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You have choices, exercise them. If you think the competition in WAGS or ODSL is no different than what you are playing 4 hours away then change teams. You likely don't even need to change clubs. Don't tell me to chill out when clearly the choice was "image" of the league over what works best for your family and you and your buddy have ranted against a league for two pages. CCL or NPL don't need to get their shit together as there are lots of reasonable and more local options available for your kid to play in if the league travel is to much for your respective families.

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People act like they're driving every.single.weekend to VA Beach for 1 game. You do that ONE time over the course of your 10-month season. And then, next year, VA Beach should be driving to you to play that game. Seriously, there's only 5 clubs in CCL that aren't in the DC-metro area, so you only have 2 or 3 "far away" games each year. It's not as bad as everyone makes it out to be!!

Presumably, those 5 clubs joined this league years ago because they couldn't get good competition in their far-flung areas of VA, which may or may not still be valid. Maybe if they re-assessed they would come to a different decision today, but that's on them. [/quote]

Hmmmm....I think geographic outliers should have to play every game as the away team.  They can they assess if it's worth it.[/quote]

They shouldn't have to play every game away.

But, yes, those clubs should probably take a look at what's available in their area and decide if continuing in CCL makes sense. I know players at Roanoke and SOCA, and those parents don't seem to have a problem or complain about their schedule -- and when you look at what their local options are, you get it. I also know players at Beach FC, and those parents do complain about all the time they spend in MD and NOVA -- they may have better local options now that their club should consider.

I think VPL/NPL is worse because 5/12 of their clubs are outside of NOVA, and they play separate fall and spring seasons. So you are getting those long-distance games 5 times a year. But, again, it's not every weekend.[/quote]

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