Our Numbers Are Growing….Join Us!!

By: Jeff | February 26th, 2007

Just when it looked like Adam Christman’s brace for the U-23s was the only piece of actual news I could present to readers of The Offside: when, in my despair, I was weighing how to pass on such fluff items as the arrival of Jay Heaps’ second child, Taylor Twellman’s dining guide, or the ongoing festivities of the New England Revolution’s “Countdown to Kickoff” while holding onto what’s left of my dignity: that’s when a trip to BigSoccer revealed the existence of a new New England fan blog. It’s actually titled, New England Revolution Fan Blog, a nice, direct name well-suited to a team like New England, who plays direct soccer – even if it’s not always nice.

It’s good to have company out here. Which brings me to something else: I’ve got my one-man site (It’s a Simple Game) wired to an aggregator called Soccer Blogs (a useful service, by the way). Now I’ve found that when I post general soccer stuff – e.g. when my headline mentions something about, say, U.S. Soccer, or certain players, etc. – I’ll pick up a hit or two. But all the New England posts I do, either now or in the past, they rarely, rarely get hits of any kind.

Just thought that’s interesting, if a little puzzling. To this point, BigSoccer has been the place where Revs fans swap ideas, rumors, and opinion; given that, it seemed a little futile to work a Revs blog, that fans of the team just didn’t have much interest in checking out stand-along blogs so long as they had BigSoccer. There certainly didn’t seem to be the kind of blog presence I see with, say, teams like DC United, who are well-wired through sites of their own. Maybe that’ll change now that there are some options out here. Then again, maybe it won’t. The reading market will, I suppose, do what the reading market does and sort itself out.

I’m not saying this is good or bad. It simply is.