Dynamo 2

Maybe I forgot, but has it been announced where they will play?

 

If I remember from some of the pilot games they ran in the second half of last year it seemed like they were day of games or the day after at training facilities.

 

You know it is a bad sign of the times when a fan of a club looks forward more to attending the Reserve League matches for his club over going downtown for First Team action.

 

Gets at least 5 youth academy products out on the field at all times. Then have 11 amateur status players on the roster from perhaps other local clubs and or high schools. Sounds good!

 

I wonder if these rules are set to prevent foreign clubs from poaching academy prospects on a free. Looks that way but maybe I'm reading the rules wrong.

 

https://www.houstondynamofc.com/news/houston-dynamo-2-announce-inaugural-preseason-schedule
From our club's website on these first Dynamo 2 games, it states that the March games are free and open to the public. It is vague on the FC Tulsa match this coming Monday if that specific one is free and open to the public. Perhaps the club will announce their intentions to be less insular as we all move forward under Nagamura and Onstad. It would be nice to play hooky from work on a Monday! Ha!

From the link:
The first preseason test for Dynamo 2 is on the road against San Antonio FC on Sunday, Feb. 20 at 1:00 p.m. CST. This game will then be followed up with the team’s first home match of the preseason, when they host FC Tulsa at Houston Sports Park on Monday, Feb. 28 at 11:00 a.m. CST

Dynamo 2 will also host preseason matches on Sunday, March 6 at HSP against Rio Grande Valley FC at 11:00 a.m. CST and on Sunday, March 13 against FC Dallas at 1:00 p.m. CST. These matches will be free and open to the public.

 

Dynamo Dos will kick off their first season on March 26 at AVEVA Stadium against Whitecaps FC 2.


https://www.dynamotheory.com/2022/2...t=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

 

i thought FIFA set up the solidarity payments to cover the "develop then first pro deal someplace else" issue

 

“I’m proud of the players’ commitment to developing our team identity,” said SAFC Head Coach Alen Marcina. “We’ve said it from day one – preseason serves the purpose of developing the team identity. Results at this moment are irrelevant to us, it’s about applying our game model principles, which the players did today.”

you see where this is basically corporate babble emanating from various teams at all levels, no?

 

if thor and/or gitau start out HD2 that speaks to my concern with us not cashing in on what we do manage to trip over. there are layers on this, not just scouting new players, developing, but having the eye to discern if someone is worthy, and then actioning it into the first team.

raines is the only one who has to time-serve down there on purpose. everyone else if you're better than a first teamer and good enough to be a regular preseason sub with the second team, the other guy should be out of a job. this is how we improve the bench, is reward castilla gitau thor etc. this is not some top level MLS team, this is crap, i would not assume our marginal veterans are above replacement level.

and that then motivates the next raines or castilla to sign here, because we take young talent seriously. ok, if i sign here i might get first team time soon. every coach for a decade given a choice between some veteran has been and a prospect goes veteran seemingly "to protect his job," then loses it because they suck. but then with the HH rumors we can't decide if this is a kids team headed by ferreira or a veteran team headed by fafa HH and hadebe. personally i think we've done the latter every year since 2018. tried. failed. do something else.

 

Juve, Gitau, Thor and the like might start out here in the Spring playing on our Dynamo 2 but that just serves for Nagamura to watch them progress and pull them up to our First Team by Summer time.

 

everything about this team is done on a "manana" timeframe. you may recall even jordan was surprised that 2017 happened when it did. it was not meant to happen ie done on purpose.

i would just point over towards yonder MNT filled with 17-19 year olds. sometimes there is a coincidence of crap veterans and youthful talent. i was starting for my college team as a fish by the third game and kind of p*ssed it wasn't day 1. i think we should not race kids ahead of themselves into the first team under normal conditions, but these are neither normal conditions nor normal kids. if someone shows up you respect what you see. that is not rushed if they earn what they get.

the question is then do you do same ol same ol or reflect what your own preseason told you. we are hidebound and will default back to veterans and history. i think treating a last place team's incumbents as inherently more reliable is self refuting nonsense.

my general thought, expressed in terms of the NT, would be i would rather be betting on the futures of beasley and donovan (2002) -- upside ahead -- than the past of reyna (2006) -- upside behind. if you know your dynamo history you know the decision to keep bringing ching back probably cost them 2 more titles for lack of offense.

the kids were good enough to be impact bench players in preseason in the natural order of things. not third shift with the draft picks and trialists. second shift with the regulars. tossing them back to the reserves is lacking the courage of your own convictions.

part of the reason we suck -- small reason -- is under pressure we default back to trusting the status quo that objectivity should suggest better than.

 

I hear ya Juve.
However, we have not played 1 game thus far this 2022 season. No coach is gonna slot in his Academy boys he rates highly in February. Chill.

 

1 draft pick or recent HGP even dressed today (thor)