While we're watching the standings...
by playtherapy on Oct 7, 2011 9:16 AM CDT
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As the Oranj sit idle, the Dynamo Theory Faithful (ROYAL WE) must endure an excruciating lull between games, while teams push past us in the playoff standings. So I sit, twiddling my angry thumbs-with little left to do other than creating an interim poll. Impotence sucks so I must resort to madness.
For years, one of the primary questions for the Dynamo has been- if Ching is injured or is having one of his infamous dry spells, who picks up the scoring slack? Results often depend on whether our midfield scores, though Boz has brought unexpected boosts. Still, his contributions have counterbalanced by backline gaffes.
This week, the question is much simpler. Since we know we're going to play a diamond 4-4-2 (duh), who should start alongside Ching? Who on the front line has the best chance of scoring that elusive away goal?
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Oof
You cut him to the quick. I say that with cheek but he has played in the first team this season, right? I just can’t remember…anyways, he seems like perhaps somewhere between Weaver and Bruin as far as talent is concerned. I guess that makes him good but not good enough………..resisting….resisting….can’t resist: which says quite a bit about the team this year. I’m assuming he was considered a back-up in case Bruin needed more time and Weaver needed rest or was injured? Having Costly makes him redundant, but while Costly has been active and close, he hasn’t scored…and we kinda need that. In all likelihood (barring any strange happenings in practice and the like) it’ll be Ching-Costly to start and Carr-Bruin off the bench. Thank you, please come again
/Btw, the homeless dude (I think he knows Bebe) will nab a brace in the next reserve match, you wait and see
Costly
With his 400k salary, starting to surge, now tied with homeless guy, though Dancing Yogi also looking good.
“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world”
Was aiming more about the anarchy.
Sarcasm given and received by poll results. Wonder if other folks are frustrated too.
If you can whistle the "heigh ho song" and miss the broad side of a barn with a blunderbuss, you're in.
Of course, creating the Sounder baiting perpetual motion machine gets you incentive bonuses, paid by the word as each Seattlite post long winded justifications and juxtapositions after the most inanae wind-ups…
Dancing Bear running away with the show
Yet in a contest for runner up, homeless guy is a leg up on Costly. Does that mean homeless guy will now be a DP signing?
And since my last comment
A busload of Costly supporters have brought homeless guy to Carr-like levels.
Perhaps
this is a good time to point out that our depth chart at FW is illustrative of our issues: lots of options, just the same options. We have 5 big, strong forwards who are great target men….and one guy who is a pacey one. A bit unbalanced, wouldn’t you say? If we’re going to keep a majority big forwards, I say keep 3 and have 2 pacey ones. We can keep Ching and Bruin, perhaps find someone to replace Weaver (as much as it pains me to write that because while he’s unspectacular, he’s been solid and playing through alot of pain) and either find a replacement or enhancement of Carr and another speedy forward.
Unless
we start using Dixon as a speedy FW…which means we should probably starting mixing him in then, eh?
dance with the one who brought u
Cam and Bruin got us here so lets go with them. Cam is out , Carr is too small so Ching and Bruin,with Carr and Garey as subs. Garey did not impress the coaches this pre season and has been banished to the bench, I think he is better than that. The Coaches are the same guys that traded Wondo,Kai and Oduro so what do they know?
Go Dynamo
Dom seems to be a systems guy,
So players must adapt to the “system” rather than the system adapting to their strengths/weaknesses. Those who have left have had systems better suited to their skills.
(BTW- you forgot about the De Ro give away and look what Holden achieved across the pond (given that he was injured most of the 1st yr away).
These are also the same guys (if Kinnear is to be sen in plural) who engineered the Curious George for Ngwenya deal that shaped two consecutive MLS Cups (one for us and one for CBus), the Cameron in the third round draft pick, the Steal from Portland for the Bruin pick, the snatch of Mulrooney that helped deliver the 2007 title, etc. etc.
Wondo had done nothing here and it has always been the right decision to get rid of Oduro, no matter what he has done in Chicago (there’s no way he would have done that here).
There have indeed been bad decisions, but many good ones as well, so we need to look at the whole picture.
"We don't care who finishes second." -- Celtic's Peter Lowrie
My picks
Of the current crop, Bruin is the future of the forward position on this team. Ching is solid, and maybe has one above average year left in him, but it’s charitable to his remaining speed to call him “slow.”
Bruin and Ching should start up top.
As for Costly, I have no doubt that there are bunches of goals in him, but right now he’s way up in his head. I’m not so sure he gets much more time to figure things out. If he shows well against Portland and LA (and, higher-orders-of-reality willing, the playoffs), then he has made a case for 2012. If not, then I think for $400K over a full season, Dynamo could do better.
Carr and Weaver are still what they are, nice bargain basement pickups that can contribute quality minutes.
As for Garey, well he’s the guy cleaning up the bargain basement and I think we have enough maintenance men.
"We don't care who finishes second." -- Celtic's Peter Lowrie
What this really highlights is the same thing we have known for years, Dynamo have never truly replaced Dwayne De Rosario, a dangerous, unpredictable, defense-shredding attacking presence. Maybe that replacement will be Alvaro Sanchez, but at this point, if we go into February or (shudder) March with nothing happening on this front, then I fear the new place in 2012 will be met with the old punch-drunk sluggers.
"We don't care who finishes second." -- Celtic's Peter Lowrie
When you look at what De Ro has done in DC, you just have to wonder what could have been accomplished had he not scotched the deal to bring him back here from Toronto. I mean, we can miss the playoffs with De Ro too, just like DC, but I’m thinking things would have been far rosier.
"We don't care who finishes second." -- Celtic's Peter Lowrie
Of if Koke had not been a Class A flake.
"We don't care who finishes second." -- Celtic's Peter Lowrie
To me
that’s what irks me…if he worked out and we had Camargo, we’d look far more dangerous. As it is, I like what Camargo brings, and with Moffat its a very good pairing in midfield. Can it get better? Of course. Will it? Million dollar question…
While Carmargo looks like he could be a keeper
No one stands out as a game changing DP type… which we’re still missing…
Agreed
if Camargo isn’t looking for a DP paycheck he’s a keeper. But, if we do get that “pure” CAM, what do we do with Camargo and Moffat? Moffat’s a steal at like $60K (something insane like that) and clearly our DM, but if we’re choosing between the two who do we go with? Or does it warrant a formation change?
Martek and I spoke this @ lunch
Moffat is an old school leg breaking, MLS DM. No frills, few skills, don’t let him dribble or do more than the simplest pass. Let him tackle, manage simple distribution, support and shoot from afar.
You won’t get more. Camargo has more tricks, skills, and potential upside though he doesn’t seem like a defensive destroyer.
Face it, though we can talk other formations, Dom won’t change. Any variation on Scottish footy direct will be due to a player bringing something extra a la De Ro- not by Kinear. We will go diamond 4-4-2 until Dom isn’t coach anymore. Even w/o a true CAM we played diamond 4-4-2. Even when Cameron would have done better @ CB, instead of aggressively pursuing a CAM, we went Geoff in the diamond.
With or w/o a CAM, we will be 4-4-2 diamond with its midfield muddle. Davis and his infield drift aren’t purely his preference (though part of it is), it’s the classic diamond…
4-2-3-1
I’ve said before, but I’d be all for switching to the formation above utilizing Moffat and Camargo as the “holding” pair; a DP CAM, Davis on the Left and A.N.Other RW with Costly up top, given freedom to roam around wherever without running into a stationary Ching and playing off the 3 guys directly behind him (with one or other DM joining in when appropriate). Just my 10c. We could then theoretically use the center of the park as well as the wings as points of attack and become gasp 2 dimensional :)
Good thought
I had a similar 4-1-4-1 thought: based on skill set though Ching may be too slow to play a lone role.
Ching
Clark Davis Camargo Cruz/?
Moffat
Ashe Boz/Hainult Cameron ???
I’m off Costly- I don’t want a 300k nonscorer no matter what the system.
Camargo's?
well it depends on our level of ambition. If he’s the best we’re gonna get, then I suppose you could make the case that given his trajectory here his play will only continue to improve, and in the midfield, aside from Davis, he’s probably the most skillful. I’ll reverse it: if we’re not keeping Camargo then what exactly are we doing?
If you’re talking about Costly then its a whooooooooooooole ’nuther discussion
Sorry volks
Costly is NOT 400- he’s 335. Camargo is 168. Moffat is 56.7.
I can live with Camargo’s if it stays the same. Costly has not established himself as a starter- and he gets a starters salary. I think he’s toast here.
@ 80k, Garey is waaaaay overpriced. Not a great salary, but Jason has hardly contributed.
Bit Provocative, perhaps....
But is Ching actually holding this team back at this point? Is it time for him to contemplate retirement, maybe? I’m thinking at 33, often injured, large chunk of salary and the Dynamo pandering to his style of play with our 1990-esque hoofball kick and rush….can we change dynamic with Ching still around? Clearly Kinnear is not going to drop him when available, so, again, for all his good points, is he actually holding us back as a club?
I once thought this
And wish we’d restructure his contract, paying him reitrement checks forever to backload his salary. All the same, the Dynamo, except for June, are much better with Ching than without. He also has sacrtificed his body so many yrs for the Dynamo- we oughta make his sunset yrs honorable.
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