GFR Falling apart?

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Anonymous wrote:Same thing happened this time last year, two respected coaches and directors fired before spring season, KB and RP. A lot of good coaches and players left as a result. Why would any coaches want to go to a club with this history. The players suffer the most.

Yep and the worst part is they did this 36 hours before the first weekend of spring games. There were kids who showed up for games this morning with no coaches at all or, in a slightly better situation, a coach they’d never met. These adults never seem to think of the kids they are affecting when they make these decisions.

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Anonymous wrote:Same thing happened this time last year, two respected coaches and directors fired before spring season, KB and RP. A lot of good coaches and players left as a result. Why would any coaches want to go to a club with this history. The players suffer the most.

At least that was done in January and they had time to find coaches for the teams before spring season. This time the coaches were fired a day and a half before the first game.

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Anonymous wrote:Same thing happened this time last year, two respected coaches and directors fired before spring season, KB and RP. A lot of good coaches and players left as a result. Why would any coaches want to go to a club with this history. The players suffer the most.

At least that was done in January and they had time to find coaches for the teams before spring season. This time the coaches were fired a day and a half before the first game.

GFR has been playing games for weeks. Our team has had games since first weekend of March.

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Which teams showed up for games this morning with no coach? That's nuts. Who coached?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Same thing happened this time last year, two respected coaches and directors fired before spring season, KB and RP. A lot of good coaches and players left as a result. Why would any coaches want to go to a club with this history. The players suffer the most.

At least that was done in January and they had time to find coaches for the teams before spring season. This time the coaches were fired a day and a half before the first game.

GFR has been playing games for weeks. Our team has had games since first weekend of March.

Most of their travel teams are NCSL and today is the first weekend of NCSL league games.

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Anonymous wrote:Which teams showed up for games this morning with no coach? That's nuts. Who coached?

2014 girls, I believe - maybe it was 2015.

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Anonymous wrote:With all that is going on with ECNL, GA, MLS Next, etc. it’s a really good time to have coaches and directors like NM and ML on your side

It seems like not many clubs want NM "on their side" - ask GFR or FVU or Mclean how that worked out for them.

Who are you going to ask at GFR? The 3 soccer dads who are now running it?

Ok, so your preference is to discount GFR. Fair enough. How about FVU or Mclean or Herndon? Why don't they want to work with NM? Or should we discount those, too?

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Anonymous wrote:With all that is going on with ECNL, GA, MLS Next, etc. it’s a really good time to have coaches and directors like NM and ML on your side

It seems like not many clubs want NM "on their side" - ask GFR or FVU or Mclean how that worked out for them.

Who are you going to ask at GFR? The 3 soccer dads who are now running it?

Ok, so your preference is to discount GFR. Fair enough. How about FVU or Mclean or Herndon? Why don't they want to work with NM? Or should we discount those, too?

I’m not familiar with FVU. But I wouldn’t use Herndon as an example of a great youth soccer program. They’re an even bigger mess than GFR - although that is almost debatable now.

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I bet Valor would hire him lol.

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Anonymous wrote:Which teams showed up for games this morning with no coach? That's nuts. Who coached?

2014 girls, I believe - maybe it was 2015.

that's crazy. where are they going to find coaches for the rest of the spring season

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Anonymous wrote:With all that is going on with ECNL, GA, MLS Next, etc. it’s a really good time to have coaches and directors like NM and ML on your side

It seems like not many clubs want NM "on their side" - ask GFR or FVU or Mclean how that worked out for them.

Who are you going to ask at GFR? The 3 soccer dads who are now running it?

Ok, so your preference is to discount GFR. Fair enough. How about FVU or Mclean or Herndon? Why don't they want to work with NM? Or should we discount those, too?

I’m not familiar with FVU. But I wouldn’t use Herndon as an example of a great youth soccer program. They’re an even bigger mess than GFR - although that is almost debatable now.

Is Herndon not good for the boys side anymore? We had heard good things about it a couple of years ago. Has it changed since then?

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Anonymous wrote:Which teams showed up for games this morning with no coach? That's nuts. Who coached?

2014 girls, I believe - maybe it was 2015.

that's crazy. where are they going to find coaches for the rest of the spring season

I don’t believe any of the new “directors” have any experience running a soccer club so this is probably a question they’re asking themselves too right now

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Anonymous wrote:Which teams showed up for games this morning with no coach? That's nuts. Who coached?

Only ncsl games this morning. ML and NM don’t even coach those teams and they were the only ones let go. So either you’re making this up or you’re just guessing.

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Anonymous wrote:Which teams showed up for games this morning with no coach? That's nuts. Who coached?

Only ncsl games this morning. ML and NM don’t even coach those teams and they were the only ones let go. So either you’re making this up or you’re just guessing.

Not true. The contract with all the coaches who came with NM from dmvfc were terminated. Parents got an email telling them this but also were told they had coverage in place which they did not.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s funny how much people love NM. I bet Herndon staff would say different.

Same with Union. Same with McLean. Same with all the parents.