Jameson Night - Interim Edition

New England is in town which means its time for one of the great Rapid fan traditions, Jameson Night!  If you're new to this tradition that now enters its third decade you can read the background here.  In total the Rapids have won 8 of 13 Jameson Night games and there's never been a draw.

That record may be challenged tomorrow as both teams come stumbling into this one.  We've covered Colorado's issues extensively but the Revolution have had a chaotic week themselves.  After being suspended for over a month Bruce Arena stepped down as Revs coach, due to reported inappropriate and insensitive comments made to his coaching staff.  Assistant coach Richie Williams was name interim coach but it came out that Williams was one of the ones who reported Arena, and this happened after Arena had informed Williams this past offseason his contract wouldn't be renewed at the end of this season.  Williams had also clashed multiple times with the rest of the coaching staff this season.  On Tuesday the Revs players refused to practice and the leadership decided to name Clint Peay the interim interim manager, dismiss two other assistant coaches, and move Williams to an unnamed role away from the first team.

So we have interim Rapids manager Chris Little versus interim interim Revolution manager Clint Peay, both in their first games.  New England has been great this season, second best in the league, while the Rapids are still just as awful.  A reminder that many fans in Centennial 38 are wearing all black and will be walking out in the 20th minute in protest of the organization tomorrow.  Kickoff is at 7:30, so the walkout will time well for anyone who wants to watch the CSU-CU game.

Availability Report:

OUT: GK William Yarbrough (knee surgery), D Alex Gersbach (tendon surgery), D Aboubacar Keita (lower body injury), M Max (removed from team activities)

Other than Keita who is injured, again, that's a good injury report.  We knew none of those players would be available.

No lineup prediction on this one.  A bad team under a new coach, who knows what we're going to see..

Prediction: 0-0 draw.  I'm sure this week has taken a lot out of the Revolution so I'm not expecting them to play well.  Even with that though they're still a better team than we are.  Removing Fraser doesn't really solve the Rapids' problems.  We'll probably look a bit better but not enough to beat a team like New England.  A sloppy mess of bad soccer.