News: 2020 Season and Virus Talk

How about this one? Now, spoiling LAG is as good as the USOC win to him and others!! Before you know it, they'll be willing to sell back the 2006 & 2007 cups to prevent Atlanta from something.

I didn’t see you tweet this the other day, but yeah, I agree. People tell me tickets are going fast, that’s a good thing. https://t.co/BIFJUjyOWU

— Web 🕸 Tilton ☮️🚴🏼 (@webtilton) September 15, 2019

 

I saw this on Facebook in the Vancouver post-game thread. Thought it was a good synopsis of much of the fanbase:

"Manolo Guti We can talk all we want about the BS penalty, but we didn't score enough goals. As a supporter that has literally sold his blood to make enough money whilst in college just to follow this team to the other side of the continent, this doesn't feel like fun anymore. Supporting this club feels like work...work that I and many other supporters have to pay to do. Marketing is trying to make moves that they think will make the culture and support grow, but bringing outsiders in that care little about this club and city will bare little fruit and it marginalizes those that have stood by this club in this last heart braking decade. We're tired. We're tired of a supporting a club that doesn't seem to care, players that for the most part only seem to be here to collect a check...and who could blame them? When we have an ownership group that shows no interest in moving this club forward....no aspiration in being successful. I'm weary. El Batallón is weary. Do something, because this club is dying and we've been trying to keep it alive so future generations have something to be proud of...but it all seems futile."

 

Apparently this SoccerPat guy isn't a fan of BigSoccer. I find all of this Dynamo vs. Dynamo fan stuff quite interesting. The pro-FO faction seems to have a connection to the FO, a media pass, a supporter group line of contact to the team, or an in with the Czar of the Circle of Suck - and all of them like to parrot the line about the team being "better than their record" or some other nonsense.

Bigsoccer: introducing conspiracies and toxic communities before facebook and twitter made that a thing. Try not to read them at all for the sake of your blood pressure.

— Pat: Questioning his past (@soccerpat) September 6, 2019

Here is the harsh reality - since the beginning of the 2014 season (Dom's last) this is the Dynamo's MLS regular season record:

62 wins - 87 losses - 51 ties

Thats a win rate of 31%. Since the beginning of the 2018 season the win rate is 20 of 64 games or 31%.

This isn't "done wrong by the refs" or "deserved better" this is what the Dynamo have become, a bottom quarter MLS club due to lack of investment and poor management.

 

Well Pat, come in here and defend your viewpoint with the big boys and girls.

 

Come getcha some homeboy

 

Here’s a take from a lemming who doesn’t mind gagging on auto debits from the Dynamo while they laugh all the way to the bank

http://mlsfemale.com/2019/09/21/having-a-professional-soccer-team-is-a-privilege-not-a-right/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

 

She has found a way to type a lot without saying a lot.

 

Correct.
Well, this used to be the way of being in the hinchada, half would be season ticket holders and the other half, i.e. men and women that work day labor and the like, perhaps work weekends here and there, this half just purchased tickets at point of sell on game day. Then the draconian tactics of one Chris Canetti starting in 2012 in our new stadium flat out demanded that everyone purchase season tickets in the hinchada no excuses. Canetti told those that had at the Rob days just purchased on game day that they can now go stand in another section. Thus this split the hinchada choir into a lower bowl and upper bowl in those first years at BBVA when we were wedged down in the corner by our FO. Remember when us supporters were in that lower corner by the flag?
We also encountered this "or else" type pressure from him and our ticketing staff with the wristband policy. No ticket inside the hinchada, no wristband, no entry for new comers or the like. So one cannot just "bring a friend" to experience the supporters way of taking in the sport. Which just train wrecked our old Robertson way of life in recruiting to fill our ranks. The sport sells itself and so does the fun in the North End.
All this has had a negative effect on our numbers and it shows. Why these old Canetti hangover effects are still lingering under new management is a headache to say the least. Just last Saturday I had a new friend who goes with his family but wanted to at least attend one home game inside the hinchada. But I couldn't get a wristband for him even though his game day ticket was 2x the face value of our supporter section ticket. I really hope that looking forward to 2020 that these old policies are dropped like a bad habit!

 

Web just gonna toe the company line until the end. Doesn't realize that Zlatan was responsible for probably 25% of the crowd today. We beat the celebrity teams so often we finished 19th in a 24 team league - but we beat LA!!! Love that Dionna Widder liked his tweet about not wanting any star players on the Dynamo - fits right into the ownership plan

For all the people that think the @HoustonDynamo need big stars on the team, this game today is what I like better. I like to see our not-so-big stars beating the celebrities. They just need to learn to do it consistently. 🍊🧡

— Web 🕸 Tilton ☮️🚴🏼 (@webtilton) October 7, 2019

As we close in on the last @houstondynamo game of the season, prematurely, one thing I’m tired of is seeing people proudly boasting that they aren’t renewing their season tickets. That’s their decision, I won’t stop them, but I think it’s sad....

— Web 🕸 Tilton ☮️🚴🏼 (@webtilton) October 6, 2019

 

I am following Austin's approach to MLS. Here is the latest from MLSsoccer.com on what is going on up the road.

https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2019...ng-its-culture-it-starts-building-its-stadium

 

Judas Ortiz coming in at the end!!

http://mobile.twitter.com/OrtizKicks/status/1181246977012568066

 

Found this today.
Fits for how some of us feel on our FO and who they click like on tweets and favor for "new" fans.

"If you want to know who your oppressors are, find out who you're not allowed to criticize" - Voltaire

 

https://sbisoccer.com/2019/10/repor...substance-abuse-and-behavorial-health-program

perhaps explains a little

 

I think it’s clear at this point that regardless of the FO’s claim of wanting feedback and comments from the fan base, they really are only interested in hearing from those who give them confirming feedback on their strategy.

Everyone else are nuisance whiners whose opinion they discredit at their own peril. The visuals of a two-thirds empty stadium should jar them but they don’t. Gonna keep running the wishbone on 3rd and 23

Just for perspective, they’ve damaged demand to the point where they’ve had to convert the 200 club seats to some sort of non-club area (no idea how they enforce it) that our boy Web is now moving to and compress the club seats down to the 100s + President Club. The 200 club section was specifically designed for premium seating and they had to effectively undo it.

Meanwhile, they relocate others to make way for supporters who can’t even fill a full section for the finale!!

 

I just got this from the Dynamo (underlines are mine):

Thank you for your support this season, through all the ups and the downs, and giving us a great home field advantage here at BBVA Stadium, to all the exclusive member events throughout the season, we hope you had just as many fun and exciting moments this year as we did!

Yesterday was a great way to cap off the season, from celebrating the retirement of LegenDMB to getting our 10th home win of the season and knocking off the Galaxy on Decision Day – again. We look forward to building off a strong finish to the season and carrying that on to 2020 and beyond!

Thank you again for your continued support and we look forward to seeing you at BBVA Stadium to cheer on the Dynamo in 2020!

Go Dynamo!

So, the highlight of the season is that we knocked down the LAG one spot? That's it? And a "strong" finish? That wasn't a strong finish... we were dead months ago. But I knew they are going to try to spin this... They should've written an apology letter instead.

I don't see any change coming... it's going to be more of the same. This just reinforces that my decision to "opt out" of my "membership" in July was the correct call.

They have a lot of work to do, but seem fixated on ignoring the obvious and have set sail in a direction that will lead to even more misery.

 

Unfortunately I must admit that this take is exactly what we are all witnessing.

 

Apparently the ambition of the club is do nothing other than attempt to spoil the Galaxy's season each year. So as long was we beat the Galaxy on "Decision Day" (or non-Decision Day for the Dynamo since we are usually eliminated from the playoffs by then), the season can be considered a success?

1180972628342956033 is not a valid tweet id

There won't be much meaningful change but the odds are the Dynamo will make the playoffs in 2020 simply because the odds of missing it 6 out of 7 years are pretty low due to the nature of the league and parity.

 

Orlando City and Chicago Fire laugh at your assertion.

 

the deal is that if you want feedback and to change things, you have to get out your checkbook, primary issue, get a good coach, up there as an issue (but we see with almeyda it won't fix it all), and then you need to be willing to speak with the sort of fan who WAS a STH but now has quit and has their hair on fire. if you can't talk to and then take action for them, you're not really trying to win back the old fans.

if you talk to current STH or SG people, you're talking to kool aid sorts who remain in the tent and will pull their punches, or may say mean things but still buy the tickets. you want the 7000 people who have quit the past few years.

to me it's PR, "I feel your pain." except if they want you to vibe with your own torturer that's stockholm syndrome, not meaningful adjustment.

 

part of the problem with "building off of" USOC or late season upsets is the team in general sucked, and it's the general pattern that puts you in the playoff hole. to me the worst possible scenario is you buy your own late season one-offs and keep too many players "because well we got better at the end of the season." yeah, a lot of teams at this point are either resting people for playoffs or smartly assessing their kids as opposed to fielding their regulars for another game. i am sure if you run out 10 starters plus deric you might win a game or two against teams half trying. only an idiot takes that seriously. only an idiot brings back a team for next year that in general couldn't cut it, got their coach fired, because we upset someone at the very end whose mind was probably elsewhere.

i think we fired cabrera for roughly the same ppg this season as got him extended in the usoc year the season before. that is how grasping for straws we are.

 

Nigel--

I didn't realize you lived so close to me (yes--i read your letter). I genuinely want to buy you a beer (or four) when ever you free for such revelry. As a STH from the first second of this Orgs birthing, I'd like to say thank you for both your engagement and passion. I'd love to shoot the sh^t with you at your leisure.

PS

If this isn't your thing--I understand. Thank you

 

Again, this tactic of theirs is becoming more obvious day after day.