Houston Dynamo v. San Diego FC, Saturday, October 4

It would be a nice feather in the cap for our guys to find a way to not get destroyed by a first year expansion team. A team that has shown well from start to finish come October.

 

Just end this already.....

 

Posted yesterday on Instagram:

jackmcglynn7
Edited•1dUnfortunately, I suffered an injury this past weekend that will keep me sidelined for the remainder of the season and for several weeks thereafter.

I am very disappointed that I will be unable to help the club in our push for the playoffs or join the US National Team for this important upcoming camp. Get behind the team, I know they will make us all proud.

Despite this setback, I am incredibly grateful for the support I’ve received from family, friends, teammates, club and national team.

I will be back, stronger than ever.

 

Get healthy quickly Jackie Boy!
DALE DYNAMO! and FOREVER ORANGE!!!

 

I watched chunks of the game in the midst of college football and MLB Playoffs. I think some of the end scores by San Diego was due to Dynamo pushing hard and throwing numbers forward and getting tired.

The SD penalty I thought was weak.

Fitting end to the season with 9 (NINE!!) home losses. The Dynamo cashed out in the offseason with players sales and not re-signing HH and shopped in the Czech League Dollar General store for replacements. Injuries didn’t help.

Look at this board, few folks post and frequency is way down. The Dynamo are an afterthought in this market now. Yes, it’s been 10 seasons of poor play/mediocrity with about 2 good seasons mixed in (2017 & 2023).

Stadium experience is middling, team is middling, everything is just eh. HS football is a better fan experience.

I don’t want to hear about last night’s “sell out” - clearly only about 2/3rds full at most and how many were giveaways, credits for unused tickets, etc?

Waiting for 2026’s ghetto-themed marketing campaign

 

Tough way to close out the final home match. I thought our guys were going to find some old Dynamo home magic but San Diego just wasn't about it. They really do have a solid team. We will see what the playoffs ask of them.

It does hurt to see all the authentic traction that our early Dynamo teams earned in our market just lost to time. Not because of really bad play down on the field by the played of recent years, but just not being able to continue to grow our Dynamo brand around town. Not even being able to grow the sport or cultivate a youth factory from all our spoken about area talent.

Still, hope is there for next Season.

 

No playoffs = trash

 

i personally think it's more pat's problem than olsen's. olsen has kept a poor team from circling the drain as it often does in our bad years, and his history is he can make the playoffs when given the talent.

ownership doesn't give them the money and then pat is a brutal GM. at least one common factor in the decade of crap has been jordan + pat.

this area historically used to produce gatorade players of the year, national champions, NT players, YNT players, people who played in the US and abroad. it's a city of 4 million people where you can play year round. if it doesn't produce the same, talk to the clubs and the dynamo academy. the texans disappeared into rise, and the dynamo development IMO were only ever good at swiping texans players.

i've said it 20x before but they have never figured out their niche in the newer versions of the league. it used to be "veteran team in a hard cap era." then the beckham rule came in. we don't want to spend, we draft "ok," we can't develop. a developmental team could at least bring in money selling. but you could hand our GMs alberth elis and they'd find a way to turn him into a $1m transfer.

this has always been run as a disaster, down to the first opening day will call line. but the veteran holdover dynasty product overcame that for a half decade. then they aged. and then the cap exceptions came in, and the product quit being consistently competitive. at which point it's an unembroidered mess.

last, and i assume this has been dictated from above, for some inexplicable reason the brass -- those GMs again -- seem wedded to (a) naive attacking schemes, (b) high energy concepts, and (c) demoting the importance of defense -- WHEN WE PLAY OUTDOORS IN THE HEAT ALL SUMMER. what the dynamo used to be, even into the first playoff years of the new park, was the calm, methodical team that sat back and played tight defense, let you run your self into a sweaty mess, and then punished you with wing speed and precision. that was a home fortress, and a home fortress ensures the home fans at least get that money's worth. and our fans IMO just want to win. they are not dallas snobs offended this isn't europe.

but at some point they got the misguided idea we'd tolerate losing in a more attacking dress. the attendance suggests otherwise. we like the feeling the club is bothering to spend. we love winning. we don't particularly care how.

and if you are not going to spend and understand it is unwise to press in this climate in the summer, then the game is be a team that grows its own and plays team defense counter soccer. you get fast, fairly technical kids in. you sit back and let them tired themselves out. you win balls and counter quickly. you rest.

if you want to go end to end and open it up, the checkbook needs to open too, because you're competing with miami and such, and they will spend more to be as naively attacking as you.

 

cole campbell was born here, his family moved to georgia and he came up in their academy then iceland then dortmund. dad played for Texas Lutheran.

chris richards was briefly here, played for the texans not us, then off to FCD.

cappis etc. to FCD.

gitau dribbles half the rapids then wanders off to lower division germany.

the ibeaghas went to lengths to avoid signing here out of the gate.

something is off and the word is out.