These alliances are all hype and marketing

[Anonymous]

Alliances are based on two myths:
Myth #1 - The clubs own their U12 players and can/will deliver them to the U13 alliance team
Myth #2 - The clubs' U12 players have the inside track for a slot on the U13 alliance team

Two truths:
1) Every player will pick the U13 club that makes the most sense for them
2) Every U13 team will take the best players available to it (regardless of where they played U12)

What is the point of an alliance? The club without an ECNL license may hold on to their U10-U12 players a little longer by dangling the promise of the alliance pipeline, and the club with the license gets a few more kids at tryouts. Is this really worth the hassle?

[Anonymous]

Customer acquisition is the hard part - so yes?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Alliances are based on two myths:
Myth #1 - The clubs own their U12 players and can/will deliver them to the U13 alliance team
Myth #2 - The clubs' U12 players have the inside track for a slot on the U13 alliance team

Two truths:
1) Every player will pick the U13 club that makes the most sense for them
2) Every U13 team will take the best players available to it (regardless of where they played U12)

What is the point of an alliance? The club without an ECNL license may hold on to their U10-U12 players a little longer by dangling the promise of the alliance pipeline, and the club with the license gets a few more kids at tryouts. Is this really worth the hassle?

You're an idiot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Alliances are based on two myths:
Myth #1 - The clubs own their U12 players and can/will deliver them to the U13 alliance team
Myth #2 - The clubs' U12 players have the inside track for a slot on the U13 alliance team

Two truths:
1) Every player will pick the U13 club that makes the most sense for them
2) Every U13 team will take the best players available to it (regardless of where they played U12)

What is the point of an alliance? The club without an ECNL license may hold on to their U10-U12 players a little longer by dangling the promise of the alliance pipeline, and the club with the license gets a few more kids at tryouts. Is this really worth the hassle?

You're an idiot.

How so? Expand on what they said was so wrong?

[Anonymous]

The alliances serve the clubs, and probably only one club per alliance. Union and NVA (to some extent, in losing GFR) unraveling less than 2 years in is pretty telling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The alliances serve the clubs, and probably only one club per alliance. Union and NVA (to some extent, in losing GFR) unraveling less than 2 years in is pretty telling.

Union and Alliance are both unraveling. Those are a joke.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The alliances serve the clubs, and probably only one club per alliance. Union and NVA (to some extent, in losing GFR) unraveling less than 2 years in is pretty telling.

Where is this known?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The alliances serve the clubs, and probably only one club per alliance. Union and NVA (to some extent, in losing GFR) unraveling less than 2 years in is pretty telling.

Where is this known?

In da streetz. Good for NVA though, GFR brought nothing.

[Anonymous]

NVA took a few of the better GFR players but overall, the “alliance” never really made a ton of sense geographically. GFR + McLean would, though.

[Anonymous]

Union needs help, cannot do it on their own. Arlington getting ECNL weakened them.

[Anonymous]

Plenty of players will show up for McLean-Union tryouts again this year, regardless of whether they have a partnership. The demand is too high for ECNL roster spots.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Plenty of players will show up for McLean-Union tryouts again this year, regardless of whether they have a partnership. The demand is too high for ECNL roster spots.

That is what a lot on here are missing. The demand for ECNL slots and to a lesser extent GA slots is large. The talent is there too as a general matter. Sure there are some weak teams but for the most part there is the talent. Almost all of the ECNL girls will play college soccer.

[Anonymous]

Partnerships and alliances fall apart bc of the people not bc of the idea of a partnership or alliance. Get the right people in charge and it works. There are plenty of these happening countrywide and are successful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The alliances serve the clubs, and probably only one club per alliance. Union and NVA (to some extent, in losing GFR) unraveling less than 2 years in is pretty telling.

Where is this known?

In da streetz. Good for NVA though, GFR brought nothing.

not the skreets anymore… GFR scrubbed from the website like a covered up tattoo.

GFR website admin needs to wake up and update

[Anonymous]

How many coaches are leaving GFR now?