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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand why people (mostly ECNL parents) try to compare ECRL with GA.

- GA is always a clubs top team and first choice players.
- ECRL is always a clubs second team and second choice players.

If the funnel of youngers to olders talent is the same amount, coaching is the same, and you exclude poaching talent from other clubs GA will always be better than ECRL.

The only time an ECRL club might compare to some level of GA club is when the club doesn't have ECNL and RL is the highest level. Even then most clubs with only RL will have their top players poached away. [/quote]

This isn’t accurate. For 2010s, the following RL teams will beat area GA teams.

- Strikers
- VA United
- Reign
- Arlington RL
- Vienna
- VSA, Loudoun, and GFR would also be competitive.

And those are just the VA teams. If I start adding other states (ie the NC RL teams) it gets worse.

I don’t see Loudoun and MYS flipping to GA as materially changing that, except to dilute the GA player pool a little. [/quote]

Older DMV GA teams in my opinion are not representative of what will happen over time. Last year, FCV was only local GA team and their 2010s were competitive with all the local ECNL teams and would have destroyed any local RL team. When FCV blew up, those players scattered, a few followed CC to VRSC, a few followed BP to VDA, and the rest went to other local ECNL teams. So this year’s VRSC 2010s are a partial squad, and they’re still competitive will all and better than a few of the RL teams you listed. Same story for a different reason with SYC.  By the time they got their GA team this season, their first team 2010s were already imbedded in Union and didn’t come back for the new SYC GA program. So I don’t think the current 2010 GA squads at VRSC and SYC are representative of what those clubs will produce in the future. Time will tell. [/quote]

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