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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FCV has 100% win rate in DA in all age groups this season.   They have national youth teams call ups.  Loudoun is struggling in ECNL.  I have hard time believing that FCV 07 team would be an aberration and struggle simply because Loudoun joined ECNL.  [/quote]

Do you fail to understand the landscape or are you just a parrot?

04-01 FCV teams were formed when ECNL was the clear cut top league. Loudoun had lost players in those age groups a loooong time ago and ECNL did not bring those players back from FCV or McLean.

The 05 and 06 team were quickly formed due to the short lived Loudoun/FCV merger. Those kids had an understanding if not offers well before Loudoun was awarded ECNL.

ECNL was announced during the FCV ID process. Before the announcement, Loudoun kids were at FCV in droves. After the announcement nobody went, zero, nothing zip.

The 07 tryouts were a joke. A few people came out of curiosity but left shaking their heads like walking out of a empty restaurant at peak dinner rush. FCV can't fill their younger age groups and frankly with so many options most people are staying at their clubs. Whether you want to admit it or not, parents realize that they no longer need FCV or McLean anymore.  [/quote]

+1  This history is exactly right.  Loudoun 07 will stay home with an easy and very good option called ECNL.  You think Mclean kids are not content with their home option?  Or Braddock?  PP gets it.

Spirit and FCV will have to make what they have work.  For FCV, that is not much. [/quote]

Then for Spirit it is even less, just saying :-)  At least FCV can turn to their older DA teams and say "look what you can become"  What does Spirit say "look at what loosing looks like, better get used to it, but hey we are developing you ;-)"[/quote]

Actually, Spirit’s senior DA team is doing pretty well after only a little over a year of developing together, but carry on with your FCV nonsense [/quote]

They are 2-1 this year, loosing to FCV who is 4-0. In fact, they are the only Spirit team that has won a game. But carry on with your Spirit Kool Aid drinking, keep believing that it is not about the wins, it is about the development.  At some point development turns in to wins or the "developers" are not doing their job or the "developees" are just not that good, you pick.[/quote]

Are you saying the national team players on Spirit's pro team are not any good because their team does not have a winning record?[/quote]

No, I am saying that the "developers" are not doing their job, which is why Jim G. was let go.  Also, would not assume that anything that goes on in the pro ranks trickles its way down to the DA, at least not that I saw.[/quote]

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