Newcomer's Guide & F.A.Q.

This a daily-ish off-season series going through every coach's and player's performance over the 2024 season. We'll start with the coach and move through the players based on minutes played in all comps. Any and all thoughts/ratings/rants are welcome!

Yesterday's post: Dylan Nealis

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John Tolkin

Position: Fullback

Notable 2024 Stats:

• Most crosses on the team with 171 - next on the list is Morgan with 68
• Took the most free kicks on the team
• Led the team in passes leading directly to a shot
• Only 1 assist all season with an "xA" of 4

Contract Situation: New contract signed through 2027 with an option for 2028

The link to sign up as a member of the Empire Supporters Club doesn't seem to bring you to a sign up page.

I wanted to get a membership for myself, wife, and 2 kids so that we can sit in the supporters section next season.

Does anyone know how this works? Would I need to buy 4 memberships in order to buy 4 tickets to each game we plan on going to? Would the tickets be available around the same time that the general public tickets go on sale for the rest of the stadium?

Thanks in advance!

Not as active a vote in years past, but Emil got 31 of 65 votes, followed by Coronel at 16, Morgan at 13, Amaya at 3, Reyes at 2. Three people wrote in Sean Nealis, one wrote in Sandro.

LINK: https://www.reddit.com/r/rbny/comments/1hc2kah/who_is_your_rrbny_player_of_the_year_for_2024/

This a daily-ish off-season series going through every coach's and player's performance over the 2024 season. We'll start with the coach and move through the players based on minutes played in all comps. Any and all thoughts/ratings/rants are welcome!

Yesterday's post: Carlos Coronel

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Dylan Nealis

Position: Fullback/Centerback

Notable 2024 Stats:

• 4th in the entire league in aerial duels won, yet somehow failed to score on any of his eighteen set piece shots.
• Most tackles and tackles won on the team in 2024
• Career best 4 assists

Contract Situation: New contract signed through 2027 with an option for 2028

This a daily-ish off-season series going through every coach's and player's performance over the 2024 season. We'll start with the coach and move through the players based on minutes played in all comps. Any and all thoughts/ratings/rants are welcome!

Yesterday's post: Lewis Morgan

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Lewis Morgan

Position: Goalkeeper

Notable 2024 Stats:

• Most goals allowed and fewest clean sheets (4) in the regular season since joining MLS

Contract Situation: Option picked up for 2026, out of contract in 2027

Trying to figure out where Morgan and Vanzeir will be lining up if they are on the pitch with Moting. I see Vanzeir getting a HUGE boost from Moting. Both of them will be operating heavy in the middle, while Morgan will still be the winger.

I dont see Moting coming in as a supersub as many are saying. He's here to play minutes and resurrect his name. Moting at 36 won't press hard so we might be seeing a really dulled down version of the press with Moting occupying a central position and Vanzeir and Morgan pressing from the sidelines into the middle and alternating with moting as much as possible for rest.

It does look like Harper will be the odd man out, right? Moting can spread the ball around so I can even see him taking a new role operating with forsberg as an attacking midfielder.

It will be seriously interesting to see what Sandro will do game 1.

Got an email saying some merch was 50-75% off. Anyone gone previous years? Worth going to? I'd like to pick up a red jersey, I'm sure the piss yellows will be heavily discounted to clear them out for the new ones

I know this song is an anti-bull fighting song, but I think it could translate pretty well into a RBNY fight song.

https://youtu.be/wOuZpwsevlg?si=flhX_TtwcFsHIc0g

Can someone explain if its good that we receive 600,000 for reyes? Does that mean we can invest in the team?

This mls allocation thing is super confusing for a fanatic European watcher.