GFR Falling apart?

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Anonymous wrote:The “let’s just be a small neighborhood club” argument doesn’t hold water when they have RS, NM and ML making director $ and have coaches that also are looking to get paid - GD, MW, etc.

ML is not a director anymore. Several coaches got their pay cut. MW is not coaching at GFR anymore. They are projecting a loss of money again this year. One of the dads on DC’s team has been attending their board meetings and reports back to everyone. The club is not in any way interested in national leagues and is happy with where they are right now based on everything he’s heard.

My DC’s team is a 3rd team but my older is 1st team and I agree. Most parents at GFR are happy with the club and don’t care about pathways.

Not sure if i would agree with the most parents at GFR are happy. Beginning of last year the 2014G top team imploded and many of their top players left due to a coaching switch and a better pathway. This year the entire 2015G top team (minus 1) left for other pathways as well. Both of these teams were at the highest of levels and every club in the area did not fair well against them. Sad that after u10 (on the girls side) it unravels.

They were playing pre-ecnl. That is not a team at the "highest of levels". Lol.

And they are 8 and 9 lol

Obviously you have no clue of their accomplishments and how easily they dispatched all the top clubs top team in the area at U10. And no they were not playing Pre-ECNL at U10 fool. The 2014s (at U10) won Jefferson cup in the top bracket and finalist in the National Futsal Tournament in Las Vegas. 2015s accolades are too long to list (WAGS, Jeff Cup, rtc) and getting into the top bracket and making into the final 8 in Super Copa does state they are at the highest of levels at that time.

This is hysterical. Is this parody or real life? I can't tell.

I was going to say. Is this a joke? If they were playing at GFR at U10 yes, they were playing PRE-ECNL RL. Fool. lol Have they played Arlington, VDA or FVU yet at the same age? Let's see how this "highest level" team is doing in a few years.

They did not play Pre ECNL at U10. They play Pre ECNL at U11! They played NCSL and beat the brakes off Arlington! 2014G beat them 10-0, 6-0, and 3-0 at U10. 2015G beat Arlington 5-0, 4-1, 1-0, 2-1.

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Anonymous wrote:The “let’s just be a small neighborhood club” argument doesn’t hold water when they have RS, NM and ML making director $ and have coaches that also are looking to get paid - GD, MW, etc.

ML is not a director anymore. Several coaches got their pay cut. MW is not coaching at GFR anymore. They are projecting a loss of money again this year. One of the dads on DC’s team has been attending their board meetings and reports back to everyone. The club is not in any way interested in national leagues and is happy with where they are right now based on everything he’s heard.

My DC’s team is a 3rd team but my older is 1st team and I agree. Most parents at GFR are happy with the club and don’t care about pathways.

Not sure if i would agree with the most parents at GFR are happy. Beginning of last year the 2014G top team imploded and many of their top players left due to a coaching switch and a better pathway. This year the entire 2015G top team (minus 1) left for other pathways as well. Both of these teams were at the highest of levels and every club in the area did not fair well against them. Sad that after u10 (on the girls side) it unravels.

Top team players will always leave GFR for clubs with a pathway. That's always been the case. My 2009 kids team has only a handful of players left from the U10 days because the good players left for other clubs with national leagues. They still compete well at the RL level though. Which kinda proves everyone's point saying that this is an RL club and nothing more.

Doesn't have to be the case! Stop with the "local club" propaganda. No one is buying it! BRYC, McLean, Herndon, Vienna, Valor all have pathways and are simliar size club as GFR. They also don't have the mass exodus that GFR does. Those other clubs aren't bigger or better than GFR but they give the best possible opportunities to their kids. The club needs to explain to parents why they didn't join union or pursue other pathways.

What do any of those clubs get out of their alliance with FVU? Honestly?

Right? That's what I don't understand. Every club has a pathway to another club if you leave it. Is being "part" of FVU really that different than just leaving GFR and going to FVU? Is a kid who plays for Herndon going to get a better opportunity to play with FVU than a player from GFR who is more talented? I doubt it.

Is Bethesda going to be just a local neighborhood club?

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Anonymous wrote:The “let’s just be a small neighborhood club” argument doesn’t hold water when they have RS, NM and ML making director $ and have coaches that also are looking to get paid - GD, MW, etc.

ML is not a director anymore. Several coaches got their pay cut. MW is not coaching at GFR anymore. They are projecting a loss of money again this year. One of the dads on DC’s team has been attending their board meetings and reports back to everyone. The club is not in any way interested in national leagues and is happy with where they are right now based on everything he’s heard.

My DC’s team is a 3rd team but my older is 1st team and I agree. Most parents at GFR are happy with the club and don’t care about pathways.

Not sure if i would agree with the most parents at GFR are happy. Beginning of last year the 2014G top team imploded and many of their top players left due to a coaching switch and a better pathway. This year the entire 2015G top team (minus 1) left for other pathways as well. Both of these teams were at the highest of levels and every club in the area did not fair well against them. Sad that after u10 (on the girls side) it unravels.

Top team players will always leave GFR for clubs with a pathway. That's always been the case. My 2009 kids team has only a handful of players left from the U10 days because the good players left for other clubs with national leagues. They still compete well at the RL level though. Which kinda proves everyone's point saying that this is an RL club and nothing more.

Doesn't have to be the case! Stop with the "local club" propaganda. No one is buying it! BRYC, McLean, Herndon, Vienna, Valor all have pathways and are simliar size club as GFR. They also don't have the mass exodus that GFR does. Those other clubs aren't bigger or better than GFR but they give the best possible opportunities to their kids. The club needs to explain to parents why they didn't join union or pursue other pathways.

What do any of those clubs get out of their alliance with FVU? Honestly?

Umm those clubs mentioned above do have a mass exodus. Some are even unable to even field a full team. Do your research.

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Anonymous wrote:The “let’s just be a small neighborhood club” argument doesn’t hold water when they have RS, NM and ML making director $ and have coaches that also are looking to get paid - GD, MW, etc.

ML is not a director anymore. Several coaches got their pay cut. MW is not coaching at GFR anymore. They are projecting a loss of money again this year. One of the dads on DC’s team has been attending their board meetings and reports back to everyone. The club is not in any way interested in national leagues and is happy with where they are right now based on everything he’s heard.

My DC’s team is a 3rd team but my older is 1st team and I agree. Most parents at GFR are happy with the club and don’t care about pathways.

Not sure if i would agree with the most parents at GFR are happy. Beginning of last year the 2014G top team imploded and many of their top players left due to a coaching switch and a better pathway. This year the entire 2015G top team (minus 1) left for other pathways as well. Both of these teams were at the highest of levels and every club in the area did not fair well against them. Sad that after u10 (on the girls side) it unravels.

They were playing pre-ecnl. That is not a team at the "highest of levels". Lol.

And they are 8 and 9 lol

Obviously you have no clue of their accomplishments and how easily they dispatched all the top clubs top team in the area at U10. And no they were not playing Pre-ECNL at U10 fool. The 2014s (at U10) won Jefferson cup in the top bracket and finalist in the National Futsal Tournament in Las Vegas. 2015s accolades are too long to list (WAGS, Jeff Cup, rtc) and getting into the top bracket and making into the final 8 in Super Copa does state they are at the highest of levels at that time.

This is hysterical. Is this parody or real life? I can't tell.

I was going to say. Is this a joke? If they were playing at GFR at U10 yes, they were playing PRE-ECNL RL. Fool. lol Have they played Arlington, VDA or FVU yet at the same age? Let's see how this "highest level" team is doing in a few years.

They did not play Pre ECNL at U10. They play Pre ECNL at U11! They played NCSL and beat the brakes off Arlington! 2014G beat them 10-0, 6-0, and 3-0 at U10. 2015G beat Arlington 5-0, 4-1, 1-0, 2-1.

OHHHHH they were playing NCSL! So sorry, I did not understand their elite level of soccer! I never would have questioned if I had known they participated in the prestigous NCSL!

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Anonymous wrote:The “let’s just be a small neighborhood club” argument doesn’t hold water when they have RS, NM and ML making director $ and have coaches that also are looking to get paid - GD, MW, etc.

ML is not a director anymore. Several coaches got their pay cut. MW is not coaching at GFR anymore. They are projecting a loss of money again this year. One of the dads on DC’s team has been attending their board meetings and reports back to everyone. The club is not in any way interested in national leagues and is happy with where they are right now based on everything he’s heard.

My DC’s team is a 3rd team but my older is 1st team and I agree. Most parents at GFR are happy with the club and don’t care about pathways.

Not sure if i would agree with the most parents at GFR are happy. Beginning of last year the 2014G top team imploded and many of their top players left due to a coaching switch and a better pathway. This year the entire 2015G top team (minus 1) left for other pathways as well. Both of these teams were at the highest of levels and every club in the area did not fair well against them. Sad that after u10 (on the girls side) it unravels.

Top team players will always leave GFR for clubs with a pathway. That's always been the case. My 2009 kids team has only a handful of players left from the U10 days because the good players left for other clubs with national leagues. They still compete well at the RL level though. Which kinda proves everyone's point saying that this is an RL club and nothing more.

Doesn't have to be the case! Stop with the "local club" propaganda. No one is buying it! BRYC, McLean, Herndon, Vienna, Valor all have pathways and are simliar size club as GFR. They also don't have the mass exodus that GFR does. Those other clubs aren't bigger or better than GFR but they give the best possible opportunities to their kids. The club needs to explain to parents why they didn't join union or pursue other pathways.

What do any of those clubs get out of their alliance with FVU? Honestly?

Umm those clubs mentioned above do have a mass exodus. Some are even unable to even field a full team. Do your research.

Not at the same level and GFR had opportunity to stop the bleeding and still could. GFR pays out a lot of money to high salaried individuals to be told that "you need to be a local club. dont worry about anything more than RL." This is what the hired experts brought to the table for us? Why don't I just put my kid in rec soccer and save myself the money and headache?

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Anonymous wrote:The “let’s just be a small neighborhood club” argument doesn’t hold water when they have RS, NM and ML making director $ and have coaches that also are looking to get paid - GD, MW, etc.

ML is not a director anymore. Several coaches got their pay cut. MW is not coaching at GFR anymore. They are projecting a loss of money again this year. One of the dads on DC’s team has been attending their board meetings and reports back to everyone. The club is not in any way interested in national leagues and is happy with where they are right now based on everything he’s heard.

My DC’s team is a 3rd team but my older is 1st team and I agree. Most parents at GFR are happy with the club and don’t care about pathways.

Not sure if i would agree with the most parents at GFR are happy. Beginning of last year the 2014G top team imploded and many of their top players left due to a coaching switch and a better pathway. This year the entire 2015G top team (minus 1) left for other pathways as well. Both of these teams were at the highest of levels and every club in the area did not fair well against them. Sad that after u10 (on the girls side) it unravels.

Top team players will always leave GFR for clubs with a pathway. That's always been the case. My 2009 kids team has only a handful of players left from the U10 days because the good players left for other clubs with national leagues. They still compete well at the RL level though. Which kinda proves everyone's point saying that this is an RL club and nothing more.

Doesn't have to be the case! Stop with the "local club" propaganda. No one is buying it! BRYC, McLean, Herndon, Vienna, Valor all have pathways and are simliar size club as GFR. They also don't have the mass exodus that GFR does. Those other clubs aren't bigger or better than GFR but they give the best possible opportunities to their kids. The club needs to explain to parents why they didn't join union or pursue other pathways.

The fact that you include Herndon on a list of clubs that you claim has a pathway, doesn't have a mass exodus and gives the best possible opportunities to their kids completely invalidates your claim to know what you are talking about.

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Anonymous wrote:The “let’s just be a small neighborhood club” argument doesn’t hold water when they have RS, NM and ML making director $ and have coaches that also are looking to get paid - GD, MW, etc.

ML is not a director anymore. Several coaches got their pay cut. MW is not coaching at GFR anymore. They are projecting a loss of money again this year. One of the dads on DC’s team has been attending their board meetings and reports back to everyone. The club is not in any way interested in national leagues and is happy with where they are right now based on everything he’s heard.

My DC’s team is a 3rd team but my older is 1st team and I agree. Most parents at GFR are happy with the club and don’t care about pathways.

Not sure if i would agree with the most parents at GFR are happy. Beginning of last year the 2014G top team imploded and many of their top players left due to a coaching switch and a better pathway. This year the entire 2015G top team (minus 1) left for other pathways as well. Both of these teams were at the highest of levels and every club in the area did not fair well against them. Sad that after u10 (on the girls side) it unravels.

Top team players will always leave GFR for clubs with a pathway. That's always been the case. My 2009 kids team has only a handful of players left from the U10 days because the good players left for other clubs with national leagues. They still compete well at the RL level though. Which kinda proves everyone's point saying that this is an RL club and nothing more.

Doesn't have to be the case! Stop with the "local club" propaganda. No one is buying it! BRYC, McLean, Herndon, Vienna, Valor all have pathways and are simliar size club as GFR. They also don't have the mass exodus that GFR does. Those other clubs aren't bigger or better than GFR but they give the best possible opportunities to their kids. The club needs to explain to parents why they didn't join union or pursue other pathways.

What do any of those clubs get out of their alliance with FVU? Honestly?

Umm those clubs mentioned above do have a mass exodus. Some are even unable to even field a full team. Do your research.

Not at the same level and GFR had opportunity to stop the bleeding and still could. GFR pays out a lot of money to high salaried individuals to be told that "you need to be a local club. dont worry about anything more than RL." This is what the hired experts brought to the table for us? Why don't I just put my kid in rec soccer and save myself the money and headache?

Sounds like they are polishing up a turd and trying to serve the GFR parents a turd sandwich.

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Anonymous wrote:The “let’s just be a small neighborhood club” argument doesn’t hold water when they have RS, NM and ML making director $ and have coaches that also are looking to get paid - GD, MW, etc.

ML is not a director anymore. Several coaches got their pay cut. MW is not coaching at GFR anymore. They are projecting a loss of money again this year. One of the dads on DC’s team has been attending their board meetings and reports back to everyone. The club is not in any way interested in national leagues and is happy with where they are right now based on everything he’s heard.

My DC’s team is a 3rd team but my older is 1st team and I agree. Most parents at GFR are happy with the club and don’t care about pathways.

Not sure if i would agree with the most parents at GFR are happy. Beginning of last year the 2014G top team imploded and many of their top players left due to a coaching switch and a better pathway. This year the entire 2015G top team (minus 1) left for other pathways as well. Both of these teams were at the highest of levels and every club in the area did not fair well against them. Sad that after u10 (on the girls side) it unravels.

Top team players will always leave GFR for clubs with a pathway. That's always been the case. My 2009 kids team has only a handful of players left from the U10 days because the good players left for other clubs with national leagues. They still compete well at the RL level though. Which kinda proves everyone's point saying that this is an RL club and nothing more.

Doesn't have to be the case! Stop with the "local club" propaganda. No one is buying it! BRYC, McLean, Herndon, Vienna, Valor all have pathways and are simliar size club as GFR. They also don't have the mass exodus that GFR does. Those other clubs aren't bigger or better than GFR but they give the best possible opportunities to their kids. The club needs to explain to parents why they didn't join union or pursue other pathways.

The fact that you include Herndon on a list of clubs that you claim has a pathway, doesn't have a mass exodus and gives the best possible opportunities to their kids completely invalidates your claim to know what you are talking about.

Nice deflection of not addressing the strange choices your club's management has made. Aren't you even mildly upset or curious as to the crazy moves your club made (or didn't make) last season? Or are you just a good obedient little team parent? GFR parents, if you hear "local neighborhood" club one more time, you should know that they are treating you like a fool. No club of GFR's caliber is telling their families to stay put and local.

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Nice deflection of not addressing the strange choices your club's management has made. Aren't you even mildly upset or curious as to the crazy moves your club made (or didn't make) last season? Or are you just a good obedient little team parent? GFR parents, if you hear "local neighborhood" club one more time, you should know that they are treating you like a fool. No club of GFR's caliber is telling their families to stay put and local.

What "strange choices" - and what do you mean by "GFR's caliber"? They are nothing but a good regional league club. There are a few very good teams mixed in but they do not have the caliber to play at a higher level. The only choice would be to align themselves with a pathway to feed their good players into one specific national platform instead of just letting players leave on their own. What's the real difference?? Seriously, how does playing for Herndon with a "pathway" to FVU differ all? Herndon isn't making money off this alliance! They're losing players to FVU like everyone else

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Nice deflection of not addressing the strange choices your club's management has made. Aren't you even mildly upset or curious as to the crazy moves your club made (or didn't make) last season? Or are you just a good obedient little team parent? GFR parents, if you hear "local neighborhood" club one more time, you should know that they are treating you like a fool. No club of GFR's caliber is telling their families to stay put and local.

What "strange choices" - and what do you mean by "GFR's caliber"? They are nothing but a good regional league club. There are a few very good teams mixed in but they do not have the caliber to play at a higher level. The only choice would be to align themselves with a pathway to feed their good players into one specific national platform instead of just letting players leave on their own. What's the real difference?? Seriously, how does playing for Herndon with a "pathway" to FVU differ all? Herndon isn't making money off this alliance! They're losing players to FVU like everyone else

And that is if they even go to FVU. Let’s not forget that FVU is dreadful anyways. They have almost no boys going to play in college or the pros. And after the girls mass exodus, the FVU girls are heading down the same path as the boys.

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Nice deflection of not addressing the strange choices your club's management has made. Aren't you even mildly upset or curious as to the crazy moves your club made (or didn't make) last season? Or are you just a good obedient little team parent? GFR parents, if you hear "local neighborhood" club one more time, you should know that they are treating you like a fool. No club of GFR's caliber is telling their families to stay put and local.

What "strange choices" - and what do you mean by "GFR's caliber"? They are nothing but a good regional league club. There are a few very good teams mixed in but they do not have the caliber to play at a higher level. The only choice would be to align themselves with a pathway to feed their good players into one specific national platform instead of just letting players leave on their own. What's the real difference?? Seriously, how does playing for Herndon with a "pathway" to FVU differ all? Herndon isn't making money off this alliance! They're losing players to FVU like everyone else

+1000 the only mention of FVU on HYS's website is "In addition, Herndon is a partner club of Fairax Virginia Union to provide an elite pathway for players that develop in our Herndon Club to compete in the ECNL National League."

Are people choosing to play at HYS or Valor on their terrible RL teams because they have a "pathway" to FVU??

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Anonymous wrote:The “let’s just be a small neighborhood club” argument doesn’t hold water when they have RS, NM and ML making director $ and have coaches that also are looking to get paid - GD, MW, etc.

ML is not a director anymore. Several coaches got their pay cut. MW is not coaching at GFR anymore. They are projecting a loss of money again this year. One of the dads on DC’s team has been attending their board meetings and reports back to everyone. The club is not in any way interested in national leagues and is happy with where they are right now based on everything he’s heard.

My DC’s team is a 3rd team but my older is 1st team and I agree. Most parents at GFR are happy with the club and don’t care about pathways.

Not sure if i would agree with the most parents at GFR are happy. Beginning of last year the 2014G top team imploded and many of their top players left due to a coaching switch and a better pathway. This year the entire 2015G top team (minus 1) left for other pathways as well. Both of these teams were at the highest of levels and every club in the area did not fair well against them. Sad that after u10 (on the girls side) it unravels.

They were playing pre-ecnl. That is not a team at the "highest of levels". Lol.

And they are 8 and 9 lol

Obviously you have no clue of their accomplishments and how easily they dispatched all the top clubs top team in the area at U10. And no they were not playing Pre-ECNL at U10 fool. The 2014s (at U10) won Jefferson cup in the top bracket and finalist in the National Futsal Tournament in Las Vegas. 2015s accolades are too long to list (WAGS, Jeff Cup, rtc) and getting into the top bracket and making into the final 8 in Super Copa does state they are at the highest of levels at that time.

This is hysterical. Is this parody or real life? I can't tell.

I was going to say. Is this a joke? If they were playing at GFR at U10 yes, they were playing PRE-ECNL RL. Fool. lol Have they played Arlington, VDA or FVU yet at the same age? Let's see how this "highest level" team is doing in a few years.

They did not play Pre ECNL at U10. They play Pre ECNL at U11! They played NCSL and beat the brakes off Arlington! 2014G beat them 10-0, 6-0, and 3-0 at U10. 2015G beat Arlington 5-0, 4-1, 1-0, 2-1.

Is this....a parody of a crazy soccer parent?

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Nice deflection of not addressing the strange choices your club's management has made. Aren't you even mildly upset or curious as to the crazy moves your club made (or didn't make) last season? Or are you just a good obedient little team parent? GFR parents, if you hear "local neighborhood" club one more time, you should know that they are treating you like a fool. No club of GFR's caliber is telling their families to stay put and local.

What "strange choices" - and what do you mean by "GFR's caliber"? They are nothing but a good regional league club. There are a few very good teams mixed in but they do not have the caliber to play at a higher level. The only choice would be to align themselves with a pathway to feed their good players into one specific national platform instead of just letting players leave on their own. What's the real difference?? Seriously, how does playing for Herndon with a "pathway" to FVU differ all? Herndon isn't making money off this alliance! They're losing players to FVU like everyone else

And that is if they even go to FVU. Let’s not forget that FVU is dreadful anyways. They have almost no boys going to play in college or the pros. And after the girls mass exodus, the FVU girls are heading down the same path as the boys.

Exactly. So a pathway to FVU is meaningless. Unless you HAVE the platform yourself (which GFR never will) it's a joke.

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Anonymous wrote:The “let’s just be a small neighborhood club” argument doesn’t hold water when they have RS, NM and ML making director $ and have coaches that also are looking to get paid - GD, MW, etc.

ML is not a director anymore. Several coaches got their pay cut. MW is not coaching at GFR anymore. They are projecting a loss of money again this year. One of the dads on DC’s team has been attending their board meetings and reports back to everyone. The club is not in any way interested in national leagues and is happy with where they are right now based on everything he’s heard.

My DC’s team is a 3rd team but my older is 1st team and I agree. Most parents at GFR are happy with the club and don’t care about pathways.

Not sure if i would agree with the most parents at GFR are happy. Beginning of last year the 2014G top team imploded and many of their top players left due to a coaching switch and a better pathway. This year the entire 2015G top team (minus 1) left for other pathways as well. Both of these teams were at the highest of levels and every club in the area did not fair well against them. Sad that after u10 (on the girls side) it unravels.

Top team players will always leave GFR for clubs with a pathway. That's always been the case. My 2009 kids team has only a handful of players left from the U10 days because the good players left for other clubs with national leagues. They still compete well at the RL level though. Which kinda proves everyone's point saying that this is an RL club and nothing more.

Doesn't have to be the case! Stop with the "local club" propaganda. No one is buying it! BRYC, McLean, Herndon, Vienna, Valor all have pathways and are simliar size club as GFR. They also don't have the mass exodus that GFR does. Those other clubs aren't bigger or better than GFR but they give the best possible opportunities to their kids. The club needs to explain to parents why they didn't join union or pursue other pathways.

The fact that you include Herndon on a list of clubs that you claim has a pathway, doesn't have a mass exodus and gives the best possible opportunities to their kids completely invalidates your claim to know what you are talking about.

Nice deflection of not addressing the strange choices your club's management has made. Aren't you even mildly upset or curious as to the crazy moves your club made (or didn't make) last season? Or are you just a good obedient little team parent? GFR parents, if you hear "local neighborhood" club one more time, you should know that they are treating you like a fool. No club of GFR's caliber is telling their families to stay put and local.

This seems like a strawman. I cannot recall GFR ever telling is that its goal is to be a "local neighborhood" club. We like GFR(and our kids like it) because it is our local neighborhood club -- many of the kids on our children's travel teams go to school with them, we knew their families prior our kids being involved in soccer, it takes zero effort (and zero fighting traffic) to get to our practices. Those things are all far more important to us than a "pathway" that ends up being irrelevant to most kids playing travel soccer.

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Anonymous wrote:The “let’s just be a small neighborhood club” argument doesn’t hold water when they have RS, NM and ML making director $ and have coaches that also are looking to get paid - GD, MW, etc.

ML is not a director anymore. Several coaches got their pay cut. MW is not coaching at GFR anymore. They are projecting a loss of money again this year. One of the dads on DC’s team has been attending their board meetings and reports back to everyone. The club is not in any way interested in national leagues and is happy with where they are right now based on everything he’s heard.

My DC’s team is a 3rd team but my older is 1st team and I agree. Most parents at GFR are happy with the club and don’t care about pathways.

Not sure if i would agree with the most parents at GFR are happy. Beginning of last year the 2014G top team imploded and many of their top players left due to a coaching switch and a better pathway. This year the entire 2015G top team (minus 1) left for other pathways as well. Both of these teams were at the highest of levels and every club in the area did not fair well against them. Sad that after u10 (on the girls side) it unravels.

Looking at the standings, almost every GFR team is doing fine on the girls side and still better than almost every team in a partnership. If they join a partnership, the result is still the best players leave. So is your argument that they should have went GA?