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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Us newbies with kids just starting club want Metro to "take" and "grab" these players.  More space for our kids at the other clubs!  Also, some say that Metro can't take credit for training these kids, but they can take credit for attracting them.  There's some appeal to the club if kids are leaving their developmental clubs to play for Metro.

And to be clear, I don't have a dog in the fight.  I'm a new-to-club entrant whose DD did a metro pre-tryout skills clinic and found their training to be better than any of the other pre-tryout clinics we've tried.[/quote]
I like the attitude of girls moving to Metro making room for other players at the club they leave. I think complaints of "poaching" often come from clubs or parents who had a good season one year and then the next year, a few players leave to play for Metro, Paramount, VA Elite, etc, and then the team isn't as successful that season. It's part of why some clubs will be really competitive at 11s, 12s, or 13s, and then the level starts to fall off as they get older. A good example of this for a while has been MVSA, which for many years had the strongest 11s and 12s teams in CHRVA and then many of the best players would leave starting at 13s and the teams would be less competitive as they get older. Even the MVSA dominance at the youngest age groups seems to be in jeopardy as Paramount and other clubs have started fielding younger teams.  [/quote]

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