Late to the Houston Full 9

Due to a busy weekend and busier week, I'm slow to pitch up a post-Dynamo Full 9, but here goes:

1. Nice of the authorities to authorize work-release for the Houston 11 so they could play a game of...er, run around on the pitch while hitting anything in green. I kid. The new look Houston team plays a bit more football than the battering rams in orange of previous seasons, but they still like their cheap shots. Hard to believe they made it to the finals last season...
2. I know it's not a popular opinion in Section 119, but I continue to think that Brad Evans does not suck. 
3. Baldomero Toledo. Raises the question, is he the poor man's Ricardo Salazar, or is Salazar the poor man's Toledo? I hate to complain when he called the rare (and spot-on) penalty for the tough love on Ianni as he rose to head home a corner, but he suffers from much of the same ineptitude of Salazar: allows far too much violent play, while whistling the occasional light foul, doesn't allow a game to flow and buys so much bad acting you know he's a huge Adam Sandler fan. 
4. Did Fernandez really dive on the foul before he got booked? El Flaco has looked very good this season, but he has got to avoid becoming El Fake-o.
5. I'm liking Marc Burch. He's a much better defender and passer than Gonzalez.
6. Gspurning. A couple of good saves in the match, and continues to show good ability to distribute the ball from the back.
7. Montero a near perfect 9 of 10 on the Underwhelmo-meter.
8. Ianni has been strong. Kudos to the little giant for addressing the mental side of the game and being open about it. Perhaps he can make a referral for Fredy...or get some matches and some gas and light a fire under his ass. 
9. Not excited to see Zach Scott deputizing for the injured Johansson, but damn it, if the little train that could that is Scott didn't have a decent game. His dogged play is downright irrepressible, with a high workrate and a game that appears to have grown over the off-season. I'll need more evidence than a single game, but it appeared his weak passing abilities may have evolved a level, as well.