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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't have a dog in the race but continue to argue that if you are close to an elite soccer team, i.e. a team that plays in the top brackets of the top tournaments, you know that ECNL/DA remains a draw for the most talented players.

You can't judge a team at u15 or younger because the teams are not mature and not complete. McLean's 05 team was a disaster last year but this year is heading to the ECNL Nationals and has defeated some very strong teams in several tournaments. I believe that team lost about a half dozen players to the DA but then replaced those players with others from non-ECNL clubs. Loudoun will get better.

Again, the teams that will suffer are the nonECNL/DA teams as they lose talent to ECNL/DA teams. Even the weakest ECNL/DA team will beat most of the strongest non-ECNL/DA teams. There will always be stong non-ECNL/DA teams like Pipeline, South Shore Select and other clubs who will beat ECNL/DA clubs as South Shore did in at JeffCup.[/quote]

McLean has a proven track record of developing players on the girls side so McLean 05 results are not surprising, particularly with Clyde Watson coaching them.       [/quote]

Clyde is good, but the results are not indicative of the strength of the team. The MA ECNL region is extremely weak except for the SC team.

Top 4 ECNL team from the 05 age group played a close game with MU in showcase in Feb.  MU is a terrible team at the 05 age group.[/quote]

While I agree with the sentiment about the competition against Spirit 05, which still exists, [b]MU 05 has yet to play a game[/b]. They aren’t even a team yet. Let’s not get ahead of ourselves. [/quote]

Yeah ok.  Name changed. Very little else will change. MU/Spirit just completed an entire season. There simply isn't enough talent to go around to make MU very good.[/quote]

Spirit 2005 wasn’t exactly a weak team and improved as the season went on.  Let’s wait and see how things go next year before making judgments   [/quote]

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