What's going on with FCV GA?

[Anonymous]

Look would you take old FCV over a local ECNL club -- maybe -- But the new FCV or SYC or whatever GA is doing over any of the local ECNL clubs -- no way except Brave. Then it is even.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Look would you take old FCV over a local ECNL club -- maybe -- But the new FCV or SYC or whatever GA is doing over any of the local ECNL clubs -- no way except Brave. Then it is even.

What is your issue with Brave?

[Anonymous]

THere is a disturbance in the force

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I can tell you all with 100% certainty as a FCV parent that players are going to scatter everywhere. From what I am hearing now, most of the top players from each age group are in fact going to move to VDA, Union, Bethesda and even Arlington. Have not heard a single mention of Brave. Some of these players might be moving as early as next week.

The rest of the players including GA2 teams are split between FCV and VRSC. I think the end product in this will be stronger ECNL teams accross the board and three mid table to bottom table GA teams. Wild card is ECNL RL. I have not heard anyone mention moving to ECRL teams but I have heard some ECRL families will be checking out GA oppurtunities.

I say good for ECNL. Adding talent to already good teams only helps. I also say, as for us, players moving only means more playing time for my DD at the GA club we will choose between.

^ Total BS.

I wouldn't say total BS, it's an opinion, one of many, but there are some nuggets of truth in there.

"players are going to scatter everywhere." - probably true
"most of the top players from each age group are in fact going to move to VDA, Union, Bethesda and even Arlington." - if they're scattering everywhere, these would be likely landing spots.
"The rest of the players including GA2 teams are split between FCV and VRSC." - again probably true
"I think the end product in this will be stronger ECNL teams accross the board and three mid table to bottom table GA teams." if the above happens, then this naturally becomes true
"players moving only means more playing time for my DD at the GA club we will choose between." Again, if the above happens, this becomes true

I can tell you with 100% certainty as a non-FCV parent I have seen a LOT of FCV girls at our ECNL team's trainings the last 2 weeks

Which club?

Now you're getting it. This is an ECNL troll + part of the cult. Call them out.

Notice how they say ECNL but won't mention the club their kid plays for. Likely because everyone will laugh because it will be the worst one in league.

Better ECNL clubs parents will identify themselves by the achievements of their own club because they don't need to piggyback off other clubs results.

+1. Yeah, I know - they mention ECNL-RL - what GA player is going to be aiming to land on an ECNL-RL team in Feb? They aren’t an FCV parent and they have no credibility.

A few players per team may move to/from their current teams (FCV migrating to VR) to an EcNl club, but that happens every year. A few to a handful will stay with FCV instead of going to VR.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: What GA player is going to be aiming to land on an ECNL-RL team in Feb?

How about the news of an entire freaking club "aiming to land" in the ECNL-RL over staying in the GA. Perhaps not a trend that will take a foothold in the DMV, but still, what top player will want to stay in the GA if all of the Top teams continue to jump ship nationally? You think other top GA clubs aren't taking notice? Man, if you have a Top Hat or an NEFC or a CUP announce they're leaving -- band might as well start playing TAPS for the GA as a relevant platform.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: What GA player is going to be aiming to land on an ECNL-RL team in Feb?

How about the news of an entire freaking club "aiming to land" in the ECNL-RL over staying in the GA. Perhaps not a trend that will take a foothold in the DMV, but still, what top player will want to stay in the GA if all of the Top teams continue to jump ship nationally? You think other top GA clubs aren't taking notice? Man, if you have a Top Hat or an NEFC or a CUP announce they're leaving -- band might as well start playing TAPS for the GA as a relevant platform.

Yeah, it’s not going to be a trend in NOVA in the next 2 months, so stop wasting everyone’s time, including your own, with shitposts.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Look would you take old FCV over a local ECNL club -- maybe -- But the new FCV or SYC or whatever GA is doing over any of the local ECNL clubs -- no way except Brave. Then it is even.

What is your issue with Brave?

You mean other than they are not good? They do still get recruited. Most likely better than GA.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: What GA player is going to be aiming to land on an ECNL-RL team in Feb?

How about the news of an entire freaking club "aiming to land" in the ECNL-RL over staying in the GA. Perhaps not a trend that will take a foothold in the DMV, but still, what top player will want to stay in the GA if all of the Top teams continue to jump ship nationally? You think other top GA clubs aren't taking notice? Man, if you have a Top Hat or an NEFC or a CUP announce they're leaving -- band might as well start playing TAPS for the GA as a relevant platform.

Yeah, it’s not going to be a trend in NOVA in the next 2 months, so stop wasting everyone’s time, including your own, with shitposts.

RL quality is dependent on the region. There are inconsistencies with how that league is. Some regions align their RL closer to how NL is with sub rules, around here RL has unlimited subs. That's a huge effect on the game and how clubs build teams.

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Anonymous wrote:Look would you take old FCV over a local ECNL club -- maybe -- But the new FCV or SYC or whatever GA is doing over any of the local ECNL clubs -- no way except Brave. Then it is even.

What is your issue with Brave?

You mean other than they are not good? They do still get recruited. Most likely better than GA.

Please post/compare the current recruiting stats (for 2025s) for BRAVE vs. FCV. Once you do, then revisit your "likely better" comment.

[Anonymous]

CC was an average coach at best. He frequently lost games simply by following a rigid pattern of substitutions. There are players on his teams who still do the same mistakes they did three years prior. He favorites selfish players who don't ever pass the ball. Usually a handful of players play full game and the rest have to split time with kids half as good. BP would at least hold players accountable and remove them from the game when they wouldn't listen. Lots of players never learn anything and the teams very slow to improve. They built their program off of stealing players from other clubs. Since DA folded, they struggled to steal any good players only getting other vda and Loudoun trash. The coaching slate at revolution is poor. ED, CC, Marvin and this other lady from Shenandoah University in Winchester with the pending recession, expect the evergreen sportsplex to suffer. Interesting fact, the owner of the evergreen sportsplex had a lawsuit for steeling employees leveled against him a few years ago. CC and GA made a strategic error by offering VR a GA spot. Now everyone's just waiting for the FCV coaching announcement. Rumor is that Dom is coaching the 2011's even after multiple people complained to FCV about how horrible this guy is at coaching. Expect most of the 2011 to go to VR when this gets out. He starts his worst player and when there's 3-4 goals scored against his team from the breakdown, he subs his other players in. Constantly criticizing his players and letting kids with attitudes get away with murder. No consequences.

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:CC was an average coach at best. He frequently lost games simply by following a rigid pattern of substitutions. There are players on his teams who still do the same mistakes they did three years prior. He favorites selfish players who don't ever pass the ball. Usually a handful of players play full game and the rest have to split time with kids half as good. BP would at least hold players accountable and remove them from the game when they wouldn't listen. Lots of players never learn anything and the teams very slow to improve. They built their program off of stealing players from other clubs. Since DA folded, they struggled to steal any good players only getting other vda and Loudoun trash. The coaching slate at revolution is poor. ED, CC, Marvin and this other lady from Shenandoah University in Winchester with the pending recession, expect the evergreen sportsplex to suffer. Interesting fact, the owner of the evergreen sportsplex had a lawsuit for steeling employees leveled against him a few years ago. CC and GA made a strategic error by offering VR a GA spot. Now everyone's just waiting for the FCV coaching announcement. Rumor is that Dom is coaching the 2011's even after multiple people complained to FCV about how horrible this guy is at coaching. Expect most of the 2011 to go to VR when this gets out. He starts his worst player and when there's 3-4 goals scored against his team from the breakdown, he subs his other players in. Constantly criticizing his players and letting kids with attitudes get away with murder. No consequences.

PPs have said BP coached relatively younger GA teams and CC coached relatively older GA teams. If that’s right, I don’t follow the allocation of responsibility in this post.

[Anonymous]

That post is confusing. Are they criticizing FCV and VR?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The coaching slate at revolution is poor. ED, CC, Marvin and this other lady from Shenandoah University in Winchester.

That would be Janice and your assessment still holds true.

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Anonymous wrote:The coaching slate at revolution is poor. ED, CC, Marvin and this other lady from Shenandoah University in Winchester.

FCV’s coaching staff until a couple years ago (when MJ left) was ED, MJ, BP, CC, and JS (goalkeeper coach).

For the last couple seasons, FCV’s coaching staff was ED, BP, CC, and JS.

VR’s coaching staff will be ED, MJ, CC, and JS.

BP clearly is a loss, but hard to see how VR’s staff is terrible given the substantial overlap with FCV’s current staff and the return of MJ to the group (unless you’re saying that FCV’s legacy staff is terrible, which isn’t supported by their results on the pitch or in college placements).

BTW, BP joined FCV only 5 or so years ago, so it’s not as if the group that has reassembled at VR hasn’t done this before without BP.