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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What amazes me is that the highest goal scorer for the 04s last year had the fewest games played and the fewest starts. I'm not even sure if she was DA or EDP. She deserves respect. She made the most of the little time she was given.

Respect

Then put it on your twitter feed for your audience.

#respect

I don't believe in all that Twitter PR crap, but if I did, yes, I'd put that 04 girl on it. That's a money ball statistic for you. Little EDP girl that no one gave time to, yet her goal percentage per time in was better than other girls who get a lot of minutes.

Then tell the coach. Why tell us?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What amazes me is that the highest goal scorer for the 04s last year had the fewest games played and the fewest starts. I'm not even sure if she was DA or EDP. She deserves respect. She made the most of the little time she was given.

Respect

Then put it on your twitter feed for your audience.

#respect

I don't believe in all that Twitter PR crap, but if I did, yes, I'd put that 04 girl on it. That's a money ball statistic for you. Little EDP girl that no one gave time to, yet her goal percentage per time in was better than other girls who get a lot of minutes.

Then tell the coach. Why tell us?

Ok, say that to all these "respect" posters then. Or don't say it to any.

[Anonymous]

Some parents are having a really hard time seeing MU develop players and get better.

[Anonymous]

Scoring a goal can be respect worthy or it can be a simple clean up of a ball into the net due to the work of others, or a mistake on the other team's part.

No need to hype any one player at the expense of the rest, especially when you are talking about an age group where size matters and the player you are hyping can't compete with the size of the opponent.

Some parents need to take a step back when publicly praising their little stars. There are many other kids on these teams working just as hard, if not harder, than your little starlet. Don't disrespect their contributions and efforts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What amazes me is that the highest goal scorer for the 04s last year had the fewest games played and the fewest starts. I'm not even sure if she was DA or EDP. She deserves respect. She made the most of the little time she was given.

Respect

Then put it on your twitter feed for your audience.

#respect

I don't believe in all that Twitter PR crap, but if I did, yes, I'd put that 04 girl on it. That's a money ball statistic for you. Little EDP girl that no one gave time to, yet her goal percentage per time in was better than other girls who get a lot of minutes.

Then tell the coach. Why tell us?

Because it's worth showing respect to. We should all be amazed by that. I sure am.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Scoring a goal can be respect worthy or it can be a simple clean up of a ball into the net due to the work of others, or a mistake on the other team's part.

No need to hype any one player at the expense of the rest, especially when you are talking about an age group where size matters and the player you are hyping can't compete with the size of the opponent.

Some parents need to take a step back when publicly praising their little stars. There are many other kids on these teams working just as hard, if not harder, than your little starlet. Don't disrespect their contributions and efforts.

Nice plate spinning. The response was to point out that MU was successful at handling and developing play ups. There was a poster this weekend disparaging the U14 play ups. The PP simply pointed to an example of a player in the MU program that was playing up and finding success. You are very bitter. It's pretty obvious given that you are saying this player "can't compete" and yet she is playing up 3 years and scoring goals. Kind of undermines your credibility.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Scoring a goal can be respect worthy or it can be a simple clean up of a ball into the net due to the work of others, or a mistake on the other team's part.

No need to hype any one player at the expense of the rest, especially when you are talking about an age group where size matters and the player you are hyping can't compete with the size of the opponent.

Some parents need to take a step back when publicly praising their little stars. There are many other kids on these teams working just as hard, if not harder, than your little starlet. Don't disrespect their contributions and efforts.

That's true. Scoring a goal isn't proof a player is successful, any more than not scoring is proof they aren't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Scoring a goal can be respect worthy or it can be a simple clean up of a ball into the net due to the work of others, or a mistake on the other team's part.

No need to hype any one player at the expense of the rest, especially when you are talking about an age group where size matters and the player you are hyping can't compete with the size of the opponent.

Some parents need to take a step back when publicly praising their little stars. There are many other kids on these teams working just as hard, if not harder, than your little starlet. Don't disrespect their contributions and efforts.

Nice plate spinning. The response was to point out that MU was successful at handling and developing play ups. There was a poster this weekend disparaging the U14 play ups. The PP simply pointed to an example of a player in the MU program that was playing up and finding success. You are very bitter. It's pretty obvious given that you are saying this player "can't compete" and yet she is playing up 3 years and scoring goals. Kind of undermines your credibility.

+100. This isn’t FCV and parents don’t fight each other. We all know it’s a team effort.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Scoring a goal can be respect worthy or it can be a simple clean up of a ball into the net due to the work of others, or a mistake on the other team's part.

No need to hype any one player at the expense of the rest, especially when you are talking about an age group where size matters and the player you are hyping can't compete with the size of the opponent.

Some parents need to take a step back when publicly praising their little stars. There are many other kids on these teams working just as hard, if not harder, than your little starlet. Don't disrespect their contributions and efforts.

Nice plate spinning. The response was to point out that MU was successful at handling and developing play ups. There was a poster this weekend disparaging the U14 play ups. The PP simply pointed to an example of a player in the MU program that was playing up and finding success. You are very bitter. It's pretty obvious given that you are saying this player "can't compete" and yet she is playing up 3 years and scoring goals. Kind of undermines your credibility.

A stat line shows just one measure of success. There are many other factors to the game to also be considered. Success at one aspect of the game does make up for other possible weaknesses. A 3-1 loss is a stat line that demonstrates other weaknesses.

It is a team game. If one wants to believe scoring one goal for happened solely based on one playup then by that same logic it could be safe to consider that three goals against could also be attributed to that one playup. It works both ways.

Perhaps the better way to look at it is that the 04 team is strong enough to allow a playup to have a level of success versus believing the success to be the playups and only the playups success. When a team loses it is in poor taste beat ones chest about scoring one goal and doing so demonstrates selfishness.

[Anonymous]

People are tired of Mama Bear, and yes, she does need reminding it's a team effort.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Scoring a goal can be respect worthy or it can be a simple clean up of a ball into the net due to the work of others, or a mistake on the other team's part.

No need to hype any one player at the expense of the rest, especially when you are talking about an age group where size matters and the player you are hyping can't compete with the size of the opponent.

Some parents need to take a step back when publicly praising their little stars. There are many other kids on these teams working just as hard, if not harder, than your little starlet. Don't disrespect their contributions and efforts.

Nice plate spinning. The response was to point out that MU was successful at handling and developing play ups. There was a poster this weekend disparaging the U14 play ups. The PP simply pointed to an example of a player in the MU program that was playing up and finding success. You are very bitter. It's pretty obvious given that you are saying this player "can't compete" and yet she is playing up 3 years and scoring goals. Kind of undermines your credibility.

A stat line shows just one measure of success. There are many other factors to the game to also be considered. Success at one aspect of the game does make up for other possible weaknesses. A 3-1 loss is a stat line that demonstrates other weaknesses.

It is a team game. If one wants to believe scoring one goal for happened solely based on one playup then by that same logic it could be safe to consider that three goals against could also be attributed to that one playup. It works both ways.

Perhaps the better way to look at it is that the 04 team is strong enough to allow a playup to have a level of success versus believing the success to be the playups and only the playups success. When a team loses it is in poor taste beat ones chest about scoring one goal and doing so demonstrates selfishness.

That is an incredibly thoughtful and well laid out post. I'm sure you will be promptly chastised for it, despite how balanced and tastefully done it was.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Scoring a goal can be respect worthy or it can be a simple clean up of a ball into the net due to the work of others, or a mistake on the other team's part.

No need to hype any one player at the expense of the rest, especially when you are talking about an age group where size matters and the player you are hyping can't compete with the size of the opponent.

Some parents need to take a step back when publicly praising their little stars. There are many other kids on these teams working just as hard, if not harder, than your little starlet. Don't disrespect their contributions and efforts.

Nice plate spinning. The response was to point out that MU was successful at handling and developing play ups. There was a poster this weekend disparaging the U14 play ups. The PP simply pointed to an example of a player in the MU program that was playing up and finding success. You are very bitter. It's pretty obvious given that you are saying this player "can't compete" and yet she is playing up 3 years and scoring goals. Kind of undermines your credibility.

A stat line shows just one measure of success. There are many other factors to the game to also be considered. Success at one aspect of the game does make up for other possible weaknesses. A 3-1 loss is a stat line that demonstrates other weaknesses.

It is a team game. If one wants to believe scoring one goal for happened solely based on one playup then by that same logic it could be safe to consider that three goals against could also be attributed to that one playup. It works both ways.

Perhaps the better way to look at it is that the 04 team is strong enough to allow a playup to have a level of success versus believing the success to be the playups and only the playups success. When a team loses it is in poor taste beat ones chest about scoring one goal and doing so demonstrates selfishness.

That is an incredibly thoughtful and well laid out post. I'm sure you will be promptly chastised for it, despite how balanced and tastefully done it was.

“Plate spinner” OP here. The sentiment is exactly right. It’s not a commentary on whether or not the play up should have happened or not. Let’s just not get carried away with the impact. Seems that said playup might have had a more impactful experience playing with the two teams at the age groups beneath 2004, where size would be less of a factor. Why does said playup need to be three years up when the competition at the two younger years is stiff enough? Guess MU likes to leave it’s younger age groups hanging out to dry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Scoring a goal can be respect worthy or it can be a simple clean up of a ball into the net due to the work of others, or a mistake on the other team's part.

No need to hype any one player at the expense of the rest, especially when you are talking about an age group where size matters and the player you are hyping can't compete with the size of the opponent.

Some parents need to take a step back when publicly praising their little stars. There are many other kids on these teams working just as hard, if not harder, than your little starlet. Don't disrespect their contributions and efforts.

Nice plate spinning. The response was to point out that MU was successful at handling and developing play ups. There was a poster this weekend disparaging the U14 play ups. The PP simply pointed to an example of a player in the MU program that was playing up and finding success. You are very bitter. It's pretty obvious given that you are saying this player "can't compete" and yet she is playing up 3 years and scoring goals. Kind of undermines your credibility.

A stat line shows just one measure of success. There are many other factors to the game to also be considered. Success at one aspect of the game does make up for other possible weaknesses. A 3-1 loss is a stat line that demonstrates other weaknesses.

It is a team game. If one wants to believe scoring one goal for happened solely based on one playup then by that same logic it could be safe to consider that three goals against could also be attributed to that one playup. It works both ways.

Perhaps the better way to look at it is that the 04 team is strong enough to allow a playup to have a level of success versus believing the success to be the playups and only the playups success. When a team loses it is in poor taste beat ones chest about scoring one goal and doing so demonstrates selfishness.

That is an incredibly thoughtful and well laid out post. I'm sure you will be promptly chastised for it, despite how balanced and tastefully done it was.

“Plate spinner” OP here. The sentiment is exactly right. It’s not a commentary on whether or not the play up should have happened or not. Let’s just not get carried away with the impact. Seems that said playup might have had a more impactful experience playing with the two teams at the age groups beneath 2004, where size would be less of a factor. Why does said playup need to be three years up when the competition at the two younger years is stiff enough? Guess MU likes to leave it’s younger age groups hanging out to dry.

I think where she could really add value is by playing up on the 06 team. Imagine if she could become a playmaker, someone who controls the game. It's a shame she's never given the chance to develop that aspect of her game.

[Anonymous]

A stat line shows just one measure of success. There are many other factors to the game to also be considered. Success at one aspect of the game does make up for other possible weaknesses. A 3-1 loss is a stat line that demonstrates other weaknesses.

It is a team game. If one wants to believe scoring one goal for happened solely based on one playup then by that same logic it could be safe to consider that three goals against could also be attributed to that one playup. It works both ways.

Perhaps the better way to look at it is that the 04 team is strong enough to allow a playup to have a level of success versus believing the success to be the playups and only the playups success. When a team loses it is in poor taste beat ones chest about scoring one goal and doing so demonstrates selfishness.



Overall run of play was fairly even, but LISC presents a unique challenge. Their scoring is heavily dependent on the athleticism of one player (#7), and when she is having a good day she can dominate a game with unicorn levels of size, pace, and ball striking. She finished in the top-ten in goal scoring for all of the DA last year, and scored two against MU on Saturday. Yes, the 1-3 loss demonstrates an "other weakness", but MU will not be the only team to demonstrate that particular weakness in handling her this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
A stat line shows just one measure of success. There are many other factors to the game to also be considered. Success at one aspect of the game does make up for other possible weaknesses. A 3-1 loss is a stat line that demonstrates other weaknesses.

It is a team game. If one wants to believe scoring one goal for happened solely based on one playup then by that same logic it could be safe to consider that three goals against could also be attributed to that one playup. It works both ways.

Perhaps the better way to look at it is that the 04 team is strong enough to allow a playup to have a level of success versus believing the success to be the playups and only the playups success. When a team loses it is in poor taste beat ones chest about scoring one goal and doing so demonstrates selfishness.


Overall run of play was fairly even, but LISC presents a unique challenge. Their scoring is heavily dependent on the athleticism of one player (#7), and when she is having a good day she can dominate a game with unicorn levels of size, pace, and ball striking. She finished in the top-ten in goal scoring for all of the DA last year, and scored two against MU on Saturday. Yes, the 1-3 loss demonstrates an "other weakness", but MU will not be the only team to demonstrate that particular weakness in handling her this year.

They had a good game against FCV too. All the LISC teams in multiple age groups competed well this weekend. It's a bit overstating to say they just had one single good player and that's the difference.

Otherwise, we'd be saying 04 team just doesn't have a very good forward.