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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why doesn't mclean do what Arlington does?? They play U8 on a team with friends and have true games not scrimmages and then sign up (no tryout) for academy, and then the coaches pull players into advanced academy? A lot less money and[b] you can see the difference in the eventual U9 teams when they play each other between the 2 clubs [/b]as I don't see taking 45 boys and charging them money at U8 and saying they will all be on a travel team.      How is this "pre-travel"? [/quote]

I think you will see a different McLean U9 (Green) team this upcoming season. I suspect the games against Arlington Red will be a lot more competitive.[/quote

McLean doesn't care if they win games at U-9.  Or at least they haven't for the past few years. U-9 is an  extension of juniors. MYS uses u-9 games to test approaches and create learning opportunities. Everybody gets the same playing time and kids are rotated into goalie each game--doesn't matter if they don't know how to play goalie or they suck and let every goal through. It's viewed as a development experience.

Our U-9 MYS coach had no idea whether we won or lost games, and often had to ask the parents what the score was in the end. He didn't keep track/didn't care. He pulled kids off the field during live play for teaching moments weven if it left too few players on the field during play. He rotated the best players off the field as equally as the average players.  It's just a different approach. So I would not expect U-9 to ever be competitive with Arlington as that doesn't seem to be their thing--they seem very competitive and focused on winning (I think they even publish their results  in terms of how many games they won vs lost across the season....MYS just doesnt care).  It's not a bad thing--just different. [/quote]

Every club "doesn't care" about winning at U9. They all say the same thing, Arlington included.

Arlington is a much bigger club than McLean and draws from a much larger pool. It makes sense that it is stronger overall.

To the person who said 65 is a lot trying out for Juniors...? No it isn't! Not compared to very recent history. [/quote]

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