Great Falls Reston Soccer

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Anonymous wrote:I can't remember a single time we've played GFR without easily indefinable guest players whether league games or in tournaments. Frustrating at times but that's just the way the club is. Guesting isn't illegal or against any rules as long as they aren't playing down an age group or on multiple teams in the same tournament. No club is innocent of guesting kids onto lower teams to win tho. Let's be real you people complaining are also at clubs that do the same thing just maybe not as often.

Weird that you could tell if they were indefinable. Anyway, we only do that against Arlington's third teams in third brackets in May tournaments. Sorry not sorry.

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Anonymous wrote:Thank you to Coach GL for adding guest players for league games/tournaments so the 4/5 girls left on this Green team could have the season they paid/signed up for!

To all the GFR haters (former, or soon to be former, parents and coaches), I sincerely wish you find the greener pastures you so desperately seek and I wish you have a much warmer welcome on your new teams than what you have given to the new players/coaches here. What goes around, comes around…

A lot to unpack here, but genuinely thankful for this post. Seems like it was a bad experience - with the club, other kids/parents, and maybe coaches, and I do sympathize with those who stuck it out. Objectively, yes, we all want girls to have a positive experience, so it's a nice thought that they ended the season with a positive.

Trying to remain objective though.....I'm not sure it's the best move to load up on ultra high level talent, play in the lowest division of a tournament, and just dominate every meaningful game. Not sure who that's benefitting. Couldn't there have been a better way to handle this? Could the 4 girls be absorbed by the second team at least for a tournament? No one's faulting you or any of the parents for wanting some brightness with this season, but I think a lot of the "haters" (as you call them) in this thread are wondering if there couldn't have been a different way.

No. This was the best way, if only to make you cry about it.

there you have it folks. Typical classless behavior but at least you'll get to cuddle up with your DDs medal at night to make yourself feel something

Better than cuddling up with the wine moms at your R(b)FC meetings. Not even VRSC coaches would go to those.

I'm still laughing at the AI-doctored team photos.

Wait what?

GFR posted a photo of the winning team with their medals not realizing that the parent of one of the ringers had already posted the original pic on SM. The faces of all the ringers/guest players had been changed. When GFR found out they took down the photo and claimed that they ran it through Ai trying to get the girls to all smile or something and it changed their faces but no one was buying it since everyone's face was the same except the girls from outside the club. This while be weird and dumb raised a bunch of questions about what GFR was hiding in the first place. Seemed strange to change the faces of the kids from outside the club then claim in was an Ai thing when called out about it.

Dude, my kid is in the photo. The team manager submitted it and his daughter and mine were probably the most distorted of them all. The coach looked 15 years younger. It was not a scandal, there is nothing to hide here. The team had guest players. Everyone knows that. No rules were broken. The kids had a fun weekend playing soccer and it's just a relief they're all too young to know this drama exists!!

No dog in this fight, but why would anyone run a tournament photo through AI?? That is just bizarre and does make it seem like someone wanted to hide or manipulate something in the photo. The most you should ever need to do is crop the photo or put a filter on it to adjust the lighting.

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Anonymous wrote:Thank you to Coach GL for adding guest players for league games/tournaments so the 4/5 girls left on this Green team could have the season they paid/signed up for!

To all the GFR haters (former, or soon to be former, parents and coaches), I sincerely wish you find the greener pastures you so desperately seek and I wish you have a much warmer welcome on your new teams than what you have given to the new players/coaches here. What goes around, comes around…

A lot to unpack here, but genuinely thankful for this post. Seems like it was a bad experience - with the club, other kids/parents, and maybe coaches, and I do sympathize with those who stuck it out. Objectively, yes, we all want girls to have a positive experience, so it's a nice thought that they ended the season with a positive.

Trying to remain objective though.....I'm not sure it's the best move to load up on ultra high level talent, play in the lowest division of a tournament, and just dominate every meaningful game. Not sure who that's benefitting. Couldn't there have been a better way to handle this? Could the 4 girls be absorbed by the second team at least for a tournament? No one's faulting you or any of the parents for wanting some brightness with this season, but I think a lot of the "haters" (as you call them) in this thread are wondering if there couldn't have been a different way.

No. This was the best way, if only to make you cry about it.

there you have it folks. Typical classless behavior but at least you'll get to cuddle up with your DDs medal at night to make yourself feel something

Better than cuddling up with the wine moms at your R(b)FC meetings. Not even VRSC coaches would go to those.

I'm still laughing at the AI-doctored team photos.

Wait what?

GFR posted a photo of the winning team with their medals not realizing that the parent of one of the ringers had already posted the original pic on SM. The faces of all the ringers/guest players had been changed. When GFR found out they took down the photo and claimed that they ran it through Ai trying to get the girls to all smile or something and it changed their faces but no one was buying it since everyone's face was the same except the girls from outside the club. This while be weird and dumb raised a bunch of questions about what GFR was hiding in the first place. Seemed strange to change the faces of the kids from outside the club then claim in was an Ai thing when called out about it.

1000% false.

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running a tournament photo of little girls through AI is so creepy and bizarre.

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Anonymous wrote:Thank you to Coach GL for adding guest players for league games/tournaments so the 4/5 girls left on this Green team could have the season they paid/signed up for!

To all the GFR haters (former, or soon to be former, parents and coaches), I sincerely wish you find the greener pastures you so desperately seek and I wish you have a much warmer welcome on your new teams than what you have given to the new players/coaches here. What goes around, comes around…

A lot to unpack here, but genuinely thankful for this post. Seems like it was a bad experience - with the club, other kids/parents, and maybe coaches, and I do sympathize with those who stuck it out. Objectively, yes, we all want girls to have a positive experience, so it's a nice thought that they ended the season with a positive.

Trying to remain objective though.....I'm not sure it's the best move to load up on ultra high level talent, play in the lowest division of a tournament, and just dominate every meaningful game. Not sure who that's benefitting. Couldn't there have been a better way to handle this? Could the 4 girls be absorbed by the second team at least for a tournament? No one's faulting you or any of the parents for wanting some brightness with this season, but I think a lot of the "haters" (as you call them) in this thread are wondering if there couldn't have been a different way.

No. This was the best way, if only to make you cry about it.

there you have it folks. Typical classless behavior but at least you'll get to cuddle up with your DDs medal at night to make yourself feel something

Better than cuddling up with the wine moms at your R(b)FC meetings. Not even VRSC coaches would go to those.

I'm still laughing at the AI-doctored team photos.

Wait what?

GFR posted a photo of the winning team with their medals not realizing that the parent of one of the ringers had already posted the original pic on SM. The faces of all the ringers/guest players had been changed. When GFR found out they took down the photo and claimed that they ran it through Ai trying to get the girls to all smile or something and it changed their faces but no one was buying it since everyone's face was the same except the girls from outside the club. This while be weird and dumb raised a bunch of questions about what GFR was hiding in the first place. Seemed strange to change the faces of the kids from outside the club then claim in was an Ai thing when called out about it.

Dude, my kid is in the photo. The team manager submitted it and his daughter and mine were probably the most distorted of them all. The coach looked 15 years younger. It was not a scandal, there is nothing to hide here. The team had guest players. Everyone knows that. No rules were broken. The kids had a fun weekend playing soccer and it's just a relief they're all too young to know this drama exists!!

No dog in this fight, but why would anyone run a tournament photo through AI?? That is just bizarre and does make it seem like someone wanted to hide or manipulate something in the photo. The most you should ever need to do is crop the photo or put a filter on it to adjust the lighting.

Nothing says disinterested observer like a 1:19AM post. Just get home from the wine and cheese party at the country club VL?

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Anonymous wrote:running a tournament photo of little girls through AI is so creepy and bizarre.

it was probably just to add text to it, the faces being manipulated is just a side effect of using AI for this. all the images you see on social media right now with text on the images are being done with AI. syc and rbfc are great examples of this.

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Has anyone submitted questions for the GFR Annual Meeting? Nice to see they added independent audit to bylaws.

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Anonymous wrote:Has anyone submitted questions for the GFR Annual Meeting? Nice to see they added independent audit to bylaws.

Too bad they’re not offering a virtual option. Wonder why?

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Anonymous wrote:Has anyone submitted questions for the GFR Annual Meeting? Nice to see they added independent audit to bylaws.

Too bad they’re not offering a virtual option. Wonder why?

Less scrutiny.

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Anonymous wrote:Has anyone submitted questions for the GFR Annual Meeting? Nice to see they added independent audit to bylaws.

Too bad they’re not offering a virtual option. Wonder why?

Likely because large in-person meetings and virtual feeds are not a great mix logistically.

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Coaches run practices for Bethesda on GFR permitted fields?