Arlington ECNL, FCV not ECNL

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Anonymous wrote:To answer your question, Arlington girl parents want ECNL....but on their terms. They want their teams to stay together. They don’t want to drive elsewhere. This is why they desperately HOPE. This is the mentality of younger parents.

GA will not hold their teams together and they know this. This is the panic.

If the club is aware of this then they would just come out with the announcement.

Because there is nothing to announce. Hence, a parents meeting with no new information

I am agreeing with you.

I am agreeing with you. Nice to meet ya, friend. Lol

HA!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What was discussed at this GA parent meeting then?

They probably are sworn to secrecy until Richmond makes the announcement on the ECNL website.

Spring season workload management and injury prevention. Things that are more important in the real world than wild rumors.

Yeah. Good stuff. Nothing like workload management during a year of cancelled practices and games.

[Anonymous]

Come back in April and let’s see what’s what...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Come back in April and let’s see what’s what...

Pity that kids will have tried out and received offers at other ECNL clubs by then, all the while never knowing they were going to be ECNL anyway.

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U apparently have no clue how ECNL works-official offers cannot be given until after May 1.

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The rumor is some GA and ECNL clubs are leaving to form a new “select” league. I guess people are upset about not playing games. The new league will address too much travel and not enough games against like competition.

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That is a very false rumor

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Anonymous wrote:That is a very false rumor

Nope. Heard it from the same place I heard DA was done. The top ECNL clubs do not want to waste time playing “less competitive” clubs.

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Anonymous wrote:That is a very false rumor

Nope. Heard it from the same place I heard DA was done. The top ECNL clubs do not want to waste time playing “less competitive” clubs.

But it doesn't really make sense. How does it address "too much travel"? Top clubs are spread out across the country. They would have to travel more to play any games.

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Anonymous wrote:The rumor is some GA and ECNL clubs are leaving to form a new “select” league. I guess people are upset about not playing games. The new league will address too much travel and not enough games against like competition.

Tell your source to take a nap.

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The good DA clubs were ECNL clubs first. Them returning is fine. Arlington can always turn down the crappier ECNL platform.

Crappier ECNL platform? Afraid that we’re going to take over the DMV lol

Looking forward to “No, clubs rise and fall all the time just like businesses.” Looking forward to seeing Blockbuster and Barnes and Noble comeback against Netflix and Amazon. If you’re not 100% into building yourself, you won’t succeed. Nobody is doing better at this (in NOVA) than Arlington and McLean (albeit via different methods).

What's to take over? Arlington kids will stay put. It just got easier than ever to join a ECNL club and it was pretty easy already.

What makes you bitter? Just don’t participate

Not bitter, what I'm saying is your kid didn't get any better as player because of this. Her pond just got bigger and more diluted. And joining ECNL didn't and won't significantly change Arlington's current or future teams. It adds stability but their coaches are the same, their players are the same. Maybe each age group picks up a player or two but this doesn't create some seismic shift in players.

And if ECNL goes this far in NOVA then it might as well do something useful and add FCV and Beach FC and some other club to reduce travel to Virginia.

Beach FC is not ECNL level. Unfortunately, neither is ECNL. Thank USSF and GDA for causing this.

Have you seen Arlington 07 girls play (08 are good, 06 ok, older age groups are average)? They are middle of the pack in GAL, with few strong players. The FCV 07 girls beat them every time they play them by a lot. FCV is stronger in 07 and up age groups. I think it's funny to say FCV (or Beach FC for that) are not ECNL level. They could both easily compete and be among the top teams in ECNL in Virginia -- better than Arlington, VDA, BRYC, and McLean.

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The good DA clubs were ECNL clubs first. Them returning is fine. Arlington can always turn down the crappier ECNL platform.

Crappier ECNL platform? Afraid that we’re going to take over the DMV lol

Looking forward to “No, clubs rise and fall all the time just like businesses.” Looking forward to seeing Blockbuster and Barnes and Noble comeback against Netflix and Amazon. If you’re not 100% into building yourself, you won’t succeed. Nobody is doing better at this (in NOVA) than Arlington and McLean (albeit via different methods).

What's to take over? Arlington kids will stay put. It just got easier than ever to join a ECNL club and it was pretty easy already.

What makes you bitter? Just don’t participate

Not bitter, what I'm saying is your kid didn't get any better as player because of this. Her pond just got bigger and more diluted. And joining ECNL didn't and won't significantly change Arlington's current or future teams. It adds stability but their coaches are the same, their players are the same. Maybe each age group picks up a player or two but this doesn't create some seismic shift in players.

And if ECNL goes this far in NOVA then it might as well do something useful and add FCV and Beach FC and some other club to reduce travel to Virginia.

Beach FC is not ECNL level. Unfortunately, neither is ECNL. Thank USSF and GDA for causing this.

Have you seen Arlington 07 girls play (08 are good, 06 ok, older age groups are average)? They are middle of the pack in GAL, with few strong players. The FCV 07 girls beat them every time they play them by a lot. FCV is stronger in 07 and up age groups. I think it's funny to say FCV (or Beach FC for that) are not ECNL level. They could both easily compete and be among the top teams in ECNL in Virginia -- better than Arlington, VDA, BRYC, and McLean.

They’re little kids. It’s not an indicator of future success or failure. Over 50 percent of those kids won’t make it past U16 ECNL

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:U apparently have no clue how ECNL works-official offers cannot be given until after May 1.

Definitely not true. Cross team offers (from one ECNL club to another), sure, but not from external clubs.

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The good DA clubs were ECNL clubs first. Them returning is fine. Arlington can always turn down the crappier ECNL platform.

Crappier ECNL platform? Afraid that we’re going to take over the DMV lol

Looking forward to “No, clubs rise and fall all the time just like businesses.” Looking forward to seeing Blockbuster and Barnes and Noble comeback against Netflix and Amazon. If you’re not 100% into building yourself, you won’t succeed. Nobody is doing better at this (in NOVA) than Arlington and McLean (albeit via different methods).

What's to take over? Arlington kids will stay put. It just got easier than ever to join a ECNL club and it was pretty easy already.

What makes you bitter? Just don’t participate

Not bitter, what I'm saying is your kid didn't get any better as player because of this. Her pond just got bigger and more diluted. And joining ECNL didn't and won't significantly change Arlington's current or future teams. It adds stability but their coaches are the same, their players are the same. Maybe each age group picks up a player or two but this doesn't create some seismic shift in players.

And if ECNL goes this far in NOVA then it might as well do something useful and add FCV and Beach FC and some other club to reduce travel to Virginia.

Beach FC is not ECNL level. Unfortunately, neither is ECNL. Thank USSF and GDA for causing this.

Have you seen Arlington 07 girls play (08 are good, 06 ok, older age groups are average)? They are middle of the pack in GAL, with few strong players. The FCV 07 girls beat them every time they play them by a lot. FCV is stronger in 07 and up age groups. I think it's funny to say FCV (or Beach FC for that) are not ECNL level. They could both easily compete and be among the top teams in ECNL in Virginia -- better than Arlington, VDA, BRYC, and McLean.

Yes I've seen them (ARL 07) play. They aren't good. They most certainly would lose to McLean and VDA, and beat last-place BRYC (congrats). The ECNL Beach FC is not VA Beach. People are mixing up Cali and VA. FCV could do well in ECNL across the older age groups for sure. I don't know why they won't get let in, other than "burned bridges", whatever that is referring to......

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It’s not a matter of FCV being bad and that’s why they aren’t getting ECNL. It sounds political and they burned bridges when they left for the DA. Loudoun got ECNL in their geographic area so that’s that.

They haven’t performed all that stellar against local ECNL teams in recent scrimmages either-suggesting they would not be as dominant as they currently are in GA.