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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the only club ripe for relegation right now would be STJ. They are basically at the bottom of the table across all age groups, and I don't see how they are going to build back up anytime soon. I feel like everyone else is either doing "well enough" or is too new to the league for relegation to Aspire to really be a topic of conversation for them right now. [/quote]
You cant do promotion relegation with p2p leagues because youd have to do it by club not by team. This is not a GA or any other specific league thing. Its why bottom feeders exist and tend to always be the same clubs. [/quote]
I wasn't talking promotion/relegation on a year to year basis, I was just saying if there was going to be a team in the MA South to get Relegated to Aspire it would be STJ. They have shown themselves over the last few years to be perennially at the bottom of the table, with no real improvement in sight. They don't have any real leadership, they don't have any fields, they don't seem to have much of a pipeline, and the vast majority of their impact players left.... But GA would probably want to replace them with someone so that there would be an even number of teams in the conference. They could relegate 2 clubs to Aspire to keep the number even, but like I said every other club is either doing well enough, or too new to the league for relegation to really be a topic of conversation for them. STJ may stay just through sheer luck, unless another team gets added to the MA South in the near future.[/quote]

Loudoun in the other outlier across all years except one (where they still are not good). This is not surprising given that NVA really is Loudoun's top team. I would think Loudoun's better players will migrate to Rev after such a difficult season, making it even harder for them to compete in GA.[/quote]
I would think Loudoun players would try to go to NVA before migrating to Rev. I know the older girls from Loudoun mostly chose to stay together seeing how most of them played together as RL. Maybe next year they may tryout for NVA instead of staying Loudoun or leaving for Rev. NVA has some inherent advantages over Loudoun given that NVA is the top team. You can see in the age groups where the girls stayed like 2013, 2012, and 2008/07 those NVA teams are clear and away better than the Loudoun teams. The better players on the teams that had a difficult season may try to move to NVA, which of course would further dilute the Loudoun team[/quote]

I agree LOU players would go to NVA before REV. I just assumed that, if they were on LOU and not NVA, it was because they couldn’t make NVA. [b]You’re suggesting there are dynamics behind why players choose between NVA and LOU beyond better team / worse team[/b], which seems surprising but who knows given some of the comments on this thread. [/quote]
Yeah there are reasons, but not in like a nefarious way. For example the 09's right, historically any Loudoun girl who wanted to play at a high level would've love to join that 09 NVA team but it was a hard team to crack. Once the decision was made to go GA all of those 09's (who were mostly rising 11th graders) left to go to an ECNL teams for recruiting purposes. Now those Loudoun girls could get into that NVA team, but that team was longer the team it used to be with all the girls leaving, so the girls from Loudoun that could make it decided to just stay together and keep playing as a team.  They were now in the same league as NVA anyways. Like I said before there are advantages to being apart of NVA over Loudoun, and we'll see with the age change maybe some Loudoun girls will move to NVA as they shift in age groups, or maybe they wont. For the younger age NVA teams that stayed together the 2013's and 2012's, yeah the Loudoun girls are largely playing for Loudoun because they didn't make the NVA team.  [/quote]

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