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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's no way they are resending teams to another qualifier. 100% against the rules. Honestly, NL does some odd things with those indoor teams. Rather than putting all the best players on one team, she spreads a few out and I think it weakens their opportunities, rather than enhances them. There were some pretty hard feelings last year when those teams were set and they didn't do well last year either. The "top" team qualified, but not highly and didn't do well at NITs.[/quote]

It’s not just NL trying to skirt the rules.  Wolves does it too bringing in ringers (sorry guest players) to play in NITQs and NITs to supplement (aka replace) their players to win or double rostering players from lower age group even though they have plenty players in current age group.  It’s a win at no costs mentality yet they fail to succeed majority of the time.  As for the fall tournaments like SS, both NL and Wolves bring their top teams to compete.  This year Wolves and NL had all their D1 commits and still couldn’t win one game.  Coaches at theses clubs have the mentality to win st no costs and think they can compete with the best of the best which isn’t possible.  Their teams don’t play as a team.  It’s individuals playing for their own glory and it shows.  The coaching focuses on specific individuals to carry the play causing them to lose against stronger teams that play together.  Freedom on the other hand plays as a team.  Watch the ball movement, field coverage, zone playing.  These teams can’t compete with this caliber of play.  It’s all due to coaching or the lack there of.

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Reading this I just can’t agree with you at all. I know people at Wolves and NL and they don’t share your perspective. In fact a family I know at NL has complained they don’t play to win enough. I’ve watched Wolves and NL, and everyone plays, including the weaker players. Both coaches are actively coaching and encourage ball movement, covering your space, and off ball movement.

Wolves is a smaller club and they don’t have the numbers like Freedom. I think NL is larger than Wolves, but not as big as Freedom. Typically the larger a club the larger the talent pool, so it stands to reason the larger club will be more competitive.

Wolves U19 played in the A pool at this past SS. It was a very competitive pool and being in the A pool they had lots of coaches watching their players still looking to commit.

Freedom is a good club and I’m not going to bash them. In this area, Freedom and Warhawks are the top two teams. However, neither is perfect, even according to parents with players on their top teams. [/quote]

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