2010 Dynamo Thread

[Keith]

Keeping this thread Dynamo focused... have another thread for the World Cup this summer.

Several offseason topics, including:
- Stuart Holden's departure to Bolton of the EPL
- Ricardo Clark's departure to Eintract Frankfurt of the Bundesliga
- New 4-year contracts for Richard Mulrooney and Eddie Robinson
- Stalled talks on new stadium, but second site possibilty near Galleria
- Traded conditional 3rd or 4th round draft pick for Chivas MD Kevin Harmse
- Dynamo have three late draft picks and use them on F David Walker, M Samuel Appiah, and D Euan Holden (Stu's little brother)
- No players lost in the expansion draft

Obviously going to be a challenging year trying to replace Holden and Clark (a year after trading away DeRosario, btw). With Geoff Cameron able to move up to the D-Mid role (and with Mulrooney and Harmse to back-up), the team is set there. The official site has Mike Chabala also listed as a M, but he seems ready to claim the left back job for good.

Still a HUGE gap for the attacking mid, and last year proved that the versatile Cameron is not the answer. Brad Davis is not dynamic enough there either, but I don't know that there are many better options, especially since Corey Ashe is ready to play the wing.

Seems with Brian Ching, Dominic Oduro, Cam Weaver, and Luis Angel Landin all available as forwards that another trade might be on the horizon, too.

Maybe a two-deep looks a bit like this for now?

Ching-Oduro
//Landin-Weaver

Ashe - Davis - Cameron - Mullan
//Barrett-Mulrooney-Harmse-Cruz

Chabala-Hainault-Boswell-Mulrooney
//Barrett-Cochrane-Robinson-Waibel

Onstad
//Hall

...with Hainault shifting to an outside back if another CB moves in and with Mulrooney and Cameron able to move all over the backline and midfield.

Looks like a great squad defensively that is going to need to win a lot of 1-0 matches.