now be on Sunday the 17th... woo Sunday games... [insert sarcasm here].  The second change is FC Dallas on September 11th will now be moved to September 10th... hooray Saturday games!!!  Rumor has it that there may be a friendly on 7/14 which is part of the reason for the Philly move.  We have a couple issues with the Philly move... 1) We shouldn't be moving a regular season game for a friendly, it's bad form 2) This means that the Revs will now be playing 4 games in 10 days... when they have almost 2 weeks off prior to that... can you say fixture congestion?  Now I will gladly admit that I enjoy friendlies because it's nice to see other teams and styles of play, however the only way I can give a pass on this July schedule shuffle is if the team is a top 3-4 EPL, La Liga, Serie A or Bundesliga team.

Sweet Dreams Are Made of These



I'm not going to even bother commenting... not sure talking about this is even worth it anymore...

Don Garber on a stadium for the Revs "I do believe it's not an if, but a when."  Garber also said with a downtown stadium Boston could become Seattle... well minus the inventing everything (ok so I did make a comment).

Garber also again spoke of rivalries and how it was important to grow them and take what's happening in the Pacific Northwest to other parts of the country including an I-95 rivalry.  We call shenanigans on the the I-95 rivalry, if it were something they were truly trying to nurture, our away game against NYRB would not have been moved to a weeknight, our away game at Philly would not be on a Sunday, or home game against Philly would not have been moved to a Sunday and our DC United away game wouldn't be on a Wednesday.  You want a rivalry Don? Stop putting games against teams that would have traveling fans on inconvenient nights.



Shameless Self-Promotion

Don't forget out season opener party happening March 20th at Church Boston.  Live music by The Allstonians, The Snipes and Joesphin.  Doors at 7:30 free before 8:30!

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MLS and FOX Stifling Our Rivalry

For what will be the third year running MLS has decided to move New England's away date at New York to a weeknight game (Now June 10th a Friday night instead of June 11th a Saturday).  They will tell us that is is because it is what their broadcast partners want, and they have no control over it.  Whose league is it? It's not the Fox Soccer Channel League, it's not the ESPN2 We'll-Get-Right-To-The-MLS-Match-Of-The-Week-Right-After-This-College-Volleyball-Game-Ends Soccer League, It's Major League Soccer.  MLS has final say on the schedule and when games will be played.  I could care less about pissing off the networks, but the league should care about pissing off it's fans.

Rapids Win the Cup, Wells get Ripped by Twellman, and much more...

Winning the cup... with Wells Tohmpson oh wait we mean Thompson.  So ya.... about that the Rapids beat Dallas 2-1 on an own goal... seriously... an own goal and the game went into overtime.  I will say this about the game though, the last 3 mins were very exciting with Dallas pushing hard trying to get that late equalizer to push it to penalties.

Also it seems like now that Taylor Twellman has retired he's opening his mouth a little more on his twitter page, "

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the sub of Thompson may bite @Rapidssoccer in the rear end because he has no self control whatsoever." and

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and yes thank you @torontofc for putting in GRASS for your stadium...#gameismeanttobeplayedongrass" So wait the Field Turf at Gillette is no good... I am shcoked!!!!!!!!!

So in other MLS cup weekend news Don Garber has stated that we will continue with the balanced schedule next year, and in addition to two new teams being added to the league they will be adding 2 more playoff spots.  Seriously? 2 more? the playoffs for MLS have always been a joke because pretty much any team could get into them and you just needed to be on a hot streak to win the league.  This season it started to balance out a little bit with only half of the teams being eligible for the playoffs, but seriously what is the point of the regular season if it's easy to get into the playoffs?  In addition to the playoff changes Garber says that the will find a way to make sure that a Western Conference team cannot become the Eastern Champion or vice versa.  We should know more about how this plan will be put into action in the next month. You can see the Don's interview on ESPN last night below.

Ok so more Don talk from the Supporters Summit, basically sounds like the state of the league is very good, there are more people wanting to buy in than they are currently willing to allow in, they fell that now they need to work on strengthening the league and the leagues support.  Don stated that he recognizes the need for supporters groups and to spread their passion on down to the casual fans. Travellign support was also touched upon and it seems like they may finally be getting the point that this is a major issue for supporters and that they will be workign hard on this issue and making some changes to the plicies or enacting new policies related to traveling support.  We've been working an in depth piece about travelling support which hopefully we will have up in the next few days.  If you have an hour or so and would like to watch the supporters summit... we got you covered...

That's the MLS weekend in an abbreviated nutshell(I'm feeling lazy today... I could write more but I don't feel like it and well I can't very easily not write anything at all about its so there ya go (hey at least I'm honest!))