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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Stop comparing GA to ECRL. Whoever created the topic is clearly misinformed. [/quote]

I’m with you, but I think the rapid growth of GA teams in the area is going to leave some of those teams (especially TSJFC and Alex) more like a RL team than a GA team. I’m a GA fan, but I would have preferred my DD play for a couple of local RL teams this season than for TSJFC. They were just that bad. [/quote]

GA teams are clubs 1st team

ECRL teams are clubs 2nd team

It's this simple. ECNL parents are trying their best to equate GA with ECRL to elevate themselves. People aren't buying it. ECNL parents are getting desperate.[/quote]

In this region right now you need to buy it.  Maybe over time GA separates from ECRL but it wont be this fall. The player pool in the area is the player pool.  Just because there are five brand spanking new GA teams does not mean they all have access to a new set of players. VRSC and SYC GA teams today aren't better than the top RL teams like Strikers, Arlington, and VA United, and they won't be tomorrow either.  CISC because of timing of their tryouts before the announced GA is bringing ECNL teams pretty much intact to GA.  NVA maybe in some age groups will have teams of mostly former ECNL players. Making CISC and NVA likely top of table. The rest, Loudoun, Alexandria, McLean are pulling from the RL player pool to fill out their new GA teams.[/quote]

Agree there are ECRL teams that can beat some GA teams. There are also ECRL teams that can beat some ECNL teams. But the GA league is generally a more competitive league than ECRL.[/quote]

The only people who don’t think GA is  better than ECRL are RL club coaches and directors who are worried about losing their top players. No one is leaving GA to go to an RL team.[/quote]

Yes in theory and in most of the country, but in the short term where are these five new GA teams filling their rosters from?  They are not coming from ECNL teams, so for most of these new teams, in the short term, they are filling their rosters with ECRL level talent.  Heck, today TSJ is a lost cause, and SYC and VRSC GA teams are maybe on par with top ECRL teams.

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Where are the GA teams filling their rosters from? First, there are now two less ECNL teams than there were just a couple years ago. The best from those teams have all collected to the few remaining ones, but the rest of the former ECNL players went to GA teams. The GA teams are all competing to get those ECNL dropouts. The rest of the GA teams are former ECRL players.[/quote][/quote]

Exactly - there simply are not enough ECNL caliber players to fill five new and 8 total GA teams in the DMV.  Most of those eight clubs rosters are ECRL caliber.[/quote]

Right so if the better RL players move to GA, where does that leave RL? With a mix of lower level RL players and third team players.[/quote]

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