Burch's goal and Dynamo POV of the game. Including Pat Onstad farewell to Houston fans. [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgp6KWeoqmU"]YouTube - Keeper Notes Ep 05 - Dynamo vs DC United - 04/29/2011[/ame]
This is all great and whatnot, but I don't recall seeing either one of these guys screaming at the players on the field to get off their asses and fight. I recall seeing Olsen sitting on the bench looking annoyed, but that's about it. Maybe I missed it, but then again I stopped paying attention after about the 70th minute.
You're right, I'll retract that part of my post you put in bold type. I'm sticking to the rest, however.
I agree completely with your post, however the part I quoted is the killer for this season. Unless someone steps forward -- Fred? Tino? Dax? and can demonstrate some real creativity from midfield, this team will not make the playoffs, actually, they won't come close. Boskovic fed that pass to Davies that "created" the PK against LA. I haven't seen Fred, Tino or Dax do anything close to that this year or, for Fred and Tino, in years past here. DCU doesn't have a McHead or Ching type of forward who can hold up the ball for Davies or Wolff. For them to be effective, they need passes threaded to them to be dangerous. Who will do that? No one I see on the current roster.
Wolff brings almost nothing that Davies can't already bring to the table except maybe an ounce or two of veteran guile. What we need next to Davies is either a pure technical forward (like Moreno 1998) or a physical aerial threat.
At the game last night...observations: 1. Tons of bickering and negative body language (before being trounced) 2. Daxxx looked awful. Retracting positive reviews of his play until further notice. 3. Perry Kitchen is a poor man's Patrick Ianni. U-17 and U-20 golden boy that was part of severely underwhelming youth nat teams. I definitely could be wrong though....just impressions I get. 4. Wolff brings nothing - Tristan Bowen or the likes would be 50 percent better 5. Defense too young....no anchor. Maybe an Onstad back there organizing and screaming is a good thing for this crew. Probably the worst showing I have seen live by a MLS team. Absolute debacle. Felt pretty sad.
Was going to post a pic but suffice it to say I share the sentiments expressed by a certain Japanese groundskeeper in Cleveland circa 1989. Hopefully this movie plays out in a similar fashion.
*blink* *blink* Guh... my head, what happened? Oh yeah... I remember, I was plumb knocked into next week from that ass kicking we got.
This is a worrying trend that I'm seeing with Hamid where he too often does his best impersonation of a fish flipping out of the water and leaves his feet way to easily. One of the headed goals from Friday was straight at him and if had stayed on his feet instead of jumping in the air and flailing around, he would've had it. This was similar the header goal that Henry scored on him. [/QUOTE] It is not time to put Pontius up top as the target man with Charlie? We know the boy has some hops and in his form could be a good combo.[/QUOTE] I'm all for this. Wolff and Davies are not showing any chemistry whatsoever. Pontius can service as the withdrawn forward until we get someone better. We need someone on the left side that will actually touch the sideline instead of contanstly pinching in and clogging the middle.
and in a sad twist of irony, it was the Nationals beating Will Chang's Giants unless you were talking about OBL
Seems like he's be over-anticipating a bit on these. With time, he will get better at knowing which situations he can wait on, and which ones he can't. And eventually, his "intuition" on the ones he can't will hopefully get good enough to make those "oh my GOD what a save" type plays. For now, he's probably better off flailing around, because if he doesn't come out and get the cross and the ball goes past him flat footed, he's going to get creamed on this board.
True. He's still learning. I hope that Onstad can correct this with him. Though, with the pressure that I'm sure Olsen is feeling, we might be seeing Cronin earlier than we thought.
Meh. It's to be expected. We're taught to head the ball down when in front of the goal. So going low as the keeper is the percentage play.