I've honestly never seen anything like what has happened to this guy in the post season since 2009. He needs a sports psychologist. Really. What he did on the tying goal was almost Caig-esque
So of course this thread is revived. No ideas. No confidence. Plenty of self-doubt. The Dynamo looked TERRIBLE. Is this 2010 over again or is it another barely-make-it-to-playoffs-then-play-great again?
4-24-14 Update of my post from last Fall Food for thought year Goals Scored per MLS game 2006 1.375 2007 1.43 2008 1.5 2009 1.3 2010 1.33 2011 1.32 2012 1.41 2013 1.21 so far in 2014 - 1.0 year Goals Allowed per MLS game 2006 1.25 2007 0.767 2008 1.06 2009 0.96 2010 1.633 2011 1.206 2012 1.206 2013 1.21 so far in 2014 - 1.71 year Points earned per MLS game 2006 1.43 2007 1.73 2008 1.7 2009 1.6 2010 1.1 2011 1.44 2012 1.56 2013 1.5 so far in 2014 - 1.0 IMO teams have figured out how we play with the personel we have and game planned defenses against us effectively. With the possesion style of play we have, unfortunatley it puts more responsibilty to score on the forwards who haven't gotten it done. We are tops in the league for shots and near last in the league for goals. Discuss amongst yourselves and have a nice day!
In any arena of weapons or sports where something is "launched" or "shot" at a target, like a rifle range or association football, being terrible at this task and in our case basically dead fuking last, really means the shooter is not focusing hard enough. We are tops in the league for shots! Granted there is an individual tasked with standing in between the sticks to stop our shots but he isn't the target now is he...getting the ball on target and yet away from him is what our guys are absolute horse shit at so far in 2014! Like Driver skying a sitter 30 feet over the crossbar last night when in the course of the match there in the first half were we coulda clawed back into the match. KNEE OVER THE BALL SON! KNEE OVER THE BALL!!!
Fire McHale! It needs to be Dynamo specific? Between the Dynamo and Rockets, last night has blurred into one long beating.
and how is that youth program going? 6'2" center back 16 yo Oscar Aragon who is from Magnoilia drives 16 hrs to Colorado and beat out 250 kids to win a spot in the MLS sueno finals in LA. His Mom signed him up for the try outs. How did this kid not get into tryouts for our HD youth team here? BTW he's a fan of the Dynamo.
I think if some kid from Magnolia who has some talent isn't getting screened somewhere in Houston without having to drive to Colorado it is a failure somewhere in the system
Does anyone recall the write up a year or so ago with praise from the footballers native to Mexico that were on squads in the Liga MX with teammates that are our Texicans or mostly Chicanos n Guanacos from So. Cali or Arizona that are getting looks, or like Los Xolos, part of the Starting XI. The praise was, paraphrasing here, that the young talent were Americans in size, stature, and grit/don't get knocked down easily but as well were of very solid technical quality like a Latino footballer ought to be. To make no mention of the Americanized diet to which I point to the bold part from rey! Look, I've witnessed this for years and been pushing this agenda for years coaching in HISD and saw this evolution in the American player, or should I say, the mutation to better footballers as Americans and now it is very real. So here is a freakin' 6'2" Texas kid is most likely a healthy lad, a centerback with a set of iron lungs and most likely comfortable on the ball....slips by our FO/Academy set up. Sickening!
...because all our scouts were busy in Central and South America watching games and identifying new prospects. That's how they such good job finding Alex Lopez.
I fear we will need a new thread, not knee jerk reactions. More like... "The completely rational discussion of the 2014 Houston Dynamo collapse"