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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Keep on hating and pushing the anti-Spirit agenda, but that doesn’t subtract from the fact that the focus in the short time they have been open has been on developing the players they have.  The talent overall may not be on par with the established clubs, but why would anyone expect that with no club financing of players and after only one full year of operation.   And there are some very talented players there regardless.   [/quote]

What people are saying has nothing to do with it being Spirit or not,  we would all say the same thing if FCV, McLean or any other club looked like that or had such a similar showing. It's either the players or the coaching or both.  You can't tell me only Spirit VA is concerned with development. [/quote]

Way off topic here, but that’s usual for the vitriol a select few here have over Spirit.

That said, what you address below has been covered in EVERY Spirit thread here.  The club is essentially new, there had been no player development pipeline, like the other clubs you mention. This means a few things.  First, the talent level is uneven, because it’s dependent on who is interested in the new club and how coaches can assess those players, over a few ID sessions vs years of development time (the FCVs, McLeans, etc).  That doesn’t mean that every player at Spirit is less talented than the established clubs, in fact quite a few there have more talent.  However, many others are below the average level of the established competitors.  No one has denied that challenge.  Second, it’s pretty well established that Spirit plays up a few very talented players.   That topic itself was a huge magnet for an anti-Spirit sock puppet, outed by the admin, who finds a home on this forum.   While playing up helps that specific player develop, it may come at the expense of the result.   No one is paying $7k in “fees.”   Not everyone’s experiences or value in a club is defined by the number of wins the team has.  Finally, since this has all been discussed as nauseum, continuing to do so is just piling on to bash the club.  No one has said “overall talent at Spirit is better than anywhere else” or “Spirit has the most wins of any elite club.”

It’s clear from the discussion of the real topic of this thread that a large number of Spirit parents value the program, coaching, and experience.  People who don’t are free to pump their favorite club in other threads.  Why the need to bash a club that may not even continue operations next year, especially when parents who have experience with the product see more than enough value to want it to continue?[/quote]

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