FCV parents - has anyone heard anything?

[Anonymous]

Interesting that the ECNL announcement from this afternoon about Penn Fusion and others joining ECNL seems to leave room for additional teams being added in the coming weeks.

So you’re saying there’s a chance?

[Anonymous]

Penn Fusion, Pipeline, PDA South now ECNL.

https://www.eliteclubsnationalleague.com/2020/04/23/penn-fusion-sa-pipeline-sc-and-pda-south-join-ecnls-girls-for-2020-21-season/

[Anonymous]

WOW-and still no FCV or Arlington!!

[Anonymous]

With the always cryptic last sentence: "Additional information on participating member clubs for the 2020-21 Season will be released in the coming weeks."

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Still nothing from FCV.

They had a zoom meeting with all the details this week.

They had zoom meetings with at least four of the age groups, but to say “with all the details” is a bit of a stretch, don’t you think?

+1 Agree. I believe all the Ex-DA teams were covered. Not sure what if anything has been shared with other Non-Ex-DA teams in the club.

This is a fact. Our team has heard nothing!

If your team is not a former DA team why would you expect to hear anything?

What an an A hole comment. It’s not only ex DA players that are impacted by this change. It will have an impact on the entire club and it’s future. The reality is that FCV’s chance of survival as a club isn’t looking good.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It is polite for FCV to inform ALL The players in the ENTIRE club what the plans are going forward. If ex-DA players all jump ship there is a real possibility the club could go out of business. Same if St. James files for bankruptcy. That is for EVERYONE To be aware of not just the top players!!!

You must be new. This is pretty typical FCV behavior. Most of us don't let it bother us. Club-wide communications with bad news is not a strength. Lots of other positives.

We are new. And the lack of information from the club is appalling. We obviously heard the rumors about the fate of DA recently and expected the club to say something, but to say that there are "other strengths" is funny. We moved to FCV for the DA training and the coaches. Now we are being told that the coaches who are currently on the roster may not be the ones next season. And now there's no DA. So as a new family I would like to know what the club plans!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Still nothing from FCV.

They had a zoom meeting with all the details this week.

They had zoom meetings with at least four of the age groups, but to say “with all the details” is a bit of a stretch, don’t you think?

+1 Agree. I believe all the Ex-DA teams were covered. Not sure what if anything has been shared with other Non-Ex-DA teams in the club.

This is a fact. Our team has heard nothing!

If your team is not a former DA team why would you expect to hear anything?

What an an A hole comment. It’s not only ex DA players that are impacted by this change. It will have an impact on the entire club and it’s future. The reality is that FCV’s chance of survival as a club isn’t looking good.

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Anonymous wrote:It is polite for FCV to inform ALL The players in the ENTIRE club what the plans are going forward. If ex-DA players all jump ship there is a real possibility the club could go out of business. Same if St. James files for bankruptcy. That is for EVERYONE To be aware of not just the top players!!!

You must be new. This is pretty typical FCV behavior. Most of us don't let it bother us. Club-wide communications with bad news is not a strength. Lots of other positives.

We are new. And the lack of information from the club is appalling. We obviously heard the rumors about the fate of DA recently and expected the club to say something, but to say that there are "other strengths" is funny. We moved to FCV for the DA training and the coaches. Now we are being told that the coaches who are currently on the roster may not be the ones next season. And now there's no DA. So as a new family I would like to know what the club plans!

Interesting, we were told the "entire coaching staff" would remain and that is a reason the club is the best place for our player. I guess other ages were told different things about the coaches.

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Anonymous wrote:It is polite for FCV to inform ALL The players in the ENTIRE club what the plans are going forward. If ex-DA players all jump ship there is a real possibility the club could go out of business. Same if St. James files for bankruptcy. That is for EVERYONE To be aware of not just the top players!!!

You must be new. This is pretty typical FCV behavior. Most of us don't let it bother us. Club-wide communications with bad news is not a strength. Lots of other positives.

We are new. And the lack of information from the club is appalling. We obviously heard the rumors about the fate of DA recently and expected the club to say something, but to say that there are "other strengths" is funny. We moved to FCV for the DA training and the coaches. Now we are being told that the coaches who are currently on the roster may not be the ones next season. And now there's no DA. So as a new family I would like to know what the club plans!

Have you reached out to the technical director or anyone else at the club? Your questions and points are very valid and the answers will be important to your decisions moving forward.

[Anonymous]

ECNL just announced Penn Fusion, Pipleine and PDA South are joining.

If FCV doesn't get ECNL to agree to take them by next week, I'd say start investigating other options because they will be done as a club.

[Anonymous]

If I'm Loudoun and they let in FCV who operates a stone's throw away, I would be incensed. I could be wrong but I don't think there is a single case of them doing this to an existing club.

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Anonymous wrote:If I'm Loudoun and they let in FCV who operates a stone's throw away, I would be incensed. I could be wrong but I don't think there is a single case of them doing this to an existing club.

Except that some ECNL clubs have two teams playing in the same age group in the same division in the same brackets (PDA White and PDA Blue or FC Stars Blue and FC Stars White). If you can have teams in the same club compete in an ECNL bracket, what’s the issue with having clubs a few miles away from each other compete.

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Anonymous wrote:If I'm Loudoun and they let in FCV who operates a stone's throw away, I would be incensed. I could be wrong but I don't think there is a single case of them doing this to an existing club.

Except that some ECNL clubs have two teams playing in the same age group in the same division in the same brackets (PDA White and PDA Blue or FC Stars Blue and FC Stars White). If you can have teams in the same club compete in an ECNL bracket, what’s the issue with having clubs a few miles away from each other compete.

Fair point. If anything it seems better to have them be separate clubs.

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Anonymous wrote:Still nothing from FCV.

They had a zoom meeting with all the details this week.

They had zoom meetings with at least four of the age groups, but to say “with all the details” is a bit of a stretch, don’t you think?

+1 Agree. I believe all the Ex-DA teams were covered. Not sure what if anything has been shared with other Non-Ex-DA teams in the club.

This is a fact. Our team has heard nothing!

If your team is not a former DA team why would you expect to hear anything?

What an an A hole comment. It’s not only ex DA players that are impacted by this change. It will have an impact on the entire club and it’s future. The reality is that FCV’s chance of survival as a club isn’t looking good.

No, you’re really not immediately impacted. You’re not on a team who’s league no longer exists. DA imploding only matters to a very small percentage of players and you are not one of them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If I'm Loudoun and they let in FCV who operates a stone's throw away, I would be incensed. I could be wrong but I don't think there is a single case of them doing this to an existing club.

Except that some ECNL clubs have two teams playing in the same age group in the same division in the same brackets (PDA White and PDA Blue or FC Stars Blue and FC Stars White). If you can have teams in the same club compete in an ECNL bracket, what’s the issue with having clubs a few miles away from each other compete.

PDA and FC Stars have demonstrated they have the player pool to support two clubs. Isn't the area is saturated already with the 4 NoVA clubs?