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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are new to the club. We tried out for the youth boys' teams. So far, we are happy with the coach: great communication, already starting some early practices and engagement. Also, has been very quick with responding on most of our inquiries. On the field issues, nothing too concerning for us. We are more focused on the coach: level of experience and professionalism over the field locations and/or conditions.  Sorry for everyone who had a bad experience.  Hopefully with the new staff they will continue with this new level of performance and keep pace with that level of expectation.[/quote]

How will you feel if your kid's practice field location changes to a location that is super inconvenient for you if your kid gets moved to a different level team? Or when games have to be rescheduled because ST James/FCV doesn't have fields that are "theirs"?

I don't have a kid who plays there, but we are avoiding it because both of these scenarios have happened to people we know. [/quote]

Maybe my expectations are different, but my kid has played soccer for many years and I can’t think of a season where we had a single field location for practice or games.  It was usually a set of fields that would be loaded into the team app and occasionally due to some unknown reason they would change field locations from the original field.  None of these fields are so far from each other that the difference between playing on one or the other makes a huge difference.  In the end I expect a similar circumstance at our new club.  There seems to be a lot of entitlement on this thread around fields.  Pele played with mangos after all.  [/quote]

The difference is that StJ/FCV’s various fields that they have used are more spread out. Different level teams within an age group practice at very different locations. If your kid starts on a team that practices in Chantilly, for example, and gets moved to a team that practices in Springfield, that’s a big issue for a lot of parents juggling work and other kids’ activities. At most clubs that use multiple fields, there is at least a main location for a particular age group.[/quote]

Is the movement between teams part of the deal when you play with StJ/FCV?  Did you know that was a possibility when you signed up?  What did it say in your signing agreement?  This is not a one way street.  When we joined our club we got it in writing the circumstances that mattered to us.  If the agreement changes, then there is recourse available from our perspective. [/quote]

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