Valor

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What are you talking about? Do you even have a younger player at Valor, because that just is simply untrue. The U9 and U10 boys and girls all practice at the same field every session. They are mixed up for their Academy training and then practice by team depending on the night of the week. The coaches see all of the kids. The U11 boys train together and so do the U12 boys, same thing- the Academy sessions and then their team sessions. I am a manager and I can see the field break down team by team every season when the club sends it out. Even older teams are on the same fields, maybe not for every practice but for some of them.

Same field does not mean together.

Perhaps Valor should have more transparency and publicly list the practices for the teams. Would also show possible lack of field space.

Does any club publicly list practice times/locations? I don't know who the PP is responding to, but the U9 and U10 boys are not all practicing at the same time. Their practices are held back to back on the same nights. If one age group has the earlier time slot, the other has the later one and vice versa. I have lost track of what the girls are doing. It does seem like they do more combining of teams at practices, or maybe there just aren't as many teams. The only time field space is a real issue is when CYA rec starts back up and takes up some of the fields at the same time. I wish they would figure out something else for that. I have another kid who plays rec and I don't think their practice should eat into travel team field space. They are fine on whatever nearby school field.

Nonsense. Why shouldn't the rec kids get to practice on a decent field? The fields are public spaces. You don't get more allocated more field space if kids pay more money to play. Its straight numbers and one of the reason Valor has so much field space is they use CYA and SYA fields instead of having to get their own. The County gives more space to orgs with rec leagues.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:What are you talking about? Do you even have a younger player at Valor, because that just is simply untrue. The U9 and U10 boys and girls all practice at the same field every session. They are mixed up for their Academy training and then practice by team depending on the night of the week. The coaches see all of the kids. The U11 boys train together and so do the U12 boys, same thing- the Academy sessions and then their team sessions. I am a manager and I can see the field break down team by team every season when the club sends it out. Even older teams are on the same fields, maybe not for every practice but for some of them.

Same field does not mean together.

Perhaps Valor should have more transparency and publicly list the practices for the teams. Would also show possible lack of field space.

Does any club publicly list practice times/locations? I don't know who the PP is responding to, but the U9 and U10 boys are not all practicing at the same time. Their practices are held back to back on the same nights. If one age group has the earlier time slot, the other has the later one and vice versa. I have lost track of what the girls are doing. It does seem like they do more combining of teams at practices, or maybe there just aren't as many teams. The only time field space is a real issue is when CYA rec starts back up and takes up some of the fields at the same time. I wish they would figure out something else for that. I have another kid who plays rec and I don't think their practice should eat into travel team field space. They are fine on whatever nearby school field.

I'm going they are just trolling/throwing out assumptions. They definitely do not mix all the teams anymore than any other multi team age group clubs. Even full age group 'technical training' is not actually comingled. It's not as bad as some other clubs; but your team is pretty much the only ones you are practicing with. Scrimmaging at the end of practice is not practicing together.

I've heard that BRYC (at least for the younger boys) has their top 3 teams all training together every practice, and the coaches decide who will play for which team (first/second/third) before the game each week. Maybe the teams are fairly stable in reality, with only a couple kids being shuffled around. But it sounds hard on the kids and as a parent I would hate not having a set game schedule in advance.

Its amazing they get anyone to pay for that. Most people want to know their team assignment before they pay up.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What are you talking about? Do you even have a younger player at Valor, because that just is simply untrue. The U9 and U10 boys and girls all practice at the same field every session. They are mixed up for their Academy training and then practice by team depending on the night of the week. The coaches see all of the kids. The U11 boys train together and so do the U12 boys, same thing- the Academy sessions and then their team sessions. I am a manager and I can see the field break down team by team every season when the club sends it out. Even older teams are on the same fields, maybe not for every practice but for some of them.

Same field does not mean together.

Perhaps Valor should have more transparency and publicly list the practices for the teams. Would also show possible lack of field space.

Does any club publicly list practice times/locations? I don't know who the PP is responding to, but the U9 and U10 boys are not all practicing at the same time. Their practices are held back to back on the same nights. If one age group has the earlier time slot, the other has the later one and vice versa. I have lost track of what the girls are doing. It does seem like they do more combining of teams at practices, or maybe there just aren't as many teams. The only time field space is a real issue is when CYA rec starts back up and takes up some of the fields at the same time. I wish they would figure out something else for that. I have another kid who plays rec and I don't think their practice should eat into travel team field space. They are fine on whatever nearby school field.

Nonsense. Why shouldn't the rec kids get to practice on a decent field? The fields are public spaces. You don't get more allocated more field space if kids pay more money to play. Its straight numbers and one of the reason Valor has so much field space is they use CYA and SYA fields instead of having to get their own. The County gives more space to orgs with rec leagues.

So the field is permitted to CYA, CYA lets Valor use it (is that even allowed?), and pp is complaining about CYA rec kids getting to practice on...their own fields.

[Anonymous]

I don't think you are allowed to let a different group use your permit. If you aren't using the space, you are supposed to give it back to the County.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't think you are allowed to let a different group use your permit. If you aren't using the space, you are supposed to give it back to the County.

That's correct.

[Anonymous]

Rec kids are fine practicing on elementary school fields. Lots of dandelions to pick! If they were into soccer, they would be playing travel.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't think you are allowed to let a different group use your permit. If you aren't using the space, you are supposed to give it back to the County.

This is what I was told, as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rec kids are fine practicing on elementary school fields. Lots of dandelions to pick! If they were into soccer, they would be playing travel.

Tell me your a toxic parent who judges their self worth from their children's achievements with telling me ...

[Anonymous]

It's bizarre how invested soccer daddies are in this sport.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's bizarre how invested soccer daddies are in this sport.

Daddies? You sound like you have issues. Good luck with that weirdo.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's bizarre how invested soccer daddies are in this sport.

Daddies? You sound like you have issues. Good luck with that weirdo.

Your frail male ego is showing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Rec kids are fine practicing on elementary school fields. Lots of dandelions to pick! If they were into soccer, they would be playing travel.

Tell me your a toxic parent who judges their self worth from their children's achievements with telling me ...

This doesn't make sense to me. Every other rec sport still gets to practice on the correct space-basketball on a basketball court, baseball on a baseball field. We don't send rec basketball teams out to dribble around a parking lot and pretend there is a hoop. Why should rec soccer teams practice on grass without goals?

[Anonymous]

There are plenty of soccer skills to work on that don’t require shooting, but if you never have a goal that’s an issue. I would be reaching out to your club if that’s the case.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Rec kids are fine practicing on elementary school fields. Lots of dandelions to pick! If they were into soccer, they would be playing travel.

Tell me your a toxic parent who judges their self worth from their children's achievements with telling me ...

This doesn't make sense to me. Every other rec sport still gets to practice on the correct space-basketball on a basketball court, baseball on a baseball field. We don't send rec basketball teams out to dribble around a parking lot and pretend there is a hoop. Why should rec soccer teams practice on grass without goals?

Exactly. So you're doing with travel is passing for a professional coach and hopefully higher skilled players on the team. That's it. You in no way should get better facilities than the rec kids. Go to a private academy if your that offended rec kids get the same practice space as your travel player. You're not practicing together who cares?

[Anonymous]

Perhaps they should actually make travel soccer competitive and cut some kids. Fewer teams means less field space for travel, more for rec (where many belong anyway).